New-York tribune., 1903-02-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

-,,o orita arroneous idea that Welsh Is Ian
qua Of consonants probably arises from the num-
ber of VS. it contains. according to Weishnan
in 1.-THE London News" wv in Welsh ts gen
era,1v-and ALWAYS between two consonants-a pure
vowel sounded like 90" in English Thus own
is pronounced ''koom." rhyming with BOOM
What is really one of the most remarkable features
about the Welsh language is the number Of vowels
which can come together. In English three VOW
ola in succession are not often met with; In Welsh
1T is not uncommon to find four or five, e. g.. IN
'llywiawdwr'' (-governor'O. Here each Of the five
vowels .-yviaw' is pronounced separately IN rapid
succession. Here are four lines, consisting en-
tirely of vowels, made by Goronwy Owen in the
eighteenth century:
OF wtw Wy a
Ieuau ia- al Q ly?
Al O au
All au 1 wau Ell wyw7
An Engaging Young Person.-Father.so F1Iny
Luhring is engaged to young Rattles? Let ,ttIs me
see. wasn't she engaged to somebody else little
Daug6ter-somebody else. father? Why, in our
set no engagement is considered complete without
her.-CBrooklyn Life
The Australian eucalyptus tree has been natu-
rallied in California, and there are now towering
groves OF eucalyptus in Arizona and parts OF Mex
leo as we'll The great value Of the eucalyptus
lies in it's remarkably quick growth from the seed
to the full-sized Travellers in Australia have
brought back accounts of enormous native euca-
lypts. There was record of one PROSTATE ancient
forest giant of the blue gum variety measuring.
with allowances for the lost top. $50 feet Such a
giant would have overtopped the tallest Of Cali
fornia's living sequoias. There more than 15o
kinds of eucalyptus which resemble each other,
though differing widely in size, height, general
outline and In appearance OF leaf and bark This
tree Is planted for forest cover for naked hill
sides as windbreaks and hedges; the timber Is
valuable the wood and leaves make excellent
fuel. and from the latter is made drug exten-
sively employed in medicine and surgery The
blossoms supply honey, supposed to possess spe-
cially hygienic properties.
Mistress-What In the world are you putting
ashes the floor for, Bridget?
doost the parlor?-(Town and Country.
At fire in a Chattanooga hotel recently the
lives OF the guests saved by the clerk send
ing out warnings the room telephones at
midnight according to 'T'he Springfield Repub-
Hcan.' We imagine that IT would be
what dsconcertng for guest to be abruptly
awakened with announcement of this Sort and
sometimes it might cause more casualties than the
blaze. A nice pleasant, breakng-it-easy sort of
method may in vogue Suppose this:
Hello Ali"
Hello
This Mr. Sprggins?"
yep"
Gone to bed YETI
Sure. Dye think r.
That's all right. How're you feeiingY'
Sort O. $3.50"
That's good Feel equal to a hurry-up slide
down the hre-escape?'
We'll. / might if I had to. Say
'An right; that's just how 1t stands You wriggle
into your clothes now. and make a record doing II.
You see the hotels on fire, and-and-gee! Don't
talk like that, mister, there ladies in the next
Good-by."
down in old Sante Fe
Is often suspictously ge
There people who think
He Is given to drink,
But the fact is. it's only his we.
-(Chicago Tribune.
The Congressional committee the revision OF
the penal legislation OF the federal statutes has
decided that the maximum penalty for any
person who boards railroad train. car or locomo-
tive with intent to commit murder. robbery or
violence against any trainman, expressman. mail
messenger passengers shall be twenty years in
confinement. 1t ought to be life Imprisonment.
Bragg-I knocked senseess by cricket ball
two years ago.
The Boy in the Corner-When does yer expeck
ter get over it?- Glasgow Evening Times
The Commercial Club. of Kansas City. has asked
the Missouri legislature appropriate 10000 for
a statue OF Thomas H. Benton, be erected in
Kansas City. possible TO the spot where
Benton made his famous prophecy. in 1856. that
this continent oud be bound together by bands
OF iron. and thai products would be carried
feed the innuEnerable millions OF the Orient.
Pointing with outstretched hand toward the setting
sum- said: There is the East: there Is the road
to India
REMINDER.
Ads Of breakfast foods around MS
Point TO days when men untaught
With their wisdom will astound us.
Fed on predigested thought.