New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-05
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Commodore Mevill, proposes. in order TO test the
question OF transpoar currents, TO send adrift a
number of specially constructed casks north or
Bchring Strait ard then attempt TO trace their
course Certainly" says 1.-THE Philadelphia
Press" 1.-THE experiment IS worth trying, and 1t
would be fitting were the money raised In Phila-
dclphla to furnish the casks. AZ TO sending them
adrift the United States Government vessels which
Will be called upon 10 do more active duty In Alaskan
waters than ever before might well aid In this
work In favorable summers run north or
Wrangel Island is but pleasant excursion. and
under very favorable conditions the casks could be
dropped off so far north as TO insure that they
would follow the chamberlain drift"
His Plea for Mercy.-In hog stealing case in a
Georgia justice court the Judge asked the prisoner
what ne had to say for himself
lie hestated a moment; then. stepping Forward
II stole da, hog jedge-yo' honner-but wants
YOU ter make de sentence light. kase he got way
rum less dan six times an sprain o TWO S legs
en- one arm 70 finally kotched MN en- got MN on
de nre,"-tAtlanta Constitution
Professor Lawrence Bruner. OF Nebraska. who
went to Argentina to study the grasshopper plague
there writes that he finds great swarrns OF insects
fully four inches long
n great deal himself who think they could walk
four miles an hour and very likely they could but
they would have TO move along very orskly TO DO
H. As matter OF fact. very few people indeed. do
walk four miles hour; three miles Is very falr
IT,.
walk fast II my recollection serves. the old com
mon time In the army carried man two ana hye;
elghths miles an hour, and quick time TWO ana
seven -elghths miles an hour'-(Boston Journal
Prohibition advocates in Hampshire ac-
knowledge the breakdown OF Prohibition in that
State which Is open and manifest and does not
admit OF dispute concealment. The Baptist
Convention at Manchester last week discussed the
whole question of temperance at length and adopted
a resolution declaring that I'VE View with con-
and regard II n n nuisance that ought to be sup
pressed" And I'VE note with great sorrow the
open violations OF the prohibitory law In our cities
and towns with the evident permission of our Com
mlss!oners Mayors ard police officials" The law
Is everywhere violated with the taclt approval OF
the officials charged with It's enforcement, and pub
lie opinion seems to acquiesce In It's violation.
Sad Moeting-Two wan. CHASTITY .forlorn spectres
'fet me pass!' exclaimed one OF the two with a
feeble attempt to be naughty and scornful Il am
II VIII" replied, the other: in hollow cough
am I'm The Heavenly Twins "-(Chicago Trb-
une.
At the meeting OF the Worcester Antiquarian So
cicty tho other day Senator Hoar said that when
ne was a boy In Worcester catechism was In
use OF which the following is n sample:
Where Is hell?
Under the earth-a place OF darkness.
Who live In hell?
The devil. his angels and bad men.
What do they do In hell?
They curse God and sin continually.
DO YOU deserve to go TO hell?
do
The other day Bangor man drove out into the
country to look for deer. He isn't professional
killer but he hoped to find game near home. He
tied his horse tree In the woods and. rife In
hand sailed into the forest where he crced about
Tor an hour Then after firing at what he thought
was a bull moose, he came up to find that he had
placed 4J-calibre projectle neatly in the bowels
OF his horse which presently died with Its harness
on.-(Kennebec Journal
1t Is generally thought that the practice OF hay
Ing bonnres on Election Day was first suggested
by the fact that 1t used to DO the custom In Eng
land to build bonhres Guy Fawkes Day. No
vember s. In Bristol. r. l.. II Is still the custom
to have bonfres that day.
ODE TO TAMMANY.
IT'S wondered at by poor and rich
How Tammany's cohorts get their money;
Zen though they never turn stitch.
Yet well they feast on milk and honey.
Some say they get II by strange means.
Through channels queer and dubious:
Each has his Views upon such themes
And all agree It's curious.
Lord only knows how they get II
In times as hard as these,
Though this may tell the secret.
(Keep II quiet. please)
-(Saturday Supper Table.