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TALLYING PINEAPPLE3. 1 "f m - - - - - . . - i ' , : k Work Done In Handling the Fruit 4 on the New York Wharf. , . The pineapple season lasts from about March 1 to about Aug. 1. New York eets pineapples from the Florida .keys, from the West Indies and from the Ba hamas. Some come in steamers, some in sailing vessels. Pineapples from Ha vana by steamer are brought in barrels crates, wneappies Drought in sail ir,? vessels are brought mostly in bulk not thrown in loosely, however; but gangly stowed, so that as many as pos sible may be got into a vessel. - . : On the wnarcs - nere pineapples hmught in bulk are handled with great Verity. Men in the hold of the vessel fill bushel baskets with them and hand tne baskets up on deck, where they , are passed along and set up ; on .the string niece of the wharf. The trucks in which they are to be- carted away are backed 1 down handy, A dox or suitable height, and which is as long as the truck - is wide, is placed at the end of the truck. A man standing near on the wharf lifts the baskets from the stringpiece and sets them up on this - box. r Two men stand at the box, .each with-a, basket of pineapples in front of him, to count the pines ana uirow tnem into the truck, which has racks at the sides; lengths of board are placed across the end as the load rises. Two men stand in the truck to level the fruit as it comes to them. The two counters are experts, and they work with great rapidity and steadiness, keeping pineapples going all the time. Each man picks up two pineapples at a time, one with each hand, and' gives them a toss into the truck; both men counting as they go along, one after an other, "one," " two,' Vthree,, "four." "five," and so on up, each count mean ing two pineapples. . When they strike "one hundred, the tallyman makes a straight chalk mark on the end of the truck ; that stands for . 200 pineanules. While he is making the chalk mark the other counter keeps right on, and he may have got up to "two" or "three" again, for it takes a second or two to make the chalk mark, but by that time the tally man is at it again chiming in with "tour and away they go together again, counting up rapidly toward an other hundred. If a man on the load finds a specked pine, he . drops it - over the side of the truck into a basket that stands there, and says: "One out." The tallyman tosses in one without count- . mg, to Keep tne count-good. As fast as the counters empty the baskets they push them off the box, and the man at the stringpiece sets up a. full one in its place and ' the- counters keep the pineapples going without cessation. At the fifth hundred the tallyman makes a mark diagonally across the four he has already made, in the commonly used method -of tallying freight; but , these five marks here : stand for 1.000 I pineapples. On a double truck there are .usually carried from 4,500 to 5,500 i pineapples ; on a single truck, from 2,000 to 3, 500. New York Sun. , LAUGHTER. Has It Evoluted From the Brutal Yell Over a Tortured Enemy? Just as the hoof bt the horse . is the remnant of an original five toes, just as the pineal gland in'man is now aid to be the survival of (a prehistoric eye on the top of the head, so, perhaps, this levity in regard to particular ailments (in others) may be the descendant of an aboriginal ferocity in man. It is a well known theory that' what we call humor arose from the same source; : that the first human laugh . that ever , woke the astonished echoes of cloomv nrimeval forests was not an expression of -mirth,' uui exudation over tne misery - of a tortured enemy. . .. ' I here is to this day something ter rible in laughter. The laugh of madness or of cruelty is a sound more awful than that of the bitterest lamentations. 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