New-York tribune., 1903-01-28
THE NEW LANGUAGE.

THE NEW LANGUAGE.
CEsperanto is the new universal language
Daily Chronicle.l
For Volapuk grief rent my soul,
That language having predeceased me.
But a most ingenious Pole
From anguish has released me.
In his praise shall my Tyre be struck
And sung be many cante;
cannot weep for Volapuk
While have Esperanto.
It is tongue yeu learn to speak
Within a summers short night
Write leaders in it in a week
And sapphics in a fortnight.
1 ha9 tis task sSs6 for stoThnR tTh 30 doubt
You write it's dictionary cut
In less than half morning
Its meagre scant array of words
Could puzzle no beginner;
Untutored cannbals by herds
Would learn them after dinner
Apa hence the fSsE were but Wosd fear label
If we deemed such disaster @ near
AS one time fell on Babel
One truth remains. untold before;
OF Esperanto thereH be more
To tell you-when I've learned it.
Interesting facts as to flight of birds have re-
suited from long series of observations, whose
general results have recently been published
An eagle observed by Hergessell. OF Stras-
burg to fly at a height of 1000 feet.
lark was detected at altitude OF 1000 feet
Aeronauts have encountered crows as high as
4200 feet from the earth.
These, however exceptional attitudes for
birds to attain. AS rule, 1900 feet seems to be
the limit
The German Ornithological Society has been con-
Quoting experiments with pigeons, and finds that
when liberated at height of 1900 feet down to as
little as 200 feet they drop rapidly to much
lower region of the atmosphere.
Many occupations have diseases which are more
exempt. The two most prevalent literary malades
are writer's cramp % and swelled head The - qp D.
never cured; The unfortunate thing about swelled
head is that 1t never kills-(l. A. +.
short time ago The Tribune reprinted from
1.-The Princeton Tiger these lines:
There once was from Nantucket.
Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
But his daughter named Nan,
Ran away with man,
And as for his bucket Nantucket
correspondent retorted with these:
This reused the old man from Nantucket,
Who chased them far as Pawtucket:
Where he scolded Miss Man.
Thrashed soundy the man.
And for the bucket Pawtucket
And stn another paraded his geographical knowl-
edge:
The pair. followed pa to Manhasset,
Where he still held the cash asset;
But Nan and the
Stole the money and ran.
And as for the bucket, Manhasset
We trust this is the last shall hear of the
precious pair and their paw
Prohibition or License.-''What kind of State is
this?" asked the stranger.
How do you medn?'
i mean, is it "a drug store or a saloon Slater
Chicago Post
Archdeacon Sinclair told story at the Lord
Mayors banquet in London of the days when he
young vicar in Westminster. and, together
with a number of other young men, many of
them clergymen. he dined with distinguished
aldermen After the ladies had left and the gentle
men slipping their wine. the DISTINGUISHED
alderman fixed the young with stony glare
and expressed desire to offer them one word of
good advice. An eXpectant pause followed, the
young clergymen expecting some words of ex-
hortation. The alderman soemnly proceeded:
young men. IL ever any of YOU brought up
before me. don't pretend to know me. and then 1
can let you Off
HOW HE WON HER.
Ice cream he bought his darling.
And she ate. and ate. and ate;
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