New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-31
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Last summer" says a telephone manager OF
Chicago. "a big portly. smiling but excited man
rushed In and asked II he could reach Evansville,
Ind by phone. lie was assured that he could.
and I'm about two minutes he disappeared In a
booth TO talk to his wife. Well. he talked about
fifteen minutes Finally he bounced out OF the
box sapplng his thigh They're on me, gentle
men he said I'll be RICH, back He darted out,
and In two minutes was back with box Of as
gool cigars as I smoked. It's a boy! he en-
claimed and he's got about as good lungs as ever
heard ut close range" Then he told the story. He
had to be absent from home, and n telegram had
lust come notifying him of the new arrival He
had rushed into the office. called up his residence
and Insisted that the nurse bring the baby 10 the
telephone and make it laugh or cry. 1t cried and
he heard 1t three hundred miles away"
he has settled down to burning the midnight oil
quite regularly. but as happen TO know that he
in I am afraid he refers to his bicycle lamp
Cincinnati Enquirer.
There Is a sawmill In Grandn. Mo. many de-
partments OF which are In charge OF women. There
ls a woman in charge OF the engine. One Of the
rooms where the big saws are operated Is man.
aged by women The lathe room is also populated
with femninlty. and the machines of all sorts are
handled nv them In the rooms adjoining force
OF Young women is constantly employed. fling and
getting the in shape for work The care OF
the ma ,hinery is in their hands and II is said they
are quite as adept and competent 10 handle 1t
as any force yet employed In the mill
He Urembngly,-I have one last wi-wish to ask
y,u before we part In an-anger forever.
She (sobbngly)-Wha-what IL II. GeO-George?
He-Wi-will you me-meet me next Th-Thursday
she"I wwill, George.-CTit-B
A French ecclesiastic has written to THE London
Times saving that the next great change In the
,.illh . tho - H.
law of clerical celbacy The movement, he thinks
Nigh, well start In this country under the lead Of
Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland. but will
take time The present Pope will hardly indorse
IT, nor can the French ecclesiastcs take up just
now When II does come. however. the writer
prophesles a large exodus OF Anglican clergymen
to ton the Church OF Rome.
A Rare Jewel-"My wife," said the young man
In earnest tones rs a iewel!'
They all say that" sad the elderly man. speak
Ing apparently to the wall
''But | know. OF course you won't believe IT,
without offering single suggestion" -Undiana po-
lis Journal
Men who are predisposcd to he bald will not be
able 10 take much consolation from the discovery
by NJ Sahouraud OF n microbc which he terms
the bacillus OF seborrhca. found In rounded
masses In the upper third Of the hair follicle"
He asserts that this bacillus affects the "seba-
ceous glands OF the scalp. where II produces de-
pi,itaton, or badness; in other words, the ar
fccted follcle Gies. He adds that scales and
crusts that formed the ''seborrheal head are
due TO the superposltion OF othe- microbes, but
here they do not, as a rule. cause acne" There Is
a little grain OF comfort In this fact The mocha
nism nv which the bacillus causes badness. hs