New-York tribune., 1900-05-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

.aProbaby the greatest profit ever enjoyed pS the
Government as a result of the destruction OF money
was in connection with the fractional currency or
shinplasters issued during the Civil War, says
o"The Chicago Record" 1.-The total amount lssueu
was s36S 724O7s of which s6.SSO,55S has never been
presented for redemption. large amount mas
been preserved as curios by collectors, and occa-
sionally even now it is offered for redemption
This was especially the during the recent
hard times People who had the old shinpasters
of war times in their cabinets and scrapbooks got
hard up and sent them in for redemption
suiting the Acton-''Which one of the popular
books of the day do you like the best? asked the
TO Have and to Hold'" he answered. in an
'6on't Harry she protested. but her voice had
a smothered sound.-(Chicago Tribune
Al Dewey, thirty miles south of Coffeyvle, kan
a gigantic walnut log has just been cut for ship
ment to the Paris Exposition. The tree from
which the log taken was supposed TO nave
been four hundred years old The trunk six
teen feet in circumference, and the first limb grew
forty-ive feet from the ground.
Point of view-The beautiful Griseda deprecated
his passionate praise. w
II am but worm, after all.' she signed, the
traditions of her Puritan ancestry being strong
upon her.
youth.
ipdinats that she deemed his attitude of mind
largely a matter of point of view.-(Detroit Journal
The Government is about to establish a thor
oughly equipped balloon experimental station
Fort Myer, where sort of school for the Signal
Corps has just been started The balloon house.
which is be built at once, will cost about sSO00
end will have a plant for the manufacture of gas
for ascensions. The building is needed to protect
the balloons from wind and weather. well as for
the gas making machinery and appliances for in
faton. The balloons to be used will carry two
men easily
WHEN FATHER SIGNS A CHECK.
for han
In quite sarcastic truck.
When father sings lullaby
when father carVeS the duck,
And when he monkeys this or that
To any rhymeSter'S beck
But one yet has sung about
When father signs check.
The old man isn't up to date
In table manners. p'raps
And doesn't talk, walk, dress
Like modern college chaps;
But on his business habits, sirs
There's neither flaw nor deck-
You've got paper good as gold
When father signs a check
He uses the Colonial quill:
The letters of his name
Are rugged as the hand that writes
Unevenly the same.
But you can bet the jewels all
That kirgly crowns bedeck.
The banks hand out the requisite
When father signs a check
-(Boston Courier
The Rev. George W. Stone of Kansas City says:
THE crusade begun in some American cities
against the ringing of the church bell that calls
Christians well as OF those who are the avowed
enemies of the Church. take the stand that the
ringing of church bells in city is un- Christian
like, and survival of age that saw the stupd
practice inaugurated because there We're better
means at hand of notifying the congregation that
the time for church service had arrived"
Bings-You are the last man to play the races
What do you know about horsehesh. anywsy?
Stillson-l ought to know good deal about It,
was In the army and lived on salt horse for months
at time.-{Boston Transcript.
j. w. Robinson of Butler County Kan. owns n
farm OF more than ten thousand acres or which he
works 400 himself. I'm nv fifteen wears,
residence In Kansas he says II have never
known year that did not make money. I stand
ready 10 say that no man who enjoys good health
and who farms ntelligenty and faithfully can helm
but make good living of loo acres of average
Kansas land
The will of Alexander McFadden an iron mann
facturer of Philadelphia, who died en- MAY B. leaves
$oe1 To churches. hospitals Charitable and educ,
tional institutions Among the hequests IL one az
slooo to Dickinson College. Carlisle, Penn, 70 en-
dow professorshtV ~