New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Land buying in Corea Is a process which calls
for both time and patience says The London
Telegraph" Japanese Investigator who has
been making inquiries the subject has found
that the price at which land may be procured
differs greatly with the skill OF the purchaser.
Any hasty attempt 10 buy hurts the feelings Of
the owner and creates opposition. The best plan
Is 70 select the district on which ones fancy rests
and either settle quietly down there or send an
agent to do instead. letting It be known in
general sort OF way that one is disposed buy.
Then the Coreans who class transactions in land
in the same category with the sale purchase
OF movable chattels-that is to say as a mere
means OF procuring or spending money-wn of
themselves como and offer TO sell. Then. by the
exercise of a little patience. considerable tract
may be very cheaply acquired in few years
A golfng Judge, according to the story had oc-
casion to interrogate In criminal suit boy wit
Now. my lad" he said, II want TO know If
YOU are acquainted with the nature and sisnid-
The. The boy; raising his hrowa IN surprise,
you at the Country C1ub7'-Pick Me Up.
The clerk OF Clark County. in Wisconsin has
been imposed upon by an ingenious bad Indian
living near Chippewa Falls The state pays $50 a
pair for wolf ears. The Indian desired money for
hrewater or other purposes. and so procured I'VE
pairs OF wolf ears for which the County Clerk
gave him order for 500 But that Indian Is to
DO arrested The clerk discovered n striking re-
semblance In the size and color OF the ears. and
examination revealed that they all made out
OF a single woifskin. ingeniously sewed together.
with piece OF cardboard between to maintain the
stiffness Of the counterfeit
WHY THE EARTH SHAKES
And explanin' why they shook;
ON Tits % ma PAINS fnsr time on learned scraps
TIL they'd MI darned big book
'I[er the ground might split any time. he said.
And this might forestall
And We wakin' up dead"
But It's plain ez wart on a nose to mo
When Ss give dis dig f to it's ffG annS bone
1, acts Jest the same as Il does on yer own.
No No wonder It sometimes snickers bit.
"b h ye think o The Jokes tibet is sprung on It.
Thet Its hint sides split
And It rolls with mad delight.
When We tickle It's ribs Jest right
They Iected a Mayor in Frisco town
And called him the peoples man;
B afy has6 e boss %l to 4f G e. the
Thet its rocky bosom begun to swell.
All 4nq J t rSaF 5Sdu SP4 s t%ol took
With real hystcrlc spell
And when Jamaica quivers and quakcs
And shvers and shakes and smokes.
Though it does some damage, don't blame it half
At one Of the Governors Jokes
Hey T tP1 6 Snn f SoG man d Kingston
EZ cool clam
WuZ Swottenham-
Though he pticd the cItys plight
Fer he knowcd the earth In its jocuar mood
And his spirits rz at the sight.
There's another national joker. too,
Who makes the earth quake some:
The Senate Jest loves hear him swear
And invoke high heaven and tear his hair,
Then cock toward home
And the sunny shore OF the Southland shakes
When 1t hears him explainln tho jokes he makes
But hauntln' fear
Is marin the cheer
or the Southland's hill and nlain
Tibet they II hey another Charleston shock
II Tillman jokes again,
GARRETT SMITH
Some OF the wealthiest sportsmen Of Vermont are
now engaged I'm movement to stock the coverts
of Vermont with foreign game birds. Among the
birds which II Is believed can he introduced into
the state, are the daleypa which Is native 10 Nor
way the capercailzie which is found I'm the high
lands of Scotland black cock and ring neclled
pheasants.
Doctor docking at clinical Recommendations,
This won't do-hundred and three
Golhng Patient--Whats bogey?-PunCh