New-York tribune., 1908-02-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

..r, ,rorican Hebrew, has this to say about
an, Samuel Ffndowitz, who brought his eighty
vear-old father from Europe in the steerage "hiie
he came as a second cabin passenger on inc oN''
steamer: TT is hardly to be supposed tha' 81
des,cab,e a person can be sensitive to public rid-
ouIe vet both for his own deserts ana horfioie
example. he should be held up to the contempt Vi
the community
1ob,nie-I was all day in town with papa To-
day, mamma and he kept his word about drink
IamrnaIThat is good. I am very glad to near
IT And what did he have? rs ,,.. NJ
Johnnie-A little brown drink called dl'to MI
Hinkley took Scotch.-Tit-Blts
According to Consul General Michael OF Call
cutta the natives of India are not much adolcteo
70 drn. In a report the Department OF Com
rnerce and Labor Mr.. Michael adds: I'm 1850 an
experimental brewery was established by an
army officer in the Neilgherry Hills. In southern
India which Is still in operation There are brew
cries at Bangalore, Simla, Kussowlee and seVerai
other hill stations where mountain water can be
obtained Those who become accustomed TO the
Indian made beer prefer 1t TO the imported II is
cbeaner than the imported article. and seems to
have as much body and as good Havor re"
of the mountain tribes brew Kind or peer lor
themselves but nothing of the kind is done ny
natives on the plains. In the NILS shefoo hi'iu
of small beer is made from rice. other KINDS OF
beer are made by hill tribes. but much OF II the
average white would not touch From 1874
nm IN 1900 the average importation OF beer an
nuallv from England was about 1,6OOooo gallons'
,,a,,,ad at s1166146 The bitter ales manufact-
ured at Rurton-upon-Trent are imported to a con-
siderable extent to meet the taste of English
mem.
Tommy Ffgg-Sister's beau kicked my dog yester-
day but got even with hiIil you pet-
Johnny Briggs-How! I'LL, Lo- <o..
Tommy Figg.I mixed qunlne WIN hef ia'e
powder.-Pick-Me-up
While visiting friends in his native town near
Dresden Germany, a who had been away
more than forty years fell i'll and died The clergy
man who ofrciated at the funeral was requested by
tho relatives to make his remarks brief. He evil
IDENTIFY did his best, but made a sad failure of the
ceremony by speaking of the dead man as an 'ex-
empIarv husband and loving father because it
was known that he had been divorced and had no
children The incident is mentioned py the Dres-
den Post in an article favorng the law proposed
by the state consistory limiting the utterances at
funerals to sentiments of sympathy. THE Out
look of Denver says: We firmly believe that
all funeral orations should be avoided. except in
the cas- of a distinguished public individual The
objections are many, among which we would men
+ion the extreme torture inflicted upon the mourn
ers nv either many few words, and also the ne
cessitv or we would rather say. the common oc-
currence of overstating the merits of the deceased
Public funeral addresses ordinary and under
ordinary men and women are foolish in the en-
treme A concerted move should be made by min
listers of all denominations to abolish them
Dyer-what do you call your machine, an auto
mobile or q motor car?
HartIey-I call it either when 1t runs. When IL
doesn't | call ii other thngs-Somerviiie Journal