Old And New

"Ah! how times havo changed since I was young," remarked an old man. " In tliose days the young fellows would have been spanked if they weiit courtin' beforo they wcre of age; but now they begin comtin' the pillers in their eradles, and it's ten to one if they ain't engaged to their nurses before they can blow their noses." There are now 1,250,000 sheep in Coloriido, wortli on an average $2.25 per head. The majority of the sheep are cow slioru but once a year. It was forrnerly the custom in the sonthern part of the State to shear in April and October, buttho li sses bysevere storms are doing away with tho October practico.