New-York tribune., 1907-10-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

United States Consul Mansfield writing from Lu-
cerne says that is estimated that there were in
Europe in the last eight thousand American
touring parties in automobiles. concerning which he
adds: Each car carries average five per
sons making a total of forty thousand Americans
motoring on the Continent. Tf0 expense will aver
age $40 a day for each person, making daily eN-
penditure by this class OF American travellers IN
Europe Of S400 0IO The American motorists usually
spend two months on the Continent which brings
the aggregate expenditure up to s24OOOO0O for tho
season. So great is the number OF American auto
mobiles that their transport across the Atlantic has
become specialized business
Yes" remarked old Uncle Jasper. after much
M G s2pd n pgsGF rS ser IN e de- w5rd but
think ct must have been de banana tree
Brudder JaspahS'' asked Deacon Dewberry Gu
because troubles am lax bananas-dey always
come in lunches chicago News,
Under the title Tears Of JOY" George Friederioi
writes a Berlin paper that the custom OF weep
Ing and bowling on all occasions OF great Joy was
general among the early inhabitants Of America
and that in many tribes visited by him in South
America the approved form OF welcome was still TO
weep. Tears OF welcome he says, ARE also shed
by the natives OF the Caribbean Islands and by ths
Sioux Algonquins and other North American Ind
fans From all that have seen. Judge that in
times past tears and Joy inseparable and that
the emotion which civilized people display at
parting once tho expression OF hearty well
come"
do not tG beiis9e in ' Iove S at arst @ G sight '
men were % gifted with second nd sight i they would
never fall IN love."-London opinion.
Swinging TO her moorings in the Mersey. the
Lusltania the largest ship aAoat. called almost as
much attention 10 her moorings TO herself. for
tho buoy OF the Cunarder is the largest ever made
II is l6 diameter displaces $50 cubic feet Of
water and weighs 1914 tons. II has tensile
strength Of twenty-eight tons to the square inch.
On top the buoy carries a gas lantern replenlshed
by two cylinders each feet long and 30 inches in
diameter. that capable OF supplying gas TO the
lantern for a month.
Her (sighing)-Oh! I met such lovely polite
to-day!
Heron the parade. l must have been carrying
my umbrella carelessy. for he bumped his eye into
Me-Up
Writing TO 1.-The London Morning Post a cor
respondent says: II observe reference to an inven-
ton by n Frenchman to preserving meat by
sulphur fumes. II may he OF interest to some
specting this matter that l have in my possession
a piece Of beef treated in that way by at
Halifax y. s. in the year 1879. II has been freely
exposed To the air since that time and so far as I
can see has remained unchanged As I had
several occasions felt the want something OF the
sort on shooting expeditions. TO provide for the
possibility mot unusuaD of being far from
camp after tracking wounded game other cause.
looked about for convenient form OF n small
emergency ration of meat I cut strips of
beef about six inches by two inches by two inches,
hung them In glass Jar. attached a small thim-
BILE containing a little sulphur by n wire 10 the
cork. lighted the sulphur and closed the jar with
the cork The sulphur burned until all the oxygen
In the jar was consumed. and then went out As
l anticipated this preserved the meat. and when
taken out and dried II remained quite sound
ANY accident In your motor trip through Italy
and France. Morgan7"
Nothing worth mentioning. My man thrown
out and killed, but the machine never got so much
n atch."-Illustrated Bits