New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-27
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Votaries OF bridge whist IN England have SEEM
ingy not Iessened in numbers or in Jealous atten-
ton their favorlte game. Gossip has it that the
stakes beyond sea are often extravagantly high.
and that the gains OF tho fortunate and the losses
OF the unlucky often reach astonishing figures. In
New-York and other speculative cities OF our Union
armies OF the dcvotees OF bridge shuttle the cards
both by day and . night. and give no insignificant
proportion OF their waking hours to the fascinat-
ing uncertainties OF this alluring amusement.
THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER.
THE Scotsman ken, for the grocer sends hams
The 5T's 9n eggs S wTaPe ena up Pr in t9 e same
Tied~roun' bit parcel had frae Dundee.
WI sic a wide readln' ye a maun confess
l ken wee pickle eeooi the warls press.
Seen aucht TO compare WI cor "Anster Gazette
Your Times an your Scotsman list E fair
WI their politics. furrin affairs an sic trash,
But for real news gin we're wishn' TO ken
What's daein' In Anster. why. whaur are ye thenT
Thae ignorant editors! Likely the loons'n
No mention my speech at the last Parish Cooncn.
Nor yet my address At the Sabbath schulz tea.
Nor the bonny BIT blessin' was spoken by me.
Ma. ma, Gle me facs ABBOTT touk that ye ken,
The Battles I've cracked wi the PTovosts I've met
Punch
Sir Norman J. Lockyer tho English astronomer.
is sxty-eIght years old He is fellow OF the Royal
Society. and has served IN the science and art de-
partment at South Kensington; he has gons on
eclipse expeditions without number, ana mas WITT
ten about the chemistry of the sun. An early nom
sense rhyme about him repeated from mouth
to mouth in the old days:
There was young person named Lockyer.
Who daily grew cocker and cocker.
TIL he thought he was owner
OF half the corona,
The daring young Norman J. Lockyer.
An amusing feud between the bench and the
press has arisen in Melbourne. according TO The
London Chronicle" One OF the local morning
Z a. f0N
short altogether. and that public inconvenience
thereby resulted. Chief Justice Sir John Madden
read that statement, and staggered counsel by sit
ting until o'clock every day. deputation OF
barristers waited upon him and demonstrated He
replied that long as the public az represented
by the press. considered that the court con-
sultng its own ease he would continue to sit late.
He has already converted the reporters.
They Knew HIm.-A we'll known literary man
who mas 3ggn te weeks at ms Gd
overheard between two visitors the porch OF the
village store. An acquaintance OF theirs had just
passed in the street, and the following comment
pause Isl amt the man he used TO be-
"Naw-an' he never was "-CHarper's Weekly.
Attempts TO plate upon aluminium have been
mostly unsatisfactory. The difficulty is attributed
to an invisible film OF oxide forming on that metal
and in n new process c. f. Burgess and Carl
Hambuchen seek 10 dissolve this film by adding to
the bath a little sodium ammonium huoride or
free hydrofuoric acid. AS they find zinc most adj
hesive to aluminium. they first deposit n thin zinc
coating. On this other metals. such as copper and
silver. may be deposited by the usual eIectrolytlo
methods. but If gold plate is required a film of
copper must first be deposited. the gold sinks
into the zinc and disappears in q few weeks.
THE PLANT OF CRGSUS' DAUGHTER
How long and dull the summer is
Beside the bland and and blue ,llS,-1 Asgsan;
Ny total prospects hymeneanl
In GPeek-commercial, yet ecstatic;
But this side lfe's meridian
I'm looking higher than an Attic.
Men that one couldn't know again
Make things quite Jolly over Sunday.
But what's the use? They go again
And leave blue as ever Monday.
Then follow dreadful days when We
DO naught hut change our zones and sandals
And nights dixie Chinese plays) when we
Retail by wholesale horrid scandals.
My sire's at war with Cyrus for
His splendid realm; ana all things Persian
/ too am most DESTROYS for
Yes even cats, my pet aVefsionl
Her poets dear 10 me
i've Begged him hasten here to me
An early Omar or q tahA
Send me a SQUIRE Oh. daddy. dol
II YOU would know your child contented.
might make some tall caddy do,
But then. sir, solfs not yet invented
Alas that was born before
The advent of the leisure classes.
Before wars forsworni BEFORE
Gold bought all things. from men TO masses.
would that dared hide away
My peplum, and in simplest chiton
Court shepherds up Mount Ida way
Far from this stupid. ancient brighton
For long and dull the summer Is
Beside the blue and bland (Esean.
When mean Grecian drummer Is
Ny total prospects hynlensantl, T., re.