ng but 121-1/4 pounds. Several successful experimental
trips have been made in this machine, and the inventors claim that by
using all the battery power, they were enabled to navigate against the
wind. They may be over-sanguine, but expect, after making some
improvements in the balloon, to attain a speed of from fifteen to twenty
miles an hour. 2. Constant base-ball practice will harden the hands.
No artificial preparation is used by professionals.

PARXIE.--John Howard, an Englishman, made on May 8, 1854, the greatest
running long-jump, with weights, 29 feet 7 inches; without weights, the
highest record is 23 feet 3 inches, made by M. W. Ford, August 14, 1886.
Standing long-jump with weights, 14 feet 5-1/2 inches, G. W. Hamilton,
October 3, 1879; without weights, 10 feet 10-1/2 inches, M. H. Johnson,
September 4, 1884. Running hop-step-and-jump. 48 feet 8 inches,
T. Burrows, October 18, 1884; standing hop-step-and-jump, with weights,
40 feet 2 inches, D. Anderson, July 24, 1865; without weights, 31 feet
10 inches, Gavin Tait, 1862. These are world's records. The best
one-mile amateur bicycle record--2.35 2-5--was made by W. A. Rowe,
October 23, 1885. He has beaten this record--2.29 4-5--since he became a
professional.

H. C. H.--In early days the coining of copper money for New Jersey was
given by law to Walker Mould, Thomas Goodsby and Albion Cox. There were
two mints, one at Elizabethtown and the other at Morristown. These coins
display on their obverse a horse's head, usually facing right, with a
plow below it, and the legend is "Nova Caesarea." The date is placed in
several positions. On the reverse is a shield, with the motto
"E Pluribus Unum" around the border. In ordinary condition, these
coppers are worth from ten to fifty cents. The rarest varieties are
those having the date under the beam, which are worth $100 each: with
the General Washington bust, $150 each; and with "Immunis Columbia,
1786" for obverse, $50. Doubtless the one in your possession is a common
variety.

GRAPE CITY.--1. The modern express traffic was originated by William F.
Harnden, on March 4, 1839. At first he carried the packages himself from
place to place in a satchel; but his patrons grew in number until he had
to establish an office in each city, with a daily messenger each day.
Previous to this, all such packages had been sent by friends, or by
special messengers. 2. The precise time of the invention of the
telescope, as well as the