New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-02
THE TALK or THE DAY.

.srba worcester Gazette" SAYS: Dana J. Pratt
the new director OF the Old South Church choir'
bears a remarkable resemblance to Rudyard KIP
ling which has frequently been made the subject
Of Jokes by his friends Mr.. Pratt came here from
Cleveland Ohio and in that city during the
critical stages Of Kiplings illness He was on the
way home in a crowded streetcar one night when
A small newsboy pushed through with an armful
of papers each bearing on the first page portrait
OF the sick man. The lad stopped onering MS
wares when he reached Mr.. Pratt and looked with
wonder from the face before him to that upon the
printed page Finally he said. Say. he looks just
like YOU don't he? TO the great diversion or tho
passengers and the embarrassment OF Mr. Pratt
The Worcester man r. I'm constant danger OF being
chased for an interview"
"Why doesn't Mabel marry that young idiot?,
asked the father. II am getting awfully tired OF
ni .1 See1e prefer to have him come here" said
the mother III she marrtes him he'll stay mere =
(Stray Stories. bsfner
The following notice is posted In the San stefano
station Of the Alexandria and Ramleh Railway;
LARGE RESTAURANT
L'UNIVERS
over against the Old Bourse.
Quite new kitchen OF first order by EXPERIMENT
chief newly engaged to be able TO please by his rare
ever the taste the most difficult. -,
d,sb are served in great pleasure OF the amators
country and Of sweet odours or the ilnest ia
Incomparabl BILE cleanliness; ALREADY service, inou-
een. p'''e'' D''''0'' ''''
The latest Harvard Observatory circular says that
the faint object found on Photographic plates re-
Gently near Saturn is probably satellite OF the
latter although there is small possibility that
NAV be a much more distant planet. II Is not an
asteroid The finder Professor w II. Pickering.
has named II "Ptpbe." The latest computations
Indicate thai y diameter OF 20 miles. IL the
orbit OF the satellite Is circular the period OF its
revolution about the planet Is either 4so or 80"
days-sixteen and a half months. or eleven and
half years The latter Is about the time required
by Jupiter to go once around the sun. The photo-
graphs In which the Phoebe appears were taken IN
the Southern Hemisphere on August 49, II and 10
last year The batch for a month later now over
due at Cambridge, will doubtless show the satei-
lite in new places. and thus assist In more exact
estimates OF It's orbit and period.
A leading citizen in a little town In the north OF
iii a wag who knew his weakness whispered to
pair OF trousers at the end of the year:
The year passed away. and when the promised
M" y! haven't got the brse; Ks YETI a,r,.,.r
The elder explained and the minister smiled.
and declared that the promise was only silly
THE elder expressed great disappointment about
the trousers, and was turning away when the min
- You seem to care more about the breeks than
oh. ay! the Il pun" replied the elder "a Just
Times.
At Riga, says La Suisse" OF Geneva. the hotel
keeper at whose establishment the members Of
musical society recently lodged and boarded. turned
ont 10 be a musical enthusiast. and on the day OF
their departure handed the secretary Of the So
ciety the following bill:
Coffee and rolls (seventy-Hve portions) 90 0o0fr
Dinners for month
Tear Tea Oorr
Apartments ooofr
Total .vvv
Received with thanks. LANGwITZ
,bosa men who were sent up to clean your office
that you were always busiest from 10 O'Clock in
u" $50 they wouldn't come around bothering in
the early part OF the day'-(Chicago News.
..The San Francisco Argonaut' is scrupuousy
obeying the new law requiring the names of the
writers to be attached TO newspaper articles. The
editor Jerome A. Hart declares that he inspires all
the articles published in the paper and that there
fore he is In a sense their author For this reason
every editorial book review. musical criticism.
ciety note or miscellaneous paragraph In THE Ar
ronaut" is now signed with the word ''jahart" In
fine type For example In the last issue reads:
prince Charles OF Denmark. who married
PRINCESS Maude OF Wales. has little chance now
OF ultimately succeeding TO the throne. the wife
OF his elder brother Prince Christian, gave birth
10 a son recently.-Jahart"
The word "jahart" is the editors signature. Writ
ten more deliberately IT would be J. A. Hart. or
Jerome A. Hart.
The best humorous literature England produces In
these days is the collection OF gems from the
animation papers of various schools and services.
Here Is a specimen. The examinee was rectins
a passage from King Lear" where Lear banishes
Kent:
Five days we do allot thee for provision
To shield thee from diseases OF the world;
And on the sixth 10 turn thy hated back
Upon our kngdom II on the tenth day following
Thy banished trunk be found In dominions.
The moment Is thy death"
The examiner here interrupted: you see the
meaning of 'banished trunkr"
student-Oh. yes. sir, his luggage-six days for
himself and four days extra for the iusgage.-tBuf
falo Commercial.