New-York tribune., 1901-04-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

| A Tom Johnson Presidential button has made its
| appearance IN the West. which is printed the
| legend Why not Johnson?" Thus far the
! Editor of THE Commoner' does not appear to have
| heard of the button
Her pater left her lots Of wealth.
And that was patrimony
Her mater made match for her
| anu 'A'' MA IlPhilsdelphia Record
Larry Peppard fell in an old we'll in Cincinnati
the other day. and his working mate, James Cav
anaugh, called down TO him:
Are yez there. Larry?''
| Back came the answer like voice from the
grave:
"Shure an Dim not top"
Are yez hurted Larry?"
"Jist little skin is scraped on
Say Larry dis big shtone is liable to fall on
yez any minnit.''
For hiven's sake. raymove it. see shtars from
here but l don't want EN- to git closter
Are yez wet?
mo We soiled gorsoon. Dim dhry Pro-
hibition convention.
Finally rope lowered to Larry He tied 1t
under his arms and he drawn to daylight
What is the marriage rate in these
'"The marriage rate. responded the native proud
ly, lis 81 for the license an KISS from the Dride-
The sheriff gets BOTH an I'm the sheriff '-(Phila-
dephia Record
An evangelist named Walker the other day sent
the following letter to the postmaster of Omaha,
requesting him to forward it to a woman VINO re-
Gently received legacy of $4,000: Dear Sister:
AS read this article 1 took you to be widow
If you are not please excuse beg pardon or
you and your husband If you are a widow and
don't wish to live alone and would like TO marcy
good Christian man with no bad habits and good
traid and with property would be glad TO
talk to you through the mails. You will see the
business that am in. 1 represent a science that
meals the soul well the sinner. know
what I talking about. I proving my words
! tla HAGly and
receive: ask anything in my name and II will be
given The bible says: 1t is not well for man 10
be alone I suppose that it IS his fault that so
many of them is living alone. 1 wish 1t was the
custom for women to propose. There would be
more marrying for women is more prompt and
| more capable OF proposing. am 80 years old. 8
feet 10 inches tall. weigh $50 pounds and am the
| picture of health. Yours,
EVANGELIST WALKER"
Fame" said the youth with the earnest intel
difficuit for one to get himself talked about!''
Humgh Tsi2nsd the woman NON t With n HGld s m blue m
our yrS neighborhood Siig ic '-cwashington Star
| A Hebrew Messianic convention for the promo
ton Of Christianity among Jews will De held In
] Boston May Il. The Rev. DIR. A. I. Pierson, OF
| this city. will preside and about fifty Hebrew
Christians will be present. Two questions Will be
| discussed. namely: Is a Hebrew obliged. by the
terms of essential Christianity. in becoming
Christian. to abrogate the ritual of Mosaic Judaism.
| customs ceremonies
| Hebrew who becomes a Christian retain and OBJ
serve the ritual of his fathers. II he will? Has he
| an option. If he has the preference? A consensus
| OF opinion this subject will be collected and
read from professors of Hebrew and students of
| Hebrew literature in the theological seminaries OF
| the different evangelical denominations and from
clergymen in the pastorate.
| An elderly woman. who had brought UP her chill
dren the "Go-and seew ha tJoe-isd doingand-tell-
hint stop and if he won HIM" lines
| was talking with young mother about her one
| hopeful and II came out that he had been spared
| the rod.
| do you mean TO say that you whip him -
exclaimed the elder woman.
| Never That is-never-except In self-defence" ="
was the falterng reply.-CYouths Companion.
| During Lent the Archbishop Of Cambrai (France)
allowed butter the faithful. but the Archbishop
of Journal CBelgium) forbade its The Flemings
| of Tournai asked butter during the
| forty days of Lent. But Cambrai is near the Bel
| gum frontier and not far from Tournai. Many
| men from Journal go into Cambra to work during
! the day, and to their home at night They
did butter in Belgium; they took their bread
! we'll buttered with them and ate both while at
| Cambria.
! When I came OF age" said Mr. Softeigh Il
| promised mother that I'd never marry until found
| the right girl
! Indeed" exclaimed Miss Sharpe.
| Yes. and-er-you're the right girl
| That's too bad. for you're the wrong man. -
| philadelphia Press