New-York tribune., 1900-09-17
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

New-York physicians have recently been receiving
from a certain cremation company a circular which
reads follows;
This certifes that in recognition OF the support
which our cause has received IRON physie5ans sen.
immediate family. is hereby entitled incineration
indorsement and surrender Of this eerideate with
i'm ten years from date. (Indly return this certh-
cate If you do not wish TO use it,
In 1899 there were 1O3 incumbents of church Iiv-
ings in England who had occupied the living
for fifty years more, and of these twelve had
held their places for sixty years. Their average
income amounted to $3.50 year, and in sixteen
cases the income after fifty years continuous
vice was between the limits of $3.50 and $40 year
Gayboy-Did you read the story of Jonah
Miss Willingness, indeed
Gayboy-And what do you think of it2
Miss Wiling-Why, 1 think it is true. believe
GayboyNDarlng you are the only girl I ever
loved WIN you be my wife?-(Chicago News.
Kansas boasts of potato field forty miles long
on which average crop is two hundred bushels
an acre. 1t is estimated that this years harvest
will come close TO four thousand carloads.
There was once a Woman whose Husbands Rusi-
Among those Habits of his which She Proposed to
on Sundays. 1T is not a Suitable Occupation Tor
The Sabbath" she said, 'anu Against my Prtnci-
9roVed 1T is Debasing intellectually. She s99
land besides, it is Against my Principles So the
Man gave up the Sunday Papers and Sat and
Smoked all day. But this she Did not Permit very
long, 1T is an Unwhoesome Habit and an Ex-
pensiye one, she sal1; 'oesldes. II Is Against my
chased a Ticket to Manhattan Beach and left his
hamd hGme %5n unday IS ad Enough DAY Without on % so
Many PrinGplefSi, ne % 5d on SO she lost the Sh4hse
Man was not Made for the Sabbath.-(H (Harpers
Bazaar.
THE Scottish American" says that minister in
Scotland asked an urchin who was standing look
ing in at one of the Sunday school windows how
he would like to join the Sunday school and grow
up good man.
What sort O. Sunday schulz is't? 'Stablished?"
Yes" said the clergyman 1T is connected with
the Established Church. Are you not coming in?'
Ma" replied the boy II tried the Established
Kirk Sunday schule last year an only got twa
fardn' oranges an pock o sweeties at the
Christmas tree sac I'm gaun tae gle the Free
Kirk trial this year"
Lights and s;I,"s9metimes.r, said the sim
never married and again | am glad of IT, 1t Is
binp ones own boss f. oVegbed' ne easHre or
Press.
The gold brick swindle." says business man
quoted in The New-Oreans Times Democrat" "is
one of the plausible propositions ever nd
vanced. and has landed some of the cleverest bust
ness men in the country. Twenty years ago II used
to be a common thing for banks In the West to buy
gold brcks-l mean real ones-and frequently there
were the best of for keeping the transsc
tion quiet. 1t often happened that the owner or
some partly developed mine would make an unex
pected strike and wish to buy up the adjacent
property Naturally, he would want TO hold hack
the OF his discovery until he secured the land
and, II he had any bullion to dispose OF would
make the sale as quietly possible The banks
became accustomed to deals Of that kind and
were, consequently pretty easy prey for the gold
brick swndler who turned up with a precisely simi
lar story. don't believe l exaggerate when say
that fully one-third of all the banking houses in
the Western mineral belt were at some time vic
timized by this game"
A Question of Art.-Architect-We'v settled
about the design for the drawing room Now as
TO the study; how do you want that finished?
NuroX-l seen in n newspaper once about a study
in black and white that was very artistic Supposa
you gimme one o them.-(P philadelphia Press,