New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-25
THE TALK or THE DAY.

William Castle the tenor" saws THE PhiIa-
delphia Record" ''who sang the leading male roles
with Caroline RchinCs. Parepa Rosa. Clara Louise
Kellogg and Emma Abbott. In the city the
other day on his way from Chicago to the sea-
shore. ana was chatting of some odd rewards won
I'm the musical world. one of the queerest char
acters l met said Mr. Castle, was the pro-
prietor of the old National Hotel. Terre Haute.
Ind. While the guests at the table he would
size up their appctites. We'll. I'll be burned" he
would say IF | know how I kin afford to feed
you critters fer what 1 git" on the shelves in
the dining he had cans OF preserves. which
he highly priced. one night | sang a song in the
hotel parlor In a burst Of admiral ton he rushed
up 10 me. grasped my hand and shouted. "Damme
If I won't give you can of peaches!"'"
Yes" said Travers Il came home from Europe
on the Norcania. and poor fellow died board
Gee whzzr' exclaimed Hallrume that ship
must have been as bad as Mrs Starvem's house.
philadelphia Record.
Among those whom the Maine Central has en-
poyed TO replace its striking trackmen are about
a dozen graduates of the engineering division of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology. who
are patrolng the tracks now. The officials say
that they make excellent worknen. and TO
be enjoying the experience and turning their
theory TO the practical OF keeping switch lamps
burning.
Mister" said Meandering Mike. II have just
heard your time was worth 30 cents second"
II was jes goin' to stop you to You what
time IL is. but YOU kin give me de 30 cents instead
Washington Star.
When a London lad asked what the Lord
had made he replied. THE earth. the sea- and all
the tindummies.' Not until the examiner had ex-
erted his mental faculties until he was almost
wreck did he solve the riddle. IAN the tindum-
mics" was shorthand. more probably. Lon
donese for "aIl that In them is.
Uncle Jerry Ardhedd had two neghbors both
of a somewhat controversial turn. One a man
who contended that nothing could be positively
known that not capable of absolute proof or
M theTnatiCal demonstration; the other
posed dOgmatiZe about everything.
They met at his house evening. and a long
argument things theological and otherwise en-
sued between the with
Neither of the dtsputants succeeded in convincing
the other. even in shaking his opinion.
well" said Uncle Jerry, drawing a long breath
very much difference, after all between an aznos-
tic and-and cognostc"-(Youth's Companion.
The list Of this years prize winners at the Uni
slavata Victoria Hruska. Cronin Hanson. strom-
son. Swarts and Krebbs.
old Fashioned Pastor-You observe no falling OF
In spirituality in your congregation. hope?
Popular Young Clergyman-I think congrega-
tion has never been active In church work as
now The ladies' ice cream socials are excellently
attended and our last rummage sale realized near
ly 1915 for the organ fund--(Chlcago Tribune.
For many generations after the first bale OF cot
ton raised the United States was sent to market
most of the plantations OF the country were
east of the Father OF Waters. But now nearly
half OF the entire American crop OF cotton comes
from the territory west OF the Mississippi and in
a few years the percentage OF the production IN