New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-22
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

By typographical the signature appended
to the interesting communication on Canal I'm
provement" in The Tribune OF August 20 was made
to read Henry 3. Hebert, chairman Canal As
ISOLATION Of Goshen, n. Y" Mr.. Hebert is. of
course. a well known business Of New-York.
and is chairman Of the Canal Association OF
Greater New-York."
He admitted to me''-the unimpeachable witness
spoke with an evident reluctance, which made his
year-old son was no brighter than anvbody else's
kid And then two stalwart minions Of the law
gray haired Judge made out his commitment TO the
asylum.-(Harpers Bazaar.
Bishop McFaul CRoman Catholic of Trenton.
N. J.. has forbidden women to appear In church
bareheaded. But 1t is said that many women
habitually go to church without any hat or bon
net In Southern Europe. and the clergy make no
objection.
Hell notice that Fred and Harry have made up
and are as good friends ever.
and 70 Pa
golf with-(Boston Transcript.
AS one enters Picking by the arched eastern gate
he comes at upon Legation Street, where
are all the foreign compounds strung along AN
unpaved slum of a thoroughfare' for nearly a
mile. Miss Scidmore says OF this quarter In her
book on China: The street Is all gutter where
there fragmentary attempts at a raised mud
bank footwalk beside the house walls for use when
the cartway between is too deep mud slough
We are here suferance. under protest you
know say the meek and lowly diplomats; we must
not offend Chinese preiudices-' Moreover. all the
legations would not subscribe to attempted i'm
provcment fund. nor all unite in demanding that
the Chinese should clean, light, pave and drain
Legation Street That jealousy Of the great Powers
so Ironically termed the Concert Of Europe is as
much to blame for this sanitary corner OF PeknS
for affairs in Crete and Armenia"
.Adapted-she- What rs that old about
He who has trayelled)-'"when in Rome do the
Romans or they'll do you"-Philadelphia Press
You meet odd individuals out here" says
Yellowstone Park correspondent Of The Chicago
Record 1T a young miss OF great discern
ment who once remarked that all the queer people
in the world appeared to be travelling. The most
singular couple have met this journey
from the city of New-York have always
tended that New-York Is the most provincial place
In this country, except Boston and Asbury Park
but with this example before me remove the
ceptions. The I refer to is a merchant OF
wealth and celebrated his golden wedding last win
ter. He is seventy-four years old; his wife is
enty-two. Both were born in New-York City but
she had never been west OF the Hudson River until
she came this journey. He had once wandered
far Buffalo, and had visited Syracuse twice
during the last fifty years Both have been to
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
and are In the habit Of spending their summers on
the New-England coast During several seasons
they rented cottage at Newport. where their sons
and daughters quite prominent in society but
the woman was never inside a sleeping car until
she started for the Yellowstone Park on July u
and her husband had never before spent a night IN
one"
1t is small reprOach to Topsheld. Mass. that few
persons beyond its town limits ever heard of II tiI1
the celebrating of its 2Oth anniversary the other
day. 1t has reached honorable antiquity without
making any fuss about it. and though small OF its
II is entitled to respectful attention and regard
1t embarks the second quarter OF its niIlen-
NAL period. Good wishes for fits continued pros
perlty accompany it, Happy the commune which
has no histOry-a beatitude shed on TopsfieId so
far IN its career, with possibly good fortune of
indefinite continuance.