New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-31
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The peculiar Primary Election law or south caro-
lima compels "A candidate for State once OF LOT
limited States Senator TO make at least one speech
in every county OF the State before the date Of the
urinary election AS result, the pursuit OF ONCE
in the Palmetto State has. The Atlanta Con-
stitutIon" says. developed into n profession re-
curing strenuousness and endurance that qualify
the candidates for membership on a varsity eight
or champion football team
Starting the Ccnvcrsation-"I don't know what
the trouble is. said the hostess In tone OF great
annoyance My guests seem very distant and ur.
social ! wish could think Of some way 70 start
them talking to one another -,
That's very easily DONE" answered Miss Cay
en '!Y.s" lis there a musician present
Get him TO play or sing something.'-CWashing-
ton Star.
Lisbon has been attacked by rat plague. and all
means 20 check the pest have proved futile. The
municipal doctors think they have found way out
OF the difficulty. They have inoculate1 some rats
with an infectious virus harmless to man. and
have let them loose. Many rats are now feeling
the effects of the virus and 1t is expected that the
city viii soon be rid OF the plague.
Faith Cure Climate.-"Tm told the climate here
has great health giving properties. said the Wis
acn Go y9b b 90 tho bo.,h
sort II guess it's because I've advertised IL so
ell."-(Philadephia Press.
Louisiana has a new idea in regard TO Jim
Crow A recently passed law provides that
there shall be separate but equal Accommodate
for whites and blacks and the streatcar companies
have introduced a with a wire screen sepa-
rating It in the middle. the forward compartment
being set apart for white persons and the rear
compartment for colored persons. The negroes pro-
test against this ngernent and talk of raising
money to buy for the of their own race
They also threaten to boycott the screened cars
1t is suggested that the division between the two
parts OF the should be a solid partition not a
wire screen that all view would be cut off from
one compartment to the other. and the negro pas
sengers would not feel as II they were In a cage
The sage Of The Albany CKan) Ledger ex-
presses In the following nelegant but forcibe Ian
III e SOUNDS thundern sight bigger to say
that Mr.; So-and-so accepted position than say
get it"-(kansas City Journal
In the town of HlIdersheim in Germany. Is a
rosebush said to be thousand years old and
sprouts from its branches have realized fabulous
sums. Some years ago rich Englishman offered
$4,000 for the entire tree. but the was indig-
nantly refused. This wonderful plant clinss amid
thfckly grown moss against the side of the famous
old Church OF ST Michael. 1t is claimed that IL has
bloomed perennially since the days OF King Alfred
and this statement has never been disputed for its
record has been carefully kept as the pedigree
OF the bluest blooded family In the kingdom II is
supposed TO have been discovered through the
medium of King Louis OF Hildersheim as FAR back
as 1922.
You're the light of my life" she whispered.
And then from the top of the stairway
Came a voice, We'll, put out the lightp'
-(Smart Set.
Thomas Fl. Dillon. of Petersburg, in this State "
says The Indianapolis News" who is a Demo-
cratic candidate for nomination to Congress in his
district. has attained newspaper notorety by ad-
vocating the removal of the national capital from,
Washington TO St. Louis. The proposition is
neither new nor novel Thirty years or more ago II
attained large proportions. The late John d
Defrees. so long identified with Indiana and for
years Congressional printer. then resident In
Washington rdicued the project furiously insist
ing that the capital should be moved not 70 81
Louis. but TO Shoals Ind. His argument was that
when the American eagle extended its wings the
tip or one touching New-York and the other San
Francisco. the tail would be immediately ovar
Shoals, hence that the place was manfestlv da
signed as the location OF the capital Rut n was
not all laughing matter. II had serious s,,nnort
General John Coburn, then representing the VIM
Indiana District In Congress- favored II ana A.
attained more serious aspect than its onnonsrts
would perhaps admit. This agitation had mucb "a
do with booming Boss Shepherds scheme for i'm
town OF antiouated Southern architecture in Us
private buildings. bordering streets that were a
waste of red Maryland mud or dust"
Deceptive-'Dey oughter pass law" said tz,
Higgins, nursing his leg 'ter compel neonla 1ar
call deir dogs be appropriate Names '''
''Why, woman down de road said - iNi s3as,
git out o her yard she'd call Fido ~ ca,rse
1affed. Den she called Fido and Fido di6pst' ~,
ting. He was big brndle bull"-(Chsca 90 r 10
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