New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-25
TIE TALK Of THE DAY,

a Queensland contemporary recently published
the following: Our foreman printer recently
uerd up the space occupied by obituary notices in
The Herald during the last couple Of months
so. and found it made three and three-quartar
yards. This is much dead loss 70 the paper and
II q fatal epidemic struck the town ruin would
stare IN the face. We have. therefore. decided
in future TO charge for notices. So, when
people FEEL like dying. we hope they will give d.
rections their OF kin in respect Of paying
for the same
awakened the other morning by strange, grunG-
ing noise In ms ROOM wnien P5oTeG 70 be me VOICE
self IN the smouldering ashes Of his fireplace. and
had placed there TO dry and which he had bought
on the instalment plan. and on which he had made
swallowing one boot. and had the other down
pGe It out he gatof is now ON sxS5ffon aa at
Minches drug store but will soon be slain. in order
and one slipper, may recover the other boot
An item Of news in Kentucky paper states that
the usual term OF a certain county court in Ala
baTa was not held for that week because the
sheriff refused declare the court open on &C
count Of personal difference betwean himself and
the judge Of the court. and. there was no other
legal method by whicn the court could be opened
in that State. TIE session could be had. \
correspondent who sends the story to Case and
Comment gives the opinion that the shertfrs con
duct in "a seems to bs in the nature OF aver
hernissa-"
The Record" states that The other night, when
girl was driving home. the conversation irifted to
sae Iq03ecT o. [o ga2ed te5ng the y99ng man
at him with dovelike expression upon her face
if could see the lines in one Of your hands The
Young man remained in deep thought until several
illuminated his faSe he took the lines In one hand
An American journal which has recently changed
TO built Up a circulation The editor evidently be-
lieves that all men these days have literary as
pirations- In London paper appears IN advertised
invitation for stories articles. You are TO apply
the very respectable address Of the London daily
In reply the editor OF the Anglo-American Journal
says that you have been placed on the list of con-
tributors and the editor viii be pleased to LOOK
through any Ms you may send in and then comes
the kernel of the matter. You advised to peruse
the journal carefully in order TO what sort OF
stuff the editor wants And it would be as we'll to
let him send his journal to your house each
month. Subscription so much. postage so much
extra
THE ADVANCE IN DRAMA.
CArs. Langtry announces that she will have a
the a11ae the marconigraph3 " d It's central
So they'll dramatic the dim. ethereal rsarconi-
No doubt they'll have curtain raiser of a one act
Perhaps the heroine who tells her grief instead Of
celepnOl-
ing It:
And when the villain in the play grows gIu-a and
cigarettical
They'll put him in ray tube and make his fate
hermetical
o. what q wondrous chance our dranatists have
missed all thoughtlessyi
Their comic operas and play have all been running
plotlessly-
But what if, while the dramatists were singing Ink
tirelessly.
They had awakened 70 the worth OF turning them
out wirelesslyt
Alb. then might have seen play wherein the
star some box eyed less.
Also a gay soubrstte or two whose hair was all
peroxideless.
All. yes. we've seen the ballet girls. who scanned
put up gtrthlessly;
Also the great comedians. who spring their gags
u1irthlessly.
But now we are 10 have play advanced with all
the sciences
And fitted out from rise drop with UP TO date
appliances.
Here's hoping the nlarcontgraph. which VIII come
to wirelessly,
VIII not De crossed with something else. that
may see II trelesslyi
-lchicago TribunA