New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28

"The Railroad Car Journal Of this city. mas
originated a project to build a private car for tHe
use of the President OF the United states from ma
terial and appliances contributed by the car
inC and affiliated industries The designs ana spe0l'
acations are being prepared ~ der the SUPERVISE"
nj = committee of twenty -fve master car-buiIders
and superintendents of motive power. fhe pro-
,ected car" It is said. will be complete EXPOSE
,ion of the art OF car-buildng. demonstrating 70
the world the surprising excellence Of this indus
try in the United States; and 1t IS TO be presented
70 the Nation. as a tribute from the car-buildins
fraternity for the personal and official use oil Inc
successive Presidents of the United States
Saving me"There seems to be no other wa WiI
said the Sultan irritaby. THESE governments WIZ
keep worrying with complaints and inquiries.
"Vhat is Your Majesty wish
orc,lars III" VI p the words What are you going to
do about III printed In large type anu Hifn ny
name to them with rubber stamp ~" 's"'"e' '''
Star.
.,rba Washington County IN " Post" Prints
letter from Republican protesting against the re-
cent Sunday political conferences in this city as
ian offence against God and the American Sab
bath" and an insult TO many Republicans. Inc
paper editorally commends this view OF the case
War Getting Out OF Date.-It won't be long,
said the thoughtful man. before an poss,niy VI
Il quite agree with YOU" returned the member OF
the peace commission, graspng his hahu ahu sa mar
"? You" Exclaimed the thoughtful man What
Not very much personally perhaps. but as
member of the peace commission .s .h
thoughtful man The thing that is going to ond
all war is the fact that they have reasnea that
where a new national debt is created every time
one is discharged. "-(Chicago Post
A billiard hall for women is being built in ST
Louis one department in the structure will be de-
voted TO a school of instruction. where noyices may
receive instructions from an eXper, teacher Inc
proprietor will expend $1,000 in fitting up the nail
The new club will be unique in this country there
being but public billiard parlor Tor women III
the word-in Vienna. Austria
Incapacitated for work-As he climbed into his
favorite chair In the barber-shop he asked what
had become Of Shaver.
"Iad to quit, replied the bos' barber
Weak lungs."-(Chicaso Record
The Rev. Mr. Backus. OF Worth County. Mo. be-
lieves firmly that the Garth is Fat. and he chal
lenges the scientists Of the world to prove him
wrong.
AT Hawlck the people used to wear wooden clogs.
which made a clanking noise on the pavement A
dying old woman had some friends by her bedside.
vel Jenny We are saun to heaven, and gin yee
ony o oor folk ye can tell them we re WeeL
them Use tell them. But We mauna expect me TO
clank- clankin' through heaven loOklE TOT
your folk "-(Scottish Nights.
In the "chees, regions" of Switzerland It is the
custom to present to a newly married couple a
register cheese" on this cheese the whole his
tory OF the family Is carved. such births mar
rages deaths and other incidents which 1t may be
desired to make matters OF record. Some OF these
old Swiss family cheese records said TO date
back to the middle OF the seventeenth century. At
the agricultural fair annually held al Gresscnay A
great many cheese records have been exhibited
which were known to be from $50 to 200 years old
The Oldest that has yet been displayed belongs TO a
country squire living near Gressenay. who shows
his family record carved on cheese made in 1860.
An Oakland bootblack. an honest man who would
not deceive his patrons. when he first went into
business six years ago. put up sign which read
Joe Garibaldi, bootback Has two small chill
drcn" Each succeeding year found him deserving
OF more sympathy, for he kept amending the sign
until IL read eight small child; en-. A few days ago
Joe's stand was locked for whole day. and when
he returned the next morning he conhded to the
butchers boy that his baby had died His first
work was TO amend the sign that Il might not
misead the public, and it then read. Zoe Cart
baldi. bootback Has seven small children" Then
to avoid being placed In false position before the
public, he added with his finger and shoebackng
lone he de."-(San Francisco Argonaut
The London Missionary Society declares that
Catholics prosecute Protestants In Madagascar
THE Jesuit missionaries" It says. ARE the NOV
ing force and In many cases they are backed up
by the Government officials who depend upon them
as interpreters A favoritc course Is 10 claim a
Protestant chapel az commInal--to get q majority
OF the people IN their favor. and then 10 Gus; the
Professionals and open 1t a. a Catholic place of wor-
ship. Al least a score OF chapels have thus been
taken possession OF by the Catholics"
business Is Buslness.-Life Insurance Agent tout
Nest)-What did Mr. Newcomer say?
Assistant-He won't talk with me at all; said he
was too busy TO think about life Insurance
We'll. III hang around his house tonight and
shoot holes through his windows, aud when he
comes downtown In the morning you be behind a
renee In some vacant lot and PUT few balls
through the top OF his hat. Then when he reaches
his ONCE. III drop In and talk life Insurance
again "-(NeW-York Weekly