Ninger was a manufacturer of hand-painted paper money. Being a skillful artist, he was able to paint on white paper an all-but-perfect reproduction of a ten or twenty-dollar bill. But the wet finger of a bartender coming in contact with one of Ninger’s hand-painted bills caused the color to “run.” Ninger had passed this particular bill himself, and through it he was traced, arrested, and convicted. At the time of his arrest the Washington bureau had on hand a large collection of “Ninger notes,” but Ninger, until apprehended, had been unknown to the secret service, and the notes were credited to “Jim the Penman.” An Indiana preacher, William K. Wade, turned counterfeiter, but confined himself to twenty-five-cent pieces. The secret-service men were never able to discover the location of his factory nor find his apparatus, but the evidence against him was conclusive, and he was convicted. He served his term in the penitentiary. During the fiscal year ended June 30th last, there were 368 arrests by the secret service, with seizure of $44,412 of counterfeit and altered notes, $22,319 of counterfeit coins, 154 plates, four dies, and 162 molds. This Goose Lays Big Eggs. George Motter, of Nova, Ohio, reports that he has a remarkable goose. This goose doesn’t lay golden eggs, but it does lay eggs which are five inches long, two and seven-eighths inches in diameter, and which weigh three-quarters of a pound each. And Mr. Motter’s goose continues to lay in spite of the fact that she has passed her thirteenth birthday. “Rings in Noses and Bells on Their Toes.” Fashions of men and women frequently jump from one extreme to another, but, according to a general all-around prophet, America is soon to witness a series of transformations that will make plain, old-fashioned people simply gasp with amazement. Society maids are to wear rings in their noses and bells on their toes; the fair sex will become entirely bald, and perhaps have cute little landscape scenes done in oil here and there on their shining pates; men may adopt skirts, wear bracelets and earrings, and possibly carry fans instead of canes, the walking sticks being permissible to women alone. This old world is fast approaching its great upheaval stage, this wonderful prognostigator tells us. The great war of nations shows it--the Scriptures show it, he declares. We have been in preparation for this upheaval for nearly eighty years. He gets this from Peter’s saying that an hour of God’s time is a thousand years. An hour of our time would be eighty-three and one-third years of the Lord’s. This is our eleventh hour of dispensation. It began in 1829 or thereabouts. He also figures it out that the European war will end one year, one month, one day, and one hour from the date of its inception--that--that--oh, well, that lots of things are about to happen, including the customary rise in beef prices.