Improving On Richelieu

Mach the greater part of the writirjg in newRpapor offices is doüo vnth lead ptnoilp. Somebody, therefore, makes tho followiui? suggestion : " Since the corps editorial have rcnounced the pen aa a weapon of intelleotual warfnre, it would be well, f(.r tho sake of fitness, to reconstruct an old a-phorisra thus: The pencil called the Faber 'S more potent than the saber." - JjOuiavíMe Cour Journal. Acoobding to the Director of the Mint, t'ie annual production cf Kold in the Uuited Stateq is Slö.JOO.QOOraDd of Bilyer $38,000,000.