New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Hero IS q list Of accidents due to the Fourth Of
July that tho police records this morning don't
show. The figures are necessarily approximate. but
their comparative accuracy can be vouched for.
Two thousand four hundred and seventy-one men
cut themselves while shaving when a particularly
loud explosion occurred. Almost as many collar
studs dropped from shaking hands and rolled under
tho bureau. -Four thousand and three walters or
mattresses, alarmed IN q similar manner, dropped
trays containing various kinds OF CrOCkery and
cookery and at least twenty-five thousand cigars
dropped TITO the cutters and hopelessly ruined
Also. a hundred and eighteen meersChaum pipes
were broken and many hundred brtar pipes viii re-
Quire now amber stems. Several hundred women
will have TO have gauzy summer dresses cleaned
because they dropped their trains just as they were
crossing muddy streets. as diabolical small boys
chose tho psychological moment to let off string
OF nrecrackers behind them. There many
other accidents In this class but every family can
add to this incomplete list
Any accidents in your motor trip through Italy
'.Nothipg worth mentioning. Ny wife was thrown
so much as u scratch Life
The hogs Of Southeastern Missouri are fatteu!ng
or a crop that was planted seventeen years ago-a
crop of seventeen-year locusts Since early spring
the hogs OF the farmers IN that section have been
getting fat something they found IN the woods.
and each farmer kept wondering whose Corncrtb
his pigs had found. for they home each night,
not for their feed but only to sleep, and day
they brought homo layer OF bacon and lard
on their lean and hungry bodies The rail
splitters" OF Southern Missouri and Arkansas were
fast being turned into good limitations OF prize
Berl,shires and Polands by what or by whom the
farmers did not know until few weeks ago. when
the woods burst into song-the song OF the seven
teen-ycar locust. Then every one remembered that
Just seventeen years ago tho country visited by
sV-aTus Of these locusts and the seed was planted
for this years crop. Since early spring the larvts
had been working up through the ground. and
when close 10 the surface the hungry hogs quickly
discovered and made OF tho unusual food sup
ply
What makes you 50, grouchy?
% 9 doo that Rad 10 ys sPes sFG SO for drinks 50
self with my wife. ana / burned a hole IN my new
n nags' in + O. O. Us!ICeveund leader .''' ~
Reinforced cement Is now the favorite material
with British builders OF large chirnneys, one al
ready completed IN London Is ESQ feet high. with
base twenty feet square. ana projected one ct
| Northneet VIII be 2$7 feet high and S}8 feet in
diameter, with a foundation Is feet square.
"Oh. Georgo!" exclaimed Mrs. De CoLItay, 'au
the trunks are packed and shipped and forgot 10
naS I've dni sworn or TG6Ha hsF husband
"E;h? What has that TO do with it7''
cigar "y % PHILADELPHIA 2 PTes a''''S '''' my
Two tiny heaps Of whito chemical substance
and "A piece Of cotton wool with some specks upon
It constituted OF the scientific marvels exhib-
tied at the Royal Chemical societys conversations
! IN London recently. Tho three things weighed an
ounce and half. yet capable OF increasing
by a third tho produce OF two acres OF land. Pro
fessor w. B. Bottomley explained tho properties Of
this wonderful ounce and n half OF matter 1T IS
an inoculatlag MATERIAL he said beneficial only
for pod bearing plants Tho little heaps Of
white stuff food material. while the cotton
wool contains baci, tho bacillus radicciooa- 1t IS
the latter which operating at the roots OF the crop
| takes tho free nitrogen from the air.
Reggy Sapp-I3ah jinks Miss Woss. I had a
| bwainstorm last night
| Miss Rose-storIn2 You mean zephyr don't you,
/ Reggy?-ChiCago News.
Racing at Ascot dates back great number Of
| years and It Is recorded that Queen Anne was the
| first royal parsonage to patronlze tho fixture in
I'LL The first and second Georges were not great
patrons of tho turf but they bred racehorses on a
large scale in order TO encourage their SUBJECTS
and George III gave II plate OF 100 guneas TO be
| competed for. Ever since those times the great
annual festival on tho famous Berkshire Heath has
met with royal favor and King Edward has scarce
! ly missed meeting there for thirty years.
Il thought You said your was proficient in
three languages"
and slang'-CLicago RecOrd-Herald-