New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The tortoise is great sleeper One was a do
mestic pet in an English house. and when his time
Tor alternating cams he selected a corner OF the
dim coal cellar for his winter quarters new cook
was engaged soon after who knew nothing Of tor
toises. In few months the tortoise woke IN and
sailed forth. Screams broke the Kitchens
calm On entering that department the lady OF
the house found the cook gazing in awestruck won
der. and sxclairning a with unsteady hand she
pointed 10 the tortoise: My conscience! Look at
the stone which I've broken the coal WI a. win
terT'
man gave ATS start and hastily removed his arm
,"W-what's the trouble. George she asked. in
Why" he replied neryousiy. those boarders up
in the beach hotel have been training opera glasses
on , us Tor the last ten minutes l bet they are
Witnessed INC FUNNIEST 'oii'io opera they ever
The summer girl smiled
don't think II l. comic opera az o'p'"u On It 'n~'
And what do you think it is dearest?'
And after that the ripples OF nirth that drifted
Chicago News
Under favorable conditions the Life Os a trolley
Is twelve years. 1t requires constant care
and repeated examinations. Its running apparatus
must be subject 20 inspection once or twice a
week. which IS supplemented by occasional thor
ough overhaulng. The manager OF a New Jersey
company has estimated that his lines a new car
may average OF about Ons hundred days
before it must be Overhauled but cars operated IN
crowded cities have shorter term OF activity
about sixty days. before they go into 'doctor's"
hands. AS the gets older It has 70 be over
hauled with greater frequency. These over
haulings require the removal OF the trucks from the
body the examination OF the motors, the clean
ing OF the arnatures and a thorough test OF the
machinery. In addition. the body must be
painted and vanished at least once year.
NecessariIy-Din gIebats-The ocuIist charged YOU
taking
Himpsley-I thought so. till looked over his bill
cornea." and. OF course. that costs more.-ChicagO
Tribune.
lawyer from OF the interior counties of
Pennsylvania went TO Philadelphia on some pro-
fessiOnal business. When he returned he told his
neig lbOrs ABOUT IL:
II stopped at one OF them taverns' he said
"aad they charged me 80 a day for my and
meals Just think OF that: s. day! But 1 got
good and even with them: 1 ate oysters three
times day
Mrs Johnston-Do you think that our sending
Edith To the cookery classes has done any gOod2
Mrs J0hnston-But. then. the things she cooks
are UAeatable that We have just 10 give them
Mr.. Johnstoi--Wel. haven't YOU noticed that We
have almost entirely got rid Of the tramps?-Tit-
BIS
remarkable underwater test for the submarine
ca ..-. .s-u atIens~D uy tur bremen Naval
ID Department VIII. a crew of seventeen men
aboard the vessel is DO submerged 10 a depth OF
niuety-eight feet II has already been tried at
eighty-0ne feet and the submarines Thon and
Alose have been sunk to ninety-eight feet. but
they draw only sixty-eght tons, while the Cigogne
Is monster OF the deep. with draft Of Us tons.
An Expert opinion.-"what DO YOU think Of my
Good name for IT, for she certainly does muir
der the me."-Balumore American