New-York tribune., 1899-06-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

1,rarL Nortl, ~ Kansas now In the Philippines,
writes horre: "Our company went on scouting
trip one day and saw many natives all Oh us'
they had cloth on their head they wouid Jerh '"'
off iust the same | think that this goes 10 s"o"
that they have been harshly ruled. We Americans
arc not used 10 having people bow TO us IKE we
were lords and kings. At first did not thhK tha'
this island was very good but have changed my
opinion great deal The last ten miles Oh our
campaign has been in one OF the best valieys tha'
have ever seen 1t Is just like the bottom iahu ..
Kansas only better. There are any nuInoer Vi
rivers both great and small. The land Is very Ter
tile. and under modern cultivation would grow al
most anything The plants never dry up as not as
II gets and there is always moisture In the grouhu.
II they would offer me a quarter-section "ouu
think many. times before would come home
During the all-night sitting Of the New south
Wales Legislative Assembly this week the Premier,
Der the Opposition benches The inSaen, ny be de
not escape notice as the rotund ati,uoe OF com ane
PEELED attention from all parts OF the House; ,S.
Eventually it was satirically demanded why the
Ing on the Opposition side OF the House Mr.. Bar
ton promptly defended his new colleague BY ask asking G
WHY should he not be here? Is he not no" my
sleeping partner?"-(sydney Telegraph.
The announcement having been made in Paris
that NJ Peschard a Police Commissary, possesses
a real Raphael the "Gauois" the other day printed
his explanation. follows: zone day received
from my fathern-aw a panel-for II IS question
Of a panel and not a canvas-representing the Nir-
gin holding in her arms the infant Jesus. My
father-in-law died without offering any expiana-
ton about the panel, and l placed II above the
mantelpiece where one of my friends an amateur
In art noticed 1t day. My friend caretuHy
brushed the dust from II! and then declared 10 me
that possessed a work OF value-a Raphael. some
time later I saw in illustrated journal an exact
reproduction OF my picture. taken from WORK OF
Raphael in the National Gallery at London
went to London, where learned that the virgin
attributed 10 Raphael was only reproduction OF
the work OF the master. Where Is the original OF
this work? Nobody has been able TO tell me. Is II
In my hands? ] am inclined to think So Con-
noisseurs to whom l have shown my picture say
that IL Is a Raphael but. Of course am not yet
certain that II is So.
D,sanpointed -Sylyta-Whats the matter? You
lcok as If you had lost your last friend. MaudeIi
u,ent n see fortune teller yesterday and she told
W. 80 oo,nO 70 marry a tall dark man. The
only real rich fellow know Is dumpy ara mas req
halr.-tChicago Times-Heraid
Since the bloodshed In Paris over the question OF
Hamlet's adposty the French papers have been
studying the finer shades Of meaning o, the Eng
lish word fat" and the probabilities OF what
Shakespeare meant when he used II. The journal
des Debats says there is meaning that II mas NOT
seen discussed II recalls that when the Queen
says. he's fat" Hamlet is fencing. II declares
that the English the word In speaking or atm
letes TO denote not obesity but that the subject Is
not in form" 1t thus may appear that Hamlet
may have been Of any degree OF corpulence; ne
might have been slender and at the same time
fat"
few davs ago II was stated that the Rev. Albert
pr,chlos until recently pastor OF the German Re-
formed Church in North Lberty-st.. had placed
necuIar sign in the front window OF house In
Calley-st which he rented from Gottleb Buckhard
The sign then referred TO contained the words,
House Haunted -,
Yesterday afternoon the passers along that thor
oughfare were startled by another pacard which
made it's appearance In an upper front room, con-
taining the following inscriptions