New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

So numerous were the seIf-murderers who sac
rifced their lives by jumping into certain
waterfalls that the authorities in Japan put up big
signboards Cf warning, telling the 'rashly i'm
Fortunate" who intended to commit the crime of
suicide in these streams that serious consequences
in the hereafter would surely follow their offences
1t must be considered somewhat strange, on care
full thought, that comparatively few despairing
and women kill themselves by Ieaping into the
stupendOus cataract Of Niagara.
Her Hat Was Trimmed Wrong.-Another preacher
who is trying to get the women Of his cQngregatiop
70 remove tnelr NAYS IN CHQIch Is tIie rev; = NJ
The women, however, do not take kindly to the
gear, and then put it under the seat at the place
where it can be best shown off The subject re-
dav 9bont oan 70 cfTTch and Mrs BroWn asked
Mrs Jones to go with her and sit in her pew. oh,
thank you replied Mrs. Jones but really can't
side of the church Kansas City Journal ''-'
The British expedition against the Mad Mullah
in Somaliland has captured hundreds of camels
and thousands of goats. But it did not the
Mullah himself. He's agile antelope and
wary wild sheep OF the mountains.
ANOTHER AMERICAN PERIL
LndGm Truth that p[3tSStys tariff be
heresses.I
Our girlsa-,they formerly were mild.
AS harmless a little child
rh with s s9othp 49, geniH Ifa a gee
Alasl That Londoners should speak
OF them as England's terror!
Why should the Britons tremble thus.
To have the coin they take from US
Reduced to pound and shilling?
When one has pledged her hand and heart
To tax her work Of art
Or possibly jewel
IT'S better for the noblemen
Whom obligations nettle
To IF find ,2r mqn Hr snG maid sHif, and then
What? Shall barring tariff fall
On her who gives her Doodle
For building the ancestral hall
And paying henchmen feudal?
Must bankrupt duke or noble earl
Whose delts impoverish him,
Because the tax would dish him?
The tariff problem thus devised
Is a pons asinoruTn-
SHALL she he taxed for what she buys,
or simply ad valorem?
True hearts are more than coronets
And faith serene and simple
Than Norman blood, to him who gets
Ba The p a2i%FS Y Yo Subtle the di dIB6m.t
Has power of persuasion
Or threat of heavy duties that
VII! stop the girls invasion.
-(Chicago Tribune.
The Empire of Sahara. NJ. Lebaudy's pet scheme
Is no new idea Donald Mackenzie. who in ISL
established a British settlement at Cape Jubv
made ambitious proposals which attracted
good deal of attention in particular his scheme
for flooding Sahara. In Mr.. Mackenzies opinion Eel
Juf, plain in the Western Sahara lay several
hundred feet below level and he proposed by
cutting through the Belta Valley, to connect Ell Juf
with the Atlantic. north of Cape JUDY. He wrote a
very ingenious book the project, which was
taken up by many influential people and to some
extent favored by the Foreign Office. In the North
of Africa, by the way, the French were enamoured
OF a somewhat similar idea. They thought of cut
ting canal into the Sahara but that sandy waste
is still as dry as it ever was
Cause and Enect.-Jack-So you asked old Cot
rox for his daughters hand in marriage, EN-?
Tom-Sure, and IT was q regular waIkover for
me.
Jack-A walkover!
Tom-Yes; the old man walked all over me-
Chicago News.
Some observations recently made in India answer
partially questions often asked about the height Of
clouds. At Simla Observatory in India n series
of photogrammetric measurements have been made
during period of twenty months. and the results
reported in The Indian meteorological Me-
moirs." Simla has elevated situation on n
mountain ridge and the observatory IS placed at an
altitude of 1924 feet which is above the ordinary
lower clouds. Hence the observations made relate
to the lofty cirrus clouds the height OF which
above simIa. in forty-seven measurements was
found To- be SOI40 feet nearly six miles The
maximum was Is, feet OF the thicker cumulus
clouds the was 1894 feet-over a mile and a
third-and the maximum 1873 feet. In the warmer
climate of Simla these figures naturally larger
than would be given by average measurements of
the altitude of American clouds.
Yeast-I see a school has been started in wash
ington where scholars are taught TO be ambidex-
GIgimsonh eaak-Taught to use both hands?
Well l hope they'll manage to keep the grad
yates out OF the Treasury. "-(Yonkers Statesman.