New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-06
THE IALE OF THE DAY.

Mr.. and Mrs. stephen Osborne, Of Knoxville TennS
will celebrate the seventysecond anniversary
their marriage They are respectively 1Ol and ninety
two years old, and have 200 descendants
One may get notion of the number of pennies los.
nom the history Of the old half.cents OF thes.
800 900 were issued few years ago. Where are they
nowl A few are in the cabinets OF coin-collectors
None have been returned to the mint for recoinags
culation. All of them, except some hundreds sayed
out by hunters, have ABSOLUTELY disappeared.
accounted for, save that once in while one secs ,
specimen. There are more than 100000 bronze
that the Government issued. OF nickel threecent
pieces nearly 100000 are yet outstanding, although
1t Is almost never that one OF them Is come across.
-(Boston Transcript.
Tho Listener of "The Boston Transcript once rs
half cultivated Bostonan who denied that New.
Englanders ever misplaced the +. "How do you pro
nounce India En-kl' asked the Listener spelling the
words. India rink, Of course" said the other, With
great promptness and confidence. He was only
cchoing the Englishman who averred that the b vas
misplaced only by hignorant Englishmen' And yet
the very best, most accurate and most philosophical
essay ever written upon the Z" IL malady" was By an
Englshman-the late Richard A. Proctor. So per.
haps Yankee may with some confidence say that
although Tears "dooty' and "noo' In Boston. 10
does not hear it from cultivated people, and almos,
from the real rustic population. The northern
New-Engand farmer not only says new sharply, but
dew and tew well.
Meath tropic suns and arctic skies
He gayy sailed q whaer;
And when he wished for exercise
he gayly whaled sailor.
indianapolis Journal
Baptist missionary. now in India, speaks thus Of
the work Of the Rev. Dr. G.. F. Pentecost: "Wben Dr.
Penecost came out TO India last year, some thought
and We are not but he thought himself. that
something entirely in the line OF mission methods
No ha
to follow. But so far nothing remarkable. either 10
methods or results has been seen lie has addressed
large audiences composed Of Europeans. Eurasans
and educated HnduS; but others have done the sans
long before DR.. Pcntecost thought Of It. few
have been converted but the great outpourng OF the
Spirit is still future DR.. Pentecost has done we'll
and trust he will yet do better; but, viewed ID
the light Of what was expected his mission can hardy
be called remarkable success"
How many people have ever eaten Jelly made from
elephants tusks Yet IL Is very good. lndeeH IN
the English factories, where many tons OF Ivory sv
sawn up Annually TO make handles for knives sa ms
forks, great quantities of ivory dust are Oo'shea,
This dust IS sold at the rate of sxpence pound anu
when properly boiled and prepared 1t makes the nn'
purest and most nutritious animal Jelly hlo"n'
Washington Star.
According to the "New71iaven Palladium
philanthropic farmer of Mt Carmel, Conn, ofeea
time deliver free Of expense during the
month of October fifty bushels OF good apples TO des
ing poor families providing the members OF tnos'
families do not use intoxicating liquor or tobacco
keep Il dog"
The offer was widely advertised and now thu farmer
announces results. lie had Just four applications ~,
rect and considerably larger number through tDe
person. Only nine all told, came under the term
his offer. These nine have got their apples. oue.
pleaded poverty, etc. but II found that they o""
their poverty to their vicious wssteful habis'
End OF a Romance --Romantic Mlkmaid TO herselt
Pm going To sign and address on one OF Ia
eggs before they sent 10 market. Maybe VII
awfully nice young man. or maybe real piihee' ~
see Ii and write TO me. and--s >,..i
Her Mother (upstairsl-Dollie! Dollle Dumps"
Where ore you Come help me make the peos m
Small Boy I'm distant city, some weeks lstcrlnnHys
mamma, here's wrote on this egg DV'
Dmple, Meadowland.n AL
Old Lady-Land 'sakesl But this is wondermT,
age. I'll use that egg In this cake Ny my ~
think should live to the day when even tne 80
yard hens gifts educaed.-(street smiths Good WV