New-York tribune., 1907-01-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A shrewd trainer once remarked that he had
often seen a $4,000 horse entrusted TO groom
whom the owner OF the horse would not have
trusted with $40 hill, says THE Boston Tran
script" Draft horses very costly. good
pair costing from 800 10 800 and even more ac-
cording to their weight. beauty and so forth; and
yet We often them driven by a man who IL not
ht 10 handle mule A school for driving has
lately been started in Paris especially for the
benefit of cab drivers and in Chicago a firm using
some hundreds of horses is giving this winter a
series or lectures instructions its teamsters
Tho truckmen and contractors OF Boston would find
II 10 their advantage adopt similar plan
Even the carelessness about blanketng horses in
tho street is probably due much TO ignorance
and Ihoughtessness to downright Indifference.
What is your idea Of comfortable fortune?"
asked the ambitious youth
Is big enough to buy YOU everything YOU want and
not sig enough 20 attract the attention Of the
grand jury-"-WashInSton Star
Thousands of men work all their lives Mt secur-
ing the banks ~ the great Yellow River. in
China Yet every and then the tide sweeps
away All oppo-itio0 and the loss in human nfe is
greater than any caused. Nineteen years
tho river burst its bonds Day after day the
torrent nowed. twenty miles to the hour. thirty
miles wide and feet deep. The Hood has been
described as that OF five Danubes pouring from
height for two months end. For two thousand
years tho Chinese have been embanking this river.
Tom Do YOU think women drawer than men?
Press
The Kansas city Journal propound- this
puzzle Take the number Of your living brothers.
double the amount. add to # 3. multiply by 5. add
Ia II the number OF your living sisters multiply the
result by TO- add the number of deaths OF brothers
and subtract 100 from the result The right figure
will be the number Of deaths. the middle will be
the number OF living sisters. and the left Will show
the number of living brothers Try it and soc
Lawson-But tell you he isn't Kentuckian. no
matter what ne says
10 you e6Tkssrew IN ,. n,. ts
rusty-Somerville Journal.
More Swiss tunnels through the Alps are BEN.
projected That OF the Splugcn. from Coire to
Chiavenna, is now in a forward state The estl-
mates and plans are now I'm the hands Of the mem
bers OF the Federal Chambers The extreme length
OF the proposed line is about fifty miles while
Of the tunnel itself IS ouIy about fifteen miles The,
cost OF construction would be about five millions.
The time would be about eight years. Another
project is that for tunnel through Todi Mountain
I'm connection with the question the Greina and
the Loetschberg Railway.
o, hats the matter You look as If something
Something extraordinary has happened DO YOU
see that street sweeper-the fellow who is stirring
things uP?~
When he mo coming, a moment ago he
stopped and didn't try TO choke me with dust and
serms'-Chicago Record-Herald.
Reports that from various parts OF North
ern and Eastern Maine say that deer are suffering
greatly this winter from the depredatOns of the
boboat and the Canadian lynx The bobcat and his
larger cousin. the Canadian lynx commonly called
iucivee by hunters and woodsmen are the worst
enemies the deer have in tho Maine woods in win
ter. Years ago II tho wolf the deer had TO
fear the most for the wolves hunted i'm packs
and once they took the trail OF a deer that deer
was good as dead.
great moral show II his rule to send oom-
tickets to clergymen, ana the custom is
continued to this day. Not long ago after the Rev
DR.. Walker succeeded to the pastorate of the Rev
DR.. Hawks in Hartford there came to the mar
sonage. addressed to Dr. Hawks, tickets for the
circus with the compliments OF the famous show
man. Dr. Walker studied the tickets for a mo-
ment and then remarked:
'Dr. Hawks lis dead and Mr. Rarnum Is dead.
evidently they haven't met."-Life.