New-York tribune., 1903-07-15


environment is probably the strangest of its
properties.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
They had a tornado out in Kansas recently and
the usual stories beginning put in their ap-
pearance in the Kansas papers That State has a
settler since the last Whrlwind, however for
three new stories have come to light. One tells
of a farmer who was ploughing when the big wind
struck him. What became of the rustic is omitted
but the tornado caught the plough in its vortex
and whirled it round and round until the entire
field had been nicely ploughed. Another farmer had
a lot of stored in bin In the side of the bin
a knothole The tornado caught the corn and
drove the cobs through the knothole. Smelling the
and leaving it in nice little pile the floor.
The third story is about wagon which was stand
ing in another farmyard when the breeze came
along and upset it and started the wheels spin
ming. The wind hard that of the wheels
is still revolving, and it is impossible to stop it.
RINIE OF THE ANCIENT GROCERMAN.
1.-THE Butter and Egg Board yesterday established
From The Tribunes' market reports.I
1t is ancient grocerman
by thy pale face and haggard eye,
Now wherefore stoppest me?"
The ancient grocerman replied:
Kind sir, fain would talk.
'TIs dull; the cheese has taken out
The butter for a walk
Some fearsome thing hangs over me-
My dread I cannot hide:
MY berry boxes all filled
Upon the bottom side.
II tremble with a weakness that
Just now I weighed some sugar
And did not weigh my hand.
"Oh tell me-this wonder on
And sadly mediate
SS Now, RseTfhaIseG Tifi Il de6naPS s@aRS%'eF tea
Back up!" the stranger man replied.
" 'Tis not for this you grieve.
You're hiding up your sleeve
The ancient grocerma3 then sighed,
Al ana Ia{a SAT .T snd crossed 1I.e his legs o,,4
And said that eggs is eggs.
but now we have the extra grade;
The strictly fresh we'll;
And fresh laid eggs we sell.
I'VE likewise have the cooking egg"
"And lastly the uncertain sort
Retailed as simple eggs.
III bothers me; it worries me;
When sGot9 sbodld Gan Cease s4FISe to cbare for
And sell them spring fries"
Your head is full of dreams 'i'a-'
It's evident your intellect
Is going to eggstremes."
But list. patient reader. list:
The egg he got tt for S' breakfast made
Him sad and wise next morn
wv D. N, in Chicago Tribune,
"The Providence Journal is issuing little
sheet called THE Block Island Wireless" all OF
whose dispatches come by the wireless telegraph
similar journal is published island off the
California coast.
Helpless Infant.-"Have YOU decided on a nana
for the baby yet. Tanksley?''
Yes; we've named her for my automobile"
Fact. We call her Gasolena."
Inquirer.
"Everybody's Magazine tells little story which
shows the mixed feelings with which the South
erner regards Booker T. Washington An old
Florida colonel recently met Booker T. Washing
ton and in bbulous burst of confidence said TO
the negro educator:
"Suh I'm glad to meet you. Always wanted to
shake your hand sub think. suh you're the
greatest man in America
"Oh. no!' said Mr.. Washington.
You are. sub" said the colonel. and then. pug
naciously: Who's greater?'
We'll" said the founder of Tuskegee, there's
President Roosevelt"
mo, suhl" roared the colonel Not by a tuCful
used to think So but since he invited you to
dinner think he's blank scoundrel"
FOOD THEORIES
We fear salicyHc meats.
Nor think they have an acdity
Personalities of borax fail
To shake our mental placidity.
We SgsIHst bRGT meEo6Ts fhsy PFs isgF5ye, fissg5tg
But tremble lest may be filed
-(Chicago Tribune.
In Greece the death penalty is said to be often
pronounced but the difficulty of obtaining execu
TONERS for long time almost insuperable
1t at last surmounted by giving TO uur-
derer the choice between his own death or ac.
ceptance Of the office OF permanent executiorer
The lives alone In an old tower built bv
Venetians iset outside the port OF Nauplia
where neeessaries are taken TO him every morning
by the boatman, who is careful 10 exchange no
word with him. Twice year a steamer calls for
him and his instruments Of DEATH and he leaves
upon a tour Of executions.
Fixed-Super-No, sir the ghost hasn't walked
for weeks
Crittick-I saw tho leading man with a wad to-
day: he must have got his salary
Super-Oh, yes; he's the star
Crittick-What you might call q fixed" star eh7
-(Phiadephia Ledger