New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-11

wire fence. Along it at intervals is posted the in
vting notice: Five dollars fine for any who
goes through this patch without taking melon"
ODONToLOGICAL EVOLUTION.
Gan appeal to Sir Oliver Lodge)
Nc Wh phoa0Ph7 Would Tdp lay
His midday Pleiosaurus.
He took no stock in Science: had you said.
fh ARE have f FaHd y ds2hf aG
To answer. You're another
We too imagtned cutting t lem with it n tsaTs
And mourned 10 think of those senescent years
When they would cease from duty.
1t seems we were rem miGs dSiE Dr. L9dgs'
Is not to be carnvorous-
Their loss invigorates' eve quote your thesis)
THE human cerebellum; that is how
1t gets those lovely creases-
More eVenmnded, If in featnpes G oddeT'
Posterity shall sip through F6G9dr Pontess gums
TO serious thought and cereal food apprenticed.
But are they really such boon, these brains?
Ought We to starve the dentist?
Are there simpler changes We can make
And build the massive brow too large to take
standard size in bowlers?
Why not revert land bid your scheme go hangD
To types that read no news and rent no villa
The fancy free Gorilla?
Sweet to repose on eligible trees
Saving our teeth for one eternal chatter
ABOUT the cerebrurn, and by degrees
Eliminate the latter. punch
How many can tell off hand the name of the
President of Switzerland? Perhaps it is not strange
that few know it here. but the visitor to Swftzer-
land seldom hears it. At table in one of the big
Engadine hotels recently some one asked the name
Of the chief executive. No one knew it, The head
pai tar rrLz
man of substance in the community, was sent for
but he did not know. Finally the desired name
was dug out of almanac or a red book A
writer who was present at the incident suggests
that nothing could clearly prove the de-
mocracy of Swiss institutions
Mr. PitIeyThaf Shows hoW peope nc nus wlf
man. know it to be a fact that he spent one
vestment of his wife's money.-(Town and Country.
A curious club has been formed by certain wonl-
en- of Berlin The chief qualification for member
ship is that the applicant be deaf. A hun
dred members meet weekly ir Wilhelm Strasse
where they drink tea they converse in the sign
language or with the aid of trumpets.
She Caught -Rodrick-Have you heard the
news? Choily Sapp rescued a widow from the
Van Albert-But who is going to rescue ChoIy?
-(Chicago News.
In parts of Europe and Asia there is a Pc
culiar custom of sailing born babies according
to THE Dundee Advertiser When a baby is born
among the Armenians of Russia the nurse takes
the infant and the entire skin with very fine
salt. This salt is left the baby three hours
or more and then the child is washed with warm
water. In Asia Minor there is a tribe Of people
living in the mountains who do even worse than
this. They salt their new born babies and leave
the salt on them for twenty -four hours The mod
ern Greeks sprinkle salt their babies This
practice of sailing babies is an ancient custom
1t has Its rise in superstition of course The
mothers think that sailing ins1res their childrens
health and strength and that it will keep evil
spirits away from them. Even in some parts Of
Germany salt is still used the child at birth.
PARTING.
They, say that parting Is Sweet sorrow,
And SC it is. II they that<part
LOCK forward TO some glad tomorrow
When each may claim the others heart
The handclasp and the sacred meeting
:, " hps In loves pure service-these
or eager longings, II the seas
And hills and plains that keep us twain
May some day be recrossed again.
When l, we who say goodby forever
And know that We may never. never
Renew the rudely broken ties:
o1 VI some splendid realms above us,
Ihey may behold who gave us birth
ana No sun as weeping children love us,
~ How must they wonder that the earth
An as our hands unclasp, possess
Aught save the tomb of Joy business.
Their parting may be splendid sadness.
who look with eager hopes beyond
f9r whom the future treasures gladness
IN payment OF the Joys they've pawned:
But how can heaven undo the sorrow
+. IA nay tney must hear who. loving. part
<At NJ sec ailead no glad tomorrow,
no gleaInins afterwhile, sweetheart?
~ no h'ee no dear excuse alas,
eouH' Nie moments as they pass.