New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-30
TIE TALK OF TIE DAY.

The Pingree Potato Patch is TO be abandoned IN
the city OF its birth. Detroit, where It originated
ten years ago Mayor, afterward Governor I'm
gree in the effort to aid the deserving poor OF the
Michigan CITY devised the plan of making use Of
vacant lots The scheme was to afford an oppor-
tunity to those willing TO do the work 70 raise
garden vegetables to aid in the support or them
selves and their families. Besides making use~of
vacant lots in the city limits there were large
tracts OF land In the suburbs Of Detroit, which the
charitable organizations interested hired and de-
voted to the work. The plan was copied in other
large cities this country, and the fame or the
''Pfngree Potato Patch plan was extended abroad
But when prosperity returned the need Of helping
workingrnen in this way ceased. and this method
was dropped in most places. until now Detroit
gives it up
In a village near Oxford country policeman in
charge of the district presented his infant son for
Name this child" said the learned Oxford divine
'Septimus Octavtus, sir returned the policeman
Yes: that's all right, sir. He's the seventh son.
And so the christening was completed.-(London
Standard
Astonishing stories about the recent cyclones are
in the Kansas press, The Salina Republican
notes the case of Miss Olson, daughter of Saline
County farmer The Olson house was taken up
and twisted into spinters- A son was killed and
several more desperately injured including
Mr.. Olson. Miss Olson in bed, convalescing
from typhoid fever. After the storm had abated
she was found long distance from the site of the
house, calmly reposing the mattress of her bed
and without the slightest injury to her person
That the girl and the mattress could have been
lifted through that whirling mass of broken tim
bers, carried along the wings Of the storm and
dropped without suffering even jar or a scratch
is marvellous.
go IN and tell the editor 7 am out here with a
horsewhipT' cried the rate citizen,
De very gad 10 near ro, replied the Of 9 g
dozen '-(Chicago News.
The story is told of a man who was riding on
train and pretended to become i'll after eating
sandwich The man opened his grip and took
out & hot water bag. He got a sympathetic
porter TO hII the water bag with boiling water
and then he opened his luncheon basket took out
piece OF fried steak and warmed 1t up on the
water bag Then. after he had warmed the steak
he cut 1t ali UP with a pair of scissors and fed it
himself with a pair OF sugar tongs. because he
would take chance with fork going around
curve After he had eaten the steak he IN
screwed the stopper Of the water bag and poured
himself out cup Of hot coffee. He had the grounds
in the bag all the time.
which has white goods for sale It's personai IRE
pudence is excused perhaps by the originality Of
the idea: "One of these nights mouse will gnaw
match on your pantry shelf dear sister. and the
IRE VIII spread III 1t reaches your room and you
ments, Such spectacular opportunity 10 create
time a and, hoy vii you meet it, pear sister WIN
want TO plunge into the flames and die or will
you look like the pictures on the billboards? -
(kansas City Journal
a Missouri woman sat up until o'clock the
other night waiting for her husband to come home
Then she gave 1t up and went upstairs only TO and
him in bed and fast asleep. His deception" as
she called IL, made her mad that she didn't
speak 10 her husband for three days.
The appearance OF an American colored company
at the Shaftesbury Theatre recalls TO one Of our
readers. middle aged playgoer. the case CT the
negro tragedian, Ira Aldridge. He Is supposed 10
have been born in New-York City in 1866 the son
Of a full blooded native chieftain from Senegal
who was converted 10 Christianity and became The
pastor of colored congregation in the commercial
m Metropolis Of America The was intended 10
follow in the paternal footsteps. and was sent 10
England TO study for the ministry. He aid so for
a time but the fondness for the footIghts which
he had already manifested IN NewYork determined
his destiny in England He made his debut az the
Royalty Theatre Soho. IN the congenlal and an
propriate character of Othello. and scored an in
Simultaneous success. subsequently confirmed at
Covent Garden Edmund Kean had the highest
opinion of his abilities and played Iago o his
OtheIlc.-(London Standard