New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-25
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

announcement of which Is that II is designed to
prepare men for the instituting and governing OF
commercial and Industrial establishments Of Ash
attic and Oriental Russia. It's OF study
include the language. religion. customs, history,
trade. commerce, etc. OF China, COrea and Japan.
Russia expects to be paramount in all these
countries one Of these days. and has set out to
prepare capable administrators to regulate and d.
rect all their concerns. The General Colonial
Review" of Paris extols the Muscovite foresight
in founding such an institution, and says that In
the government Of alien peoples that nation leads
all Others with good social and Industrial results
following it's work wherever 1t is extended.
TACT.
went to a party with Janet,
For l awkwardly emptied cupful
OF chocolate into her lap.
But Janet was cool-though 1t wasn't
For none is so tactful as she.
And. smiling with perfect composure. -
Said sweetiy, THE drinks on me!'
Harvard Lampoon.
More than half Of the great task Of providing
adequate seacoast defences for the shores of the
United States has been already finished. according
to the annual report of Brigader General Gillespie.
chief of engineers, to the Secretary Of War. The
American people will heartily approve the earliest
possible completion OF this mighty undertaking.
Imperialism-As soon as Imperialism was found
10 be a disease, and fits germ isolated, its ravages
were speedily checked
1t is evening. little child bends over picture In
her book
clothes. glaring fercely through compound binocu-
''That. my daughter" replies the EngIishman,
with flush of pride. lis ST. George and the
microbe."-(Lfe.
1.-The decline of the book trade in Germany has
been fruitful topic in the German press OF late.
One writer In an exhaustive argument accused the
German people of falling away from the habits Of
their literary fathers. and. like Americans taking
more interest in business than in literature The
'Berliner Tageblatt IN recent issue. under the
head of THE Germans as Book Buyers" quotes
Herr Grtnow. the Leipsc publisher. who charac-
terzes the criticism OF his fellow Germans on the
score OF neglect OF literature empty and non
sensicaI trash "a public. he says, which will
spend a half million marks in a few weeks for a
novel. and in the same length of time several
millions for Bismarck's Thoughts and Recolec-
TONS is not bookless public" The publisher
gives the names of a number of books which were
sold in great numbers and Of the standard works
which are constantly in demand. The old, thread
bare complaint" he says. comes originally from
the authors whom one likes and from their
publishers who can find no market for their wares.
But the fact should not be overlooked that the
German is ready book buyer. Every Christmas
table demonstrates that fact. and it is we'll known
that there are few men poor that they do not
have little money TO expend for books
Are you blind by nature?" asked the charitably
SNo. sir candidly replied the beggar; I'm blind
by ession."-(Pearson's Weekly.
quarter million of rats have been killed In the
great London docks. Every of these infection
laden vermn ought to be destroyed. The most
energetic efforts are being made TO exterminate
them In Rio Janeiro. where there have been
twenty-nine deaths from the plague in single
week and more than hundred patients suffering
from the pestence under treatment at the same
time.
A small fve-year-old after tasting cup Of milk
at the supper table evening set II down. and
said: Mamma I'll bet a nickel TO a doughnut that
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