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The last case of Extortion.

--‘"Aunty, what do you ask for buttermilk now?"’ said a little newspaper boy to a negro woman named Rose, in the market the other morning.--‘"Dime a glass"’ ‘"How is that, you used to charge only a picayune?"’ ‘"I know, but fend has "’ ‘"Oh! there a fact gross is higher"’

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