New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-27
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Montreal also is beginning tn talk OF greater
Montreal 1t claims # will have population Of
100000 If its suburbs are annexed. and the prospects
seem bright for the annexation scheme This IS
the age Of big cities, with London and New-York
heading the long list
II %s t-s found this man
sergeant-What was he doihg9
Detective-Why, he tryin' to borrer money
on good security fer legitimate enterprise-(Puck
Dr. W. J. Holland. director of the Carnegie
Museum. has gone TO London to install in the British
Museum the reproduction of the skeleton of the
diplodocus made by him from the original in the
Carnegie Museum.
awoke and told about his wonderful dream.
Il dGeamt went to garadse ,i related Bobby.
IAN good people. Then I dreamt 1 went to the
and who was there. BobbyT"
Nobody but truant officers and dogcatchers."-
To block the plans OF the City Railway Company
which claims a ninety-nine-year franchise in the
streets Of Chicago and also TO bottle up the old
company Mayor Harrison announces that he will
advertise for bidders for the rental OF the tracks
in the streets occupied suffersnce by the
traction company. Other connecting streets will
also be thrown open to the bidders. and every
thing will be DONE apparently, to make the fran
chises OF disputed OF little value their
holders possible The Mayor is now laundering
in the index; what the outcome will be one
dares TO predict.
At the Junction.-Tramp-Kin hev free trans
Conduetor-If you are willing to take Tie Pass.
Tramp amt no Jap. boss; honest I aint-CCin-
cnnau CONGRATULATIONS.
Jules Verne in his stories sought to anticipate
science and ''the long results of time" and in not
a few notable instances he succeeded. His story
of Around the World in Eighty Days seemed al
most Incredible quarter OF century ago, but
the fictitious record longer seems wonderful,
fbA hac aior
rather slow going for the world encircler. His
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" has
also been realized in good part and in many other
cases facts have caught up TO his fiction. Possibly
they will yet catch up TO some more.
Henson Cbashfuuy)-May I-er-kiss your baby
Alice Cn disgust}-oh. suppose soft you are too
cowardly 70 tackle girl nearer your own size
CLondOn Tt-Bits.
Abram Brokaw. poughnaker and wagon maker
of Bloomington. and said TO be the richest exponent
OF the simple life in Illinois. died the other day at
the age of ninety-two, leaving fortune estimated
at between $4,000 and 100000 Brokaw was
born at Somerset n. j., and the age OF eighteen
went West 10 seek his fortune. settled at what Is
now Bloomington. AMI few years later married a
girl Of frugal old American type. who spun wove
and made her husbands clothes. and did the other
work OF the household, uid hundreds of other
American women OF her day. To the last though
worth millions. Abram Brokaw wore the plain
homemade clothes fashioned for him by his wife
and even in later years after they had grown to be
the wealthiest persons in their part OF the State
the expenses OF their frugal household did not ex
coed 500 year. Beginning life as a blacksmith
ana later making wagons and ploughs in a dlngy
little shop which was never replaced by factory
as II would be under modern conditions Abram
Brokaw turned out the best ploughs and wagons
In the State. He had but one price and could
AFFORD TO let customers decide for themselves
whether they wanted his handiwork or not as his
reputation furnished him customers than he
could supply Even after his successful real
estate speculations had made him a millionaire
Brokaw found pleasure In his oldtims work and
his long established ways OF life and did not vary
from his usual routine.
vi tell you actors life Is dangerous
We travel so much and there are SO many Wreci<s
r riend-fSut isn't IL always easy TO step OF tina
track when you see trouble coming g-lRosson POST