New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
THE talk OF THE DAY.

since the disastrous earthquake IN San Francisco
on April IS last stories have been appearing from
time 70 time telling OF queer freaks OF the up
neaval only last week Il was discovered that the
wells IN the courtyard OF tho United States Mint
had been transformed from pump wells TO artesan
b, the big disturbance. This was learned when tho
puuaD WAS taken out repairs. tho courtyard be-
ing flooded within short time. The wells were
bored many years ego and ara about ll5 feet deep.
There was apparently II subterrauean connection
between them for the pumping OF water from one
lowered the water IN the other. Normally. the
water was within thirty feet OF the surface. and
that was the condition whom the pump was taken
out last March Last week. for the first time
since March 1906 the pumps again removed.
when It was discovered that the water flowed freely
without mechanical aid.
Old King Cold has mighty strong hold
He has got fast in the earth below
And the zephyTs up above
But n whisper runs In the river tide.
That It won't ba long before we VIII hide
Baltimore Sun.
Like the old Ferris wheel OF Columbian Exposi-
uoa days the great wheel Of Earls Court, London,
Will never revoIve again. It Is being taken down
and tho steel in 81 sent TO Wales whore, mixed
with pig iron and iron ore 1t will be converted into
steel bars for tin plate making Biscuit, tobacco
and mustard cans will be manufactured from these
The steel Of tho British warship Moutagu will
undergo the Same fate.
say. paw. what does it mean to live to ripe old
When rich man gets to be eighty, my son. he
Is at a ripe old age. A poor man is merely Old
and decrepit."-AIiIWaukee Sentinel
Doubtless the oldest private carriage in existence
IN the United States to-day says "The Kennebeo
Journal is that which belonged to Major General
Henry Knox, Of Thomoston. Me. The vehicle IS
about h.rdred and twenty-five years Old and In
II General Knox used to drive over his vast estate
OF Thomaston. who purchased It OF tho Alden Cav
estate in 1885. After tho death of General Knox
which occurred October % 1906. Alden Gays father
bought the carriage or tho Knox estate and il re-
NAMED with the Gays uptH Mr. IInIs made his
purchase The carriage coming it does from
famous General Knox first Sec
rotary OF War under Washington, makes IL a de-
cidedly valuable and historic relic. Nor is II
relic In the sense of something that has become
useless, for Mr.. IIills takes ride in this ancient
carriage once in while and It is I'm almost as rood
condition as tho day it came from it's builders II
was probably manufactured in Boston as C;apar,;
Knox operated a packet line of small sailing yes
sells between Boston and Thomaston and ar tba4
time there were TO carriage builders in Thomastor
Nero was affecting to make light of the confavr,
ton thar was destroying Rome.
II don't think rs going TO be much of FIRE" he
doubl9 platoon system in operation here nave 'he
Seizing his hddle' he added 20 the din that filed
the air by playing selection from Wagner-chi-
cago Tdbm III
Thirty-one new men--seventeen OF them coIIaea
graduates-have entered the class of 'O7 et vaIs
this year to get the Yale b. A. They coma froro
all quarters, have little money and intend to teach
Seven years ago there were forty-three students
from Maine. New Hampshire and Vermont ut vi
The Alumni Weekly SAYS; there are fortv
nine. In that time the attendance at Yale NJ stT
| dents from the West has more than doubled There
are 22 moro OF them IN 1907 than there were 1vban
the century began. Ohio sends 15o, Illinois ia
Missouri 90. Minnesota 90, Michigan SO. California
S2 Iowa 30. indiana % Wisconsin % HnG Nebraska
sends II.
"Yeh." said Tommy Turf. "our Sunday school
teachers pot She's smarter thar NOM Is "
,!ndeedT" remarked Aunt Jane so you be-
Sure. Ne an her thinks alike She seq Sunday
school don't do me no good at aIl."-PhiIadelphia
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