New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-12

ing that such fine water-power could turn enough
mil Tneeis sr 10 sri ~ meal ."' cut"
Il don't think" said the poet that you and
'i Il i know it." said the practical man 80 I'm
going to dinner Where are s yor SONG ing, .,s, how
and where ri get dinner "-tAtlanta constitu-
ton
woman is never afraid to marry a man who
Medocrity can talk. but It takes genius to act
He who reads can't always run; the book fire.
When a woman can make pretty gestures l she
knows she doesn't need tooth 10 ped he feels lone
some until his wife has coaxed him to say that IL
A woman's idea of making home attractive is TO
fill 1t fuu OF crazy little tables which fal over
when man looks at them-tCnicago hecotu'
The Washington correspondent of "The Chicago
Record" says: IAN orange tree that VIII grow ana
bear fruit as far north st. Louis and Phila-
delphia is promised by the officials OF the Agri-
cultural Department. The destruction OF orange
crops and groves recent years through frosts IN
Northern Florida directed the attention OF score
tary Wilson to n search for some measure OF re-
lief for the owners who have been sunerms
financial loss. He has been experimenting the
crossing of the Florida orange and the Japanese
trifoliata a hardy variety OF fruit. and now has
several thousand OF the hybrid plants. which VIII
be set out during the present spring. me experts
believe that the orange will survive frost ana
a moderate amount of cold, and are confident that
the experiment will result in producing trees In
which the exceIlency OF the Florida orange VIII
be combined with the hardness Of the Japanese
plant. II the experiment succeeds the Department
will materially assist In revivng the orange Indus
try, not only in Florida. but in other Southern
States and will at the time assure the orange
eaters Of unfailing supply"
His Own Undoer.-"Pnkney Perkins is all broke
,sWbat'a tho pnatter1'
He was arguing with some other men against
that one-dollar Jeffersonsn dinner; and pulled out
"a package OF ifteen-cent meal tickets with MS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Record.
ut was in 1884," says THE Cornhill Magazine
that Hicks. the Cornish w.t. first made a county
a witty raconteur In that year Sir
Samuel Spry. who had been member for Bodwin
since the great Reform BILL lost his seat and In a
petulant mood took legal proceedings against Hicks
on the ground that he had abused his official posi-
ton to influence voters at the polls. When Hicks
called upon to state what he had to say in
his defence, he asked leave of the Court to Illus
trate his position by story. His request being
assented TO- he stated how few days previously
he had been to n lad whom he knew well. who
was laid up from a fall from vicious donkey.
which had kicked out all his front teeth.
THE lad, said Hicks. had taken the matter in
the most kindly way, and had said 10 him: 'Tisn I
the fall Mr.. Hicks. and 'tlsn't the vally OF the
teeth what annoys me; but It's the nashty. gashly,
wishous disposition OF the jackass.'
Sir Samuel Spry sprang up In the we'll OF the
court in fury. and exclaimed: He has called me
a jackass! The Court was convused with laugh
ter, and Hicks was promptly and fully acquitted
OF the trumpery charge brought against him"
A policeman is thus quoted in THE Philadelphia
Press: THE other night about II o'clock. man
running to me. and said that the engineer
Of a big store near my corner had run pin in his
leg. 1t seemed a ridiculous thing to bother a
policeman about. but thought would investigate.
1 found the engineer suffering from stroke OF
paralysis. He begged me TO send him to the hos
pial at once. but before doing so turned valves
and attended to the boiler, under his direction
Finally his friend-the man who had come for me
hunted up another engineer, and then I shipped
the stricken man 10 the Pennsylvania Hospital
Suppose that engineer hadn't happened to have
a friend visiting him that night He would have
lain there helpless. with his furnace doors closed
and steam gradually making up to the danger
point"