New-York tribune., 1902-12-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


! tion of the masseur The blind with their delicate
sense of touch and with their soft. supple hands
| take to massage a duck takes to water. Mas
sage. you see. doesn't require eyesight. for the
| masseurs busy hands hide from him what he is
doing; it requires just those qualities that in the
blind are developed TO excess-an ability to see
as 1t were. with the fingers know a blind
masseur who practises in New-Yorl1. His work
is a revelation. No seeing man or woman 7 have
ever met could come anywhere near him The
massage as you know. is becoming and more
popular daily; getting and more
Tnasseurs. and soon, I glad to see. good
proportion OF these and will be blind
Reasonable Explanation.-Crstomer-Yo charged
me Sl4 Tor this one garment? think that's pretty
was for s1S. but that is such an mnlucky number
cago Tribune.
Engineers rule sternly utitarian. hut
there are occasions which they indulge in
tmental practices. according TO The London
Chronicle One OF these occurred the other 1ay
the completion of the first transcontinenta rail-
way in Africa. When the plate laying gangs from
Bula~ayo and Salisbury. respectively came within
twenty chains Of each other telegram sent
TO the contractors and engineers, who at
rived the The rails joined and
two engines proceeded slowly toward each other
from either side Attached to the drawhead OF the
engine from Salisbury bottle of champagne,
and the two engines mot IT broken. and the |
railway christened in the orthodox man
MELANCHOLY HEIGHTS.
melancholy Is associated with height Our girls
are growing taller and more solenn)
oh. where is now the ylnsome maid
That merry mite OF three.
Who gavly. blithely. with us played.
Embodiment of glee!
She grew; we watched her form expand.
Her merrirnent decrease:
And bade some frolic cease
At twelve her laugh became a smile,
Her smile became a troWn.
She grew. alas! and all the while
Her spirits dwindled down.
At sweet sixteen divinely tail.
And more diviney fair.
She never even smiled at all.
Sad victim OF despair.
And still she grows and deeper gloom
Til ali she asks is time-and room
To wipe her tears away.
The poplar lifts its dainty heads
Where light and joy abound,
Yet sends its earth-borne roots tbs said'
The deeper underground
So they who raise their heads aloft
Must feed that which proves too oft
-1.ondon Chronicle
Some hnical persons have been saying unkind
things about the hardy selfrespecting. frugal
goats which may still be found in considerable
numbers In several of the boroushs of the greater
New-York. The goat has qualities worthy Of rec
and no beggar at backdoors or Easements is he
Capricornus forages courageously and looks out
for himself. No highwayman or hobo he; no seeker
of easy hours In almshouse hospital. He hunts
for his provender. The New-1ork goat earns
his living and asks no odds of anybody.
A Unanimous Jury-At an inquest on a OF
suicide recently held in England the , foreman n, re
all OF one mind-temporariiy insane claw Notes
Mark Twain in an article Christian Science.
in 1.-The North American Review tells the follow
ing incident. of which. perhaps. first the slang
should De explained A claim is Christian Sci
ence for ailrnent. something which claims to be
an aiment A demonstration is more slang.
Demonstrations over chilblans. for instance. is
curtaied way of saying demonstrations of the
power of Christian Science truth over the fiction
which masquerades under the name of chilblains.
Mark Twain writes:
"a little Far Western girl Of mine says. IT
thought would write demonstration to you
She had claim. derived from getting flung over a
pouy's head and landed rock pile She saved
herself from disaster by remembering say God
is Alr while in the air. / couldn't have
done it. 7 shouldn't have thought of It. /
should have been too excited. Nothing but Chris
tan Science could have enabled that child to do
that calm and thoughtful and judcious thing in
those circumstances. She came down her head. |
and by all the rules she should have broken it; | {
but intervention of the formula prevented that,
so the only claim resulting was blackened eye. |
Monday morning 1t still swollen and shut. {
At school 1T hurt pretty bady-that is. it seemed |
to 7 excused, and went down in the |
basement and said. Now I depending on | {
mamma instead of God. and will depend God |
instead of mamma No doubt this would have |
answered: but, to make she added Mrs. Eddy
to the team and recited the Scientific Statement
of Being which is of the principal incanta- c
tions Judge. Then Il felt my eye opening Why, ,
1t would have opened oyster 7 think il is one
of the touchingest things In child history, that |
pious little down cellar pumping away at the
Scientific Statement Of Being
Convinced.-"Do you read Dickens?'
No said Mrs. Cumrox. rather loftily.
"Perhaps OF those who do not regard
him representing the best literature?''
.J am I have seen his books offered for sale
cheap as 25 cents a copy.'-tWashngton Star.
New-Brunswick's Carnegie Library building hav- !
ing lost cornerstone in transit somewhere I
tween that city and Its Vermont quarry 1T be- I
comes a question worth attention whether mono
lith showing qualities fugitive and errant those
of meteoric stone ought to be admitted into | .
building looking to immobility and permanenee as
every well endowed library foundation ought to do
Too Friendly-Bridget-wha made yees lave yer ;.
place. Nora?
Nora-Oh. them two people fraid l wuz +
goin' t. lave that nivir got a minute t meself.-
brooklyn Life.