New-York tribune., 1907-04-30
THE talk OF THE DAY.

According 10 a Shelbyville Gnd) correspondent.
Combs p Parrish. OF that city. claims the stump
removing championship OF the state. Parrish has
been in the business of stump blowing for twenty
eight years. few months ago the Adams
farm. near Shebyville. he removed twenty-nino
hundred stumps His record for fast work in
March. when in five days. with tho assistance OF
several men. he blew 2s15 stumps from the ground
Tommy-NIy papas automobile Is a nicer one than
DickyEBeln' nice sln't rothin'. You can smell
my dads machine a mile away'-Chicago Tribune.
At Penon. Mexico n suburb of Mexico City may
be what Is perhaps tho smallest church in the
world. 1t nestles under the shadow OF small vol
canO. The church is about ten feet high and twelve
feet wide. Whenever a couple is married at the
little altar OF tho church there Is barely room
for the hTfie and bridegroom 10 turn around at the
same time.
Your daughter is skIlful performer on the
piano. is she notT'
Yes answered Mr.. Cumrox. The way she can
play foT hours without getting an earache or a
spraiaed wrist proves 70 mo that she's uneommonly
IN an article on Current Topics in Ancient Lit
eroture.' J. d. Elsenstein says in The sydney
(Austrulia) Standard.
The lightning rod was invented by Benjamin
Franklin in l752 to arrest the electricity OF the
thunder when the Information % the discovery
reached Rabbi Saul Katsenellenbogen OF wilma.
lie said that the theory not new because II
was already kuoWu II I0lmuulC times. and he
showed passage IN tho Tosefta third century,
where Il that on Sabbath s Is permitted to
place an iron near the hennery 10 safeguard the
fowls from thunder and lightning strikes The
Tnlmud vouchcs that there Is nothing supersti-
tious about this belief Crosef shabb.. Chapter VI
endJ
The system OF telegraphy. In a crude manner.
is curlousy described by Judah b. Jacob Chayat in
his commentary 10 The System OF Theology chap
ter. The Gate OF tie Chariot tsee page 2lSb. ed.
Ferrara 1863. Chayat Is perhaps the first Hebrew
author who transliterates the term magnet and he
explains the physical phenomena follows If
you break the magnet into two parts and separate
them al any distance, even thousand miles apart.
any movement caused by Joining wire to part
will be repeated ny the other part quoted also in
shelah. page 3oa "a. Amsterdam l7oS).'
Horsedealer-A hundred horsepower. suppose?
Automoblist-Oh. no -Four. It's only small
Iiorsedcaler-I wasn't gcins by the size. but by
the smell.-Life
ny the election OF Lord Mchelham as an alder
man OF the City OF London the Jews again have
a representative In the London Council and may
look forward the induction OF another Jewish
Lord Mayor. a Manchester paper says: Lord
Michelham. formerly Herbert Stern. was made a
baronet In 1895 and late IN the same year was
raised 20 the peerage, being the third jew TO re-
ccive that distinction. The others Lord
Rothschnd and Lord Wantworth. who was Sidney
Stern. a cousin OF Lord Michelham Lord Pr
bright was also "A Jew when he Baron de
Worms. but he renouuced his faith and became
n member OF the Established Church"
Dorothy call Charlie Adams awfuily soft don't
you?
Agnes-Yes I call him down.-Lippincott's
The sisaI industry is becoming an important one
about one thousand acres having already been
planted in Hawaii. Experiments indicate that It
can be successfully cultivated from level up
$500 feet and with rainfall high 90 inches
Hawaiian sisa is pronounced by nbre experts to
be equal 10 that produced in Yucatan.
Griggs-The idea of your letting your wife 90
round saying she made man OF you You don I
hear my wife saying that.
Briggs-No; but heard her telling my wife that
she did her best.-Philadelpha Inquirer.