New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
IN SEPTEMBER.

The tide of travel turns again.
Like tides returning to the sea-
Full half reluctantly,
Back to the stony hearted streets,
The city like octopus.
-(E. A. Lente. in The Four-Track News.
Bacillus fragi is the name given to a new and
quite amiahle sort of microbe discovered by
Paris chemist, NJ. Eichhoitz. 1t possesses very
peculiar property, that of imparting to the medium
in which it thrives and multiplies a strong favor
of strawberries. NJ. Eichholtz first isolated and
developed his bacillus in milk. The microbe was
found "peptonize' and render soluble the al
bumnoids contained in the milk At the time
the liquid, which the chemist was courageous
enough to taste, had acquired decided straw
berry flavor The bacillus fragi conveys, it
ascertained, its peculiar property to several other
liquids and some solids beef tea being among the
former. 1t is peculiarly alarming to think that
fair imitation of strawberries and cream can now
be manufactured by dropping into a bowl of cream
some coorng matter and spoonful Of bacilli fragt
In Worldly Goods-'Tt isn't every man that
knows when he is well on
No; but lots of us know that We are not
Brooklyn Life
Gothenburg in Germany. has a Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals which has of
late extended its protection over domestic fowls
formerly beheaded in a rude manner with a cleaver
in the market place. Now they decapitated
with new. bright red guillotine. working so
smoothly and swiftly that It's operation may be
regarded by the fowls pastime. if there
any way Of finding out. The hints which Gothen-
burg gives ought not to be thrown away on our
own 5. p. c. a, and hen guillotines in the
markets. hitherto scarcer than hens teeth. should
become plentiful tho business cut out for
them requires
HORSE VS.. AUTO.
Dick and his girls just left US; that's them. nigh
I wish him luck. for it's surely royal sparktn'
From double gate to the courthouse is fourteen
\ two-hour drive. We call it, when roads are good
But that auto rig contraption OF his scoots up and
And he saws it cuts the distance in half 'twixt
Well mebbe it does; but seems like he's goin' at
On night like this he ought to contrive at twice
long!
lis part Of the age, however, an age of rush and
When Unless you're fairly jumpin' you can't be
When couple must take their ridin' at gallop
with a choo choo! choo! behind them. and nothin'
In a rig that can't be trusted to mind crooked
And right in the midst OF matters is liable TO ex-
I reckon that one feels clever to make the doin'
But days when J, was a-sparkin' the main point
was the girl!
When I was a-courtin Marthy hitehed up old
And the go only thing asked him was that he'd keep
his feet
I wasn't Obliged to guide him. he did the turnin'
And he rounded all the corners at a mile an hour.
about.
When Marthy vas snug beside me that old horse
The iikellest shaded stretches. where he had best
go slow
Why, grass and the trees and bushes along the way
lie cropped
Slow Well. on a few occasions we warn't aware
he'd stopped!
That was the style of ridin' when was courtin'
see?
Nothin' 10 watch but Marthy and both hands
bless you, free,
eye
Back at the seat. but sayin. Don't mind. it's
q fly
I s'picion there's fun in courtin' even breakneck
And Dick is the boy to do tive read it in her
face,
But courtn by rapid transit don't pear TO me so
AS the rambly. amply courtin' of NIarthy and me
-dippineotts MAGAZINE