New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A PHILADELPHIA man. according TO Tine hecoru'
who has Just returned from Paris, wnlch Is au'0
mobile crazy saws that the cost Of maintaining one
would bankrupt the ordinary citizen mere are
plenty to choose from" he remarked WIN ste"ii'
easolene petroleum or electric motors. These range
~ nrIca from 900 for a motor cycle to 5000 for
heavy rigs suitable for carrying four persons anu
a driver While in Paris busted myset 10 the
extent of finding out how much 1t cost 10 operate
one of these carriages. For year IL Is ABOUT as
follows: Gasoene sS7 90; ubrcating OIL - 10; re-
nairs 70 carriage s02 5O repairs to machinery seS;
repairs to tires 7 90; sundres sa 50; depreciation
s,5o tax go: servant 5000 That makes total OF
1870 * Remember this is for Paris, where my cal
culatons are based upon the actual experiences OF
a friend OF mine. But they can't vary much In this
country"
"Ah. Harold" said the leading lady, III t yo1
could make vS love do IN Ten gu e payns
you would be quite Irresistible" -. ,,ours
man iS You were half as attractive in your own
proper person as you are when you are mace up
Tor Juliet" -CChicago Tribune
II IS announced that the Russian Astronomical
Society has finally given up its attempt to revise
the Julian calendar. and so the Muscovttes still
stand with Greece IN clinging to the system OF the
first Cesar and against all Europe. defying the
rectincaton OF Pope Gregory XIII. The reason as
signed for its failure is given out by the Asronom-
teal Society as "the mpossbllity Of establishing
an agreement between the dates Of the religious
festivals appearing in both calendars"
"Huzza! shouts the multitude.
A woman yonder is being crowned with laurel.
Is she a poetess? Or has she put up can or
pre-emncnt preserves
Neither.
She is the only woman who has ever wheeled s4s
consecutive centuries without going insane.
Then. huzZa-(Detroit Journal
A Michigan woman has designed combined din
ner pail and lantern. having a separate compart-
ment in one end to hold lamp. with light OF
glass in front the cover being provided with
LIQUID containing chamber. with a draught hole
through one end to allow the heat to pass of.
One OF the most amusing passages in Mr.. Birrelrs
amusing speech for the appellant in the Lord Rose
berry speeches copyright case was that In which he
put it to their lordships II they would have held
which her blind father dictated TO her-and yet her
task was much difficult than the reporters
here No doubt the young woman. had she been
living now would not have taken the matter to the
code her labors would surely have entitled her TO
add to her fathers lines for the title page Edited
by Miss on."-(London Chronicle.
by the first OF the year." says The Cleveland
Leader Several important improvements In the
will be completed. The earth under the stone ter
race which surrounds the tower has been removed
and the open space filed with masonry on account
OF slight tendency to settle which has lately been
noticed The crypt in which the sarcophagus OF the
second martyred President rests is being made
more accessible to the public by means OF marble
stairway from the entrance to the memorial cham
ber."