New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-06
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

The Hutchinson kan News says that every
morning the usual hour Miss Mary scroggins
opens the schooIhouse IN District No 3. IN Reno
County and then sits her desk all day long.
while not a pupil 20 receive Instruction II
seems that all the families living IN District No
- are Catholics and send their children 10 a
nearby parochisl school Miss Scroggins has the
usual contract With the school officers. and she
will continue open and occupy her lonely school
room through all the winter months. Last year
she had pupils at all during the first four
months OF the term. and only pupils during
The remaining three months,
There comes Polly Perkins, lets make 1t hot for
MSx P POI! :. 80, go, - sr1n5,.n.no,,.
Journal.
Some months number OF public spirited
citizens OF Berkeley. Cal. offered to pay into the
town treasury the 81 so received annually from
liquor licenses On this condition a prohibition
ordinance adopted. and the saloons received
notice that they might have three months IN
which 10 wind up their business At the expira-
ton Of that time the $50 necessary for the first
quarterly payment raised. but II held in
hand TO await the attitude OF the town authorities
toward the prohibited traffic That attitude was
Of Indifference. As much HQEor sold
before. and the Citizens Committee refused to pay
the money.
He is <ighty-eisht years OF age. and stl follows
u arduoqs business o. shore ashing which de-
courage and smartness Ore day last week Mr.
for a DAYS ashns went on! in his boa, to the
&c podns Of s6 or af sd o bd na
In the afternoon he took his fish wheeibarrow
the Sleep Of the just and was ready for anotheTs
days wOrk.-(Kennebec CNe) Journal
Many ludicrous misundersta ndings occurred IN
the taking OF the One question was in
dictated by the remark length OF residence
which expected TO show how long the people
/ -
had been there. When the reports came In Il was
found that many Of these queries were answered
in figures In this way: 2Ox4O 15x3o etc. The emu
merators had gone around with a rule and had
measured length of the residences of the people
they counted
Mary e very stout quite I'd deaf and the
incidentally. she seems TO be something OF an art
Sead to ma9tr and shake her head icons in sa Is
the pictures, and she seems TO be especially severe
hang in she little den den. One day Mary dirt-
gazing intently' at beautiful photograph Of
piotnr is that?' asked Mary in hard. cold tones
rather '9ad Moodyy and s SAID the LADY
Well; ! hav' heered Of them telleys. Sure they
accord
The officers whose duty II Is to enforce the game
laws of Kansas recently had to suspect that
some market hunters were illegally shipping quail
from, wellington but the gathering OF evidence
found to be almost impossible task
Finally the officers borrowed pointer dog and
took II to the freight depot and the animal prompt
~ centred IT'S attention upon a large egg case
The opened and under Its two top layers
of eggs were found several dozen quail The law
breakers found without difficulty upon ref
erence TO the railroad companys books and ar
rests promptly followed.
1T have two suits for my two boys" says a
Philadelphia man. 'one new and expensive; the
other very old and ugly and worn. They own
these suits in common. and the boy who gets up
nrst in the morning wears the good one as a re-
ward Both boys are fond OF dress. and so this
scheme works we'll The minute l shout Boys.
get up. they spring out Of bed and make a rush
for the new suit Sometimes they reach II to-
gether. when there will be a hot fight over who's
to wear 1t. and have to come up and restore
order with a hairbrush"
The Worlds Faut.-"There is one thing I like
about you. said the intimate friend land that Is
your lack or vanity You don't pretend TO be .he
greatest actor the world has ever seen"
NO. answered Mr.. Stormington Barnes thought
fully. but would be- II the world would only
come to see me. -(Washington Star