New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-01
The TALK OF THE DAY.

The growth OF the average finger nail is oornputA1
to be one-thirty-second' OF inch week or a
Httie more than an inch and a half a year The
ringer nails. Popular Science Strings" states are
said to grow faster In the summer than IN tho
winter Tho nail on the middle finger grows faster
than any OF the other nails and that on the
thumb grows slowest. II is also said that thu
haI!s on tho right hand grow faster than those on
the left hind According To the rate OF growth
stated. tho average time taken for each Anger nail
to grow its fun length is about four and a half
months, and at this mar seventy wears Old
would have renewed his nails one hundred and
eighty-siX times. Taking the length Of each nail
as half an inch. no would have grown seven fee,
nine inches Of nail on each finger and on all his
fingers and thumbs aggregate length Of seventy
seven and half feet
What's the trouble wirc7 You look as g
YOU had something your mind"
rather have it get cold So there you'd be sood
,t or y ia prefer 10 have It stay warm so
the scarlet fever would spread and they'd have to
Keep the schools closed chicago Record Herald
a machine which threads = thousand needl.s
N mute - at work IN a Swiss factory Tho purDose
or Tie machine is 70 thread needles are placed
atterwerd IA a loom for making lace The device
IL almost entirely automatic. IL takes tho needle
carries 90 along threads H. ties the knot cuts tha
thread on uniform length then carries the needle
across an open space. and places 1t in a rack The
work OF threading these needles was formerly done
by hand
Teikeers-can you see any earthly good in a
ssoGlolosist-He's a friend Of the Iaooring man.
Talkers-IIow So
soclologist-He never gets in his way.-Detroit
Free Press.
Charles a. Stevens. a merchant OF State street
Chicago. declares that the smoke nuisance costs
Chcagoans more than $40 10000 annually and thar
tho damage to tho stock OF the State street ner-
chants caused by black soke exceeds 81 900 OO0 an
nually His address was part Of a symposium on
tho "Smoke Nuisance a first step In the direc-
ton OF the launching by clubwomen OF new cru
sade TO bring about the strict enforcement OF the
anti-smoke nuisance ordinances II have made "A
careful investigation a TO the amount of reduc-
lions made necessary in our house during last year
because OF goods being soiled' said Mr. Stevens
land you may bs surprised 10 know that the reduc-
lions that actually occurred In house last year
amounted TO nearly $4,000 and I believe I would
be perfectly safe IN saying that the total reduc-
lions in prices made in State street annually DO
OF black smoke would amount TO close 20
$1,000. 600"
Green-what 80 YOU mean by saying John Brown
Is n distant relative OF yours? J thought he was
Rrown-7Wel, there. twelve children in our
family. He's the oldest and I'm the youngest
Chicago News
Mushrooms grow IN many strange places. Ono
curious field for their growth has been selected in
France The st. Denis Railway tunnel Is no longer
used for the purpose for which 1t was originally
intended The ground therein has been cut IN
into ridges divided from each other by means OF
burrows. upon which whole battalions OF mush-
rooms arc now hourlshng. In Scotland a company
Is now growing mushrooms I'm n tunnel sOO0 feet
long 1t was originally built by the North British
Railway and is sixty feet below the streets Of
Edinburgh.
Little Pet (before retiring Mamma may pray
ls Pes,,. f g gS% t9 a6 but %E
her picnic to-morrow.-llluRtTatsd Bits.