New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Albert Hawkins. seventy-six years old. who
was the Presidential coachman from the time OF
Lincoln until President Cleveland discharged him.
! will to-day marry a handsome young mulatto
woman who is employed in the Treasury Depart
ment.
sell her yacht the White Tadye. merely because
she Is now In hat-mourning. She could easily
have changed the yachts name TO the Black and
! White Ladye.-(Chcago Times Herald.
II becomes more than ever apparent that the Gen.
tral American parrot did not cut It's eye teeth yes
| ,crday. and that It Is really a bird of remarkable
| sapiencc putting this and that together with n
force OF logical cohesion equal that exerted by
/ tho best prepared glue or canned Rhode Island
| honey One OF them a Nnth-ave. store the
other night screamed persstenty for the police
man that he came at last from several blocks away
and discovered that fun pathological burglar.
! David OBricn by name. had obtained entrance 10
the emporium and hidden himself under the bed. in
tent to steal and make away with the converse
| tional bird the coast was clear The
penetration OF this beauteous sthmian visitor and
| its explanatory talents blocked this little game.
and the cupci; was carried of and locked up to
answer. This particular parrot has without doubt
n future before H. ard will be heard from. not only
by the constabulary and the ancient and dshonor-
! able guild OF house breakers. but other people as
| well II is not OF the broodng, uncommunica-
tive kind. which. Intercepted as to its talking
power responds. Talks cheap. I'm thinking
! parrot" but is OF another sect altogether. doing
| credit TO the region OF Its nativity. we'll as TO
! NInth-ave.. the social conditions OF which 1t so
| cheery enlivens.
One OF the many annoying things that happen
daily in the House is the presumption OF the seats
OF the members by visitors before the House Us Is
sitting in the chairs Of Representatives. and II pos.
SSG ny v sffET Ting see
Of score OF persons mostly women, but often
men OF 1ay all to Re sa whee Speaker
holds down chair durHg ba the , 9us acbeyed so
great feat after they have succeeded in making
ns IN he h Ss al N
They ST. OGhsT r ns
Times.
The hook number OF THE Chicago Evening
Post" which has Just appeared. is very complete
record OF current publications. and Is striking In
dl1aron OF the literary activity OF Chicago
Immensely ReI!eved-"BoIu.." CAUTIOUSLY In n.
| aulred Naggus. literary editor Of The Daily
| Bread" are you going TO write christmas Story
this year. as usua?" go -,
i have already written one" replied the other
""' Borns." exclaimed Nassus. inpusivcly slapping
him on the back ters 90 out ana 'aAe so''e
thing!"-(Ch!caso Tribune
Miss Mclean. a woman OF Glasgow. has given a
CAMERON district. West Africa. and the work OF
evangelIzation among them is fairly begun. They
are wandering. hunting folk. here to-day and there
Tomorrow not staying long enough In one place TO
have any agriculture and until they are Instructed
in more stable ways OF living It Will be uncanny for
the missionaries TO follow them about from place TO
Mace and labor among the little wanderers as they
find opportunity In calling for volunteers for THIS
work 1t is pointed out that such as have love FOR
plants insects and birds will ind the field par
tculary interesting one. The service requires
good constitution and aptitude for forestry and
some knowledge OF medicine and Workmanship are
desirable The apostle who doctor sick dwarf
and bring down parrot from the top OF tall tree
Is said to be OF the sort most wanted there. and
most likely to exert on these wild lKtle Nmrods an
influence favorable to his mission
.~you don't Ike my book" tlmidy ventured the
Young author who had invaded the lair OF the lit
erary editor Tor the second time: ~ .,,.
trash, | have been compelled TO handle II without
SUI see 1t looks like It," taltered the young
table in front Of the'terrloie editor-(Chcaso Trio-
une.
A, Aiaccio the capital Of Corsica. the Municipal
Council has Just voted TO remove the local civil and
military hosptals and to replace them by a single
hospital for both purposes. The particular point
q, interest in this Is the fact that the hospital
will be built according to plan elaborated by
Napoleon l. which has been preserved In the town
records ever since. The site to be occupied was
also selected by the Emperor himself.
Wise Boyle persisted In using a fragment Of
b,s broken slate much to his teachers disgust
WHY don't you tell your mother You broke your
slate?' che asked. I'm sure she'd set you new
one" .,,s r.r,,.d the INV "and .ha,d
Ill 4, Christmas present. Ia ruther wait I'LL next
term before ask for it'-(Chicaso Post.
A-tes,,n wells sunk In the desert appear to md
80 abundant supply Of water without going very |
aeon for IT, and this fact may In time put new |
go on desert conditions. involving important po |
u,ic,I climatic and economical consequences. The |
English have begun sinking them along the Ber |
ber-suakim road. finding water there as abundant |
a. q, was in the regions the Nile when their |
o,at governmental wells were put down. Flowing |
under the Saharsn sands there may be water |
enough TO fertilize GASES all It's sterile ex- |
nanse and rescue II in a measure from It's historic
barreuness and desolatlon. Some years ago a |
French engineer proposed to cut a canal from the |
Medterrane TO the lower desert levels thus Gre
ating a new inland sea, or. rather restoring an old
one but for some the project was aban-
doned Local irrigation by means Of artesian Dor
ing. is n more judicious expedient. and, the Eng
lish having pointed the way In this direction, the
French are quite likely to follow It. Only a mar
row desert belt separates their possessions In North
and Middle Africa. reaching from the Medlter-
ranean to the Niger. and It is quite worth their
while to fertlize It and plant II with palm groves
and date orchards. II possible at any rate to pro-
vide water enough to supply their present caravans
and perhaps their future locomotives
BILL q Milwaukee railroad has discharged
several Indian conductors for appropriating money.
Jill-Perhaps the Indians believed that mono but
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