New-York tribune., 1900-04-27
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

one OF the hardest things 1 have to do" saws
Boston school teacher is 10 get into nv chill
orehs mead the notion that the rise in the
mountains and flow toward the sea 1t is next TO
impossible to make some of them Comurchepd opv
thing about 1t. They reason why the river
should not rise in the flow into the noun
talns Most of them have never seen a flowing
stream Many of them have seen the Charles
River, and If they have noticed anything about II
they have observed that it is just as ant to flow
from the ocean as toward 1t. babbng brook
running down over little slopes and rapids or
tumbng from the hill to the plain in cataracts is
unknown to them. l have TO resort to all sorts of
images and illustrations to make them COMPREHEND
the idea of springs gushing from the hills de-
scending joining still seeking a lower level. and
at last finding the sea. And then they don't COM
pretend it'
Her Reyengefu Nature-"Yes." she said deter
nimedIy Il am going on the stage
f The N humanitarian looked startled.
most unkind in It's attitude toward you during vouT
divorce trial yet remember 1t is possible to carry
& But bd she only G laughed M sardonieay proceeded
suit her purpose-(Chicago Post.
Nuggets such as are taken rom the Jopn
mines not calculated for use as watch charms
or shirt studs" says The Kansas City Journal"
'One taken from the Connecticut Zinc Company's
property day or two ago, and which ranks as one
Of the handsomest specimens ever mined there
weighs an even ton The overgrown sparker' is
principally of zinc ore prettily trimmed In caIcte
pink spar and cubes of gaena."
What It Means-Mr. RuraI-If there ain.t no OH
lection me and my family will stop in here an take
a s',. rest i see you've got sign Family En-
Lounger-If you wasn't from squedunk or some
such town. you'd know that that there sign means
that this amt no place fer families to enter
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farmer named Van Ryn. In ST. Croix County
Wis. says that he recently unearthed a coin which
lay beneath ledge of rock twenty feet in tbick-
ness, on Sand Greek 1t Is of bronze about the
size OF silver dollar. One side bears an ,maga
and superscription. The other side is much worn
so that little remains but the letters IS p O r"
The theory is broached that the early French
missionaries and explorers would have been un-
likely to bring with them old Roman coins and
that the discovery indicates that Roman sailors of
the time when the coins were In circulation as
money found their way this continent wanderad
far inland and pershed. There have been stories
OF similar finds In Indiana and other places I'm thu
United States.
Alice?' ~ '""uS'
p. oh gave it up during Lent, saved the money
In now" w."-(Philadelphfa Press "
The cable OF the Western Union Telegraph Conn
pany which runs under Lake ChampIatn from
Ticonderoga to Larrabees Point. has something of
n history. 1t was made In Europe and was drst
used in correcting opposite shores OF the Red Son
From there IT brought Hilton Head vher.
IT was used in connecting that place with ,Pvha.
Island. near Beaufort. S. c. At the close az tb
Civil War Ii was taken up and carried to this city
where 1t remained for several years In tho cam,
pany storehouse, before II placed whore e.
now Is
Pa, what is commercial rivalry"
,,.s wen n eommeLcia rivalry Is the way your mother
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