New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-26
CAPITAL NOTES.
~ TEIEGEArH 10 THE TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON NOyeDl

Washington. November
SOUGHT COMFORTER IN WANTING return
Of p certain Southern Senator has brought forth
an unusual display OF Senatorial humor in the
hotel corridors The story is that this South
ern statesman. after visit 20 Oyster BAY. went
to Long Island beach and spent night there.
The season ageing rapidly. and the weather
chilly. The mex: morning tho Senator com
plaincd bitterly Of the suffering he had endured
that night on account 81 the cold
CURED gi''i," symipa,betic 6ystander
and 51e 5' 70 ma Gomtorter but Wien got dow
stairs found the bar was closed up.
A WISE DOG The efforts Of an unreasoniug
brute 20 remedy tho damage done by presumably
Intelligent man are Eraphlcay set forth I'm a
pathetic but amusing letter recently received at
thu Department. 81 Agriculture An extensive
breeder OF Angora goa in Arizona writes TO Sec
Rotary Wilson that "A fool hunter my place come
already 10y. and my good sheep dog Doc him took
for coyote and him have already shot After
dnating on the remarkable intelligence Of his two
dogs which never once them goats have leaved
alone coming ih- house by for water several
times DAY alrctty but always each one by him
SELF alone" and describing how ono OF the dogs,
" 10 the barn, the Arizona man SAYS: Mine good
slut was LETT me yet ana she Inas NAY IN" n h
self. what does she DO buy come the barn by and
teach them tn the E work u mqdns these goat, how to
d"i ana "nT .t'ss od Ioes a. Their IN Their vas
ana them NOT three months old - lie concludes his
communication WIN tff sage I'ilt'Ni'l '''t'
animals have good deal of sense ! have often
thought but We that genus homo too proud to
admit such things, 1t 'intinct calls
SHORT HISTORY IN WOOp.-Compositc I'm the
character OF its historical associations is the cane
recently presented To- President Roosevelt by the
Rev Or. Thomas H. Haggcrty. OF St Louis In
this walking stick ia wood from on the bat
tleneld OF Wilson Creek. trees at Gettysburg,
Grants log cabin Sherman's house, the house TN
which Ice surrendered. the Springfield home Of
and lao
Spanish cruiser Cristina Regina. The ferrule ~
the cane made from iron taken from cars
short history OF the civil war in wood seems a
ting title for this unique cane The donor, the Key
DIT HagGeTtN was "A chaplain III General sherman
army.
WAS NORTH DAKOTA ASIiAMED?-Back in
the days when North Dakota was little more than
an overgrown Territory and hardly to he held
accountable, II elected a Republican legislature
which sent a Democrat the Senate. and the vote
of that Senator passed the Wilson Tariff bill.
Twice the Wilson German measure encountered
tie In the upper chamber, and each time Sena-
tor ". y. Roach east the deciding ballot In the
named new postonlce for him; and Mr., Roach
"a 9 9Se b ec man. Wilson me b Go9 n
ever those North Dakota Republicans who were
things from their constituents. and Senator Roach
failed of reelection to the Senate Last summer
it known than Roach postohice was discontinued,
vote passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff bill
HOW THE TRIBUNE is QUOTED-The discov-
ercr of Menders law. Professor w j. Spillmau.
said to-day that he doubted if there any other
publication this country which was quoted so
extensively The Tribune Some time ago"
said Professor Spillman, Il explained a repre-
sentative OF The Tribune the scientific formula
which had discovered. known MendeIs law
and It's value to science. The statement appeared
in The Tribune on Sunday. October 4 The next
day 1t appeared in a Washington paper. \ few
daVs later was in Atlanta. and was there greeted
returned to Washington / found the same state
ment clipped from papers all the country and
DAYS ago Il was reproduced In Washington pa
per. credited to american Medicine which had
altered it slightly and had used il editorial.
but I'm every instance II was the same statement
had given The Tribune. | think the reason The
Tribune is quoted so widely. and especially on sci
entihc subjects, Is that it is invariably so accu-
rate.
PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER IN MAssACHU-
SETTS.-Friends of Representative John r.
Thayer. Of Massachusetts, reported to be busily
engaged in preparing MI Thayer for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination. Somehow or other
Massachusetts seems to believe that after many
years the Presidential honor is about to return to
assumed that the favoritc was Richard Olnev
but Mr. Thayer's friends assert that he represents
out having violently attacked the recent here sizes
Of his party, he Is sound on the safe
that he has a Presidential bee i'm his bonnet
Mr.. Thayer II likely TO be more prominent mem
Der of Congress. Indeed. he has been suggested as
the minority leader in a tariff for revenue cam
paiSn.
TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxativs BrOmo- cuinne Tablets. This sigma
'ur' EW On every box Csc