New-York tribune., 1899-01-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

when Joseph Chanberlain's son. J. Austen
Chamberlain was first elected to Parliament. an
old servant Of the family accosted him. with tears
OF congratuation in his eyes: This is great
day sir" he said. when think that helped
TO nut your grandmother and grandfather in their
cofin. II ma.es me feel proud OF you this day"
K,pling sent Captain Robley. d. Evans. Of tho
Iowa a get OF his worKs' ana Win them these
verses:
And / do things with a pen.
But you sit up N n coming tower.
Bosaing eight hundred men
zopbaum takes care Of his business
And take care OF mine:
But you take care Of ten thousand tons,
Sky-hooting through the brine.
zorbaum can handle his shadows.
Ard can handle my style;
Rut YOU can handle ten-nch gun
To carry seven mile
To him that hath shall be given.
And that. why these books are sent
To the man who has lived more stories
Than Zogbaum or could invent
-(Chicago Times Herald.
coazooks-poes your minister believe in the pol
icy OF expansion?
zounds-I should say ne does. His text yester-
dav consisted OF two words. and he made a sermon
out Of 1t that 1t took him an hour to deliver.
That Kind OF Man He was man whom
Most OF them. at least. They always do, when n
man comes around and orers to deliver so worth
and the balance oellvery-tCincinnau Enquirer.
Israel Zangwill says he once overheard some
1ews discussing him. Hes not clever" said one.
III. "a one Of US and knows all about US. OF
course he can write OF us. But there's Besant.
He's written a book about u.s. and doesnt know US
at all That's what call clever
Diplomatic Diccipline.-"That naval oficer thinks
he knows 1t all. doesn't he?' asked the German
His conduct certainly warrants the suspicion,
have his own way whenever and wherever he
pleases. -, 49,. .
well. I don't want to hurt his feelings person
ally but we'd better do something to hold down
ms ot one Of our warships and send him to
Manila "-(Washington Star
This ,s the way IN which THE Centralia (Kan)
Journal editor answers "A question propounded by
a stock raiser: "A rural subscriber asks: DO hogs
paw We know that good many don't They
take the paper several years and have tho post
master send It back. marked refused. Such a
breed IS usually two-egged and Improbable"
"And were you homesick in Porto Rico my SOM"
asked the Chicago father OF his soldier son.
NO father. | was not As soon as | heard the
island had been annexed to the United States felt
ns n IL we're already a suburb OF Chicago."-
Nonkers Statesman
The bus drivers OF London tied a blue and
amber ribbon their whips In memory OF the late
Baron Ferdinand Rothschid. Blue and amber
were the sporting colors Of the Baron. who for
many years had been In the habit OF giving a brace
OF pheasants at Christmas to the bus drivers
WHATS that button you're wearing" asked the
voung thing Not Sons OF the American Revolu-
tom -. ~.
said the major r should sss S.sha sns mot se du @
ward and visible sign Of the largest military society
In the United States.
what's It's name? ,,
society of the First Man up San Juan HILL
philadelphia tress
A bill has been introduced into the French Cham
nor making signed articles In the press compulsory.
No pseudonymes will be permitted: each article must
hear the writer's real name NJ Emile care. HIM
sef I, Journalist. who introduced II. thinks the
adoption OF the hill would avert misunderstandings.
,uch as that OF Nine. Psulmier In shooting the
,.-orv man hut II IL believed that much water
is likely to run under the Pont Neuf before II II
passed