Evening journal., 1901-09-26
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

frequently spends the whole day from
Z to in the woods in pursuit OF cham
lois or deer, though sometimes, when
the weather is bad, he may not get a
single shot.
( The Hungarian Minister of the In
terror has issued an order directing
that no waitress shall be employed
in a cafe in Budapest who is not more
than forty years Of age.
i Cecil Rhodes is going to erect a. NOM
ument to Major Allen Wilson and his
ltwenty-four men who were surrounded
and massacred by the Matabele saw
ages during the war against Lobengula
The monument. a monolith, having
bas-reliefs on it's four sides by John
Tweed, of London. will be built on the
spot where the massacre took place.
j Major Hiram Paulding, -gr;ndsOn of
John Paulding. one of the captors of
Major Andre at Tar.ytown, during the
Revolution. died at his home in White
Plains on Tuesday night He was
Vice-Fresident Of the Andre Memorial
~
j. Tildem was president.
Pokeleigh- What is that quotation
about a watched pot?"
Fournush-T don't know, but / can
assure you that never sat in a game
whore the pot wasn't watched very
closely.
Some girls when ask ed to elope, are
like ice. At first they sre cold and re-
fuse you, then they melt and run away
We get old trying to stay young, but
we do not stay young trying to get
old.
Age ever looks backward; youth for
ward, SO the two newer see the same
cenery Of life.
The independence of the people of
.lthis country is strongly demonstrated
by the man who wears a straw hat and
an overcoat.
/ A woman's love for her husband
causes her forever to suspect him. Her
love for her son makes her forever be-
4 ieyo in him.
Many a man has thought he had
mission when it was merely a disincli-
nation to work.
Anson Dobson, the poet, wanted in
carly life to be an engineer, and was
preparing for that profession when
his parents persuaded him to enter the
civil service.
Miss Kuehne Beveridge, who has
been commissioned to make a bust of
King Edward, of England, is a grand
daughter of Former Governor Bever-
idge, of Il.inios. Her mother is the
Baroness Won Wrede.
Two hundred carloads of steel hav
just been sent to supplant the woodei
bridges in the Sacramento canyon
Cal.
There is a panic among the S.OOOl
men at Cape Nome who want to get
home over the lack of vessels. Thel
ice pack is already forming
In order to improve the skill of the !
man behind the gun the Governmen
is about to inaugurate a new gunner
practice system for both large and
small guns. For big guns targets will
be made 60 feet long, of spars, from
(which miniature masts 10 feet righ will
rise. rugged with canvas, and shots Will
be fired at them at 1000 yards vessel
making eight knots an hour. The
navies of all other nations are having
their gunners go through the same
practice, and many plans are evolved
to make conditions of gunnery prac-
tice as close TO conditions in actual
combat as possible.
The former Governor Of the Yukon
Territory figures out $2OO,OOO,OOO gold
in the Klondike placers
The New York banks keep nearly
s9OO,OOO,OOO loaned out.
Hat manufacturers are so overcrowd-l
ed with orders that customers areI
Obliged TO wait their turn.
What VIII rank among the largest
bridge building plants in the United
States is to be erected on Staten
Island. n. Y
Berlin. Germany is to be equipped
with a Chicago telephone system
which has been under test for fifteen
months.
The Gar of Russia is described as
having been bright but rather shy
little hoy Of 13 when his father. Alex
ander III. was crowned. His school
room at the Anitchkoff Palace, on the
Nevski Prospekt IN ST. Petersburg. was
an uncarpeted and very badly furnish
ed room. with desks and forms running
round IT, like a room in an English
village school. The only decorations
on the walls were those which had