New-York tribune., 1905-08-12
THE TALK Of THE DAY.

A Kansas City young man had an unusual but
excellent reason for complaining when he was i'm
panelled for jury duty. He was waiting in the
hall outside the courtroom and worrying the
problem of how he TO be excused. He looked
detected that finally another juror asked him
what was wrong. why. I'm summoned here on
the jury the reply, and I don't how
l can possibly serve" Why can't you serve?'
asked the other. Because" said the worried
young man. I've got an engagement to take
young lady riding this afternoon. and if don't
keep il she'll never look at again Darn itE'
But the young man was kept on the jury panel.
The Author-Are you unfamiliar with my book?
The fFiend-I have nodding acquaintance with
it.-(Life
London curio dealer has in his window
placard reading: Several bits of for
sae-suitabe for motorists"
70 Turkish bath last night and that's what kept
him out out, late remarked mark Mrs Mrs Newliwsd
0@!9c you don,ts dsRllsa MhyF3 RfF @0'heF
Because / saw a Turk once."-(Catholic Stand
ard and Times
The biggest rope ever used for haulage purposes
has Just been made for district subway in Glas
gov. 1t is seven miles long, four and fve-eighths
inches in circumference and weighs nearly sixty
tons, 1t has been made in unjointed and
spliced length of patent crucible steel When in
place ii will form complete circle around Glas-
gov crossing the Clyde in it's course, and will
at a speed of fifteen miles hour
TINES wHIRLIGIG
When I was twenty. she sixteen,
She was my hearts unquestioned queen.
We loved and laughed. girl and boy
Who counted just four years between.
Now | am forty. as to her
Times wheels for her more slowly run;
To-day in turn her worshipper
As 1 go forward will she stray
STi W tine farther ervsrSa back ta Song lfes way?
Shall be sixty, she sixteen.
And In her train my grandson, say?
brooklyn Life
Matsuchenko. the ringleader of the Potemkine
mutineers is thus described in the '.Neue Freis
Presse'': This 'bloodthrsty' mutineer possesses
the naTvete and the smile of a little child. In his
eyes you may read the melancholy of the steppes
and the dreaminess of the woods. He never
speaks of his aged mother. who lives in a small
presented every member of the Potemkne's crew
with souvenir. and heartbroken at the fail
of his plans"
Uncertain.-"What are you doing now Scrbb-
lets?'
Why. am just about to start a magazine"
The Age Of Woman Do you think it will be
We'll. it is doubtful "-(Chicago News.
Persia is ancient country. as the world goes
IL has ancient monuments. II has a literature An
several ages. But one of it's institutions Its ma.
tonal anthem, is eomically modern Several French
bandmasters were In Persia thirty or forty vaars
ago organizing military bands The Shah wa,
about start for Europe and it occurred to btr
that he ought 10 have national anthem s,,r,
moning NJ Lemaire, the French military rust,
master of TeheTan, the afternoon before his d.
parture the monarch, with an instinct mora ,,,
perial than musical ordered him to have a ..p
SIAN national anthem composed and PLAYED hafo.
him by the imperial band next morning There w,
night work for everybody concerned in Teharar
that night. but morning the national an
them" was duly played and approved and II is ,h.
national anthem" stin NJ. Lemaire Is now a Per
| sian general, and lives IN Teheran.
How She Regarded 1.-THE former head or q
large private school In Cleveland was a gentleman
manner and speech. BY birth and early rearfns
| he was a Vermonter and doubtless Of straight
| Puritan extraction. One day In his bOyhood his
| mother called him In from the yard where he was
| playing with some other boys to say him. I'm d
tone suggestive of mingled sadness and severity:
Noble. my son. never Thought 20 hear YOU use
a swear word.'
Why. mothsr." said the boy, Il didn't use any
swear word | only said the devil, Nobody thinks
| that's swearing
II don't care" cried the mother quickly: '.it',
making lisht of sacred thin.s -lCleveland Leader