New-York tribune., 1907-10-15
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Marvellous as are the performances Of the up
to-date airship it seems - be forgotten that sim
liar feats possible long ago 1854. says
The Dundee Advertiser" on August OF that
year NM. Renard and krebs the former being the
officer I'm charge OF the official balloon establish
ment at Chalais Meudon, succeeded fer the first
time In making circular balloon voyage. With
cigar shaped balloon $50 feet long. propelled
by dynamo OF N-horsepOwer. the aeronauts
travelled distance Of seven kilometres in twenty
three minutes, descending the very spot from
which they had started at Meulon. Later, on
October 2s, they made two equally successful voy-
ages in the air. rising and descending will. per
forming evolutions, and travelling against fairly
strong breeze. thus demonstrating what seems TO
be hailed very recent discovery, that balloon
can be steered through the air easily as a ship
the
I s there s ,ro not "a, ASKED , the prison visitor
you! something that would serve as shbboieth.
r:Yes." interrupted the convict eagerly there is
one motto I'd like to take If could only live up
And what is that?'
I've are here today and gone tomorrow. a.
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society,"
describing visit to Hagenbeck's zoo" says: "A
specimen Of python reticulata. about twenty five
feet in length, swallowed June :. 1896 n swan
weighing eighteen pounds. and two DAYS later a
Ioebuck OF sixty-seven pounds. Another swallowed
within two days two roebucks of twenty-eght and
thirty-nlne pounds, and soon thereafter a Chamois
of seventy-onc pounds. In and a half hours
only the hind quarters and the limbs Of the prey
We're visible. When fashlght photograph was
suddenly taken the python dsgorged its booty in
the space Of half minute. A. Sokolowsky reports
on the same subject: In a few days a weight Of
eighty-four pounds swallowed lSS pounds I'm
nine days. The pharynx be dated to a width
of one millimetre forty to forty-dvc centimetres
goat of eighty-four pounds i'm weight was en-
quilted and took nine days To digest. After "a meaI
the pythons remain inert in the water The appc-
tite for second meal few days after the FIRST is
remarkabl2, ON the other hand two specimens re-
manned from spring to November without eating at
all, and yet persisted in good condition"
1t was undoubtedly true that the stout man tool,
up more room in the crowded car than is often
occupied by one person The exceedingly thin man
next whom he sat heavily down gave sound OF
They ought TO charge by weight in these cars
clear tone that the stout man could not help
A Maybe er,6 1wogd d12 be ied Eiood idea friend
The ear would never stop for you'-Youths Com
panion.
For thirty-four years the accounts Of the naval
port of Toulon refused to balance There was 30
cents too much in the cash books. and ever since
1873 this 30 has puzzled the official account
ants. Some time ago orders sent from Paris
that this state of affairs must Seven special
accountants were set work, and after seven
months hard labor the problem was solved Adj
miraI Gallibet-a former Minister of Marine who
was thirty-four years ago one of the officers of
Toulon arsenal. but who for many years has been
living in Paris on his pension-has Just received
official notice asking him to call at the Ministry
of Finance and draw the of 80 cents He was
underpaid by this amount when he left Toulon in
1873.
so you Will attend the races this fan?"
No, Why should subsist ham sandwiches
horses?"-Louisville Courier-JournaL