Boots No Longer Worn

From the Philadelphia North American. "We make ten pairs of caiter3 er buttoued shoes toon e pair of boots nowadays, saiil a shoemaker. "Twenty years ago neUrly everybody wore boots." "What was the reason of the change ?" "There are various reasons. Gaitera are nuich more handy than boots, and they look neater. Than, again, they cost ninch less and are easier on the feet. No one ever wore boots in a walking match." "Any other reason?" "Yes, on the shoemaker's side. There is more money in gaiters. They are more readily made, sell more quickly because they are eheapeT, and there is less waste leather abontthem. " "Have boots any advuntages?" "Yes ; trousers sit better over them, and for rough traveling they wear better. They are not so likely to pull out of shape." "Where are boots worn most?" "In the country Farmers wear boots almost entirely. Yen ean't wear gaiters in a ploughed üeld." The will of Fianeis A. Drexel, the deeeased Philadelphia banker, was admitted to probate. After giving directions relative to the sotliement of his business interest, Mr. Drexel orders the exeoutors to make an hiventory of the estáte, and as scon ihevcafteraaexpedient shall raise out of the net residuary estete (af ter payimut f sotae private bequeats) 10 per cei.t ï the valnaticn in cash and distributc it to varia is oharitable institutions. A few days after Dickens's death n Englishman, deeply grieved at the event, made a pilgrimage to Gad's Hill, and as he wis havinp somo rcfreshnient at the f amona John Falstaff, tL near at hand, the efftwiveni ss of his craotions prompted him to tako the waitcrinto his confidence. "A great ioss. tliis, of Mr. Dickons," sail tho pilgriin. "A great loss fo lis, sir," replied the waiter, shaking liis hcad, "lic had all his ala sent in fram this house." Mrs. Wendell Phillips is still liTing quietly in the hou.se whicli wa3 her hnsband's last home, in the southern part of Boston. An Andersonville, Ga., physician boasts of haviug a wateh 213 years o'd and a clock over 150 years old, bcth runuing and ktoping good time.