LS MUCH ALIKE.

GOOSE'S CONTAIN MOST PROTEIN.

Despite Old Adage, It Requires About a
Pound of Eggs to Equal the Nutriment
in a Pound of Beefsteak.

The white of an egg is nearly seven-eighths water, the balance being pure
albumen. The yolk is slightly less than one-half water. These figures
apply approximately to the eggs of turkeys, hens, geese, ducks, and
guinea-fowls.

To show how nearly alike the eggs of various domestic fowls are in respect
to composition, the following figures are given by the Department of
Agriculture:

Hen's egg--50 per cent water, 16 per cent "protein," 33 per cent fat.

Duck's egg--46 per cent water, 17 per cent "protein," 36 per cent fat.

Goose egg--44 per cent water, 19 per cent "protein," 36 per cent fat.

Turkey egg--48 per cent water, 18 per cent "protein," 33 per cent fat.

It should be explained that "protein" is the stuff that goes to make
muscle and blood. Fat, of course, is fuel for running the body-machine.
Thus it will be seen that eggs, though half, or nearly half, water, are
extremely nutritious, containing all the elements required for the
building and support of the human body. But the old saying that an egg
contains as much nutriment as a pound of beefsteak is manifestly very far
from correct. It would be nearer the fact to estimate a pound of eggs as
equal to a pound of lean beefsteak in nourishing power.

A CHECK FOR THOUSANDS ON A PINE SHINGLE.

A PIONEER BANKER'S READINESS.

How Joseph C. Palmer, With Some Extraordinary
Material, Wrote for
a Large Sum.

Many different substances have been used to send communications through
the mails, from bits of carved wood to leather post-cards. But banks are
supposed to be more insistent upon red tape. A stamp and an address will
satisfy the postal authorities; ink, paper, and indubitable
signature--these are requisites in bank paper. Yet in new countries it is
frequently obliged to put up with makeshifts. Here is a story of early
banking in California, as related by the San Francisco _Bulletin_:

Joseph C. Palmer, a California pioneer, and at one time a banker and
politician in the early days of California, was a member of the firm of
Palmer, Cook & Co., a bank which did an immense business, and whose
influence was felt throughout the State.

To show his readiness to adopt original methods in an emergency, it is
related that once a depositor called to draw a large sum of money
(twenty-eight