Pennies. The Philadelphia Record gives an inter esting account of the use of pennies, from which the following is derived: "There is no part of the United States hardly where they arc not used; but there are some sections where they are strangers and as rare as gold dollars are here. In the South the penny is' almost unknown, the smallest coin being a five-cent piece. Recently, howover, there has been some demand for them from merchants in Geor gia and Alabama. In the far West there is but little call for the penny, but when one gets to St. Louis or east of that point, then the pen ny becomes a familiar friend. Wherever there are six-cent fares on the street cars, then there is detnaud from that city for pennies. Now, Louisville seldom, if ever calls upon us, while Cincinnati is con tinually crying for the one-cent piece. New York consumes a big lot, and so do the Eastern States. The two-cent was a good help to us for the time, but none of them have been coined for ten years, and all that are sent in and redeemed are re coined into one-cent pieces. 4 lt is a wonderful thing, but such is the fact,' continued the official, "that com petition in trades induces and increases the demand for pennies. Whenever trade is briskest then the penny is needed most —that is, retail trade. What the banks take from us, although large, does not fluctuate like the calls from tradesmen. The Eastern States are the penny centres, and it is only as the population of the west increases that it wants pennies. The five-cent piece is the standard coin in the west, but the penny is making inroads on it, and great ones, too." Honrs and Minutes. Why is one hour divided into sixty minutes? and each minute again into sixty seconds? Why not divide our time as we do our money, by tens, counting ten, or 50 or 100 minntes to the hour? This question was asked by an intelligent boy a few days since; and the answer given him may both interest and instruct other young people. The answer is this : We have sixty divisions on the dials ofourclocks and watches, because the old Greek astronomer, Hipparchus, who lived in the second century before Christ, accepted the Babylonian saystem of reck oning time, that system being scxigesi mal. The Bablonians were accquainted with the decimal system; but for common and practical purposes they counted by sossi and sari, the sossos, representing six ty, and the saros, sixty times sixty, is 3,000. From Hipparchus, that mode of reckoning found its , way into the works of Ptolemy, about 150 A. 1)., and thence was carried down the stream of science and civilization, and found its way to the dial plates of our clocks and watches. — Presbyterian. Bishop Wilbeforce was as full of fun as Sydney Smith ever was. Once having to preach at a fashionable church in London, on arriving at the door he encountered his friend, Mrs. A., in the act of return ing to her carriage. "What! going away?" "Only because I can't get in." "Do you mean that you wish to stop?" *1 came on purpose.' 'Then take my arm.' The crowd at the door was excessive. At last the beadle appeared, to whom the Bishop, in his blandest mauner, said: "You will be so good as to give this lady the best seat in the church." "Impossible, sir; church quite full." The Bishop calmly, but with emphasis, repeated his orders. "Quite. impossible," repeated the beadle; "I tell you, sir, the church is full." "O, but" (was the rejoinder) "I won't preach if you don't!" This clarm ing threat at once opened Bumble's eyes. "O, I beg your perdon, ray Lord" (wink ing) : "this way, marm,'*and he deposited Mrs. A. in the church warden's luxuiious empty pew udder the puipit. Our sun, compared with some of the suns of other systems, is only a star of the second magnitude. It is different with our daughters. They are stars of the llrst magnitude; and it is very discouraging that we must worry along with an inferior sun when there are better ones. Sirius is from 1000 to 8000 times brighter than our sun, and an effort should be made to procure it, in order to rival the effete monarchies of the Old World. The attention of Congress should be called to this matter. Less money should be appropriated for dredging rivers and moie expended in getting a better article of son. Some of the fircy streamers that shoot up from our sun reach 210,000 miles. The man who measured them was born of rich and correspondingly honest parents, but he wouldn't lie about a thing like that. The stars are not approaching us. They are going away from us. And we don't blame them, when we remember the shameful condition of things in Mine not long ago.— Puck. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. —E. T. Fox, vs. K. W. Kills. Phillip Kills, and John Ellis, No. 263, Dec. Term 1876. The undersigned, an auditor appointed by the Court of Common Please of Bradford county to distribute the funds arising from the Sheriff's sale of the Defendants real estate, will attend to the du ties of his appointment at his office in Towanda, on Friday March 26th 1883 at 1 o'clock p. M., when and where all persons having claims must present them or be forever debarred from coming in on said fund. JAMES T. HALE, Auditor. Towanda, Feb. 26, 1880 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION—NO tice is hereby given that the partnership be tween Richard I), Burchill, Arthur 11. Burchill, and Abram Burchill, was dissolved on the 16th day of February 1881, so far as relates to said Richard D. Burchilt. All debts due to the late partnership must bo paid to A. H. and A Burchill, who arc only authorizedto receive the sane. All claims against saidpartnership will be settled by the said A. 11. & A. 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