New-York tribune., 1903-06-27

lit has become says THE Court Journal" af-
fectation to decline to drink champagne. There
must be hundreds of very young men who make II
a refuse it, for the sole reason that there Is
the suggestion of rumbustous past IN 50
doing.l
fear 1 cannot say with truth
Ioathe the wine l loved in youth
stil would like to feel you know
But While the youngsters pulses dance
! sit with ennui-haunted soul
And play my lone ascetic role
watch with knowing glance and grim
The bubbles Winkng t1llt sat, at the te brm 9rint
l. like the bubbles, simply wink.
And hint of boisterous days of yore.
When magnums perished by the score;
OF nights of revel. feast and noise,
Such as would kill most modern boys!
Thus having set all eyes agog
Vyeo W6ose SO lastT yoDth's the the sole defence
For ostentatious abstinence
On simple drinks like cowslip wine.
Until at twenty-one, they drop
To lemonade and ginger pop!
Many are the uses of the telephone Just now it
is being used. according to "The London Chron-
icie" in Berlin the sole means of communication
between the outer world and the only known case
of plague in Europe. In experimenting on a rat
young bacteriologist met his death. The strain
of B. pestis which he used very weak, and
would probably not have proved fatal had he not
been already tuberculous. His young male nurse
caught the disease, and is isolated with a
physician and nurse. The precautions taken are
typical of modern German science, and the chances
of an epidemic infinitesima Rigid diS1nfection
has been employed and every one who was or
might have been the late or present victim has
been subjected to prophylactc incubation OF anti
plague serum. This is also being used thera-
peutic in the of the patient, who will
in all probability make excellent recovery.
Have you ever been married. asked the magis-
trate No" replied the prisoner at the bar of JUS
tice; but I've been blown up by dynamite -(Phll-
adelphia Record.
All things come to Paris-even the mosquitoes
which are familiar than agreeable in a
city which but lately knew them not nor desired
acquaintance. The many sheets of ornamental but
stagnant or sluggish water believed to have
something to do with situation which is render
ing mosquito nets a necessity in many houses
Various remedies suggested-from filling up
the ponds to poisoning the water.
By Their Wives Ye Shall Know Them-The IN
known walked down the aisle of the smoking
known man an sat s1 Fsadn e ssd eskv
Certainly" replied the occupant. without look
ing up. May well be sociable. Rice is my
And Freeman is mine. May I ask what you are
reading?"
Well what are you reading"
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch
Pure trash; have my wife's word for it
Who's your wife, inquired the original occu-
My wife is Mrs. Freeman" with some signs Of
pique.
Never heard of her Literary shark, is she?
My wifes strong for Mrs. Wigs. You see-e-
why she wrote it
My dear sir, shouted the quondam critic
there TO be fatal misunderstanding some
where. Let me introduce myself again Mr.
Mary E. wilkins Freeman"
And l." grinned the man with the book, am
Mr. Alice Caldwell Hogan Rice. of course Why
didn't we do this before? Happy TO know you"
--(PrincetOn Tiger.
In Norway drunkenness is punished by impris-
orment- As soon as a man is incarcerated the de-
linquent has loaf and wine morning and evening
The bread is served in a wooden bowl full of wine
in which IL has been soaking fer hour. The
first day the drunkard swallows his allowance viii
lingly enough The second day it seems less pleas
AT the end of eight ten days prisoners
have been known to abstain altogether from the
food thus pitiessly presented. This course Of
treatment finished the drunkard. except in rare
instances. is radically cured AT least is said
Poor Chlld.-'I hear Jack Kandor was here to
the baby said Mr.. Hoamley.
Yes" his wife replied
Il suppose the first thing he said was: He
looks just like his father
mo; the first thing he said was. Good heayensr
Then he said that philadelphia Press.