water waa only four feet deep and abe
Waa five) ftfMlt Lin 7 atia atswi.1 nn a.n.1
informed a young man of what had
happened, and he courageously passed
her a board.
Out of 241,926 packages of stamps.
etc, tranmitted throngh the Post Office
in tbe United States daring the year
i3i j- i. only lour packages valued at
7.45, were lost : and of the 2,000,(H
ol regularly registered letters, only 313
were actually lost or stolen.
"A human skull, covered and filled
with oysters, was dredged np in New
uaven naroor not long since. A man
mnst be awfully fond of oysters when
he "sets" bis skull to catch them. But
perhaps, after all, the owner of that
trap didn't know how it waa being
used.
A yard-stick is very nseful in a store:
a stick on the stage ia of no use what
ever ; a stick in a tumbler is sometimes
in danger of making the sidewalk un
even to pedestrians ; a stick of a hus
band or wife is apt to be much longer
than is desired, and a stickful of matter
is the commonest thing read in news
papers. The Sultan of Turkey employs in his
palace 6.00U servants of both sexes.
He pays and feeds 300 cooks, 300 gar
deners, 500 coachmen, and 600 more to
do odds and ends about the house.
To feed these people and their hangffrs
on 1.200 sheep and 2.000 fowls are killed
every day, and 60.000 francs for Ughts
are expended. No wonder they call
him the sick man of Europe.
