New-York tribune., 1902-02-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

correspondent Of ''The Pail Mall Gazette"
vouches for this incident: a young woman with
fretful baby In full omnibus (aloudD: Poor little
npper, suppose I shall end by 'avinC 20 take i'm
to the orspital (Raisng the chiId's vell and look
Ing around for sympathy Don't get no rest e
is suferin with smallpox"
Grimes-I wonder Tom should marry a vor,a,
several years older than himself
long before she is younger than he. There's some e
script. '' ''''
There are men" says Julian Ralph. who wax
enthusiasts. and even poetic. when they speak Of
war. For instance there Surgeon Major Lind
ley well known as n physician in New-York. He
once said to me: What delicious AFFAIR the battle
or Graspan was; II lively and so hot in
spots. II was as complete and pretty as a well cut
little gem And yet in that fight Major I4ndley
was caught in depression OF the vcldt with Beers
pcppcring at him from three sides. and with only
one Httlo break In their lines. through which he
had to ride in the fun blaze of all their fire.
What did You think when you saw the fix YOU
were in?' l asked him.
=" I thought had better dash ahead and attract
the fire. so that my colonel would get out safely
was the reply"
All the inmates OF the Texas State Workhouse
YEAR Tas,nS Gs set 10 %SpH on caere farm next
beats are to be put 10 work raising live bcets-
philadelphia Press.
The Senate's blind chaplain the Rev DR. W II
Muburn, Is a survival OF WASHINGTON before he
war 1t was in 1875 that he was elected chapIain
of Congress. Representative Abraham Lincoln of
Illinois. nominated him. That was ten years be
fore John Sherman and Justin 6 Morrill, took
their seats In the House. In those days says
DR. MHhuru, "onC chaplain offered the PRAYER at
the opening Of each branch OF Congress and the
only way This could he done by one man was to
have the Senate clock kept ten minutes slower
than the House CLOCK. After / offered the invoca-
tiOn in the House a mage would take me to the
Nhe
duty"
Vanbibber-Who got the annual booby prize I'm
the Automobile Club? "
Vanpet-Slowg0, he only fourteen peo-
pie during l90l.-(Ohto State Journal
An ancient burial ground has been discovered on
the ranch OF Luiciana Quintana near Mesa Rico
in NewMexico, about two hundred miles south
east OF Las Vegas. Two stones were first found
that bore curious inscriptions. and beneath these
were found In shallow excavations the bones of a
frame that could not have been less than twelve
feet in length. The men who opened the grave
say the forearm was four feet long and that in a
well preserved jaw the lower teeth ranged from
the size Of hickory nut to that of the largest
walnut in size. The chest of the being reported
having a circumference of seven feet. Quin-
tana who has uncovered many other burial places
expresses the opinion that perhaps thousands of
skeletons of a race Of giants long extinct will he
found. This suppostion is based on the traditions
handed down from the early Spanish invasion that
of giants that inhabited the plains Of what now is
Eastern New Mexico. Indian legends and carvings
also in the same section Indicate the existence Of
such
Laura1Yes. you see, she told him her father had
lost all his wealth just to test his love for her.
Ada-And then2
Laura-Wel she will know better next time
Glasgow Evening Times.
Babu i'll India had with great difficulty OBJ
tanned introduction to an important parsonage
After the interview English friend met him and
inquired how he got oh" replied the Babu
mot very well. In Shakespeares language he
praised me with faint damns."
Briggs-so you don't think Philadelphia a very
Griggs-Decidedly not When was there horse
fell down. and the crowd that collected did
hundred persons-(Boston Transcript
The authorities of Minden. Germany. have made
a bacteriological examination Of school inks Most
which. when animals were inoculated with them.
often proved fatal
Cultivation-'I suppose you hope TO make
very cultivated young man OF your boy Josh"
Yes" answered Farmer Corntossel. We're cul-
tivatn' him the best Every now and then
mother and me gives him rakin' over."-(Wash-
ngton Star.
Jonesboro. new village now being laid out at
Fort Lee five miles from Richmond Va is to
be populated by negroes only. The site consists of
eight hundred acres cut up into building lots "A
park, orchards. grazing lands and small farms for
trucking.
ceved a letter from constituent as follows.
Please send me some of the volumes containing
memorial addresses Tor dead members of Congress.
There is nothing read with much pleasure as
obituaries OF Congressmen-"