New-York tribune., 1900-04-17
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Speaking of the recent visit of the Carlisle Indian
Band. THE Boston Transcript" says: "Fifty-hve
Indian youths. all in charge OF full bloOded
Apache Indian, with " hte manager or dis
cplin8rian any other white with them
at all. spent week In Boston without the smallest
incident Of disorder There drinking nor
any other infraCtion of the most seemly require
ments of good conduct. 1t is almost unima ginab bic
that the same number of students from Harvard
Yale, Cornell. or even Amherst should spend
week in distant city concert or any other
sort OF tour without some of their members in
dulgng in spree l suppose shall all be MAX
ing a great fuss the Cuban teachers when
they come next summer. ! hope SHALL It Will be
good for us as well as for the Cubans But /
think that a little more social attention to this
group Of Indian students from city which is sup
posed to be quite sentimental the subject of
Indians. would have been in order when had
them here"
The long solemn gentleman with the piercing eyes
in front of him. ALLOW me TO present YOU said
he handing ding the the M & sms nal PaGkage
fully. as he opened the package and found about
the solemn gentleman Il have noticed Your earnest
efforts to have everything twice Therefore have
may come tomorrow. instead of trying to get your
Press.
Louis Goldschmidt, the United States Consul at
La Guayra says that I'm the whole of Venezuela
there Is not American drygoods store, this
branch of business being controlled almost
clusively by Germans French native Venez-
uelans. European manufacturers also TO be
able book large orders among the wealthier
classes there, although there IS no reason why
lively American firm could not OutClass any Euro
pean merchant represented in the country Great
care should be taken says the Consul to make the
packages or bales as light as possible. Articles of
a dissimilar classification should be put up in
the package or bale, the whole Is O
be assessed for duty according 20 the goods
which the highest rate Is demanded.
Amid the lace bargains in one of the large de-
crossed IN thought, set her little Japanese spaniel
on the counter; One of the salesgirls not seeing
the little dog threw n remnant OF reduced lace over
him and entirely submerged him. When the
found. but several shrili yelps accompanied by an
upheaval OF the lace. BETRAYED his presence. He
woman. showering kisses upon his moist. upturned
cneap. 50-cent lace!' The saiesgiri who evidently
had cultivated diplomacy assured the dogs mis-
cents and the woman took her pet away. Modified.
philadelphia Record.
Merchants manufacturers and professional men
in Chicago who employ boys combining to re-
fuse applications for work from all lads under six
teen who confess to the cigarette habit. Deceit on
the part OF the boy avails but little since the
fingers are carefully examined for the sign manual
of the nicotine AS for the result. boy recently
admitted that at none Of ten places TO which he
had gone for work in week had the question az
TO whether ne SMOKED cigarettes oeeh omitted
Returned Fighter-And as l was being carried
away I'M ammunition wagon =
Lstener-DQn't YOU mean the ambulance wagon?
mo sir; | was full OF bullets they put me nm
the ammunition wagon"-(Chicago News
Jer Davis. octogenarian negro who died at
Palestine, Tex the other day, was former slave
of President Davis of the Confederate States At
the close OF the civil War the ex-slave went TO
Palestine from his masters home in Mississippi
and lived ever since the farm OF John IL
Reagan. the sole surviving member OF the Con-
federate Cabinet.
Deacon Wayback with paperl-It sez here that
the price NV Bibles has been raised % per cent by
the Bible trust.
Mrs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. gracious! It's gittn'
harder tew be saved every day.-(Puck