The man who paid out the twenty-five cents to each boy is in no way responsible for the success or failure of their investment of this quarter.

" "If it's the money, Harry, maybe I can" "If it didn't cost a cent, I wouldn't have it.

of all sums paid by Germany), she took the greater part of the indemnities, while on the sums paid for reimbursement of cost of war, she would only have got less than twenty per cent.

That the intelligent lad who drove me was in league with every one of the parties who were stationed here and there with the sole apparent purpose of receiving fifty cents from visitors, I was loth to believe, though nothing could have been plainer, if one had happened to think of it from the start.

For instance, a man gives each of five boys twenty-five cents for sweeping snow off his sidewalks.

If I was your husband, I'd spend my last cent trainin' that contralto of yours.

If you was to ask me how much I was able to earn there, and how much back on Unaka, I could make a good report for the mill on that, because that's all that's the matter with the mountainsthey're a beautiful place to live, but a body can't hardly earn a cent, work as they may." Johnnie forgot herselfshe was always doing thatand she talked freely and well.

I didn't charge a cent, if that's what you're afraid of.

I gathered from what he said that ordinary prussic acid, which is deadly enough, heaven knows, contains only two per cent.

" "Well, you aren't going to college, and that's where you and I save a hundred cents on the dollar.

Well for Mac that he wouldn't have cared a red cent to impress the greatest naturalist alive, let alone a lot of fellows who didn't know a titmouse from a disease.

"A poem of that length brings about fifty cents in open market, but I'll be liberal.

"I did not suppose we should have anything, and it is glorious not to owe any man a cent.

The Crown Prince lost at least fourteen cents, and, just as he had a splendid opportunity to retrieve his losses, in came an aide, who announced that the French had squatted.

This acquisition, the good site at Canton, and the opening-up of the North of China and Japan, have added at least twenty per cent.

Mr. Marchant Williams, an Inspector of Schools for the London School Board, finds that 86 per cent.

A successful poem or novel in England is more remunerative to the author, from the high price at which it is published, than in the United States, where prices are lower and royalties rarely exceed ten per cent.

With this view and on a comparison of his services with those which were rendered by other disbursing officers, taking into consideration also his aid in obtaining loans, I had decided to allow him 5 per cent for all sums borrowed and disbursed by him, and of which decision I informed him.

It's taken pretty nearly every cent of our ready money to support this July market.

The day was hot and thirst-provoking, so I stopped near some large orange trees loaded with ripe fruit and asked the Indian proprietress to sell me ten cents' worth.

Four women have been delighted to make my acquaintancethree men have thought themselves in the presence of a superior being; one offered me twenty-five cents because I reached him the key of the museum.

I have never | | expended fifty cents on it for repairs.

But if neither of the three is worthy?" "Then I'll leave every cent to charityexcept Kenneth's annuity.

But the price of coal gas seemed to be too high for use in these large engines, in which sizes steam is comparatively cheap; and so poorer gas, which, though possessing only about 28 per cent.

"They can't touch a cent until the courts decide who the fortune really belongs to," answered Dick, "and if Sobber should win, the Stanhopes and the Lanings will have to pay back that which they have already used.