New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-16

London Is much impressed by the absolutely new
type OF Yankee bIuejackets seen IN her streets
Westminster Abbey. the Tower and other places
lately They were sailors from Admiral JeweLs
feet shore leave. Handsome. tidy. we'll set
up fellows going about with Baedekers in their
hands looking up the historic points OF interest.
they have delighted Englishmen by their intsni-
gence and singular use OF their privileges
II. G. DAVIS.
You'd scarce expect one Of my aga
So. II chance 10 fall below
Denosthenes or Cicero
Don't critic.se and jeer and suari
Indianapolis News.
Diamond cutting up a recent time was nearly
all done abroad. Holland being the chief centre OF
the Industry for some centuries but OF late gOod
deal OF It has come over to America, where cleo
trical machines used in the work TO great adj
vantage in all ways. European work has always
done by hand IL still Is. and the laptdaries
there are only just waking Up 70 the knowledge
tina: artificial power can be applied. Besides cut
ting real gems. the machinery employed here turns
ont great quantities Of artificial ones. which now
rule the markets OF the world. They are so brill
antly cut and polished that only experts can dis
tlugulsh them from the genuine article. Rock
crystal. the purest form OF quartz. is employed in
making artificial diamonds. and this can only be
worked 10 advantage with the electrical machines.
hand work leaving profit In the business. be-
sides turning out inferior results.
Ing Investigations about the suitability OF ash skins
for clothing II has been found that salmon skins
make excellent leather and have been used for
boots by the Esqumaus for this purpose for years.
These Northern people also use tanned Goldfish skins
Tor coats and waterproof garments. The fish COM
mission has also found that whaleskin makes beau
ufal leather and takes color well
Mamma, IS Kuropatkin an srgeI?' asked
Platte City little sir Wednesday according TO The
No child; why do YOU ask queried the mother.
because this paper says kuropatkin right wing
the child Kansas city Star.
President scar-itt Of The Automobile Club talks
about another Long Island race next year with as
much confidence as II there had been local
popular objections 70 the recent one It Is too early
10 so into that matter yet. to shut tho door
In tho face OF the proposition once fo- al! ex-
cept. perhaps. a shut-in. money making. hippo
dromng performances on a level with the baseball
game and circus. ANY other way it is opposed TO
public safety and welfare and promises no results
worth single farthing. as the last race had none
= WOMAN AND a SECRET
The secret she has sworn TO keep
Why should II e'er seem uppermoSt
Within her mind, why should II leap
And frolic like uneasy ghost
Adown her brains dark cloister where
She meant m c that ey shoqI r Sq T aeeO'
The secret she has sworn to keep.
shes III a at bSs aBd TOV9S S fgSs
GA atone me. az " Ioss ~ sr I't3 lFiehdS'
Ger the stalking ghost attends.
Go where. do what she VIII. by day
BY might when wrapped In ddTsamfuI s!sep.
The secret she has sworn to keep
Some there may bel cannot say
Brave women who will battle thus
The While they worry fret eta and d' fuss say
But not maid or motron dwells
on this broad earth who sound can sleep
Until-ah. bliss OF biss-she tells
The secret she has sworn 20 keep.
Troy Farrell Greene. In Brooklyn Life.
- bas heen n tradition stroa tbo ill., "a MI.
las I, to name the Czarevitches alternately Alex
ander and Nicholas. But the murder OF Alex
ander IL caused his name to be considered I'M
lucky, so there will DO no more AlexandeTs on the
Russian throne. there will be no more Pauls
or Peters. The Czarevitch therefore named
Alexis after the father Of Peter the Great He
was a powerful and successful ruler.
a Process Reversed.-''You regard campaign
calculations as distinct branch Of mathematics''
Yes. answered the erudite parsonage. THE
method differs from all others You start with
the answer aud then work backward and evolve
a problem to demonstrate NATURALIZATION Star.
d. Max Nitzsche. writing in the ''Prsusslschs
Jahrbucher." says that European industry has
nothing 10 fear from Japanese competition. II
takes three Japanese TO do the work OF one Eng
llshmRn. In the cotton mills. for instance. the
latter looks after eight hundred spndIes. while the
smartest japanese can only look after about three
hundred. They so clever. either: are
butter fingered ard break four times many
threads as the Englishman. taking Eve times as
long 10 tie them up again. In Massachusetts, one
girt>attends to six looms, In Lancashire TO four
and In japan to This slOwness appears not
only IN machine work. but also in ordinary earth
works. building, mining and The japanese
hates continuous work. and likes 10 stop and chat
and sing and sip tea and smoke interludes In his
business. Unless he do this and have his way
he will quit caring little whether he works or not
Probably there Is another side TO this Industrial
shield which the doctor holds up and hammers on
so reRssurinsIy. and the Jap at work may not DO
such an incompetent and dawdler as pr. Nltzsche
paints him. So far as outsiders in general know,
what he has undertaken to do since he adopted
Western ways and customs. as before. he has done
quite well. and turned substantial and tangible
results. going against all theories Of his inferiority
Not Superstitous.-AIrs. Gotham-pOn't you be-
lieye II a woman tumbes upstairs she viii not be
married that year?
Mrs. Dearborn-NO. I don't know woman IN
chicago VINO can't 60 q pair OF stairs without
stumbling half dozen times and I've ,knovn her
10 be married four times In enc year!--tNo n&ers