New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-01
THE TALK or THE Day.

No orthodox respectable Briton would eve
dream of going to church on Sunday in straw
hat or derby. Tall silk tiles are de rigueur, and
| eyer since that ncOnvenent headdress came INTO
fashion at the beginning Of the century IL has
always been a problem to how 10 dispose OF
IL in the most convenient manner during divine
service II one puts IL on the floor beneath the
seat II gets covered with dust while If II Is placed
on the seat II likely to be sat upon. to the In
variable delight and satisfaction OF ones fellow
worshlppers. This being the dead season in Lon
don the metropolitan newspapers are devoting
columns to discussion as to the best way OF solv-
ing the difficulty. and one ingenious correspondent
suggests that the colapsible gibus. or opera hat,
should he adopted in lieu OF the silk hat. But I'M
agine the rreverent clatter which would be Gre
ated by the simultaneous opening up OF several
hundred opera hats at the conclusion OF the bene-
diction.
An amusing story is told OF West Wanut-st:
summing in London. determined 10 visit PhLade.-
pha's own very tough SUM district and see whas
supplied herself with a number Of tracts. having
a vague idea that the benghted residents there were
in need OF spiritual instruction. Boarding a Sew
enth-st car she got off at Banbridge. and TO the
a iamppost she very politely handed one OF the
tracts He took It good-naturedly and after gang ss
ing at II returned It with the smiling remark mar
he was a married man. Greatly mys,ihed by this
expression she looked az the tract ana saw sa nsr
ear home vowing vengeance against tracts and
stunning. -(Philalelphia Record
"Communipaw. or Jersey City" says Supern-
tendent Charles McNabb. us the largest fruit STA
ton in the world this year by long odds. We nave
1853 clerks and about $50 carmen and $40 TRUCKS
Some OF the latter make many trips to ana from
New-York each night during the fruit season. we
can place and unload l,9 ears at one time. by
actual count inside OF hour and IS minutes we
received forty cars OF peaches from the Rocxaway
Valley Railroad, and seventy-nine cars OF peaches
from the Central Railroad main line. We also nad
forty-ive cars OF vegetables and mixed fruit from
South Jersey. All this arrived within the time
stated was placed at once. and all OF II was car
r,ed over to New-York inside Of four hours. giving
the quickest dispatch Of any road in the country
A fact acknowledged by all carmen and trucKmen.
In addition 70 this also handled or foated sew
eral hundred cars OF merchandise and coal ohs
night later received l75 carloads of fruit.
Uncle Ephram. said The police justice drssa ni%
complainant charges you with having KNOCKED e nm,
down with a whitewash brush ana ethptied
bucket of the whtewash all over MN 90, Ao,. 4,
Yes. sah" answered Uncle Ephrain'e 'o one ~
ledge He arsked me ef 'possums wus III 10 ca" -
Chicago Tribune.
After careful and prolonged conslderation the Brit
ish Government has at length decided TO adopt the
Bertillon system OF the Identification OF criminals IN
conjunction with the flnger-print system originated
by Sir William Herschell and by Mr. FRANCIS "a'o"'
The system OF NJ Bertilon consists I'm recording the
measurements OF diverse bony parts OF the human
frame-parts which do not alter with any change
which age accident or device may make IN the
muscular tissue. With these data II Is possible to
establish the identity OF any criminal whose meas
urements are already record. NJ. Bertllon and his
assistants having found that. out OF nearly bW"V
persons who had passed through their hands no Two
individuals were exactly the same In all particulars
recorded.
A colored woman presented herself as candidate
for confirmation In the diocese OF Florida. and was
reouired 10 saw creed the LORDS Prayer ana the
mandments. She got through with the hrst TWO
fairly we'll. as somebody had evidently been coach,
Ing her but when ii came to the last she DunSie1
and hest ,ated. and then remarked IN conhdentla.
tone 10 the clergyman: DE fac Is. Mr. Turpln !
hasn't been practsin de Ten Comma dments lately.
-Qife.
At the HYGIENE Congress just held In budapest
the fact was brought to light that stammerng Is far
more common among men than among women. the
proportion OF male to female stammerers being al
most four 10 This Is not surprising, Ior im-
pelimene OF speech is rare among women
Hcks-Do you believe in a personal devil! -
Wicks-What. the fellow who writes the society
gossip? Believ, In him. No. one-half his Items
are pure fakes, and the other half are @"ste'
meuts.-lBoston Transcript