New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

OR Talrnage during his visit to England in
1873" says The London Chronicle" had been
gagged preach in n church in OF the large
towns Of England. on arriving at the building
he found IL besieged by throng OF from 1900 10
2n.GD people Naturally. he expected the place
would be crowded inside: instead OF this he
surprised to find It only moderately full
Why he demanded OF the pastor, don't you let
this crowd Of people come in? Oh. said he each
person inside has paid four shilngs TO get in.
Or. Talmage had intended to preach from the text
Without money and without price He changed
his subject"
:, He says h, he met few intelligent people when
Il suppose he considered them intelligent because
they could speak English"
French. '-Phiadephia Press
James Preston. who has just returned from
visit to Porto Rico tells THE Philadelphia Rec
ord: There are about fifty American school
houses in Porto Rico now-the Washington. the
Lincoln. the Penn. the Mckinley. the Jefferson
the Irving. the Hamilton. and so on-and about
thirteen hundred pupils attending them One
OF the principals pointed out to young girl
of seventeen. very pretty. who walked he explained
twenty miles and from school daily, slept on
a bare floor and begged nearly all her food she
was so poor. This OF his best students. A
boy had on a shirt much too big for him that
his whole person could have slipped easily through
the opening at the neck. What's the trouble with
your shirt, my lad?' the principal asked The boy
answered: This amt mine: it's fathers Mines
I'm the wash That boy would have naked
rather than have missed lesson. In a town 1
visited there is a night school The men who at
tend 1t bring their own candles and SIT on the
schoolroom floor in groups of three. one candle
to each group The intelligence of The Porto Ricans
their teachers gay is remarkable as is their
thirst after knowledge. No truant officers are
needed down there"
Ping to me only with thine eyes.
And l will pong with mine;
We challenge
II ping with pong combine.
The craze that In my soul doth rise
Is doubtless keen in thine:
I'll take the role of pinger up
If thou'lt be pongstress mine.
--CWestminster Gazette.
..The fruits of Java" writes a correspondent of
The Pittsburg Dispatch" form an interesting
study In themselves. there are so many and OF
such strange varieties The most common Is the
strangest of ALL 1t is called the DURAN. and
like a huge excresence from the trunk of tree
somewhat similar tree. The fruit.
which is pear-shaped. grows to great size often
several feet in length, and has a yellow skin.
rough like pineapple. The most remarkable thing
about the DURHAM, however is its odor. To say you
can smell it block off is putting it mildly COM
bnation of aged eggs and the rpest cheese could
not be compared with it. When you break open
the hull to find what can be the cause of all this
disturbance to your ofactory nerves and find
great cluster of snow-white kernels which taste
like strangely delicious custerd your amaze
ment Is greater still.
Another strange fruit is the serpent fruit, so
called from fact that its skin is the exact
counterpart of that of snake. There is the pomo-
loe like great orange; the potato fruit, which
resembles that vegetable in all but its fine flavor;
the custard apple. with yellow custard-like pulp,
having a rather decided taste OF turpentine the
poppae like a melon growing on tree: the great
Jack fruit of rather a coarse flavor; small yell
low fruit with unpronounceable native name.
encased in a great burr like chestnut, and
hundred other varieties. with none but native and
scientific names. some good Indifferent and
some entirely unpalatable to any but native. The
orange is rather fruit but the pineapple
and banana abundant and delicious. especially
the former. There more than twenty different
varieties of bananas native to Java"
Having formally organized said the president
of the woman's club. I'VE must now discuss
Better call it object If it's a good one
cried the rude man, who really had business
there. "A womans aim is VIGOROUSLY bad
philadelphia Press
THE Kansas City Star speaks Of the Pension
Building the Eugene F. Warehouse" This is
not bad if he had called it 1.-THE Iron Quill
Pen"
rs it not dvine?' asked the maiden turning her
glorious dark eyes upon the young at her side
"Inexpressibiy," he replied, with enthusiasm
The genius of the composer, the imagination. tho
fire. the soul of music, 1t were. and the passion
of the artist who interprets all these conspre to
fill ones very being with
'Hgginson. assorted candies! Chawkuts! An
bonbons." broke In the monotonous voice OF the
boy in the aisle-(Chicago Tribune.