New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


Church. according to The Washington Star" was
| In the habit of Introducing among the EsQuimaus
| who We're his special charges. many things to
amuse or interest them in order that he might gain
their attention to his preaching 1t happened how
ever that in spite Of the various ingenious inven-
| tons which he placed before them these sons of
the Arctic regions continued TO be impressed by
white mans canned food more than by anything
else he brought with him, Being unwilling eat
| the blubber and drink the oil of the Esqulmaus the
white always came with many cans of meat
and vegetables.
One day the Bishop above referred to decided to
spring genuine surprise the natives He had
with him this trip talking machine with
records in the EsQuimau tongue. He gathered his
charges all around him in the little meeting house
and started the machine agoing Everybody was
certainly puzzled. At last smile broke in upon the
face of
Canned white man." he said, in glee-
STEEL A YEAR AGO.
If we could only look ahead
And know what is to be
BY those TOO blind to see:
And murmur sad and low:
''If l had only gone and bought
Steel stock a year ago.
There is a house upon a hill
That long has pleased my eye
Anothers master up there still
Oh. mines bitter. bitter cup
If | had only loaded up
With Steel year ago.
long have wished to go and gaze
TO oa str SGi" Beside h 9 ftaiian i bays
Ana I5n 6asE , on q $Feo I'll u; strands ram
Past groves where olives grow
And bandits hide. if only I'd
Bought Steel a year ago.
How pleasing it would be to turn
From daily toll received
OF all the cares I long have sought
This ali might be il had bought
Up Steel year ago!
If might look ahead-but pshaw!
III not sit down and pine
TF F6 ' fanm afe d 1SsI@" Of m may draw
I'll bet that Steel to-day would lie
Inactive far below
The price got 1t at If
Had plunged year ago
Berlin has led the way in and promising
development Of street railway transit. BY means
of electric omnibuses deriving their power from
overhead trolley, the necessity for special track
has been done away with and a speed of ten miles
hour is obtained, If desired, over ordinary
macadamized roads. With rubber tire equipment
and special type of wheels which prevent stop
page by snow. there Is secured rapid and nearly
noiseess transit. BY going step further, and
putting the trolley underground II would
that this departure is that ought to in
transit facilities and 10 of the
objections now urged against surface street rail-
ways. The overhead trolley is. of course. the
simpler. and is specially adapted TO travel over
good country roads The trackless trolley Is at
least interesting experiment in traction and to-
gether with the automobile. when harnessed to
real work, as it now is in delivery wagons in this
city and the automobile garbage carts in Paris,
will still further aid city rapid transit.
Filipino's Letter TO His Employer-Specimen of
a Filipino's letter to his employer for
his failure to attend to his duty at the appointed
time
Dear ear Sir: Excuse JUS | am shame very much to
you TINS morning Tor my promise fhis noon Would
ONCE our SIR. etc
MI, Mackenzie; am very, sorry that ] could
Got go IN , our 0tGe because am very Ill from
case. Very truly your boy" etc;
average Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Father Winter is expected TO present himsel, in
a milder aspect this season than he did in the last
one. Fur bearing animals in this latitude and
further north found have put on lighter
Jackets than usual and the Wild ducks are thinner
in feather than is common with them at this time
of the year. The squirrels have built their winter
houses in a slight and frai manner. with the
muskrats TO corroborate their forecast by doing the
same thing IE general. the movements of birds
and fishes they interpreted by experts in
those matters point to the probabilities OF a mild
and open winter Considering what the last one
was. entitled IT,
What He DID Brown-stiu troubled with rbeu-
mntism?
Hrown--Why don YOU go to that doctor who ad-
vertises to heal by touch?
Green-I did
Green-0h. yes; he did meand he did me good
He touched me for s25 and thereby heeled binsef |
-(ChiCago News.
Up in the Bronx there has been a lively specula |
ton in real estate. Since Election Day q s,rsle |
piece of land has been sold three times In thai mari
OF the city the first time for $50 600 then for S7o o
and on Sunday for $1,000 The rapid transit mans
already adopted, likely TO be taken up seem 10
have been the chief causes OF the wild advance in
prices.
I'm afraid Johnny" said the Sunday schoo
teacher rather sadly. that shall never meet Won
In the better land
Why? What have you been dom nowg'-1Pick
Me ID.