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is on an average about 5 francs, or 

 $1 in our money. The result is that 

 early in youth the French child is 

 taught the lesson of saving money. 

 The girl or hoy takes a pride in his 

 bankbook, and his greatest desire 

 is to add to it and to "see it grow." 

 The result is, as recent statistics 

 published in France show, that com- 

 fortable fortunes have been built 

 upon these small bank accounts. In 

 over 70 per cent of the instances 

 where the bank account was started 

 for the pupil the habit of thrift was 

 inculcated, and the accounts were 

 continued, while only in 30 per cent 

 Was the desire to add to the accouni; 

 lost. — Edward W. Bok in Ladies' 

 Home Journal. 



Cooper and His Broken Twig. 



Cooper's gift in the way of inven- 

 tion was iv.iv a rich endowment, bul 

 such as it was he liked to work if, 

 hie was pleased with the effects, and 

 indeed he did some quite sweet 

 things with it. In his little box ol 

 stage properties he kept six or eight 

 cunning devices, tricks, artifices for 

 his savages and woodsmen to de- 

 ceive and circumvent each other 

 with, and he was never so happy as 

 when he was working these innocent 

 things and seeing them go. A favor- 

 ite one was to make a moccasincd 

 person tread in the tracks of the 

 moccasined enemy, and thus hide 

 his own trail. Cooper wore out bar- 

 rels and barrels of moccasins in 

 working that trick. 



Another stage property that he 

 pulled out of his box pretty fre- 

 quently was his broken twig. He 

 prized his broken twig above all the 

 rest of his effects and worked it the 

 hardest. It is a restful chapter in 

 any book of his when somebody 

 doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm 

 all the reds and whites for 200 yards 

 around. Every time a Cooper per- 

 son is in peril, and absolute silence 

 is worth $4 a minute, he is sure to 

 step on a dry twig. There may be a 

 hundred handier things to step on. 



but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. 

 Cooper requires him to turn out and 

 find a dry twig, and if he can't do 

 it go and borrow one. In fact, the 

 Leather Stocking series ought to 

 have been called the Broken Twig 

 series. — "Fenimore Cooper's Liter- 

 ary Offenses," by Mark Twain, in 

 North American Review. 



Divided the Spoils. 



An impatient New York gentle- 

 man, going to the White mountains, 

 was seated by the side of the driver. 

 The stage on which he was had just 

 come up behind a rival coach loaded 

 with passengers. 



New York Man — I say, driver, I 

 will give $1 if you will pass that 

 coach. 



Driver (sleepily) — I will do it. 



Then addressing the next driver 

 ho says, "Oh, I say, Bill!" 



Bill— W^al? 



First Driver — There is a man here 

 who says he will give me $1 if I can 

 pass ye and get ahead of yer coach. 

 Ef ye will haul out and lemme pass, 

 I'll give ye half. 



Bill instantly hauled out, and in a 

 moment the rear coach had about 60 

 feet advantage of the road. 



The New York man paid the dol- 

 lar. — Philadelphia Press. 



Titles In Foland. 



Women in search of titles might 

 do well to go to Poland. It is said 

 that in Warsaw alone, with a popu- 

 lation of 500,000, there are 30,726 

 persons belonging to the hereditary 

 nobility and 9,257 "personal nobles," 

 people entitled to the distinction by 

 reason of office or discovery. There 

 are said to be as many princes in 

 Poland as in Russia. In the latter 

 country they are found plying every 

 trade. According to the last census, 

 there are now living nearly 1,000 

 Princes and Princesses Galitzin. 

 There are hardly sufficient names 

 in Russia to distinguish them, and 

 great confusion results. — New York 

 Tribune. 



