New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-15
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Benhow City, Ill. town which has grown up
around the Standard Oil Company's new refinery,
eight miles south of Alton IS the wettest town in
Illinois, and because it is the wettest 1t is also
proportonatey the richest It began its corporate
existence a village last LIonday with eighteen
registered voters and twenty-three saloons. Within
the corporate limits of Benbow City there three
hundred persons and one saloon for each thirteen
inhabitants addition to the twenty three saloons
there are seven brewery agencies. and each saloon
and agency pays 800 year license. Payments for
the coming year have already been made and the
little village starts out with $1,000 nest egg.
JUST sUPPOsING.
supposng great office came around one summer
And wept big tears and talked about it's sorrow
and dismay.
And clamored to be rescued from an uncongenfal
Would you have the heart to spurn it If It came
a-seeking you?-Washington Star.
Among the people who on the platform in
Carnegie Hall last week while Governor Hughes
delivered his address the question OF race
track gambling was q young German who had
never been out of the Fatherland until a few
weeks ago when lie sailed for this country. The
Carnegie Hall audience the first of its kind
he had seem and his EXPLANATIONS of delight and
establishment source Of entertainment TO
those who sat him. After the meeting he
said: When your Governor came on the plat
form wearing uniform decoration. accom-
panied only by officer in fatigue uniform. and
the great audience arose and cheered. 1t in
spring. That usual compliment But when
the audience got up and shouted its approval of a
noble sentiment / could that there Moth
ing complimentary about it-that it was sponta-
neous, and l shouted myself out of sympathy.
That meeting told me more about your people than
all the books l read before coming here"
rs this papas little boy mammals little
Dunno; the judge hasn't decided yet."-Lfe
Bishop Thoburn, Methodist missionary bishop in
India, who is in Baltimore for the General Con-
ference, discredits stories Of possible revolution
in India. Bishop Thoburn has lived in India and
Southern Asia for forty-eight years There may
have been plot among few conceited natives
to kill Lord Kitchener, said Bishop Thoburn,
Just as plots Of the kind develop in this and
other countries. but that the instruction be-
come anything like national in scope appears to
be most improbable The trouble is reported from
a part of India where a serious uprising Is the
least likely to The Bengalese a
warlike people. The climate, damp and warm has
produced a OF people who not muscular.
They have flesh, but small boned. and invaria-
bly, have small wrists and ankles These physical
attributes have tended to make them other than
warlike in nature"
Mistress-Now. remember, Bridget. the Joneses
Cook-Leave It TO me. mum. IN do me worst;
Bits
The unusual spectacle of Catholic priest ap-
pearing as counsel in a criminal wit
messed in a Baltimore court the other day. The
Rev. George Drenford, who before he took holy
orders admitted to the bar. entered a plea
of Not guilty for negro accused of killing a
woman. Father Drenford * connected with ST.
Josephs Seminary. where young men are trained
for work in the negro missions in the South He
is particularly interested in the negroes and he
is familiar figure about the criminal courts of
baltimore He received his early training In
Europe. where he in turn studied medicine. law
and theology.
To settle bet" said the visitor to the sane
tum. how long can man go without eating
Ask that gentleman over there said the Snake
Editor.
rs he the Answers-to- { respondents Editor?'
NO he's poet-'-Phfladel Press.
Nan-What is the first thing you have to learn
in playing golf?
Fan-The accent-Chcago Tribune