New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-17
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Boston announces for May 30 its NTH annual
work horse parade. The association having the
parade in charge IS purely charitable one its
only object being 10 improve the condition and
treatment OF work horses No entry fee Is re-
CURED and all kinds OF work horses are admitted
excepting hack and cab horses a new class IS
added this TO consist carriers horses
and II s hoped that this recognition OF the usually
unfortunate animal employed In that service will
have tendency to improve his condition. The
parade IS IN rich mans show. New
harness and wagons count for nothing In
fact. exhibitors are requested to use them
Another novel feature in the Boston parade Is that
counts In favor OF a horse. The older a horse
is the better his chance OF winning a prize pro
vidcd that b" Is in good condition and scrviccabv
sound. There is a special class for 'oId horses
that Is TO say horses which hav" been employed
continuously by the same person or finn Cor it's
predecessor for ten years or more The prizes 4,
this class are numerous and valuable consisting Of
sums OF money and of gold and silver medals CON
trihLtcd by the Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vent!on Of Cruelty Animals by the Animal Res
cue League the Home for Dogs the Red Acre
Farm, tie Home for Horses and by various indi-
viduals.
The beautiful ~ leading lady was in deep distress
imported bulldog and my aHtomobile Now. ''' IS
mere anything else can lose that VIII once more
The manager shrugged hts shoulders
Yes he replied COdly, lose Your aNcCtn ZION
and learn how to act.'-Chicago Daily News
PtttsburG authorities have taken census of the
bathtuhs In that city. and find that are only
eight in the entire 3nh Ward. That is the min
district running west along Carson street from
the Point Bridge, where twenty five hundred people
live, where five hundred men vote and where 5l2
school children compelled grow up without
the most ordinary bathing accommodations
Uncle Eph'm. did you hear about that colored
"a M h.lG ~. 10,
can eat thirty p0ssVms in thirty days7"
Not word o trufe in dat story boss
How a know? Good I.awd. boss. yo cain,
find anybody In Jawiy dat ud take de uddah eend
o dat prop sition! Chicago Tribune
1t is expected that work will he begun IN tba
spring by the Japanese to widen their r,IIu,,,
track from 81 feet to the standard America, ava
enable it to connect with the Chinese RAILWAYS Tn
Japanese track to Kwnnchengtzc will Therefore h
the standard gauge, and the Russian feet An
passengers will have to be transferred at this
neutral station.
Young BloodmDoctor. what is meant by the ..ex-
Doctor-That. my boy. is what YOU had TINT .,u,.
you tried to buck the stock market-Detrojt E EIle
Press. 'loit Free
THE filing OF the icehouses on the Kennehoo l..
getting along toward close in several OF than -.
says THE Kennebec Journal" THE ice ia rettIns =.
be too thick TO handle conveniently and Mt tba I1
field in one place II thrty-nine inches tb,oL
and was abandoned being too thick 10 on, IT,
ice they taking is twenty four inches tbick A.
the blocks but twenty-five inches wide the, o.
thicker than they are wide. They are but TWENTY
eight inches in length"
have that writer of fiction join voSp ShT hus 70
doesn't smoke, drink or play poker7 ie
Guyer-No, but need a writer NJ nctIo~ a..
frame up stories for those who do He can cs 70
S elevsT yarn that any wife viii swalow@c6icsso