New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Captatn Percval of the navy whose portrait
has Just been presented to the Navy Department.
died In 1862. He known Mad Jack Per
civa because of eccentricties which on many
casions brought him in conflict with the naval
thorities. The portrait was sent by Mrs William
Nicholson. but who she is the department Is I'M
able 70 discover. Captain Perclval was sent to
Morocco with his frigate to bring back cargo of
tackosses for the government and In order TO
show his contempt FOR the employment OF a war
vessel for such a mission on entering New-fork
Harbor he ran in all his guns and placed the head
of a tackass through each port the ship sailed
in The sight OF double row OF jackasses heads
protrudlng from the places where guns were
looked for created Il sensation at the time. AMI
Mad Jack" narrowly escaped a reprimand.
scene-The Purple owl ,.... ,-o-,.,
atfrba Wh@ very I nice et Of sole SIR
Guest-Well, take it back and see II you can
reInoved.-(San Francisco Town Talk
1.-THE Calgary (Albertal Herald" says: The Lat
ter Dav Saints settled I'm Alberta have turned a
portion Of the country hitherto supposed to be fit
nothing but cattle grazing into veritable gar
den fruitful ana productive. They have built up
towns and furnished object lesson 20 settlers In
the other portions OF Canada by their enterprise
and industry They are law abiding and peaceful.
and show remarkable eagerness TO adapt them
selves Canadian institutions. The idea that they
make it unpleasant for Gentiles who settle among
them is false. on the contrary. they often extend
to people not of their religion residing among them
the same assistance which they extend to their
co-relgionsts."
Much for Iittle.-McJigger-I saw Marley blow
ing off that theatrical manager to $40 dinner
ThinEumbobYss scheme Of IN, his "a and it worked ed
passes.-tP Philadelphia Press.
Leopoldo Batres conservator of archaeological
monuments in Mexico. has exhumed an ancient city
of the Zapotecas in the State of Oaxaca. In its
centre is grand plaza. and rising to the north of
the plaza terraces on which are founded two
great temples. while In the centre of the plaza
itself massive mausoleumS in which the
priests of the temples were buried. on opposite
sides of the public square there also twelve
smaller shrines, six either hand, all supported
by heavy columns Of basalt covered with hero
glvphic Inscriptions bass-relief In the temples
the history the people found inscribed in the
language of the Zapotecas upon fifty tablets of
stone SO much of n surprisingly rare historic i'm
port has already been found that Mr.. Batres will
ask the government for more men to be put to the
work of exhuming and restoring the buildings of
long buried city.
Laborer Cwaving hag)-Yez'n hav ter turn back.
This sthreet's closed
Driver-What's it closed for?
phone ter put dTTn P 6her wires That's
The following advertisement appears in London
paper:
by man of Integrity and ability Idle Inquirers and
weakened Christians need not apply; but persons
of n philanthropic of mind and willing act
profitable investment. Apply by letter only to
Aristides
OF the fifty colored boys who graduated
from Richmond Colored High School in the dec
ade 1878 twelve have died At the time of death
a contractor, professor of an
cient languages in college. three postal
clerks. and others. respectively. an internal
revenue collector. a candy maker and a preacher
OF the thirtyeght still alive. thirteen teachers
three are lawyers. two doctors. two Jour
nalists, five postal clerks is civil en-
gineer. one is clerk two bookkeepers. is
eight living has fallen into disgrace
eff 1 were the Mayor" remarked the stranger,
who had attended meeting OF the City Council,
Il wouldn't permit the aldermen to waste much
time in useless wranglng over trivial Matters
The Mayor knows what he is about. replied
the citizen. When they're wrangling they're not
A promoter who says that he has discovered
Noah's ark embedded in perpetual snow Mount
Ararat wants Senator Hanna to furnish funds for
bringing 1t to the St Louis Exposition.
And the railway company agrees to settle by
paying me s. 600, does t?" said the man who had
You get all OF it,. said the lawyer. land you
pay me what you please. 1t didn't take me five
minutes to get settlement out of them"
This, oh. reader, is fancy sketch. There
limits to the imaginative faculty Of the human
mind.-(Chicago Tribune.