What was its fineness, and what was the
amount received?’ There's ono that will make
vousick. What has a letter carrier to do with
molting gold and mixing it up. 1 don’t believe
there is a jeweler in this town that could fig
ure that out. If the question was, ‘lf a let
ter carrier receives S6O a month, half
of it in greenbacks and half In hob
tail silver dollars, and pave three assessments
for campaign expenses, and has to buy a gray
uniform and is sick a week and is docked, how
much will he have left to buy liver and cod
fish. ’ I could figure it down to an alspice in my
head, and never touch a slate and pencil. But
this fourteen carat and twenty-two carat gold
busincee, melted up in a tin dipper, knocks the
stuffing ont of me, and when the civil-servhre
reform neks mo to whack np on that riddle
they can hire a jewelry auctioneer to take my
place and get out of door yards ahead of dogs,
and I will post him on where the folks in my
district live, and T will get a job mauling muler
ou a street car. You hear me!"
“0, you fellows haven't i*ot any heads for
mathematics," said a little fellow with his letter
sack elung over his shoulder. 