New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-18
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

Dr. Charles Burvenich. who has Just returned to
his home in St Joseph. was surgeon on the British
transport Monterey. which recently sailed from
New-Orleans 10 East London. South Africa. with
l 200 horses and mules for the British army. And
he throws some light on the charge that the Brit
ish are enlisting Americans for the war in South
Africa, which is being investigated. Speak
ing Of the Monterey, he says: Most OF the men
were employees and officers OF the ship but a few
We're adventurous spirits claiming TO be British
subjects going South Africa to enlist in the
army. 1t is fact that most OF them enlist but
the English officers tell that nearly all OF them
desert to tho Beers and fight against the country
whose subjects they claim be. There were
eral whom | knew myself. and know that they
were not English subjects, but American citizens
The only way they get into that country and
get near the Boer lines is by claiming to be British
subjects; they then desert to the Beers o. course
if they caught they always shot but this
does not deter them"
IF any man by the name of Gardner" says
up here he'll get thrown and kicked down stairs"
Which reminds us of a Western Kansas story long
game at Colby The sheriff of Logan County had
ea fh to of h R had s
misfortune to be possessed OF but one eye ana he
play in which the treasurer took a big pot from
namin no names but if some of you don't quit
raisin' cards from the floor he'll get his other eye
knocked out'-(kansas City Journal.
1.-THE London Chronicle" says: THE tobacco
war and the decision OF the Imperial Company to
buy the raw leaf direct from America lends
present interest a letter which adOrns the walls
of Messrs w D. and H. o. Ws's reception room
in their Bristol factory. 1t is autograph letter
from George Washington to the original OF Messrs
Wills's firm written while the Father of His Coun-
try was still a grower of tobacco. 1t runs fol-
lows: Virginia. 18th November. 1759-Gentlemen.-
Some time this week L expect to get on board the
Cary for your house fifty hogsheads of tobacco
of my own and Jno. Parke Custiss. which please
o insure in the usual manner. shall also by the
same ship send you ten twelve hogsheads more
If 1 can get them on board in time: but this. be-
heve will be impracticable If Captain Talman
that dispatch in loading which he now has in his
power to dol am. gentlemen. your most obedient,
humble servant, G. Washington. "
Shell can't possibly get my gown for less than
He-But there's Mrs Rounder. I'll bet she
But her social position is much more secure
than ours. '-(Lffe.
The late Prince Minister was great authority
cookery, and in his preface to his wife and daugh
ters book. entitled Dainty Dishes" he condemned
the German cuisine injurious to health. AT
royal dinners On Bern)," he wrote. Il saw to my
horror that salmon served which In England
beggar. however hungry, would have eaten"
Yet in spite of this difference between the cookery
of the two countries he held that their interests
were Identical. IF England and Germany were
united" he used to say. no cannon shot In Eu,
rope could be fred without their consent"
A well known bishop once just starting on a
railway journey from Chester Station, when the
stationmaster came up him and said. referring
lord?" ''Thirty-nine." was the reply. II can only
nnd SIXTEEN" answered the other Then" said
Times.