A Compromise

-Th cüDsuiaers of milk in a Cürtam quarter of Boston struck against the increaseof priee, and Btriutly held on lo their deteruiination not to take a drop till the prioe was reduoed, whioh was dona in twenty-four hours. When the oonsuiners oauie to taste the milk, they found there had also beau an understanding between the milkman and the iron tuiled-oow. If tha prices were not strong, neither wsg the milk. The sight of it gave a chili to all tho people subjeot to the ague. j52g Harrisbug paper tella of a inaa who has failed in business four times, wasburnt out three times, woa robbed five times, was upset in a staga coach and thrown down an embankmeDt a distanoo of sixty feot, foll head foremost ihrough a liatohway in a store at Reading, has been married threo time and is the father of twenty-one children. Ho '' still lives," aud is eugaged in business in Harrisburg. A oertain attaohe of the Tieasury Department in Washington, who is woll known as an invetérate toper, on being' asked by a joeular friend what hc did for a living, replied: "Isuek a bottla part of the time, ajid tho Uaited Status ' Treasury the rest."