New-York tribune., 1905-06-27
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

In the April issue of English magazine
writer described the compressed food used by the
Russian army In Manchuria. The illustration Of
the tea tablet accidentally printed upside
down. Thus the insignia OF the Gar upon the
tablet reversed. This revolutionary proceed
Ing proved too much for the censor. In every
copy of the magazine that reached its Russian
subscribers the unfortunately placed engraving
ruthlessly BACKED out.
The Tanning of the Shrew-Tomldns Cwhom she
has consistently and mercilessly snubbed. and who
has long nourished desire for revenge)-Ah how
dyou do. Miss Ackridd? have heard the news.
Miss a tsouriyTndaed? feaT YOU have been
misinforned Mr. Tomkins | have no hance
treat)- t)-Yes-er-quite so. II congratulate him.
(Punch.
Anecdotes of f. w. Walker. who is resignins
the head mastership of St. PauIs School, London.
are told in THE Manchester Guardian of the
time when he was master of the Manchester Gram
mar School. Charles H. Richards, then chairman
of the Board of Governors, who once said that he
valued his connection with the Manchester Gram
School largely because it had been the means
OF introducing him to Mr.. Walker. used to tell how
he visiting at house in Mr. Walkers 3
company. they stood in the hall little trained
dog ran out and began to go through its little
series of tricks unasked "An excellent example" l"
observed Mr.. Walker, gravely "of the evil effects
of overeducaton naturally weak intellect"
Carriage Folk-'I hear your husband was at
deaths door," began Mrs. Cooley:
hauehtiiy. the porte-cochere. Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
Cermany's campaign now in progress in South
west Africa has witnessed some successful expert
ments in the use of camels for army transport
The camels brought from Fuertura Ventura,
an island of the Canaries group and have proved
specially useful for transport the stretch of
shifting sand. about forty miles in extent. which
separates the coast the interior and which
has proved fatal to OK and mule transport. The
animals able to cross the sand without wa ter
and carry load Of 600 pounds each. They are fed
chiefly on alfalfa, chaff and barley. and stand the
change Of climate we'll
In Trouble.-"He's sorry now that he quarrellsd
''she has gone home to her mother. suppose"
..No: she's had her mother come home to her.
philadelphia Press.
Madagascar has silk producing spider which is
taken favorable notice of in recent special report
from United States Consul Hunt, at Tamatavi.
The full grown female of the species at maturity is
about two and half inches long. while the male
reaches only one-sixth, of that size. Thsy abound
in the island. and the hber they produce has been
long known to the natives, though little use has
been made OF II. At the Paris Exposition of
1900 a piece Of spider silk fabric eighteen yards
long and eighteen inches wide exhibited be-
ing of 100000 yards of spun thread OF twenty
four strands and for it's manufacture e. 5.0o
offering the natives much hundred this
brought them In In basketfuls. mostly dead, It
found necessary for the winding off machines
to 60 to the spiders instead Of calling In the
spiders to the filatories. The cloth of SHIN
mering golden yellow coler the exposition nowhere
presenting n greater curiosity There a
prospect OF making the fibre commercially avail
able, and expert attention has for tins been
addressed to the subject with results which are
said be encouraging and satisfactory
Mabel. who was visiting In the country. sent
to the barn, where the hired was shearing
sheep. to look for her grandpa. she soon returned
snd said: Him amt out there. amt nobody there
but peelin sheeps'-tChlcago News.
In the OF old named sheehan. of
Tralee Ireland who had applied for relief, of
the guardians OF the poor remarked: THE poer
should have soma relief. Sure. he has bed
clothes but his goat
Nothing Artculate-''You never hear of the scad-
wells's family skeleton nowadays" observed Rivers.
NO." said Brooks. 'rThey have accumulated SO
many bones that everybody has forgotten Its ex-
istence. Chicago Tribune