New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The twenty-five picked hremen from Kansas City
who won the international fire extnguishing cham
pionship in Paris visited Windsor the other day
and the Castle, after which they were
entertained by the Mayor at the Guildhan. The
day before they visited the headquarters Of the
London Fire Brigade and several of the stations.
and also called upon Mr. Choate. the American
Ambassador
Not the Usual Way-'T don't think Ii Hung
Chang is nearly wise and shrewd as ne has been
represented" remarked the Wall Street millionaire
who wears his straw hat until the LIST of Novem-
He is considered a very crafty person.
It's another Of these poPula- errors. A rean ny
he did Dragging about being the richest man In
the world. II just like hunting trouble
washington Star
The Rev. D. c. Greene, a missionary in Japan,
says that the religious drift in japan is toward
pantheism.
companion meandered into one of the swell restau-
had met the young woman when he had not ex-
pected That explained the absence of his coat.
the proprietor. Then the waiter returned Sorry,
sab. but we can't serve shirt waist gentlemen in
the presence OBJ ladies, sah.' The young man IA
vcred him with icy So did the young
woman. Then they started out. but young
press the fourth part of dollar into the walters
hand and whispered: Your kindness and that of
the proprietor will never be forgotten My lady
that was actually forced to ask her to dine
have not money enough to pay for the simplest
/ T
had a mt I staked my all and God bless you!"
indianapolis Sun.
J. H. Cook we'll known PopuIst farmer near
Carthage. No. said the other day to Republican
II have been advertising in all the Carthage papers
for farmland, and stil can't get one. What's
the alter? Is it OF Republican prosperity"
When assured that ne had guessed right. he con-
| tnued; Then I'll have TO work for Bryan harder
than II he wins and what you Republicans
say is true I'll get my farmland that way with
| out lie nd on my own M
now the farmland question is the paramount issue
with me. II you run across an idle don't fail
10 let him know that I've got job for him.
oh! exclaimed the little city girl look at the
That said the big country cousin happens to
oh We YES That's what you call bull pup. isn't
! it?'-(P philadelphia Press
Marshall Bishop. the oldest resident OF Aroostook
| County. Me. will be hundred years old next
| Christmas. He recently walked from his home to
| Fort Kent-a distance OF forty-two mes-refusing
the offer OF a lift OF ten miles from a passing
| driver on the pleas that he thought walking the
only perfect exercise and that he wanted TO take
look at the crops as he went along. He is now on
/ the return trip.
| WHERE THERE rs NO POLITICS.
like to watch the little bee
I even like him some when he
/ Gets mad an goes to stingn'.
/ There amt words set to his
His honey laden mansion
Keeps him too busy night an noon
/ To talk about expansion"
/ like to the butterfly
He stops while sailin' by
To talk the matter over
| He never gets you started for
A nervous parOxySm
! BY scarin you with silver
With mOnometalism.
! That's why keep a-loiterin' round,
| SO unConcerned an lazy,
| Where insect critters may be found
! A-swingin' the daisy.
! To line EN- often led
The happy and the free 'uns,
! The bees an butterflies instead
! O. fretful human ben's.
! -(Washington Star.
| An act for the prevention OF cruelty to wild ant
| mails has Just become effective in England. The
new law extends the provisions OF the act, which
has heretofore applied only to domestic animals 70
all birds. fishes and reptiles not included In that
measure, and makes offenders liable to three
months Imprisonment fine OF Is.
Mamma! mamma" she cried "Tommy's max
| ing faces at me.
"An't doing anything Of the kind retorted the
| boy.
why. Tommy corrected the indulgent parent,
| 81 you myself
| mo. you didn't" persisted the boy. II couldn't
make a face II I wanted to. All I did was 10
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