New-York tribune., 1900-04-22

Herea fter in all town offices fathers OF more
than three children and next married men VIII DE
preferred TO bachelors Prizes of s. will be award
ed yearly TO those parents who have sent the
largest number of children 20 school regularly. and
scholarships in the national schools Will be re-
served for families only of more than three chill
dren. Fathers of families shall also have the pref
erence for admission almshouses and old peo-
pies homes.
1t was April the stee4th 11l ...;os
Which it might be supposed
That the was likewise.
For he put suit built for summer.
And the sequel perhaps you surmise-
Which along about noon
And a blizzard swooped down
On the wings OF the breeze-
In a week he was peacefully lying
Chicago Times Herald.
The Superintendent of Parks of Glasgow is going
to try the experiment OF renting window boxes of
flowers TO hSPlseholders FOR the season for one
shilling each. this sum to be refunded when the
boxes are returned In the fall This is the outcome
of belief that good effect ON health and spirits
will brought about in the congested districts by
the interest in the flowers and by the presence of
color. Five hundred boxes will be distributed.
Qunn-He has more nerve than any I ever
De Fonte-In what way?
borrow a gun. Said ne wanted shoot cat.
De Fonte-Where does any nerve come in?
shoot-(Chicago News.
THE GYMNAsTIC GIRL.
There foils the wall
And the rules of basketball
Done in red
There dumbbels on the floor
And a strength-weight closed the door
There was some blue trophy flag
And there swung punching bag
And his photo formed a fan
Athlete!
There were books-a heapinGg stack
How 10 fence
And a hundred other rules
From the athletic schools
THAT teach sense!'
Every volume headed How
And she 1ika SAID; d hook vol know them now
But she in passion flew
When | asked her if she knew
-(Chicago Record.
Foot passengers on the streets wso complain of
the recklessness of bcycers may thank their stars
they not in Germany. They used sometimes TO
punish bcycers there for running into pedestrians
then this practice fell into disuse and a Ber
lin court has just n TO jail for
months for recklessly running one of the
principal streets and knocking bicyclist off his
wheel. The most apoogetic sort of defence
offered-the man was running hoEle because his
wife about to become a mother for the seventh
letter of the law that pedestrians must leave the
streets free for bicyCiists in II abso-
lutely necessary TO cross must give every warning
to biCyclists. These elementary measures of pre-
caution having been neglected. il only the fact
that the fallen bcycst received injuries that In
duced the Court let the culprit off with SO light
punishment. l. is added that in view of the con
stantly increasing recklessness- roughness-of
pedestrians toward bicyclists. il would otherwise
have inflicted much severer penalty II the
paragraph in the "Berliner Tageblatt' impartng
this item OF news is ironical. the irony is her
metieay concealed In IT.
The spelling reform IN France continues To gain
because IL is after all a very
sensible and moderate reform. The voice thai Il
crying In the Parisian wilderness is no less a ON.
than that Of Professor Charles Richet dsfjn-
guiShed as a Psychologist and editor of the 'Rev,Ia
Scieuttque In June, 1891, this gentleman OWNED
his third defeat. lie had tried get the oppion ~
the subscribers 10 his journal TO agree with him
in words derived from the Greek: that the Iettsr
" had no place In the French alphabet when
there was an ~ at hand, and that the EngIlsh
81 should properly be substituted for ''N' in form
ing the plural Well his subscribers agreed and
for some little time the magazine had a SutficientV
odd appearance 10 the eye accustomed To French
as she Is wrote" But the editor had reckoncd
without his contributors, who. like an Their ktnd
are stnnecked lot I'm these matters They
klcked against the pTicks, and ''fsioloGie" and s
tk had 20 be sacrificed. Hut Professor Richer A.
now again before the public, with the hone os
day when his theory win be imposed nv use or
hy the dictionary OF the Academy or nv ~
Inn fl..1..l =.