A Snake In His Boots

A iew morniags ago, .Toe Niles, of Nortb Benningfcon, pulled on bis boot, which he had set out in the woodshed tbo evecing beforo. He saya be " feit omethiug kuider csld and squaehy-like about bis toen, and oouldn't think what the plague had got intew bis boots," but he went out and milked fivo or six cowh. When he got back to the hotise i 'nis toes kopt "tieklingso ha oouldn't stand it, " sq be took off bis boot, ruu in j his bantl, and pulled out a brownsnake i two ie long, tiiat be bad Rhovcd into the toe of his boot. Joe don't put bis I boots in the woodshed any more, and senda a ferret down into them everj i morning to make sure that no unwelobm'e visitor bas orawled in over nicrht. - Troy Press, Twenty foreign nations have agrecd ■ to " oome or send a hand" to the Centennial at PhiJadelphia in 1876.