Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1889 — Working Nights. [ARTICLE]

Working Nights.

“What will it cost me, Uncle Rastus, to have my coop whitewashed ?” “I kain’t tell yet, sah, till I makes an estimate ob de size and dimenshuns. ” That night the owner was disturbed by a loud noise in the hen-coop. “Hi, there!” he shouted, from au upper window, “what are you doing there ?” “It’s Unc. Rastus,” was the reply, “and he's figgerin’ on de size an’ dimenshuns ob de coop. ” — Harper's Bazar. It is said that in the southern part of Russia the peasants use a coin of such small value that it would take 250,000 of them to buy an American dollar, and these coins are so scarce that a man who has a hundred is looked upon as rich, and one who has a thousand is considered very wealthy. It is strange to regard a person wealthy who owns two-fifths of a csnt, and comfortably well off on one-twenty-filth of a cent. But the value of money depends, of course, on what it will buy. From the fruit preserver we get our jams and from the distiller our jimjams.