New-York tribune., 1907-06-25
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Reformers are human. like other folks and
sometimes strange things are done to them. When
John H. Coyne was elected Mayor OF Yonkers a
good many clergyTnen were worried about the kind
OF a police commission he would appoint. So they
picked out a delegation and sent It 10 give the
Mayor some suggestions. lie received his visitors
politely, listened 10 their Ideas and then shook
his head You're too late. gentlemen" he said.
The commission IS picked out. and I shall an
nounce II tomorrow" Then he went on TO say
that no was going to appoint four men. Ono was
saioonkeeper whose place used 70 be raided about
twice week, another who had been
convicted as tho keeper OF n pooIroon. tho third
WAS "A notorious sport who had often felt the
arm OF the law and the fourth was one OF whom
tho best that could be said that he had never
been In jail The next day the names an
nounced. but the ministers looked in vain for con-
nTTnation Of their advance Information The Mayor
had appointed four OF tho best known and most
respected citizens OF the place ignoring politics
absolutely.
Wife-Aren't you going to smoke those cigars
,Husband-No I'm keeping them till Tommy be-
gins 70 want TO smoke. they'll settle it;"illus-
trated Bits.
Some yachtsmen and designers believe the pres
ence OF scantllng restriction IN the present racing
rules would be practically panacea. while others
look upon the scheme 10 incorporate 1t into tho
rules with distrust. The general opinion seems 10
be that any table of scantngs would be OF too
general nature 70 be valuable In specific cases
A4eSe ooJectot5 say that they do not mako proper
allowance for difference in modelling. tho wide and
shallow boat receiving the same scantling as tho
deeper and narrower To show how little
scantiing has TO do with tho strength of the boat II
is pointed out that the 7ofooters which have stood
the strain OF years have an outside layer of we'll
seasoned panks without calking which I'm tho
water, becomes practically solid piece OF wood.
The only possible excuse for scantliug rules SAYS
another designer is 10 9void extremely light con-
struction. He thinks that the adoption OF a balas,
ia lpf1l rfDIac
struction much better than any hard and fast
scantling rule
Father" said Iitte Rollo. what is evolution?'
Evolution, my is sort Of apology which
traits Of the lower animals s"-Washngton Star.
VIII tho increase in the price of dressed meats
in the United States bring about conditions which
now prevail in Germany. where. duo TO the scar
city Of beef. the people have accustomed them
selves to eating horse and dog flesh? is tho ques
ton IN n Washington dispatch. In Germany about
1872 900 horses and 1000 dogs are slaughtered an
nually for food Horsehesh is generally adver-
tised in the German newspapers. and most cities
in the empire have at least one market which
makes II specially. maintaining that It has n
higher percentage Of nourishment than beef veal
mutton pork. Consular reports received at the
State Department say that advertisements appear
regularly in the German newspapers for dogs 10 be
slaughtered, and often when the available sunniv
runs low valuable animals are stolen TO he con-
verted into food.
A kind old gentleman, seeing n small how r,bo
carrying n lot of newspapers under his az
said; Don't all those papers make you tired nv
Nav, don't read en-" replied the lad
Canadian Courier.
The late Theodore Tilton. who boasted that he
had never had pipe. cigar cigarette in his
mouth. used to declare that the most inveterate
smoker he ever knew Sojourner Truth the
famous freedwoman reformer and lecturer He was
wont TO tell how one day when the venerable dame.
then about ninety years old. on a VISIT 10 his
house, she sat smoking her pipe by the chimney
corner. when George w. Bungay, the author OF
several eloquent nnti-tobacco tracts called to see
her.
Aunt So1ourner," he said. Il revere your char
acter but l depore your smoking. for It will keep
you forever out of heaven"
"Lawkes. honey. how SOP" she asked
Because. Aunty.' he rejoined YOU know that
according to the Good Book. nothing entereth there
that defleth Now. how do you expect to get into
heaven with your breath denled by tobacco?"
"Lawkes. honey answered tho old negress
when I go to heaven 'spect TO leave my brefr
behind mey'
Josiah" said Mrs. Chugwater. wipng he- spec
This paper says man named Smith was pounded
true for il says that in the next inning Ye ne Peed been
second base Chicago Tribune.
A Paris jeweller has bought a large number or
stones which have been found In mines on the
Cars private property Every year stones from
these mines offered for sale by tender in the
same way as the forest lands and mines belonging
to the Car are occasionally sold by the Imperial
Cabinet
THAT handwriting expert said there was no
fbai Character s in my hand What did he mean by
HE simply means that you're considerate and
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