New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-20
THE TALK or THE DAY.

THE TALK OF THE DAY.
ssvs n CORRESPONDENT Of THE Chicago Pos.":
THE lift in the Hone-K Kong hotel is contor.s-
HE bu, {. takes ten minutes mako the round
trip Of five stories up end five stories down.
Ling bellT ne asked with grin after Rad
been pushing the button for eight long minutes
".No' said. never touched The bell. How fast
can you go? I asked the decorated man!pula,or %
the rope He was logged in white satIn trimmed
with red.
lift 60 belly fast he said proudly. explained
20 him how our elevators IN Chicago shot up.
Whz. He shook his head
"No safoer he replied holding on TO the rope
with both hands.
Nonsense, No ore ever gets hurt Informed
him.
"'Mellcans too fast he replied. with a grave
expression. die young Go fastee UP bad head"
Little Eddie-Is It proper TO call batle-shp
mSSn r
Li;,e Fade--ls the Texas n man-of-war7
PaDa-Cf course.
LM,le Eddie.Then why "a you say. "sae ana
Papa after deep study)-You mustn't ask stch
questions when ladies' are present.-(Chcago News.
It is said that the King OF Italy is the only
European monarch OF the present time who has
been wounded in battle. He was slashed with a
sabre by an Austrian soldier at the battle OF Gus
,ozzo IN which the Italians were vanquished and
he would probably have been killed or taken pr!s-
oner had no, his fathers officers forced him TO
leave the field. N.n
In France-Of course they tarried while n
France beautiful France and there they X'si t
a gnol gaol is much the same as jail. put
Wh fs %"G 3hy asked lis that prisoner with the
That" replied the guard. IS who has been
convicted OF treason.
These are those who know him 10 be innocent
in the corridor Just beyond was 0EG oe sacs
Of Justice. with brass beetsteaK oouNu Over e"eA
eye.-(DetrOit Journal
That wire-rope tramway which was 10 have been
set up in the Chilcoot Pass two months ago had
not I'D 10 about March I. been built owing 10
the bad weather In the mountains. 4 correspond
ent of 1.-THE Engineering and Mining JournaI says
"A great many people who contemplated gong
over the mountains by way OF Dyea and Chicoot
Pass are now hauling their freight to Lake Ben
nett by way OF Skaguay and White Pass
Tired--"The children wish ne 10 ask you TO Yen
them some fairy stories" said the politicians VIE.
My dear" was the reply. II can't do H. have
must have some relaxation from the routine OF
business. "-(WashinSton star.
What could be more pathetic" asks Ire
Spokane Spokesman Review" than the spec'sc'e
daily presented in this city. when the oNeriana
trains move through with their burden OF eager
,ovous and deluded humanity making for the
honnv gold-seekers are passing through Spokane
At the rate OF from three hundred 10 five hundred
daily For the most part. they are young me'.
often mere boys. from the farm. the counter a"'
tho factory Many OF them never beheld
mountain until they entered upon their presem'
Journey Few of them have borne burdens upO.
their backs or waded icy streams. or navlsa'eo
tcmnes,uous lakes At the undertaking they are
facing they are worse than tyros. They are mere
children Not one I'm a hundred knows what ne "
going against. The pathos will come In the unue'
ce!ving-when hope has burned low ana the usy
truth Is before them; when many or theh' s
break down on the terrible trails. and some ~.
them shall die far from their home ana kna'e'
STYLES Of Fiction-"Yes." said ,he man VITA 'ae
heavy gold watchchain, he didn't get "'o"S ="
To what do you attribute the difference !" your
We wasted his time building castles IN ne az
while | went ahead and planned maps OF Doom
towns "-(Washington star.
During our absence from the Office Ned"eSua,
evening last" says Georgia editor, some W.
minded person. thinking that We were seated :.
our desk fred load OF buokshot thr"usn 0
window. But. rs n kind. protecting Providence
Yould have t. the entire load was received
stranger who was waiting for us IN our 0h'ee
There Is no trace Of the assassin. ana ~ '"'
writing the stranger who SO fortunately hleu oa'
place al the time Is too weak TO talk Ihus - q"
nj ne midnight assassin roleu Inc i'i" WV
vide"
81 think shall have to discharge my ofiice o'"
WHAT'S he matter with him.
All there for him to do AZ the onlce - 70 ssrs
off the sheets once month from the 'S ,s ~
hanging on the wall and when ne tore tpe"
on March he kicked because February WIS '"
a short month "-(ChiCago Tribune.
4 Boston man who refuses to accept the ihV"e m
process Of photography az an improvement y So
taking dasuerreotypes. as he has been doi's ~
tho last fifty years. lie says that they reHi"'" 49,
n,ost correct nkenesses yet produced. ana ne w"
business of suifcien, volume 10 warrant MS s"S-
Ing hts hobby.
AZ the Baby Show-A woman pecped INTO va seysn
cubator where the Incubator baby, now ave
months cd and hne healthy child. spenns. 70
weeks of It's early NE. And this woman ss'. LAO
another who Was with her, and came 70 Ioon , see
througn the glass cover OF the box i uom ',aks
any baby IN there. | suppose we nave s1s w lew
their word for IL that there Is one irt who
steps distant the babys good foster-inSS.n a weeks
had tended the lamps during those nhhJI.n GER
went on rocking the happy baby. from 1Do,ldnt
tanly she should not be separated, ,aid
let anybody else touch the lamps Enc T,,,s story
friend. and then she told shocking NV rsnt 100
OF Incubator baby" whose lamps Ms' GO strange
well trimmed and burning. IL Is woIiu y. strange
accidents and Infants come Ia for the" 81"
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