Show LOST FINS what becomes of all tho pins can auy of our folks inform us used up aro they and how we scarcely ever sec a pin with the head worn balt so nono arc wasted in this way surely none arc broken nor worn to any perceivable lesser size nor shortened up so as to bd thrown away and so where do these important liello objects themselves bot bent do thuy yea como to think of it some ilo get considerably warped in the using but feula very few pins according lo 10 tho used get thrown aside as worthless on account of becoming bent somehow pins get out 0 sight utterly lost in a manner occasionally a pin is picked up from alio ahonso bloor or perhaps from the door yard but very few indeed arc thus gathered up for secondary use we arc not going to attempt to tell just all tho pins go after filling their too brief mission but we arc certain that each useful arciclo lind a in which thrust to rust out its slim wiry body a paper of ought to last at joost as long ina household as it docs lasting longer they would not get shorter nor lose choir heads nor become less in thickness of body but only a little diony bent with and so to aliat place do they go after all but mc one bright eyed tiny says in you choro lota of pins go and so aro lost some aro swept into tho dustpan dust pan and put in tho file some anro brushed out of tho door into the dirt aud many arc lost in alio schoolroom school room and church eliat are never picked lip and roguish boys loso roan in alio dibi t playing pins and ome aio lot we are riding out and attending picnics because few minutes somo one say a giac nio a pin for ive just lot one and dont wish to tako alio trouble to lind it upon relle clion we willingly accept this solution of the problem but before we close allow us to aig a little as to lie probable number of pins ikid in tho united states in one year and we wish our mathonia reckon atler us to if we havo enado any mistake us estimate the population atour country at at tho present time and supposing six persons on an average to a faintly fai nily would i and three papers to a family on an average ly would inako 26 papers 0 pins used annually I 1 now 11 rows to a paper would bring lows l again 20 pins to tho row us pins used up in our country c cry year allowing abinoha ani noha alic of pins long and short anil placed in a continuous line aou d reach GO 1 I feet or 11 rod or 11 miles would reach more than four anda half times aronld tho earth burily pins useful little and people could not well do without them V it christian |