New-York tribune., 1901-01-12

This ;s because formerly there was little demand
for pennies in the Southwest and on the ~
Coast. where for until quite receh'S' tns
nickel the smallest subsidiary com III 49,
circulation. There is, however, a law oe1oIe vi,
permitting their coinage In other niii'''
tn way to III eimitary ita y oi towld him nora
Cassidy-Phwat am oi? .,-o.+or Hang nut
yer sign.-Phiiadelphi r Record.
story is being told in Edinburgh at the e&-
panse of a certain yeomanry officer. an immensely
popular man. whose one weakness Is MS oel'ei
that the making of great general was losl VIZ %
he went into the business of keeping snop. Aie
militia regiment garrsoning Edinburgh Caste' II
the absence of the Gordon Hghlanders' contains
scme choice spirits, and the other day, after lay
ing together of heads among the officers striphns
rushed into he establishment OF the olleer III
question.
"Oh. Colonel so-and-sor' he called, "have you
heard the news? You re ordered off for active
service immediately
The colonel started 10 his feet "Good heavens!"
he cried; has Kitchener been killed already
Serious Complaint-'T suppose said the wife
sarcastically. you've been sitting up WITH 7i0A
wen yes; he certainly was sick" replied
Indeed! What's the complaint ~s. -.
He complained that we stacked the caros'
-(Catholic Standard and Times.
In his annual statement of regulations for priests
Messmer has come cut with an official approval or
the recent order of Bishop Els. of Marquette re-
quiring that the English language be spoken IN al
the churches OF his diocese some of the time Ihe
Bishop orders that all the pastors OF MS diocese
give :he children instruction in the English IAN
guage as we'll in their mother tongue. when
preparing them for their first communion ana
also use the English language as much as pos
sible in all church work
Hotel Life.-Jackson-What time do you wake
w. in the morning usually?
Great snakes! Why so early?'
81 bo1rd at Il hotel. and that's the hour the man
in the next room goes to bed."-(New-Ycrk weekly
Arthur Erwin Brown, the superintendent of the
Philadelphia Geological Garden, and one OF the
managers of the Academy of Sciences. is at work
on an exhaustive treatise North American
snakes of which there are more than one hundred
and fifty varieties "In the study of these varle-
ties" says "The Philadelphia Record" Mr.. Brown
has examined microscoplcaily and by dissection
about twelve thousand alcoholic and anatomleai
specimens and consulted six hundred published
works all of which but two or three were found
IN the almost inexhaustible library OF the Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences. In the second story OF
the old John Penn cottage, at the Zoo. where the
superintendent's office is located Mr.. Brown has
a private dissecting table and chemical apparatus
for scientific study The dissection of snakes IS a
most disagreeable undertaking. because OF the
slcening odor that arises from the cadavers OF all
reptiles In some instances Mr.. Brown has been
fairly driven out of the room by the STENCIL and
has abandoned his task for short intervals to es-
cape its nauseating effects"
Mr. Ciotham-What has become of the De Styles?
Mrs. Gotham-I met Mrs. De Style on the street
been so much improved by the ocean air that they
had concluded TO remain m their seaside cottage
Mr., Gotham-EIum Just as I thought Got
caught in that wheat furry.-CNew7York Weekly