New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In a recent volume on the snakes of Egypt. Hip
oIte Boussac states that the trick referred to In
the Scriptures OF changing a snake into a rod Is
stiu practised by the snake charmers- They touch
the snake at a certain place in the neck when II
falls into a cataleptic condition and becomes
straight and sti IL is then restored TO its former
condition by taking it's tail between the hands and
firmly rolling.
4 PUNCTUATION MARK TRAGEDh'
Ionged for Fashions swim.
But she said with laughter
She cared Tor nm
? he propOunded.
Caused 10 exultation.
Then became dumfounded
At her
Twas like heaping
Fire burning hot.
For he'd staked his soul on
Marriage with
Soon he made a - for
Nearest exit gate
Found he had no cash ior
Dinner that he g
Quickly she relented,
Wrote that she'd be his.
Told 26 MIN she rspe''''
Now they're living double.
Happy. strong and well.
IL seems the cause or uOuOie
Vas d ~-jjPhiladelphia Telegraph.
Two brothers both veterans Of the Civil War
met at san Diego Cal. on Saturday, after sep
of thirty-five years. during winch 'lii'o
neither had received word from the other. They
are ] NJ Lucas. OF New-Mexico. and J. II. Lucas
~ San Diego Each had thought the other DEAD
until this meeting a result Of the recent G. A K
encampment.
Protest-Doctor-I should say you have about
Pgtienf1Make it longer doctor; l never pay
your bill in that ume.-tl1te-
Chicago has an alderman in the person of Stan
lev Kunz who has d somewhat novel way OF back
ing I'D hts convictions on municipal affairs. He
has contended that the city has been paying eN-
orbitant prices for street paving ana no" tha Ger
tain contracts are be readvertised he has wag-
cred s. 90 against hats that the price will
be less than 81 % per square yard The hats are
nut I'D bv the president and secretary of the Board
Of Local Improvements. respectively
ONE THOUSAND "QUID FILES. AsTERIE?"
Public interest centred the expedition after
the = IA Arctic ~ IL hs1 Offered rSr % 500
The common CaDricOrnal flea,
Rounding his capers by tropic.
His worth is not. whateer it be.
My topic.
And him. whose blood relations TEEN
A hungry horde on the equator.
Scarce greater
For captures I'm a temperate
dare not offer fancy prices;
l leave possessOTs TO their own
Devices.
But II IN weary Arctic nights
gain accrues to him who ttches,
And ownership of parasites
Is riches,
Then come. We budding Nansens. we
VIII rid the Pole Of all the genus,
And share resulting specie
Between US Punch
Dr. Frank Snow. with a email party Of Kansas
University students has been bug catching in
Southwest Arizona. They brought back fifteen
thousand specimens. all pinned and labelled. Of
which some one hundred new TO science. OF
these 40 are beetles. 400 flies. 1895 but
terfies and moths and the the list of bees
vasps bugs and insects. The butterflies and moths
were collected at night by spreading tree near
the camp a mixture of beer and mOlasses- Il had
two bottles Of beer for that purpose" said DIR.
Snow with a smile, and. of course. wouldn't use
IL for any other Or. snow has made two eNpedi-
lions durinE the summer vacation. The Regents
appropriated for this purpose $500 The grand re-
sui was upward OF thirty thousand specimens. ON
The last trim he secured hundred specimens OF a
beetle that IS catalogue sell at 81 per specimen
The whole collection in Kansas University is eX-
ceeied in the United States by that OF Harvard
University alone.
EVOLUTION.
Che sixetchei a husband strong ard brave
on whom her heart might lean;
None but q hero would she have