New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-17
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

Party managers casting about for issues seem
TO have concluded from Mayor DUNES victory in
Chicago that municipal ownership public utili-
ties is promising Out in Milwaukee,
according to the chairman OF the Republican Coun-
ty Committee, the Republicans likely to make
the municipal ownership of telephones issue at
the next election
Mother (who is teaching her child the alphabet
Now dearie, what comes after g?
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
new postage stamp has been issued in Toxic
for use in the protectorate of COrea 1t bears the
chrysanthemurn as the emblem Of Japan. the plum
blossom as symbolical of Corea- and two pigeons
representing the postal service.
Her mother had been trying to teach little three
year-old Dorothy to spell her own name but met
with poor success At last she scolded her, and
said that no one would think her yery smart II
she couldn't spell her own name. .Well!' she ex,
claimed, why didn't you Just call me cat and
n nfeR q girls To4 Tired p S Rsgissr
curious fact regarding diamonds is that it is
not uncommon for the crystals to explode as soon
as they are brought up from the mine. Sometimes
they have hurst In the pockets or the warm hands
OF miners. due to the effect OF increased tenn
perature. Large stones are more likely TO do thls
than small ones. Valuable stones have been de-
stroved in this way. BY way OF rafeguard. some
dealers inbed large diamonds in raw potato for
safe transport from South Africa
TO FAIR BOTANIsT.
DaIia vour hobbies have bravely borne,
Croquet and silkworms. cameras and cychng
Though vagaTes from T @ f sdS RaYe o 2Tn
But this new mania for horticulture
Is driving TO premature sepuIture
If walking in the garden your side
seek to put end 70 my anxiety.
You note the roses, and pronounce with pride
Making my dearest wishes unfuIfIlabe
with some brain devastating polysyllable.
Or II I send to you choice bouquet
That you may bear it at some social function.
Each rarer bloom you promptly steal away
Think you my righteous anger will be pacihed
To the dashed things tcketed and classified?
Oh, find some other pastime. implore,
p e. your tenants children in admonishing:
The little beasts, when lesson time was Ger,
Would vanish with keenness quite astonishing;
OF the immortal Alfred. late Lord Tennyson.
For though. no doubt. that which I call rose
wd1 Gf wa Prices the same no DC uS1m to the nose
If known by any other appellation,
It seems to lose its fragrance Of fits got any
Punch
In the construction OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Railway in Cape Colony, unusual difficulties had to
be surmounted. according TO The Pail Mall Ga
zette" and the result IS from engineering point
OF view one OF the most remarkable railways in
existence After passing through the Kei Hills the
line winds round another hill. and then. at a lower
level, goes under its track This portion of the
railway is known the spiral At another point
the line travels along the bank OF the Manguiu
River for miles. and then doubles back for
mile and half that. after covering three and
half mles the train is really only half mile TO
the good This section is called the 'zigzag" and.
with the spiral. is unique in South Africa All
along the Kei heights the route is through cuttings
or on smbankments. Some idea OF its extraordinary
character may be formed from the statement that
in eighteen miles the line falls rises.
tent of 1850 feet.
Pique-soubrette-I told you that millionaire
once said was the apple OF his eye what would
Comedian-I should say he poor Judge of
frut-(Chicaso News
Girls are at a great premium at Muskogee. IND T.
In fact. they enjoy the advantage OF being in a
ratio OF about one to Ave unmarried men They
have OF course. many callers, several every even
ing and one Muskogee girl ) said to have life
size picture of herself the parlor to which young
men pay their devotons when she Ia not at homo.
KIN Them on-'Rsaly." said the good woman
seriously I'VE should take some action upon
President RooseVelts plea for the family: Our
should show some regard for the stor g
Yes indeed" interrupted the frivolous society
leader: let inaugurate moyenent TO make
storks fashionable for hat trimmings. -(Catholo
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