New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-23
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The cloisters OF the Church OF ST. Ethelredq
Ely Place. Holborn. London. now being used for
a purpose very different from that for which they
were originally Intended Father Jarvis the head
OF the House OF Charity there has placed them at
the disposal OF any cyclists who may wish TO store
their machines while attending divine service. In
Essex the unwonted spectacle Of monks riding
bicycles may be daily witnessed. The franciscan
fathers who have charge OF the mission at Bralntree
have also TO attend TO the spiritual needs OF two other
missions at long distances and. in order that they
may accomplish this work, they have. with the per
mission OF Cardinal Vaughan. invested In cycles. on
which they ride from one mission TO another.
Distinguished Cuban Patri0t-It T. an INSULT to
thought wanted to be repaid for our sacrifices
In the cause Of liberty.
American Dlplomat-But. suppose We should offer
Distinguished Cuban Pstrot-well OF course. we
would be open 10 any business proposition ike ha
--0hicago Tribune
1t Is stated to be a fact that a hole In his right
heel enabled a negro workman in the diamond fields
OF South Africa TO secrete and steal gems 10 the
value OF s2730o. These he expressed I'm small
parcels OF roots TO n cousin In King Williams
Town. in the extreme south OF Africa from which
place both recently departed for England
Pral.e-"some men are forever talking shop"
That's a fact" ne answered. IT'S a great
falling, We have. woman never does that way
and talk about II when she feels like shopping She
just goes ahead and shops."-(Washngto Star.
THE Rocky Mountain News prints the story OF
a man who says that the word OF farewell which
he shouted in a mountain canyon some twenty years
ago started the avalanche which Immediately fol-
lowed causing the death Of two persons and the
severe injury OF another.
Mrs. Gushwell-of course you love children. Mr..
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Mrs. Gushweil-And which DO you like best. little
synnick-That depends When there are little
girls present think prefer little boys: but when I
out to the little girs.-(Boston Transcript.
As a money making scheme monument In a
graveyard would ordinarily be considered a queer
investment yet In the Willamstown Cemetery
there is such a monument that has answered It's
purpose well says THE Dispatch" OF Williams
town. KY
Twelve years ago a marble works company made
a proposition to W. G. Cram one of the rich men
OF Grant County to erect n monument In his pri-
vate lot to be paid for at once but TO pay interest
at the rate OF 10 per cent upon the cost price TO
himself az long he should live. II was 10 cost
1880.
The company's terms accepted and the mon
ument built. space being left vacant wherein
10 chronicle the birth and death Of Mr. Cram, to-
geher with his good deeds. Mr.. Cram Is yet alive
and bids fair to live many years more. though he
has passed the age OF threescore and ten, and the
monument has already paid him in dividends $40
more than the original cost OF building.
Last Thursday during windstorm. the shaft
broken of fifteen feet from the ground. but 1t
will be repaired at the company's expense.
The New England papers are having pleasant
little battle over the origin and exact meaning or
the word fellow" They have dragged forth OK
ampes from the four corners OF literature. but by
some strange freak they have missed the word
used by Tyndse. The free use OF old days allowed
him TO write In translating Genesis xxx, T. and
the Lord was with Joseph. and he a luckie
fellow" That look. at least quaint to most OF
US but the effect II accentuated when We come
10 Mark ~. Il what feowe IT, ths' For booth
winds and see obey him" and Mark II. I: How
doth this felowe blaspheme7" Again In John W.
80. We read How can this felowe give us his
| feshhe TO eat?" Let the people OF New England
! study tho early -CPhiladeiphia Press.