New-York tribune., 1901-01-07
TIE TALK OF TIE DAY.

A recruiting officer who has been in Iowa says
that the percentage Of men accepted in that State
offering themselves for Army service Is consd-
erably above the average in any other State. En-
listments in Iowa are largely from the farms. and
the vast majority OF young fellows who offer them
selves are youag. strong and hardy.
Il should think you would be afraid to eat
typewriter to the brunette when they met at din
I'm not a Bit" replied the dark one; ''you see.
our office Is on the tnirtySxth r. M oSr ana when
-(Yonkers Statesman.
One hundred and forty-one tourists. composing
seventy-seven parties. are said 70 have climbed
Mont Blanc between June and october Of the
year 1900 OF these climbers thirty-nne were Swiss,
thirty-eight French. fifteen German and thirteen
American. No other country was represented by
more than five climbers.
rsBGg SGGEny THAT h Gssn %s es ex Rs % as
say so many wonderful things that they are lost
Pa-Yes; have heard that something of the kind
does happen now and then But why do you ask.
,Johnny-I notice that when when You make speech
-(Boston Transcript.
The Howard Gardner Nichols Memorial Library
building. which has recently been dedicated In
Alabama City. Ala. is said TO be the first building
erected in that State expressly for library purposes
distrust him Cordially.
Accordingly. when he remarked:
footr'
I did not say:
Feat you mean. monsieur
Which would enable him to exclaim:
"Ah! Zen you climb him more as Once"'
Instead, looked him squarely IN the eye until
he Quailed and skunk away.-(Detroit Journal
The New-England Sabbath Protective League
has asked the ministers OF Maine TO preach on
Sunday, January 20, the better observance of
Sunday and in favor Of the bill be introduced in
the Legislature forbdding all transportation COM
panies charging less than the usual fare for sun
day travel.
"Bigsby has extensively familiar way about
What's the new illustration
WAY every time he alludes 20 the twentieth
Plain Dealer
German papers say that Captain Baron Holzing
recently covered distance of fifteen kilometres
(nine and quarter miles) horseback in twenty
five minutes He was racing with railway train
from Graben 10 the neighborhood OF Carlsruhe. and
beat IL by eight minutes His horse had been
especially trained for the ride. having been on
a prepared food. instead of oats, for weeks The
ride accomplished without extraordinary ex-
erton. and the horse 1T for more work at the
finish.
What do you find IN that stupid old paper to
couple
II was just looking at the money market" he
"Oh. do they have money market? Are there
ever any bargains? "-(lndianapolls Press.
lecturer at the London polyclinic declared at
recent meeting that the progress OF leprosy could
be arrested if sufferers would abstain wholly from
eating fish. He cited several cases in his own
experience. One was that of a man who was blind
from leprosy. and who had had muscular atrophy
for fifteen years. After eighteen months alb
stinence. taking at the time small doses OF
arsenic. all traces OF patches had disappeared from
his hands and feet.
Smith, suppose Dohher regards himself the
greatest artist that ever handled brush.
JoneS-You do Dobber injustice. He never
presumed 10 regard himself in any such light
Why, / have heard him say, very nodestly. that
he was second Raphael. Isn't that admitting
that Raphael was a greater painter than himseifa
-(Boston Transcript