New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-01
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

The following letter was sent by a Mississippi
! man in answer to a matrimonial ''ad': i incloas
my potoCraf with My Full Descriptions. II shows
| the features as nachel bee. only Il Is to
Dark; am very lite Complexion. Gray eyes, ORION
! hair foot high, waiSht 1870 Lbs. inclined TO be
! hump shouldered A Muskler Man and widower
! Is years old. with Common School Equations. out
| hav Got Anof 10 Atten TO Emmy Business. am
! Strictly Morrel Don't Tobacco Nor Whskey.'
| He is anxious to have her understand that her
| Age Complications, wait and Ali Suits me to
| atee Kind Loving Girl. hav Only one Thing to
| Offer And it is Neither Lands Mar Go d. But \
Strong Arm and True Hart. and will Lay Down
My Life for the Rite Girl and Be happy. for am
! Tired of living Alone. The Girl that Steels my
Hart and takes my Name for the Remainder Of
My IIf will make Happy. for am Hunting Girl
that can dleise and Make Angel off,
Crabbe-To-day, for the first time. I really
| Ascum-something worth listening to. Ell?
men taking it (Philadeiphia Press.
In the centre of a field at Waverhill Suffolk Eng
land is large fat stone covering the grave of a
mare which died in 1852 inscribed as follows
Polka. She never made false step. Ecclesiastes
Ill 49," reference to chapter and verse shows
the following: For that which befalleth the
of men befalleth beasts. thing befalleth
them: as the dieth. dieth the other" This
is probably the only instance of a text from the
Scriptures appearing memorial stone to AT
animal.
Your honor, said the prisoner VINO ndQ DeSn
weeks in the county jail. Il want a change of
you mean" said the judge. kindly. that you
want change of venue. Now. the proper course
NO I don't mean that I want a change of
the corned beef supply of the world. '-(Batimore
American.
new name to be the latest maps of
British East Africa is Ugowe Bay. applied to an
arm OF the Victoria Nyanza This name originated
wit STANLEY the explorer in singular
When he was making chart Of the lake shores
he upon great bay. and, calling to a native,
h. asked what it was called After repeating the
inquiry several times, he got for answer something
that sounded like You go way" and the inter
prefers efforts met with better success. So
Stanley, accepting the sound named the bay
Ugowe. which is pronounced like the English
phrase quoted above.
Full of Goodness. What makes YOUR billy so
meek and mild these days?' inquired the first
He. Hes got religon. guess" said the other.
Yes. he ate Bible the other day Catholic
Standard and Times.
A Russian specialist has decided that contrary
to the general opinion. electric light plays less
havoc with the eyes than other forms of artificial
light. He bases his deductions on the fact that
disease and damage to the eye proportional to
the frequency of the closure of the lids. found
that the lids close in minute 6S times with candle
light. rs times with gas light. % times with sun
light and is times with electric light
Little Dorothy is seven years old. She was
naughty the other day. and her mother told her
that she would have to ask God forgive her
The penitent little girl got Down her knees by
her mothers side, and, after she had prayed In
silence short time, arose
And did God forgive you?' asked the mother
No" replied Dorothy; He said He was hzzy
and asked me to call again "-(Ohio State Journal
AS an experiment. James J. Davidson. of SNedes-
boro n. J.. recently shipped three barrels Of sweet
potatoes to London One barrel was packed in fine
sawdust, another in sawdust and the third
In tissue paper, the oranges are packed.
All arrived in good condition. but those packed in
the coarse sawdust in prime shape. The
opinion prevails that Englishmen will eventually
have Gloucester County sweets" as regular side
dlsh With American beef and mutton.