Evening journal., 1902-03-05
CAUGHT AT RANDOM


CAUGHT AT RANDOM
4 Babu in India had with great diff
Guilty obtained an introduction to an
important parsonage. After The inter-
view an English friend met him and
inquired how he got, on. "Oh. replied
THE Babu. mot very well. I'm Shakes
peare's Language, he praised me with
faint damns."
I'm 1843 guttaporcha trees were abund-
ant on Singapore Island. and on the
Malay Peninsula, but they have been
so thoroughly cleaned ont that the bo-
tanical gardens at Singapore cannot OBJ
tain plants. The destruction Of gutta
trees in Sumatra and Borneo has been
widespread.
"Have you got what they call tabledy
hOte dinners at this eatn hOuse2"
'asked the man I'm the bearshn coat.
mo, sir" Stepping to the door he
beckoned to somebody on the outsiu>
Come in Mandy he said, they eat
in English here.
Cyrus Carleton, of Providence. r. l.,
who recently spent several months at
Ormond. Fla. found that there were
hftv-seven different kinds of birds in
that section.
The Argentine Government now
owns the following artillery: Field
guns 346, mountain guns. 226; siege
guns 36; howitzers. ~; total, $50.
A machine has Just been installed in
the Pension Office at Washington
which will "lick' and seal 25.0OO official
envelopes day. Previously the work
was done by hand.
Poor man" said the inquistive old
lady. i guess you'll be glad when your
time is up, won't you?"
mo. maam, not partickerly," replied
the prisoner I'm up fur life"
Leonard Reeder Of Quincy, Ill.,, one
of the few men NOW living who witt
messed the battle of Waterloo. eighty
seven years ago, Will celebrate next
Tuesday, his 1929 birthday
Snuff is coming into fashion again
in London. with the early Victorian
fashions. Snuff taking increases the
size of the nose and keeps il in a state
of perpetual irritation.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. who
celebrated his Goth birthday the other
day. is the third artist from Holland
to be honored by an English knight
hood. the others being Rubms and
Van Dyck
1t is reported that 1l9 people lost
uheir lives during the year 1900 while
climbing the Alps-more thln double
the number for the previous year Most
Oi the accidents occurred i'm the neigh
boIhood of Chammounix, and were due
ITO the foolhardiness and ineXperience
.of tourists
There is something about the atmos-
rhere In the Klondike that makes men
very quiet said a man from up i'm the
frozen region. The habit is acquired.
/ suppose, In tramping, when the alt-
ltude makes it necessary to use all your
breath for breathing and leaves you
none for talking hle result rs tlat
men talk very little They become al
most speechless, and will sit about at
might, each thinking his own Thoughts
and allowing his fellows to do the
same"
Loose snow hastily piled up in
/ hreastworks six feet thick at Chris
tiana could not be penetrated by the
/ bullets of Krag-Jargensen rifles. fired
at forty-fve yards distance.
1t is the opinion of leading statesmen
that London consumes no fewer than
100000 fowls year, which. if even
lily divided among the population,
would allow about three per head per
Iannum
Failed why. ! thought he was
getting into the very strongest fnan-
cial clique i'm the street"
so he did, but it seems 1t got into
him"
Much of the beef. mutton. pork and
lamb i'm Manila comes from Australia
and lis sold at the following prices.
, Sirloin steak. 55 cents a pound; mutton
80 cents; fresh pork. 55 cents; lamb. 81
cents. Other prices are: Smoked cod
.6o cents a pound; bacon, 60 cents; ham
65 cents; cheese, 90 cents; lard, a,
} cents. turkey. 65 cents: salmon, 81
, cents; mullet. 30 cents: Holsters, s.
, each; butter. 81 a pound; grouse, S25l
, each; partridges. $3.50; rabbits, g
I cents; hares. s1.25; fowl, S150; tam'
! duck, SlS5; concentrated milk, q
cents a pint An game is hung unit
q soft before dressing for cooking.
! TIL agerdy-Barnstorm tells M
i that when ne was in New York h
playded to crowded houses.
Lowe Comerdy-Well, I did hea'
something about his working a stree
a piano around the tenement district