New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Since the arrest of the leader of the band OF Jews
who congregated in of the public parks last
week for religious services. people who are versea
In Mosaic lore have been asked about the origin OF
the custom, which appeared to those VINO reau
about It like ancient worship. Tine rev III
Max Schlesslnger, OF Albany, In commenting on 'he
occurrence says "Our dear Russian Drothers are
hyper-orhodox. According to tho Tamud tbera-
cboth D. $50 he who happens TO see the sun when'
after twenty-eight years he has completed MS
circuit and at the spring solstice tha morning OF
the 4th day OF Nisson) begins a new course shd1'
say q certain very short bcnediction IL Is the
same precept which demands Of every Jew 70
praise God for everything striking and extraordi-
nary-for instance the trees in their blossom, the
ocean the rainbow, wise man. king. triend
whom he has not seen for some time ETC. Ihere
are no services whatever prescribed for this oc-
ason as there is for the temperance OF the new
moon nor were these Russians bound to go out OF
their way to see the sun in his solstlce The only
excuse they may find Is In remark Of the Tai
mud that II is n meritorious work TO calculate ana
watch the movements Of the sun. moon ana stars
The Commercial Instinct-Mr. Umpstein came
home with his eye BACKED. his nose swoIien ana a
few other injuries were scattered about his counte-
"Been helt up" he explained TO his wife. lie
was four dimes az pig as me, but maze MN
Wy didn't you glf up. Izzy?' asked his wife;
"Suern Rebecca. woman! Don you suopq 2ser
nal.
Tho pood effect Of Mr. Lehman's coaching Of the
Harvard crew IL already showing itself. THE fact
s SAWS Tho Boston Transcript" sit is compare
lively easy for any man of average ability 10 learn
the Lehman stroke, as 1t requires only waterman
shin which can be had by experience and the rest
e n perfectly natural stroke l. e., compared with
the work of former strokes Several old oarsmen
claim, that the Watson Mumford stroke of last year
led up 10 It to certain extent, but lacked It's length
II certainly did as compared with the Watson clip
NJ the wear before which fighting clip and
too short"
few years ago a idea was ntroduced into
horticulture, known as Wild gardens. Inis simply
grow wild 50 TO Initiate similar colectohs OF
beauty found In state OF nature IheSe T Sn gar
ticable in limited areas; but much could be done by
allowing one or two species OF piams 10 ay 6ave IN
group OF some half-dozen trees. or perhaps less
and plant %sr p@n that cod take care Of
itself in partial shade and leave them there TO their
doy of hf r2 fn Seq to- on
dening-(Meehans Monthly.
An Arkansas inventor has devised alarm which
goes off at any given time it NAV be set and at tie
same time II Is said it will lift the chimney from
lamp and light it, replacing the chimney and ad-
mstng the fame. When he was about 1t, he ought
to have constructed the thing so that II would light
the fire in the morning and cook the breakfast be-
fore 1t walked up the family.
An Achievement Exp.aned-He Is little curly
haired. osycheeked member OF BOY GnGr o re
hui on this occasion sang 1t out with clearness
and vigor which surprised and delighted all MS
That was splendid" said the leader of the choir
You have been taking my advice and practising.
mo haven't practsed it,"
Il don't understand how else you accomplished
Jewell I'll tell you. Just before ! came to that
note | shut my eyes and made believe was at
a ball game and saw Cartwright stea base -
washington Star
The city of Paris is making a sanitary record of
oerv building in the city. Since March. 1884 900
houaes have been described and II IS expected that
the register will be completed by 1909 1t contains
for each house description OF the drains. cesspoos
| and wells AMI of the plumbing; record Of what
ever deaths from contagious diseases nave occurred
in q and OF all distinctions and analyses of water
air or dust
Che Our minister does not jump at conclusions
Ill should say not. j never knew him TO reach
Conclusion in less than an hour.-(Brooklyn Life.
,vhen John c. Sheehan was In Washington the
| o,her dav he told THE Washington Post" that this
civ under its present administration. is one Of
tho worst governed cities In the world Crime is
| rampant Murders burgares and every sort OF Of
,onces are frequent, but the authorities poweress
a stop the violations against law and order. The
arrest OF criminals Is the exception. and not the
| rrle How the criminals and sem!-crminas OF
Tammany Hall will laugh when they hear that their
"hooored leader has thus taken 10 rebuking sin!
Tho POLITICIAN to be successful, must be up the
| small tricks and methods which calculated to
| impress the voters. Texas politicians have been
auiie original In this sort OF campaigning. Up 10
the beginning OF the H0gg era, some zen or twelve
years ago the old Tennessee and Mississippi trick
Of kissing the babies at pcncs and telling Jokes on
the opposing candidate were what the candidates re-
| lied on chiefly win favor With Hogg some new
| STYLES OF dramatic campaigning were introduced,
such as drinking out OF pitcher or paying railroad
fare the idea being In the first instance 10 show tho
great unwashed that he didn't put on airs after
| the manner OF the suck-up Goldfish arisocracy. In
the second that he would not accept courtesy o.
tho hands Of the corporations which were robpln6
The psople.-(Dal!as Nswa