New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Medicinal herb farms will become a necessity in
the United States Spigelia (pink roo. serpentaris
and senega (the two varieties OF snakeroot), which
formerly found in abundance wild In Mary
land and other Atlantic States are becoming
scarce. SIENNA coocynth gentian and the poppy
have been grown TO extent. and digtals
purpurea Qoxglove). atropa belladonna deadly
nightshade) sangunaria canadensis (blood roof
and cimcifuga racemosa (black cOhosh) have been
grown experimeutally. Farmers near Kalamazoo.
Mich raise annually 100000 pounds of pepper
mint. Valerian is a wild product OF Vermont
HE is the flower of the family"
Possibly. He seems to be blooming IDIOT
puck.
Senator Dover. OF Iowa. tells this story on him
self: Il reached certain small town during a
campaign" said he. and found that the proprietor
of tho hotel where usually stopped was IN jail
He had gone there Of his own accord rather than
pay judgment which he considered unjust. He
asked the Sheriff please TO let him out for two
hours to hear his old friend Dover speak. The
Sheriff agreed and sent order f,r the release
Of the prisoner for two hours for that purpose.
Then he considerably added at the end OF the
order: The rest Of your punishment is RENTED
WORD FOR THE CAMERA CRANK.
Wherever YOU go in this vineyard below.
There's the camera eTan Ak ri,h,,, rDea+
With the camera crank.
He's sometimes alone and he's sometimes in locks:
And aiways he's armed with a little black box
He's the camera crank
Yet harmless is he bird in a tree.
what hurt could he do or what harm could ensus
From the camera crank?
Hes He aye en the lookout for things that queer
And folks that are honest have nothing to fear
From the camera crank
He often does good-who would think that he
Does this camera crank a,I. ;o,,,u-,,, .o,,
Till the camera crank
sLas and i' hredV that none can deny
Dame Nature has spoken-she never can lie
Through the camera crank
Though seldom there's wealth. yet there always is
For the camera crank:
There's beauty in winter and summer IN Fo and spring.
There's wonderful beauty in everything
For the camera crank
Some day with groan. when the trumpet has
why this camera crank
VIII rise from the gloom OF his stufry old tomb
He'll on wit with his little black box in mis- hand
To take snapshot at The he9 tns land stdnd
Mister Camera Crank,
Tho manufacture and sale OF tobacco is state
monopoly in Austria which nets the national treas
ury over 81. 10000 a year. The government pur-
chases the raw material. manufactures II into CT
CARS cigarettes, smoking tobacco and snuff. and
sells to the consumer through licensed agents who
receive a fixed commission. averaging about 10 per
cent on the proceeds of their sales.
''Whatever are you children dong?" "Oh. we've
found pas false teeth, and we're trying to fit them
to the baby. cos he hasn't got any!"-(Punch
A leading Kings Counsel recently said at his club
In London that he indebted for his rise in the
world TO the active cooperation of a humble but
resourceful individual.
In the days when he a briedess barristar
he went one afternoon to read In the Inner Temple
Library He had not been there long when his
small errand boy appeared. greatly excited and
breathless from running.
IF YOU please. SIR" the boy gasped "a gentle
man is waiting for you ut the chambers with
brief He can't get out. sir. I've locked him in
Together the barrister and the boy hurried back
10 the chambers and the gentleman with brief,
who was amused at his capture arterward became
a most valuable client
A MOURNFUL BALLAD OF COOKS
We were talking OF servants this evening.
Recalling the number we've had,
All my wife's "reminiscences showing
How this or that one was bad.
There Mary; the first How discordant
She declares she was slow and deceitful-
l remember her coffee was fine.
When we spoke OF poor Mary's successor,
Fat Dinah from warm pixies land
recalled though wife mentioned the thieving.
Her fapjacks and mullins were grand.
So IL went through our list of domestics.
Matilda Rose Gretchen and Kate
All! saucy tongued Kate from Killarney
Her corned beef and cabbage were great!
o. girsl who made JOY of dyspepsia
And gave some pleasure in life,
Why weren't you otherwise perfect
Enough 10 get on with my wife?
Why couldn't you keep up the standard,
Drop impudence, laziness pelf
And not make her vow, 70 my sorrow,