New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
of it?

A sense of hun1or is not very strong charac-
teristic of the English clergy, but occasionally
some Of them possess its saving grace. Canon
Knox Little tells story of being asked once TO
preach in the country. and being in the neighbor-
hood went to inspect the church in question be-
forehand. He arrived at a side door, over which
was carved in stone, This is the Gate of Heaven -
but underneath written This door is only
open in summer"
In Strange Land.-A Scottish tourist wandering
hotel, found himself in a maze from which he could
not escape and, to make things worse, he falIed
to guide him homeward .
Then happy thought struck him. By dint OF
for a basketful of gooseberries, and then; to the
'Fine @ftas's5 Scotch grossets! penny pun! This
on for while. till fellow countTyniSa1n I man
by the shoulder asked.
MAN d'ye think yere in the streets Of Glasca.
sefsr e m, .... =. r.,,.t ..v.,-.
inst The me- man pePs1 was looking for Dye ken the
way way to the hotel -?"-(scottish American.
Duncan Giles the Father of the Parliament of
Victoria. and It's Speaker. has legislative
record that is unique in the British Empire or
elsewhere. Forty-fve years have passed since as
a. young man of twenty-five, and working miner,
he was first elected by the gold diggers of Balarat
With the exception of three years spent in London
as agent general, he has been continuously In the
Victorian Parliament since, but he has hardly
That is because he has rooted aversion to raids
on the treasury and doing drudgery for con
stituents, besides constitutional love OF ease he
has lost count of his constituencies At recent
Lord Mayors dinner in Melbourne he said to his
neighbor: Let me see, have 1 ever represented
your district?' NO" the reply; Il believe 1t
is the only one you have not represented"
His Ain wife's Ghost-A Blairgowrie had
married a native OF Kirkcaldy Some years later
when the woman vas dying she said to her M hgsI
hopl oh a
want you to do me a favor"
'Weei John it's jist this, that yen bury me
among my ain folk at Kirkcaldy.''
"Hoots, oman it Gamma be; tell you 1t Gamma
.weel John if ye dinna TAX me to Kirkcaldy
I'll haunt ye; me speerit will haunt ye.,
"Aweel, # it comes to that oman an III ,nS hae to
Society lei S''' ! ~ ; " ~
At q recent debate among the members OF a
Philadelphia literary society on the question,
should Capital Punishment Be Abolished?"
speaker in the negative took the position that as
the general sense of justice of mankind for centu-
res had justified the death penalty for great
crimes therefore those of this generation ought not
to abolish It, for" said he. ''if hanging good
enough for my father, it is good enough for me-.
No Dapger-"Do YOU think there is any danger
of America being dominated by Europe5' e, .ro,r.,
nary emphasis mot SO long eminent Euro
peans continue to marry American girls '-(Wash-
ington Star.
Muncie. Ind. has almost been having hairpullins
over its new library a gift from Andrew Carnegie
The title the entrance is 'Muncie Public Lii
brary." the two words being spelled with the old
Roman u which is a W There is unanimous
approval in circles. the old letter conforming
to the architecture of the building. The plain cit
izens'' want plain United States letters. and con-
tend that the town may be thought dead one
if it old style letters. The sculptor that
the lettering cannot be altered without marring the
front of the library. and still the factions squabble
Revised II don't understand how Miss Milyuns
can see anything In that foreign nobleman. He's
That's So and yet the chances are ten TO one
this will be case of "A fool and her money soon
married. - philadelphia Press.
The lightning rod must enjoy greater favor in
Europe than here if what THE London Chronicle
says be true. namely. that the new Campanile of
St. Marks will have lightning rod No rod was
erected it's predecessor until 1866 after the tower
had been repeatedly struck by lightning. and upon
one occasion badly damaged in thirty-seven places
This must have considerably weakened the stability
of the old Campane, though the circumstance does
not appear to have been mentioned In the official
report the disaster which mourned by the
world. Before the adoption of Benjamin Franklin's
lightning rod it thought sufficient by the ortho-
dox consecrate bells against the gnity OF the
demons who supposed to hurl the electric
fluid at holy places. Although this pious device
failed signay. the lightning rod was long rejected
as no better than compromise with Satan himself
The Suburban Chnd.-They were suburbanites.
handed to the mother, which she read with
rapidly eead sbe How Mn Tn
Rodney's entire family has been practically
her brother. and her cousin ali in the same
Ethel -four years old who in her brief career
has experienced all the joys and woes of the sub
urbs)-''Dd the cook die too. mamma ?'-(Eiarper's s
Magazine.