The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-02
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Colonel j. Annoy Knox, the humorist
who for the past year has contributed TO
the excellent editorial columns OF the
Truth and made himself an agreeable
speaker at banquets and other local social
gatherings and who in that time has made
many warm friends in the city, left yes
terday afternoon for New York city,
where he will soon begin the publication
of new thing in Journalism he pur-
poses to issue weekly eclectic magazine,
called The Good Things" of the Week,
which is to contain, as the prospectus in
forms us, 1.-The choicest, the most attrac-
tive, the most interesting and the most
amusing news stories of current gents
that can be found in the daily and peri
odical press of The world-not paragraphic
| items, nor a summary of the news, hut
descriptive stories of the most important
| and interesting affairs Of tie day 1t
| is wcll known that some of the pest
| eclectic monthly magazines consist OF
| collections of the cream of the hction
| to be found in the other monthly maya
| zines, so will this magazine. THE Good
| Things of the Week" be eclectic the best
| of the best. Its selected contents Will
| come from the daily newspaper press Of
| the world, q field in which more brilliant,
| more interesting, and more valuable mat
| ter can be found than can possibly be
| contained in the narrow scope of the
monthly magazines. There Is no other
| magazine OF Il Ike Cnu'dSIt!' DuDilSlleN
| "The Good Things of the Week will CON
| sist of GA % ges and covcr--eXcnsive of
advertising pages. The page will be about
| the size of the Century magazine, with
| two columns in mnion type to the page.
| No special feature will be made Of Illus
| tration although in each issue, some Will
| be used, when necessary to illustrate the
text. The price will be five cents a copy,
| and the publication Office in New York,
| o
On March 10 a highly interesting and
| instructive course of lectures will begin
in ST. Thomas College hail. on Wyoming
| avenue. They have been arranged for by
Rev. d. j. MacGoldrick. the president
| of the college, who will deliver the first
| lecture of the course on the night of
| March 10. His subject is Irish Charac-
| ter Described by Irish Poets" ON March
"a Rev. +. p. McNally, of the Yves: SIDE,
i will speak on The Church ana The Re
| public" and the third lecture of the
| course, on April Z, will be by Hon. john
T.. Barrett, editor of the Truth. His
topic win be John Boyle o Reilly"
Probably the most notable of the series
| will be the lecture of Rev. ID. j. Stafford,
ID. D., of Washington, ID. c., on Ham
let" The course will conclude on the
evening of May with Il discussion on
"Agnosticism and the Future Triumphs
of the Church" by Rev. George j. Lucas
; D. D., of Blossburg The subjects that
viii be dWelt upon by the five lecturer:
are as varied as they are interest ing, ard
the course should prove rich mtelec'u
, al treat. Much interest is felt in the lr'
ture that Editor Barrett will deliver. lie
was warm friend and ardent admit ell
of John Boyle O'Reily, and his address
; | will no doubt shed new light on the life
. and work of the man who FOR SO many
years presided with such distinction over
the destnies of the Boston Pilot anC
Mr. Barrett has been at work tor seVera
years compiling the information that il
| contained in the lecture, and we may b,
sure that his facts have been knit to
/ gether with the brilliant and poetic peri
DDS that flow SO readily from his giftec
| pen.
He is walking from New York to Chi
cago as fool advertisement for sen
l. satonal Gotham newspaper and look
= Intelligent enough to be in better busi
ness His name is Edward ]. Edward
and he reached Scranton yesterdl.
e morning, a little over forty-eisht hour
J. out from New York city. Edwards Is =
. make the journey in ninety days ar'
will receive $500 # he succeeds; al leas
u that's part of the story he told part
| of men in barber shop, where he wen
= to have his face scraDed. lie is wei
dressed, is 2S years old feet and
| incneS IN nclsnl, WelShS lIu pOuHuS ana ,
= | fairly good looking. lie said he was
r few hours ahead of time and eXpec q
q to reach the Windy City in sixty days O
| less. Edwards is supposed to travel tn
Il entire distance along the railroad track
- via the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
a ern to Buffalo, and thence via the LAX
shore route. lie claims to have Wake
: the entire distance from San Francisc
a to Chicago and to be an all around wor
= der of pedal endurance, lie wasted
u, half hour in the barber shop while dis
sertating on his great travelling speed.
: Arrangements are being perfected "a
st the banquet with which the birthda
If of the sweet singer of Ireland, hDma
:, Moore, will be celebrated in Scranton hi
;" year by a number of patriotic Irsamei
The banquet will be served at the Jel
20 myn, and its promoters are determ'na
,s that it shall equal anything Of the kin
that has taken place in the city. SuperIC
= Court Judge L, +, Smith will be 'oas
IT master of the evening, and toasts will !
D. responded to by Colonel f. !. FtZsn
o. mons. Rev, d. j, MacGoldrick, Edtt
, John r.. Barrett and others.
lie .
lt Last Sundays issue of the New YoI
Herald contained portraits and brit
biographies of the members-eicct of II
IT Fifty-ffth congress, Concerning the re-
- resentatiVe of this district it said: "Wil
= lam Connell found Nova Scotia, land
his birth, too new and too canny; can
to PENNSYLVANIA and worked as a mil
ro hoy; followed the injunction to put mon,
I'm thy purse, and now has II fun is
Is phlanthropist a Republican and reput,
n candidate for governor of his state"
Is q
~ NJ. j. Coyne and James j. Flynn ha'
>" written "A drama entitled rrhe Nati'
s. EXiled," which win be produced al Il
f. Academy of Music after Lent.