New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A million one-donar bills packed solidly Ike
leaves in a book. would make pile 275 feet high
Man and wife wishes caretaker's situation
work for the vife.-(Edinburgh Evening Dispatch.
one Of the causes to which the prevalence OF bad
spelling among the rising generation is attributed
IS the fact that the modern Roman method Of pro-
nouncnK Latin gives no direct indication OF the
pronunciation of the English derivatives. and so no
cue 10 their spelling the English sound OF Latin
words did when It was used.
Mrs Tawkey-I hear the Popleys' new baby Is
Mrs Bun-Yes IT'S an incubus you know.
Mrs Tawkey-An incubus?
Mrs o'BuII-Yes: they had to put it in incubus
Record
There is nothing like having both feet the
ground says Medical Talk" II a man should go
barefoot. the contact OF his bare feet with the
earth and his head projecting into the atmosphere
would make perfect electrical conductor. through
which the electricity of the air would pass through
his body TO the earth. While apparent harm Is
done yet being insulated from the electricity OF
the earth by wearing shoes the electricity falls OF
its beneficial result. There be doubt that II
would be better for everybody. especially nervous
people. Il their feet the ground instead of
in shoes.
Rudyard lipling has an American wife and like
wise an American mother-in,iaw The latter. Mrs.
day Mrs Balestler sent her famous son-in-law
present. What do you think 1t was? glass roll
ing pin for use in making pie crust In making IJig
The purchase she eXpainfa that MI and Mrs KIP,
ling and all the little kiplngs are passionateiy
fond Of pie Here is pointer for those hos who would
made of.-(Utica Press
Babies never get seasiok have carried thou
sands of them in my time said an American Line
steward according to The Philadelphia Record"
and in rough weather l have seen their fathers
mothers brothers and sisters keel over like SOL
diers before n cannon ball. but not so with the
babies Whether it be rough smooth at sea. a
baby is always excellent sailor-rosy. jolly and
with the appetite of a horse. Do you know the ex-
PLANTATION Of this singular fact? 1t is as simple as
the fact is strange Babies don't get seasck be-
cause they accustomed the rocking of the
cradle. That movement Is much like the rocking
of a ship. baby aboard ship. therefore IS mere
Iy baby in an unusually big cradle and there is
nothing odd to him about the rocking. for II is
what he has been accustomed to all his life"
WHY?
My Clara bought gaudy book
With colored pictures illustrated;
1t teaches her. she says. to cook
In other things she's educated
But. oh! she still her bread viii burn
- Her steak is hard and she will fry it,
Why will she try it?
have a friend who wrote a book
The greatest fortitude it took
To hear it read had to smother
r,, The m, man an IDIOT IDIOT wh0d hoo buy it,
Why will he try it?
And does so at the least persuasion,
Or none at allan awful thing.
l know by most sad occasion.
Her voice mieht have some sort of use
But So SINGING 5m She sf has n aPP excuse
Why will she try it?
And so it goes. Most people pant
To do the things they're most unfit for
To preach-to paint--we know they can't
And what they can don't a bit for
Perhaps We too our calling miss
We still will fool with that this.
Why will we try 1t?
-(Chicago News
One of the latest curiosities at the British Mu-
scum is a Chinese banknote of the fourteenth CEN
fury which was discovered in the ruins of a statue
of Buddha a Picking. Paper money was not intro
duced into Europe till the seventeenth century.
you eat your breakfast food so slowly Mr.
Beaks," remarked the landlady.
Yes ma am" replied the star boarder, land IL
reminds me of kiss through telephone
Goes a long way and is tasteless Chicago
News.
Why will you humbug yourselves. says Mark
no lie is a lie except spoken one? What is the
with your mouth? There is none: and IL you would
isn't human being that doesn't tell gross of lies
every day of his life
Talking of ships" said Mr.. Phunninan IT sup
pose courtship might properly be considered a
"Sometimes" replied Miss Loveylipz dreamily.
ut nothing less than sort of Worship "-(PhIla
delphia Press