New-York tribune., 1901-12-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The recent appointment of Or. SPAIN as profes-
sor Of history at Strasburg University and the ac-
companying imperial telegram recognizing the
claim of Catholics contribute their share 10 the
teaching staff are likely TO have as their sequel
a general protest from the universities of Ger
| many The form this protest shall take is pre-
scrihed in a rastoral letter addressed 20 the MI
Mich Algemein Zeitung" by the Nestor OF German
| professors Theodor Mommsen who describes the
feeling of degradation with which academy cir
cles have been overcome at the thought that the
| appointment Of university professor should be
| made under conditions WHICH necessarily impose
restrictions the absolute liberty OF inVesusa-
ton that hitherto has been the life and nerve of MS
career Large numbers of professors and students
belonging TO the universities of Munich, Heidei-
| berg and Berlin have decided TO express in the
form Of letter Professor Mommsen their agree
uant with his protest against the introduction of
| confessionasm Into university appointments
Misunderstanding Partner-Ry the way, way.
talking of unexpected windfalls, Borroughs tells
me he has in for some money
Senior , hon, e Press ne
A correspondent writes to The Chicago Record
| Herald: Your kindly tribute to the late j. Cor
don Coogier has suggested TO me to write this
line to you.
Il knew Mr. Coogler slightly several years ago
when in South Carolina. He gave me Il
copy of his poems and have been among the
many who have laughed at his crude attempts.
Yet the act unpardonable for he has said sew
eraI times that he knew his verses were bad that
he knew people laughed at them. but that by them
he was enabled to make little money and so sup
mort his mother and that for her sake he was will
ing to be laughed at.
The world is very fun of people who see the
beautiful and paint il; who hear II and can
not sing It: who feel it and cannot write it 1t is
a pity to laugh at those who are cropping through
mortal limitations.
so /. for no personal reasons, but Coogler's
account thank you for your lines. Perhaps, as
you suggest, there be shore where he can
sing fuller song.
Cuff thought you said if he nsulted you you'd
strike Is. him q, quick as , liehtning 5iiIn -
Cuff you did and although ne h called xe1 you
r-Well-er-you never heard Of lightning
striking at this season r3 of the year did you?
Catholic Standard and Times
at is curious" says THE London Chronicle,
how ST. Paurs. although the first cathedral
church In England that built actually for the
observance of the Anglican ritual. manages never
theess TO retain something of a foreign and
Catholic nature in the way It offers shelter to the
tired passer by. Apart from the restless groups
of s.ghtseers there always plenty of people
there who gone in solely for the sake of its
wonderful peace and quiet. They would have found
neither, by the way, in old st. PaulS OF the M
teenth century, for while being said in
one chapel funeral service in another, and so on,
all sorts of commerce carried on in the middle
aisle from the hiring of servants TO the transac-
ton of legal business. We have altered all that
nowadays and st. Pauls is the quietest spot in
the nosiest city in the world"
Yes. Sawdorf has begun playing golf, but he's
awfuy dshearteaed
AFRAID he'll never become an expert; eh?" euo,,
quite the contrary. He's so small he's afraid
he all the medals he II
win.''-tPhadephia Press.
Bessinger Fla, seems to be an ideal place for the
raising OF large families 1t is only frontier set
tIement as yet lying in the heart of the great in
land prairie, but there is danger of the popula-
ton diminishing. Among the families living there
are six whose children aggregate seventy-one in
number-thrty two boys and thirty-nine girls Bes
singer challenges any place of equal size in the
State to match these domestic figures
For many years saloonkeepers have furnished
only being the price of a drink and many
have taken advantage of this to get a midday
meal for nothing Now their wives may do the
same thing, thanks to the enterprise of certain
proprietorS of soda water fountains. For some
time past 1T has been the custom to set out a
plate sweet biscuits with each glass. of soda
water but luncheonS being served on
more elaborate scale. One confectionery estab-
lshment has inaugurated the innovation of serv-
ing a dainty sandwich with each drink Another
announces that Wednesdays and Saturdays.
matinee days. each woman buying a glass of soda
water will be given her choice of either chicken
promises to be keen among these purveyors to the
fe Record.