New-York tribune., 1902-08-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

1t IS reported that the United States Government
Is going TO abandon its efforts TO make and keep
the Missouri River navigable. The river runs
through deep alluvial soil. and is constantly gnaw-
ing away its banks and shifting its channel.
Millions have been spent IN attempt to keep 1t
free from suaRs, but the erosion Of the banks
causes great trees keep falling into it, Acres
Of land have been swept away and deposited else
where. In one place tract of seventeen hundred
acres was transferred In a single night from Iowa
to Nebraska by a change In the course OF the river
a island which the government wanted, out o.
which a squatter held possession, was reduced by
the action Of the river during the controversy to
the three acres where the squatter was holding
the fort" Thel the government no longer desired
the island leaving the squatter in full possession
The river Immediately began piling up land. until
the squatter had 130 acres and was worth S25o,001
Married. near Cornwall, Miss Jane Weeks. TO Mr..
IhoIhas lay "a Nav, is eained
Week is lost
But time cannot complain:
there will
-(Schoolmaster.
Shanghai like most Chinese cities. has the chol-
era always. and II is interesting to note how
little of q sensation the disease makes, and how
intelligent persons. by keeping their heads, avoid
the scourge. According TO the city health report
in June there were 476 deaths among the natives
due to cholera 1t is pointed out that the eating
OF freshly cooked food. served in such manner
or dirty hands keeps the disease in check among
the foreign population Fruit and all uncooked
food and that has not been boiled or filtered
have to be carefully avoided.
First English Lord-Did you propose to Miss
Second English Lord-No to her father. I hate
Gtfe. Il sa'' any BUSINESS "
If the Indians Of the Northwest did not have
Panama hats, they had something just 5 good
Lewis and Clark testify that the Clatsops
adept weavere of hats. The following is from
their journal:
1--WE gave a hshhook in exchange for one of their
hats These hats made of cedar bark and bear
grass interviewer together in the form of a Euro
pean hat with small brim of about two inches
and high crown. widening upward They are
light, ornamented with various coors and figures.
and being nearly waterproof much more dura-
bic than either chip straw hats. These hats
form a small article of traffic with the whites and
their manufacture is of the best exertions of
Indian industry.
The New Education-My friend was teaching the
primary class in city SunGay school. The lesson
the story of the wandering lsraelites. who
were miraGulousIy fed pg upon mama l..
Just what mamma looks like but have this little
bottle OF homeopathic pills for an Illustration
She made the story interesting and every little
ceeded She told Of tie cloud by day and the pillar
f a F Of al ang then py 0r ea5 the Whole 5s
asking questions test the attention OF her audi
"And what did the Lord feed the children OF
Israel upon?' she asked.
"Pils!'' they all shouted, without a dissenting
voice
Then for moment there silence. while the
teacher bent low, look into her reticue after
something which not TO be found.-( -(Harper's
Magazine for September.
Lemons have been sent to this port in
so large quantities that consignees of cargoes have
in some instances refused to pay duties on the
shipments. and the government has been obliged 10
take possession and sell the fruit for what it may
fetch. Genuine lemonade with tartaric acid in
it ought be cheaper and more wholesome in the
tenement quarters than in any summer for a long
time Sugar Is cheap. at retail, and the price
Of Croton water mas not gone up.
A very few years have suff1ced to incorporate
''hooIigan'' into the English language Its use
without a capital "H' is the seal of it's ft and
proper worth and a sign that the word has come
to stay. But il is to be hoped that the pests so
named will be speedily eradicated the
kindred word hoodlum In the American vocabulary
has survived the rufan who gave 1t birth. Thirty
years ago the Californian cities infested by
of the Frisco ruffians Muldoon; and
inventive reporter, casting round for a word to
describe them, hit upon the idea of inverting the
name, and dubbed them noodlums. The compost
tor rnistook the m for n and set up the word
'.hoodum,' which henceforth passed into current
USE and into ths dictionary.-dondon Chronicle.