New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The society women Of Missouri have invented a
| diversion. progressive driving party" It
was the happy idea of Miss Rosamond Guthrie. OF
| Mexico Mo. The guests at Miss GuthrIe's party
started from her home. a couple in buggy. After
driving ten fifteen minutes all the buggies
stopped. and each gentleman got out and climbed
into the buggy just ahead Of him This kept
| up all evening. The changes of partners were In
terspersed by refreshments at four different resi-
dences, the entire party being fed sandwiches and
olives at place. frappe at another, cheese
straws and pickles at another and orange Ice and
cake at the conclusion Seventeen young women
and seventeen young men participated in this un-
usual diversion
Broke Jail and Record.-Sone days ago United
States Marshal W H Mackey and crowd OF poll S,i
cussins different matters and things
the Junction tic y9 9t xegp e 20 kd one
Because we have such good jail and fine 5aiie lie,
delivery in Junction. It's good place to keep bad
Just then a messenger boy came up and handed
Mackey a telegram. The marshal read IT. He
whats the matteT?' some one asked.
pese drnas Nave s the S9 9nd
Jail at Junction" And Mackey thereupon hit the
That body can acquire during the night a diff
ferent temperature from that OF the surrounding
atmosphere has been demonstrated by Mr. Well.
an English physician. If a thermometer Is taken
from the window. wrapped in cotton and placed
the ground its mercury will descend or de-
grees Vegetables similarly situated and being
bad conductors. may freeze at time when the
Thermometer does not mark the freezing point
proof that the cold experienced by plant may be
entirely different from the temperature Of the
surrounding air. This low temperature Of plants.
however. only occurs when the night Is clear since
at this time the plant sheds its heat throughout
space and becomes chilled. whereas II the night Is
cloudy the phenomenon does not occur. This gives
rise to the popular superstition that plants and
buds are frozen by moonlight.
APPARENTLY NOT
We've wireless wires and horseless cabs
a cussess. waitless. out-of-orderless.
Girlless telephone?
Life,
1t is interesting to know that the climate OF
Greenland is improving. The ice there is melting
more rapidly than IL is formed. Comparison OF the
descriptions Of the Jacobshaven glacier shows that
Its edge has receded eight miles since 1850 and it
has lost twenty to thirty feet in depth.
The stsrs9fERed sine. Ps Mel
ThinguInbob-He sent me two little lion cubs the
McJigger-The ideal Any message with them?
ThingqmTbob-A card tied to The neck of one of
you we'll ''-CPhiladelpha Press.
Some young people Of Norborne. Mo-. have in
vented cipher system for the purpose OF com
municating with one another. but 1T seems not al
ways to work we'll. On Sunday, says The Cali
fornia Dispatch" young man sent a note to
young woman In that town requesting the pleasure
of calling on her. On corner of the envelope
he placed the letters IS. B. N" An answer was
received in due time. which bore the letters ''E H
T. c. 1. W. When he arrived at her home she
asked what rs. B. N" meant. 1T meant Sent BY
Niger of course" his reply. Then he asked
what the letters her note meant. Why John
she replied don't you know what those letters
mean? They stand for. Excuse haste the coon is
waiting. "
Sobered Him-''You seem none the worse for
your dissipation last night" said the man who had
responded to of the tOaSts at the banquet.
No replied the other. Il stopped drinking Just
in time: thanks TO you
Thanks TO me?''
Yes When you started speaking I caught NY
self laughing at your stories, I thought II was
time to stOp."-(Phadelphia Press.
The Cimarron salt fields in Indian Territory boast
OF large hot spring. which forms pool about
twenty by sixty feet startling story OF this
spring is told by cattlemen who camp near by.
One night last summer a thunderstorm was rag
Ing over the plain when bolt OF lightning de-
scended. Instantly great volume OF fame shot
up thousand feet into the sky from the spring.
and continued to blaze for twenty minutes The
cowboy claims that the hot springs ''blowed OUT
and that the location changed several rods.
visitor-I understand the Vigilance Committee
fully exonerated Mustang Mike OF the charge OF
horse stealing.
westorner-Guess it didn't make much difference
to Mike
Visitor-why not?
,Westerner-They lynched him hrst.-CFour Track