New-York tribune., 1904-10-05
THE T4LK or THE DAY.

The worlds record for boat unloading has Just
been broken Conneaut on Lake Erie The
Wolvtn. the largest freiGhter on fresh water was
eInptied OF cargo OF S.S5 tons or iron in four
ana ono-haf hours, reducing by six hours the best
record heretofore made The total deay from the
beginning to the end Of the unloading did not ex
ceed Ave minutes. one by eight nonstrous hoist
ng machines were transferred in turn 10 the thirty
three cargo matches OF the WOlvin while a vast
audience watched the proceedings from the adjacent
docks. Not that the unloading Of biz boats IS rare
at CoIneaut. II Is to-day the foremost ore port
Of tho woEId-its receipts for July being 7S6554
tons, nearly 10000 tons more than were ever re-
ceived before. and this despite the fact that the
movement o. ore generally this year has not been
a. heavy as was expected early in the season.
THE INTERMITTENT HOG.
When the chops are hot al breakfast and L m glad
be alive
When my nights rest was unbroken and domestic
When my better fractions temper Is as sweet as
And. before think. I'm .hummIns at bar of
Home Sweet Home"
When haven't cen culver in single little
Then m decent on the street car and when t'other
Va; 7'.,s ia. ~ '-''' % '''''' me-
Fisht o.,
But When on my tongue there fingers quite Flen7-
When the future looms before me as a dead and
When The night was spent in dreaming that, do nv
could hardly keep the elephants from walking on
When wife was cross and frowsy and the obons
cold stone " '''fS
And I'm envyinE the bachelor who treaes his wav
Then ST upon the streetcar like bump upon a
And when anybody shoves me I'm
end
Learn this ,y essoR then; Mems actions on street
As basis for deciding what they are the Whole
ofteGest it is the liver and the way things 90 at
That prevents mans employing Just the finest o.
Men are Just set of duplicates in lots and lot, .,
It's he triaes that determine how the human
So man may be forgiven If he act the manesr
And when lucky chance may offer. plav
end
seat
Baltimore American.
The current notion that perjury is c,e % tho
crimes that on the increase Is not horne nv, b
the figures Just issued relating TO the c-a~rDaT
Empire. In 1882 the number OF persons convicted
In that country Of perjury 16O7: in 1902 II V,as
only 1872 the decrease having been steady from
year 10 year. Allowing for the great growth Of the
population. this means decrease OF nearly 50 per
cent in two decades.
Il can't Imagine how you can dislike work. n
me It's real en1oyment said the father 10 his IL ~
son. Yes father was the guieless response but
l don't want TO give myself up wholly to pleasure's
-(Chicago Journal.
Germany has just celebrated the centenary OF her
first admiral" Rudolph Brommy who was born
September g. 1904. and organized the German navv
during the first German Danish campaign in the
40S. The German navy came into being with nine
steamers. one sailing frigate. the Deutschland and
twenty-seven gunboats.
Theory and Practice.-"I remember Schemer was
a great chap for thinking plans for getting rich
! suppose now he's wealthier than any OF his
oh no; his friends used the plans while he was
dreaming over theIn -(Dstroit Free Press
In Sumatra the length OF time that a widow must
wear her weeds is determined by the wind Just
after her husbands death she plants hagstan
at her door upon which a flag Is raised. While
the nag remains untorn by the wind etiquette
forbids that she should marry. But as a
rent appears no matter how tiny. she lay aside
her weeds and don her most becoming gown and
bewitching smile.
His Aeeomplishment.-The Lawyer-You look like
4 clever bog.
The Messenger Boy (modestIy)-well. mister
don't Ike Ter shoot any hot air. but I'm considered
de cleyerest guy in de otlce.
The Lawyer-Indeede
The Messenger Boy-Retcher life! I'm de only kid
In de hS,i mop dat kin roll cigarette W.T. one