New-York tribune., 1900-07-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Every horse in the English army is numbered and
has little history kept for it. The number Is
branded on the animals feet-the thousands on the
hind foot. and the units. tens and hundreds on
the off hind foot. Thus, the horse whose number Is
say 1854, will have an s on his left hind foot and
354 the right foot.
Mr.. Biggsley seems to run things lust about "a
he chooses" said the gossipy man
you find person stupid that people viii let
MN MN nave ms owr way. rather than argue with
him. .'-(Washington Star
paper in a Missouri town tells Of a girl who
played the piano at social gathering recently and
gave some selections from Beethoven. When she
got through there a strange silence and she
turned around to find every in faint. 1t was
the first music they had heard that was not rag
time in seventeen months.
Yes. he said Il nearly made myself sick last
But, if you don't like the weed why did you
sm9hs 9hst ito TO please he waz MPss qskef 6oIlv
o kes IKE the odGr Of , good Gig cigar SUPPOSE
reform ba5 y young m men by making them swear of and
terest in me."-(Chicago Post.
The Rev. W. F. Sheridan of Pontiac Mich tell.
this story: "A large and heavy woman accom-
panied by comparatively small and meek look
ing man, had come in and asked to be married
Everything regular. and the ceremony was
performed. After 1t was all over the bride ex-
planned her position. You see. Mr.. Sheridan she
said. farm hands mighty hard to get in this
part Of the country. and they are even harder 10
keep. You get a good hired man and get him
well broke in to work around the farm and the
first thing you know he quits the job and goes off
to town or somewhere else Last spring l had
first class hand about good as I ever expect TO
get but just when The season got right busy he I'D
and quit tust made up my mind that I
wasn't going TO be left in the same fix this sum
mer, here are The bridegroom in the case
simply stood and smiled meekly- He had nothing
at all to say
Getting Life Down Fne-Mrs. Dubbs-rve bought
Mrs DibbsYes: You don't have IVS 10 watep une
bobs e sn6 fSuk7e f knew not 6 and people don't
ing so thrifty.-undianapolis Journal.
"I am apprehensive" says man. quoted bv The
New Orleans Times Democrat that the next big
event the calendar Will be a long-drawn-out war
between China and Russia. don't care rap
what becomes OF either nation. but do dread nm
speakably the task OF learning those jaw-breaklng
Russian names. You see. have had a pretty rough
time Of it during the last year or two No sooner
had mastered that terrible Filipino nomenclature
than along came the Boer war, and l had to start
In on kop1es' and roOineks' and spruits' About
the time l had got the hang Of TransvaaI .Taar
and able to talk about the campaign without
running the risk of being called down by one OF
those pedantic Jackasses who always lying in
wait for a fellow. trouble began IN China and
had to tackle an entirely new vocabulary AT
present I'm hard at work on Tsung-Il Yamen and
Hsiang-Kiang and Kiao Tai Chifu and a few hun
dred other tea-chest tongue twisters So naturally
the bare idea OF starting in Russian with its
skis and kofts fills me with horror I hope to
goodness nothing happens In Wales"
We were spending the winter in old Fortress
Monroe and the small boy OF the family had been
cautioned repeatedly not 10 drink any water that
had not been boiled as IL not safe. One day
When something had gone wrong and he was crying
neth, do you know that your tears are salt? Catch
the next one and taste it!, stopping his sobs for
a moment he walled forth in the dismal
tones: "Oh. no; I'm 'fraid to-it hasn't been
haAlAA- A-"-(N Rw- ENGLAND MAGAZINE.