MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 7

MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYS.

For a lonely and many-aided job there are, we learn from the "Railway Magazine," not many to compare with that of the Station Agent at Corrour Station, on the We* Highland section of the North British Railway, who acts as stationmaster, signalman, porter, goods olerk, booking clerk, parcel clerk, telegraph clerk, postmaster, and poetal telegrapli clerk. He is perched on the top of a hill in Invemess-sMre, 1350 ft above sea-level, two miles from the nearest neighbour, ten miles from school, twenty-eight miles from a doctor, uaker, butcher, shoemaker, or tailor, yet the number of letters that pass through his hands is wonderful. For two months over 6000 letters and parcels came by post, 800 parcels by train, and, in addition, 600 postal telegrams were- received. If he wishes to send a letter by poet to his nearest brother-in-trade, seven miles distant, it las to cover 186 miles before, it reaches ham. In the moming he finds the grouse sitting on the top of the house andi on the -window eiQ, and often enough the red deeir and mountain hare eat his kail. .