Evening journal., 1903-08-11
CAUGHT ATRANDOM

CA UOH Il III hANOOln
The philosophical are willing to take
the bitter with the sweet, but some men
want 10 take their btters all the time
In the West the blow that kills poor
father is usually Kansas cyclone.
The Maid-can you tell me the true
meaning of love?
The ent-Yes. ice cream and candy for
year or so, and then grocery bills gas
bills, and butcher bills for the balance
Of your life.
Some people ask for carload of goods
In their prayers, and when the collection
plate is passed offer expressage for only
one sman package.
Kind Old NANNY boy. what are you
doing with all those bricks, cobbles, and
clubs?
The Kid-Playn' railroad.
Kind Old Man-In what way; l don't
see any cars?
The Kid-Its de block system; only
one kid can come on dis block at a time,
an dats me.
Paris has one acre of park for every
fifteen persons, Liverpool England, one
for every thousand.
An artesian well in New South Wales
is i,OS6 feet deep, cost s5l,753, and yields
75O,O9o gallons of water daily
The railroad car will carry as much asl
twenty teams Of horses could haul, and
the great ocean steamers will transport
as much as 400 railway cars can carry.
The losses of German registered ocean
vessels, according to fresh Imperial sta
tistics, were eightyfive in one year.
Three passengers and 2s6 sailors We're
drowned,
An average stick of wood when green
contains 30 per cent of water and loses
% per cent. of II in seasoning, during
which process It's strength is nearly
doubled.
Belgians are the greatest smokers, sc
pounds being used for each man. woman,
and child. Aside from this, So 400 pounds
of cigarettes are imported annually.
The colonial possessions In the world
number 1ii. ana all of them are tropical
or subtropical in location, except Canada.
Their populations aggregate 4S5,OoO,OOO.
The threads of silk made from wool in
Germany have eighteen strands, a single
one of which is hardly visible to the
naked eye. Real silk is two-thirds
stronger. 4f.
The Rev. Frank Russell, the new chap.
lain of Sing Sing Prison, New York, has
for many years been a ward worker foi
prison reform.
Miss Minnie Eloise Sehoe, of Pensacola
is the first appointec under a Florida law
the passage whereof she secured, provid
ing for the appointment of official stenog
raphers to the Circuit Courts Of the State
James Carlton Young, Of Minneapolis
makes fad OF collecting books with tn
handwriting OF the author on the hyleaf
Mr.. Young has already collected severa
thousand volumes in all languages ever!
Z one Of which is so inscribed.
, Father Albert, a full-blooded Pottawa
! tomie Indian, was consecrated priest Il
{ the ST. Joseph's Catholic church in Okla
] homa City on July o. and is the first full
r blooded Indian ever consecrated in tn
, Catholic Church in America or In IN
+ world.
II A bronze bust OF Edwin Booth as Brr
tus, which for thirteen years has stood
3 the foyer Of the Auditorium in Louisville
: Ky, has been sent ITO the Players Clul
= New York, in compliance with instruS
y y tlons in the viii of its owner. the lat
y Captain William f. Norton.
stubb-No, I can't get along with m
q wife. Everything 1 say she retorts:
p beg TO differ with your
n Penn-You are lucky. old man. My wi
le just differs without taking 'he time
p beg.
Or 1T is not generally known that the
IS were money-lenders among the Indians
remarked the professor.
but We're there?" asked the student.
Certainly; there were the Pawne'
YOU know"
yh
nm VISITOR understand the Nigilan
ce Committee fully exonerated Mustai
nd Mike of the charge of horse stealing.
,es Westerner-Guess Il didn't maj
no much difference TO Mike.
,s- Nisitor--Why not2
ult westerner-They lynched him fir
.ry
nd, Frederic Charles Digby- Rober
pie mayor Of Abilene. Tex, has just wor
nd ed out his genealogical tree back to II
ant on the paternal side and fifty yes
asst more on the maternal side. He is a
led rect descendant from William the co
g. Queror and came from England twer
ers years ago.