New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

pretty feature Of the Council OF Congregation
alists soon TO be held in Portland. Me-. will be a
Sunday afternoon mass meeting for children.
Fourteen years ago mass meeting or this sort
was tried and proved remarkably successful II
is now 10 be tried among Maine children. The
relation OF theological seminaries to the churches
will be discussed and also the relation Of the pub
lie schools and the churches. Among the speakers
will be DR. Hills. of Plymouth Church. President
HYDE OF Bowdoin, DR.. jefferson. OF the Broadway
Tabernacle. New-York. and President Tucker OF
Dartmouth College.
Mrs shopley-Oh George. bought real hand
set OF books to-day on the instalment plan.
All have TO pay Is 81 80 a month.
Mrs ShopIey-Dear mel forgot TO ask!-(wash-
ington Capital
The LehIgh University is soon to have we'll
equipped laboratory of mechanical engineering
The building is now III process OF construction
The fund for It was started by Warren A Wilbur
with a gift of 5000 last Christmas. Graduates of
the School of Mechanical Engineering set TO work
and soon brought to the university sl5Go worth of
apparatus Gifts OF money from other friends OF
the institution soon made up the funds necessary
for the building and its equipment
"Al people" remarked the earnest citizen. ''are
born equal 80 .
Perhaps" answered the deliberate friend; but
they don't stay equal any longer than It takes for
piaythngs Washington Star.
and shows that France. with 2s6ico dogs holds the
record France has seventy-hve dogs to every
thousand OF inhabitants.
Joshua straw-Our boy Sllas is gon' t be a
musishun. er miss my guess
joshua straw-Yes stree! You jes' ort t see
him prick up his ears when he hears you blow tn
dinner horn.-Ohio State Journal
The State OF Kansas will on September % unvei
q monument commemorating the occasion when
and the suot where Lieutenant Zehulon NJ Pike.
on September 20 1906 at the Pawnee village,
lowered the Spanish ensign and raised the United
States flag.
Elder Passnps-My boy writes home that your
Jack isn't getting along very last at sotiege; r
boys tellin' you. elder. Jacks goin' through fast
nsry aw"f Herald S
A machine which it is said will do the work OF
thirty expert mathematicians is being made BY the
government In it's scientific instrument shop on
Canitol Hill In Washington. II Is 10 be an i'm
provement instrument in use In the bureau
of the Coast Survey which has charge of calcu-
latng the tides
Nov is there anything else you would like to
have me do?' asked Hercules after submitting his
report on the Augean stables. "a,
Yes, was the unexpected reply; go and XIII
the mosquitoes In hs bssS y na Med ambition
FOR we'll he knew that petroleum had not yet been
discovered baltimore American
..The Psychological Exhibition, now on view at
rr,arsitv college, OF the antiquities recently col
,octca bv Professor Flinders Petrie at Abydos by
| Randall MacIver. at El-Amrah' and by j. car
-, =, tat Khalff Is of exceptional interest"
| 80 .T-ha London Chronicle" The task OF OK
nloring the roya tombs at Abydos on which Pro-
,aaeor petr,e has been so long engaged. Is now
connIete The most important finds deal with the
early kings OF the First Dynasty. AMONG tnsm
is the gold bar of King Mena. with his name en-
eraved It," t.
..vo, ,,,yavs get I'D at o'clock in the morning.
do Won p" said the nquisitve cousin What do
Uou 10 with Yourself at that unearthly hour!
ION 7 tinker around the house TIL breakfast
| time replied Mr.. Meeksr
| What do you tinker at! a., 49,,
! ..Esr~pett.ng breakfast mostly SAID ME- Meeksr.
With some Northumberland Tribune.