New-York tribune., 1902-03-19
THE TALK or THE DAY.


without any formal understanding a number ~
papers are beginning 20 the word ''marcout-
gram describe a message sent through the air
without wires The word is euphonious. and. com
pared with such "A barbarisu a. "electrocutiou'
deserves comneudation. "Marconigram' ana the
verb ITO marconcrnph." which will naturally be
formed from It. Will probably establish themselves
In the absence of anything better.
To attract the caprIcous race Of tourists it was
recently decided at a meeting OF the society "i
given next season in the Coliseum Attempts will
be made To- reyiye under under modem h4ma4iIalaE
Nero.-G.ondon Globe.
An English patent medicine firm offers to
view the coronation procession to every one who
Will find hundred purchasers for its remedy for
rheumatism.
Pauence-And you say you camped out in the
Patrice-Yes. caught our own fish killed our own
birds and cooked our own meala
oh / believe they used OF those mountain
ranges onkers Statesman,
The churches" says an advertising man quoted
by The Philadelphia Record" seem more and
more inclined to take space in the newspapers.
Special services Of various kinds are often quite
generously advertised on Saturdays. and in some
cities notably ROstOn. the church advertisements
occupy considerable space, and attracuvely set
in display type. dare say shall live to see the
time when the church will have its press agent,
just the theatre has. when the religious editor
will gauge the volume of advance notices by the
amount OF advertising space taken, and when the
church critic will vie with the dramatic critic in
dissectng the logic of a sermon and praising or
condemnng the eloqucnce and oratory of the
preacher Wait and see II l not right
Mrs. Yeast-rid you say your husband was cool
when he heard burglars IN the house?
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Well, ne ought To have been;
he was hiding in the iceboX.-(Yonkers Statesman.
As result of the recommendations of Sir Ben
Baker practical beP "a ken
insure the efficient ventilation of the twopenny
tube tunnels in London. A powerful fan has been
placed at the base of the left shaft Bond-St.
station. which will remove the vitiated atmosphere
from the permanent ways, fresh air taking It's
place at the various haltng places under ordinary
pressure. The fan, which is forty-eight inches in
diameter, and electrically driven. dsplaces 10000
cubic feet of air minute. and is thus capable of
entirely exhausting the whole of the tunnels in
fraction over three minutes.
In a book which has just been published on that
never failing topic. the vagaries of the English
language, the strange meaning of the word pocket
cnet means a small piece Of cloth made to put
the The head SO that pocket handkerchief, means
TO be held in the hand 10 be put in the pocket
NOndon Globe.
Miss Flora Shaw, the well known correspondent
of The London Times" was once travelling
through Africa in a bullock wagon. The sun was
blazing. the bullocks were slow, the dust was ia
describable. She making for a frontier town
where she anticipated the comforts of a bath. At
the entrance to the place, Miss Shaw, dead beat,
dusty and irritable. found herself confronted with
the ordeal OF public reception The officials read
her welcome: she civil she could be:
then she bolted for the hotel. She gave but one
order. Hot water. quick She sat the edge of
the bed and waited Some minutes passed. At
last black servant entered with tin vessel In
which there was something steamlng. Selling it,
Miss Shaw poured out a milky. Odorlferous liquid
She turned 10 the servant for explanation. The
hotel very short of water; a distinguished
guest point had been stretched for her They
had sent her the water in which the fish had just
been boiled!
Doctor. I'm troubled with sleeplessness, and
I've tried everything"
Not everything, guess. Try playing chess with
deliberate msn."-(Yonkers Statesman.