Knew His Way

A young gendarme had to táke a prisoner before the magistrate and after the trial convey him to the court prison. He had never been in the building before and stood in the coi'ridor with his charge, not kuowing which way to tnrn. At last the old offeuder had pity on him and said : "Come along, Pil show you. " - Rappel. The total amount of gold coined at onr mints from 1798 to 1892 was $1,-' 582.000,000; of silver dnring the same period there hav been (507,000,000 and of subsidiary coinage of all denomiuations $24,000,000. In the estimated value of farm prodncts, according to the returns of the eleventh census, Illinois is first, with $184,759,013; New York is second, with $161,393,009; Iowa is third, with $159,847,844.