New-York tribune., 1901-06-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Kansas school board received the following
letter the other day from OF the teachers: II
would Ike 10 have the refusal OF the school as long
as YOU willing to hold it for me. though l can't
say positively that / Will not teach. positively
that Will. II am married. I think I will be.
OF course ] Will the school But you
know the old story about many slip. and would
hate 10 be out OF Job we'll the other
TIowne-sR2oonser's in high feather just now.
Towne-Ove the thought that he's got some rar-
ticular friends residing in Buffalo.
Browne don't see any occasion for sponger's
}Sy F}ess II they're really Philadelphia
Mrs Nancy b Irving Of Chicago. who has pub
lshcd a book intended prove that under the pres
ent social conditions business cannot he conducted
honestly, offers reward Of $1,000 to the business
professional who proves that he has done
hts work for month without lying
Those new neighbors humllIated me dreadfully
to-day"
How"
they had forgotten theirs when they moved And
I'm almost sorry let en- take it,"
Because it doesn't look as if It ever had been
used."-tClevelanl Plain Dealer.
The Kenneoec CMe) Journal says: What car
pentors used one hundred years IN place OF
shcathins paper while erecting the better class OF
buildings recently shown in Saco while the
carpenters overhauling the Cults house on
the high blum overlooking Factory Island wharves
Al the southwest SdG II was round best TO pun
some OF the ciapboards. What appeared 10 be loose
pieces Of birch bark found underneath. II was
AT first thought one or two pieces had been put I'm
by chance. But investigation the carpenters
saw that the carpenters who built the house in l7S2
had laid sheets Of birch bark on the sheathing to
close over the cracks. These sheets were held by
small handmade nails Of wrought iron. Over this
were laid handmade claphoards OF pumpkin pine"
Its First Use" Maria" said a business man. re-
siding the suburbs. TO his wife. you have been
Tho workmen Will and put one in to-day
can me up, after they have gone away. TO if it
late in Che afternoon there was call at the tce-
phone IN MS oHicc downtown.
Putting the receiver to his ear. he recognized the
voice OF his wife pitched in a somewhat high key.
..Yes'@ ls sn'' Sou' James, she asked
Wil, You please & so out right now and mail that
He had forgotten it. of course. and he obcyed-
youths Companion.
The Parliamentary register for 1896 showed that
there was then only potwalloper in all Eng
land. One seeing the term for the first time might
easily imagine that potwalloper was species of
ichthyosaurus or some other reptile Of a Dast age
1t will be discovered upon inquiry, however that
the term potwalloper" is literally one who boils
pot. and applied to voters in certain borouebs
OF England where before the passage of the Re
form bill Of 1882 the qualification for suffrage was
have boiled (walloped) his pot In the pa rish
for six months.
a Great Relef.-Mrs. Catterson-T thought
would come and tell you that your Harold has
been fighting with my Bobbe. and settle the mai
ter II | could
Mrs. Hatterson-Well, for my part. | have no
time TO enter into any discussion about children's
quarrels; hope am above such things
I'm delighted to hear that. I'll send Haro,d
over on stretcher In an hour or so."-(Harper's
Bazaar
There are" says The Buffalo Express "sora
businesslike young women employed as demonstra
tors the food exhibits the Pan-Amcrican
grounds One of them dishes out apple butter for
some such dope) cracker. whomsoever win
eat. A young man took his dose the other dav
and then wishing TO be jocular. remarked win
an ingratatng air: That's good apple butter Just
like mother used TO make The young wnnap
struggled with her desire to be polite for a mo-
ment: then her business instinct triumphed ana
she replied: Much better Your mother had
neither the knowledge the facilities to make
such apple butter"
Poor Bertie.-'No boys. BERTHE can't come out
this afternoon"
us he sick?
mo he isn't sick. His sister, who goes 10 the
Wornn's College, borrowed his clothes to wear AT
a play and he has to stay home. ."(Cleveland Plain
Dealer.