New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"Out in Germantown says 1.-THE PHILADELPHIA
Record" there is apathy. and the usual num-
Der of odd wagers have been recorded. In the
event Of the election of Bryan the friends of Frank
Randall will have opportunity of seeing him
lying in bed for a week in the window of a Chi
laundry in Coulter-st II Mckinley is elected
Edward Callahan will do the same Another freak
bet has been made between Joseph Donnelly
Democrat. and Edward Dunlap, a Republican
The loser will be obliged to take up the collections
in a coIored church for two weeks, under the
watchful eyes of the church authorities. He will
also be obliged to put s. in the basket each time,
and must pay 81 to the sexton every time he enters
the church,
Great joke on farley
What that?"
Went fishing and didn't catch anything Ordered
his wife would think he caught EN-. When the the
basket was opened they turned out to be bottled
A man who recently visited pie factory in Chi
cago thus describes it: 1.-The day we were there a
special run was being made pumpkin pies and
1 looked in vain for any signs Of pumpkin rinds
One Of the foremen grinned and told me- in strict
confidence. that real pumpkin never used in
pumpkin pies at present. except possibly in a few
remote and very primitive New-England villages
The substitute was mixture OF sweet potatoes
apples and cheap flour, favored with chemical
extract. 1 tasted of the stuff and was salts
fed he was telling the truth. Cranberry pie
contains only enough cranberries to make show
ing. after the manner of the oyster in the church
fair stew. The rest is apple jelly, colored red and
favored. have forgotten the other substitutes en-
ployed but these will give you general idea of the
morality of the business. The average output of
the foundry second. or about thrtv-six
thousand pies for a working day The manager told
me they shipped all over the pie belt IN sna
cialy prepared crates
CLARA is much impressed with palmistrv"
Yes; she takes 1t so seriously that She is really
down in the last palm book."-(Boston Transcrfpt
A hole
from the farm of the late Horace Bloodgood were
shipped last week to France in which country tho
Marquise de Breutil will endeavor to breed the
fowls for the market The turkey is so distinctiveI
an American bird that it has not done well here
tofore on the European Continent
Mrs Gi lIY scarcely have the cour-
hs: sd to tell you but our gas bill for the month
Mr.. Gilhooley-Good heavens! There must 10
..,,0h. no, there isn't; he read the meter"
-(Ohio State Journal. 1e''
An Indiana man recently received from the
Treasury Department at Washington check for
hve cents by way of reimbursement for an 49,.
siVe settlement made by him with the Government
fourteen years ago, when he was postmaster ~ .
village IN the Hooser State. He will bavA The
check framed and hung up in his house az o,,1.
OF Uncle Sans squareness.
The Orator and the Hearer-DirectIv IN ,-or. 80
the speHbinder sat an elderly and earnest iooI,11
man In the plain substantial garb Of an IOa$
remark. NN-eSSeu MS next
My friend" he said. did you see the item, g.,
tne papers this morning about the immense stool
OF gold In the Golfers OF the Covernmart S''cA
You bet I did" replied the honest nIJ -
over $3.50 900 900! Think Of It'll Nearly S500 0oo ~,
wrung from the taxpayers of the trusf rjJjeU
country! Wruns from your toll and sweat IA
man! -Four hundred and fifty million ioliarrs ~
gold! How much gold have you been ebIe 70 soI,a
my hard working friend?'' "4si uie
o., We saved my sheer, mister said the elderly
unCOmpFOpnt
Don't worry about that. And an the other r1ona,,
I've got is as good the gold Go ON with yoy-
get along" ~ me- II
Which served in some degree to 5,ssina+. .ba
SpeI previously laid upon the audience by The
binder-(Chicaso Tribune - 'He
NOT long ago The Lewiston CAIe) Journar' re-
marked: There are just about half a dozen Naira
weeShes that still have enough character and
ginger In EN- to make EN- interesting outside their
own locality" Since then twenty or more Maine
weeklies have blushingly Acknowledged the commit
ment and thanked The Journal for its kind an
probation Of their virtues
IN Proteus. Now. canddly," said we ..were veS H
as Xersatiie as you have been cracked up to he %
versatile! exclaimed PrOteus. ''VVeli it's not
Ior me 10 brag but I'll Just bet you 81 that ~ 7
We're IN pubic life to-day IL wouldn't hustle me-
much I? look like all my portraits in the news
papers! Ot course, in mere politeness we afrected
70 believe this.-(Detroit Journal " '-A's'su