New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-23
THAT GIRL!

THAT GIRL!
tchicago it is reported in The ONCE window has
learned how to do without the telephone girl
Sweet mistress of the telephone.
Chicago sends such news about you,
That am into wonder thrown
1t tells how to do without you
No longer, being rung up. will
Your lot be or ( you were inn in this strict
About the number and the district.
No more will one reply. "Engaged:''
Nor. by your Ring again assuaged.
Shall I walt hours while II bless you
When hopes of getting through are wrecked.
The use use of that strange dialect 0
find expresses deep emotion
No more. as you are cold or kind.
Stern, mild. moved to reproach or structure,
For hours imagining your picture,
All, me! sweet Doris were ANNOYED
But life will be an aching void
For me without my telephone girl.
-(London Chronicle.
A Russian timber dealer has discovered valu-
able mine of oak 1t is in a river of South
Russia in layers three four feet deep, scattered
hundred and fifty square miles and its
most striking feature is its variety of colors sup
posed to be due to the variegated soil of the
river bottom. No fewer than twelve shades of
pink blue. yellow and brown have been noted.
each log having its own uniform shade. The logs
taken out have ranged from forty to two hundred
diameter. and ii is estimated that more than one
hundred and fifty thousand. averaging seventy feet,
remain
I'm afraid we can't this sketch Of your life
in this campaign" said the boss to the young
you game from the country"
Because you don't say you ever taught school
for q term and then came to the city to study
law."-(Omaha News.
In time the air used for ventilating the
House OF Commons. in London, passes through
blocks of ice. In winter it is heated. In fog the
outer air passes through layers Of cotton wool six
inches thick. During forty-eight hours OF fog the
cotton wool on one occasion black as the
back Of chimney. Thanks 10 these precautions
the House has been absolutely free from mist and
the atmosphere is in normal condition while q
dense fog prevails outside The normal tempera-
ture Of the House OF Commons is kept at tbs level
of So degrees. except in sultry weather when it is
raised to 6 degrees.
"oh, papa, the duke has proposed to met
yes papa And he says can wear a coronetf
Here's the pawntcket for itF'-(Cleveland Leader
According to 1.-The Portland CMe) Advertiser"
they boiling the river water TO drink g. and
are making the sediment UP into souvenir paper
weights in Bangor Me.
And" said the Sunday school teacher. when
Delilah cut samsons hair he became mid as a
lamb: Can you understand that7"
yer feel 'shamed when a woman cuts yer hair :"
-Phadephia Ledger
A traveller relates that. having changed cars at
a small North Carolina town, he looked out OF the
car window and an old colored woman peddling
hot fried chicken He bought and ate some and
found it so good that he leaned out and asked the
chicken pedler where che got IL. Slowly and SOL
EMMY the tray was lifted from her head and de-
posted upon the platform Then looking UP, she
said:
Say bose. you's from do Mort. amt your
YES auntie" he said: "but what has that got
to do with the chicken
well. boss" she said IT knowed you was from
de Norf. else you would never ask pusson where
dey get chicken"
She Couldn't Help It--"why in the world
asked the beautiful young widow. have you prom
ised 20 marry him IL you don't love him?
Hum. Said he'd go and shoot or drown him
No. He said he'd go and propose to you"-cch-
cago Record-Herald
The work of remarking the forty-ninth parallel
as the boundary line between the United States
and Canada will be carried forward the coming
summer the American commissioners for that pur-
nose Dr. Walcott, director OF the United States
Geological Survey. and Mr.. o. H. Titman, superin-
tendent OF the United States Coast and Geodstie
Survey being in Ottawa for the purpose of ar
ranging the work. This work OF restoring boundary
pIee the settlement OF boundary questions between
the two countries. the greatest OF which tho
Alaska dispute.
Evidenee.-'The duke is dead in love with her.
.Hs i prepared to lay all his liabilities at hss