New-York tribune., 1907-09-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

'eWhere there's smoke there is to be hre!
They are bearing in mind the mossgrown adage
at the beaches in these parts Just now Or course
they have their reasons for doing So TOT tneFe
certainly has a big crop OF destructive oiazes
at resorts along the Atlantic in the last month
60 81 is no wonder that an employe at one OF the
Jersey seashore resorts made haste the other oay
when he noticed smoke issuing from one OF the
bathing houses near the pier and not htty ~ yarus
away from a hotel that cost nearly 10000
IN buud He didn't stop to reason why, but
made dash for the compartment whence issueo
the dangerous looking II thin stream OF SNOW
He broke In that door in almost as little time as
II takes 70 tell It, but made quick retreat amid
the indignant and Mortified shrieks Of two maidens
who were not clad for an afternoon tea. They VIII
be careful hereafter to where they ihduise III
the slv cigarette though they safe TO do so so
far as that vigilant employe is concerned.
This. said the shopman is most wonderful
helT yq rrneT[r sye me bottle said the baldheaded
man ';Rut say come TO think of II why don't
Il can't use 1t. You see. I'm the Before Using
Innchpon. fTnrIftg Yon should see him '-Tft-Bts.
The latest tyne Of motor boat is reported to have
made n sueed of thirty-two miles hour. exceed
ing that OF the fastest torpedo boat In the United
States navy. This has led 10 talk among naVai
officers as 10 the practicabihty or using motor
boats in the navy. One officer suggests that such
craft could be equipped with a single torpedo tube
IN the how and might be effectively used as kind
of torpedo boat. He thinks that each first class
battleship could be equipped with at least one
motor boat which could easily be carried on deck
and that in actual warfare. when circumstances
rarrarted Il the motor torpedo boat could be
lowered and sent against the enemy. Owing 10 the
great speed and the size Of the boat IL might De
able 10 get within range before being SUNK Other
officers think that with some changes In the con-
struction of this class OF boats they might oe
usaa effectively as short distance dispatch boats.
II see an account in the paper about man who who
conmitted suicide on account of the heat. said
''ie or I@a siv," exclaimed the thin man That's
,,st iurping out OF the frying pan into the fire
well. but there's often consderaole huniiaIly III
Philadelphia Press
A recent issue Of the Welt Spiegel mas str1k-
ing nic,ure OF n group of Ave in mountain
climbing costume. They all standing on mar
row lodges which project from an almost perpen-
dcuIar mountainside. Beneath the picture one
NAV read: Does It not make one dizzy to look at
this group7" Still II was not taken IN the clear
mountain air but in a photographers studio
fact which no save an expert coulo discover
The men will undoubtedly show the picture 10
demonstrate their ability as mountain climbers ana
their great courage
radv Customer-what does this parrot say?
Rov-Curse for the lady, Poll-l'ife.
.rbe Iron Age" says that evidence exists that
a work similar the famous Simplon tunnel. but
~, a smaller scale. executed some twenty
four centuries ago Owing TO the bad state OF the
water supply of Jerusalem. the King ordered res
ervoir 10 be made at the gates OF the city, 10
(which water was TO be brought from various
snrings The Shiloh tunnel. by means OF which
water was brought down from a source to the
east of Jerusalem and poured into the pool of ST.
loam was 1.0S0 feet long and In straight line IL
has been learned that work was begun at both ends
of tho tunnel and the direction altered a number
of times The OF the tunnel is finished with
great care The width varies from 1s TO feet
and the height from to feet There is much
speculation as how these engineers gauged their
direction SO we'll as to be able TO recognize and
correct errors in alignment
Say" asked the house sergeant what was the
complaint Boston woman made agin her hus-
band2 Drunkenness? {?
SEARCH me-" replied the patroman. She said
he was addicted to continuous alcoholic obfusca-
ton "-Philadelphia Press.