New-York tribune., 1902-08-02
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"Tbs Chinese" says THE Shanghai Mercury"
clay stress on the amount Of gall man has and
not on the amount OF heart Thus we read OF
Hou King. who Governor or Hohan III .he
sixth century. that he once captured reoei
named Ii Cheh brought him into the market.
cbonned of his hands and his feet, ripped up his
heart and his belly and cut out his vtas The VIC
TIM however. continued TO jest, with his features
undistorted and his countenance unchanged his
gail bladder was then seen to have the capacity or
a pint measure which completely accounted for his
stoiclsn In 1896 when the armies OF the Manchus
were gradually overrunning China. one Wu Han
Chao made head against them in Anhui. But he
finally fell their hands The historian records
that his gall three inches long.
He smoked the deadly cigarette.
This youth Of tender years.
For aught know. he's smoking yet.
0'u '-' -(Philadelphia Record.
Tho shortest sermon on record was preached at
Atlantic Mich, recent Sunday The pastor
had been requested TO make his discourse brief on
account OF the hot weather. so he announced as
his text Luke xvi. q: And he cried and said.
Father Abraham have mercy on me. and send
Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in
water and cool my tongue, for l am tormented in
this flame" The sermon follows: Three
persons-Abrahan Dives Lazarus. It was hot
where Dives He wanted 10 get out. SO do
We Let pray
Leopard Caught in n JHilyard-On May T. at bout
"A. m. as the prtaoners were being let out of
erouchng near the scaroid The p9isoners immedi-
ately gave chase and tae leopard made dash for
failing in this tAe animal returned and hid under
Name f % then obta!ned bit @ o bamboo with i rats
beast After having bound it's feet together the
Malay brought It to the inspector OF prisons. Dur
came up to look at the animal. which a beautl-
fal specimen of marbled leopard Fels pardalsl
larger than a wildcat with a tail of Of uniform thick
was gray the fur spotted the spots being arranged
in the form Of circle or rosette.-(British North
General Sir Charles Tucker. who is proceeding TO
the Cape to assist in solving the remaining military
problems Is known in the British service Dam
nation Tucker to distinguish him from his brother
general. Salvation Tucker. Most anecdotes re-
garding him hang on certain idiosyncrasy of his
language.
During the war; says M. A p" the general
happened day upon Bennett Burlegh. who had
a kodak slung around his back
''Hullo Bureigh. shouted Sir Charles, what
the blank blanks that asterisked thing you've got
round your so-and-so neck?'
well. general" replied the world famous "spe-
cia." I'm sorry to say it's only kodak. for If
had known / was going to meet you L should
tainly have brought a phonograph"
On another occasion the general gazetted to
a district command Shortly afterward a visitor
passing through the district in question asked a
waggish subaltern whether the general had
yet arrived and taken his duties
'Oh, yes" replied the sub he swore himself in
yesterday" auding to the practice. now obsolete
of swearing in a general Lis taking up an ap-
pontment. as is done with lord lieutenant
]. P.
Never since the celebrated attempt of a Journal
ist to arouse the lethargy of the police dogs by
shamming suicide and leaplng into the Seine have
the riversiders had such pleasant entertainment
as they had the other evening. A bather, dis
it WAS outside the boandaes rs at hof JONI h
Vile; Two gendarmes chased the bather for some
distance along the banks, but he q fine SWIM
A wa pbeA
moned assistance and presently there was posse
of police after the trespasser They pursued him
left the water and climbed ur on the pillar Of
bridge. The public sought him out and lowered pro
slowly munching. and regarding the police down
be belSw oed wh in ah ne % eny %
it was rather toe exciting, and, in the darkness-it
and escaped-(Paris correspondence of The Lon
don Globe.
The city of st. Louis has a bug-isn't It in
cumbent worlds fair town have something
and then? 1t is the horned corydaIIis In
appearance said to be combination of a bat
bug and a lobster. The principal claim OF this
monster upon the affections OF mankind is that
q family feud exists between the horned corydalIis
and the whole mosquito family, and that II will
eat nothing else when mosquitoes IN the mar
ket THE Post-Dispatch' suggests the propriety
OF the St Louis Health Department esta abshing
a horned corydallis hatchery on the bank of the
River des Peres. and that the mosquito fighter be
said be hundred more mosquitoes The
horned corydals evidently has good points,
but the worlds fair poet have written this
the morning after seeing EN-:
Horned corydalsr frishtfuI name.
But bat. bug lobster he 8 said to be game
Friend of mankind and foe of his foe,
Hes iav1fed 10 some ne. and ID never ever, to go
Till he's driven from earth the pesky muskeeter.