New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08
CARPE DIEM.

Oh you who hear men cheer to-day
And aud the deeds you've done.
Its course will soon be run!
Though roses in profusfon lie
Your joys will soon take wings and ny,
For glory ages fast!
What was his name? An. we'll
No matter-he's forgotten; so
A year from now what singer.
VIII figure on the printed page
With honor-who can say?
A man may sink ship or feet
Defying fear and death.
And gather glory that is sweet.
And lose it in a breath,
E mdo mdy vita Shhr Rif a~ smbm 6et he's
And cheered in heaven who can please
-(Chicago Times-H Herald
The University of California holds in trust a fund
the interest of which be used each year for
the purchase of medal to be presented to the
advanced student. This year the interest
happened TO amount TO as much as $40. and the
Regents of the university at first puzzled to
know how to put such large sum into gold
medal. The conditions under which the trust is
held would not permit OF giving the fortunate
student a 500 medal and the balance in cash as
proposed so 1t was decided to inciose the
medal in a case into which the surplus gold should
be worked that it could be easily taken out and
disposed of as the holder might fit.
Fuddy-That WAS a terrible revenge that Gorson
F. Duddy-What was that?
Fuddy-why. he settled with stopple by making
to plumb the premises. and doesn't get a cent for
n.-(Boston Transcript.
Law Notes. tells of a Texas negro who owes
his present right to liberty and the pursuit hap
piness to sojourn In jail He was unprecedented
charge of hog stealing and committed Jail
pending trial. At the time of his arrest he was a
lanky. boned specimen. but during the period
of his incarceration he waxed so fat and improved
greatly in personal appearance that when. at
the end of two months. the day set for his trial
came around of the witnesses We're able to
he the man who stole the hogs. The
witnesses doubtless reminded of that unre-
fined but irresistible ditty "All Coons Look Alike
Me
Lady, Yes; hope and charity Is right. But what
is the first thing We all need TO make Us happy?
Small Girl-'Usbands Miss.-(Punch.
Philadelphia man who has just taken the
pledge explains this act by saying that when he
drunk recently ne committed the folly OF
paying his debts
Parke-They say horse has every disease a
Jane-I Know il. / bought one from friend re
centiy.-tlIfe.
General Miles Is quite kidder.'" says ex-
Army officer quoted by The New Orleans Times
Democrat and he likes to have fun with new
reporters. | remember some years ago he told an
unfortunate Washington correspondent long
story about a gun metal that genius In
Oklahoma Kalamazoo was supposed have
just discovered. II was wonderful alloy which
was tough steel ana light = aluminium
BY It's USE the General said IL would be possible
to build guns which would weigh more than the
immense proiecties which they fired. The CORE
spondent delighted, and of and wrote 4,
beautiful article which produced spasms OF laugh
ter throughout the entire artillery service You
see IL doesn't require very profound know ledge
OF ballistics TO know that IL "a gun and projectils
both weigh exactly the same amount they would
fly In opposite directions with exactly the same
velocity when the piece was fred
No Fun-May-You didn't go to the theatre with
your Cousin Tom after all! ! thought your nanca
had objection.
Mabei-Iie hadn't. That's why I didn't co.
Judy.
Within the last six months six hundred farmers
have left Upper Michigan and gone to the Da-
kotas
Potter.I see they are using castor oil on weakly
house plants IN the East.
Diggs (who has lug hts wife flower t,h,
around the house q half dozen times a y>arI-
Good enough for 'em-<Cieveland Plain Deaisr