Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-08-29
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

WI NM lhA'Af anu Aldl he never
'lsweryed from his object.
d A Defnition.-Andrew, do you know
what an orphan is?
Andrew Yessum. A orphun is Were
bote your parents dies before youse is
born
Clown was at first a tattooed person
I'm Britain and France the country peOL
pie retained the habit of tattooing or
OF painting tine faces in imitation OF
iattooing long after it had been aban
doned in the cities.
In his recently published biography of
Eleanora Duse, Luigi Rasi notes that
although she began her theatrical ca
reer at the age OF four, she was not a
child prodigy and did not attract at
tention as a promising actress" till she
was twenty Her father was an OBJ
scure actor. and the family was so
poor that once when Eleanora' S
mother was lying in a hospital. the
hungry child used to go there daily to
eat the food the mother was too i'll to
take herself.
Mrs. Whyte-I hear that you have
sent your daughter to Bryn Mawr
Is she learning rapidly?
Mrs BrOwne-Yes, indeed She can
spell the name of the college now the
first time trying,
Judge Charles Carroll Goodwin has
been editor of the Salt Lake Tribune
for more than twenty years. As
writer and speaker he is popular and
influential in his State
Briggs-spudkins has nerve, hash
Griggs-Nerve! Why he borrowed
my dress suit to go to a wedding. had
it altered to fit him, then told the tail
or to send it home with the bill
c. o. ID.
American cement finds a good mar
ket in Mexico. Mexico imported last
fiscal year CLOSING June 30. 1901
more cement from the United States
than any other country.
Only 116 passengers of British ships.
last year, lost their lives through ship
wreck
Finland me. wretch"
The tense tones of the heroine float
ed over the auditorium. and the people
In the boxes stopped right in the mid
die of their conversation.
IA ~.
The villain gazed at her with a cold
eruel sheer ON his grease paint. Then
he Missed:
II am no surgeon"
But next performance. the stage
manager made him cut that out.
Miss Florence M. Lyon, Phi. d.. has
resigned from The department of bot
any Smith College. to become associ-
ate In botany and dean of Beecher
Hall at the University of Chicago.
A girl with blistered lips canl tell
any amount Of reasons how it han
pened but she can't tell why she looks
guilty when she is telling them.
Theoldhomeof Francis Parkham. the
historian, near the pond in Jamaica
Plain. is now included in the park
system Of Roston. The spot Is to b
marked by memorial.
Mrs. Gossippe-How does it come
Mrs. Swagger invited you to her party ?
thought you We're enemies.
Mrs. Snappem-We are. but she
thought I had nothing fit to wear and
wanted to make me feel bad.
In recent letter to a friend Count
liolstoy referred TO the effect of age in
freeing the mind from its depend
ence on the body. As a young man, he
said, any bodily illness depressed his
mind also. whereas in his present ill
ness the mind has retained all its
freshness and power of lucid thinking
Oars life in de oil Ian yit; but e
you wants ter see it you might ez wei
make up yo' min ter roll up 70
sleeves en- dig deep.
Wen de cows kicks de milk owe
des thank de good lawd fer water ell
keep a-gwine.
Some folks says de worl' amt n,
fr'en' ter grace; but It frequent hap
pens dat class er people wouldn't know
what grace wuz eff dey met it comm
long de big road.
Heaven amt so fur off wen vol
tries ter climb ter it on a ladder e
love-
Hubbard b. Mcdonald. the journa
clerk Of the United States Senate, Is
credited with being the ablest parlia,
, mentarian connected with that body
He is, moreover, the third of his fam
lily to hold the position. as his fathe
and grandfather preceded him.
, Some New Hampshire people tar
red and feathered a village black
smith the other day.
(, Did they? What would Longfello'
say to that"
Never mind what Longfellow woul
say. The question is, What will tn