New-York tribune., 1901-12-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

, vacant contest over the election OF supervisor
In the town Of Perinton. Monroe County. n y
brings 70 public attention fact which may prove
OF interest to the Southern press 1t Is that the
,oI.icsI boss OF the town named has been for the
last ten years a negro barber ABE Iayior. NiS-
ifors 10 the State Capitol may remember MN aS
ianitor Of the Senate He was great lrleho Oh Iie
Iste Senator Cornelius r. Parsons. and owed much
~ his poltical nreferment to his efforts. Senator
Merton e Lewis has now assumed the role Oh pro-
tector and will that Abe Is not lorsot'e"
He was born about forty years ago oeIo" the Nidso
and Dixon line but has lived in the North for most
NJ his life He Is exceedingly black. dresses III the
haght of stye and manages his political campaigns
with tact and shrewdness- 1t has always oeei MS
noIicy never to for office himself. his rise 10
mower was probably due his practical control OF
Tho canal element which quickly recognized
~, ,ba far seeing eve OF George w. Aldridge. Inc
first organized opposition TO 'Abe's autocraeS oe
veloped this fall when he carried his canalaate ior
supervisor through by majority nNeo oS 'iie
courts at only 80
Recently public school teacher wrote rot, the nd sen r
onested some one In the school to correct and
One bright yCungseT Rfi6 up hos boys are
Sliding down Hill Why-Because they can't slide
up."-CTit-Bits.
The following epitaph is found on tombstone III
en- old cemetery in Vermont:
.-In silence his body must moulder 10 dnSt
Till deaths iron bondage his spirit snaiI IAN b iv,ne
rrhe untimely lost Frederick forever Will shine.
The spectacle of a clergyman with lighted IAN
tern battling with a ferocious bull was witnessed
near Oldtowu Nd. the other evening The animal
had tossed Joseph Baker into a barbed wire renee
and continuing down the road, ran into the Kew
John Crick who carried lantern and was about
IN enter schoolhouse to hold IL revival. He broke
the lantern over the bulls head, but would have
been worsted had not the congregation come to his
rescue The bull is large. The revival has been
suspended until the animal can be captured
Jimson-Fve hit it now. You know science has
discovered that flame Is susceptible to sound
Bilson-I'ye heard
want You to visit me at my villa on the Hudson,
my palace at Newport. as soon as ! have en-
fams of which will dodge way down at the sound
of a kss-(New-York Weekly
John Higgins a brakeman, who had both legs
cut off in an accident Emporia. Kan, last
September, has made a rather curious settlement
with the railroad company. He is to be taught
teegraphy the company's expense, and is to
have employment for life. He is also to be provided
with pair of cork legs.
.'Ive been in the business-well. more years than
would care to- TO- have people RnSw said said the he vet
perience that the world is growing better. l mean
to te be. I've been coming to Phadeipha for good
many years. and fiatter myself that | know all
whoop things up ten years I ago are now stad and
I meet them on chestnut-st of an afternoon it's
as much can get them to do to tip me wink
that their places are not being filled to any ex-
tent. The stage. door crowd nowadays is made
up principally of $40 a week clerks, who would
drop dead If you should hint wine. They're a
cheap lot The real people don't seem to have any
use for us any more. This is true not alone of
Philadelphia. but of most of the other large cities
as well, except New-York. The good thing still
fourishes in New-York '-(Philadeiphia Record.
An automobile hothouse is of the latest
elites in Paris. Baron Edmond de Rothschild has
Just had one constructed at a of 1900 francs
for the purpose of carrying hothouse plants from
his country estate to his house in Paris. The jour-
ney there and back used take two days. and
necessitated the lodging of three men overnight in
Paris. It is now performed IN the day and
will doubtless be considerable economy.
Sir Wemyss Reid who has Just returned from
America, has had a friendly bout with Mark Twain
the dinner table. and off victorious
Mark. Twain chatting Sir Wemyss the
vagaries of English pronunciation. You spell a
name B-e-a-u-c amp and pronounce IL March,
banks. he said: And you do precisely the same
thing" replied Sir Wemyss. What do you mean
asked Mark Twain well. you spell your name
Gle mems and you pronounce it Twain. lion
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