New-York tribune., 1902-01-20
THE TALK OF THE DAT.

There villages near the University Of Ok
ford where notion OF medical science has pene-
trated. and where charms the only recognized
cure for disease A woman who has lately been
lecturing in the neighborhood on sanitation found
that whoopinS cough was always treated by spider.
The spider into a piece OF muslin and
hung on the curtain rod and the death OF the
spider meant the end OF the cough A few weeks
ago child seized with the Illness and the
doctor ordered "poultices on the Chest When
he returned he found that the had carefully
laid the poultces on the oak chest which stood by
the bedside. The remedy appeared TO her per-
fectly natural
Willing to Help-''Ah. will I never be released?"
White White 9ans 25% Wildly Wildly against the bars Of window
hoarse chuckle OF the villain. Many in the audience
We're were seen seen to apply their handkerchiefs TO their
SIM lost themselves IN the s echoiRs aR9n dies les
shouted friend from ths gallery walk ISdg our
over over de r1S3tlish1s And the curtain down
The custom in France OF posting on the dead
walls OF every commune throughout the country
the speeches OF Ministers is TO be discontinued
Every time it is done it costs the government
$4,000.
6 The bewdering complications in every part of
the late Emperor Of Brazn during En4oSeS5 on
tour While on an inspection OF a Celebrated fac
exhibited its working. and remarked proudly that
said Dom hPndreu Pdre reVOInuons o minute What"
@ @rePubIera The next turn OF the wheel was to
make brazil' 100 republic-(London Globe.
The people of Canada" remarks .sThe 1.o,do,
Chronicle would be glad to see Rudvard bl,n
ling again But the poet OF Our Lady ~ tba
Shows breads a cold reception, and is moreover
impenitent as witness the little lines he wrote in
a girls album:
There was small boy IN Quebec
Who was buried in snow to the neck.
When asked. Are you friz?"
He said, Yes is;
But this isn't cold in Quebec"
Michael Tha Fsf chaS ff@ % R4sD the VIII Of the late Very Rev
which was recently admitted to probate reads as
Society OF Portland nd al yye S to the Maine Historical
to to me that concern directly the so-caed 9b6aki
to the hisoTcai sociePS 6S
collection Of books ON ~tfn tbe ns 5he most remsrka5e
library OF the society has ever possessed Ftbee bee
scholars Who ved sae and most the Indian
rich and extensiveHKennebecJ Jo1rppai pIseSsed was
DIR. John p. Wood. OF Coffeyville. Kan ubo
has just celebrated his Tooth birthday is said ~
be the Oldest practising physician in the world
having peen In continuous practice for seventy
elsht years. He cast his first vote for Andrew
jackson in 1874 and has never missed an election
since. He has seen all the presidents excenr ons
from jackson to Roosevelt. He was never a MEM
Der or any secret order and never belonged TO any
chureh' lie Is Cniversalist in belief but often
attends one OF the city churches. He is as Wig
orous as well preserved man of seventy His facs
is almost entirely free from the wrinkles that are
common to old age and there is nothing ahout
his bearing TO indicate to stranger his great age
lie does not carry q cane and reads a newspaper
without spectacles just he did in his youtb
The most remarkable thing about his eyesight ia
the fact that he never has used glasses TO read
He was never confined TO his bed from sickness
more than three weeks in all his long Hfe His
digestion Is still good. and he eats and sIeeps ms,
as he did nearly century ago. His hearing 10
also acute 1t was. His mental facult,es
remarkably well preserved as his physical
powers. He reads the daily papers and takes a
deep interest in passing events. He saws he Is nor
bit tired of life and would like to live another
century.
A little girl went into a neighbor's house m.
day, and some apple parngs lay a plate on the
table. After sitting awhile, she said II smell
smell these apple parngs on the plate'' 7'No no"
SAID she taint them L SMELL I smell whole |
One OF the little ones in a we'll tra,,ad min
isters family was very much interested In the /
story of Elisha the bad small boys and tha sbe
thought he said: II wouldn't have sapd Tpdoments
Elisha, would you. mamma? / would hsva SatS "a
Please go up. thou bald head "-(Christian Reg |
lister. i'es-
Israel Zangwill with especial reference IN Ion
don thus amends well known old nursery rhvms. |
Little drops OF water
Little grains of sand
Make the milkman wealthy
And the grocer grand"
Il thought I'd die a-laughins" connded the Fat /
Lady TO the Circassian Princess II Thought I'd /
r aurt maSseft aSs r. laughed so hard when they were
What tickled your" asked the Circassian Prin- |
cess applying some bandoline TO her wig.