A Wooden Watch

A NorUiUftraííua paper, Tiie Auing(loii Standard, Las ti. o follovviug: "íioine time ayo lr. E. A. Johnson, oí'Johnsou Brothers, jowelers, f tiiis place, minie a hlain, opou-face. wooden wateh Üiat attracted a great deal of Bttentioii, but was subsequenüy cclip.'-ed by Mr. Doroit, oí" Brislol, in a vvaloli soiuewkat more elabórate in design. Kot lo be ouUloue, Mr. Johnson put to work 011 auoúer VYulcü, and has tnrned out a haudbome double-ca.se Bteui-wiiulor and steiii-setter, every p ece ot' wliich, save the ni, tin and Luir spriugs and crystal, ara oi' wood and nuule unliiely by iiis owu hands. Even the spmigfl to the cases are nuule oí woud. It keeps splcudid time, and is suffloioutly siron to bj used as a poe Let Linie-keeper, it is of oidinary size, and when ornanionted, as lie expects to do, it will be a iiandKoine Uibate lo liU skili auJ. ingeuuity. A witness in a case at Nashville was asked wlietlier he liad ínucli exiierience in and knew the cost of feeding a cow, lo wliich lic replied : "ily father before mu kept a dairy. I have had a great deal of experience in buying-, selling" and keepiiig cattle, as a man and boy, in the dairy business tor fifty yoars. 1 thiak my long experienec has qnalifled me Lo kuow as well as any min eau the eost of keepiiiij and feeding cattle." "Well," üroke in the attorney, inipatiently, "teil me the cost of keeping1 a cow." "Well, sir, my experience, aftcr iiity yeaw in the business, is that it costs - well, il depends enürcly oü liow ïnuoli you feed the cow."