New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-03
\ BANDITS REFORM.

The bandit said This life I'll cease
! know a better way fleece
The rich American.
Il shall shoot him through the leg
Nor club him with a gun,
Relief from Washington.
at is a shame to treat him so;
He's gentle and he's good:
And OF his cash he will let 20
Without such measures rude.
Some simple fixtures will get.
such as are used In games;
And other fancy names.
TN have his cash without the strife
These bandits and rude,
VINO no say , \ our r money or your lfe''
-CWashington Star.
An ordinary echo is a curious thing; but accord
Ing to the statements of a F'renchman at a water
ing place in the Pyrenees. echo the Franco
Prussian frontier is far from ordinary. LAS soon
you have spoken" said the Frenctnnan. who had
secured audience OF wide-eyed tourists you
hear distinctly the voice leap from rock to rock.
from precipce precipice> and soon as IL has
passed the frontier 1t assumes the Spanish tongue!
But yes. I have heard 1t often"
He writes that I am a cad"
Tell him you VIII pull his nose <o,-
- will-wheres your telephone ?"-fGlasgow
Times.
Madagascar IS celebrating. according to THE
-Four Track News" the opening of its first rail-
way. its 150-mile macadamized road from the coast
TO the interior and the completion fifty miles OF
canals. results OF the Frenchifying of the island
1t in 1892 that Lord Salisbury gave France a
free hand under the Zanzibar convention to chas-
tise and subject tho insolent H0vas who had fout-
ed every nation and disregarded their treaties In
Guiding the one made with the United States in
1867 and signed by President Andrew Johnson
France undertook the task for other nations in gen
eral. and herself in particular of wping out a
century. If not centuries. of insults ITO and
massacres of foreign ENJOYS and travellers
His Favorite sublect."Doesnt your father ever
talk to you about his Maker asked the Sunday
81 guess he does replied little ALBERT 'P, claims
he's a self-made man."-(Chicago Record-Herald
Near Ketschau. Germany. is the deepest hole
the earth. 1t is 5736 feet deep. and for geolos-
cal research only. The drilling begun in 1850.
and stopped six years later because the engineers
were unable with their instruments to go deeper
4 charming young lady called Geoghegan
CWtose Christian names are less peoshegan)
H.. Very soon at All Ksoltys,;
One OF the two great German lines of transat-
lantio steamships has made Dover a port of call
Whereat John Bull. of the chalky cliffs of AL
bion. is not dlspleased.
tho sea Level for vacation You need Change gTuse
Of altitude, so so TO the mountains
I've been living in skyscraper hotel.-(Town
Topics.
Nearly fifteen years ago man entered the First
National Bank of Denver and walked into the Of
fee OF David H. Moffatt. the president of the bank
He had bottle in his hand that he said contained
nitro gycerine. and threatened TO blow up the bank
unless he was given large sum of money Mr.
Moffatt sent for the money. and among the hills
was one of $4,000 denomination. Recently the gov
eminent called ini all ten-thousand dollar bills. and
has not been presented for redemption No trace,
of the man who got the money ever found
A Precedept.-Inwne-J ,sley IL married. nov
and he's got a reputation 20 live up to-
Brown-I heard he was married to that young,
widow, but what's the reputation YOU speak orr
Towne-His wife's first husband s.-Philad elphia