New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-22
THE TAX OF THE DAY.

The poor farm OF Marion County. Kan, has only
ten inmates. and cleared $500 expenses last
year.
His Personal Experience.-'It's perfectly true"
said Willie Washington. sadly.
This tank about its being harder for a young
realize It more and more Every time / apply to
my father for a check he seems more reluctant and
economizing. '-CWashington Star
The Chicago Tribune" figures out that 1t costs
S25OOOOOO elect President of the United States,
while Parliament allows the Queen ST. 100000 in four
years; reasoning from this that 1t is easier to
maintain a Queen permanently than to elect a
President once.
Insncerity,-"our civilization, demands a greater
less degree of mendacity." remarked the alb
struse person. we constantly encountering
%Seh IS erSd Of
That's right" answered the book agent That's
perfectly true l am reminded Of It every time |
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ton Star.
A in Cape Colony trial for some offence
was told that size might challenge" any one
the jury to whom she objected. She Immediately
took advantage Of the permission by challenging
highly respectable farmer. On being asked after
ward what her reason had been for doing so, she
explained that she had supposed she was obliged
to object to some one, she had picked out the
uglest.
The big tide wheel at the Kendall Brothers mill
at Bowdoinham IS once more in running order.
twelve men have been at work on 1t since. repair
ing the damage. This is famous wheel When It
similar structure in the world. 1t was built by ]:
BY his aher the am K s It IS Rno% as
current wheel, and was built after design origi,
rd S mic whose It would be hard hard
being iis' about FIVE tons Of iron alone on it It is
twenty-eight feet in diameter. and about ninety
was the largest Wheel Of any sort in the State
Cathsnce River and the paddles are built in after
the fashion of the sticks OF fan when the fan is
moves the wheel, and enough power IS gained to
operate a grist mill and fertilizer mil.-(kenne-
In the maps of Europe which were used in the
Filipino schools under the Spanish regime large
place in the centre of that Continent. usually oc-
cupying than one-half the page. marked
Spain; all the rest OF the countries scattered
about the edge. Thus the young Filipino came to
have a very distorted idea OF the magnitude OF
the country Of his oppressors. Even Aguinaldo
was surprised to learn that America covers a
greater area than Spain.
Isn't it a nuisance to button ones gIoves7' re-
marked the fair young girl whose engagement had
Il always let my husband do it for me-" said her
married friend He buttons them in a jiffy;, Why
don't you let your young man button yours?"
II did the other evening and 1t took him nearly
half an philadelphia Press.
Quebec may hold in perpetual memory the cere-
mony just performed OF laying the cornerstone of
its bridge across the St. Lawrence. which is
to be one of the most imposing structures in the
world. 1t will be the highest Of that ven
cradle city. to outast all its existing towers and
walls some of them already gray with antiquity
With its completion OF activity and
progress will no doubt dawn on the sleepy old
capital, which has subsisted largely during it's
past history the proceeds of ecclesiastical cere-
monies not adequate to it's full business de-
velopment.
A notice which attracts the attention of MANY
sojourners in New-Hampshre town is posted on
the wall OF the little railway station. The paper
which it is printed bears evidence of long and
honorable service:
''Notice-Loahng either in or about this room Is
strictly forbidden. and must be observed - outh's
Companion.