New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

I'VE tried to keep the railway carriage 10 our
selves from Liverpool to London. writes Souhe
bride quoted by THE Troy Times" The steamer
wa, so crowded we really had not had moment 70
ourselves At Busby / think II was. the guaro
opened the door and. In spite OF fred y sco"'''
lifted a small girl into our compartment mdh"e
a lot OF apologies about having no place else 10 Pu.
her She was a real little tow-headed Enghsh s,'i
about seven and she sat down on the eose u VIZ
seat and stared about her.
what Ia the matter Miss Victoria? asked freo'
who is the most good-natured man In the word
81 don't see the birds said the small GIRL plant
lively.
"'Birds? What birdsT asked Fred
".When came from my other train. your suaro
said to my guard. "Shove her In along VIII '''e '
birds" Where they?
Didn't Appy.-Assessor-The object Of the new
law Is TO make the personal properly Ply ~ ne,
share of the tax and lift part OF the ourdeh OIL
CapltaIist Gwho has just scheduled half million
in stocks and bondsYes but out, c c6mopt me by
anv such talk as that!-(Chicago Tribune.
"rbs R,ddeford CMe) Record" recalls the story of
the disapnearance sixty years ago. OF three-year-
old John Johnson of Lower Biddeford The little
fellow was playing with his brothers and sisters
one afternoon when suddenly they missed hln'
All efforts TO find a clew to his whereabouts WE'RE
futile. and finally nearly every decided that
he had been stolen. Thirty forty years after
ward a party OF Indians camped in Bddeford and
a sister Of the missing Johnson saw among them
a man she believed to be her long-lost orother'
Her parents also sure the man, VINO was
called John Glossan, their child but he him.
self did not believe It. and the Indians could not
or would not throw any light on the subject. He
had married an Indian woman and again went
eway with them, but later he became convinced
that he was not OF them. and came TO MS
family He now lives in Hollis on farm
somewhat similar experience was that OF Joseph
Wilbur OF Saco who stolen by Indians when
a child and later restored 10 his family in Sace
fsybStnw a her engagemen ring)-What viii you
charge me for stone to match that one had %
Jeweller-My dear miss II would be ye to nara 10
match 1t perfectly and might cost you sop-tJe"-
elers' Weekly.
General Funston's name does not lend itsen
readily TO rhyme but THE Cleveland Plain Dealer
tackles the job in the following lines:
Up rose Fred Funston.
And swift did funston
With ready gunston,
And by onceton
The Kansas sonston,
Saw how twas donestun-
And then twas wonston,
Hooray for Funston!
In an address to the matrculating students OF
the University of Bonn DR.. Roster expressed sur
nr,se that German students. who proud and
Jealous Of their academic liberty should submit TO
the sense ess club laws which require them TO drink
certain number of pots OF beer on stated days
every week It is custom in the students clubs
to SLATE" every freshman who fails TO absorb the
| prescribed quantity of liquor, and many youth Is
carried out from under the table amid the dersion
| Of his comrades while the man who swallows the
largest number Of pots OF beer is solemnly declared
| the hero OF the corps These beer sessions, ne
says, have ruined the minds and bodies Of many
| promising young men, and 1t Is strange that they
should not long have disappeared 81. Co.,
observant men are calling attention to the De,
| signs of automobiles and remarking tnat none OF
| the makers able to get away from the style
of vehicle that has been designed 10 run oehna "a
instance contrivances that originally intended
to protect the driver from the a horse ps the
automobiles being horseless, must also be hooness
has designed an automobile with whip socket but
il seems likely that some one Will as the Styles nui-
DENT IN the machinery it is perhaps we'll to have
the dashboard and the whip socket pair OF
~ The carriage might prove useful occasionally
should discover that his gasoene or cOmPpessed
| worcester Gazette.
THE Chicago Tribune" tells this story about sem
stor Cullom; Just at the busy time in the after
| noon when the crowds from Che departments
| hacked the cars a tired-looking man with PAIN
full limp came In with the crowd at the Fifteentn-
ar transfer station and stood Clnging 10 strap
inst IN front OF Senator Cullom. The Senator
! looked I'D and seeing the weary face. instantly
rose and offered his seat The man demurred The
sena tor insisted
"sit down. sit down." said he. cheerily you
mustn't stand sit down"
The man sank into the seat, and the tail ILL
noisan contented himself with strap. From ne
meath a great poppy laden hat the bright eyes OF
little girl. near whom he stood, peered up at him
sagerv Az last he looked down and saw her
won't you take my seat?" she said politely.
The Senator smiled down at her and shook mis-
| head
mo thank you. child ne said You mustn't
aver give I'D your seat a man. 1t sets bad ex-
| ample
In the work done by seven-year -oid ana TEL EEL.
year-old BOYS AT the Thomas Hoyne Manual ram III
| Ing School Chicago, of the features OF tne
| work is the making OF relief maps from paper pup
| Bundles OF old newspapers are torn INTO sniaIl
strips and placed in pail OF water 70 SOAK over.
| night A stout boy with sharp stick then attaSks
the mass and thoroughly churns the paper until II
| becomes pulp. The material has been fouhd 10
serve admirably for modelling purposes, ana con-
tinent in miniature. with mountains, lakes Iive1Is
| and vaiIeye can be moulded by the young puplls
with surprising exactness. The pulp map Is aIlowea
| 70 dry and is then mounted on a large piece OF
| cardboard Supervisor r. T. Beardsley or the man,
| nal training department has one or these mounted
| mans on exhibition at the Board OF Education
/ rooms painted and colored, and II has encited
| much favorable COMMUNICATIONS News