New-York tribune., 1899-07-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

letter in a Glasgow paper records phenomenon
| much too remarkable to be reserved for Scottish
consumption. The writer says: IAN acquaintance
! of mine who lives up North, has among others oi
/ the feathered tribe little bantam cock. A few
| weeks ago he noticed that It looking the worse
| for a slight difference Of opinion with a canine
| friend but did not examine II closely till his
mothers and sisters vociferatons brought him In
in Il hurry. There was the bantam picking away
at corn but the corn was dropping from rent in
the birds chest just fast as 1t was lifted. Not
wanting to kill the bird my friend got needle and
some horsehair and stitched up the tear, with the
result that the bird now is as good as new
Atchison Nerve-Last Wednesday evening a man
and a woman who had been divorced twelve years
met on a South Fifth-st car. There was an en-
barrassng pause. when the man stepped UP to MS
brought up his son by another wife and introduced
hm.-(Atchison Globe.
The Prussian Government is about start sew
ing schools for the peasants. not the fancy needle
work school familiar in America. but glove sewing
schools. it appears that while nearly $1,000 900
worth of gloves are made In Breslau each year the
gloves have to be sent to Austria and Belgium 70
be sewed. the German girls never having acquired
the knack
Left Hi His Nams.-Lady.A gentleman called. you
Parlor Mad-Oh. yes'm. He said It Imma-
terial-Boston Traveller
For years Kingston. Mo. has had a woman's
literary society, a womans suffrage club, and
other feminine organizations with which most
towns are blessed. but 1t not until few
weeks ago that a woman's club for the reform OF
sprang into existence The first meeting OF
this organization held recently. and seems to
have been successful. Having learned the sig
nails they invaded a private gambling den. broke
up the apparatus. and took their husbands and
lovers home by the ear. At the second meeting it
entered the white Elephant" ostensibly drug
store but in reality saloon, and closed that also.
The proprietors threaten TO reopen IT, The women
have notified them IL they do they will clean the
place out the next time. The propretors. who
own an alligator, also threaten that they will
"slc" him on them If they make another raid.
The women of Kingston, however say they have
no fear Of the cayman. and II will be a sorry day
for the brute II they get a chance at him.
This joke of Brother Mirthfups." said the presi-
dent CT the National Jokers' Union has a point
WHY Hobson is like a kissing bug and then adds.
because both "warshlp' pretty girls II must be
oP he par T Of MTSfu to be funny is
agran beach OF the n rules of vee ths bnd union
in reading jokes from amateurs"-Oho State
Journal.
good looking young woman who said she was
the daughter of a Western broker who had failed
in business sold tickets in Allegheny City, Penn,
recently at 10 cents each, emitting the bearers TO
ionaby dressed young woman. She appealed for
patronage on the ground that she thus work
ing her way to New-York, where she would finish
her musical education. It was promised that she
would fulfil her obligations bootblack at
tain barber shop The maiden fair is estimated to
have sold about $50 worth Of bogus pasteboards in
Allegheny as some OF the victims confessed to buy
ing twenty and thirty OF the promises. For several
days an interested crowd of Aeghenians went to
the barber shop. but the '1ady bootback failed
to appear
Dehned-"what Is snob. Uncle Christopher
"a snob Is a nobody who SPENDS time and money
trying to make people think he Is somebody
Chicago Record
Another popular belief has been disspated
stormy Hatteras" has long been a terror to ocean
voyagers. But William f. Curtis. who has Just
made a trip past It his way to the isthmus,
writes: THE voyage from New-York is delightful.
People always expect a little weather off Cape
Hatteras. but the captain OF ship says that is
a popular delusion He declares that Hatteras has
no storms than any other point on the earth's
surface The land projects into the Atlantic and
makes nasty sailing along that coast in bad
weather. and there have been terrible disasters
from time TO time; therefore Captain sukeforth
says that Cape Hatteras has unjustly got bad
name He has been sailing this course for a num-
Der Of years-I have forgotten how maryland de-
clares that he has never met with gale in the
latitude Of Hatteras.
The fact that daylight and darkness are alike to
the Rev. Mr.. David, we'll known Northwest Mis-
souri, Baptist minister. owing TO his blindness. was
responsible for a rather unusual and somewhat
amusing situation during the services conducted by
him in the Maryville Baptist Church Sunday night
when the electric lights suddenly went out. leav-
ing the congregation in total darkness The minis
ter, however. knew nothing of II and preached
right along his auditors remaining perfectly quiet
until the close OF the sermon. Then following the
announcement OF the hymn. the chorister rose and
said: Brother David the lights have been out al
most half hour and We cannot to sing"
And then light although not the one that
failed" dawned upon the sightess orator, and he
hurriedly pronounced the benedicton and dismissed
his congrega ton.-(Kansas city Journal
A congress OF journalists recently held at
Christlania. and its promoters thought that 1t
function. This the to the Invitation:
1T is not my habit to go two hundred kilometres
for dinner especially when should have to take
II In the company OF persons who annoy me during
the entire year" Ibsen is said 10 have been de-
lighted at the sally.
The Rev. DR.. Fourthy and one OF his leading
parshioners-from a financial point of view-had
met at street corner and had short confab:
I'D like To talk TO you longer, DOCTOR" said the
parshioner. looking at his watch. but I have to
catch train and, II you will pardon the seeming
profanity. I'm In devil OF hurry"
We'll you will get there. probably, in the Old
Nick OF time" replied the doctor bidding him
goodby with a stately wave OF his hand.-(Chicago
Tribune