New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-25
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The Workingmen's Hotel which the Salvation
Army has opened I'm Boston. charges FIVE ten and
fifteen cents for lodging. three for supper
five for breakfast and eight for dinner A bath IS
free. but not obligatory The house will contain
100 beds.
ping Scotchman to task. and graphically described
for his benefit the effects of overndulgence, add
''Think of what physical pain man suffers af-
drinking>-the aching brow the parched throat
the trembling nerves
Whereupon Sandy Interrupted him With; -,
sensations weei that think it's no the first
time we've been fou yersel.'-Crit-Bits
The investigation of the affairs of the University
OF Wisconsin by a legislative committee shows that
the University has overdrawn it's account at the
State Treasury the amount of 1854 16 The in
vestgation begun at the request of certain citi
zens who want President Charles Kendall Adams
10 resign. AMI It may possibly have that result.
The dissatisfaction with DIR. Adams arose soon
after he became president. according to The Chi
cago Record" when it discovered that he was
under contract to edit encyclopedia. The Re-
gents Of the University knowing of this contract.
agreed that he should not be obliged to give
than two hours day TO the duties of the presi-
dency For this he was to receive $500 year and
house rent. For his five years services the ency
clopedia he was to receive $1,000 1t is now said
that he did not give two hours day his
college duties. and is felt by many that he ought
TO resign in the interests of the university.
A Mistake.-"Don't let this occur again." said the
photographer who prides himself on being enter
prising
10y GU We made the portrait more prominent than
my signature -(Washington Star.
THE Philadelphia Press" announces that the
Episcopal Divinity School Of Philadelphia will here
after confer the degree Ct Doctor of Divinity only
after a OF study and an examination.
The Prince of Wales is ever the most thoughtful
and kindly of men. only few mornings ago. at
found His Royal Highness among the little
gregation. II was as early as 10 o'clock in the
arduous just now. The lady who had died was
not among his most intimate friends but desire
rowing people drew him toward them at this hour
of their grief and distress, Sketch
A correspondent of The London Daily Graphic
in Syria writes: AT village on the east of the
Jordan halfway betw sen Salt and kerak. a large
piece Of mosaic pavement has been discovered-that
Is. floor made of different colored tiles each
about two-th!rds of an inch square. 1t is about 30
feet long and Is feet broad and is supposed to
have been the floor of a chapel OF the NTH century
II is map Of the country from Egypt TO the
Lebanon. Everything is drsadfully out of proper
ton. Jerusalem Is enormous and he's streets
marked. The Dead Sea swarms with fish although
none can live in it on account OF the bitumen with
which the water is Mixed. and some of the fish
are longer than the width of the jordan"
the drummer OF the conductor on primitive South
ern railroad.
Ten ycahs. sun"
Indeed? You must have gotten several miles
south OF where | did."-(Detroit Free Press.
Or hansen pronounces his II it were
spelled "Naunscn" and the name OF the Fran as
II II were spelled "Fraum."
The Putnam Wolf Den Corporation is to issue an
appeal TO the people OF Connecticut for $500 with
which TO purchase the land In Pomfret I'm which
the famous Wolf Den of Putnam H. situated The
circular Ct the corporation will say: The Putnam
Wolf Den Corporation has been organized by the
following gentlemen: John A. Porter John A.
Carpenter. Edgar NJ. Warner. Timothy Earl Hon
kins George Austin Bowen and others for the pur-
pose of purchasing the land In Pomfret in which
Putnam Wolf Den is located for preservation as a
park and public memorial to the nlustrious citi-
zen of the county of Windham. Major-General Is
rael Putnam. The tract comprises about ninety
acres and there is large quantity of wood and
timber thereon
| Startling statstlcs.-I have discovered with the
aid OF statistics that more money Is expended In
tho United States for cigars than for all the COM
mon schools I'm the country Ii has been estima ted
that the cost OF washing linen that might lust AS
well he worn two days longer amounts to enough
In this country 10 more than lefray the expenses
OF the American Board OF Foreign Missions The
expense OF buttons the backs OF our coats whore
they of no earthly use Ia equal TO the support
OF all cur orphan asyums IL Is estimated that
the value OF old boots thrown aside which might
enough TO buy flannel nightgown for every ba BY
In the land Also, that the cost OF every inch OF
the fnll shirt collars of our young men is equal 10
the sum necessary TO put Bible In the hands OF
had his hair cut every two weeks the BARRIERS would
get rch.-(Phadephia Record.