Evening journal., 1901-08-20
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

4 ~ 'HnAh 4AAlAN1f AAAil u gAHE All hAuuc
of labor, have concluded to employ Amer
lean negroes TO care for the animals The
negroes will be taken TO Africa under
pay and viii have their way paid back
10 America if they wish to return.
The speech in the House OF Lords Of
the Bishop Of Hereford on the subject Of
gambling recalls story told of Bishop
Potter, OF New York The bishop. travel
ing through Louisiana some years ago.
addressed inquiries TO his fcllow-passen-
gers with view to obtaining informa-
ton regarding the orchards and fruit in
terests Of the State.
A white minister was conducting re-
| ligious services in a colored church in
North Carolina recently. After exhort-
ing bit he asked an old colored deacon
to lead in prayer, and this is the appeal
which the brother in black offered for his
brother in white:
20 Lord, glib him de eye ob de eagle
dat he spy cut sin afar off. Glue ms
hands to de gospel ploy. Tie his tongue
TO de line oh truth. Nail his ear 10 de
gospel pole Bow his head way down
between his knees, and his knees way
down in some lonesome. dark and narrer
valley, where prayer is much wanted to
be made. 'Noint him wild de kerosene lie
oh salvation and sot him ON fire."
Her Mamma-Clara, dear, / hope
when that youngman calls on you, you
don't let him get too near.
Clara-Oh, no, mamma. When he is
here we have a chair between us all
the time
Requests amounting to $4,000 are
made to Southern Baptist Church bod
les by the win of the late Mrs. Sarah
Julia Smith, OF Louisville.
Colonel George w. Breckenridge, Of
San Antonio, Tex, has given SEQ 600
for the building of a school for the
negro children OF that city,
Andrew Carnegie will give $4,000
for free library building in Burling-
ton, VT, on the usual condition that
10 per cent of that sum be appropriated
yearly for library maintenance
aNtAaAOn AnNAAdltH EiIOHE Will
and obstinacy a strong won't.
The jealousy of a small individual
reminds one of a bottle of ginger pop
in state of rebellion.
Forty years ago President Lincoln
appointed John Jay Jacksun, of Park
ersburg, g. Va, judge OF the United
States Circuit Court. and he still holds
the position. During all these years
he has never failed but once to hold
court at the appointed time. That was
when Confederate troops under General
Loring were in possession of Charles
town, where the sessions were held,
and the session assigned for that date
had TO be postponed.
They say il takes EngIshmen a
long time to see a joke"
yes. 1 understand they have Just
begun laughing at the big prices paid
by those New York millionahes for the
wine that the king didn't consider fit
to drink"
Professor J. Scott Clark, of Chicago
University, who has been constructing
a large dwelling with his own hands
opposite to the campus in Evanston,
has given up the job and retired tenn
porarily from the carpenter trade He
was all right until he got to the roof,
but ne had TO call in two men who
make a business of building houses.
Our office boy hasn't returned from
his fresh-air vacation"
Haven't you heard from him?"
"Oh, yes; he wrote that he didn't like
the country very much; but if we'd let
his pay go on he'd stay two weeks
longer"
The old home of Francis Parkman
the historian, near the pond OF Jamaica
Plain, is now included in the parl
system OF Boston. The spot is to b'
marked by a memorial.
A young Arizona lawyer who re
GENTLY visited Denver gave the follow
ing as an example OF the style of jus
tice that prevails in some rem te sec
tons of the frontier:
A certain justice OF the peace. who's
knowledge of the law was never game,
from books or actual practice befor
the bar, was hearing an assault an
battery case. The lawyer for the de
Tense was shouting his arguments whei
the court said:
That will do. Set down"
He then adjusted his spectacles an
sagely observed:
Prisoner, sthand up AccDrdin' ia
tn law an tn evydince-an' there
no evydince-Oi foind yez guilty, so
an foine ye $50. II yez air guilt,
faith, it's a very loight sintince; al
II yez air not guilty it'll be a might
good lesson for We"
The miser makes the most Of ever.
thine bv making no earthly Use of an