New-York tribune., 1903-07-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

1.-The Saline County (ESan.) Index thinks it has
discovered a endless chain. Every farmer
boy it observes. wants to be a school teacher.
every school teacher hopes to be an editor, every
editor would like to be a banker. every banker
would like TO be a trust magnate, and every trust
magnate hopes some day to farm and have
chickens and cows and pigs and horses to look
after. We end where begin"
A Tragedy OF Travel-on one occasion Lindsay
who succeeded Carlisle as Senator from Ken
tucky, was coming East with Blackburn. 1t was
through the Allegheny hills: precisely the hour
the motion and the place to remind a gentleman OF
Lindsay. retdrning from the smoking room was
usually so bland. wore look Of troubled giooln
Whats wrong?" asked Lindsay, anxiously.
burn i've lost the better part of my baggdg
Nefbsr stoSa tSs or eor gd y9n Leave It %
Post
THE London Globe prints character" which
an English servant leaving kindly gave her mis-
tress: In anser to your letter. it's not a bad
place; the Mrs understands her dutys, and is sive
and obliging. but troubles about getting up early
of the mornings There is plenty. and If you don't
mind a place where only other young lady is
kept besides yourself, you might give them
months trial. like more society. which is why
am leaving"
4 suggestion-'I tell you." said the patriotic
citizen There is nObler sentiment for the natal
country and one flag"
agreed
"Ftne? Why. man. IL can't be improved upon"
II think" yentured the timid man. ''I think per
country one flag and one recracker."-Gudge.
proof Of the change of educational ideas at
Oxford and Cambridge is the growing popularity of
the natural sciences. There is at the same time
decadence Of the mathematical tripos at Cambridge
1t has always stood first until this year. when at
jump. 1t has gone to fourth place. Natural sci
comes first. with 10 students; classics second
with l0l; history third. with IS. and mathematics
fourth. with only p It IS pointed out that forty
years ago there were only ten men In the natural
science tripos
His Tide of Fortune. There is a tide in the
quotes Shakespeare " which. taken at its flood
Yes" replied the man who had married an heir
esS, Il remember the tide that led to my fortune
what tide was that?"
1T was eventde, and we sitting IN the gar
den."-(san Francisco Wasp.
One of the most startling of modern changes e
reported from Russia. The item is found in The
St Petersburg Press The daring innovation is
the widow of a chimney sweeper who died recentIv
leaving half a dozen olive branches all Of them
girls. Necessity. which is the mother of invention
has now inspired this thoughtful woman to take 10
her husbands calling. and in order to do the thing
thoroughly while she is about she means 10 form
a whole guild of female sweeps IL the police gram
the needed permission. BY the way OF assistants
or as Lamb termed them. ''uahedged practition-
ers," she processes to train up girls between the
ages OF eight and twelve years while the full blown
members OF the guild would include girs and woman
or from fourteen to thirty-fve. The first appear-
ance OF these novel sweeps is fixed for August l.
KING PETE