Speed
In the business college, the instructor addressed the new class concerning the merits of shorthand. In his remarks, he included this statement:
“It is a matter of record that it took the poet Gray seven years to write his famous poem, ‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard.’ Had he been proficient in stenography, he could have done it in seven minutes. We have had students who have written it in that length of time.”
The young lady interested in botany inquired of the gentleman who had been traveling in the South.
“What sort of a plant is the Virginia creeper?”
“That is not a plant,” was the answer, given wearily; “it’s a railroad.”