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