New-York tribune., 1907-12-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

OF the thousands OF American sailors who will
get their first glimpse of a watchworthy bit
OF water-the Magellan StraU. Strait OF Ma
gelan-no of them perhaps awaits the expe-
rience with more interest than Captain Richard
Wainwright. in command OF the Louisiana Fort
unately. the executive officer Of the first battle
ship called Maine and later the commander OF
the Gloucester in the SpanIsh-American War will
be right UP front 10 get view OF the Iortuous
waterway, which he has never traversed. despite
almost forty years OF service in the navy. Only
Rear Admiral j .ans's flagship. the Connecticut.
will precede the Louisiana In making the entrance
between the Cape of the Virgins and that OF the
Holy Ghost The Horn has been rounded several
times by Captain Wainwright, but that is another
story-and a voyage differing to the extent of
six hundred miles.
Lawyer Ito bucolic client who has called TO settle
account that contains, among other items.
number of unexpected charges) Why don't Won
inside instead OF standing there in the door
Client cvariIy}(.No thankee. mister, I'd rayther
me rent If didi-Punch.
From a German railway constructor and mine
prospector who has for some years been investi-
eating Colomhia's possibilities. Consul Isaac y
Manning. of CartaGena. learns that the Choco and
San Juan districts OF Colombia are rich in gold
and platinum. but until they tapped with
routes of communication. which provisions
and machinery can be taken 10 the mines. there
IS little hope for their development. Very little
in the way of provisions is at present 10 be had
In those districts. and hence the mining is left
10 the natives. If washing the gravel from the
bars in wooden bowls be called mining: sluice
boxes. rockers or any modern mode of placer work
Ing being entirely unknown. and only loose gravel
the bars in the beds of the creeks receives
attention In the platinum belt there special
agents purchasing that metal for France and Eng
land and there would seem TO be no reason why
American merchants should not become purchasers.
The metal is sold in Cuibdo. according to trust
worthy information. at s12 ounce
The resolute parent stood with the uplifted Slip
Johnny. he exclaimed sternly. this hurts
And for the resolute parent was right. The
slipper was two sizes too small for him and he had
six corns and u bunion.-Chicago News
In seattle's fight against the spread OF the plague
by rats an interesting experiment was tried re-
Gently. rodent dyed blue and turned loose
find out just how long it could retain its liberty
and how far 1t could travel without falling into
one of the myriad of public and private traps set
for the plague distributors. The particular rat
selected for the test caught. week after being
turned out. a mile from the point where 1t
liberated In week lately 2,025 rats were re-
ceived by the Health Department of which 1529
paid for at the rate of 10 cents each. The
total number of rats brought IN since the plague
campaign started is 10. 5.S31
The Angry Mani see the scomdrel in your face
The Calm Man-Thats personal reflection
Illustrated Bits
The stork visited the homo of journeyman car
penter In Vienna few weeks ago for the sixteenth
time, bringing to the family the tenth boy. fell
low workman who detained at home and could
not bring his congratulations wrote to his friend:
Dear Pepi: Once upon time, when we thought
that only the first born would bring the parents
joy. a sixteenth would have been misfortune
But it is different The English woman has
discovered that genius comes with the later chill
dren. Tell your wife that Balzac was the third
fourth. NAPOLEON he iphf Ran
jamin Fra kiln the seventeenth. and that REM
brandt. Rubens. Reynolds Wagner, Schumann
Schubert and a whole lot of other great ones were
the youngest of the youngest in large fam
ilies know all this because when last week our
twelfth came sent over the list Our first
boys are carpenters-the babies may be Napoleons
Wagners'
She (ndignantly)-You had no business to kiss
mel
He-But it wasn't business; II was pleasure
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