So that couple got safely married and went away; still the number of guests in the house is steadily increasing. It seems almost a pity there was not a story teller here making a book out of what he saw, for it will be remembered, those young ladies from the Trulirural House never came over here to board until they saw the Colonel sailing around with his best girl; and it stands to reason that there must have been unmeasured mischief in the air, and plotting and counter plotting; and alt that is lost. But every man to His trade, as the saying is. The way our part of the play comes in is just this: we have got things down to such a fine point by keeping tally this way that, after a little figuring in the spare hours of the remaining two weeks, we shall all know exactly what it is going to cost that young couple to live, in whichever style, whether in a soup-entree-and-dessert order of existence in a mansion on Euclid or Michigan Avenue or St. Charles or Sacramento street, or on bread and cheese and kisses a la mode on laborers' wages in Smoky Alley. Then we shall know how much Mrs. Tingee makes off her boarders and shall see plainly how some people managed to get rich so quickly at the New Orleans Exposition, and, moreover, we shall know how to go about preparing a banquet for 4,000 people.

For, with the wedding breakfast for a finish, the bell has sounded the call 130 times and we have served 4,000 meals. The reasons are cogent for drawing the line at this even number: the stock of groceries laid in on a calculation for one month, which did not arrive until one week was past, has lasted one week over a month and is now exhausted. Marketing is beginning to come in from the farms at all sorts of irregular prices; apples, poultry, vegetables, all getting cheap but impossible to keep track of, and butter :and eggs correspondingly advanced; in short we have had a rare opportunity, it has been well improved and now the favorable conditions no longer exist.