New-York tribune., 1896-11-01
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Mrs Rebecca Packard Of TIoga County Penn.
who was iol years old last week. Possesses all her
faculties unlmpared She remembers when the
! Indians swarmed through Tioga Couniy.
II have found another use for the chatting dish" -"
said Mr.. Cawker to his wife on that iadys return
home from visit to the country
While you we're away threw 1t out OF the bed
room window at loQuacous cat and Killed the
animal "-tiarpers Bazar
| A gold man and a silver man, OF Summit Miss
have agreed In writing. with 500 forfeit up that
| two anvils shall be loaded and discharged the next
! day after the election. and II Mckinley is elected
the silver Is to SIT upon the anyils to be fired
by the gold bug. and II Bryan Is elected the gold
bug Is to sit upon the anvlls when the silver man
touches them on.
Beggar lwho has Just received a piece OF bread
Begging Will soon become bad business: why. half
the time when ask for piece OF bread nova
! days they give me a piece OF bread (Flegende
Bitter
At the Conference Of the Catholic Truth Society
at Hanley England. the other day. 1t was decided
that the Anglican Church is thoroughly ieavened
with Romanism. and therefore the Roman Church
may direct all It's efforts to the conversion Of
the Nonconformists. II also voted TO start
fund for the relief OF Anglican clergymen who
may lose their OF support by joining the
Church Of Rome.
Its Location.-Facetlous Traveller (poking his
head out Of the -window)-What place Is This?
Native (leaning against the depoD-Paradse
Facetlous Trayeller-It is. oh? Well this is how
far from where?
Native-IIalf a mile from the ds,illuhry suh.-
puck.
James Toleman. Of Bristol England whose death
Is announced. was the last "potwalloper' in Great
Britain. Before the passing of the Reform Act In
1892 the "potwallopers' were. In "A political sense
important body In some of the English boroughs
and they possessed the franchise because they were
able to boil their own pots" BY the decease of
| Mr.. Toeman they become extinct The word
| 'waliop." now obsolete purely local In its use
means TO boil
| Ahead of His Tme.-"I lived 100 years too soon
From spectral cloud In the Hereafter the shade
of Napoleon scanned the earth.
"lf had known, II had known he murmured
| necessarily.
With a bicycle corIs OF energetic seorchers l
would not have done thing TO those Russians"
| Then he assumed the pose which he made famous
at st. Heena-(Truth
| At the recent Universalist Convention at Port
| land Me, the Rev. Mr. Wells told a story of a
| polygamIst who had two wives. cd and tho
other young. The young wife. not wanting him 10
look old, pulled out his gray hairs. d the old
wife. not wanting him to look youn, Il out his
black hairs SO he became bald this pick
| Ing away at crecds doesn't stop. the .al church
| will be bald and have to wear UNCONVENTIONAL
J Wig" said Brother Wells. and the radical
tingent swept back amid the general hilarity.
| Mother-C Charlie you said you'd been Sunday
| Charlie with a far-away look)-Yesm.
Mother-How does 1t happen that your hands
smell hshy?
! paIer an tn outside Is all about Jonah and the
| whale.-(Tit-Bit
| A Cuban club has been organized by certain rev.
olutionary elements IN Marseilles. whose senti-
| ments found expression the other evening In a
meeting held In of the principal saloons Of the
town The Castilian inha btants. who. though for
more than century residents OF France. still pro-
fess their love for their peninsuar home appeared
on the scene with a Spanish hag and with cries
OF Long live Spain!' attempted to break up
| the meeting. A free fight ensued. and the pro-
prietor OF the saloon turned of the Then the
| fight was continued In the street. anu the Cas-
| tilians who far outnumbered the Cuban SYM
| pathfsers, paraded the principal streets. waving
| their flag and shouting. They soon became ,hs
noxlous that about thirty Of them were locked up
| by the police who the following night lent
| their protection TO another Cuban meeting.
There Is probably no more enthusiastic McKin-
leyte In all this town than an old woman who sells
The evening papsTs sbGn az az anS Market s ss the
upon monopolizing all four corners of the inter-
secting streets and all the small boys who attempt
away. In the morning she stands at Ninth and
Vine sts, not making her appearance on Market-st.
until the evening papers begin to appear. She Is
very energetic and her clientele Is large She gen.
orally stands upon the southwest corner Of Eighth
and Market sts and this IL how she announces her
wares:
Lord! hear my prayer.
Lord! hear my prayer.
Her. srs M?k!n'sG Bs.s Il the ssl sssf Cal.
and all the evening papers. s.<PhiIadelphia Record.