Through hills man shall ride,
      And no horse nor ass be at his side.

      Under water man shall walk,
      Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.

      In the air men shall be seen
      In white, in black, in green.

      Iron in the water shall float,
      As easy as a wooden boat.

      Gold shall be found ’mid stone,
      In a land that’s now unknown.

      Fire and water shall wonders do,
      England shall at last admit a Jew.

      And this world to an end shall come
      In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

CAPTAIN KIDD, a notorious American pirate, was born about 1650.  In 1696 he was entrusted by the British Government with the command of a privateer, and sailed from New York, for the purpose of suppressing the numerous pirates then infesting the seas.  He went to the East Indies, where he began a career of piracy, and returned to New York in 1698 with a large amount of booty.  He was soon after arrested, sent to England for trial, and executed in 1701.

VALUE OF OLD AMERICAN COINS.—­1793—­Half cent, 75 cents; one cent, $2. 1794—­Half cent, 20 cents, one cent, 10 cents; five cents, $1.25; fifty cents, $3; one dollar, $10. 1795—­Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 5 cents; five cents, 25 cents; fifty cents, 55 cents; one dollar, $1.25. 1796—­Half cent, $5; one cent, 10 cents; five cents $1; ten cents, 50 cents; twenty-five cents, $1; fifty cents, $10; one dollar, $1.50. 1797—­Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 5 cents; five cents, 50 cents; ten cents, $1; fifty cents, $10; one dollar, $1.50. 1798—­One cent, 5 cents; ten cents, $1; one dollar, $1.50. 1799—­One cent, $5; one dollar, $1.60. 1800—­Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 3 cents; five cents, 25 cents; [Transcriber’s Note:  The original text reads ’ten cents 1’] ten cents, $1; one dollar, $1.10. 1801—­One cent, 3 cents; five cents, $1; ten cents, $1; fifty cents, $2; one dollar, $1.25. 1802—­Half cent, 50 cents; one cent, 2 cents; ten cents, $1; fifty cents, $2; one dollar, $1.25. 1803—­Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 2 cents; five cents, $10; [Transcriber’s Note:  The original text reads ‘ten cents, 1’] ten cents, $1; one dollar, $1.10. 1804—­Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, $2; five cents, 75 cents; ten cents, $2; twenty-five cents, 75 cents; one dollar, $100. 1805—­Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 3 cents; five cents, $1.50; ten cents, 25 cents. 1806—­Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 3 cents. 1807—­Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 3 cents; ten cents, 25 cents. 1808—­Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 5 cents. 1809—­Half cent, 1 cent; one cent, 25 cents; ten cents, 50 cents. 1810—­Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 5 cents. 1811—­Half cent, 25 cents; one cent, 10 cents; ten cents, 50 cents. 1812—­One cent, 2 cents. 1813—­One cent, 5 cents. 1815—­Fifty cents, $5. 1821—­One cent, 5 cents. 1822—­Ten cents, $1. 1823—­One cent, 5 cents; twenty-five cents, $10. 1824—­Twenty-five cents, 40 cents. 1825—­Half cent, 2 cents.