New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

.a-bo on5on Chronicle declares that What the
dickensr' has nothing to do with the novehst-
It is as old as Shakespeare, who In the VERY
Wives Of Windsor makes Mrs. Page say TO r. oro'
.I cannot tell what the dickens his ~ ne is AND
so the word-a palpable dinninuti'a OF Dick-IKe
wilkins and Hodgkins and Watkns-carne INTO use
as q substitute for another and more fmportans u
AS to play the dickens one thinks Of Snolete
and Humphrey Clinker' and the Immortal ssene
in which the lion would roar and tear and play
the dickens and in comparatively late tunes
Thomas Moore could write
Like the Goths who played the dickens
With Rome and all her sacred cnlchehs-
Of the childnke and bland ways Of the Chinese
what surpasses this neat trick in FISH 1arrnins'
youched for by travellers tale:
Taking fresh egg. they suck the contents
through tiny hole and refill the egg with the tiny
eggs of the fish they want to hatch The mole IS
then sealed up and the egg placed under sitlins
hen. In very few days the fish ova are so far
advanced that one has only to break the she'll into
moderately water and the little hsh spring
to life at
'I fear no foe IN shining armor," sang the man
The front row 'I'nen you try and open sardine
tin with a pocket knife."-(Punch
The clerks in the Patent Office at " ashington
began several years ago to keep a systematc
account of the patents issued TO Thomas A
Edison They have his various inventions taou-
lated and indexed so that they can put their
hands on each different idea he has protected oy
patent from the beginning of his marvellous career
of invention When pending claim is allowed, as
It no doubt will be this month, Mr.. Edison VIII
have received 7s1 patents in all He is not adding
to the list as many ideas nowadays he did some
years ago. Up to 1925 he had taken out III patents
Since then he has added to the list from three TO
twenty-three patents each year. Last year ne
took out nineteen. This year. so far, he has re-
ceived six. In ordinary fees for patents Mr. Edi-
son has spent over $4,000.
D- Ka1lomell-I can cure you at once by
operation, or in about six months by external ap-
'iPatient-Which would you advise. doctor?
DR. kallomeu Cmaking mental cal eacqatgm b abant
the same In either case-(Chicago Tribune
The .Miinchener Neueste Nachrichten' announces
that a big pressed beef deposit has been dis
covered in the Yellowstone Park Evidently"
SAYS the "Neueste Nachrichten," enormous droves
of cattle have, during the riocene period, been
caught by a revolution of the earth and buried by
the thrown down masses. The extensive saline de-
posits in the district preserved and seasoned the
meat; the cold of the ice period kept it for aons.
and under the influence of the immense pressure
of the masses Of earth and stone 1t has been trans
formed into kind of salt meat. which. to taste
and nutritiousness, is not inferior to corned beef
..The Chicago Journal adds some still more won
derful details regarding the discovery of mustard
and boiled cabbage In the neighborhood:
s'When the cataclysm occurred the beasts who were
canned. so to speak. were grazing on a field Of
mustard and the grinding of the glacier puiverized
the mustard. favored 1t with the oil OF the ami
mails and mpregnated their flesh with 1T to the
queens taste AS for the boiled cabbage and boiled
potatoes they evidently grew uncooked In great
abundance in those days. for millions Of them are
found within half mile Of the corned beef mine.
boiled and kept hot by hot springs. In which this
region aboundS-''
Mrs Stigg1ns-well. you are the greatest dunder-
head / ever did see yet. The idea OF buying
excelsior mattress for goose feathers!
Mr. Stiggins-It isn't my fault. is IL, that the
dealer is cheat7 The bed was marked down.
you know.-(Boston Transcript
The gifts made by Andrew Carnegie since 1895
for the founding of libraries and for educational
purposes In America and Great Britain amount.
according to the report OF the Commissioner OF
Education contained in pamphlet recently issued
by the United States Bureau OF Education, to $751;
2l2s s2a OF this sum over .52oooc0 was given In this
country according TO extract from The WASH
ington Post" said to have been revised oy MI Car
negie himself. The report contains table showing
the distribution and amounts of the various gifts
Now lay away your sealskin sacque
And take the hannels from your pacuue'
And then the grip will lay you low
And all your loving friends VIII gov
Behind hosiv ia q hacque-
-fHoustou Post.