New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-07
because we've got so much to sell. An II they're
scarce they'll congratulate us on the prices we orter
9e ''-(WasbinRton

scarce they'll congratulate on the prices we orer
get."-tWashinston Star.
The American Missionary Association has just
published report of It's work for tho higher educa
ton OF negroes. In 1895 there were In the uhited
States 1862 institutions for the secondary and higher
education OF the coored race: 156 OF these are WIN
In the boundaries OF the former slave STATES ~ are
wholly supported by the States In which they are
Thirty-fve have State aid. The remaining ic' are
sustained by benevolent societies and tuition 1ce''
There are 81 1902 students and 1i9 teachers In these
Institutions This is increase OF 400 IN TWO
years. More than one-half of the pupils are young
women.
81 went In for amateur photography during my
vacation" said the summer man. There was no
end of girls for subjects" A.. ..,u,.,.
But how did you make out among me girls?
"Oh. I got a lot OF negatives philadelphia
North American.
The Yukon River is thirty miles wide six hundred
miles from its mouth.
poleon. familiarity known as Plon Plon,. When he
visited an important Irish city; the Mayor VINO
s eansss sm in Fre"ch the Prince replied
domatc English that he accepted WIN n sra baes
said to him. but that among the many defects o, 9t
his ednGau?n %as T Francs is S
The last scheme OF Insurance Superintendent Nc
Nall. o. Kansas, to gel the better Of the insurance
Western lands which they hold mortgages have
shrunk in value But how the West will be helped
by advertising that its property values have shrunk
IS not clear.
There doesn't seem to be many women poets
as there used TO be .,,c
NO: and It's largely the fault OF the 'ypesettins
machines"
AS TO how >,,,u.
Journal.
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rabbi. says that there now three times as many
Jews in Palestine as returned with Ezra ana
Nehemiah. THE Jews" he says. will soon erect
temple in Jerusalem. and will establish the sac
rifices Of old I received letter from my home
short time ago In which they tell me OF meeting
with an English lady who was studying art ana
sculpture in Milan. She said that while IN Milan
she entered one of the largest workshops, and saw
there a magnificent pillar. She asked them ABOUT
IT, and they told her that II was for the new
Temple OF Jerusalem. In Rome she also saw an
other pillar which being finished for the temple
II may be possible that some OF the influential
Jews are quietly preparing for the erection Of this
temple. The time is fast approaching when Pales-
tine will be wholly peopled by the Jews The Sui
tan is in dire straits for money and may sell the
country TO them any time. When that comes TO
pass | believe that the tribes Of Israel will be
gathered there from all parts of the world"
Loud-voiced serseant-Now. Macpherson you
long-limbed raw-boned. fog-featnred scarecroW;;
you're not shot you'll be soldier one day IKE me-
MacphersonILlke you; sergeant , Peed' we MAKE
me long for the risks Of batte.-(Tit-Bits.
Aunt Aurelia Fuller. the oldest woman on
Cape Cod, who was hundred years OF age this
week comes OF Revolutionary stock. and was born
within a stones throw OF the house in which she
now resides. Part OF her present dwelling was
constructed of lumber from the old house in which
she was born Her father was a farmer. and
Of ~ mir chill al of
whom are dead except a brother. who is great
many years her junior When the war of 1872
broke out. she heard the news. and remembers the
haste with which her father and one OF his neigh
bors left for the OF battle. which was at the
time when the man-of-war Nimrod sailed into Vine
yard Sound and bombarded the town OF Falmouth.
Imagine the surprise OF the African missionary to
find the following poe;cal gem IN the DOCK OF one
OF his native scholars:
For there's jail in syracuse.
lie had been studying old schoOlbook which
d kind friend from America had sent.-(Chautauqua
Assembly Herald.
gentleman In Vladivostock Siberia. quoted in
The Boston Transcript" thus describes the new
e-breaker Hope that the Russian Government has
sent there: Imagine 10 yourself a Dutch wooden
shoe rugged on; with two masts and an enormous
funnel and there you have her shape. She was
bulk in Copenhagen. ana contracts 10 smash six
feet OF Ice without wlnking II the Old ice-breaker
Selatch had one foot OF ice contend with she
was usually the party that got smashed She Is
OF 300 tons and built for revenue cutter The
Hope is Of 1900 tons and built for business
Her method Of procedure H. first 10 ram the ice;
II Il does not break she then gets up and sits down
on X: and II It still holds It's own. water is pumped
into a tank in her bows until she IS heavy tina,
IN. Ice has to break whether It wants 10 or not"
An Impresslon--"Oi must connss" said Mr.. Raj
ferty. that IL amt clear ~ me what's meant by
arbitration" -
''It'- a great ting" replied Mr.. Dolan. "Oi ex-
plain IL till 'Spose tNo people hey quarI'--
(Which Is li'be to happen any day
They call in three four other people 10 take
a hand and ixpriss opinion. an the result Is
absolute peace or gneral free night. ayther OF