New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The directors OF tho Underground Electric Rail-
ways Company. Of London, planned 70 open the
tube railway from Chariug cross 10 Euston and
Hampstead on juno :. but II found necessary
20 postpone the ceremony until June %. This tube
writes correspondent, is the last OF tho enter
prises planned by the company. and Is linked TO all
tho underground systems and To the great trunk
lines 70 the north. Tho tube is bout eight miles
long, and there are seventeen stations, including
branches from Camden Town to Goller's Green
ana UlgIgate IN consequence OF the accident at
Chariug Cross Station about eighteen months ago
traffic was stopped. and the Underground Company
took advantage OF the opportunity % bore the
sla II ninety feet deep and sixty feet IN circum-
ference from the surface. instead OF excavating
from below. on the new tube workmen's fares
for any distance VIII be penny, and the ordinary
fares vary from penny to threepence. Season
tickets viii be issued London can now boast Of
seven underground electric railways, serving an
Of seventy square miles and constructed at
cost Of more than N5ooNooo
We want man 10. our inquiry Office said the
monager but he must oe able 10 answer all sorts
That's all right sir replied the applicant Tn
quirer
Untold possibilities lie In catsup bottles since
the pure food law went into effect. one popular
brand formerly depended on small percentage of
benaoate ~ soda to keep II from fermentation. The
makers ceased 70 do this when II became necessary
to state tho use or preSerNa yves on the label The
Gatsup now ferments rapidly. the bottle has
been opened, and every and then In restau-
rants where II il used there comes the sound Of a
small explosion. II is a catsup bottle in action.
In one restaurant of some preteuslous the West
Side bottle exploded yesterday. drenchIng two Of
the guests with the bloodlike stun Not only that.
but the catsup shot up for twenty feet and
cred "a space foot more square the ceiling.
According The waiter. tho explosion tho
fourth since the use of benzoate OF soda was
stopped
\ Scotch elder and his friend coming from
potatiuns at tho feast had left them. Sandy
Perhaps | don't walk steady. and the guild wife
might remark something not right He walked
RE oM lT A WHs s 2 iHSH 6h %@t
answered Sandy, thicly, we're a richt-but who's
that wi yr?''-l Illustrated Bits.
Professor Berg. in Buenos Ayres. reports that
he has discovered a spider which prnctises fish
ing at times In shallow places 1t spins between
stones "A two-winged, conical net. which II runs
in the water ana captures small fish. tadpocs etc.
That It understands It's work well is shown by the
numerous shrlvened skins OF little creatures that
lie about In the web net.
Actress ansrily)-Did YOU write, the criticism
Wife" was a miserable failure?
CritC-Yc-y- yes; YOU see. YOU looked Irresisti-
bly, beautiful that 1t was impossible to fancy any
man could abandon you-tustratcd Bits.
cred and TO bring It back TO the character it
intended to have by those who laborod for it's OBJ
servauce is growing. Kansas has a law forbddIng
athletic games and circus performances; New Jer-
sey is likely Ia have one soon, and there is some
chance that the measure may be passed when the
Legislature rcconvepes on June 10. \ suggestion
has been made In this city that the best way out
Of the difficulty is 10 repeal the law making May 30
a legal holiday II is contended that all those who
observe the day out OF respect for its tradi-
lions could do so II II not "A legal holiday
and ii would be easy to substitute another day
general spring holiday. II Is open TO cues
ton whether the twenty-seven thousand persons
who poured into New York baseball field or the
hundred and fifty thousand who went 20 Coney
Island on May SO last gave a hundred thoughts
to those who died on the battlefelds Of the South
Perhaps your father objects to me on account
No; | think It's on account of your late STAY
ings."-Pick Me Up
A story of the use of monograph records as evil
dence in a legal proceeding comes from Paris A
ledger sued his landlord 10 suppress a a nuisance
the noises of coppersmth on the ground Aoor. He
employed photograph TO record the sounds com
planned Of and the instrument SET
going before the judges than they began to stop
their in dsmay. The complainant was not
long in obtaining the relief he sought.
"Did understand you 10 say that all rum selling
had stopped in Jown?'
Not at all. ! merely said IL was strictly pro-
hibIted."-Catholie Standard and Times,