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Show PECKS OF PEANUTS. A lmMe F, Homn rnunM v, , Bill. "Good morning, Mr. B "Good morning, Mr! L " The paper was handed to him and he ut to depart when theTroSi; mtoW.again8tme? That must be "I think not." "Let me see it." The bill was handed to him. tor peanuts, 13.15," it read. Howisthr blustered the gentle lour years you have taken two Deanuts when you left the store. That wS i twelve peanuta a week, not counting in Sunday, when your paper is delivered at your house; 624 peanuta in a year and 2,498 peanuta in four years. I have 1' J 8re Peanuts in a foei yVenint0 8-496 8 about fort-three times. Multiplying by five cents, the price of peannta per pint, I makette total $2.15. Are y The gentleman was so daned that he paid the bill without a word.-Detroit Tribune. Colt of Kleetrle Lights. From the list of cities in which light we suppliad by private companies we take the following statement of the number num-ber of lamps and annual charge per lamp, where the lighting continues all night and the kmps are of (nominel) 2,000 candle power: Alliance, O., 8 lights at $144; Chattanooga, Venn., 30 lights at 8121.86; FaU River, W lights at $180; Portsmouth, N. H., 00 lights at $100; Petersburg, Va., 82 lights at $96; Bing-hamton, Bing-hamton, 99 lights at $140; Indianapolis, 100 at $80; Atlanta, Ga., 100 at $120; Boston, 105 at $180; Milwaukee, 130 at $150; Reading 156 at $146.75; Dayton, 0., $200 at $lo0; Poughkeepsie, 212 at $123; Harrisburg, 270 at $90; Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, 800 at $177: New Orleans, 11,010 at $130; New York city, 1,857 at $90. In some of these cities the contract has been made with two or three different companies, but in no such case is there any difference in the charge in other words, competition does not give lower rates. Let vs now give the figures ob- tained from those ciUes which own their own electric lighting plants. Huntingdon Hunting-don has 50 lights, $48.64; Decatur, 111., 52 at 60; Dunkirk, N. Y., 65 at $36.50; Madison, Ind., 85 at $48; Lewiston, Me., 96 at $42; Hannibal, Mo., 96 at $52; Chicago, Chi-cago, 293 at $65. Taking an average of the whole of the two tables, from which we have only quoted a portion, we find that the average price paid to private companies is $105.13, and that the same article furnished by the city itself costs $52.12 1-2 per light per year. Engineering Engineer-ing and Building Record. |