New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The aborfgines of the Malabar Islands employ a
perfect whistlng language. by means Of whlch
they can communicate with each other over long
distances A stranger wandering over the Islands
is frequently surprised to hear from hhltop tne
sound OF loud whistling which is quickly repeated
on the next HILL and so is carried from summit 10
summit until it dies away in the distance But
narbo,a the most curious means of communica-
ton in the world is the drum language OF a congo
tribe These queer people can talk to each other
with large drums made of bamboo hoops over
which the skin of some animal is stretched The
drum however, is used only on important occa-
sions.
why t is that we never see fat villains in none
Manager PettvyiIie Theatre-Too many cigarettes
and few salary, probly.-(Puck
Some of the insurance companies in Denmark
have policy which insures girl against splnster-
hood When a girl baby is born, $2Zo can De ue-
posited with the company. and if She is unmarried
at thirty she receives an annuity OF 80 winch Is
increased by s25 every ten years. If she narrles
before she is thirty she gets the S0 back and II
she dies TO her relatives is given 80.
The house had been full OF aunties come to spend
the holidays. and the Ddoy SIX liz a 10 his
father: 49,, ,..o,. 1,,.,- had p, e1aan a
whole week in a room just full OF women Tip
pincotts Magazine.
The New-Jersey mosquito bears the reputation OF
being the most malicious and persistent OF MS
sneces but he seems to have dangerous rival in
some of Missouri extraction which have been OPP
Grating at and about La Grange. Mosquitoes
have been unusually plentiful in La Grange during
the last week" says The Indicator, OF that place
They came near breaking up services at the Vari-
ous churches Sunday evening. The congregations
that evening were the Iiveest seen in La
Grange The young girls with short skirts were
kept busy scratching their lower limbs; the ladies'
wearing thin waists gave their attention 10 thelr
shoulders. while the men with scanty supplies OF
hair were entertaining their cousins at luncheon
on the tops OF their craniums. 1t was quite anus
ing TO hear the smack of some person whose Irish
had been aroused by the bite of a mosquito, and
who had landed on the lntfucer Win severe Do"
during the services.
A BROTHER ARTIST.
RIVE have regularly attended the Academy now
for manv-vears but never do remember such
poor show of portraits they cannot Pr9E or 10 oe
their customers (Tailor and CUTTER
A nest Of Young rabbits was ploughed up in Kan
sas and a little girl took them home. but after
getting tired of her pets she decided TO feed them
10 the old family cat that has number of kittens.
Instead of the cat eating them. as was expected,
she is raising them. The cat seems to think as
much of the rabbits she does of her kittens.
The Tailor leaned upon his goose
And wiped away a tear:
What portraits painting men produce"
He sobbed. from year to year!
These fellows make their sitters smile
They're wrongly buttoned and the style
Is not the thing bit
"Oh Artist I'm an artist too.
l bid you use restraint
AID only show your sitterS 90,
In fitting coats of paint;
vain you crown those Grant seams
With smiles that look ethereal.
For may be the stuff of dreams
dreams are not Material
The Emperor Meneik has had curious expert
ence in his efforts to replace barter by a metallic
currency in Abyssinia. The Maria Theresa thaler
has for generations been current. but for of
smaller coinage salt blocks became the standard
Of exchange and resisted all efforts. even of the
Emperor to replace them by new currency coined
in Paris some years ago. The salt blocks have
given way but not the new coinage, which the
people will not touch. The new standard values
is the rife cartridge.
correspondent recalls for Memorial Day the
burial of General George q. Meade in Philadelphia
in 1872. He says:
The militia and veterans of the Civil War In long
and the soldiers silently took their place the
bank of the river. amid the beautiful surroundings
OF the park. while the voices OF hundred men,
unaccompanied by instrument OF any kind, rose
on the air. filing it with the solemn sound The
colOred militia, novel sight then. marched with
reversed around the monument of Abraham
Lincoln the LibeTator Ine e cad walking in
robes. and stood on eacn side about the
den beneath flowers IL was Il Cloudy uay IN No
Vember the trees, their changing leaves glowing
ground of leaden SKY a Iti,t ms huhg over the
river where lay the barge waiting 10 convey the
monies 20 we're Concluded soldiers bore the con Of
their former commander on their shoulders to the
bier where IT reposed in sight OF all In the middle
Of the barge which was covered with flags and
strewn with flowers. while about the coffin stood
moved out with its burden into the stream. the
fat tF1r 1pb and closed behind 4 a