New-York tribune., 1901-09-22
THE TALK OF THE DAT.

The Catholic Standard and Times thus explains
the celebration of masses in connection with the ILL
ness and death OF President Mckinley: THE
Church does not publicly offer mass for the repose
of the souls OF those who die outside her fold.
Since the doctrine which the is founded is
repudiated by some of these, IL would be stranins
charity to do While this is the official attitude
of the Church however, there is rule to prevent
any priest celebrating mass Of his voltion tor
such purpose; nor is there any reason TO prevent
individual Catholics praying for the souls OF those
who have not died in the faith, inasmuch as our
Holy Church considers all who have received Chris
tian baptism belonging to her In certain sense.
They may be of the soul of the Church. though out
side the body"
this? It's the worst tobacco ever tasted.
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-(Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Isabel savory tells in her book. "A Sports
woman in India" this story about man she knew
He had henhouse and hen that sitting. but
unluckily for her Matching operations cobra got
through chink in the henhouse. The cobra made
a fine meal OF we'll warmed eggs, but when it es-
sayed to retire by the hole through which it
had entered it found those eggs in the way. 1t
much too large to get out, so IL stuck in the
hole. half In the henhouse and half outside. There
it discovered the next morning in a surfeited
condition 1t paid for its greedness with its life.
and then It paid back the eggs 1t had stolen: for
when the body of the snake was opened the eggs
We're all found unbroken and warm They were re-
placed under the hen. and in due time were hatched
the worse for their peculiar incubation The
strange fact that the cobra could swallow whole
an egg much bigger than It's own head is accounted
for by the peculiar construction of that head The
head and jaws OF the cobra are loose, and can be
enormously stretched and distorted
Partly True:-A person Of an nvestigatins turn m
rs it true" he asked, that you have been a
sufferer. from neuralgia for seventeen years!
Yes. sir. replied the man.
Us it that you have 5ssn CURED Of i By taxi
Wen, that's partly I've taken the six bot
tles."-(ChicaGo Tribune.
Country roads In Norway are barred at frequent
intervals by gates which either mark the bound
aries of farms separate the cultivated fields from
the waste lands These gates, of which there are
upward of ten thousand in the whole country con-
stitute considerable nuisance and delay to travel
lers who have stop their vehicles and alight to
open them.
Laertes de Hamme-Miserable house tonight
| Beggarly array OF, empty benches
nops ene That even Sen the empty scans
were In tiers?-( Baltimore American.
The Mayor of Buenos Ayres has issued an order
prohibiting those municipal employees who handle
the public funds from attending the races An in
vestigation had shown that on race days ma
jorty of the oficeholders We're not to be found at
their posts but at the racetrack.
A Japanese firm has leased an old brewery in
West Berkeley. Cal, and proposes to manufacture
liquors for the Japanese residents or this country.
Japanese beverages made here can be sold at 4
price much lower than the cost of the imported
liquors at San Francisco
THE Kennebec (Me1 Journal. says: THE plan
to stock the woods of Maine with elk from Wyoming
or some Of the Western States which was outlined
in the papers short time since, has caused no
little amount OF interest among Maine guides and
hunters and among sportsmen generally. Although
nothing has been said officially in connection with
the matter yet 1t is probable that the plan will
| culminate in a bill which will be brought before
the next session OF the legislature. Until that time
nothing can be done. There is little doubt as 10
the feasibility of the plan, and many OF the most
experienced guides in the State have come out in
| favor OF IL,
| Mistress-Margaret. told you could not permit
you to entertain male callers IN the Ritcheh fou
! Maid-I know il. mum, but that was Tim
Murphy tur rble bashtul feller. Ye'd never injuce
! him to stip into the parlor.-tBoston transcript
During the year $4,000 pieces Of mail matter ad-
dressed to British soldiers In South Africa were re-
| turned undelverable.
SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM
Sixty-nine pages of rubbish.
Twenty-Five pages or rot.
Forty-six pages or scandal Vie'
Served to piping hot
Seventeen hundred pictures
| Death, disease and despair;
Lies and fakes and fakes and lies
Sandwiched in everywhere.
Thirty-four sad comic pages.
Printed in reds. greens and blues:
Thousands of items We don't care 10 read
! 'N' 0''' -Pres. and Ink.