Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-06-07
THE USEFUL PENNY.
The Wonderful Choice Of Things which
the Possessor Has Before Him.


In the old country with your penny
you can get your mornings ride on
the tramcar; a boat ride from London
bridge Ia Greenwich; mile and a half
bus ride almost anywhere a mile and a
half railway ride on the Metropolitan.
If you are n smart clerk. before you
go into your Office, with "A penny you
can buy a bunch of violets; or a cigar
cite; or IA daily paper; or have your
boots Dlacked; or buy "A tin of wax
vestas; or a rustic wood pipe; or a
metal closeup pipe cleaner from a pave
ment vendcr. If you are a workman,
and you haven't got a careful wife,
for a penny you a get a breakfast Of
q thick slice Of bread and butter and a
cup Of coffee; you can buy a saveloy
for an extra relish; you can get a
screw of tobacco; you can buy a glass
Of milk; you a ges shave and make
yourself smart.
If you are in the city at lunch time,
with a penny you can buy a biscuit or
q scone, or an oatmeal digestive bis
cult; you cal buy the first edition Of
the evening paper Mt ! p. m, or post
age stamp to send a letter home to say
hat you are going TO be late; if you
have lost a shirt stud from bending
over your desk, for a penny you a
buy half a dozen from the shirt stud
vender; if you happen to be near the
law courts and want to know if a
friends case is in court, for a penny
you can buy "A causelist. II You are a
nice little boy, who has had a penny
given To you, with that wonderful coin
you can get in the street a set of three
toy white jugs; or "A tin lizard; or a
jumping frog; or "a dolls house; or "A
jumping dog; or a iack-in-t box; or
a trick surprise match box; or a green
moth on a spiral string.
If you are going home from business
in the street, too, You can buy for
penny-a par of molair laces; a sci
of pencils with guard and pen; ''the
smallest book ever printed; apiece of
sponge; a %prnknife; a set Of fairy
money; a lead N composition comb;
a puzzle match box = IA bag Of anti
influenza lozcmgcs; a sci of wire pipe
cleaners; a dose Of sa~r>aparilla from
the highly decorated cart; an electric
shock a gaIvanic shock IA bottle Of
infalliblc mucilage; a box of silver
plating powder; abox or bottle of gild-
ing preparation, and "A box of clothes
rcyiver. For a penny, too, you can
have your fortune told by the Italian
lady with the wonderful canaries.
You "A buy a gilt edged mirror, or a
packet of hockey pckcy, or an albert
guard, or "A toy watch with "A chain
and key. o r set Of dice, or an arti-
licial Hover pot wi ! "A flower in it. or
Il slice Of pucaWpie, or a bagof butter
nuts.
Then. agaia. think of the automatic
machines when you arriv" at the rail
way station For "a penny-a penny
in a slut-out comes "a small cigar or
cigarette, or Il chunk Of butter scotch.
or a packet Of ~caramcls, or a piece Of
chocolate, ur one scent for your
handkerchief. or try your weight, or a
shock" or uy your height. a glass
Of water with a ~papercup, or try your
strength. Last, not least, for n penny
YOU can have "A book Of all the popu.
lar songs With moosic:" Bunyau's
Pilgrim, Progress AN umbrella
riHg;a pair Of revolving gilt collar
studs; Il "t.ghtlct' 10 fa>tcn yoJr
scarf ~ collar; 4 block uf fuel IA mem.
orandum book IA zinc pail funnel:
a toaStiug fork; an iron hanger; an
egg boiler: copper wire flower pot
hanger: the Hardest puzzle out a
packet of hat reviyer: tooth Stopping;
tin or razor paste; sometimes a pocket
knife this last will clean me OUT
and hundreds of other things for the
life of US we can recollcct-Ex-
change.