[Footnote 95: Putting the types no longer needed for printing into the proper boxes.] [Footnote 96: Set up for printing.] [Footnote 97: Type in a jumbled mass.] [Footnote 98: "This paper was called The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette. Keimer printed his last number--the thirty-ninth--on the twenty-fifth day of September, 1729."--BIGELOW.] [Footnote 99: The governor brought instructions from the king that his salary should be one thousand pounds. The legislature claimed the liberty of fixing the sum themselves. Franklin ended his article with this sentence: "Their happy mother country will perhaps observe with pleasure that, though her gallant cocks and matchless dogs abate their natural fire and intrepidity when transported to a foreign clime (as this nation is), yet her sons in the remotest part of the earth, and even to the third and fourth descent, still retain that ardent spirit of liberty, and that undaunted courage, which has in every age so gloriously distinguished Britons and Englishmen from the rest of mankind."] [Footnote 100: FRANKLIN'S NOTE.--I got his son once five hundred pounds.] [Footnote 101: This money had not the full value of the pound sterling.] [Footnote 102: That is, the government of Delaware.] [Footnote 103: In secret.] [Footnote 104: Men on horseback who carried the mail.] [Footnote 105: Miss Read's first marriage.] [Footnote 106: Mrs. Franklin died Dec. 19, 1774. Franklin celebrated his wife in a song, of which the following verses are a part: "Of their Chloes and Phyllises poets may prate, I sing my plain country Joan, These twelve years my wife, still the joy of my life, Blest day that I made her my own. * * * * * "Am I loaded with care, she takes off a large share, That the burden ne'er makes me to reel; Does good fortune arrive, the joy of my wife Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. * * * * * "Some faults have we all, and so has my Joan, But then they're exceedingly small; And, now I'm grown used to them, so like my own, I scarcely can see them at all. "Were the finest young princess with millions in purse, To be had in exchange for my Joan, I could not get better wife, might get a worse, So I'll stick to my dearest old Joan." ] [Footnote 107: FRANKLIN'S MEMORANDUM.--Thus far was written with the intention expressed in the beginning, and therefore contains several little family anecdotes of no importance to others. What follows was written many years after in compliance with the advice contained in these letters (see p. 192), and accordingly intended for the public. The affairs of the Revolution occasioned the interruption.] [Footnote 108: See Note 1.] [Footnote 109: The Philadelphia Library was incorporated in 1742. In its building is a tablet which reads as follows: