Banking Intelligence.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Banking Intelligence.

Texas Sii-tings. He wanted a position in an Austin bank. The president was satisfied with his oredentials, but before engaging him put him through a little civil sorvice cross examinntion. " Suppose, now, a man was to come in hero to deposit 20 dols. in 1 dol. billa, how would you count them ?" " I'd wet my finger and lift up eaoh bill until I got to the last one." " Why would you not lift up the last one?" " Because there might possibly be one mora bill under it, and if the depositor was to sea it he would want it back, but if the twentieth bill is not lifted up, and there should be another bill in the pile, the bank makes i}, don't you see ?"' "You will do," said the bank president. " You have been in the business before, but I didn't suppose you knew that trick." At the dime museum : She—" Oh, look at that Indian, with his feather head-dress 1" He—" Yes, fine feathers." She—" Well, why do the Indians wear them that way ?"' He— "To keep hia xrlgwam."—Somcnille Journal.

A biography, of M. Louia Pasteur, just completed by his son-in-law, gives the following description of the surroundings of the great French investigator at his daily work. All the animals at his laboratory, from the little white mice hiding under a bundle of cotton wool to the dogs barking furiously from their iron kennels, are doomed to death. These inhabitants of the plaoe, which are marched out day after day to be subjected to operations or other experiments, share the spaoe with still more ghastly objects. From all parts of France hampars arrive containing fowl which have died of cholera or some other disease. Here is An enormous basket bound with straw ; it contains the body of a pig which hai died of fever. A fragment of the Jung, forwarded in a tin box, is from a cow which died of pneumonia. Other goods are still more precious. Since Pasteur two years ago went to Pauillac to await the anival of a boat which brought yellow fe7<?r patients, he receives now and then from far oil oountries a bottle of black vomU. Tubea of blood are lying about, and plates containing drops of blood my be seen everywhere on the work tables, In sppcial stores bottles like bladders are ranged. The prick of a pin into one of those bladders would bring death to any m»p. Inclosed in glass prisons millions and millions of microbes live and multiply.