New-York tribune., 1907-06-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Writing 10 The Boston Transcript" OF hts visit
70 Valparaiso and of the effects OF the great earth
quake Of last August. the Rev. Francis Z. Clark
says "a ride around the loop on the top OF an
electric convlnces one that those who say that
the city will not recover from the twenty-five sec
onds of earthquake shock in hve-and-twenty years
are not far wrong Certainly at the present rate of
progress II viii be fully quarter OF century be-
fore the last vestges OF the earthquake disappear.
But these South American cities am told. have a
fashion of lying dormant for time. and then
taking tremendous squirt. and accomplishing the
work OF a decade in year; so Valparaiso may
falsify all pessimistic predictions and rise from
her ruins and her ashes far sooner than even her
friends predict. Not that Valparaiso is dormant
Much building IS going on but tho high prices OF
materials and Of labor are at present great
handicap. Lumber IS brought from Southern Chill.
five hundred miles away. It has greatly risen in
price and IS still at any price. Labor is
stin scarcer and higher than materials. Workmen
who were glad to get 81 80 day year ago
demand s.. Carpenters ask s.. and even So and
friend told OF ono workman whom he found
lying In bed at 10 o'clock In the morning because
the offer he had had for his days service
only S6'
This straw" said tho halter. rs really better
than a Panama and us particularly suited to
short man"
What's the price Of t?" asked Sawdofr.
Not much That hat won't do. my friend. for
man short as am."-Philadelrhia Press
An amazing story or CTeQulity ana superstition
has been detailed before the Assize Court at Fret
berg, Germany n correspondent writes to THE Pail
Mall Gazette" The that Of the village
gravedgger at Kuhnheide man named Beler,
who accused OF having profaned tho gravo OF
his own daughter young woman who died n year
and a half ago. With sobs the related that
before her death his daughter had doubts about
obtaining eternal peace. and had promised TO ap-
pear TO him. He. on his part. had promised not TO
cover her with earth. and he had In fact conrived
an arrangement which nearly filed the grave. and
only needed thin covering of soil. Having recently
seen his daughter in dream. he had. In company
with several neghbors. opened tho grave by night
and each person present had taken a tooth from
the body, which in actual decomposition. That
tooth, he added, drying his tears had been to him
a real talisman. Whereas before nearly everything
he undertook had turned out badly, he had since
met with nothing but good luck. Even when he
played cards he always won. Ono of his neighbors
woman, giving evidence in his behalf. plaintively
said she had lost her tooth. and everything had
begun to go against her. The public prosecutor
was lenient to the deuded man, and the Jury ac-
quilted him.
DO you think cabbage is unwholesome?" asked
the dyspeptc. eu
1T depends somewhat" answered the food ex
Washington Star. - ''' ~ Si'''Ao It. -
The kankakee Marsh. in Indiana long famous as
hunting and fishing resort. is threatened with ex
unctlon py project for the drainage OF this great
tract The plan for the work has been developed in
tho office OF experiment stations of the Agricultural
Department, and provides an increased carving
capacity in the river by strengthening its channel
Tho Engineering Record" says. At the present
time the river is Y miles long in the section
which Will be improved, and IL Is planned IN
shorten this length to AIS miles. of which az
miles are IN Indiana and the remainder in ulipois
This is to be accomplished by cutting of eighty
-FOUR bends OF the present stream by channels vary
ing from $50 to $500 feet in length The total
length of tho new channels 10 BE made In this ~yov
is 27f miles the remainder of the improvements he
ing the canalizaton of the old river channel
Silas Hardacre-Yes, every Tuesday ana Thurs
day night is ripping up night" with the ladies'
sewing social in this town - A-SS
SHY SLY p5ummeroindeed! And what do they rip up
absent members-Chicago News, N '-'