Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — One of London's Old Ceremonies. [ARTICLE]

One of London's Old Ceremonies.

The annual ceremony of the trial of the pyx has just been observed at the British mint. The pyx is «trictly a box, and the term is technically applied to the chest at the mint in which specimens o’ the coinage are preserved. The trial by weight and assay of the gold and silver coin of the United Kingdom prior to its issue is made by a jury of goldsmiths nominated for the purpose by the Lord Chancellor. On this occasion the test included 4,297 sample sovereigns and £420 in silver, representing a total coinage of $25,000,000. —New York World. When your neighbor comes home in a hack at 3in the morning, and you suggest to your wife that perhaps he has been out of town, she merely remarks that it is but natural for you men to stand up for one another. Caterpillars from six inches to a foot long are common in the vicinity of the Darling River, Australia. The natives twist them together and boil them in kangaroo grease, which is said to make a palatable dish.

Major McKinlet is always ready to defend the McKinley bill for $350 and traveling expenses.