A Vermont mnn, who has carried the mail twelve miles twice a day, and re ceived the munificont sum of one cont for the four years, is to have 390 for the next four years. Counting all classes of reserves, Germany can in twenty-four hours raise an army of 4,000,000 disciplined men. Young Germans know this, and they get out of tho country before the raising takes place. Comptroller Roberts, of New York State, calls attoution to tho fact that the unequal burdens imposed upon the small holder of property is breed ing discontent, if uot a rovolt against existing methods. Census Agent Holmes calculates that one-eleventh of American families own three-fourths of American wealth, while one three-thousandth own one fifth. Dr. Spahr computes that ono per cent, of the families own filfy-five per cent, of the wealth, while twelve per cent, own seven-eighths of it. A prominent Chicago lawyer changed his office from the third floor of a sky scraper to the twelfth. "My friends use tho elevator," he explained, "hut I alwayß walk both ways. My physician reported that my heart was weak and advised hill-climbing. A Chicago office-building is better than any hil I could find." There aro in the United States to day about 75,000,000 people who must have food, clothing, shoiter and fire. Besides the housing and clothing,each person must have about three pounds of food material every day, with fuel enough to cook it. Thus it is that from 325,000,000 to 350,000,000 pounds of foodstuff is consumed every day to keep tho peoplo alive. Germany used to be a land of cheap and good music. Tho musio is as good as ever, hut it is no longer so verv cheap as it used to bo. At Hamburg, for instance, opera seats cost from 75 cents to 81.50, or on special occasions S'2 and $3. Concert tickets are not much lower, 31 being charged even at chamber-music soirees. An attempt is also being mado iu Hamburg to en force the wearing of evening dress in the parquet, to the great indignation of those who believe that fashion and music should be kept separate. We take many of tho meclianica wonders of civilization for granted without onoo thinking how muoh of skilled and ceaseless effort goes to the work of simply keeping these useful appliances in repair, muses tho New York Observer. It takes, for example, thirty-seven specially constructed and equipped stenmers to maintain the submarine tolegraph cables of the world in working order. In this world of friction and ceaseless wear and tear things neither corao nor stay as a mat ter of course. Eternal vigilance is tho price of luxury as well a3 of liberty. The Department of Agriculture has detailed Professor H. J. Webber, of Eustis, Fla., to make an investigation of the plant known as the wator hya cinth, which has come so near block ing navigation in the St. John's River tributaries. Until last September lit tle attention had been paid to the steady incroaso in tho growth of tho water hyacinths on the St. John's River. At that time a member of the laeksonvillo Times-Union staff made a trip up the river, and at once bogan calling attention to the obstruction to navigation of the river by tho hya cinths. Since that time tho matter has been taken up by the War Department and tho Agricultural Department, and it now looks as though something might bo done to rid tho river of the plants. The expenditures of tho various State governments have considerably increased within tho last few years. In proof of this statement tho Phila delphia Press gives a number of figures taken from the official records. Comparing tho 'expenditures of tha present year with thoso of 1-SG9 the following marked difference is ob served in some of tho Eastern States: 1300. 1895. Maine fu11.',59,1 iff 52.1 49S New Hampshire. .. .. 175.092 -183 820 Vermont 151.D30 OOO^OOt Massachusetts .1,091,080 0,900,70- Connctlout 217.119 2,250.0-10 New Jersey 220,009 2.209,000 Maryland 1,800,041 2,15-1,750 What is truo of the foregoing Stutos is also truo of every State in the Union, maintains tho Atlanta Consti tution. As population incroases and tho Stato advances in wealth and en terprise, its government necessarily becomes more complex and expensive. It is duo to no extravagance, there fore, that the various States of the Union hnvo increased their expendi tures, but solely to tho domauds of progress and development. MANHOOD. Not till lifo's heat has cooled, Tho headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace, And every purblind passion that has ruled Our noisier years at last Bpurs us in vain, and, weary of tho race, We care no more who loses or who wins—* Ah! not till all the best of life seems past Tho best of life begins. To toll for only fame, Iland-clapping and the llcklo guslsof praise. For place or power or gold to gild a name Above tho grave whereto All paths will bring us, wore to ioso our days Wo on whoso ears youth's passing boll has tolled, In blowing bubbles, even ns children do. Forgetling wo row gold. But tho world widens whon Such liopo of trivial gain that ruled us lies Broken a.noug our childhood's toys, for then Wo win to solf-control And mail ourselves iu manhood, and thero riso Upon uso from tho vat and windless height Those clearer thoughts that aro unto tho soul What stars aro fo the Dlght. —A. St. Johu A leoek. THE FAIREST OF ALL. /q ORA O'DON- A I NELIi was jy® I happy and _ '/Wt I blithe, stand- C\v4f"" / via I at er k Ws fji— father's door; for th"freßh t I "ess of spring 1 was in the air, tho birds / R 'nsing their little songs at f he i r voices. And Nora was singing, too. She had a voice liko a bird herself; and I'll cugago maybe she was aware of that same. A girl may be as good as gold and as inno cent as a dove, hut she can't help knowing if she has a good-looking face. And there's not the least harm if she has a little vanity on tho score of being ahio to turn a tune well or dance a light step at a wedding or fairing. And as she stood there, a brave young fellow, dressed in green, turned the corner of the mill with a <]uiok, light foot. She turned about at the same time, and they looked nt each other. lie had a bit of a cap ou top of bis red mop of curls, and says he, laughing out und lifting tho cap: "Good-morning, a colleen! You're liy far the prettiest girl I've seen be tween this and London." Nora dropped a courtesy, and says she, as quick as a flash bnek again to him: "I'he same to yourself, sir, ub a gentlemnu. liy nli I've heard my father teli of him, your're the imago and tho repetition of that great king of all Iroland, Brian Bora." The young man laughed again, and enys he: "My fairy priucesi, will you be after giving mo tho pleasure of taking a cup of cooi, fresh water from your lily-white hand'.'" "Tho water you may have and wel come," says she, "barring tho lily white hand, b'or, sir, 'tis only grand Indies thnt have that, or that hn7e any call to the like. I'm only a miller's daughter and a working girl." Well, the compliments went on ; and when he had tho drink of water, he got tho smell of tho potatoes and bacon from the kitchen, aud says he— he was in the door by this: "I'm hungry from my long tramp ; and if your father and mother; are willing, nothing would please me bet ter than to sit up with tho family aud Inlie a bit of dinuer foreninst you." "The bit of dinuer my lather and mother will make you welcome to," says she ; "for thoy have never tamed man or woman away flora the door yet, let alone a fine gentleman iike yourself." "And what makes you call me a fine gentleman?" says he. "Your speech, aud the way you hold yourself, und your elegant manner, and tho whiteness of your hand, sir," says she ; "not to mention tho bright shining jewel you wear ou your finger." "Faith, yon aro a clever girl," says he; "and you've rend me rightly. I'm valet to tho Burl of Arranmore, taking my first trip through this beautiful country of Ireland, where I was born, hut where 1 never set feet beforo since I was a babe iu arms." "And what's a valet, good sir, may I ask?" says she. Well, ho explained, that it meant a gentleman's gentleman. And, for fear you wouldn't understand what that is, children, I'll toll you. 'Tin a man that waits on a grand gentleman— brushing his clothes and laying out his linen ; and 'lis said that, nine times out of ten, the fellow is prouder and more couceited-liko than his master, the real gentleman himself. Nora called her father, and the old man invited the young one to step in nud mako himself at home ; and so he did. And ho so charmed them all with his coaxing ways and the praiso of everything he got, that the miller offered him tho freedom of the stream for fishing, which he took, nothing loth ; and seemed not only thankful, but quite delighted. Two days length ened to three, and three to Bix, nud the young stranger lingered on; and do you know why? Ho was striving to make love to Nora, but alio wouldn't lienr to him ; for there was a fine boy iu the next barony that she was to bo married to in the spring,and her heart was true to her fijst love. Ho the cooler she gut with him tho more ho tried to coax her, promising all kinds of fineries and eay living if she'd go with him to London and be his wife, till finally she got grvatly displeased, and says she: "I thought you wero u gentleman, but you're not. If you were, you'd never be nbusing the kindness of ft decont man and woman liko my father and mother by trying to steal their only daughter away from them. No, sir, I wouldn't givo Ned Fagan's little finger for your whole body, if you wero one mass of diamonds from head to toe ; and I'd not go to London along with you if you paved every stop of the road in gold blocks before mo. So take that for your answer, and bother me no more." With that she turned to leave him, but he called her back ; and she told her grandchildren many a time that she liked him better at that moment than ever before; for his face was changed into a grave and serious man ner ; and says he, taking the ring from his finger: "You aro a goo I girl—the very rose of Ireland, as all may know. I'll trouble you no more. But take this as a token, and keep it safe; and if over you need a friend send or bring this to London city, and you'll find him in tho house of Arranmore." At first she'd have none of it, but ho persuaded her, and, so as not to vox him, she took the ring, for she had a kind heart, and thought it best to bo courteous to him, after all. When he was gone she showed it to her father and mother. "It's too like a real diamond not to be paste, Nora," raid the old man. "I doubt much but he's a waudorer of some kind; maybe ho stole it, for that matter." | But the mother said 'twas a mean thing to maligu a gift, anyway, and she bade Nora keep it safe. And so she did, and forgot all about it, in a little box of trinkets she had put away. j Time passed; the old man and wo ! man died; tho mill went to other ' hands; Nora married Ned Fagan and they wero fairly well off and happy. Then the old Earl of Arranmore died himself, and the youmr one came into power—just about tho time of the famine—not the greatest of all, but another one, Tho crops failed. The potatoes turned black in tho pits. The new agent was a terror, turning peo ple out into the road after raising the rent on them till they couldn't pay it. Ned Fagan took down with tho fever, and when he rose up ho was a weakly man. The rent was behind and Ned not able to earn a shilling; aud one day Nora was crying up in her room, so ho wouldn't see her; and, to divert her mind, she began fumbling about in her littlo box of trinkets that she had by her still. There she camo across tho ring, and she took it down to Ned and told him tho tale, thinking to divert his mind as well. "It's queer, Nora," says he, "but that to mo to bo a real jewol; and the setting is fine, as you can see. Maybe if you'd take it up to tho city you might sell it for a trido; and you know every little helps." Just thou there came a knock at the door, and Nora opened it. Thore stood tho very man they were talking of, but drossod more sober, aud looking older and chunged since tho day when Nora saw him first, ten years before. He put out his baud. But poor Nora, thinking of all she'd gone through since she saw him last, burst out crying. 'Twas Ned ha I to tell him tho tale of their misfortunes, and of tho avarice and greed of tho agent; how tho tenants wero in poverty through him and tho fever and the famine ; and how ho threatened that tho Earl him self would bo down shortly aud put what was loft of them, body and bones, on tho road, where they'd either have to dio or go into tho workhouse. "I don't think ho'll do that," says the stranger; "but I wouldn't call it much of a surprise to thorn that know if the agent was left on the road him self." "And are you still in his lordship's service?" says Nora. "I divine you are, or you wouldu't be here." "Yes, I'm thankful to say I'm with him still," says tho other; "and I'm pretty sure of being that same till he dies." "It's well for you," says Nora, with a sad smile. "It's far different with me; and I look far different now, I'm sure, from what I did in those days long ago." "Yes," says the man, "you do; but tho clouds are parting even now, and j tho day will break in joy and consola tion beforo you know it. And have you the ring I gave you yet?" says he. "It's hero, ou my little finger," says Ned. "My wife was showing it to me when you came to the door, and that for tho first time since wo were mar ried." "Sure, I forgot all about it, Ned," says she, giving a deep sigh. ' "It was to sell it wo thought, wo were that pushed at the present moment." "Ob, don't do that!" says tho stranger, rising up. "But I'll ask you one thing oniy. Come up yourself this very day, Nora, to tho castle. I'll speak for you to the Earl whon he comes ; and, take my word for it, some good will come of it. And fetch tho ring along with you, for good luck, and show it to tho servant at the door." So he cheored them up till ho left, and i heir hearts wero lightened in them ; aud Nora promised to go up to tho castle, as ho bade her, in tho after noon. And then he went away. The suu was setting as Nora climbed tho long hill and mado her way to tho castle. There was a power of horses and carriages round about, and fine ladies and gentlemen on terrace. Nora thought it queer to seo the valet mingling in among them—but there ho was, liko one of themselves, talking to a beautiful lady, and a little boy play ing at his feet. 110 saw Nora at once, rose up, und, leaving tho company, he came over, and the lady along with him. "And did you fetch the ring, Nora?" says he, laughing. "I did," says she, handing it to him. "And will you bo so good as to speak to the Karl for mo, as you promised?" With that ho took tho ring from her hand and put it on his finger. "I am tho Karl of Arranmore," says he; "and these aro my dear wife and son." With that poor Nora fell down upon her two knees (she wouldn't do it, if sho lived in these days, to earl or king, I'll warrant yo, children; but that was iu your great-great-grand mother's time, when people weren't too proud and ignorant to acknowl odgo their betters). But the husband and wife each took hew by the hand ; and says the lady, in her sweetest tones: "How glad I am to be able to seo and help you this day ! For my hus band has told me all that little story, and how, for the time, he was so fond of you that he really and truly wanted to take you awuy to London and make you Countess of Arranmore." "Nora was right, and I was mis taken," said the Earl; "and while I live hereafter neither she nor hers shall ever want. From this day on I intend to live at the eastle three months in tho year, to know .my ten ants and care for them as a landlord should know and care for those who depend on him, and on whom ho also dopends. And during the time wo are absent, and for all time, I nppoint your husband and yourself curetakers here, with a comfortable stone house and a garden, and everything neces sary for a good and honorable living." For a while poor Nora couldn't do anything but cry for joy, and blush with confusion at the way she'd treated the Earl when he was coaxing her long ago, thinking of the sharp words she'd said to him that day. "Oh, your lordship and your lady ship," says she, "what can 1 say! I can't say anything for the grand, good news. But my heart is bursting with gratefulness; and I wish I could fly, to be the sooner homo to Nod with the joyful tale." "You carry your heart in your face, Nora," said the Earl; "and we can read every thought that's iu it. There's no need for a word of gratitude. Run away homo cow to your husband and children, and I'll bo down myself in the morning. And by that time I'll expect to see the old light in your eyes and tho old smile on your lip, and the same rose-flush on your cheek that a wanderiug etranger onoo thought the fairest in all Ireland."— Notre Dame (Ind.) Ave Maria, Man and tho Mumiuotli, A romarkable discovery was mado a fow years ago in tho snndstouo rook at the Nevada State Prison. The "find" was considered wonderful, cot only from a geological standpoint, but from an ethnological point of view also. While the conviols at tho institution wero unearthing some huge blocks of stone they uncovered some peculiar in dentations in one of the slabs. Closer investigation proved that these queer marks were the tracks of some gigan tic beast of antediluvian time—per haps a mastodon or a mammoth. When tho stnrtling intelligence was announced to the prison officials they had the sandstone slabs containing the tracks carefully cleaned, whereupon another wonderful discovery was made. In the same pieces of stone, sometimes at the sido and sometimes between the traoks made by tho groat prehistoric beast, wero a series of human footprints, whioh proved con clusively that man and tho mammoth lived not only at the samo time and in tho samo age, but that the huge beast and tho man hud passed that way during tho same year, and per haps on tho same day. These wonder ful relic 3of a bygone ago were found in a quarry nt a depth of about fifteen feet from tho surface and had pre viously been covered with a stratum composed of hundreds of IODS of stone —the accumulation of tho agos that had intervened between the date upon whioh tho tracks were mado and that upon which they were revealed to the scientists. Expert geologists who have since passed an opinion on tho matter say that at the time the tracks wero made that which is now hard sandstone was a "mucky" deposit of soft sediment, probably the border of a lake, where the man had been fishing and where the mammoth had come to bathe or drink. A Vegetable I'iimpiiig Engine. This is the title bestowed upon the ordinary tree by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson. Iu n recent address, quoted in Cassier'sMagazine, he says: "Hydraulic engineers would be sorely puzzled to explain how tho largo quantity of water required to supply the evaporation from the extended leaf surface is raised to heights up to 400 feet and above. We know that the source of energy must be tho sun's rays, and wo know furlhor that, iu tho production of stnrcli, tho leaf stores up less than one per cent, of the avail able energy, so that plenty remains for raising water. Experiments havo shown that transpiration nt the leaf establishes a draught upon tho sap, and there is reason to believe that this pull is transmitted to tho root by tensile stress. Tho idea of a rope of water sustaining a pull of perhaps 150 pounds per square inch may bo repugnant to many engineers, but the tensile strongth and extensibility of water and other fluids hnvo boeu provod experimentally by Professor Osborne Reynolds and by Professor Worthiogton and others." Americans Abroad. "There have been many estimatos published of tho total expenditures of Americans iu Europe every year," said a steamship agont to n Mail and Ex press reporter. "I estimate that SSOO is the average expenditure of euoh tourist. I believe that 120,000 Ameri cans went abroad last season. This would make the total expenditures last year, at SSOO a head, $60,000,- ,000."—New Yoru Mail aud Express. KEEPING ONIONS. Where large quantities of onions ; are to bo kept over winter they should bo placed on slatted shelves to tho depth of six or eight inches, in some dry, niry place. They are capable of resisting considerable frost and will come out all right if they aro not moved when frozeD, but it is safer to cover them with samo straw or hay when severe cold sets in. In a small way they do very well scattered on a barn lloor and covered with hay suffi cient to exclude frost. When kept in I barrels these should have holeß bored | in tho Bides for ventilation and should I be left unhended until shipping time. —American Agriculturist. i FEEDING FOB A BIG FLOW OF MILK. The amount of milk produced from onr herd for the mouths of February, March and April lat was 100,385 pounds or over fifty tons. The herd averaged during this time from forty to fifty-one milkers, writes A. B. Sontbwiok in New England Home stead. Twenty of those oows had been milking from six to twelve months, tho rest having produced calves at difler out times during tho winter. All feed is given dry. The hay fed is what is known to the market us mixed clover. The grain is a mixture of oats and corn in equal parts, ground, with best qual ity wheat bran and middlings mixed in to suit the conditions of the various animals. Eaoh animal is fed accord ing to her condition and noeds. The cow that feels the best and is in tho mo3t robnst health all the time, if a good one, is the ouo that will produoe the mosl profitable milk for his owner. 1 do not expect to get something from nothing, and I do not expect to get a good ilow of milk without feed, but it is certain that more depends upon tho perfect condition of the cow than a great amount of feed, when the amount of milk produced is considered. Gnr cows evidently were raised in neighborhoods where excellent grade and nutivo cows are kept and where good balls have been used to the .ex clusion of sorubs. Appearances indi cate that Ilolstoin, Ayrshire aud Short horn grades are about the only breeds represented. It is found that good size, good form and a good mellow skin are desirable features to buy. Doubtless there are many herds that can show n greater rocord, but I think the doings of this herd can be consid ered good and it shows to a degree tho advautage of weediDg out poor aui male. I am a firm believer in keeping abreast of tho times iu dairying, and I feel sorry for the man who is willing to continue in the rnts, but whon we consider the subject of feed for cows I question sometimes whether wo follow oommon sense or fads. It seems to me there can bo but ono idea, and it is that whatever suits the cow tho best—thatjwhich is the means of keep ing her iu the most robust condition of health, and causes her to produce tho largest quantity of milk, rich in bnttor lat—is tho cheapest feed and the only profitable one, whatever tho cost may be. Green forage in sum mer, the best of pasture if possible, with good sound grain, as corn and oats finely ground, with best coarse wheat bran mixed with it in reason able quantity, to suit tho condition of the animal, is found to ho reliable and satisfactory. In winter good, sweet, early cut hay, vegetables, samo mix ture of grain, is reliable and as cheap, all things considered, as any of the variety of methods now followed in dairy farming. What has nature pro vided the capacious stomach of tho porfect dairy cow for if not for tho purpose of receiving and digesting the sweet and fragrant hay and grass which produces tho highest and most | satisfactory results? One is disgusted with the gaunted nppearance of the noble oow that is compelled to satisfy herself with a little Btiugy ration of ensilage, with some nostrum in tho shape of grain, ail for the reason that tho cost is the lowest, and reduced to tho minimum Ido not believe it ever paid a man to ride a hobby, aud I do not believe it ever will pay to feed en silage indiscriminately, as the majority do. But I do think this class of feed has its place and cuu be ÜBed to great advantage when farmers bocome edu cated up to its most profitable use. I believe farmers err in feeding too much grain at one time. Cattle that are receiving grain, and especially is this true of milch cows, would receive very much more benefit from such feed if tho rations were given in small er quantity and oftener. This plan is fur safer for tho health as well. Tho cow that gets six quarts of grain a day will get the most benefit by giving this at six different ieeds. This is ex treme, as most of us aro not situated so we oan carry oat such a plan, but it serves to illustrate the idea. I havo found satisfaction in going slow when considering the advisability of chang ing any well-tried and highly satisfac tory method of feeding for something new. FALLM AND OAKDEN NOTES. Use the best seed of tho host vari eties. If any colonies are queenlese, unite them with others. Don't expect yonr trees to produce something for nothing. Feed them. Hunt the inseot eggs and nests on your trees, and dostroy the source of much loss to your fruit next Benson. The pruduotion and management'if manure deserves as careful attention as the production of any other farm crop. For eggs alone, no breeds snrpass the Leghorns and Minorcas. For eggs and meat, the Plymouth Rockß are bettor. Currants and gooseberries require lots of well-rotted manure worked down in the soil around them with good cultivation. If the poultry is given a little of the care so freely allowed to the other stock it will pay a bettor percentage on the investment. Poultry can never be raised success fully if the poultry house be dump. Poultry must have dry houses and runs to be thrifty. The farmer's garden is the most profitable piece of ground on the farm, if it only produces all kinds of garden crops for the family. Keop close watch that the mice and rabits do not injure the trees. Keep the snow tramped around the treo and protooted with lath or wire screen up us high as a rabit can reach. There has been too much plowing— too much washing and waste of fertil ity of hilly lands. Plans should be formed whioh ultimately result in such lauds being seeded down oftener and pastured more. The ideal berry ground would be, first, a rich, sandy loam with clay sub soil. Second, u dark loam or gravelly loam mixed slightly with clay, and a clay subsoil, all having a southerly or eastern slope. A Massachusetts farmer speakß kind words for the mole. He says they live upon worms which infost most Boed laud. They operato in rich, looso ground because worms uro more abundant there. You can never get a uniform flock if von use mongrel or grade males, or if you change the breed evory year or so. Chango blood often, but use a male of the same breod, and you will see im - prevement each year. Clive every tree that bore heavily last season a good top dressing of woll rotted manure, out as far around at least as the brauehoß extend. If the ground is in cultivation, fork this well down into tho soil in next spring's cultivation. In every neighborhood where special attention is given to gardening or fruit growiug there should be u horticul tural society. There are always some good seed grown at theso meetings, and they help to make one enthusiastic in the business. Exercise is a necessity, both foi health and for eggs. Confine a lot ol hens and feed them to produoe eggs, and unless some means have been pro vided to make them scratch for the grain given them, the rosult will be s lot of over-fat, lazy fowls that sil around and do nothing. Where'the peach tree is not pruned long, slender branches form, and theso [.roduce fruit mainly at their outer ends. The tree will carry much more fruit if properly distributed, and will produce more perfect fruit. Tho out ting will not be attended with injury if done while the tree is dormant. That tho peach treos should bo left to grow at will is an outgrown idea. Give the children a chance to make some money. A couple of hens, ducks, goeeo or turkeys will start them to figuring and to working. The little money caruod will be a great pleasure to them. You can afford to give them tho grain to feed their fowls, if they will put in tho work. They will thus be taught to study the needs of the poultry, and becomo wise in all that rogards featherod stock. Their little frials aud triumphs will be remem bered by them in the years to conro, and cause them to think with pleasure of the old home. llnud Coverings. Probably no period has shown more lavish expenditure of glove money than that of the Frenoh Restoration, from IXIS to 1880, says Elizabeth Ferguson Seat in Lippiucott's Maga zine. According to Challamel, no well-dressed woman appeared un gloved, no); hesitated to put on a now pair every day. The popular color was a pale taD. At no time in tho history of gloves have they been more generally worn or more cheaply furnished than at the present day. Tho gorgeous jewels and embroideries of the past faded from sight with gold laeo and knickerbook ors, and with quieter colorings in dress have come the plain brown every-dny gloves of thiß utilitarian uge. For the sake of those knights oi old who wore on thoir hats the "gloves of their dearlyngs" aud defended the tender tokens with thoir lives, in memory of thoso lordly, royal ones who held dainty, bonutilul and splendid gloves to bo their speoial heritage, tho world to-dav bends low over a well-gloved hand and ranks its owner one of gentle brooding. Separating Coin. A recently patented coin separator and distributor has a long, flat metal feed chute into which the coins are dropped at one end, tho other end be ing lower, so that the coins will roll down to the coin-holders, each holder having an opening into the chute through which the coin drops, the size ol' the coin determining which ! tube it belongs in. TBE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE, STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Meek Little Suggestion—A Ita<l Break—A Glve-a-Wny—A Firm Grip—Overshot the Mark. Ktc. I hiill called her my gem and my jewel, And pet names to lovers well known. Bur she pouted and pooviahly asked me— "Why don't you call me "your own.'" A BAD BREAK. "How did you get on with your skating?" The One Who Got In—"Oh, swim mingly."—Life. BADDY PAIRED. "You can't expect any good to come of these ill-assorted marriages." "No, indoed! And sho had a very poor assortment."—Puck. ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE. First Spanish Soldier—"Tho insur gents havo attacked tho rear." Tho Other—"Caramba! Let us hasten to tho front!"— Life. TNE DEAR. "Dear girl!" "She's like ice to me." Inother words,she was notespccially dear at this time of tho year.—l'uok. OVERSHOT THE V-AItK. Elmore —"What makes llsrlau so hard up just now? Lost his job?" Dayton—"Oh, no. Ho has a big raise in bis salary and is trying to live up to it."—Truth. JUST THE OTHEP. WAV. Western Transient—"Did yon over live on the border, madnra?" Landlady—"No, indoed, Bir, but I've bad a good many boarders live on me."—Boston Courier. A GIVE-A-WAY. "She says she's twenty-tive,but she's thirty-five. I can read it between the lines." "What lines?" "Those on her face."—Harper's Ba zar. FOBEsioirr. "Do you think Julia will accept the offer of her foreign lover?" "No; her father says when they go abroad they may got somethiug cheaper and just as good."—Chicago Record. COUNTENANCE AGAINST HER. Frederick—"That photographer is certainly chasing after the impos sible. " Willy—"How is that?" Frederick—"Ho asked Miss de Mill ions to look pleasant." EXPLAINED. "You say he hugged you like a bear." "Yes." "And you found it sweot?" "Woll—er—yes. It was like a cin namon bear, you know." EVOLUTION. His Wife —"And you aro to defend that shoplifter?" The Lawyer—"My dear, she isn't a shoplifter. Sho was, formerly; hut sho has savof so much money in the last ten years that sho has becomo u kleptomaniuc."—Puck. HE DIDN'T STAY LONG. Bobby (to early caller) "Aro you tho gentleman sister Maud expected?" Mr. Staylate—"l don't know. 1 suppose there are others." Bobby—"That's what my sister said, but that vo l didn't appear to know it."—New Yu.-k Journal. A FIR* GLTLP. Mrs. Wainwood--"I was speaking with Miss Elder to-day. She says that everybody tells her that she holds her age remarkably." Mrs. Grimm—"Yes; she has been thirty for the last six years, to my knowledge."—Boston Transcript. CERTAIN. Mrs. Forster— "Why, good morn ing, Mr. Felton ! Will Mrs. Felton bo at home this morning?" Mr. Felton—"Yes; she is going to be home all day. A family is going to movo into a houso right opposito ours to-day, aud Mrs. Foltou is not quite certain of tho time." CAUSE AND EFFECT. Miss Antique (displeased with bet photographs)—" This, sir,is the fourth sittiDg I've given you, aud the picture is even worse than the first." Photographer—"Yes, miss. The last sitting was a mouth after the first, and you were a month oldor, you know."—New York Weekly. WHY THE TRIP WAS PUT OFF. "Ab,Professor," greeted tho student, "I hear that you are about to make a trip to San Francisco." "You are misinformed, sir," tho Professor answered. "From motives of economy I have decided to post pone the event .until winter." "You see." the pedagoguo explained, "taking advantage of one of the groat laws I expound in tho natural philoso phy olass every day, I find that tbo trip can be shortened in cold weather. The principle involved is that law whioh relates to the expansion and contraction of metals. I find that a steel rail thirty feet in longth contracts one-quarter of an inch with the cold. At the rate of 176 rails to the mile in a distanoc of 30U0 miles I make just about two miles and a quarter by trav eling in winter." "Quite a saving, Professor," said the student, and be walked on silently marvelling at the lenrned one's saga city.—New York Journal.
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