New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-02
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Tho third Federal Convention OF the brotherhood
! ~ Andrew and Philip will be held at Reading
| Penn on November II. 1t Is an unaenofn'ha'"'"'
religious society. having membership In seventeen
| denominations II was organized ten Seais "eo ny
| tn. Rev Rufus W Miller of Reading
Ri GUSTS clerk in one OF The city v
f. always on the lookout 10 make money 10y ~ smrs
on sure things end this Is story OF now su,e
thing went wronx On h rr, Inss,b in %ew-York OF
Henri George went TO see fellow clerk wno Wac
concd rs house with coS fn Sucks Gs'n 10 his
bets and attempts to craw our on mon the
c Gusts turned the The other Gpg man
E00d no, W., heard Of Georges death I'm tel You
S %ns s ss, %ss S voes Of5 sad
and he produced his ,g ten sM snTe The money
as n os and Gusts went away tckled TO death
At ne thought Of the sure thing he had seVera
OF an afternoon paper thu, Henry George the son on
ha9 akp his s. hsf .E.d but 'n h.
| now and he considers his tenner as good as lost
| philadelphia Record
Il (. sah tina, there are three times as many
teecher. employed In the Sunday-schoo!s IN Hassa-
chusetrs as are employed In the public SCHOOLS IN
| ,n,, state and The Congregationaist' says that
n.,,'..,o,l ,A,chins has reached a stage Of de-
yeopment when teachers In aaditioh 70 pe'S' 'i'''
have mental equipment
- the Debs colony In Tennessee is 70 be MADE
yantsrs ground Tor a Socialist propaganai u may
serve Inject some spirited probab'y
,baf ii mis- oony be ever established JUS Spinlns
T no. he eaa SO 'hs is i ne ripe sr the
! eve,ling process and will not readily take 10 the
radical innovations that IN" ssyyaiye rsope to
be found in IN country than those 81 Ienness ha
sna IL rhs destruction individual property
fights thar conservasm wouid pe mkely 10 asSer'
! verplanck Colvin Superintendent 81 he New-fork
IN ho,pi lrt,
| line between Hamilton and Iierkmer counties
| rhis lin. has never before been surveyed and II
! l. the superintendrnts intention 10 have II cs-
| tabished with such n degree OF accuracy mat II
| can never be disputed. and no pains are being
spared To do The party running ana working
the line is In charge OF John r. McGrath formerly
| Of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
and who had charge OF the first party sent to sur
vev the Alaska boundary The Superintendent has
iust commissioned Edwin Smith. also formerly Of
the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. and
who Is well known FOR his geodctic astronomi-
cal work determine the latitude OF the boundary
line between Hamilton and St Lawrence counties
at Long Lake Station which IL near the northern
terminus OF the boundary line between Hamilton
and Herkimer counties. Mr.. Smith has one OF the
instruments made for the Transit OF Venus Conn
mission and used in Chatham Island. in the South
Pacific Ocean, In 1874 II loaned to the New
York State Land Survey by the Navy Department.
A Reversed
down to dinner Mr.. Briggs said a biessn'. and Mrs
briggs asked m. II we didn't say a bessin at our
house an ! ssd no. we didn't but could say one
. She didn. T., ask &, yO %ia did sheF"
Good gracious, And what did you ssy?
sSs that % nde2 pa h sets Thes
Plain Dealer
1t is certainly something Of a tribute TO Ameri-
can educational institutions and scholars that when
some years ago. a graduate Of Harvard went to
Oxford and applied for admittance there to make
a special study Of Shakespeare for a year. he
tod: go back to Harvard and Professor Child.
They can teach YOU far more there than we can
here" II seems however that this opinion had
been expressed before even at time when Har-
ward and American colleges had not nearly at
tanned their present standard. for the elder Ed
ward Everett. in latter dated as far back as 1916
said writing from Oxford: II have been over two
months in England and am now visiting Oxford
having passed a week In Cambridge. There Is
more teaching and more learning In our American
Cambridge than there Is In both the English uni
versities together. though between them they have
four times our number Of students
The Coming Man.--"Hurroo!" exclaimed an en-
thusastic member Of the Cook County Democratic
''Kyarisr Harrison has been mated rr GSvn ts
av Tinnissee. President the United States an
s s ye ss % esn s BE sas il
The drouh IL so great In Westmoreand County
Penn. that water is selling at 50 cents a barrel
Many OF the streams polluted with sulphur
water from the coal banks. making them unnt for
use.
Yeast-A mans judged by the company he keeps
Crimsonbeak-Certainly
"And also by the cigars he keeps. presurnAy
'oh. no, by the cigars he gives away."-(Yonkers
Statesman.