New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-18
THE TALK or THE DAY.

first to receive a diploma from Cornell. has found
in the library of that institution several thousand
volumes OF original sources for the study OF tho
Reformation also collection of 24l portraits, en-
cravings and the like, of the Reformer5 and their
friends, by contemporary artists. The collection
embraces such rarities as Campanus's translation
of Luther's catechism from Swedish into the Della
ware Indian dialect. which in 1896 was printed IN
Stockholm, at the expense Of King Charles XII and
distributed among those Indians
81 noticed you at the opera last night. Mrs Budd.
Wasn't that delightful aria by Du Mono! ,.,,.,,,
Mrs. Upton my famous recipe for hard sauce
(Harpers Bazaar.
There was a queer scene in the Paris Catacombs
the other day Some forty musicians and rather
more numerous audience assembled there TO In
dulge in their taste for the grewsome. Sitting on
damp chairs, which had been placed at one of the
crossways of the intricate and interminable gall
leres lined on each side with skulls and human
bones, q concert given, which will long be re-
membered by those who participated In 1t as
musicians or listened TO 1t as the audience. The
programme comprised Chopin's Funeral March,"
Beethoven's Funeral March," Saint-Saenss
Death Dance" etc. The musicians were from the
Conservatoire OF Music, and the audience was COM
posed of people of position.
thinks more of the butcher than she does OF me.
Duddy-You don't mean it.
P H%ddy-. Nd d9' td oTt am not jealous
TudGymYog wouidn. be sTrPrsed IL i you knew
Transcript.
Last years church statistics" says London
paper revealed the fact that in 1896 the number
of ordained to holy orders In the Church OF
England fell to 704 which Is for the year 1894.
the lowest number known for very long time.
Perhaps the diminishing incomes of the clergy
may account for this-for no doubt they dimin-
IL - tl,,t tkA c1ox
motion Of curates has something 20 do with It.
While curacies multiply. the number of vcarages
does not greatly increase Consequently promotion
for juniors becomes and must become. slower, and
yet more slow"
Moneybags-You want me to engage In a specula
ton whereby can make half a million Explain
Cholly Cheekly-Your daughter is to receive a
million from you If t she marres with your consent
Cholly Cheekly-Everything You consent for her
you half see?-(Judge.
Schrader the Divine Healer" is in dime mu-
scum in Allegheny, Penn.
He worked.-"You are one of those gentlemen
Nary time" said Kelly the con king 81 work
fer every cent | get. Brain work When / GIT the
notion the world owes me Twin I'll let you know.
don't like to have that SAID ia. about me Wien
Quirer.
THE airship sighted in the West" says 1.-THE ST.
Louis Republic" as fake The aerial monster
manufactured originally IN New-York, Of
pa pler-m ache and ordinary balloon terial to adj
vertise certain brand of cigarettes. When II was
set free at Denver some wine merchants and other
mercantile gentlemen infringed the patent and
made paper-mache airships for their own use
That is why the airshp has been seen at so many
places at and tho same time. There IL more
than one of them In the sky, and the cigarette
balloon Is not the only light in the heavens by any
means The whole thing Is clever advertising
dodge invented Jointly by parties In New-York and
Chicago"
IT'S a point fain would know.
w or oc esFaon S SrNi So th0ushti
Nah In tho whale or was he not?
Did he pray to be released?
Finding prayers of no avail.
And his raiment soed and creased,
Did he blubber in the whale?
Sailing DER that watery waste
Destined TO define the waist
OF the Misses Smith and Jones7
Floating in that early swim.
Did he In the least foresee
That I'm ages following him
Still "corker' he would be?
-tBoston Transcript.
A bill now In the Illinois Legislature provides that
"any newspaper found guilty OF unduly eulogizing
any person persons. thus falsely building for
such person or persons reputation without merit.
thereby misleading and deceivng the public shall
after ten days notice served In writing upon tho
publisher or publishers of said newspaper Of the
fase and misleading character OF said eulogy make
retraction or correction OF said euogy In manner
and place as conspicuous was its original pubil-
cation for three succeeding issues OF said news
paper This act shall not apply TO deceased per-
sons. nor be operative against funeral orations nor
obituary notices"
| once spent week on Scotland Lightship. near
the entrance TO New-York Harbor The assistant
Keeper was In charge and he was nearly stons
deaf lie had not been ashore for three months
ana even newspaper came to him only by chance
from time to time. when n pllot-boat stopped by
on her way out Of the harbor From sunrise until
? o'clock at night he did little else but alt on "A
hatchway, smoking old pipe and gazing re-
ncctiVely At the great harhor receiving and dis
missing It's thousands OF vessels. one day ne asked
mo To use my influence to get him transferred to
Cape Cod. ! asked him why he wished the change.
We'll said he, seriously. II want a queter sta.
ton. It's too lively here want to be where there
Is less going on."-(SL Nicholas