New-York tribune., 1901-09-18
THE TALK OF THE DiY.

The city is in mourning for the President" says
a citizen in The Philadelphia Record "and 1t is
right and proper that flags should be at halfmast.
provided the flag is attached to a vertical pole
When the pole is suspended horizontally, however,
from the window OF house. the regulations do
not provide that the flag shall be halfmast
sign of mourning 1t should be run out TO the end
of the pole and draped In the middle with black
Grape Yet this rule il invariably disregarded.
Nearly all the flags thus displayed are at halfmast.
Parent-wen Charles you will soon be getting
thought about what you expect to do for a living.
Have you any preference for anything in particu-
general S nPthRs H1aRsr more oq
man. something OF that kind
Parent Something of that kind?
furnish the conhdence.-CBoston Transcript
The Rev Mr. Sheldon of Topeka said recently
that he would rather drink bottle of red ink
than bottle of beer. which moves The Kansas
City Journal TO remark that the craving Of some
men for stimulants is awful. The main constituent
OF red ink is alcohol"
Prospective Editor going to call my new
Other Fellow-Why?
a good circula tion.-(Baltimore American
The antquated. expensive and cumbrous system
of coroners inquests and coroners juries ought to
be abolished by the next legislature 1t tends TO
retard rather than help the progress of Justice
In Massachusetts and some other States coroners'
offices have been swept away TO the manifest ad-
vantage OF the taxpayers. Police departments,
medical examiners and district attorneys. With
their assistants and deputies. do all the work
which the coroners have ever done, and do IL
more efficiently and at smaller expense.
THE PRACTICAL POET.
He wrote a sonnet her hair
He said twas like tn, thf nisnt' hsrn and th.-s
A glow of starry light
Next day he read his lines again.
And stned down
The maiden with the ebon hair
Had sent him back his verse
Again he tried in purest rhyme
He swore her lips were rubies twain
s ave vcwsd F%Gss ssr cheek was ike the rose
A damask pink so rare.
You should have heard him swear.
What did the guileless poet do?
He did not rave nor sign,
But ut GnlngeG advsTse har i,dr d,e ye s0'' '"'
He took the one about her cheek
And made powder ad;,
Then marked the page they were upon
anu -CBaltimore American.
President Scannell of the Fire Department owns
that fast trotter The Abbot Current gossip among
politicians hints that the head Of the fire fighters
is unwilling to go before trial jury to clear him.
self of the charges upon which he has been In
dcted until The Abbot has broken the record by
trotting a mile in two minutes or less But that
delaying the Scanne trial.
Woes of a Pioneer.-The first automobile to
venture TO cross the Desert of Sahara had reached
souething happened to the machinery.
on examination 1t was found that the damage
could not be repaired.
hicle and took observation
Then he directed the man in charge or the wire
less telegraph apparatus 10 communicate with the
station at Fezzan . .
Latitude 26 degrees 29 minutes north, Longitude
ia degrees 81 minutes Al seconds east ASK them TO
send a camel"-(Chicago Tribune.
In after generations. when the war drum throos
no longer and Engshmen abandon fear CT a
noss,ble invasion from the Continent. the tunnel
under the English Channel may be dug, and will
y. NJ almost incalculabe usefulness In the mean
time British engineers discussing the advisa-
h,,itv of a tunnel to Ireland. Those are colossal
aohemes but by means visionary. IL must be
admitted that New-York's record as TO tunnels Is
h, no means creditable. We ought TO have several
~ them under the East River and under the Har-
Ien a nd the Hudson There is not one, where there
should be several and the North River excavation
was abandoned before 1t was half finished and Is
now full of water
AZ a summer some distance from Boston
is n little Catholic church where most or the con-
nrsparion are Portuguese and the priest Is or the
Same nationality. One Sunday morning TINS sum
mer after delivering his serIroi, ne aiiHounCeu'
IN next Sunday there Will De a sermon IN fortu-
guese for the Portuguese ana IN Enelsn Icr tn t.,e
irish" There were some people N the congresatlon
who did not come under either OF the above naton-
aiities and these the announcement was ratner
amustnE.-(Bostou Herald