New-York tribune., 1902-08-24
TIE TALK OF TIE DAY.
The Cunard Company. in Its 'lnfornaton 10
Passengers" now includes the following:
WIRELESS TELEGRAM RATES.
WIRELESS TELkGhAM II


From From ship to passing steamer Sd per word
ard 1nencr rp ,r,S,r ~ rate Via sagaponack Is 81
for ten wor4s In addition to the lsn9 Z Cnar -
western Union Office at Bridgehampton The mini, nj
mum charge. via CrookhaVen OF S'a''o'' - '"0
United Kingdom is IS Cd
On Sunday. when the excursion train from Paris.
euea with negroes bound for the camp meeting
reached this city says THE Louisville Courier
Journal" Il passed the station and went through
Cvnthiana at rate OF about twenty-five mics
81 hour the idea being to keep the crowd on board
until the arrival at the grounds at the Falmouth
Pike crossing. Just before reaching Pike-st-
negro man Jumped from the train or course. the
momentum OF the cars carried him along al
terrific pace His body was going 50 fast that MS
LEGS could not possibly keep up. hut they made
valian, effort 20 do so. and such a Hckety-spnt
negro never cut before. He galloped across the
gutter at Pike-st at tremendous speed barely
missed a telephone pole flew up INTO the ar
turned couple OF somersaults, and lanced all
in q heap in the middle OF the street His eyes
yra-e as big az saucers and seemed to pop out.
40 he slowly gathered himself together his trou-
sers were split. his knees were bruised and bleed
ing his arms were wrenched. his coattais were
In tatters and his battered stiff hat was mashed
down tight over his ears. Al that moment negro
girl who knew him along.
.'why. how do you do. Mr.. Hopkins?'' she ex
claimed.
why. how do you do?" he answered. in deep.
calm tones with carefully measured accent How
do you do? You looking quite we-we-well l
lust stepped off the train to meet you.
No Time for Trifes-Graip Dealer-You are not
going to have cars enough TO move the crops this
fall? That's the same old complaint why don
Railway NJ M'nager-My dear sir. too busy
merging and consolidaung; ana al thaI: 70 nave
time for unimportant details-tChicaso tribune
A writer in The Outlook" discussing the old
subject OF meaningless hymns, hymns whose
I- faIc fic In kad t9=t has
been turning over the pages of his great-grand-
mothers hymn book. She loved to sing His praise
in His temple" her epltaph says. And here is
what she sang:
"And whosoever wicked is.
And enemy to the Lord,
Shall quail. yea melt. even as lambs grease,
Or smoke that flies obroad-''
Or this:
why dost withdraw thy hand abacke,
And hide it in thy lap?
0. pluck 1t out, and be not slacke
To give thy foes rap
And was 1t only a hundred years ago since this
sung in worship?
Conceived in sin. o wretched state. *
Before draw breath
The first young pulse begins to beat
lniquity and death"
You're what?" asked the common garden spook
And the e shade replica with a graceful glide.
why, I'm the ghost Of tower'
1.-The ghost of fower?" said the oldtime spook,
That's brand
never supposed flower had a ghost
Though I've seen the shade OF a treei''
--(LIfe.
There are several ways of killing cats. and even
a moderately ingenious person might be expected
to discover of putting an Objectionable
dog to death without bringing himself into serious
danger. But the Pennsylvania miner who tried TO
end the existence of a mongrel by fastening a
slow fuse dynamite cartridge to his tail, only to be
pursued by the affectionate creature and overcome
by dual disaster. deserves little sympathy. He
was simply stupid for ordinary tolerance.
II had taken considerable persuasion to induce
old LADY take seat in automobile, but
finally she had consented to do so because she
anxious to reach the bedside OF her sick srandchid
In village some twenty miles away, the last train
for which had left some ten minutes before she
rived a the station
When the owner of the big automobile who
touring through Long Island. had overheard the old
iadys regrets at being left, he had insisted
accompanying him, as he was to pass through the
pa rticular one OF the half dozen more Long
island villages named Hampton, where the sick
srendchild lived.
FVervthng went lovely until the almost flying We
hice in attempting to pass wagon loaded with
hsv which occupied the entire centre of the road
went unexpectedly into the ditch, and rather vo-
Ientlv deposited its occupants In adjoining fed.
recovering from the shock, though mewhat
confused from the rather unusual method OF alight-
ing from vehicle. the old lady asked of the cna-
grined chauffeur:
rs this Hampton!
cdent.' . - ~,
.,.ta, bann't oI1ehter have here had I?''-