New-York tribune., 1907-10-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Goethes genealogical tree has recently been
trimmed by Karl Kiefer, of Frankfort. and under
his manipulation il has been much changed His
father" says the hiographer, was. Is well
known. doctor Of laws and a royal counsellor
His grandfather was tailor. later an inn keeper
Arteru, from 1861 10 1900 and his great grand
father was a blacksmith from 1882 10 1894 The
father, grandfather and grandfather OF
Goethe's mother We're all lawyers. The first OF
Goethe's kind in Frankfort was the gardener Jo-
hannes May His daughter Elizabeth married In
1918 Hans Boyer. teamster. and after Bcyer's
death married Hans Flick also teamster." The
biographer has also discovered that Goethe
and Lotte-Charlotte Buff-were related through
BHrgermester Retz Kornemann. of Krschhaln
"a fact which doubtless unknown to the poet
as we'll as to his heroine"
Mrs Newwed-Ara these eggs as fresh as the
ones l got from you last week?
Up -'' Me
writer in "Bloch's Wochenschrift' says: THE
New York Tribune has teegraphc account from
Trenton where there is a government Csicl hospital
showing that patient who died there had been
buried without being properly clothed. The clergy
man who ofiiciated at the grave made the discov-
cry. What difference does it make? With the
great Jewish population of the United States II
seems strange that people not converted 10
Jewish simplicity to burals How beautiful is
the custom which makes prince and pauper alike
when death has claimed them! The plain white
shroud and the rough box serve for rich and poor
alike. But we fancy that the Jews. instead of i'm
pressing the advantages and the justice of their
simple burial rites upon their neghbors themselves
forget them and indulge in ridiculous post mortem
pomp."
Weary Walker-I alters knowed it!
Tired Tatters-Knowed what?
Weary Walker-Wot that sign meant: Cleaning
and Dyelng."
Tired Tatters-Well, wot about it?
Weary Walker-Why. l alters knowed they went
together.-Illustrated Bits.
1t hardly more than be expected that
Mrs. NJ. A s. p. Vanderbilt who introduced Little
ready to be diverted by the odd and the curious
should turn up in Lynn, Mass. for a lecture on
spritualism. Besides holding first rank among the
cities of the world in the manufacture of women's
Shoes Lynn, named after a kings town has
achieved distinction in other ways perhaps not
so commendable as her industry in turning out
woman's footgear For its population something
like 6OOOO the shoe City yields to no other in
the country in the number of bitter and prolonged
labor strikes it has gone through. The town where
Mrs Mary Baker G.. Eddy born can always
be depended upon 20 turn out a gOodIy hall full Of
persons whose chief religious activity is directed
to finding out what they doing. not here, but
ION the other side,' though many of the Lynn
spiritualists have gone to Christian Science.
Still there plenty of woud-be communers with
the spirit world left in Lynn. and the notoriety
achieved by Mrs NJ. A. S. p Vanderbilt in lead
ing out Little Bright Eyes would easily insure
her big house. attuned for the reception of
messages from the land beyond"
The Thaw trial viii be produced in December.
Words by Blackstone. music by Coke.
Gowns by Redfarn.
| Electrical effects by Jerome.
Double sextet of insanity experts and a strictly
! adequate cast.-Louisville Courisr-JournaL