New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-27
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1900.

excellent story is told of one Of them who. some
nifty years ago was adventurous as 20 make "a
tourney S,Sq When he set off to return il
raining hard and his host loaned him an umDFei1
POSSIBLE trouble fortnight afterward this man
Of EG dali Sgt 5 to Ia s up
he exclaimed I'VE had peck o troubles wi o' nh
get 'un through. 50 tethered un in field. =
(spare Moments.
The London correspondent of 1.-The Churchman
saws that English Roman Catholics are showing
signs of rebellion against ultramontanism as rep
resented by THE Tablet" THE New Era (Ro-
man Cathoc) speaks of 1.-The Tablets" article on
DIR. Mivart slang and SANDER. AN aooIni-
nable breach of Christian charity" 'at once I'M
gentemanly. un-Christian and un-Cathoiic. III
says the article has excited widespread disgust
and adds these significant words THE difficulties
of conducting Catholic paper which does not sac
riiice truth to expedency and attempts TO express
independent lay opinions known to all Cath
olcs." And the same journal quotes a Catholic
layman saying: at Is rather disconcerting
when one comes out of mass Sunday morning
to be met at the church door by gentleman with
a bundle of tickets OF various hues who shouts IN
stentorian tones. Tickets for the midnight mass
tonight, one shilling threepence and sixpence
eachH ."
Mr.. Cool-Your son is now about twenty; l be
lieve Do you not intend to send him to college?
secure college education 1 am going to save
labor, time and expense by making a prize e
perience in the PrizerIng converts any ignGTant
views and letters in the newspapers. prizefghters
write and talk like scholars and gentlemen. All
few months transforms thick headed tough into
literary genius.-(New-York Weekly.
The people of Seattle say that within a year not
a pound of food products west Of the Mississippi
will be shipped East but Will go to Asia by way
of the Pacific Coast.
Kind Lady-You must have very hard time in
Tramp O1etween mouthfuls)-Yes indeed mum
Sometimes darsent ask fur bite fur days and
Kind LadyNWhat do YOU fear at such tim =?
Tramp-I'd be axed to shovel snow. mum-tNew-
York Weekly.
One of the religious takers in Philadelphia
last week who asked a big beetle bTowed fellow
answered: Put me down pugili5t. see! Dat 5
my religion. I loves de fghtin' god. See? And
me kids is being brought UP in the same church
amt dey. Liz?'' His wife nodded assent. No per-
suason could lead the to give any other an
the question 5 to his church preference
One of the visitors to a Seventh Ward house was
answered in the following manner by facetious
man: Mckinley IS the one l worship, and the
Republican party is my religion" Another man
approached declared that his prayers were for
Bryan and free silver but he did not know what
church that meant. oh put down an In
gersollian' still another answer. A com
muntcation has been received by Superintendent
Cork, who supervises the work of the census tax
ers, in which the writer suggested: You had bet
ter try get better water. better schoolhouses
and common sense laws
When Fatima discovered all the headess women
she much disturbed.
who were these persOns?" she asked severely,
land WHY did you kill them?"
They were all wives of mine" answered Blue
beard Y killed them in order that there might ut
your moving in the best society OF Washington my
At this Fatima was overcome, and tmplored her
husbands forgveness.-(Detroit Journal