New-York tribune., 1899-02-17
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"The Kansas City Star" says there are fears that
the severe cold may have hurt the wheat crop
Nearly every one" IT adds. recognizes that noth-
ing can really be known about the subject unt me
cron starts 10 grow in the spring. But there Is 60
ing to be uncertainty about It for a month 10 come
with numerous claims and denals Of damage so
that the question probably Will make a feverish
and uncertain market through the remainder or
the winter It's effect prices will depend largely
on tho movement Of wheat II the farmers sho"
their belief in serious damage 10 the crop by hold
ing their grain they will get plenty OF assistance
from SPECTATORS in putting the prices up IT, on
the other hand the farmers should go on selling
freely. the speculators and the grain merchants
will put little faith in damage reports
Fxnensfve chanee-Incautousy he had mon
KEYED with a buzz-saw. and his arms had been am
putated about halfway between wrist ana e'oo%
Sku manufacturers OF artlhcal llinos nad niaus t'
good the shortage. however. and proVlded MIN
with the best limitations Of hands they could turn
This concern" he observed cheerfully. as they
2d 6gm Sev 99 h% addd two more bones to the
bill-Chcago Tribune
Years ago. when Mayor william W. Pearce Of
Waukegan. Ill. was president OF the Waukegan
Bachelors Club. he offered a ffy-dol.ar gold
medal 10 the first member Of the club TO become
the father Of twins. And the medal was awarded
to him last week
Won-Haggard. dishevelled. and with eyes blood
shot from excitement and loss of rest. the woman
Who had been playing al the fashionable Euro
pean gambling resort with VARYING success hour
after hour grew desperate and staked all her money
"Nademoiselie" said a bystander "are YOU 60
ing 10 risk everything you have in the world?
Il ami she exclaimed, wildly ,
She haZarded everything on single throw-on
single throw. mind you-and won.
And vet she woman.
Base. indeed. were the historian who would PAL
ter with facts and seek to bolster up an age-ong
SANDER against the sex In order 70 win me ap-
plause Of the tickle multitude'-'Chicago tribune
The North China Herald" says that the United
States has made Spanish rule in the Philippines
impossible "and the world looks to the Americans 70
substitute a better rule for it: they cannot leave the
islands to anarchy to the concert Of Europe.
which would be not very much better to hand
them back TO Spain would be to plunge them again
into an orgy OF blood and fire But after ALL the
Philippines are not such a monstrous acquisition
for such a country as the United States has be-
come"
New one or None Mrs Proudfoot-Yes. Mrs.
Proudfoots family over hundred years -
John Henry to get an heirloom ever since We moved
TO the city but he can't md any; except second,
hand ones. and won't have them.-Jewe!lers
Weekly
you need not believe" writes Kansas boy in
Manila. that US fellows all going to marry
over here. There amt any Of us SO fascinated as
we thought we would be with the languorous eyes
and other Oriental charms l wouldn't trade
curly headed Kansas girl for all the charmers on
this side Of the big water LOw-neckcd dresses get
to be awful common and disgusting when you can't
see anything else and don't think a girl looks Ike
a girl when her dress comes only TO her knees"
And YOU are busy. are you?" interrogated the
customer he paid his check to the restaurant
Busy Why. I'm so rushed don't get chance
10 go out 10 get bite to eat!' was the unguarded
repy.-(Yonkers Statesman
This is how the Chippewa Indians petition Con-
gress: 20 men. we to you because you are
the source OF all power You have a commission
sitting among who take $3 OF our money. ard
every evening when night falls sl3 are dead Abol-
ish that commission and every evening tl3 will be
made alive 20 We DO not want to he short and
left sitting naked the sands OF the lake shore"
His Peculiar View Doesn't It sometimes make
you gloomy 70 hear the WIND bowling about
NO" answered the man with careworn look
4 rather ike 10 hear II The Wind doesn't come
bin tell you you'll get arrested If you don't
Ill morning, away or the key and disgrace the
neiShborhOOd II howls because IL enjoys it But
] sometimes honestly wish that there was more
wind in this life and less people "-(Washington
Star.
No says the philosopher OF The indianapolis
Journal" Il don't believe in egislatins the
drink question. The time is coming when We viii
drinks can't keep his wits about him enough 10 be
an employer. and the non-drinking employers won't
give hun job: so the whole thing will settle Itself"
a novel industry in the shape Of a turtle farm
IS T. be established az Glcnolden. Delaware Coun-
~. by two Philadelphians, who have calculated
that there will be biz money in raising snappefs
for market. A tract OF ground consisting OF three
ard half acres has been rented the Calcon
Hook Road. and turtle ditches Will be prepared for
the abode OF the turtles, each ditch being three
feet wide and twelve feet deep The bitches Will
range In length from l25 10 800 feet and they WAL
all connect with ThOroughfare Creek. The con-
tract 10 dig the dtches has already been let The
farm Will be well stocked with turtles and the
conductors Of the enterprise figure that II Will not
snappers sold In the market TO restaurants and
caterers OF this city.-(Phiadelphia Record
monument to the Confederate soldiers who fell
the Franklin Chapter OF the Daughters Of the Con-
federacy. The unveilng Of the memorial shaft VIII
take place November l3 next. the anniversary OF
the battle General ClebuTne was among the 100
Confederates who were killed at Franklin
The retired contractor sighed as he got into his
dress suit and thought OF the elaborate dinner and
the opera that were TO come
some day. he said, I'm get real desprt. an
then TO you know what III do?"
something terrible. no doubt" replied his am
bilious wife
4 spose It wouldn't look well in print" he adj
mitted. but | can't help that What IN do viii
some old clothes. go out an come In by the back
way, an smoke a quarter-pound Of cut-up chewing
tobacco IN con pipe while I'm talking things over
WIN the coachman in the barn."-(Pittsburg Chron-