New-York tribune., 1903-04-16
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A Chicago newspaper poet Is moved by the
pathos of the melancholy separation Of the bacteri-
ologist, DR.. Ravold. and his bacteria The doctor.
it will be remembered had two hundred barrels OF
his pets dumped in the Chicago drainage canal and
awaited patiently their appearance in the drinking
water Of St Louis. The doctor apostrophizes them
to the following effect:
My little friends! My little friendsl miss you all
spiriiIum Endoparagogicur- miss his smile:
Stapylococcus Aurens Pyogenes-Ah. how sweet
Why did let you go away? Why did let them
You from my side. and barrel you. and throw you
Full fervently 1 wish my Asiatlca were here!
Bacillus Pigmentophagus. scan my falling hair
And o weep fGsrn in bitter loneliness when don't find
To think that had coddled. nursed and trained
To have you barrelled up as soon as you to germ
hood grew!
Lptothrix Gigantea! You the big one Of my mock:
Methought heard you signing when they hurried
Tetani Accidentalus had not thing to say.
But Q. sadly miss you! have fingered here and
vhen you no longer gambolled on my microscopic
slide.
My little friends! My little friends' Come home
Communis LIquefaciens long once more. to see;
'Crococcus Militensis-yes, my little soldier germ
Albicans Tardfssimus at your nerce Move on!
Come back, and gladden. me again! You never
Away from beef-juice jelly and your cotton-battng
home!
"Golfng' has A very Scotch story OF an old
caddie and his wife The minister who called
in tried to comfort the wife, saying that while
John was very weak he evidently ready for
better world. Unexpectedly. however John rallied,
and said to his wife:
Jenny, my woman, I'll maybe be spared to ye
yet"
ma, ma, Johnr' was the reply; 'ye're prepared.
and I'm resigned Dee noo'
IN THE sPRINGTIME
When from the South the breezes come
To put old Winter out of plumb.
And f4 PLEASANT a 55 snnsbns @ fiiis f the land d1
Then lovely woman goes about
To put the dirt to rout.
Her hair is in an apron tied
Her Her dress dress pinned qdsda up p m9nrsn on either side;
And valiantly pursues the dirt
With dust rag, broom and mop.
She hasn't even time to firt;
For gossip she won't stop
The humble man about the place
Has pressing business a
He la'- won't get back till late next day.
He knows that If he'll only wait
And so he pulls his freight
oh. when the spring its lease has signed.
9iGrobe @ rules s5.6I all w, wonankind lI1B
No use to ask the reason why.
Or of the matter further talk:
So when sees it in her eye
He takes walk.
-(Chicago Daily News.
The value of the human whistle may soon be de-
termined by a Chicago court in a suit for $4,000
damages against a street railway company. brought
by a policeman who was injured in a trolley acci-
dent The chief result of the accident was in
ability to whistle and his whistle the policeman
sets great value.
A Sermon on Money-"No. my SON" said the
ness. It only pays house rent and the grocery
bin and makes the baif and the bill collector
gives us the halelu;a smile Sunday. ."-(Atlanta
Constitution
The proposed bridge over the Zambesi River, a
Cairo Railroad is to be completed with all possi-
Rhodes the Afrit of South Africa. TO watch over
the building of the structure above this broad
rent how tenderly and sympathetcally he would
favor the progress of the work!
ciuy-Yes she's beautiful: she has the face Of an
angel-and the heart of fend.
Don-Oh. come, now. you can't mean that She
hasn't a fend's heart. Why do you say such
Guy-Why. know the chap. It's Ben Puffer. the
worst cigarette fend in our club-(Kansas City
Journal.
The new animal houses In New-York's zoologi-
cal gardens give wild beasts a wider range of COM
fort than the tenement dwellers in the crowded
districts on the East Side OF Manhattan have
known for generations
A Poor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS you see any
relation between these triangles?
Student-Yes, sir; that middle triangle's a poor
ona.-lColumbla JestaE