New-York tribune., 1902-06-20
TIE TALK OF TIE DAY.

Here are some items from The Cedar Pointer"
OF Cedar Point III
Willie and Myra Brernemann Holly, Of Peru,
are the happy recipients OF a fine boy. presented
by Herr Klapperstorch. May 1s 1902 Herzhch
gratulationI'
''wanted-A good man to work up my flower
and vegetable garden. 7 already have an excuse
for a man. and he climb telephone poles and
eat good cooking. but for gardening he is y. G.
Apply hastily TO the editors Wife
Information has just reached US by circular
letter from La Sale that there two consol-
idated dentists in that city This news. though
somewhat startling, yet coming so soon after the
eruption Of Mont Pelee. receive with imper
turbed calmness, the principal effect produced be-
ing wonder to whether the amalgam thus
formed will be used for filling teeth"
oS Of r8 1nS %esny %fSe pfp deals Wits the machn
guns provided fer certain volunteer corps, and ad-
pioyed to draw them when a mule is avail
s6e oeeE W Od do instead There are
several ways of calling man an ass-(London
Globe
The City OF Westminster" says The London
Chronicle lis extending its experiment in street
nomenclature. and is emphasizing the fact of its
large area by prefxing the words City of West
minister to that of the thoroughfare indicated.
The new labels be seen in Parliament-st.
and The Strand. They are square slabs OF a
white material that looks like porcelain set in
brown wood frames Under City OF Westminster
comes the title of the street with the letters of
the postal district a tailpiece- A foreigner
visiting London for the first time last week was
loud in his complaints of the lack of systematic
street nomenclature IN the metropolis and had
carefully made notes OF cases in which no name at
all appeared He also cited instances that had
irr!tated him of discrepancies between actuality
and the maps in his Baedeker- But on that score
visitors from afar must expect TO be victimized.
London is in euch chaotic state OF surface
cha tie future Is for
makers
IN MOURNING
"Oh. shame,' cried the neighbors. she's playing
What harm? The poor widow lonely
She found the piano Soace and then
philadelphia Press.
The postal authorities of Great Britain are hav-
ing trouble with the word only the face of the
post card. Several attempts have been made TO
avoid ambiguity. The address only to be written
this side held to bar the use of type
writer a printing press, which not at all
the intention of the postoffice. The only has
been dropped In Difference to a colonial prece-
dent, and there is direct prohibition against
carrying the letter to the face of the post
card yet the correspondent who tries that plan
will hardly be blessed by the recipient who is
fined penny. The postal authorities of this
try wrestled with the same problem. Six attempts
have been made to find a brief. elegant and unam-
bguous legend. An early postal card in
this side which neither true nor elegant.
Nothing but the address to be on this side was
more to the point. But 1t looked clumsy, and the
next issue had Write only the address this
side" which objected to barring the type
writer. Write the address only this side, the
message on the other" followed. and was promptly
criticised being both clumsy and ambiguous.
Then tie word only dropped. without much
Improvement. Finally Uncle Sans hirengs gave
up the struggle be original. and simply adapted
the French announcement into This side for ad-
dress only
Wayne MacVeagh, Archbishop Ryan and the late
George B. Roberts. president OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad fellow guests at banquet given in
the Union League several years before the death
OF Mr.. Roberts. Mr. MacVeagh at the time
the legal adviser of the ''Pennsy' Some chaff in
the vernacular OF railroading marked passage
in the conversation of the evening and the lawyer,
following up compliment paid the prelate by the
president, said:
Your Grace in return you might give the worthy
Mr.. Roberts q free pass to heaven"
but for one reason-I should not care to be the
means of separating him from his counsel in the
world haTond-''-CPhtladelnhia Times