New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

.'The Augusta (Gao Chronicle" says: James NJ.
Smith. OF Oglethorpe. Georga's greatest farmer.
has Just broken all records of cotton sales from
single plantation by selling to Macon coton-buyers
In one lot two thousand bales OF cotton of
his own raising The cotton sold on basis of
seven cents for middlng, and when 1T Is all
weighed and shipped Mr.. Smith will receive a
check for about $4,000 This would be a tremen-
dous crop even II Mr. Smith raised nothing but
cotton, bat when 1t is remembered that he grows
similarly large crops OF grain and hay, and that
cotton is his surplus money crop after producing
all the provision crops he needs. then ono can
grasp some idea OF tho scale on which Colone!
Smith farms. and see the Justice of calling him
Georgia's cotton king
Athens seventy-nve years ago squalid Turkish
village Of huts and ruins. has become city or
seat of n great university. an influence to be reck-
oned with in the councils OF the nations Factories
hum and smoke In the haunts Of dyllic tradition.
BUSY seaports have sprung to Importance, and a
mercantile marine, ranking eighth among those
of the world carries on the memories Of the ship
Argo The masses OF the people are industrious,
temperate shrewd brave ana rema bev Ior t All
patriots.-Qllustrated American.
curious illustration OF the diverse conditions
that NAV exist in this country is the fact that while
so many people In the Mississippi Valley are suffer
ing from floods the New-Orleans papers are rails
ing money for sufferers from tho drouth in
Louisiana.
Maude- Everybody was telling me how homely
me when looked better. I'd give more FOR Char-
ley's opinion than for everybody else soar,od
to be the as everybody elses-(Boston iran
script.
After service-Gadzooks-Wh a perfect COM
mand of language DR.. Longwnd has,
Zounds-I don't agree with you. l should say his
language has perfect command of him
Crimsonbeak- sprocket was telling some remark
able stories of the speed he made on his new wheel
Yeast-Well. you know. Sprocket can lie as fast
as horse can trot , ,
that he can lie faster than his bicycle can go.
Yonkers Statesman
Mrs Harris. OF Chicago has inserted the follow
ing notice in the Chicago papers: ITO Whom 1t May
Concern: Ny husband, Fred c. Harris. has left
my home and will not be responsible for any debts
he incurs Mrs Fred c. Harris" The notice Is not
couched in the traditional form, but 1t will doubtless
be effective.
81 see there has been machine patented which
records every time a man moves" said Juniper.
well IT would put the machine to n pretty good
test II IT was tried on some OF my tenants sa'd
Representative Roger introduced the following
nreomble and resolution the other day I'm the Texas
Legislature:
whereas the patient House is tired
or the perpetual jaw
Which is universally fired
AT each prospective law;
And whereas, too. some are accused
OF assaulting bills that pass
With the very weapon Samson used
The jaWbone of an ass,
And " the day has como
When our per diem shrnks
To such "A small and paltry sum
II Will pay for drinks;
Therefore, resolved, that We Will hold
Two sessions eCary day,
And, whether IL lA hot or cold
VIII try to earn CUR pay.
footrace over the Marathon course Is to be-
run at Boston on April 10. Patriots Day" The
course will be the same In length as that from
Maratho to Athens.
In front OF window where ! worked last sum
m,r was IA butternut tree a humming- bird built
her nest on Il limb th9t grew near the window, and
we had an opportunity TO watch her closely. In
fact we could look right into the nest One day
when there was heavy shower coming up We
thought we would see II she covered her young
during the rain. Well when the first drops fell she
came and took in her bill one of two or three large
leaves growing close by and laid this leaf over the
nest as completely to cover II. then she New
away examining the leaf We found hole In
Il and I'm the side OF the nest small stick that
the leaf was fastened to. hooked upon. After the
storm was the old bird came back and UNI
hooked the leaf. and the nest was perfectly dry
american Sportsman.