New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-09
THE TAIN OF THE DAY.

AT o'clock says a correspondent OF The
Kansas City star every hotel in Java serves a
most distinctive and remarkable meal called the
rice table (rijst-tafeD. a large. fiat, bowl shaped
dish placed In front of you, which you fill with
beautiful white. faky rice. borne about in dishes
holding fully quarter OF husheI. Then comes
a seemingly never ending stream of natives. each
bearing a dish containing some different meat. veg
etable or condiment, from which you take small
portion and place 1t on top of the rice After you
have had a little OF everything you mince 1t up
with a knife and fork and mix it well with the rice.
and then fall to with large spoon. j. list OF the
side dishes with ordinary rice table. would read
something like this Fried eggs. omelet' fried
chicken. broiled chicken, stewed chicken. beer
steak sausage, fish fritters. a mixture Of veg
etables stewed with mustard dressing. raw GU
cumbers liver and ten or twelve different spices
and relishes. besides pickles Many stout Dutch
man have take a liberal helping from each
dish in addition TO ALMOST quart Of rico for
BACKGROUND OF table Naturally, every one must
go TO sleep Immediately after such meal. and all
business Is suspended for several hours The din
per IN the evening at o'clock. is very simple
meal
Mamma; are we going to have derelict pudding
Emerson replied the mother All uo,.,-u
island mamma 'tY mixers Sta tesman.
"A friend Of mine" said Secretary Shaw the
other day gave a dinner once 10 some rural
gentlemen from Iowa He furnished them the best
of everything, terrapin and canvasback duck The
climax of the feast was watermelon into which
had been emptied two quarts of champagne. When
the farmers began to eat the watermelon they
smiled and smacked their lips. and again.
Then. Of accord, they slipped into their pockets
a handful of the seeds They wanted to raise
some of the same kind OF melon their
farms"
Wife make me some dumpngs Of dough.
Pray let them be boiled till hot through
But not till they are heavy or tough.
Now I must be off to the plough.
can 1i'f keen si9 off the flies with Dough
While the old man drinks out of the trough.
-tLondon Chronicle.
Certain Natonalists have offended the United
Irish League by applying for tickets of admission
10 Westminster Abbey to witness the coronation
A fiat has consequently gone forth that such mem
bers attend the ceremony shall be expelled in
continently from the Nationalist party.
Bacon-New-York is a great city for military
WHY; there's ), hardly street there in which
THE Australian Federal Government" says
'The London Chronicle recently wrote to Wash
ington suggesting an interchange of official pubca-
tons between the commonwealth and the republic.
Mr. Barton and his colleagues have been somewhat
staggered by the prompttude. the cordiaity and
the completeness of the response. No less than
sixty-eght closely packed OF United States
official literature landed in Melbourne the
other day and conveyed on Custom House drays
to the Parliamentary Library. Ministers and off,
Gals surveyed this first nstalment with conflicting
emotions, and wondered whether Brother Jonathan
intended to have periodical fits of this embarrassing
generosity.
He-Daring. what do you suppose have done to-
day?
Shell couldn't guess in hundred years.
Hell have had my life insured
she-That's just like you, John Mann. All you
to think of is yourself.-(Boston Transcript
Professor Gallaudet who has done so much
toward educating deaf mutes. tells this story: One
of the professors favorte pupils, unusually pre-
cocious child. asked by his teacher if he knew
the story of George Washington and the cherry
tree. With his fingers the youngster repeated the
tale without break, until he to the point
where the elder Washington questions his son.
When Georges father asked him who hacked his
favorte cherry tree" continued the child, moving
his signalling fingers almost rapidly some
persons move their tongues. George put his
Ratchet in his left hand Wait a moment"
said the professor; how do you know that he
answered the boy "he needed his right to tell his
father that he had chopped the tree
Customer-Have you "Prometheus Bound?
ma'am but If we had the book at all 1t would be
bound. sure.-(Philadelphia Press.
Professor Smaller Mathews of the University OF
Chicago. who recently returned from the Holy
Land. says that in small town east of the
River Jordan he discovered windmill which had
been made in Batavia, III.