New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Mr. Moody's big revival in Chicago Is to be
tempest OF fire." and is to cost 500 day. There
will be 600 voices in tho choir. The meetings will
be held in the Auditorium.
Many strange requests como before the atten-
ton of the officials in the Register OF Wills ONCE.
Yesterday the will of Mary A. Leamy, late OF No.
3zs south Forty-Ss,econdst was admitted to pro
trlx makes arrangements for her funeral In the
in covered casket provided with a mattress;
that the casket shall be inclosed In a chestnut
alongside that Of my dear husband The grave
shall be eight feet deep. with brick sides laid In
brickwork to be whitewashed and grave to be COW
cred with slabs of stone The Enclosure rail shall
that INV late husbands Masonic mark shall be
hung around my neck and Inferred with me-
philadelphia Record.
The report OF the Cremation Society OF England
for 1896 shows that there were 1871 cremations at
Working. as compared with 40 in 1896. The reports
from the ohe. crematora. however. at Liverpool.
Manchester and Glasgow. show that cremation Is
increasing In popularity
valid.--An expectant hush fell upon the
''Your Honor, and gentlemen OF the jury" the
counse, for the plaintiff hasteneA to reply. I'VE
sa nS ya % sn mat ca the mar
witnesses to testify that every woman who
present cried through it all from beginning to end
is IT possible 10 conceive that women. fortified as
they are by a mysterious and infallible intuition
ing place, my learned brother s?"-(Detroit
Journal
Salvador" says a citizen Of that country, quoted
In THE Washington Post" lis one Of the richest
countries in the world and one of the most densely
populated. There people of great fortune
like the vanderbilts and Astors there, but a great
many who have large estates that yield handsome
incomes. Coffee IL. OF course. the big industry
and the crop Is worth annually about 100000 in
gold There is also large amount Of indigo ex-
ported. Almost the entire country Is under Guilt
vation The annual crop OF exles is usually heavy
too. but right now there is nothing 10 Indicate
public disturbance. The only drawback to life In
Salvador is the constan. dread of the ravages of
yellow fever"
Nothing can check the enterprise OF the average
weekly editor one who publishes paper in
Muscogee County makes this explanation:
our pressman away and got married this
week and had to hire Jack Smith to print this
will not do so again soon."-(Atlanta Constitution.
William Edwards. veteran British soldier. who
has fought in ninety battles, Is turning a mangle
TO support invalid wife.
Not Hard to Decide -Kersmith-You don't take
any interest in the question OF boomers perhaps
because the question has never come home to YOU
what would you do II your wife wanted TO wear
Kaiones--What would I do? I'd let her wear
them. guess YOU don't know Mrs. Kajones!-
tChcago Tribune
The following unique advertisement recently APP
pearcd in Western paper:
Julia my wife. has grown quite rude
She has left me in a lonesome mood:
She has left my board.
She has took my bed.
She has given away my meat and bread
She has left me, in spite OF friends and church;
She has carried with her all my shirts
Now We who read this paper.
Since she cut this luckless caper.
will not pay one single fraction
or any debts OF her contraction"
They were just closing up the real-estae deal.
and the man who always wanted something
thrown in to make Il good bargain appeared TO
'What'n YOU throw in?'
"What'll WHAT
"What'ii YOU throw IN az a sort OF bonus?"
ION. yes. yes. OF course" said the rcal-estate
man How stupid OF me, Why. the fact is, in
our line Of business not exactly In the
habit OF giving prizes. but In this case, just to
make II binding. don't mind throwing in the back
taxes" 80
would-be purchaser: 1T always pays for man to
stick out for his rights"
II was only after the transfer was made that he
discovered the back taxes were payable by and
not to the owner.-tchicago Post.
Tarry De Windt. the Siberian traveller. took a
number OF wOodcuts OF the Andree polar balloon
for distribution among the natives OF northeastern
Siberia one day he noticed Tchuktch studying
one OF the pictures intenty, and asked him what
he would do II he It In the sky Shoot IT,"
was the immediate reply.
III you want item to print you might talk
about seed little said gentleman who H.
interested in that subject h" H., What wdm added
will he worth s. bushel this spring" We could
hardly think that. bur the grain man Insisted that
IL has sold for than s. here. with wheat also
worth 81 30 and NJ the last minute this spring
when farmers begin ind out how poor their
own seed Is. there Will be good big scramble for
good 1895 corn for planting. -tWebser City Qowa)