Where Avarice Once Overreached Itself

The Man With the Big Valise- How far is it to the Northwestern railway station? The Cabman (with an eye to a profitable fare) - Abont two miles. The Man With the Big Valise (coasulting watch) - Pshaw! Then I won't be able to catch that train anyway. Guess I'll ride over in a street car and catch the next train af ter. - Chicago Record. Gold in transit across the Atlantic "sweats, " no matter how tightly it may be packed. It is usually sent in stout kegs and squeezed in as tight as possible, but there is a regular allowance for loss by attritiou upon the voyage, and in the course of years this loss to the commercial world amounts to a large snm. The stones that were formerly passed from hand to hand aa being the genis found in the head of the toad were fossil teeth of the sea wolf.