New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Here Is a. story which shows the real sport of bal
looming. DR.. Surfing and Mr.. Bersen. OF Berlin
went up for high record. They reached 10000
feet losing consciousness for brief intervals. then
on to 1890 feet, when of them could not be
aroused from an attack Of Inconsistencies. Inc
other. opening the valve also became unconscious
and neither recovered his senses till the balloon
had dropped TO 10000 feet
Necessity Perkins has separated from his wife
and gone to live in bachelor apartments
What did he do that for?" ,.,o,,. soma ~ the
He said he couldn't live without sonie VI 'io
comforts OF home
The cry OF China for the Chinese" finds an I'M
expected echo in another part Of the world Ac-
cording to a writer in THE London Mall there Is
unrest among the blacks of West Africa fostered
by negroes from the United States VINO entered
Africa originally missionaries. but were not
MANY months in the colonies before they dropped
+beir religion and devoted themselves mainly to
politics. beginning a propaganda of Africa for the
Africans"
A LITTLE FARTHER ON.
lust a little farther on waits wondrous April
When T the boughs will break in blossoms as a
When the grass viii rise and run with the laughter
And the t,' sky will to pour us wine from out
And We'll Sing because of knowing all the songs
the wind is blowing, u,o.ao. Tor +bs draarv
Then Wen Catch the murmured words in the sing
When the earth has rolled to springtime
a little farther on
For the good old earth 1t knows where the robin
wait 70 set our hearts to leaping for the beauty
And it knows the necromancs Of the violets that
To the music of the brooklet that once more is
loosed in play; a-,,t,re, IN tho breeze for
And the forests flaming greener for their battle
Then Veil Catch the melodies Of the waking honey
For the good old earth is rolling to the robin and
Shut your eyes. and you may dream of the dande-
Where the careless hand of springtime has been
yyb,1a the meadow over night filings aside the win
Try 2. blight oaghtt smooth as velvet is by fairy hands
Then Wen know the tang and tingle of the blossom
And Wen taste the joys of living in the wondrous
For we're swinging to the wiles of the singing and
To the bIessedness of springtime-just little
i'i ''''' Chicago Tribune.
For real democracy one has to look the Presi-
dents of France NJ. Fallieres. since his elevation
to that exalted office. has been criticised for his
simple taste In neckwear. A blue butterfly of the
machine-made variety, the kind that is fastened
to the collar with elastic band has pleased NJ.
FaIlieres for thirty years. and there is to be no
change in style. Are we to Judge France by her
novels or her Presidents?
Force of Habit-Charon laughed. "Bet that tall
chap was a Senator or Congressman on EARTH he
whispered why SOP" asked the society reporter
of '.rhe Asbestos Age" Because he
stepped on the ferry he began to tumble about for
a pass'-Chicago News.
The word slave which is happily used seldom
unless metaphorically in this country, is word Of
brilliant historical antecedents. Its original. the
Russian 'slava," means glorious, and is the title
OF that race which subsumes the Russian people.
But when the Germans reduced hosts Of the Slavs
to servitude, their name from malice accident.
8 Gibbon says. became synonymous with 'servie."
II retains more suggestion of its racial origin
now than does ogre" which is really Hungarian"
from a confusion OF the Magyars with the Huns
and OF both with the terrible Tartars.
Jupiter Observation-Disclosures is all wrong"
muttered the leading man to the soubrette, S the
star walked in front to take the cali meant
for all the CHIEF actors. ''In what particular?''
asked the sOubrette THE fault is in stars that
underlings," angrily replied the leading man.
he watched the monopoly in front OF
lights.-Baltimore American