PROFIT FROM LOSSES. UNCLE SAM HAS MADE $30,000,000 IN UNREDEEMED MONEY, Many Shinplasters, Greenbacks and Na. Bank Notes are Mutilated, Wasted, Buried or Burned. It is an which currency to the that a nation with their the SHasy LOSE furnishes a people thou find Cults no gmount of millions of dollars must which sands of a profit in figure in To say that the profit in loss paradoxical: but that is orthodox { financiers of ti into caleuls an aceon ordinary business books re must be an énormous sound somewhat one of the ROUTCeS which the tion in the output an {onal rency THOS I money, kes ment even coin exchanges called another by the the years back the exceeded annually. it may be taken for granted that government can put the bulk of fund with which it expected to up the rest sport around witl is pleases Now to gather up the ends and bulk then #0 a8 to show the possible profits fiscal yeu fiseal yea and for many me have nos No redempti above 34.000 the the take them into its poke and af i it in whatever way of the nation through its fnggling with fits currency of one kind and another there is £15.000,000 and odd gained by the disappearance of the war shinplagters, Striking a mean between the two extremes of United States Treasurer Morgan's estimate of pro portibn of loss of greenbacks to the entire bulk, from $15.000.000 to $20. 000,000 of greenbacks will never turn up again, and, according to Comptroller Eckels' figures, an additional 32.750 000 is made by the disappearance of the pational bank notes. So that the entire profit of the government from this source gince it began putting paper money into the hands of the people is not probably less than $30,000,000. New York Herald The coffee crop of Venezuela amounts to $15,000,000 a year in value. The av. erage crop is 60,000 tons of coffee. Two- thirds of this product Is exported, most- iy to England.—Washington Post. first the | THE TEXAS RANGERS. | Brave and Efficient and a Terror to Evi Doers, A Dallas (Texas) correspondent of the Nashville Banner, thus writes about the Texas Rangers: There are at present about 200 Ran. goers in Texas, companies and are kept on the borders for the most part alr the year round They are separated into They live In the open Nearly every night year, rain or have the sky for a mind for a bed, They shine, they and the Thelr pillows are live hardest, the roughest of lives, and their delight, They are all young men too young to count the « roof bare saddles the danger is ost when daty and odds faced made up of the flower of Texas man hood i% looked upon with ¢ is to be dong ey are A wild, yelling, cursing cowboy itempt by them six-shooters vw depend upon oni olness and mark ournge of ti pation from racts, when in cd were enacted South Da 10, he towns of Chamberlain time each * seen The Ki vation, in kota, 180K), From and Pei and was nnlocked on February te rn and wagons loaded with building materials urried forward on a river on the ice troops of boomers galloped to locate claims, tarts were | in one case a house wheels was dragged across Neribner, More Than He Bargained For. The lttle eight-year-old daaghter of Cashier Ham, of the Anglo-Californian Bank, was playing around the vaults onie day recenily, when President PP. N Lilienthal, who delights in amusement for children, took her into the great treasure box fo show her the great sacks of coin. On the floor lay a sack containing 220.000 in gold. “That sack is full of gold,” he ex plained, “and now, my little girl, if you ean carey it you ean have it” The little girl toddied over to it, grasped it with both hands and, to the consternation of Mr. Lilenthal, she i pieked it up and trotted out of the vault | with ft. He Jidn't know that she had {| been raised in the country, where big stones and great logs of wood were | among her tofs. How Mr. Lilienthal | got out of his contract is not known, but the books of the bank fail to show £20,000 to the credit of little Miss Bam. —San Francisco Post. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Japanese Government has just placed orders for 18,000 watches, not to cost more than $2.50 ench to be distributed They ni among the in the late war, and are to place of the medals usually awarded at the eloge of natioisl hostilities \iready Alfred custom-made 1 Austin, ureate, penalty of greatress mous, and the ant him in tures of the ease wrap! Oree One of the curious Mr. Austin for hi Is that ive a8 many from the 1 requests pnited States Olney and Lod this matter nature does from England, should look into Silliman, of living Yale ‘haries 1. Powell, Mr. Powell was graduated Brooklyn, LA EHH (HH) ing f the « cities in ques fon One unexpected but by no means an. {mportant of Dr Transvaal raid has been to cast serious rest Jameson's doubt upon the value of machine gans in civilized warfare cortainly of little nee Those were in the Kru gersdorp fight. that in Franco<jerman 1870-71, the famous mitra fajlure, and to this day military authorities put litle faith in devices. Against the war of was oa the Fre the such savages, doubt whother such will be the against civilized combatants. Our Baltimore contemporary, the Manufacturers’ Review, prints a full review of the business advancement of the South during the last year. We learn from ft thot, In the year. the southward movement of population was of saprecedented magnitude; that cotton-mill building in the South was “phenomenal”; that there was a re markable revival in the won business: that the output of cuwar was heavier than in any previous year: that geveral Southern shipyards made Marge con tracts; and that, in short, the year was one of marvelous success in al brasches of industry. After sucvey $1g the field, our Baltimore contempo- vo wi V8 With pride that in tis year 1800 “a solid, substantial foundation was seen in the South, if not in any country.” A new been thus opened in the South part of the i r ha industrial hist Oars of peaking of the quaint oil 1 a correspond ing Journal says to find n milles of family in Kingston dozen sARY Canada 10 in whicel belong a hag! a children, wi i 341 rr more of the nit portion those wi have left the country are farmers = they are found filling situation New Yi all 1nd all over ho State of than rex] beetle ean carry 3H yd IT) own ime has boon weight ktiown to walk away with a two and a quarter ponnda weight Live bees are sometimes shipped on during This is particularly the which have been tee 80 ag to keep them dormant the journey case with bumblebees, taken to New Zealand, where they are weed in the red clover that hag been introduesd into that colony, fertilizing Olid Barbarities Recalled. The very extensive exeavations un discoveries of any interest. One abicet, however It wag on the Middlesex shore, just at the crossing of two roads, Here the excavators unearthed a corpse or rather a skeleton, with a stake drive en through the body. It was no doubt the remains of sone hapless suicide, buried here at the crossroads, after the charitable fashion of bygone times, A A A BAA “Telling the Bees.” The curious custom of “telling the toes” is observed in parts of nearly sory country in the world. When a person dies those who observe the cus om go to the beehives and tap gently st each, then stoop asd whisper under the rap that Mary, or John, as the cass aay be, is dead. The superstitious wokeeper believes that if the bees are son pelled to find out the fact »f a tenth for themselves, they will fore wake their hives and never retum. SYMPTONS OF INSANITY, rangement, Dr. Forbes Winslow, the speciall isorders, contributes au teresting paper on “Premonition Insanity Insanity Following is 8, CTeeDSs on 2 may he Among premonitory WATER indi order Hiay be med bility Chinese as S Pe : ii skating grounds r th such splendid {t is no wonder that skating is Du the year when Pe g 5 i of popular 1 in China ing the five months of g jcebound tix their Chinese spend much time on Rkating is a business with th than a for tuarm man rather sport, trives to frozen canals into col venient highways for as they do in Holland and Deumark Passengers are carried in sledge chairs 0 by an handise 3:4 TEE nis pers propell active Celestial om Golden Days, Juicy Spoils of War, A French Governor of the South Pa still cannibals. There had been rumors of an insurrection, snd the Admiral called before him a native chief whe wae faithful to the Frencn cause and questioned him az to their truth. “You may be sure,” said the native, “that there will be no war at present, be cause the yams are not yet ripe.” “The yams, you say?’ “Yes. Our people never make war except when the yams are dpe” “Why Is that?’ “Because baked yams go very well with the cap tives." FOR THE YOUNC FOLKS. KROWK? wo When he was nine ere little frosted wes and a dish of ¢ hocolate + a prevy pitcher filed with 2 Washington served ber pretiy grace that made the perfecily at 1d whae tid recall those cross ile beer altogether happy since they and kind aiten- sliests with a “iTangers fu : Ie. Grorge wished be 0o Is that be had spoken to Marte. no this Martie, you are a brick! ] say, it was mean of te not Wo let you come with us this afternoon: but you didn't mind much, uid you” “Not so ‘Bat | “if vou really like ae just a little, afraid you didu't at all.” wlike vou!” efaculated ber brother. “Why, I'd be a preity mean sort of fellow if 1 dide’t! Why, Martie, you're a—3a hriek:" Which Martie felt was the very best praise ghe could have bad from George. very much.” sald Martie don't care a bit now,” she sdded, 1 was The Queen's Needle. Jueen Victoria is in possession of a curious needle. It was made at the celebrated needle manufactory at Red- diteh, and represented the Trajan cols gmn in minlkture. Scenes from the Queen's fe are depleted on the needle, so finely cut that they are only dis cernible through a microscope. Faney taffeta silks will be in Bish yogne the coming season. i
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