New-York tribune., 1906-12-26
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

According TO Japanese papers a syndicate. head
ed by Oshiro Manyu. has made arrangements to
float joint stock company. with capital OF 10000
yen TO construct floating pleasure hall and hotel
for location in the most picturesque portion Of
Toxic Bay. 1t is proposed to build a great seven
decked vessel about four hundred feet in length
and thirty-two feet in breadth, with provision for
restaurants, hotel accommodation, dining halls,
Conservatives, an aquarium, bathing. etc. 1t
is intended that the vessel shall be connected with
the land by long pier, visitors being thus able to
go direct board from their Jinrikisha-
Instructor in sociology-What two men in the
last century have done most TO relieve the troubles
'o9 absent -mindedly)-Tom and Jerry.-Harvard
Lampoon
Professor Arsonval Of the French Academy Of
Sciences. has made a report Of the result Of a re-
markable experiment by DR.. Stephan Leduc at
Nantes. DIR. Leduc has succeeded in producing
plant IN an artificial way. The seed grain is a
pill about one milimetre in circumference and con-
ssts of part Of sulphate of copper and two
parts Of glucose The pill is placed in a gelatine
solution containing per cent of ferrocyancalium
and small quantity OF salts. such are found in
water. The plant that develops is kind of
sea weed Some of these artihcially produced
specimens attain length of 45 centimeters. These
plants are subjec. to the influences
the natural Ones such the etc. but they
cannot propagate.
II wonder what the secret of Solomon's wisdom
was said Mr. Meekton's wife.
Good advice replied Leonidas promptly "F7e
had any number of wives s"-Washington star
The Connecticut state prison for the fiscal year
ended September 80. 1906. established new record
OF Earnings from productive labor ag-
gregate6 S57.41! while receipts from various other
sources sweed the total income to s61,0l5 This
showing. representing nearly "a per cent OF ths
operating Of the institution. surpasses the
income exhibit of any previous year. and enabled
the prison management. despite the high cost OF
supplies limit s22 SCI its drafts upon the state
treasury.
Employer-Have you any to offer for
speaking so impolitely?
once Boy-Yes sir; forgot that I wasn't talking
over the telephone.
Your apology is accepted. Life.
In a Washington note "The Chicago Record
Herald" says that few nights ago when miserable
weather prevailed, sloppy under foot and storm
of half-sleet peltlng down. man In evening dress
boarded the Connecticut avenue owl car. He had
come from one OF the downtown hotels, dexterously
avoiding the cabbes marshaled at the entrance.
AS he sat in the crowded and bedragged car. drops
OF dampness hanging TO the brim of his silk tile
wedged in between a white man and Negro
rying obtrusive bundle and CROPPED his nickel
fare half the passengers snickered and made half
audible remarks about some people who could afford
cabs. Halfway up Connecticut avenue the pas
senger who excited much comment alighted and
trudged through the storm to his place OF abode
1t was Senator William A. Clark OF Montana, one
OF the richest men in the country Few. IL any, in
Washington ever saw this multi millionaire in a
cab. but every day he may he seen waiting on a
corner or chasing his way through the vehicles of
this thoroughfare TO board the economical trolley
Little Wie-Papa, why is it that all our coins
have a womans head stamped on thenl1
Mr. Hennypeck-Well-er-ehi- son. money
talks.-Puck.
In Colombia. the shores of tine Arboledas
River. there lives a soldier, Bautista Bejar who
was orderly for Bolivar. and is now. it is reporte5
l25 years old He is being cared for by his two
daughters. each more than seventy ycars old.
The government allows him the rations OF a first
sergeant.
The Joker-COonuI would YOU T1fnd II some one
should hand YOU a Ioncn?
Colonel Kentucky-Not at all. sub. providing tEev
handed me little cracked ice ard i III tle bourbon
also.-Chicago Daily News.