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JEV‘JELRY AT THE r-xzri'r.
i’eople De‘pusi: l: to be Melted and Turn.
ed inin Legal Tender.
Shertiy after the holiday season the
mint is overburdened With deposits 01.
gold jeweliy for melting, brought by
persons unableto keep the valuable
trinkets or jewelers disposing of pat-
terns out of date.
From 1873 down to last year the
amount of money paid out by the gov-
ernment for old gold and plate annu-
ally has increased steadily. The high-
water mark was reached in 1801, when
the government paid out for plate and
lewelry $4,035,710. In 1873 the amount
was 774,218, and it reached the million
mark in 1880, the two-million mark in
[886, and the three-million mark in
1889. Except for the year 1891, when
it went to four millions, it was be-
‘zween three and four million dollars
until last year, when it fell to $2,810,-
284. The Philadelphia mint melts
nine-tenths of the plate and jewelry
presented to the. government. Pay—
ment is generally made in gold when
the jewelry is of that metal.
Ziegler Jones, of the weighing de-
partment of the mint, said that the
principal metal received was gold, as
ihe mint did not recoin silver, but
simply refined it 999—1000ths fine.
‘There are,” he said, “many people
who deposit jewelry at the mint which
is very valuable, but out of style. Many
of them are stirred up in the matter by
reading of robberies and realize that
the keeping of old jewelry is a tempta-
tion for servants and sneak thieves,
Dnly this morning a poor Russian left
a. heavy gold watch to be melted. It
was given him for bravery in his na-
‘-.ive army. The net amount turned
aver to the astonished foreigner was
560.
‘ “By far the greatest amount of metal
ls sent to the mint from jewelers, den-
tists and assayers. As a rule, we do
not accept a deposit which will net in
the essay under $100. The hard times
have a very great influence on the
amount of jewelry received from pri—
vate individuals.”—-—Philadelphia Times.
ONE HORSE’S APPETITE.
{no Old Fellow Possessed a. Phenomenal
Capacity.'
“An old horse with an inordinate ap-
petite is one' of the curiosities I found
an a recent trip to Eastern Kentucky,”
said Col. Andrew Yates, thei'ot'her day.
‘This ancient animal was once ridden
by a mail rider over in West Vir-
ginia and had to go in a jog from day-
light till after dusk each day, except
Sunday. But after long service ‘old
Bawley’ was traded off to a farmer liv-
ing over on the Kentucky side. of the
mountains, and he recently pensioned
the animal, putting ‘Bawley’ on the
pasture and letting him have all he
araved morning and evening at feeding
time. An ordinary meal for ‘Bawley’
is two racks of hay, thirty ears of corn, ,
a. two-gallon bucket of bran, a gallon
of oats and all the stale bread and
meat in the house. ‘Bawley’ is as
fond of meat and bread as of hay and
corn; and, in fact, will eat almost any-
thing, not drawing the line at fruit or
sweet things. The four-legged gour-
mand once broke in the hog pen and
emptied a large trough of slop which
had just been poured in for the par-
kers. His owner said he once heard
the old horse whining in pain, and
went out and dosed ‘Bawley’, his im-
prudence in devouring a. bucket of
new-made jam, having superinduced
serious illness, but the horse was ready
to eat the following morning as usual.”
—Louisville Post.
Some Long Beards.
Perhaps the best-known beard in the
United States is that of ex-Senator
Peffer, of Kansas, which was said to
measure three feet long, abut there are
many which exceed that in size. The
museums frequently contain men five
feet and over whose beards sweep the
floor when they stand up, but perhaps
the longest of‘all is that of Legrand
Larow, of Larow, Mo., which is said to
exceed any other in the world. It is
seven feet in length, and has measured
71/2 feet. Mr. Larow was born in
Tompkins county, New York, in 1852,
and his relatives are noted for heavy
beards, but not extraordinary length,
He is six feet in height and weighs 175
pounds. When standing with his beard
down it extends two feet upon the
floor. He has not shaved for over
twenty years.
or else wrapped and lodged inside his
vest—Boston Transcript.
Pour Tonuny.
“Why, Mrs. Jamesby!” exclaimed a
neighbor across the backyard fence. .
“Do you beat your own carpets?”
“Yes,” replied Mrs. Jamesby.
don’t mind it. It’s good exercise.”
“I should think you’d- have Tommy
do it.”
“Poor Tommy!” rejoined the good
woman, resuming her exercise. “He
belongs (whack!) to a gymnatic class
down town, and (whack!) he’s so tired
when he comes home in the afternoon
(whack!) that I haven’t the heart to
ask him (whack!) to take told of any
work like this.” (Whack! whack!)—
Youth’s Companion.
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To lie Considered “’ith (Bare.
“Say, Maud,” said Mamie, “did you
see Mrs. .l’inkles’ new vase?”
“Yes. Isn’t it perfectly horrid ‘3”
“I don’t know yet. I haven’t found
out whether it is modern and perfectly
horrid, or antique and perfectly love~
1y.”
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Promoter—“You needn’t be a bit
afraid; the company is perfectly safe."
The Lamb—“0h, I’ve no doubt about
the company being safe enough. 1
was thinking about the safety of my
money.”——-Bost0n Transcript.
He wears his beard '
braided and wound around his body, '
QUlCKEi-ST HORSES IN THE WORLD.
I‘lie‘Eproits of Joe and Dam, of the Kan-
sas City Fire Department.
The quickest horses in. the world
were at one time in Kansas City, at
the headquarters of its Fire Depart-
ment, directly under the ofiice of the
chief, George C. Hale. To Mr. Hale’s
genius, more than to any other factor,
the quick horse owed his first devol-
Opment, for Mr. Hale is the inventor
of the earliest swinging harness, which
made the quick horse possible. XVhen
Henry M. Stanley and his wife were
in this country they witnessed an ex-
hibition drill of the Kansas City Fire
Department. The drill so impressed
the visitors that an account of it was
published in a London journal, and
this English article brought an invita-
tion to Mr. Hale to visit England as
the representative of the American fire
service at the international fire tour-
nament.
Mr. Hale and a picked. corps went to
England, taking with them the re-
markably quick horses Joe and Dan,
and they became world-famous. As
the quickest harnessing time of the
London fire brigade is one minute sev«
enteen and a half seconds, and the
Kansas City horses were harnessed in
one and three-quarter seconds, and
were out of the engine house in less
than eight seconds, there could be no
competition. In Kansas City four fine
bays were harnessed to the hook-and-
ladder truck almost as quickly as even
Joe and Dan could jump into their har-
neSScs. It was a pretty sight to see
these four well-kept horses spring to
their places at the stroke of the gong,
and in two or three seconds stand
ready to run with the apparatus. Joe
was killed by an accident, but Dan,
with :1 new mate, is still in service
and as quick as ever.
The record for quickest time from
the. engine house to the throwing of
water on the tire is held by a Kansas
City company. In this instance the
horses were harnessed, a run of 2,194
feet. :1 little less than half a mile, was
made. and water thrown from the hose
in the wonderfully brief time of one
minute thirty-one and a half seconds.—
F. S. Dellenbaugh in St. Nicholas.
A PROPHETIC CARTOON.
Published in a Spanish Paper February 6,
lbel‘ul'e the Maine Disaster.
The issue of Blanco y Negro, the
best-known of the Spanish illustrated
weekly papers. contains the above car-
toon. Spain claims that the horrible
catastrophe in Havana harbor was due
either to unavoidable accident or to
carelessness on the part of American
seamen in handling explosives. The
issue. of Jan. 29 of El Correo Espanoi.
a newspaper of Mexico City, which is
the organ of the small but influential
Spanish party in that republic, con—
tains a significant article. entitled
‘Arined Courtesies." it is only :1. coin-
cidence that a Spaniard in Madrid
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should have portrayed Uncle Sam in
the act of casting explosives into the
water, one of which has just burst
near the water-line of the Maine. while
another Spaniard in the Mexican cap-
ital was writing a, yelled threat of what
might happen to an American vessel in
Cuban waters, were it to anchor with
lmy other than a friendly purpose. It
is remarkable, however, as a coinci—
dence, and if there were in Spain an
organization" to correspond with the
Mafia of Sicily and Southern Italy,
there might be ground for a belief that
both publications were inspired by the
foreknowledge of a great crime.
Bothered.
“What is the matter?” inquired the
friend of the man who was gazing va-
cantly into space. "You seem
troubled.”
“I am ,” was the reply. “I have
been engaged by a publication to
write answers to correspomlents
and I’m trying to think up some new
questions to ask myself.”—-l\'nshing-
ton Star.
Stone Solos for Shoes.
An inventor has hit upon :1. method
of putting stone soles on boots and
shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue
with a suitable quantity of clean
quartz sand, and spreads it over the
leather sole used as foundation. These
quartz soles are said to be very flexi—
ble and practically indestructible. and
l to give the foot :1 firm hold, even on
the most slippery surface.
Ex-Cathodra.
“Here’s a question that stumps me.”
said the answers-to-qum-ics editor.
“What is the feminine of chap?"
“Thank goodness,” responded llll-
' woman editor, “there isn‘t any!"~
Chicago Tribune.
He Didn't Look It.
“I hope you Will excuse my (-uriiirr-
ity,” said the greyhound to the (lusc-
. hund, “but can you really sit down?"
! ——Indianapolis' Journal.
Soft. Answer.
I Wifey—This cake isn’t half bad. is
it, hubbie? '
l Hlibbie—Well—er—I’ll
take your'
‘ word for it; perhaps you got the good
halt—Chicago. Inter-Ocean.
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