New-York tribune., 1903-07-28
PIE

know the things been wrote about
BY many another chap;
! know it's said be wore out.
I'm B"f fed / dun IN witR Saf9 M 'sR Subject. as
A feer orto be;
An I jest die whenever pie
Quits loolin' good Z me.
g1owed up in tn country. where
They live on pie heap.
Hst a, t git up Z, in 5I,t IN 5,d9a night
re oufsrowed tastes fer other things.
Have not misplaced that bCyhood taste
That always yearred for pie.
Take some OF dirty resterrunt
With fly spots on tn bread
With spnters in tn, sugar, an
Some meat that's too long dead.
1t aI.ays kind O. gags me whom
But when my eye lights pie
a smile comes OH my face.
know I can't explain It, but
I've got it jest the same.
Somehow it sort o thrills me if
Most anything between two crusts-
amt a-carin' what
Jest so it's pie it stands high;
III take it cold er hot.
Some says they'd hate lose their sight;
SOInes anxious bout their ears;
some's skeered o gettn' paralyzed-
Take all tn other things I got.
Don't care I, h ner see.
--(Ba!timore American
The cutting away of a decayed and obstructive
tree at the southwest corner of City Hall Park
has favored New-Yorker with clearer and more
satisfactory view of the Nathan Hale statue. This
big had outlived both its beauty and It's use
fulness. Therefore it had further excuse for
existence, and its disappearance is not TO be re-
gretted.
The great landmark in Montreal is the Cathedral
Of Hqtre % ID Dame which M next to the famous cathe
building in america; and has seating capacity OF
is noted for its magnificent chimes one Of the
bells of which. called lie Gros Bourbon is one
weighs 47S0 pounds.-(Four Track News.
The unusual experiment of grating frog skin on
the hand of patient has been successfully per
formed at the homeopathy hospital of the Mich
gan University by Surgeon Westtan Albert
Witte. furniture workman of Adrian had his
hand caught In a sander and lost twenty inches
Of skin from the palm and back OF a hand DR.
Westfal secured large live frog, and after de-
strcying its brain, thoroughly cleaned the skin
sliced the white skin off its belly and placed the
particles on the to be covered These gratis
were covered with very thin rubber tissue and
that surrounded by dressing moistened bv COM
mon salt solution. After ninety-six hours the frog
skin gratis had united the granulation on the sur
face OF the raw hand had penetrated up through
the frog skin and projected beyond the surface of
the latter so that the whole surface appeared red
Mr.. Witte expects TO leave the homeopathy hos
pital in a week with his hand completely healed
THE PRAYING BROTHER.
all time prayin fer ter rise up higher
Ter de place whar de good folks stav
But fraid eff I'm flyer
In a cheeryoot er fire.
l sho' will bun up de way
I all time prayin' fer ter read my title
Ter de mansions good en- great
But 'fraid wen l lam
Dat deyH call ter me ter stan
En- put me in a cabin by de gate!
all time prayn'-but weak en- sinful
In des don't stan show,
End de worl' whar / lvin'
Is so frenzy fergivin'
Dat l won't be IN hurry fer ter go,
-(Atanta Constitution
A traveller who not long since was journevfng On
horseback through thinly settled section of ora
Of our Western States was stopped one day bv an
old farmer, who showed his interest in the nsv,
conner by asking many questions ACCORDING -
'Harper's Magazine" "
After relating much about the Spanish var and
other happenings of even less recent occurrence
OF which his questicnev had heard nothing r,t,I
then, the stranger asked the countryunan yyhv h,
did not take a weekly newspaper and so keen
himself informed.
Wal answered the farmer. when pa died n,
left me stack O. papers that high" Oowarius bis
hand To position just above mis- kneeJ and 7
amt got half through tn pile yet so Whate IN,
usa ws.tt