New-York tribune., 1907-07-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Vienna women and, incidentally tho furriers'
ara vntching with much interest an attempt Wilch
Is being made 70 produce the Famous FeIsia
lamb skins in Austria Under the auspices OF 'ne
Ministry Of Agriculture an expedition was sen. -
Bokhara to study the caracul sheep at nome anu
20 select a number OF animals for breeding pur-
poses Herr Max Dure assistant professor In the
Vienna Agricultural College. who was IN charge or
the expedition, has returned TO Austria Win no
fewer than two hundred and ninety carefully
picked sheep The animals will be distributed
among various agricultural institutions and farm
ers IN Austria. Hungary and Bosnia II tho ex-
pertinent succeeds, Persian lamb skins ought 70 be
much cheaper in the Vienna market
Professor McGooze (suddenly checking himseifl
Pardon me- Miss S+eneVleve lIF taAIs T 80 ltnn5
when To stop l ought not 70 have assumed any
Miss de Muir Indeed am. professor. could
listen 10 you for hours-Chicago Tribune
Four sailors. one Of whom was exceedingly in
toxicated boarded Brighton Beach train at the
Park Row terminal last week ana took seats IN
the forward part OF the first car. They
their way 20 tho Brooklyn Navy Yard and wanted
TO get of at the Brooklyn terminal When the
train stopped three OF tho sailors reused their
>drunl1en companion from e. gtupor and told him It
was time 70 get out. They literally dragged him
70 his feet and tottering before the front door OF
tho first car the helpless tried 20 get out Tho
guard and q number OF passengers shouted TO him
that he could not get out through that door and
would have to go 10 the rear end Of the car. The
sailor fumbed at the front door for fully minuts.
The car was already four minutes late and tho
guards and passengers became uneasy Suddenly
n man who had been absorbed In a newspaper
looked up disgustedly and shouted Lay aft!' Tho
command worked like charm. Instantly tho
drunken sailor turned. staggered 20 the rear end
OF the train and went out on the platform
I'VE will yet have you voting the prohibition
mo. SIR answered Colonel stnlwen, of Ken
tuoky IF ever become SO foficated as To- S so
liquor ever Washington Star
In ancient times the great engineering works
were costly IN human lives Tho making OF the
Red Sea canal said TO have involved the loss of
fewer than one hundred and twenty thousand
Egyptians. Buckles examination made him be-
lieve the number to have been somewhat exagger
ated but he gives it still guide to the enor-
nous waste OF human life in those days. Tho
who kept two thousand slaves engaged for three
years bringing q single stone from EsphAntine
10 the Pyramids ala not care great deal so long
as in the twenty years in which one OF the pyra-
Inids was building there were forthcoming the
$50 900 men required for the work.
Orderly ofiGer|Any% al GO complaints? .., ,s,. .
1itS orasry oroer-Not stand Irish stewl Ridicu>
lousi Lord Wolseley made many Il hearty meal or
Raw Rocruit-T dessay. SIR but the meat would
be fresh and good then It's long time since the
Crimean Job. You can't expect tho meat TO keep
all them years.-Tit-Bits.
Three French sardine trawlers while engaged in
fishing about sixty miles from Belleisle. declare
themselves TO have been the eyewitnesses OF
submarine earthquake. At distance Of about five
miles from where they were the crews saw a dense
black smoke rising from tho water. and. satisfied
that ship on fre they boro IN that direction
No ship could they see or any trace OF one. but
from the water there continued TO issue tho cloud
of smoke. and as they got nearer they also
sheets OF flame rise from time to time. In fear for
their own safety they drew back to their former
position whence ct night they continued to see
the smoke and fame
Mr.. B1atdwen (his first Atlantic voyage)-Do
you know, Mary, that this ship burns four hundred
tons of coal every day2
Mrs. Flatdwell-William Henry have YOU been
letting the 1an.tor stuff you with any such fairy
tale as thatf-Puck.