New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Mrs. Maria Ferguson. of Los Angeles. Cal- has
issued the first Dawson City Yukon and Alaska
directory. The volume contains nine hundred pages
and many mining maps
A certain young member of the Rittenhouse Club
freely admits his his conclusion that he
has money than brains. 1t seems that, while
travelling through the interior OF that country ne
was prevailed upon by one Of the sons OF the
Prophet to buy at an exceedingly high price a
Syrian lamb fleece" When he returned to Ph1a-
dephia he this TO his tailor with instructions
to use it for lining heavy ulster he was having
made. A week or so later he called at the tailor s
enough material Mr. Blank.' remarked the pro
pretor OF the store so had to send out Out to get
impossible cried the traveller. You can't get the
fleece anywhere in America. It's to be had only in
SYRIA II think you're mistaken replied the
tailor in this country we call it rabbit skin" -
philadelphia Record.
They say that after the Duchess OF York had
visited one of the schools in Toronto and had gra
ciousIy written her name on The school register
the teacher passed around the ink bottle in order
that each pupil might dip finger in the ink into
which a duchess had dipped the pen.
The CAPITALIST colored when he spoke Of the check
that hung in neat frame over h his E desk hor A OF
ever made."-(Detroit Free Press
The Treasury Department Washington recent
IL received a letter from Great Grimsby. England
II contained a fifty dollar Confederate note. and
IN rather pompous language demanded that It's
equivalent in gold be forwarded at once 10 the
address given. Treasury officials say that the IN
cIdent was not an uncommon one Although the
Civil War closed thirty-six years ago. Confederate
notes and bonds are received two and three times
n week Nearly all OF them come fhm England
where the bonds were sold Few people in the
United States are nveiged into purchasing or CIV
ing yaIue -ar the Confederate obligations Some OF
rho Fnglishmen who have been notified that the
bonds and notes are worthless have grown indis-
nant end replied 70 the department that they
proposed TO take action looking TO the creation OF
an international incident unless the paper is re-
deemed.
.Dld YOU ever hear about President Roosevelt's
last night No? Well. l didn't either until
struck Savannah the other day A good old lady
was telling me about II. Roosevelt was brought
there By his mother when ne was a boy ten or
twelve years old. He was rather weak looking
kid the lady says. and was more Ike 4 bdpy
than a twelve-year-old boy. There was only one
thing about him that gave any key TO his future
career and YOU have to read backward TO see that
TIe was passionately fond of the ginger cakes
vended about the streets OF Savannah, even on to
made in the shape OF horses To have seen that
weakIinE munchng his ginger cake In shape of a
horse YOU wouldn't have thought OF the future
leader Of the Rough Riders. But he loved the horse
to study the early doings of national characters
NAV find something TO build upon in that fact one
thing certain ginger has not vet gotten out OF
his system.''-( Atlanta Constitution
1T was evident" says Beverages" that the
owner of the Brooklyn saloon who. on the day OF
the late Presidents funeral, displayed this sign: