New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In the fashionable West End of London teacup
especially made for fortune telling IS being SOLD
The cup Is engraved on the inside with the Hysuc
symbols of the fortune teIler-beIl, heart. horse
shoe and SO on. The tea leaves at the bottom are
swtrled round the cup. and according to the posi-
ton or objects on which they stick so is ones
fortune.
Unknd.-Mrs Mlnks-I don't want to make a
scene, but that over there IS staring at me
Mr. MinRs~He is. eh? III speak to him,
Mrs. Minks "a few moments later)-Dd ne apoo-
Mr. Minks-Y-e-s; he said he was looking for his
illustrated Bits
Many wears ago there was a shop kept in the
Rue de LouvaIn. in Brussels. by Therese o. and
there is a Nine o living with her two children at
Molenbeck a suburb OF the Belgian capital, ac-
cording to '"rhe Buffalo Commercial" In the Rue
de PAngle in the same commune, lives a Mr.. o
with a circumfiex aecent), who is no relative Of
Nine. o. In 1866 among the Belgian recruits was
a young man named o. who could not write and
signed his name with cross: yet he could so
easily have learned to write his own name! In the
Department of Somme there is village called Y
In the Zuyder Zee there is a bay called Y, and
Amsterdam has the River Y. In the Chinese prov
ince OF Ho-Nan there is a city called U. and in
France there is a river and in Sweden a town
toicing in the name OF A.
Mrs Talker-It must be awfullly hard work think
ing up bright things to write all the time.
they are written--(Somerville Journal
The municipal council of Cassel. Germany. has
determined. with the appreciation OF the Landtag
to impose a tax OF 10 marks every householder.
or, for the matter OF that every lOdger. who pos
sesses a piano. It should prove a popular tax
microbe a dollar bill
Abode in peace and plenty.
But moved one day-and starved to death
Chicago Tribune.
An Oxford professor. scholarly man not given
to outdoor sports. remarked to a friend that he
had accepted the invitation of English noblenan
for a weeks shooting IN Scotland why. Pro-
fessor Blank" exclaimed his companion. II didn't
know You were a gun!' I'm not my dear" said
the professor: I'm a knife and fork.
BY SUFFERER
The marble browed masters Of science
Who potter with cultures and germs
On most unpronounceable terms.
Who chase 10 its lair the bacillus
They won't touch the things that half kin us
Why don't they do something for corns?
The h. germs that make the people hysteric.
The serums for symptoms diphtheric
But these in the fiesh to my notion,
If only they'd get up a lotion
Or virus TO knock out our corns!
That corns are humanity's curse all
Who've given them thought must agres;
Nhats more, they quite universal
Great Scottl How they re bOtherJns MAJ
They might neglect ptOmaines and phfbisjS
whose research their science adorDs
But matters are reaching a crisis
Why don't they do something for eorns9
-(ChtcagO News
The postage rates becoming one NJ III ~
ing questions In Italy. where they are the bj,b
est IN Europe. and the circulation Of letters on,
post cards. by consequence. the lowest The low
est postage for any letter is four cents and for
post card about three cents. This heavy, rata 10.
often been made the subject OF complaint but now
something like an organized movement for a reduc-
ton has been set on foot. AS chambers OF com
merce are taking the question up il Is probable that
something viii have to be done.
~ so she is going to keep the ring even though
vie ensdseincnt Is brokent Yes" answered the
gloomy young man. and that isn't the worst OF H.
she didn't even condescend 10 tell me that polite
story about cherishng IL as a mementO of a very
dear friendship. "-(Washington Star.