Cotton Versus Hair

The paragraphs in the nevvspapers about the high price of cotton, set one of ourBoHtoH hotel keeper tó thinking, the other clay, that he had eeventv fjve or eightv cotton-stuffed mareases, purchased sorne time ago because the}' were cbfeaper than hair ones, and that instead of depreeiating in value from use, they must have uicreased, from the soarcity of material of which they were c.orrposed. No sooner had the thought qcoui-red to hiiü than he inquircd the price of cotton per pound. " Fiftv-eight to sixty one oents." " And the price of hair for matrasses ?" " Forty to fortytwo!" Hi.s mind waè made np; the o!d ottt ton matresaeH were ripped open, thpir treasure drawn forlh, and the smart hotel proprietor had the eatisfactioD of changirg hia eighty old cotion (iiatre-te? for eighty new hair ones without costing a penny. Indet'd, he liad n little sometblng left nver, bet-idcs the blessings of bis glieats for thu unlonked for improvement of their couobes. - Commercial Bulletin