New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-07
THE TALK or THE DAY.

A Norwegian writes that the genuine old form
OF the name of the new King of his country is
HAkon The name is made UP Of two roots ha.
the root of har high and kon or konr, of the kin.
family or race thus Hakon means the high one
of the kin" The modern Norwegian spelling is
Haakon The "aa" sound Ike "aw' in hawk and
the 'on" like the English word on. The accent is
on the first syllable
Remembered the Text-A little Topeka girl came
home from church the other day and was asked
what the minister's text was Know It an
light light d she Don't be afraid and will get
you a bed quilt" was the astonishing answer, n
yestigation proved the central thought of the
sermon had been Fear not. and will send you a
comforter."-(F <ansas City Journal.
The Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones. OF Manchester
England is credited with having originated the
nbraee "the Grand Old Man" as applied to Mr.
Gladstone During the Irish agitation it became
necaasarv that detectives should follow Mr. Glad
stone for the purpose of protection, and as the
Liberal leader lived at Hawarden, in Fhntshre
that county then governed by Quarter Sessions
was asked to pay the bill The magistrates nearly
all Tories in those days. objected. Whereupon Mr..
Io,,d 1onAs who was then a minister at Rhyl.
nron,pfIv called an Indignation meeting. He asked
a LAWYER who was present TO state whether, If the
life of a common tramp was in peril, 1t was not
the duty OF the county to protect him. The lawyer
said that undoubtedly it was Then" shouted Mr.
Jones if it is the duty Of this county to protect
the beFpar at our doors. going 70 allow the
r,acions life OF that grand old man at Hawarden
tn 90 rnnrotected?" That meeting settled the
OuaTter Sessions objections and the title stuck
THE UNPOPULAR MAN.
Give me for friend the whose friends are few;
Who though his heart be clean and stanch and
,rbou s3oe every fiber of his soul be true
Is tactless blunt, and seldom understood.
=, a,,ob n drift God oft conceals lode
Whose richness makes Golcondas wealth seem
~ naus sn one He Outlines has bestowed
TaTee worth so hid it must be shrewdly sought
CO zgntIa the rabble fawns him whose friends
"a SrS as as the sands that rim the oceans blue.
GIVE me for friend the man whose friends are
few. ,strickland w Gillian. in The Reader.
The Occidental physician is not without honor in
~ orient The Calcutta Statesman" tells how a
da,.or in a Bengal hospital had bearskin door
at In few days it was plucked entirely bare
%T+e,,ar ailments the patients complained Of they
regarded few hairs from the doctors mat as more
curative than the medicines he prescribed
Mrs. Braggs-I wish you wouldn't be so positive.
There are two sides to every {ve g9es tbo3
M III Won should always be on the wrong side
ANSWERS
Tho country editor is long suffering in the matter
NJ deIinouent subscribers. but, If he lives long
enough he sometimes has mis- revenge. An Indian
Territory editor recently took the occasion OF the
death OF a reader TO write this little obituary:
DECEASED was a mild hammered man. with a
mouth for whiskey. He here at night with
another mans wife ana Joined the church at the
first opportunity He owed US s. on the paper"
MT Borem-My father was a great breeder of
Miss Cutting-Ah! There was quite a large family
Of YOU wasn't there-dnustEated Bits.