New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-16
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The Saginaw River. In Michigan. IS eighteen
miles long and It's banks have been produced
1900 600 0o feet OF pine boards. The Tta bawasse
River and ITS tributaries empty their waters into
the Saginaw. and these streams alone have con-
trited Is coo 40 n1 feet Of pine logs to satisfy the
appetite Of the sawmills this river The pro-
duction of lumber reached high water mark IN
1882 the output for that year being l.ol0oooD feet
It IS now only little $40 orDG0 feet annually.
The first salt company In the State was organized
q Saginaw In 1853 and the first years output was
~ barrels. This the beginning Of the salt
industry Of Michigan which amounts to
100000 barrels annually From 1850 TO the close
of 1898 there have been produced in Michigan $500 :
o0 barrels of salt The Saginaw bituminous coal
industry was established three years ago. and
there now nine coal mining companies In op-
GRAFTON. with lifting capacity Of 10000 tons daily.
Memory stimulus.--As he was about to sink for
the third time, he of course recalled everything In
his past life.
His countenance radiated with JOY
All" he exclaimed ''since now remember what
It was my wife told me to get downtown to-day. I
have no further occasion to drown
The frivolous world saw him. wondered A mo-
ment. perhaps. and thought Of him no more.-(De-
troit Journal
who talks politics these days. asks THE En-
pora Gazette" GO into a group Of men Of either
party or OF both parties. and start discussion on
any side of any political question. and see the
gives a tinkers dam for gold No one talks ad
valorem. No one knows what Az grains fne
No is Interested in the endless chain
in the Treasury From the bright lexicon Of
Kansas the word per capita has been expunged.
Why is this? Simply because people have
grudge against the times, and not trying to
explain them. When man has good wife he
never tries 10 account for her goodness. It's only
mean times and mean women that get talked
about"
Mr.. Myles-Did your wife And anything to occupy
her time at the Springs this summer?
M sav shs @ So scen sr ors W
day changing her dresses and three hours putting
The Rev. A. ". Hobson. pastor Of an independent
church In Lyons. Neb Is known as 'the Man In
Red" from the fact that he always breaches in a
red robe. when people ask me-" he says what
the red robe means tell them that they have
made the same inquiry exactly that the Prophet
Isaiah did $50 years before Christ I am not per-
mitted to divulge the secret Of the red robe at
present Though 1t will gradually be done as the
days go by, further than to say. whatever else II
means for the present it is emphaticay a aues-
ton mark. viz, why art thou red In thine an
pare? isaiah kill. o. AS SUCH for the present
let it remain Every one instantly asks the oues
ton when they see It, lady recently asked me
Are there any others than YOURSELF / answered
Yes, many In all parts of the world She again
asked DO your followers believe as YOU do and
wear tn" red robe? answered: Madam I have
no followers they all the followers OF the Lord
Jesus Christ and will. at His command, put on the
robe of red
"A SONG OF DEGREES"
sing Of man who called John Smith
A name many people are satisfied with"
a quite modest degree
So he sat in the shade Of "A college tree
And he came back John Smith. A. B.
} ., h Smith A. Bna pretty good name
An An a pnnstHs g Is. Be- B.
so he wrote TO a college Enclosing a w.
And 1t came the next day. he. he!
The Rev. John Smith A. B.. D. D..
high sounding name. We must air agree
F En-, he he put %ou H1 the feel ele9 fire..
He would stop with Phi. b.
BY i this time 2, his bis name had grown long tail:
Ny neighbor or me:
And shook It about most violently,
men down came an LII, d.
-, sighed poor Smith IT can see nothing more
But the public In glee
Made quick repartec
And tied TO the east OF his latest degree
very suggestive n. e. 'e''e'
-Gndianapolis News.
says The Hagerstown (Md) MALI: IN tho
heavy wooden shutter on the UpdeRrafY Building 4.
great mimic ball that was disclosed by Alonxo
Heirerstay painting there II sticks from one side
OF the shutter to the other. Mr. Upderran wall
remembers when that bullet lodged there th,rty
six years ago. Union soldier skirmishins here
was standing on the Updegran pavement then
Dorsey corner. when q bullet came Nd from Nc
Laushlin's stable and passed through him. II IN
In the shutter. and stayed there. The man was
carried to the Hagerstown Bank. where a silk
strand was drawn through the wound. He VA,
then taken TO the Washington House. which was
a hospital. and later he recovered"
Patrice I'm the restaurant)-See how rurrv A..
man Is acting at the other table? '' '""'
- CAM ra.i,,, " .n ne doing II for'
YIN ms or wants me TO pass the hutter-- Yonk