New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

'HThere are says a correspondent OF ''The Lon
don Chronicle mo less than thirteen peers at
present who descended from the Great Pro-
tector. They all seem to come through his fourth
daughter, Frances. who married for her second
husband Sir John Russell, by whom she had five
children Among these peers descended from
Frances Cromwell there are two marquises. North
ampton and R.pon; eight earls, the Earls of Chi
chester and Clarendon. Earl Cowper. the Earis
of Darney, Lytton, Morley. Rothes and Skelmers-
dale and Barons Ampthin. Avebury still best
known by his thirty years public life name of Sir
John Lubbock, and Lord Walsingham."
How They first Hd The biggest dg nd ut
Tenth Year.Did I ever tell you about the trout
an IAN anchor in his stomach.-(Sew-York Weekly.
writer in 1.-THE Boston Journal" knows a man,
an intense American, who believes in the superior
ity of the most stupid American the most
learned brilliant foreigner. He calls all for
eigners, OF whatever country they may be,
"Dagos" The Emperor William. the Gar Rich
ard Strauss Sardou Ibsen, Maeterlnck, the Chi
nese Minister Marconi-they are to him all
"Dagos" Goethe. Peter the Great. Column
bus, Omar Khayyam. Confucius. George Sand,
He always refers to Americans Gods own"
I'm opposed to your marrying that youngster,"
thing. He's weak kneed'-
oh! papa! the plump young woman interrupt
re."-(Phiadelphia Press
The Rev. J. A. Kring witness in a trial at
Fort Scott, Kan. the other day. and before he
sworn he asked the justice If he might be per-
mitted to open his testimony with prayer. The
justice responded that II the jury had objection
he would have none. Thereupon the preacher
walked over TO the jury, kneeled down before them
and offered up supplication. He prayed that the
Lord would keep them from all evil and guide
them to right understanding, and he prayed that
each witness would be made to realize that if
- gaY- h. -
wrath of God. When the trial conclu-
sion. the church and the preacher lost. Apparent
ly it another of those mysterious dispensations
through which the wicked sometimes triumph.
There is a mysterious touch about the following
advertisement. unearthed in a lady's periodical:
Best quality hand-wringer. 14in. rubber roller;
unused through afilicton; cost 2ss.; offer"
ton, it seems a highly superfuous bit of mechan-
ism altogether.-London Globe
The city urchin has cause this winter to envy
the country boy In plentiful opportunities for
every imaginable kind OF sport in the snow Tun-
nels and caverns in the drifts sleighing and sled
ding without stint. snowbailing and the elaborate
construction OF frozen statuary-think of every
conceivable enjoyment of childhood when the
ground is hidden with thick white garment, and
then see If the lads in town have been worse off
since the end of last autumn than the young fell
lows the farms have been
BY the Sounding Sea.-"Ah!' sighed the roman
tic young woman who was one of the fashionable
ocean means So"
perhaps" said the practical young man. some
crab lobster Is pinchng its undertow. -(Phila-
delphia Press.
The scarcity OF fish in old times in England
made It difficult for the poor TO keep Lent Pepys
remarks: 1.-THE talk OF the towne now is
whether Lent shall be kept with the strictnesse
OF the Kings proclamation; which is thought can
not be, because of the poor who cannot buy fish,"
He also says: Notwithstanding my resolution vet
for want of other victualls. l did eat flesh this
Lent; and again. "our dinner was only sugar
sopps and hshi the only time have had a
Lenten dinner all this Lent"
NO" said the Hon. Pussyfoot Staytesmann 'I
cannot vote to confirm your appointment, because
understand that In the fall OF 1898 you INDUCED
In nefarous poker game. In which you won a
large sum OF money from conhdng Fastener"
But, protested Plug Perkins. the Arizona Office
seeker. you hadn't ought to hold a little thing
like that ag'in Teller That's only one o. the
customs o the country. an besides the tenderfoot
nag 10 lose the money to some one"
Is that sof asked the Hon. Pussyfoot staytes-
mann. IT may come as a distinct shock 10 Won
TO be Informed that was the person 10 whom Won
refer so casually e. oot"-(Baitimoro