New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

.,Fron, the English descriptions OF the Cecelian
waltz We judge" says a writer in a Berlin paper
that there will be sixteen-step prelude to the
regular waltz. that this introduction VIII nave
some Of the oIdtime minuet feature and that when
the waltz proper begins It viii be something like
the dance which was in vogue when we who are
now mlddle-aged and little moro were dancers.
The fast and furious waltz which came from tho
country where everything is rush Is beloved by
the young people only because they do not know
the dance Of their parents II was this the grace
fIi slow and dreamy that made the dance n soul
ful pleasure Il this real poetry OF motion
that inspired Lanner Gungl and straus. Welcome.
new waltz. II you are like the old
First Deafrnute-If you objected to his kissing
Second Deafmute-I couldn' lie was holding
both my haEds-Harper'2 Weekly.
In the recent field operations of the British
troops at Aldershot It was desired 10 hot
coffee TO the soldiers lying II the trenches during
the hours OF darkness As It was found impossible
TO light fires during the night or early morning for
fear of betraying the position to the enemy, the
coffee was made In the evening. and. while stl
boiling was buried In camp kettles with close fit
ting lids a few feet in the ground and slightly
packed with earth. When the pits were opened in
the early morning the coffee found to be stil
hot and ready to serve
And the name is to be- asked the suave
minister as he aPPr93ached chez e the font with the
Augustus Philip Ferdinand Codrington Chester
Dear me- Turning to the sexton; "A "A. little little
more water Mr.. Perkins, II you please Tit Bits.
At Iigny a little town in Belgium says the
.Frankfurter Zeitung.' they celebrated a few days
ago the 1929 birthday of the good little Frau Ru-
hay, who is known to have seen the great Napo-
leon. The meeting took place in 1916. when the
conqueror's headquarters tents were pitched a
meadow the little farm where Anna jose
phine Rubay's parents lived Walking through the
village one morning, the Emperor saw little Anna
Josephine weeping bitterly and the tears seemed
touch the heart OF the soldier. He spoke to the
little girl and tried to comfort her and patting
her little face affectonatey when mother Rubay
ran upon the scene. He turned TO her and advised
her to take the little girl away from the neighbor-
hood, because it would soon be the scene Of bat
tie. Anna looked with wonder upon the soldier.
but the only description she was ever known TO
give of Napoleon was: He looked to me like a
little fellow. with awfully large nose
""Nointy5 5noine in the sha-ade! BY gorry! Do yez
'Oi behave ut would be If there was amy
sha-ade- Life
The who have been urging the passage of
more stringent anti-duelltng laws in Austria
Gently made appeal to the physicians to aid the
by refusing to act for friends the field of
honor" IF cannot prevail upon surgeons to
withhold their cooperation, writer in Aus
trian paper says. I'VE shall endeavor 70 have them
co-responsible with the principals. Men fight they
say TO kill, and yet. matter how fearlessy the
duelIists draw their swords pistols. they al
ways have thought of the surgeon who will help
them if things should go wrong. Keep the surgeons
away SO that the wounded must depend on
his second for first aid in OF injury. and he
will think again before he fights"
Mrs Uptydate-NIarie. have you finished bathing
the dog?
The Maid-Yes na'am.
Mrs. Uptydate-Did you tie the pink ribbon
round his neck?
Maid-Yes'm.
Mrs Uptydate-Then you can go and see what
baby is crying about.-Illustrated Bits.
4 writer in the Stuttgart "Kosmos'' tells this
bird story: For twelve years I have watched a
pretty ornithoogical idyl Every year a pair of
goldfnches my garden and build a nest
with blooming forget-me-nots. In order make
their work easy a bed of these flowers is built for
the birds, and have observed one bird carry
the blooms to the tree while the other watches the
operation finally joining the builder In the COM
pleted nest. In 1905 the nest for two days
perfectly blue. We wonder whether through the
twelve years the nest Of flowers always built
by the same pair of birds"
$50 the big touring came within inch of
running down your bronco?" said the new arrf-
val Did you take the number"
You bet I did pard,' re5+hed Amber Pete,
he jubilantly displayed piece OF punctured IN
.I took II right on at the second shot Here 1t In
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