New-York tribune., 1899-02-12

Fuzzy hear your minister is mycologst.
Wuzzy-Wel you have heard wrong he is
Calvnist.
The Agricultural View-Uncle Joe Ueading)-.,The
De Beers diamond mines yielded over two million
aunt Aunt 'f Hetty"Law sakes Mrs De Beers ought
-Jewclers' Weekly.
II Is said that the total receipts from the taxes
on mixed -four since August H. 1S9S. when the law
won't into effect have been sj1S9. while tho OK
nense Of collecting this sum has been $500. The
recoipts in December SAIL and the cost Of coll
Letting $3.50. But tho law Is not revenue
measure but ono 70 prevent fraud, that fact cuts
no figure.
Rn-How about that Sound steamer?
jill guess shes all right. There's rumor
Rill-Thats good: ! heard there WAS rumor
Speaking Of the Canadian-American treaty now
being formulated. "Thc Toronto Globe says: THE
interest Of honest law-abidng people in Canada is
in the main the same as the interest Of honest,
law-ahidng people in the United States; and there
are common enemies. more formidable than span
iards and F.pinos. agains, whom II VIII be neces-
sary to make common cause. In the broader sense
our ncighbor stands to gain by the healthy devel-
opment Of Canada. and Canada stands to gain by
the healthy development, which need not be con
founded with expansion Of her noghbor.
win the man OF another girls choice.
The man who ridcuics honesty. virtue and truth
may not be insane. hut he might Just as well be.
II Is said that riches have wings: the price OF
ostrich feathers would Indicate that wings also
Fair weather friends are plentiful hut few are
willing to hold umbrella over You during storm
Whenever a girl begins to lecture Young man
on economy she is preparing 10 launch her bark on
tho sea of matrimony. ny.-Whicago News
Tho historic Washington elm. in Cambridge.
-. nho hrau
ton took command Of the Continental Army Is
rapidly dccayng. and the Cambridge Park Com
missoners say that f. will be- impossible to It
more than fcw years longer short time ago
workmen went over the tree and cut of con-
siderable amount o. dead wood. and there T. not
very much LEFT 20 keep alive. II Is intended 10
make a thorough overhauling Of the tree in the
spring. and to do everything possible TO preserve H.
The Re-. Charles Edward Locke, bright and
shining ornament or Mcthodlsm. was being shown
paan admirer Gazing nterestedy at the stars
painted on the ceiling. the visitor inquired II they
had any special significance.
on" was the reply. you know what the Bible
says lie mall ,hc s,ars @Ie9 Ms,o,,., ro
you kno" the difference between your Church and
'Qh, don, know said the Episcopal adhcrent
lyon put your stars I'm the ceiling. We put ours
in the pulpit" was the answer -(Baltimorc News.
new word applied TO Americans says The 81
Louis Globe Democrat" f. "quinophaglsts." indl-
eating that they consume more quinine than any
other people I'm the world. The total imports ex-
cecd l500OO0Gl grains a year. average con-
sumption Of twenty grains to each lnhabltant. Its
price TO importers within twenty-five years has
fallen from g an ounce 10 6 cents. Two-thlrds OF
the quinne from the cinchona trees o, Java
planted by the intelligent Dutch Governors since
1852
The Boston Transcript" says that japanese
who student at Harvard not long ago was
asked 10y some Of his American fellow students
| to teach them some japanese words" lie began
by giving them Good morning I'm japanese. This
phrase Is represented In Japanese 10y word which
In English equivalents cannot be closely repre-
senicd than by the word ohio" The boys were
Interested and promised 10 remember IT,
Next morning. when the Japanese student came
10 the lecture-room. he foupd q group OF the boy,
gathered TO give him the morning sautaiion I'm
japanese.
Pennsylvania" =" shouted one OF them
Kentucky" yelled another
Virginia" New Hampshire.' Rhode Island,'
still Others called
But not one of them said ohio" II was the
American Idea of great Joke. The young Japanese
was much edited and made a note OF IL.