New-York tribune., 1901-08-21
THE TALK OF THE DiT.

great absinthe mandatory in France one Of
the best known In the world has been destroyed
by fire and the cable accounts say that when the
vast quantities OF the iqueur which were stored In
the buildings burst into flames of dazzling intensity
and of the most brilliant and variegated hues the
spectacle was marvellous The medical profession
the world agrees that people who acquire the
absinthe habit and drink the potent fluid to excess
become pitful wrecks. with clouded brains shat
tered nerves and hopeless ruin OF body and mind.
II may be, then, that the big fire in France did
much less real harm than huge CONGREGATIONS
usually do. The world might be no worse Off IL
this pernicious drink had never been compounded.
In hospitals and medical practice generally brandy,
whiskey rum many kinds of wine and of other
stimulants are made of in certain conditions
and in certain diseases. But who ever heard of
doctor prescribing absinthe for patient in any
circumstances II this liqueur were never made.
touched. tasted heard Of again, might not weak
humanity be the gamer?
First College Professor-What are you going TO
do next TO get your name in the papers?
Second College Professor was thinking OF de-
sdered good Observation-Disclosures American
A correspondent Of THE London Chronicle says
that the crown has taken over from the Duke OF
Beaufort the Tintern Abbey ruins and intends re-
moving the modern outbuildings erected round the
venerable remains and also clearing the monks
graveyard OF the fruit trees planted there. The
crown has acquired with the abbey the whole OF
by tourists
THAT mob scene. was handled with splendid ef-
"6h YES. replied the manager, You we
hire the villains creditors TO go on IN that scene
-CTit-Eits
Living whist is game In which the Duke of
Norfolk and Lady Edmund Talbot and the Mayor
of Arundel and Lady Mary Howard made up the
rubber recently 1t was played at Arundel Castle
The marshal wore a medieval costume of black
had hos ST1R-
cixly designed for the wearers of the court
cards. Hearts and diamonds were allotted
to blondes while the clubs and spades were dark
The ordinary cards sowned in white with
waist and wrist bands of black or red
The Chief Dinerence.-"The superstition which
prevailed in the Middle Ages is hard TO understand
in this enlightened era remarked the optimist;
Yes" answered the man who prides himself on
that paimists and aStroogers ana other 1orlune
tellers OF those DAYS & bUinass as tSey do now
-(Washington Star.
II is said that there is a benehcent provision In
Denmark that when a gets so drunk as 10
need medical attention the doctors bill must De
paid by the proprietor of the tavern where the IN
ebriate got his last drink
Otherwise Occupted.-"You pugilists don't seem
to have nearly so much to say as formerly -
No answered the eminent representatiXye at y,e OF
the prize ring To tel the yrd'ac eentemen that we
kind of forgot our own affairs -tWashins'oh ''"i'
1.-THE London Telegraph" has been scanning 'he
Iunacy statistics of England for 1900. and draws
encouraging conclusions therefrom Ihey seem u
refute the theory of some thinkers that the haste
and competition of modern life have tendency TO
increase insanity The total number or lnnaues
under the eyes of the commissioners on January l.
1901 was l07 944 This was Increase or l,SoS on
the figure for the previous New Years Day OUT
compares favorably with an average annuai ihere
ment of 2,115 during the decade which ended with
December 81 last.
Advice from Way Up.-"Understand me- said
the balloon to the parachute. Il wouldn't TOT ths
world encourage drinking habits in the young ana
Innocent but the same time don't 'hihA
drop would hurt you In the least ,,....,s
Whereupon the parachute dropped.-VOie'eiano
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