New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-07
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Jewish clergyman in Brooklyn. writing about
people who habitualy attend services at the syna-
gogue without contributing toward its maintenance.
calls them moral parasites and describes them
further individuals whose religious life steals
its substance from others" He says there are
women parasites also, and that he has known
women Ito beat steal their way through their
religious life In the course OF his letter he
fers to them "avaricous," congregational para
sites" moral degenerates." etc, and says that
THE race should come under the ban OF human
contempt"
Il hear that you called me a land shark" said
the real estate dealer. hoty.
Yes" said the customer. and desire 10 apollo
gize for II. The lots you sold me under water
at high tide. You're really marine shark ..
restore the entente cordiale.-Ph Philadelphia Ledger
This is IN strange contras, with a clergyman of
the same denomination who writes There are
thousands Of Jews who become estranged from
their faith because of the pew system. In the free
synagogue there viii be pews and no assess
It will be free in every sense 81 the term
81 must say remarked Farmer CorntosseI that
The Congressional Record Is the paper for me
no can't saw as | DO but like the way It's
edited. Rather than hl up with divorce suits an
murder trials. II suspends publication altogether
Washington Star.
Human skin be prepared tanned and made
into durable articles as successfully as can the
skin OF horses and other animals. says The Chi
cage NsWs.~ The resulting leather is much like
dogskin pigskin. William Hanseu OF Philadel-
phia. has the largest article which has ever been
known to be- made from human skin-a beautiful
pure white saddle-and any examining il would
be at q loss TO tell the kind OF skin from which
It Is made The pores have a familiar look. but
the skin itself IS OF astonishing thickness This
saddle made from the skin OF man. a
woman's skin. generally speaking. would be too
delicate Human skin leather Is a rare article and
there is no general trade in It. Sometimes a ply
sician will have piece made into a cover for an
instrument case. and occasionally medical students
get enough to be made into n purse or n pair OF
slippers. Patients sometimes have a belt or a book
cover or some such article made from a limb which
has been amputated
Cant you find any work at all?"
me last employer"
Cant you get the1n?''
No. sir: He's been dead twenty-elght years,'-
Illustrated Bits.
The number of women employed on the Russian
railways is increasing According to the latest re-
turns. there are now working the twenty-five
Russian state railways fewer than 1900 women
gatekeepers clerks. telegra piers etc The aver
age wage varies from 1870 b. 1876 rubes yearly tSs5
to 500. The extremes great Thus tho women
clerks receive average from $50 to 400
Tubes. about $3.50. while the women attending at
the station paid only 40 rubles. about SO 30
year. in addition to free lodging and few extras
Why do you hate him SOP
He and were lovers once. and quarrelIed'
Was that ALP
No. He came to me. and we both acknowledged
that we were partly wrong Then agreed TO
forgive and forget
He has forgotten - Chicago Record Herald
Mrs Nellie Smith. of sebec, Me- has tame deer
which Is nearly two years old now. but which she
has raised like cosset lamb. feeding it from a
bottle first and making great pet Of It, 1t was
given 20 her by a lumberman. who overlook n in
the deep and caught IT in his arms when II
larger than cat. except for its legs II
has always been perfectly tame and dOmesticated
never having known anything of the wild life OF
it's kind but runs about the premises unrestrained
having its place In the stable cold nights. The
deer are numerous around Sebeo. and II is a ques-
ton whether. as Mrs Smiths pet grows older It
viii to the call OF the Wild and Join
its comrades in the forest
Wise-NOw. he's got what call horse sense"
Ascum-How, for instance2
WiSe-He never bets one.-Philadelphia Press.