New-York tribune., 1900-03-31
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Maternal strategy.-"HenOr'
rs this you, johnny
papa's office Everything all right at hone?'
.Yes'm .. ANYTHING you wanted ID me me, to cd do?
sound of your voice, whether you were eating any
downtown, 1 you are. I'll settle with you
my when I come home. Goodby"'-(Chicago
Tribune.
Sam" Jones' the vulgar Georgia evangelist. thus
expressed himself In Nashville the other day: 1.-The
churches of God were never deader and the world.
the flesh and the devil never liver than they
to-day. The average old sinner a mile
while the average Christian is pulling his boots.
I raise more money in hour for visit of
Dewey to a town than you raise in week to
save the town from death and the devil L can
march out bigger army tomorrow for the devil
and the Democrats in Nashville and they will
fight harder and stay longer that than they
would to defend the home from drunkenness and
the souls of the people from the devil
by the way. Nasgus" asked Borus who was
do consider the finest piece of writing In ex-
is!SRes'" !Ws'' answered the literary .,,,or v,,,
yawn. the Ten Commandments written in a circle
any have ever seen."-(Chicago Tribune.
when a Belgian talks of Murphies' says The
Philadelphia Press "he has in mind the sue
culent tubers that delight Ireland He means
loaves of cornbread And II is the Hon. Charles J.
Murphy-whOm o
thank for II. For ten years and more this has
been going up and down Europe commanding the
people TO eat cornmeal and be happy Eat it, bless
you. Eat 1t, rot you, Why in thunder don't you
eat It? When he started this missionary work
which has resulted in adding article of diet
the alien menu only "A 900 bushels maize were
annually exported to Europe. and the average
European knew no more about it than Esquimau
knows about terrapin. To-day the figure has in
creased 1000 600 The Brussels bakers advertise
Murphy bread Plain Murphy everywhere and
whether the whole thing is due to our Mr. Murphy
no. he is getting all the glory. just the same
Nell-Do you know. really think will marry
Harry He is good looking, rich. and rather
Belle-I didn't know you engaged
Nell-Oh! it's not formal yet: but he has told me
that seem different from other giris.-(Puck.
Roberto f. Bevan an American doing business in
Malaga. Spain. In Washington says: The
feeling of antagonism TO Americans has passed
away in SPAIN and the recent has been practi-
cally forgotten. At present the strong feeling
against England and everything British has caused
a kindly spirit toward America. The war In South
Africa has enraged all of the Latin countries In
Europe against England and the dislike is shown
in every way possible. The United States rated
highly. however, and everybody is friendly
Fuddy-Honest. now. what kind of weather do
Duddy-That is a subject that has bothered me a
good deal. On mature reflection / think the
weather like best is the weather we are not hav-
ing at the time.-(Boston Transcript.
William T. Stead says that about thirty pro- Boer
meetings in England have recently been broken I'D
by mobs and certain American pro- Beers are
pointing TO this fact a proof that free speech Is
no longer allowed in England But II during the
with Spain attempts had been made to hold
pro- Spanish meetings In this country the proba-
bnity is that every one of them would have been
mobbed
What was the topic of debate In our club to-
Har aaLa nharO Oft fha
The topic OF debate?" the response Iyhy
-er-let see-I can't remember what the topic
But I voted either the positive or neg gatfys
side OF the ausston-I forget which" -(washington
star