New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE Government owns many thousands Of acres
of land in New Mexico says n citizen of that Terri
tory. This land has never been taken up. 1t Is
the finest country the world for stock raising.
The land be secured for almost nothing. A
young man going In there with few hundred
dollars to invest would make fortune in very
short time. He need not confine himself strictly
to the stock business There great many
good openings in mining Many of the mines have
never been developed Their wealth has never been
estimated. There deposits of gold. coal and
iron to be found. A little energy and the expendi-
ture OF some money would develop these properties.
New-Mexico is the place for the young man of
brains and perseverance who wants make
money
How, did they open the Parts Exposition.
George? I've lost the paper containing the account
Why. 1t simple yet impressive ceremony.
L" :@Eo si is f~edb up G sed,
LOBBY is the President OF the French Republic.
a ana ppEnse wa nod aP p
Oh or opeKs ana yan6eG SarRenteTs horse out OF
lance card-in French of course-and scraped a LOT
OF sand and gravel away from the bottom of the
position was wide open! Simple isn't it?"-(Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
II going to send a wise down to Porto
Rico" says the Secretary OF Agriculture Mr.. VIII
son. TO establish an experiment station and find out
how this Department can best promote the interests
of that island. We know a good deal about the place
and the people already, but our observations thus
far have been only superficial Now going
into a thorough. scientific investigation The appli-
cation OF modern. progressive ideas will make Porto
Rico profitable than II has been.
and going to try teach only the
planters but the laborng element apply those
principles to their toll
An interesting side note upon the longevity of
the human race unCOnscousy made in
of last weeks issues of The Tribune. Out of
teen death notices ten of persons
eight years of and over while of the remainder
two out OF the six whose ages were mentioned
had passed sixty. But this is not remarkable
perhaps, the fact that the ten notices referred
TO We're, except for single break OF notice,
between the ninth and tenth, consecutive. The
ranged from seventy-eight 10 ninety three with
only under eighty-three, and average of
almost eghty-s!x. Six deaths were OF women and
four of men-(Brookiyn Life.
Mile. Chauvin, who has Just won her battle for
admission to the French bar. relates that when her
first application denied the Judge said: You
are a Doctor of Lave. you say. and of Philosophy
and a Bachelor of Literature. Well you must be an
ency copiedia In miniature and are all so afraid
ranks"
Some amusement was caused a few weeks ago by
the announcement that the brass plate of the
Transvaal Legation at The Hague surrep-
ttiously removed during the night. IL may now be
In the window OF BLACK and White" where
indeed there view two brass plates one i'm,
scribed In French and the other in Dutch. The
French version runs: "Chancellerie de la Legation
de la Republique Sud Afrcaine. Ouvert de 10
heures a midi The managers OF Black and
White might be suspected of having "comman-
deered" DR.. Leyds's official door plate but for the
naive announcement that they lent for az
hibition by the present owneri-Qondon Chronicle