Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21
About Pennies.


Used.
Paauies are scarce. anu 10 Mint carEo.
turn them out tat enough to sunrlv the
demand. Coins Of this denomination are
turned out only at tho United States M.ut
| IN this city, and from here the whole
country is supplied, The penny is 2
most important factor IN the commerce Of
the country, much more than most rcop.e
| imagine. The Mint i six weeks behind N
its orders for the supply ef these small coins,
which Is IN part owing to the fact that al.
| the available machinery is being used for
other purposes. and but small part can be
put to penny making.
Where do all the pennies COZ asked
Rc'om reporter OF Mint Official
We'll, the horse car companies take a
good part of the supply, but we limit each
| company to $50 worth per day Then they
| are obliged to patch ont with three.cent
pieces, Of which they also secure large
quantities. But the merchants make the
heaviest demands upon US. the great retail
dry goods houses taking all they can get
and then crying for more"
"Wherc are penmies not used - gues
toned the reporter.
well, there is no part Of the United
States hardly where they are not used, was
the reply, but there are some sections
where they are strangers, and as rare u
gold dollars are here. In the South the
penny is almost unknown, the smallest coin
being a iive-cent piece. Recently, however.
there has been some demand for them from
merchants in Georgia and Alabama. liz the
far West there is utllttis call for the penny.
hut when one gets To ST. Louis, or east Oi
that point, then the penny becaMes Is ianii.
lar friend. Wherever there are siH-ccpt
fares on the street cars, then there is 4
demand from that city for pennies. Now,
Louisville seldom, if ever, calls upon us.
while Cincinnati IS continually crying for
the one-cent piece. New y oril consumes q
big lot, and 50 DO the Eastern States. Inc
twO-Cent piece was a good hell, to US for
time, but none Of them have. been coined
for ten years; and all that are sent in and
redeemed are racoincd into one-cent
pieces
" 1t is a somewhat remarkable thing, but
such is tho fact continued the official,
" that competition in trade induces and in
creases the demand Tor pennies. When
ever trade Is brisksst, then the penny Is
needed moSt--that is, retail trade. What
the banks take from us, although large, does
not huctuate like the calls from the trades.
men. he Eastern states SlS Tic great
penny centres. and It is only as the popuia-
ton OF the West increases that it wants
pennies. The tive.Gen, piece is the standard
coin in the West, tut the penny is making
inroads on it, and great ones too. "--PhHu.
Record.
BUBBLEs.-No amount of training will
teach dog to sit in front OF a baker shop
while his master is in a saloon.
The New Orleans PrayUac calls the govt
a sort of brake which wise Providence
puts on a mans legs when he is living too
fast.
1t has been often remarked that beggars
fare better with the laboring class than
with capitalists. Which is natural enough.
A beggar shouldn't ask money OF man
who has his hands full.-BoS.on Transcript.
And always thus since l have roamed
Der earth my heartsoTeS have enlarged;
# Ger waiter girl loved,
She was the first to be discharged.
-Godrdcrr IN Chicago iater-OcCdR.
"Mamma," said a five-year.Old, the other
day, 81 wish you wouldn't leave me to
take care of brother again. He was SO
naughty that / had to eat all of those cakes
that you put away for papa to keep him
from crying"
We don't know, says the Rochester