New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-08
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Union Review" the Rev. Francis G. Peabody thus
describes the aims of The Prospect Union: Our
| college-rhe Prospect Union-s already one Of the
| larger New England colleges. numbering over gu
| members with a faculty OF more than sixty. The
same young men who are called students at one
| end Of the town professors az the other. The
| Prospect Union Is for the worklngnen what Rad.
| cline College Is for women 1t is Harvard An.
! mex 1t Is good for Harvard students to know the
| problems and tastes OF brought up in other
ways than theirs. learn how other honest mea
are living: and 1t is good for workngmen to learn
that Harvard is not a place OF mere idleness and
dissipation, but abounds In earnest and manly
youths. But. more than all. the Prospect Union
now beginning to make its contribution to the new
municipal spirit which Is being realized in Cam,
bridge"
the western girls: ''See Chicago and die?"
Miss Candard-Indee1, | don't use such EnglsA
Tribune.
Insight into the strange condition OF the popular
mind in Russia the close Of this nineteenth CEN
fury is afforded by the immense renown and In
fuence enjoyed present by perlpatetic saint who
goes by the OF Anthony the Wandersr and
who for more than forty years has been perpeualy
on the move his peregrlnations extending all over
Siberia. Central Asia and European Russia. In the.
depth OF winter. just as In the height OF summer,
he marches barefoot ana almost entEey uesoo VI
clothing. Fifty pounds weight OF iron chains are
welded around his shoulders and body while his
waist is encircled by an iron belt weighing thirty
pounds more, closed with a lock. the key OF which
ne cast into the Arctic Ocean Thus equipped.
Anthony the Wanderer has spent two-score years IN
trampng all over the Russian Empire. collecting
ENORMOUS sums OF money for the building or
churches and schools in places where they are
needed and without keeping a single kopek for him.
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peasantry. but also by the most highly educated and
affluent classes and men aud women OF all sorts
and conditions of life are described as applying %
him for advice in matters spiritual. worldly and
even hygienc.
Excuse me, sir" said the beggar, but did you
ever hear it said that money talks|'
Il have" said the wayfarer.
dime for a few minutes chat? I'm awful lcns
some "-(Harper's Bazaar.
a curious circumstance in connection with the re-
granting OF pos,office White city IN o'e'
ward County. Fla. the refusal OF the Govern
ment officials in Washington to call II Inc "n nv
City"-the name given 10 the settlement oy Wv
co,onists themselves. now numbering ABOUT ~.
Such a thing had never been asked BEFORE 80 Nv
records showed, and Postmaster-General bis'el-
who personally appealed 10 In this CASE
clinei to establish precedent by granting an om'
cal use of the definite article in the names OF pos"
Offices. This name-The White City-had oeen
selected for two reasons: First In commemorative
OF the Worlds Fair. where Mr.. Louis Pio' the pr
moter did his best work In raising his colony; aha'
second. because the population Of the town Is e'
posed wholly Of white people. The company W.
rot sell any land TO negroes. nor are white p'
chasers permitted to do so hereafter, and no nes'o
are employed in or about the city. All LABOR u
every description Is done by the colons's .is
selves. and IL is their boast that they Will ouna :.
great city without the employment or the a'' "
negroes At the start hundreds OF negroes e'
charged by the railroad contractors after the eoa
pletion Of the East Coast Line applied for "o''
but they told that they were not WANT.
Now the blacks steer clear Of the place. ana 'ns
colonists very much gratlhed at this Inc ca
pertinent OF establishing strictly white communy
in OF the States of the South Will be "s's"''
with deep interest all over the country.
Informed-"Now," said the teacher. who was de
filming the meaning of suicide" 'if should tsxs
a large dose Of arsenic tonight what wou'' W.
shpmp cried Johnny with that ssgsrS Sf The %
impart knowledge which Is characteristic VI 49,
bright young mind-(Chcago Record.
THE Baltimore Sun" says that the word 'h00o
applied to tramps. is corruption OF h0oA 80.
When a man in New-York wanted 10 express az
treme.y uncomplimentary opinion OF tnns ~
place he would say 1t was tough as Hoboken
he had been out all night and felt shaky he WI 49,
say that he felt very Hoboken. The term srx
over New-York and over the country. Inc w..
rufflans OF Hoboken came to be called hooos' -,
does require so much effort as would nv ~.
kenites. This is the origin Of the term, ana =" 49,
strict sense OF the word the OF the Com"
veal are not "hobos." Hoboken people VIII na q
rally prefer another explanation nancy no a
vas first applied to the buns who frequ.ua ho
ow saloon in Chicago kept by man name'
One OF the Expariated Klnd-Eoise-l can Amt was
,ut whether that man ! talked with last his"'
IN Engishman or not .,,.h accent
He,ene-Did he talk with marked Engnsn
md bitterly denounce everything tHeiS9"
Eloise-Yes that's exactly what ne dIu. cord.
Helene-Then he's an Acknowledgement -
In its last ISSUE "Th, Catholic Review, " ..,n.
,ty makes the remarkable declaration 'na' .rn.
greatest swlndlers and corruptlonsts In city .as
nents are generally Protestan;s. as certaihp ,s,d
,een 80 in this city, where Catholics are s"''
o hold such mperious and deleterous sway
The Mothers Tenderness.-"Poor Tommy, s family
race" said Mrs. Figg TO the frend Vi "a give him
Who had dropped In. Il have just hau -r,ch hate
whipping. You have no idea now III"
o do such a thing am so tender-hssin. as tender.
II WISH" sobbed Tommy. that you .frdia nspols
landed stead OF tender-heartea. -Vnu'
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