New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-07
TIE TALK Of THE DAY.

about the newly discovered rock In the Atlantic
Ocean. Early in May Captain L. Lloyd Of the
British ship Crompton found 1t at AZ degrees north
and 81 degrees 20 minutes west. 1t is about sixty
feet long from eight TO ten feet WIDE and awash.
with the exception Of piece in the centre, which
stands about eight feet high.
St. Simeon styltes sat upon his pillar, where he
had sat for the last forty years without getting
down. A strange-ooking object shot by him.
into breaking his forty years SILENCE. ..,a
That your re !erence, replied the wayfarer is
a new method Of locomoton which has just become
the fashion," g, GIL,
con- and he climbed down from his perch and
coaxed the wayfarer TO show him how 10 mount
his wheel.-(Washngton Capital
bicyclist named OBrlen. of San Francisco.
went into a store the other day ana said "ahter
buy thermometer"
The young man In charge smiled took a cheap
thermometer off the wall and sold 1t to O'Brien
for 81.
Where do We put II on?" he asked
The Joker tied 1t to the crossbar, and OBrien
pedalled off through the park.
Hey O'Brien!' shouted a passing acquaintance.
What's that you've got on your machine?'
"A thermometer.
What for?"
ITO tell me when I'm scorchn'," and O'Bren put
on squirt and bumped his back so mat ne co"io
read the mercurys rise.
No Inventor-"They do say that every American
NV husband.S said the fat lady, is an excep-
ton he the same old excuses for being I1 OUT
lato that used TO hear my father use -tlndiah-
apos Journal
A favori,e method Of generating electricity for
The lighting of a railway train is to put small
dynamo in the baggage-car and drive 1t with power
from the axle. But through tram Is otteh
broken up at important functions. and one or TWO
sleepers are switched off to connecting hnes, 'here
Is now a tendency toward the equipment OF each
,,,tb tic
torv attached The Pullman Company, for In
stance. is reported TO have tested this system ana
TO view 1t with favor.
The Main Point-"Here. come away from there.
said Perry Palette as Wayworn watson started 70
enter the barroom. They're onto me there. Last
| time I started in the barkeeper throwed nan
glass of dead beer. right in me face as soon as
"Di-dd YOU have time to git your face open?'
| asked Wayworn. stammering In his excitement
-(Cincinnati Enquirer
| Colonel f. r. Moses. of Great Bend Kan. says:
1--WE shall raise millions of bushels of wheat this
season and there Is no telling how much corn. 1t
| 10 lookng very fine now, and We hope TO have the
greatest crop in the West During the last two
| weeks we have had five hundred people come
into that part OF the State looking for work IN the
harvest fields. They came from Nebraska colorado
and Missouri and from different parts of our own
| State Every man has had job given him IN Inc
| fields where he can earn good living ana get eoou
| hoard while doing the work. IL looks very hne /
can tell YOU for Western farmers to be hiring
| hands again and rushing their work along IKE 'he!
dId in the good days when we had no Pops ana hard
| times II we are fortunate as to get our DIX
crops harvested and sold for fair prices TINS IAN We
hope to b. so well fixed that there will be no calam
| lty wall and therefore no tuneful song OF woe ior
| the Pops but it will he we'll for Kansas
Know All About Them-she had been to the
seashore and deeply interested In all that per-
| "Dd Won ever see a shark she asked.
well. should say so.' he answered. ~ D It
| a house and lot from one once on the ihs'ahch'
| plan "-(Chcago Post.
Three ssters-Perl. Lulu and Zoe Griffin-are the
| editors and propretors Of a daily newspaper IN
| Norvvle Mo- 1t is the only daily newspaper in
| the WITH Congress District outside of ST. Joseph
| How Is 1t that your sons head seems to be
drawn to one side? Only IA year ago he was
% cam only account for It through the fact that
| he did his counting Oh "A tandem -uDetrot Free
| Press.
| Mr. Moody stll stands by Jonah. In his address
a, Northfeld the other day he said: II want every
college man here know that believe In the story
OF Jonah and the whale Reporters. put 1t down
| that | will never let man come on this platform
to speak II he doesn't believe that the whale swal-
| lowed Jonah The devil Is never so happy as when
| he gets a man not to believe in any part of the
bible II YOU are going 10 overthrow tho story OF
/ Jonah YOU have got overthrow the story OF
| chrst's resurrection
| Bondley-How did Wall-st get Its name? There
| is wall there , =, - -
! Stocksand-Yes. there Is. went to II about n
month after / began 10 neutrality-suspicious..
| Frenchman, NJ. jacques p. Solari. has COM
| plled a record Of Queen Victoria's reign In sixty
| sentences composed OF exactly sixty letters each
! tere Is an extract from II:
| Some direct descendants Of the Queen now wear
and others will succeed to-
Three imperial. two royal. and many princey
| and ducal crowns over Europe
Her Majesty Victoria is sixth British sovereign
| Of the House OF Hanover
| And the sxteth ruler OF the House Of England
! from Egbert. the first King
! And she IL the first of the sixty who rule the
chief countries of the world.
IAN her Catholics sing loudly: Domino Salvum
Fac Regina Nostra Victoria
sixty millions Mohammedan subjects regard her
! duty as another calpha,
Has sixty principal possessions scattered over
| every part of the globe
Mabel-Mr Sweetser tells me | am the only
| woman In the world he cares anything about
Edith suppose he doesn't class May Goldina
/ among women l know he always calls her al
| angeL-(Boston Transcript.