New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY

that man may fight duel with pistols or swords
and If with fatal results there is penalty. But
if cannot afford these weapons. and fights with
humber means. there is no such impunity. Two
men OF Charonpe have been prosecuted In conse-
quence OF having fought duel with knives Both
men were wounded, and II was admitted that
everything had been done fairly and in order. and
though counsel for the defence pleaded eloquently
for the application OF the law to his clients
as is applied TO duelists of higher social position
sentences of four months imprisonment were
passed.
TIE a h T3 ha. on the fact ts that the
IF WASN'T WashiinFtoHaP couch were seen
Else. what could that tradition mean
George Washington. he could not lie"7
-Q.ondon Chronicle
Ono of the best corruptions lately brought TO no.
tice by a writer In 'Blackwoods Magazine" Is
the following: The old Scottish chronicler Calder
wood. in treating OF Maitland. OF Lexington who
hourished In the time OF Mary Queen OF Scots in
illusions TO his cunning and astuteness called him
a veritabe Michael Wyle." This mystic epithet
turned out to be only corruption OF "Machia-
vellI"!
THE HEROINE TO THE HERO
1o sgS"rvSncS o. American literature 70 convention
literature declares is timd an@mie Snd
bourgeois
PH E99T eRssT in you're
TITS Chapter Seven-time that there
Was something doing.
Shall to some far Eden fly
r And LET our fusing souls in sin burn:
Alsern non S swin f1TiSe;sD O'
Or do you deem that overdone.
rb ana dr h0id 1t n@Gkney y to trayerse
Do something worse.
Suggest some deed dynamic" I'm
Prepared. nay, | am keen for It
The calendar holds not crime
I'll not commit.
oh. be dynamic! Make things hunt
Devise some daring. desperate plan!
family man"
No. no, Take any shape but that
Don't mention matrinony. Bahi
That sort of things angmic. flat
And so bourgeois: -(Puck.
Discussing the British tendency to eat a banana
before its time. The British Medical Journal
says: Before they thoroughly matured they
are apt to be inspid in flavor and cause dys-
pepsia and other forms of intestinal disturbance
They should not be before the skin is black
ened In places, or when there is any reluctance in
the skin TO separate from the pulp. Housekeepers
know how bananas will change in the course OF a
single night from q manifestly sound condition to
one in which the skin is blackened and the puIn
soft and slightly discolored. Now children in
fnitely prefer these last bananas to those that are
apparently sounder, and II may well be that In
this instance the natural inclination OF the child
covers more wsnom than the caution of its elders.
in fact experts say that the banana like the med
lar. can hardly be in too ripe q condition for eat
ing
Snnick zone would think you had been running
well" replied Faller the reporter ..I have been
chasing around to-day. for fact"
for fact?"-(Catholic Standard.
A clergyman writes to London paper that
whereas before he has always been called upon TO
christen moro girl babies Mary" than any other
name since the productpp of Mr. Barrie's last
play 1t is rare this name is chosen. MANY Eng
Eshmen will share my sorrow" continues The
clergyman. because name Mary is as sweet
and pretty any in language" English neo
pie enjoyed Mr. Barrie's play, but fond parents II
appears, have liking to have their darling called
Little Mary" with all Its present stomachio sug
gestion.
The Height OF Hopefulness-- am on,
of college, darling l may have to wait a few
months before can make enough to support YOU
Shelf is so hard 10 wait.
know the world doesn't know anything about ma
yet.-(Brooklyn Life
II had funny job the other night" said a must,
cian who lends his talents to all sorts Of us,ca,
entertainments for charity. and who is quoted bv
THE Philadelphia Record" II had been asked
to act as accompanist at amateur minstrel
show. and when 1 came to play the accountant
ment for the first song sung by the end men
found that the marks the score had been
changed. This amateur minstrel man. while ha
had a powerful voice and pretty good sense of
humor. seemed to have doubt that could inter-
pref tho phrases correctly. he had attempted to
improve upon them. Where the score marked
piano he had substituted Go easy. Where the
score was marked .crescendo' he had written in
Work up. At the end was a passage marked
fortissimo' and this he had crossed out sub
stitutng Pound like - And that's what did,"
Usual Thng.-Tom-That pretty. Miss Wilkins
seems to have quite a number of eligible young
in her train.
Jack-Yes: and it's only a matter of time until
there will be smash-up to that train, with only
one Observation-Disclosures Bits