New-York tribune., 1906-05-07
TIE TALK OF TIE DAY.

Some queer recent judicial decisions In Victoria
mentioned in the Australian Review OF Re
views" A man who embezzled some money from a
bank has received sentence OF nearly three years
Imprisonment while man who murdered hts
mother by stabbing her the heart received only
one year. and another man who shot his sister and
killed her was sentenced 70 only two years. and
Immediately after that man who wrote a letter
to another man threatening kill him received
three years imprisonment.
She gifted him. but he could not
The gifts he'd made her he had bought
Boston transcript.
The largest mass Of ice in the world Is the one
which nearly fills the interior OF Greenland, where
IT has accumulated from time whence the memory
OF runneth not 20 the contrary. It Is believed
now TO form a block about 10000 square miles On
area and averaging a mile and half in thick
ness According to these statistics the lump OF fee
is larger in volume than the whole body Of water
in the Mediterranean.
SOME HONORABLE INTENTIONS.
When I get time. and running slick
Are all my mental wheels,
For gasoieneObiies. 'N''
I mean to make when gee time.
For husbands trousers pockets 70
Protect his coin frontier.
And then s slot .2asH msHhiHs .;s,, where Ons
A quick divorce as one can set
piece Of chewing gum.
On the window OF London dentists appears
the announcement. Teeth extracted With great
Mains He offers a novelty. Most dOntists' adver-
tlsements less truthful.
THE FIsHERNGAVs TROUBLES.
Trouble is, bout hshin',
In the shade or shine,
When felleF falls asleep
Catfish Jerks his line!
Jest when he's a-dreamin'
Side his Jug an CUP,
Sure 90 hear fat perch say:
Time TO pull me upt
That's the way the world goes.
Soon as you find happiness
It's time 70 break away
Atlanta Constitution.
Dean shaler OF Harvard once took an interest In
a lively young undergraduate in danger OF expul-
sion for his TevelTy. Through the deans sympathy
the lad escaped on probation and came out all
right in the end. but, 20 the deans establishments
and amusement, the young mans father called
upon him one day and, by way OF grateful ac-
acknowledgement OF the deans kindness. presented
him with two bottles OF fine old Irish Vhiskey!-
which are said to have been kept trophies end
further seasoned for some years IN a drawer near
the DEANS desk. The sense OF the 'RthesS Os
things is omitted in some mems makeup.
In Hard L.uck.-one man had just told the story
Involving suggestion % 70 Ihs eSssur N tb SS SS%
and attach it TO the OF the train, the theory
that the train couldn't possibly run over a COW
and that q COW might stray into tho rear door oe
the last coach and bite the passengers u not re-
strained by a cOwcateher.
Il saw a man run down BY q locomotive ones" /"
said q melancholy stranger. II was on the road
from CaFbOndale 20 soiseL At Rlchland one man
decided 20 get OF the train aud walk Vie had
proceeded about lfteen miles when the train over
took him. He was knocked down. and che train. tn
a lesuTely sort Of a fashion. proceeded 70 run
him. The man spoke a few words. and eN-
pressed the wish that so9 accident Insurance that
he carried be given 20 his sweetheart But the
poor giTl never got the money. Belove the engine
got up 20 the mans knees rheumatism set IN and
the poor fellow died a natural death. It heins an
accident policy, the slFl couldn't collect che money
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