of $100 every 12 months. One of the clerks, A, de- cides to accept the yearly raise, quickly figuring that a raise of $100 every year is better than $25 every 6 months. The other, B, uses his pencil a few moments and decides to accept the 6-months' proposition.
Answers to April questions. — Cincinnatus Heine Miller (Joaquin Miller). Julia Ward Howe furnished the statement about ruins. Divide the money into bags containing — $500, $245, $128, $64, $32,, $16, $8, $4, $2, $1. We have answers from J. N. B. and E. S., and both give $256 and $489 instead of $500 and $245. After writing out answers, some of them in- correct, our correspondents say: — "This is easy, give us something hard." We had no answers to the literary questions. Are they not hard? Come again.
A Broken Heart.—You left off the last verse in the poem published in April issue. It is the best one of all. Here it is:—
And she told a little lie,
Expounding to her mistress.
How the cat had made him die.
And on the following morning.
When the shutters back she thrust
She breathed his little epitaph,—
"There's one thing less to dust!"
The poem is by Robert Hichens. It has been set to music by Clayton Thomas.
Bishop Vincent says: "I don't see why the boys in the home should not be trained in kitchen work as well as the girls." Any bright, intelligent boy could probably give the bishop several good reasons.
