New-York tribune., 1903-02-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

mammoth dove farm at Elysian Park. in
Southern California, is owned by one j. y Johnson
who began five years ago with four huIdred OiruS-
Now he has about twelve thousand The SQUADS
bring from s. to SO dozen. White doves predonl-
nate and there Is an effort to confne the mar
ketable supply to white birds. From eight TO ten
sacks of wheat and twenty of screenings are con-
suned in a day.
THE SONG, OF THE ANTI-KICKER.
Guess been about as lazy the civil laws allow
Know blame well I been as lazy could be
Never liked t do tn nilkin'. never liked t heft
Never liked to plough harvest, never liked Z
Never MAS IN much good at nothn' that my daddy
But I never w been kicker an I'm bloomin' glad
O. that.
been sailed isnth q trifiin' begsar' been called
been called some Thing: things that hurt me- but
have failed to do heap o things l started out
An. I've ~ hi had my share O. heartaohe-yes, I've had
Bu. my my upper lips KEEP stiffer'n any board We
Fe, 7 never been a kicker an I'm goin' t. be.
i've seen days when clouds was hangin' over
I've Seen tim times I wished t goodness morning
wouldn't foller night; .rr,+os--.boryo
I've folts fSIt kifdeq ddst nn mean naDSeD It so' ~
An I've had t blink an swaller for Z make my
But "rdsd made i work by ginger. and I'm thankful
Fer never been beefer. an you bet never will
been watchin folks that hollered till they's pur-
clan5n' hS that their natral enemies was all tn
Kep ii-- on notcin' and purity their guess was
Fer tbeV aTays was commIngled in sort O.
Thankful I don't see things that way though I'm
But / aIss as?sF been kicker. an I'm mighty = glad
An Interesting relic has been found amid lot of
cid lumber at the Palais Bourbon 1t Is the throne
which Louis Philippe was wont to occupy when
ba went there to open the sessions OF Parliament.
1t was thought that the throne had disappeared,
like that of Tuileries, after the outbreak or the
revolution in 1s4s but 1t has turned up certainty
not the worse for wear. as it has never been used
since that date. and only requires little dustng
DR. Bailey docking at Observation-Disclosures I
don't like your temperat ture. -, nv,
Sick Student-Then why did you take it?-(Har-
ward Lampoon.
Mammoth squashes may have a determining
effect on the success OF the license campaign in
Scituate Mass. The huge vegetables covered
with appropriate inscriptions being distributed
instead of campaign literature. Walter Scott
Harsub, liquor officer of the town. has fought the
illegal LIQUOR sellers hard that they want him
removed at the town meeting March 2 Last
summer when his squashes were yet small. he
scratched with a sharp nail various Inscriptions
across each squash. The sap oozed OUT and as
the vegetable grew. hardened into raised letters.
The suuashes attained the largest size ever seen
in Scituate Some squashes are being sold Others
are being given away to persons whose sentiments
on the license question thought to need chang
ing Among the piauancies ''Tum takes the
shingles off the farmers harm and puts patches on
his pants" and ''Whiskey grows weeds In the
farmers garden and cobwebs en- his brain
WHEN FATHER PAID THE BILLS.
How very pleasant life was then.
How merry went the world
The work was done by other men.
And every turn was girl "a
The winters in the town We're gay,
The mid the hills
For life one long holiday
When father paid the bill<
cigars from Cuba then smoked.
NV wines came DER from France.
And. like Aladdin. 1 evoked
The best by ne6romance:
The price of things l did not know.
Life held no petty Ills
But that alas! was long ago.
When father paid the bills.
Brooklyn Life.
The schooner Monitor. of Gloucester. brought to
Boston the other day from the Grand Banks a ten
pound cod with the scars OF the number '10o' just
behind the nape bone. The figures had evidently
been cut in by a fisherman. and We're barely dis
cernibie Captain John w. Collins OF the Fish
and Game Commission. is looking for the fisherman
in the interests of science Were the time of mark
ing known an estimate of the growth of the fish
could be made, while information to the place
of taking might furnish interesting facts bearing
on the migratory habits of the cod. The United
recently released cod after attaching metal checks
for the purpose of Identification later.
Blobbs--Wigwag is fond OF using obsolete express
sions.
Blobbs- Ies he told yesterday he was COM