New-York tribune., 1900-12-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


About ten years ago the Rev. ]. s. Bitter a
Methodist minister in a vision a mighty
church built for the masses IN large city. Since
that time II has been the object Of his life to build
that temple. He discovered no means. however.
with which to build the structure until year ago
last August when he met A. ]. Wharton. a rich
mine owner of Colorado To him Mr.. Bitler un-
folded his plan which met with such favor in the
eyes of the mine that ne decided to give his
aid to the york He presented 10 Bitler hun
dred acres of mining land. and telegram the other
day announced a rich strike the land worth
| 81 100000. Mr. Bitter says that he Will build
church in Chicago TO be called the Good VIII
Temple.
why you wicked bow! You playing games
/ must punIsh You severely But mamma, those
Won said sh made million dollars last month% Oh
Dealer.
correspondent of The Chicago Record says
that a saloonkeeper Hagerstown. Md. COM
posed the following epitaph for his own tombstone
| before committing suicide last spring:
When I dead and in my grave
But on my tombstone have it wrote
That many gallons went down my throat
visitor to a cemetery at South Vernon. n. H.
will find the following upon a gravestone there:
,5 be s4f she rgSF %spt S9d 51Se am m she gene
o. cruel fate. be blind
Her R aH eaS neS fGFs eome anS Sae F we hind
But us must surely go to She
lone Of the regrettabIe consequences Of the row
In China" says business man. quoted by THE
New-Orleaus Times-D Democrat" will be the tenn
porary interruption Of the daylight hrework in
dustry which had its headquarters at the city of
Tien-Tsin. We have learned to beat the Chinese
all hollow in almost everything else In the pyro-
technc line" he continued, but we don't under
stand as yet how to produce the wonderful day.
light effects at which they have become adept
They put up in the shape OF rockets of diff
ferent sizes. and when the fuse Is ignited they
soar to four hundred five hundred feet in the air
At their greatest elevation they burst and release
fantastic figures made of tissue paper which be-
come inflated and will float for ten or fifteen min
utes before they begin to descend. Our pyro-
technic experts have taken these rockets apart
with the greatest Of care. but strange to say they
have been unable to discover how the paper de-
vices were launched at exactly the right moment
All their limitations have been failures. The things
were made at only native factory at Tien-Tsin
and since the bombarding and capture OF the eitv
by the allied armies the dealers nave been unable
to learn whether the establishment is still In ex
istence Very likely 1t was destroyed and the oper-
ators scattered
Judge-You are ehaEged @ Wit, With stealing a gold
brokeT sad it was th-owin money to the BIRDS Pa|h 70
let me have more than two dollars on it-(Detroit
Free Press.
Mrs. Custer says in "Harpers Bazar'' that she
was with tue 4th OdNdry marched and
camped and secuted on the route laid out for the
Kansas Pacific Railroad. The food was monoto-
nous. and those the march the barren
country would tell tantalizng tales of the good
things they had eaten in the States. The habit Of
hospitality however was so fixed that the soldiers
wnu'6 merely add a plate for the visitor or give
up their own il there were not enough. An old
o4hcer. in crossing the plains. invited "A brother
onlcer 10 dine with him, not knowing that his
supplies were low. The striker put the only
two dishes on the mess chest table. The host took
IA the limited bill OF fare at glance. and said
IL you don't care for rice. help yourself to the
mustard"
Why are you in here. my poor feIlow?' asked
the liquid orbed prison visftress
,, reaSS LEASE, iaoy stole loaf OF bread" whined
lOrgnette. w 'A''0usn hsr
Dear me-" she exclaimed How diseustinrIv
unoriginalr' ~ S'SeNSeihsy
IL was az once evident 20 her mind that to at
tempt mltigatlon or the prisoners sentence would
De violation OK the unities.-Qndanapolis Press.