An Industrious Mechanic

Peter lbo Grout once p;issed a whole month at the fo.-géa of Muller, duriug wbioh time, after giving due attention to affaire ut' State, wbich ba oever neglected, ho araused bimself with geeing and examining everything in the most minute manner, and even employed hiinsêlfin leamitlg tho business of a black smith. He tüoceeded sr well tbat one duy befare bo left the pliieo be forged cighteen poods of irom and put bis own particular mark upnn onch bar. 1'lir bayers and otber uoblemeu of lus suil vraïc cmployed in blowin? tho buüuws, stirring the eonls, and (lerforming tbc other dutios of a blaclismitli's assistant When Peter had finished, bo went; to the proprietor and praiscd his manufactory, and anked hira how mucb he gave bis workraen per pood. 1 Tbree kopecks, or aa altiua,' answored Muller. ' Vtíi'y well, then,' tlio Czar taid ' 1 have earned eighteeu altinas.' Muller brought eigbteen duuats, ofFered theui to Peter, aud told hirn that ho could not give a workiuan like bis ruajeaty Iobs per pood. Peter rofused the sura, saying, ' keop tby ducats ; I bave'not wrougbt bctter tban any other man. Oive what you would givo to any other. I want the money to buy a pair of shoes, of which I have gaeat need. At the samo time he showed him bis shoes, which hid been once broken, and were again full of holes. Peter acceptcd the eighteon altinas, and bought Iiim a pair of shoes, whiuh he used to show with niuch pleusure, saying ' these I earned by the sweat oL my blow.' One of theso bars ot irou lorged bv Peter tho (heat, autbenlicated by his mark, is slill to bo seen at Istia, in the' forge of Muller. Auotber similar bar is preservod in the cabinet of curiosities ifl St. Petersburg. ty It is stated that JJHgham Young has more money in the Bank oi Englaud than any oiber depositor.