New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE TALK OF THE DAY.
An English weekly speaking of headlines. tells OF
an excellent which appeared over d Story VI
the Pigott forgery. In that case one OF 'lie ueit
bv which Sir Charles Russell brought the unfortu-
nate forger to bay by getting him TO write the
word ..hesitancy" In the forged letter the Wofo
was misspelled 'hesitency." The day the flsht Oh
Ptgott was announced editor suggested 'he hesiu-
lne 1.-THE Man Who 'Hesitetes' Is Lost ana IL
was so excellent that it was Immediately put IN
type.
Jin,-Say if you'll notice, you'll see that most OF
these big Wall Street men started on a farm A..
Sam~9es and that is where they learned to water
stock.-{Princeton Tiger
T. p O'Connor speaking OF Lord Rosebery's ref
erence to himself a male dowager' and OF the
story in illustration of a family known to MT
Gladstone, where the practice was for the pro-
pretor, when he reached certain period OF iife TO
hand over estate and mansion to his eldest son
and retire into smaller house, recalls curious
instance in Dublin. There were two houses there.
a. little and big one suggested by family ar
rangement, but of very different nature from
that alluded to by Lord Rosebery. The owner or
the two houses d physician In large practlce,
Sir James Murray-whose name, with or without
his consent was given for many years TO a mag
nesia that supposed to be cure for all Ills
Sir James a quiet hard working man. who
hated society, but his wife. the other hand was
a bustling society loving woman-fond of parties.
routs and the rest. Sir James solved the impossi-
BILE problem of their living together by building
small house himself by the side of the big one
and living in the in silence and quiet while he
left his wife to her social carousings in the other
SEEING THINGS.
He thought he crocodile
A-weeping in the rain;
He looked again and found 1t was
A novel by Hall Caine;
The great increase in suicide
Said he, "Ill now explain.
He thought he saw battlefield
He wioo ooked agan nsaRff and fouRd il was
SAID dust bs c!9qd @ hike IL shs faoa any here before
The devil carts whz by
Above the clouds hung gray;
He looked again and found it was
6f mSnsTn eo@4se pToRieh sod he. pss "a syndicate
Has dividends to pay.
He looked again and found it was
A Newport social tea!
7 think said he that tweedledum's
-(John n Hillard. in Life.
A country vicar discovered not long ago that one
of his male servants IN the habit of stealing
his potatoes He mentioned the fact to his curate,
and asked advice. Well replied the curate, 'of
course you must remember what the Bible says:
If any man take away thy coat, let him have thy
cloak Also" IT see," unused the vicar well. in
this case. the takes my potatoes, I'd better
give him the SACK"
He sent copy of his dialect story down into
the country, where he studied the dialect"
And did It make the natives angry?
"Oh, no: they couldn't understand it-"-(Chicago
Post.
legislator of Charlton County No. makes the
following unique explanation of his presence in
the legislature:
II was born under a tobacco leaf. 1 grew up
between the corn rows and I've got my share of
hardtack and pork. Now, by ginger, I've thou
sand acres OF the best land in Charlton County.
and 1 thought 1 would like to get out among the
boys some. l guessed 1 could be elected, and
was
Getting Evidence-"She seems TO be a mighty
suspicious woman
..rne worst evsF sha had camera concealed IN
the flowers at her wedding ana nag p4Iot9sraph
made during the ceremony. '-tBEooKIyn Lire
The wild hogs of Southern Colorado share with
the peccares of Central and South America the |
reputation of being the ercest most vndietive and
toughest animals OF the Western Hemisphere They
will follow tenaciously. tree and starve out an
enemy Their skins tough their vitality is |
remarkable and their teeth sharp razors. They
travel in small droves and ready to attack |
anything be II or beast. that arouses their Ire
Hunters in Southern Colorado always observe the |
precaution Of statoning themselves within reach |
of a tree when in the neghborhood OF a drove.
The Fool and the Knave--A man left his UNI
bearing the following inscription attached to it, |
blow W. Of 20 pounds xs:ghf shan be 6aSk il
on returning 10 seek MS properly ne |
found In the place a card thus inscribed: This |
card was left here by who can run twelve |
miles an hour. I shall not be back!"-(Ledger |
Monthly.
The Lady Chameleon is attracting attention in |
Paris. She is young Rumanian. Marga Cerbus |
by name, whose coloring is determined by her |
emotions. Anxiety turns her green; she is pink |
when joyful violet when afraid. and black when
angry THE Boston Journal see how such
a would be never failing joy as a wife |
Her husband would never be In doubt as to the
precise nature of her mental condition. And then
there might come a mildly polygamous feeling to |
a husband having white wife. coored wife and ,
a red wife different days. Yet Miss Cerbus
will. doubt, marry that is color blind and |
therefore unappreclative such is the irony OF life
The Irrepressibe Child-Ma is there any differ
ence between level and fiat?
His Mother-No, dear
The l. Then why did pa get angry when Mr.
Jones SAID ne was nathead. and then feel good
when he heard that Mr.. Smith said he VAS level |
haahad f-lCnlunihia La.toE- "