New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

f"The Japan Weekly Advertiser mas q Few WoIuS
to say about the aping Of Western customs by the
Japanese and takes for its text the foreign clothes
seen on citizens of the Flowery Empire. 1t says
Men Of fair status frequently to be seen wear
ing silk hats of antediluyan pattern, with ordinary
native costume down to geta and zori. As for the
hats, where the blocks come from is mystery
but the fact remains that Bowery or Whitechapel
tough would be ashamed to so abroad IN some OF
the abortlons masqueradng as 'bowlers' and top
pers' which are as persimmons IN
Japan. Here is where the natives cannot
excuse themselves the ground that they have
no model to go by. A glance at the first foreigner
should be sufficient to teach them that hard nat
worn over the ears, and measuring scarcely more
than two inches in height from the brim TO the
crown is not fashionable adjunct Of European
costume in the twentieth century, though 1t might
have been so thirty years ago" The wearing OF
silk hat with a kimono is, says THE Advertiser,
"the outward and visible sign of a certain intel
ectual inaptitude.
Prospertys Monunent-Prospectye;A Advertise
Of course all papers claim that, you understand
Editor-NIy dear sir, this paper has been running
ton and to-day our woodhouse is considered the
most imposing structure in town.-(Brooklyn La1e
The "New-Yorker volks-Zeitung' celebrated its
twenty-ffth birthday yesterday by publishing a
handsomely illustrated souvenir edition
Editors out West s occasionally Sngt nk Hith
recently aroused the ire Of Editor Bayse of The
Beeyle 1n Te les PEI and fs time Is nom n 1ne
mortal it has been customary for ants and meas
siunks ks januses jackasses and Judases lizards
leeches and lice to assa mankind IN genera ana
week." etc.-Qndianapolis News.
discovered by Professor Hilprecht has come into
the possession of the University of Pennsylvania.
The museum is not very big, being entirely con-
tanned in large earthen jar. but the contents are
Of Irev and
show that the ideas of the early curator were
much like those of present curators. Whether the
specimens excavated or purchased is not
known but they undoubtedly represent a collection
which must have been made during the time OF
Belshazzar since it found in one of the upper
strata at Nippur. The best specimen in the Jar is
an inscription containing the titles of Sarson 1,
who lived about $500 B. c. There is a black
stone votive tablet of Ur-Gur. 200 B. C., which
tells that this king built the great wall around
the city of Nippur. Then there is terra Gotta
brick stamp of Bur-Sin, which is the first yet
found of that king Another tablet states that the
large hall of the temple called Emakh. and
also that there twenty-four other shrines TO
gods in the temple besides the ones that have been
found of Bel and his consort, Belts. An interest
ing tablet gives some astronomical observations on
Virgo and Scorpo. The little museum contains
nineteen pieces in all
new word, and of the best we have seen.
is offered to the public by the English press.
'oystera"; and with its suggestion or hysterla 1t
connotes the fear of typhoid from shellfsh. The
English oysters mostly from the mouth of
the Thames, and Londoners in the midst of
one of their frequent typhoid scares and there
is complete collapse of the oyster trade. One
Billingsgate merchant at the pains to
medical certificate for his oysters, setting forth
that his beds inaccessible to sewage.
rs. Us she particular FrI friend Of HI his,
not particular "-(Punch Bowl.
One of the houses in Wych-st London which
are now being demolished is believed to have been
the haunt of Jack Sheppard 1.-The most accom-
plfshed slpstrng'' of his generation. Prison break
ing was a comparatively easy accomplishment in
those times, and the artistry of Sheppard, his
latest euogst Charles whitley. describes his feats.
would appear but clumsy efforts to modern crafts
man, according to The London Chronicle" The
house which is about to be demolished is the
where "Edgworth Bess' lived, and where Shep-
nard intended to hide when he had made his way
out of Newgate. But he carried the fetter locks
on his legs when he escaped and sought therefore,
the greater seclusion of Finchley Common. When
he made his way back to town again, a
night In November 1924 he was captured in Drury
Lane. He made other escape. and Tyburn
the last OF him.
How can you dress so extensively when the
city is under siege on your account?" demanded
Because / get all my gowns from Paris coldy
replied the Cause of the Trouble--(Yaie Record.
1.-The Japan Times reports a remarkable
of the engineer being hoist with his petard.
Our esteemed contemporary says: Two convicts
were executed at the Ichigaya prison Wednes-
day One of them. Matsutaro Sohtome
renter and said while climbing up the guillotine
that II had been built by himself during his previ
Gus service at the prison years ago for the
offence of larceny He was UGH touched by this
strange incident" Who would not be?
Revival OF the, ola slaad DER ernHubite-Were you
surprised learn that Philadelphia IS a man
ufacturing centre for heather idols?
Gothamte-Not bit. Philadelphia hasn't caught
up with tho Ten Commandments yet.-(Chicago
Tribune.