Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-22
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

lment Tor Benjamin Harrison will be In
the form OF an arch to cost $500, 000
lover $4,000 has already been raised.
| Major-General Baden Powell is soon
Ito receive a casket made of Tasmania
lblacl1wood. enameled and decorated
with gold and silver, from the men,
bers of the Tasmania relief force who
fought under him.
I A little man who pretended to be
VERY fond of his horse, but kept him
NEARLY starved, said to a friend: you
Idont know how much we think of that
horse. ! shall have him stuffed so as
to preserve him when he dies"
You'd better stun him now" re-
torted his friend. so as to preserve
him living"
William l.. Puffer. associate profess
Dsor of electrical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
has been made a member of the jury
of awards in the electrical division OF
the Pan-American Exposition.
1T may be merely fancy" remarked
Mrs. Seldom Holme, "but, since my
husband began drinking the water
from that iron spring he has seemed
to be ten times as obstinate as he used
Ito be.
Perhaps" suggested Mrs. Nexdore.
'the water is tinctured with pig-iron."
Dan Godfrey, the famous British
band leader, has recently obtained
damages for libel from publisher.
and a woman author for putting him
Unto novel, also an injunction against
the further publication of the book.
,Visitor-So you go to Sunday school?
suppose you have to answer a great
many difficult questions?
Tommy-Yes, ma'am.
Visitor-Well which do you find the
most difficult
| Tommy-How I got sand in nv
shirt and my head wet in church.
Frau Cosima Wagner's petition to
the German Reichstag to prolong the
Bayreuth monopoly OF "Parsifal" does
mot seem to meet with much favor.
The appeal signed by Humperdinck.
lNiemann, and other eminent men, was
circulated in Bayreuth during the re-
cent festival. but few OF the visitors
lsigned it.
Hist! hist" said the burgar as he
bent over the man of the house
Never mind replied the gentle
man. who was looking up into the re-
volver; my wife's away visiting rela-
ives. and l assure you that shall not
think of getting up to grapple with
you as long as she isn't here to accuse
me Of cowardice and tell the neigh
bors."
In the matter Of national debts it is
, an interesting fact that France, which
heads the list as to size-abOut IS $780,
/ 100000 funded-is also second among
the nations in the per capita interest
that this debt bears, an average OF
S6.2S year for every man, woman.
and child in the republic; and it is
significant, too, that in a country
'here the masses are unusually thrifty
and saving and always eager to invest
in government loans, the nation itself
manifests no disposition to repay the
principa.-in fact, the government
long ago ceased to concern itself over
obligations that belong to posterity"
so long as its paper" can always be
renewed at maturity. This latter can
hardly be accounted a popularity,
however. for. according to the investi-
cation of the subject detailed by
Treasury Statistician Austin in the
August North American Review, all
the Latin nations, both in Europe and
America, are markedly Indifferent as
to the ultimate payment of their debts
Great Britain and the United States
stand almost apart among the nations
in pursuing a policy that looks steadily
to the decrease of their debts.
Ambitious Politician don't think
I'll have bit of trouble in getting any
office l want Look how easily / was
elected last year. when the people
hardly knew me at all.
Trusty Henchman-But that's tn,
whole trouble. The people-hm-
know you now.
Duffer-Beefer. the butcher. is goinl
to get a divorce from his wife; h
says his affection has grown cod.
Snuffer-"I should think itwould. Sh,
J. shut him up in the ice box and wen
to the circus alone because he had re
fused to take her.
Nell suppose she's long and lanky
just the same as ever.
J. Belle-Not at all. You know she re
Il Gently came into fortune. She's "di
n vinely tall" now.
= Pleasure is often but change ,
l. pain. A man who has had the go'
IS feels first-rate when he gets down
g ordinary rheumatism.
E. The baby boy who at a show,
lie Aspires to win a prize,
le Just gurgles, dimples crows a bit