New-York tribune., 1901-06-22
THE TALK Of THE DAY.

Uncle Sam is so bound up with red tape" says
The Philadelphia Record that he sometimes
has TO take money out OF pocket and put IL
In another. Occasionally he pays 1t back into the
same pocket again. is just now being exempli-
fled I'm the Of certain importations OF
chInery for the new Philadelphia Mint II was
found that in the fine details of some of the more
delicate bits OF mechanism necessary 20 the coin
ing of money the Germans We're ahead of us and
some Of the machinery has been imported. In
spite of the fact that this has been consigned to
the United States Government. the Treasury De-
partment has been called upon to pay the usual
rate Of duty it. AS all the revenues from the
various custom houses find their way 10 the Treas
ury Department in this instance it isn't even
question OF exchanging money from pocket
to another. Here Uncle Sam just takes II out
and puts 1t back again where 1t came from
AT Topeka a colored mems undertaking estab-
iishment advertises that we will spare time
and money to make 1t pleasant for all our Gus
toners" And 1t Is a great thought. for in this
Journal
MANY years ago." writes New-Hampshre
clergyman in The Boston Journal" 'it was the
store liquors in church cellars In Ros-
ton. Not all OF them. but many of them. AS late
1850 and probably later. the cellar of the stone
church on Bowdoin Square used by the Trull
Distillery near by Qtts-st. IL l am right for
the ripening in hogsheads OF New-England rum
Some one found In n hymn book In a pew and cop-
led In there the following verses:
There are spirits above and spirits below:
The spirits OF love and the spirits of woe
The spirits above are the spirits of love;
The spirits spirits below are the spirits of
The spirits below are the spirits OF wine.
II have myself frequently watched the men mt
ting hogsheads of into the cellars or tajzing
them out"
De Witt-Yes my son follows the medical nro-
fession P'o
Gabbil-With his black clothes and white lawn tie
De Witt didn't say he was a doctor eJJa,s o
Observation-Disclosures Press. " "h
A Kansas soldier in the Philippines notes a nam
temperance force which is work In the army
"We have" he says, "a lot OF native soldiers en-
listed here. When one OF the white boys gets drunk
the captain puts native soldier over him and the
native puts on lots of airs while marching him
around. II grinds the boys so that they wouIdn.t
get drunk If they could"
I've brought you little brother" said the doc
No" said the Impossible Child "the stork
brought my little brother
We'll, I'm the stork," said the
but where is your bill? said the Impossible
Child.
upon the occasion Of somebody being born into the
famiy.-(Detroit Journal
The Boston tells this story Of the late
Judge Thompson. of the Superior Court of Massa-
chusetts In the State campaign OF 1878 John ID
Long was making his first for Governor, against
General Butler. who had captured the Democratic
nomination. and Judge Josiah @. Abbott. who was
the candidate Of the old line Democrats Thomp-
son was making speech for Abbott before a big
Democratic audience, and after praising his cand-
date a jurist and statesman. asked sar
casticaIly: And nc who is John L-L-Long?'
No one answering. q Proceeded: They s-s-say he