New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-12
TIE TALK OF THE DAT.

A firm O, tobacco manufacturers in Bristol, Eng
land, has letter from George Washington 70 the
firm $50 years ago. while the Father Of His Coun-
try a grower Of tobacco 1t runs as follows:
Virginia 25th November Observation-Disclosures
tims this week expect to get on board the Cary
for your house fifty hogsheads of tobacco of my
own and Juo Parke Custis's. which please to insure
IN the usual manner. | shall also by the same chip
send you ten twelve hogsheads more II can
get them on board In time; but this, believe, Will
be irnpracticable if Captain Tulman uses that dis
patch in loading which he now has in his power to
do. I am gentlemen. your most obedent. humble
servant G.. Washington
An Extremlst-'Is Mr. Fuse much afraid Of
We'll / should say; he washes the antisePtic
gauze gloves he wears in antiseptic fuid before
the beiied and Uttered mineral water he intends to
drink!'-(Baltimore Herald.
To-day. september T. known in Baltimore as
Defenders Day is a municipal holiday in that city
and Governor John Walter Smith has issued a
proclamation making it this year legal holiday
throughout the State OF Maryland 1t is in memory
OF the successful resistance offered by the city to
the British in 1914
The tramp in the green goggles stood before the
YES said the housewife =. kind nSG you can have
Madam" said the tramp. In precise gram,
natl aca ar6 man sba s YOU the sad sad story Of
my Ife?'
Wien youth II Boston Iva was dsinhe n,s for
splitting nne anq sns set hen his VOICE no
eE Sic IRE Inn, " TPiIg1e!"-(Ba1tmore Herald.
Four well known Illinois politicians who last year
bought several hundred acres OF orchard land IN
CLAW County, H.. will make good sized fortune
tbie year out of their apple orchards The lucky
NAV ora Senator Len Small. of Kankakee:
Senator H II. Dunlap. Of Savoy; Senator
James D. Putnam. of Elmwood' and Representative
Edward c. Curtis OF Kankakee. In February 1901
tho fou- nouticians formed a company and pur-
chased 200 acres of orchard land in Clay County
for = consideration OF $3.50 Senator Dunlap. for
the company has just negotiated the sale of the
apnIes from 20 OF the 800 acres Tor sl0oo 10 Snoup
of 81 Louis one of the largest and best known
apple buyers in the whoie country IN the oeai
he snnles are sold as they hang upon the trees.
&C. .bo+ voung man wants to marry your" said
Mabels father. +,
DO you know how wfnI lyN strange tts concidence
Herbert asked the very same question about
ou"-(Washington 1lheS'
..,.n u,-,.ss TO the editors OF the Lancet:
~, ,o,,r advice? Is II a recognized
for, that noustache is natures filter OF the atmos
phere before 1t passes through the mouth TO the
~ ana that il absorbs and retains large guam
,t.ies - poxious microbes and disease germs? I
80 e. ,n.t This is So and that under the micro
scone n presents anything but an attractive group
of aniualculze. In these circumstances Is II not
more thar probable that in the case OF man with
n ,u.tacb6 ronrinting kiss on the lips of another
nerson there is great danger that he might at the
same time trnpiant the seeds Of disease and per-
haps death? Ny object for asking these questions
is that ] have several children, and my mustached
friends are In the habit OF kissing them on the
lipe should | be justified on sanitary grounds in
them to desist?' The Lancet" replies
kissing on the lips is to be avoided. mustache
is not the completely insanitary appendage that
our correspondent THINKS
Sandy-Yer say dat lady was considerable dat
threw de boiItn' water on yera
Cinders-Cert! In desc days of germs and
microbes she was considerable to boil II before she
thEAu H--Phiiadslnhta Record.