New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Among the regular subway passengers at the
72d street downtown station two elderly men
| They meet few blocks away &om the station
every weekday and walk to tie subway They
were born in the little town in New England
and close friends until one went to the Far
/ West many years ago. Four years ago the Other
man heard that his friend I'm Southern Cali
fornia. and. wishing 20 hear from him again.
wrote to the place and learned that his man had
removed 10 Chicago several years before Then he
Chicago but the letter reached there
too late for NIr Blank had moved to New York.
When tho search end il was found
that while letters were going To California and
TO other places the for whom they in
tended was living in the same block with his
friend. They finally met and when the wanderer
heard the story of the long search he asked his
friend: why didn't YOU look in the telephone
| book? That's the place to find people"
city B.qarder-whats that old adage about
Farmer Geehaw-Dont count yore chickens till
after yew have pizend d tn ole cat-Chicago News.
Writing from Japan. American says: You
must here to appreciate of the quaint
customs and usages which contact with other
peoples has not yet driven out To read about
them gives you only poor idea. For instance.
did you know what important thing
piece of string is here? The children. workmen.
iders all carry pieces of string for use
In of emergency. With the emergency
would arise only when q parcel had be done up
aS a
TO the injured, TO repair rent In his clothing to
fix broken down jnrihsha to mend tools to
take measurements and. in fact. the string his
universal tool chest. The queerest use to which
it is put according to my way of thinking, is
when police officer a man. ties "A bit OF
string about the arrested mans wrist and then
leads him by the loose end of the thin hempen
fetter to the lookup You ask: Why doesn't the
Jap crook break the string and find a gateway
He could. but he would That's where his
lP l9U n md no of trfV,
holds the securely. though he were
manacled by own humane chilled steel, nickel
plated and snap-locked method"
, You don't love , me as you used to- declared
vo considered mn abso6a we we're married
80 Yes interrupted the dOwntrodden husband,
but now you're perfectly absolute. Philadelphia
Press.
A story is told in the "Gil Bias Of a French
specialist having been called in to treat an
American visitor. The affection was facial neu-
ralgia, and effected by electricity
The American expressed himself as much gratined
and said that he would send the doctor his fee
Next day the mail brought check for 10000
The medical man. thinking some error had been
made. called at the hotel to make sure but was
met by renewed expressions of gratitude from his
patient and assurances that there had been no
mistake; and. as II this were not enough, a few
days later the doctor received the title deeds of n
house not far from the Arc de Triomphe whose
value is put at 100000 Whether all these details
are true may perhaps be doubted, but the fact
remains according to the papers. that the profess
sonal man in question is setting I'D In a
house of his own in the quarter indicated
ledge" said the coored prisoner rs I ex-
pected ter tell de truth?'
why, of you are"
We'll, then. des go ahead an sentence me
fustP'-Atlanta Constitution.
-"Winklebury Camp. near Basingstoke which has
recently been Sold" says The Pail Mall Gazette
has history ancient as. If not indeed older
than. that of stonehenge itself It was in ex-
istence at the time when the Romans invaded these
islands. and evidently occupied by them but
its origin probably dates back to about the year
1900 B. c., 1000 years before the foundation bv
Romulus of the Rome OF the Caesars The camp
which stands close to the old Roman road between
Winchester and Silchester, must therefore have
been a settlement of the ancient Britons and sew
eraI relics to substantiate this have been discov-
cred. AS it's name implies-the termination bury
signifying a barrow burial place-Winkleburv
Camp contained a burial ground. part of which ar
least has been found. One of the tumulI has been
partially explored. and the examination revealed
horns teeth, bones burnt earth and fragments
of ancient British pottery These relics were sub
mitted to the natural history department of the
British Museum and the teeth, as well as the
horns were identified belonging to the Bos long
ifrons or Celtic shorthorn a breed Of cattle which
appertained TO the later centuries of the Neolthc
period.
House Agent to young married couple house
hunting)-The place does not lack interest Two
of the former tenants were drowned in this moat
Punch