New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
President Cra7cshazC Of Colgate
Tells Some Stories.

President Cravsbavy of Colgate University told
O number Of jokes at the dinner Of the Brooklyn
League, in honor OF the opening OF the Academy
Of Music, the other evening. Here are Two OF
them:
A woman went 10 church one Sunday morning
forgetting TO take the roast out Of the oven she
was n an unhappy predica-nenI- She did not want
20 make a disturbance by getting up and going out
and She did not want TO spoil her dinner. $50 she
wrote note and. beckoning to her husband. who
was an usher gave it TO him Absent n1indedly'
Se carried it straight up to the pulpit and gave
a 10 the minister. When the time came for the
reading OF notices, the minister laid his hand on
this note among the first, and, without stopping
to investigate. read aloud;
GO home and turn the gas of.
Once upon a time there masquerade ball
somewhere out West. One Of the guests wore a
in arrnor. The night warm, and the man in
the ar1or WAS so warm he wished that he had
STAYED home. Finally, the individual who was
managing the affair. wishing 10 catalogue him.
~ beg YOUR pardon but are you Appius Claud-
kus?"
NO. no.. cried the man in the tin armor. I'm
'Appy as ell!'
The Democrats OF Brooklyn were distressed be-
fore election By the activity OF the churches in
supporting the candidacy Of Governor Hughes
rhe mems Bible class OF the Central Presbyterian
El Church was the centre OF the Hughes movement
y among the church people. Assistant District At
sorney Robert H. Roy spoke few nights ago be-
fore the mems Bible class OF the Central Presby-
terisn Church, and said;
One Of the grand features or our land and one
Of the fundamental distinctions between our gov
ernment OF to-day and the governments OF tne
and State. You do not need the aid Of the state
70 advance your p pr3clpesc & & te Pe pr 1GI % % ad
minister governmental affairs Parties have no
n1onopodeS d mn IN ~ sanity men Politics viii not
suffer If the Church mixes up win T. put me me
Church VIII suffer the moment IL afilliateS nseII
with any party
The Sheriff OF Kings County was startled the
other day by receiving execution on a judg-
r1ent which instructed him TO levy the property
Of the Dead King Of Italy, Umberto L" For
time he thought there must be something wrong
about that order but q little investigation showed
that the levy not TO be cause CT interna-
tional trouble after all The Dead King Of Italy,
yuberto I" is the literal translation Of the name
Ct sn Italian society. which had been sued.
a small boy Of considerable Belf-assurance was
srraigned before Justice wilkins in the Chidren's
Court the other morning. His name, he said,
EsraIeI GoIand, and he was fifteen years old He
had travelled al the way from Chicago 10 Brook
Iyn purely his nerve. only 10 be arrested by the
ocers OF the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
% Children for working in e moving picture place
IA Fifth avenue When he arrested he had
an alias ready. He said that he was Samuel
Allen But the other morning he gave his true
name OF. AZ least. the name he said mis- true
name
II gave the other TO the police" he said. be
cause thought It might be just well to travel
under an alias am theatrical man"
"a theatrical man. exclaimed the justice
yes" said Sammy. II have been taking the
part OF Jimmy the Newsboy IN the scent theatres
singing bit and doing an act occasionally. have
bsen al over. have even been as far as Salt
lake City where ! arrested. Ny father died
about i've months ago and my mother is trying to
make q living by taking in dressmaking. I did
not want to be q burden 70 Ter. so I left home
about Eve months age. and travelled by freight
su ths way"
~vould you go back TO Chicago If you could get
q ficket7'' the boy asked
Not unuchr' cried Sammy. 81 don't go back
rntl earn my way. 7 expect to get q job in some
theatre. 81 you VIII only give chance I
want 10 help mother. you know