New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

ST. James's rectory, Friendship, Md. has
just been burned. The communion service belong
ing to the church. and presented by Queen Anne in
1902. destroyed. as was also the silver bap-
tismal bowl given by Mrs. Loche many years
since. The church records dating from 1857 were
also destroyed. The aims plate presented TO ST.
Jamess by the wife Of the first rector. the Rev.
Henry Hall. in 1872. also destroyed. This rec
tory was probably the last OF the old rectories in
Southern Maryland, and was commodious, hip
rooted building.
The young fresh from college. and upon
securing a position on paper was made market
reporter. He had only been on the Street a few
of the first crop of oranges The fruit man told
but the name evidently did not suit the young
scribe. In his market report the following para.
the season were received by a local dealer today
memphis Scimtar.
The villagers OF Oberammergau are up in arms
against the proposed establishment of a line of
motor vehicles, designed to do away with the te-
dious hours drive from the nearest railway
station to the village. They say it will detract
from the devotional attitude which all visitors
the Passonspiel are supposed TO assume. Apart
from that" says The Automobile Magazine" 1T
is bound to interfere with the prosperity OF the
village stage driver and other rustic jehus'
she-Are you superstitious?
He-No, think not. But why do you ask?
She-I was going to get You a pocket knife for
anything sharp cuts friendship
TIe-Oh I'll risk I'm knife bV
a woman would cut anything.-(Chicago News.
George Everett the builder of postof1ces and
custom houses for the United States Government,
worked as a day laborer and stonecutter less than
twenty years ago.
Miss Crochet (after an attack upon the piano.
How do you like that? 1t Is a song without words
Fogg-it would be absolutely perfect but for one
Miss cEoch,et.what,is that; Pray' , rn.,..
Transcript
There are two well known families In Devonshrr
England the Carews and the Careys, and it is said
that the members OF the Carew family pronounce
the name Carey" while the Careys call them
selves "Carew."
The burglar listened.
The family. at the supper table below. did not
Cautiously he threw back the bedclothes and
opened the cornhusk mattress.
Of s5g he bGR Of ad go M seaGE
TO 10 say says 'ExceisorH "-{Chicaso Tribune
Professor Kollicker. OF the Naples Aquarium.
Gently went down into the Mediterranean in iron
cage lit up by electricity. With the aid OF a pow
erful receiver and a specially constructed phono-
graph he registered the expressions OF surprise
with which the fish welcomed his appearance. He
notes that the sound made by one fish differs
greatly from that OF another. and has summed up
the results his experiment In the conviction that
the sounds by fishes viii yet be recognized as "A
language.
Ordinarily said Colonel Stillwell II object To
the conundrum. l regard 1t primitive form OF
humor | also resent these constant jbes at the
State OF Kentucky. They represent both deficiency
OF taste and poverty OF resource. But tust to
show" he continued deliberately, that / am a
broadmnded man. who can accept a joke amIabIy
/ will ask YOU a question: What Is the differences
between the State OF Massachusetts and Ken
tuCky?'
Give II up. Colonel"
Massachusetts produces boots and shoes and
Kentucky produces shoots and booze. And want
to say I'm glad thought OF 1t first for II any body
else had sprung remark like that uneN-
pectedly wouldn't care TO answer for the conse-
quences.-( Washington Star,
Belgium will soon lose the Arenberg family who
are among the richest OF the mediatzed princes OF
the Holy Roman Empire They going to be-
come domiciled in Germany, where they have large
landed possessions. The palace in Brussels where
Count Egmont once lived. will be turned into IA
State palace OF savans" while the grounds have
been bought by the city and the picture gallery
will follow the family. The Arenbergs have here
torore been conspicuous In Paris rather than In
Berlin and one member OF the family IL now presi-
dent OF the Suez Canal Commission
Grimes-The chances are In favor OF a widow
marrying again against single woman getting a
husband.
Burns-That Is because widow Is content 20
regard men as pretty much all alike while a single
woman wastes her time trying 10 find one who Is
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