New-York tribune., 1902-08-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY

rr,,o tr,s ., Pennsylvania have a pastime that
% he nopular needs only to be known young
woman lust back from an outing at hehi'eoui.N
mort Me complained that the place was Iois'S'
She said: We had moonlight oucHooalu ''u'S'
.,us and ptcnice but girl there did any
,,-os,ng,, '"Twosing7" some one asked. -" nat on
earth Is twosing? Is II a new game! lis ~
as the hHle" she made answer Iwosins 'S-"e.l'
+vvosinR is anything which has just TWO PeoPie
:, g Won can twose on a hotel veranda, or at
r,c,c ~ the chaperon isn't too wretchedIy eagle
a,oa Won can twose almost anywhere, except up
in Maine for girl can't twose without man
7 suppose YOU might call It just pairing OH ouI
T., Pennsylvanla we call It twosing and the WORD
fits so much better than any other expression 'o'
it,
Unnendsd s2dTeoh25ley 2dTns fFH paPsr 6sr' has
sketch of you rising % y94ns re[Gae end p,ease
WI th9gsRt 6g 2od 5hdl think T0o' of the biosrph
oh. Charley. dear! II Is 700 sooN ~ 10 -
CWashington star
Tho ratirer,ent Of Justice Gray. OF the United
states Supreme Co IT. has furnished a text for
many "reminiscences of his earlier days While he
was = member of the Supreme Court OF Massachu-
setts he had amusing experience win Il Ger
tain Boston lawyer. an exceedingly Pious man
with taste for evangelizaton, who had ms let
terbeads printed with a verse from Scripture In
I.rra tvpe following the name and address. On
ono occasion. having to make an ex paTte pre-
lInlinary argument before Judge Gray in cham
hers in which It would be necessary to disclose
certain parts OF his clients which he de-
sired not to make generally public until the trial
he wrote the judge note, asking that he be
allowed an opportunity to speak TO him In private
He was somewhat chagrIned when his note came
back TO him with scrawl across the bottom; Ike
quest denied. with suggestion from the court
that counsel base future petitions on more ap-
propriate citation"
For a moment he could not make out the mean
ing of this as he not aware that he had
quoted any law; bat glancng up the page he dis
covered that he had written his note on a letter
head bearing this text:
eye are bought with price"
apologeticaIly remarked the clumsy buicher.
All said the customer. significantly. That
accounts for them getting III the weigh '-tthiIa-
delpha Record
Down In Roanoke. Va, the Methodists and
Lutherans made an exchange unusual. if not un-
precedented in church history. When they were
at the height of their prosperity the Lutherans
built a handsome stone house OF worship, which
cost them $50 0OO and which seats 100 persons They
got a fine organ and everything OF the best and
costliest style. and in their enthusiasm expended
more than they intended and had to borrow $lS,-
OC0 Then came a squabbe about the pastor and
the choir, the attendance foil off and the congre-
CATION was sadly divided. until. having lost its
best men, the society found II difficult to raise the
money to pay the interest on the debt In addition
to the regular running expenses. In the mean
time the Methodlsts had proSpered ana needed Il
new and larger church The Lutherans heard of
It and offered &c trade. The offer was accepted.
The Methodists took the $4,000 church off their
hands assumed the mortgage OF $4,000. paid them
$4,000 cash. and gave them in exchange their old
house of worship.
The Japanese Creation Legend.-Clouds formed
the bridge on which once god Yzanaghi and his
spouse Yzanuma stood pondering the riddle of
existence. whether the beginnings of worlds and
the beginning of life lay slumbering in that sea
OF chaos YZanaghi apparently more enterprisng
than philosoPhicay inclined seized his simmer
ing spear and plunged It into the black and seeth-
ing food Pulling Il up again: he discovered seven
salt drops it's diamond point, which, dropping.
condensed and formed the island of Cusokorosima ma
spot Of earth which had thus been created as
their permanent dwelling place. and peopled IL
with innumerable genii OF ANNA! and plant life
end spirits of the elements. And around this
.paiace of Immortality eight other islands:
Awads the island Of foam: the mountainous Cho:
Yamato. blessed with fruit: Yyo. unsurpassed In
its beauty; the quinquangular Tsikousi; Sado rich
in copper and gold: YkI, of the pillars OF
heaven and Oko. surrounded by three satellites
Such was the birth of Japan of that curious
land OF Fusiyama, with its amiable popule ton
glistening silks its grotesque dwarf trees it's white
cranes and dreamy lotus ponds.-tfIarper's Maga-
zine for September.