New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The London Express complains that shoals
OF American bunco steerers are infesting London
at this season. and quotes an old Scotland Yard
detective on the causes OF the influx.
This year" says the detective. because a rec
ord American tourist is expected, these
swell mobsmen have rushed TO London in hun
dreds, and over dozen expert gangs are known
to be at work Already the London police have
received many complaints from conhding Amer
leans who have trusted well dressed strangers. and
lost their valUables In consequence.
THE chief stock in trade OF these rogues is the
art OF inspiring confidence They have even been
known TO deceive detectves
"One man who posed a member OF a millionaire
New York family sold string OF valuable horses
last week to a arrival who had ambitions
to shine as the owner OF stock. The only flaw in
the bargain. from the purchasers point OF view.
that after the confidence man had vanished
with the dollars II discovered that the horses
belonged TO another and respectable American
1T would surprise you TO know the men who are
taken IN by these little tricks. Hard headed bus-
ness men and experienced men OF the world fall
ready victims to these well dressed. plausible
scoundrels."
Tommy. when ! tell you something is wrong
you E6 do mo not do it?'
But when YOUR conscience tells you thing Is
wrong you keep right on and do IT,
But doesn't your conscience hurt you when you
Yes sir but not in the place you do
The old story Of one doctor not wanting to take
another doctors medicine does not apply to the
dentists In the clinics OF the Missouri State
Dental Associations convention IN Kansas City
recently. many OF the dentists allowed the dem
onstrstors 10 All their teeth. More than twenty
I'VE dentists had their teeth treated free OF charge
As the little machines would buzz and whiz and
cut deep into the teeth the dentists being operated
would complain OF the pain ordinary patients
do hn 4 vii ke nly
a minute and It doesn't hurt" the demonstrstor
said 10 OF the dentists who WAS having a tooth
bored into
Don't give me any more Of that kind Of talk"
the dentist who suffering the pain said. Il
have told my patients the same thing hundred
times day for twenty years, when l knew It
hurting like the very deuce. cut out tho soothing
talk ana don't hurt much"
Grecnroome-Tye played to full houses every
GreenecIoth"And I've plaTed hands every
night for "A week. and never got a fun house
In Portuguese East Africa explorer discovered
new kind OF zebra. resembling the ordinary
zebra in shape. but the head neck foreIegs and
fore half OF the body dark brown In color
the hind part OF tho body. including the legs. be-
ing striped. He also discovered a peculiar type
OF antelope similar In size and shape to the Boer
roebuck or impala. tho distinctive difference be
ing a black line down the centre OF the back and
on either hind leg down 10 the foot. When the
animal is startled It Immediately takes to flight
the initial leap being fully ten feet through the air
John" said a wife to her selfish husband. Il
have just come from the doctors. and he says l
need a change Of climate somewhere more brac-
ing"
IAN right. dear the unreeling rejoinder:
the weather forecast sta ties II Will be- much colder
TO morrow. Tit Bits.
BY the use OF concrete q tail lighthouse
constructed I'm short period OF time at the Point
Ia he of he
in France. The building is 225 feet high and about
90 feet in diameter AT the base. II Was finished in
nine months after the beginning OF the work. ana
cost $4,000 The haste was due TO the fact that
the sea threatened to wash away the old structure
\ minister. having given out his notices..
about TO read his hymn, when he reminded of
one he had forgotten, stopping he made this
nouncement, apolog!ziug for his forgetfuness.
Then. much to the amusement OF his audience. he
began line out the hymn follows: Lord.
what IA thouRhtless wretch am I"'-Judge.