New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Padre Francesca da Grosseto. who has just died
at Amalf. Italy, was one of the most popular
priests in Italy. for since 1888 he able to give
his friends and pentents the winning numbers in
the lotteries An obituary notice distributed
among his admirers states that he scattered his
benefits the country''-for the good priest OF
course gave away his tips. I'm the numberless
kilograms dispatched by him TO his priest friends -
continues the eulogium. he communicated re-
peatedy the most splendid sets of winning numbers
the lottery. The at Naples in
vnriaby bound themselves his WILL and honors
and benedictions heaped upon the head of
Padre da Grosseto. In word. he was the true
benefactor OF suffering humanity
Hoax thought at time he getting the
Gqbernatoriai bee in his bonnet
And didn't he get it?'
Not IN his bonnet; IN the neck. "-CPhiladelphia
Record
The Philadelphia Record" quotes the following
letter from Pulaski F. Hyatt United States Consul
at Santiago de Cuba:
LAS the question OF land ownership in Cuba is
under discussion. for your information write to
say that, far a sugar plantations were con-
cerred before the Spanish-American War. out OF
forty-seven sugar plantations within my consular
district OF Santiago and its dependencies not one
belonged a person who claimed TO be a citizen OF
Cubs- BY far the larger share belonged to British
subjects. although long residents upon the island
The balance pretty evenly divided between
belonged American citizens-one small to
Chester A. Whitney. Santiago; the other to a
by the OF Rigley. Manzanillo. The
latter, however only naturalized citizen who
was always waiting for an opportunity to curse the
United States Government"
WHITE HOUSE SONG.
The shoddy backed chivalry made wry face:
The White House is asking darby to dine!
Any gentleman, after this shockng disgrace,
But Booker r.
Washington. he
Sat down TO his soup polite could be.
prince came to town, and we made a grand
In the very same mansion where Booker had
"A black man has been there before your they
But the, EmperOrs brother remarked: Never
Your Booker T
Washington, he
Is mighty brave fellow. his friends all agree"
The guests were invited; who wouldn't forget
But one at a very wrong moment, had set
The seal Of his fist in a sad brothers face.
sa iSs T Te45yor from me
ThereIl be no room for him with Prince Henry at
With even a German schoolmaster they say
They could put in leaf and fetch some sort OF
And let me squeeze in between Pauncefote and
Senator T.
Swore a word. and says he
THE chair Booker sat in might answer for met
O r. Trowbrdge in The independent
One OF the neatest arguments yet put forward in
favor OF the metric system OF weights and meas
is this from THE Electrical World and Engi-
neer": There a period in the history of Rome
when Arabic notation unknown, and computa-
ton was conducted with Roman numerals. What
must have been the labor" remarks our con-
temporary. involved in finding the product Of two
such numbers 800 and a. when those numbers
were expressed as CCCLXV and XIV. respect
lively The saving OF labor to the community
effected by replacing the Roman by the Arabic
numerals must have been enormous. and yet the
change met. it is said with vehement opposition
among professional computers."
A story about the death OF Victor Hugo whose
centenary is being celebrated refers to the pub
l1cation of notice of the death of the poet in n
The azete des PecReurs la Ign sen BEGAN aza1k *
23ltIary notice In the following well chosen terms
ever t a44w TINS opportunity to pass" There
-(LOndon News.
A good many Danes men and women have be-
come Mormons in recent years. and Denmark IS
now regarded as most promising field for mission
work on behalf Of the sect A newspaper organ and
a publishing house for the dissemination OF tracts
and books have been established in Copenhagen
the parent Tabernacle in Salt Lake City Money
for this purpose is being collected in the United
States, to which about five hundred Mormon con-
verts come annually. There is local opposition to
the temple and the propaganda, but the work goes
on secretly or openly without abatement the site
OF the structure being bought and paid for though
the hostile Danish press asserts that il will never
be allowed TO be built.
The plume trade remains apparently untouched
by the appeals and efforts of the Society for the
Protection OF Birds, which has now been CARRYING
on it's work since February, 1889 The report which
is to be presented at the annual meeting To-day
states. however, that the extensive use OF made
up mounts and the repeated assurances laurched
in trade journals that these well other feather
ornaments are wholly manufactured" prove that
tg hui MI
and purchasers. Osprey and bird OF paradise
plumes still figure largely in the London bird skin
and feather sales. but the most repellent feature
of bird adornment this season has perhaps been
the use OF whole terms swallows and Of
gulls, wings, a revival OF the evil fashion which
called forth the famous counterblast from Profess
sor Newton at the meeting of the British Associa-
ton In lS62.-1ondon Chronicle