New-York tribune., 1908-06-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

he crusade against opium smoking is going OIL
slowly but steadily in China. The North China
Daily News describes the destruction recently Of
thousands OF dollars worth of smoking utensils.
seized and voluntarily surrendered. Says THE
News: For some of the pipes much as $3.50
had been offered. A couple of coolies were en-
gagged in stripping the pipes of their metal work,
while others splitting UP the small metal
boxes used for holding the drug by means of a
hammer and chsel. Yet another armed with
a sedge hammer. showing his prowess on the
delicately fashioned brass lamps. Some of the
ivory pipes up into small pieces. but
those intended for tho bonfire. which mostly
made of wood, dipped in kerosene can and
then stacked in two square heaps couple Of
large stones to be burned
y don't why Goodley should I be so unpopular
Soq hut 5 he's one Of fhese We Wery ~ SNUG fellows
who can say oh! yes Jones seemed very happy
TO give the Impression that Jones was horribly
drunk. Philadelphia Press.
business corporation has been successfully
established in Vienna by men who totally
blind. The company manufactures brushes and
baskets and all it's employees are blind In the
eight months of its existence it has filled orders
aggregaing $4,000 kronen. making fair profit
and has enough orders on hand to justify the
largement of it's workshops. Sixteen of the
poyes skilled workmen, and the company
wishes it known that their sold on
their actual merit" that they put upon the
market lin fair competition with the product Of
other concerns and that the blind people want
business, not charity.
An. said the school inspector; surveying with
Il wish were Xcu children at school And why
Please sir, cos you've forgot all you ever
knowed." replied little Willie, the pride of Stan
That good thing is sometimes too good was
shown the other day In Little Rock, Ark. when
a clothier, to attract crowd to his store. scat
tered five hundred one-dolar bills in his show
window and stuck up a sign offering them for
95 cents each. Strange to say, however. the mar
ket dull. Passers-by whose attention was at
tracted by the display OF banknotes either hur
ried on after taking a look the display or else
studied them carefully, though wondering how
any one had succeeded in making such a perfect
counterfeit of dollar BILL for they too wise
to believe that they were real This recalls a
wager made by Western that he could
stand at busy in his home town, offer a
$40 gold piece for IS and get no takers. Luck
was against him. however, for one OF the first men
to pass bank cashier, who promptly snapped
up the bargain.
Druggst-What kind OF harbrush do you
Tommy-Er-have YOU got any with soft backs
TO 'em?-IilIstrated Bits.
People living in the suburbs of Boston are COM
planning of the undue familiarity which is being
shown by deer in nosing about farms. and even
in back yards In one of the Newtons. the other
day. the proprietor of a fondly cherished flower
garden felt aggrieved the havoc done to his
best geraniums and rose bushes by fine speci-
men OF buck. to say nothing of the marks he
left behind him on lawn which 1t has taken
more than few years to bring to Its fine.
appearance None OF the deer have ventured into
the Common the Public Garden yet. but they
are getting near to the sign OF the Sacred Goldfish
itself. Only the other day we'll set up elk mean
dered into Central Square. Cambridge He
ceeded In lodging trolley cars. but bumped against
several awed residents OF the University City and
then took lope down Prospect street, jumped
through plate glass window OF printing estab
lishment and then jumped out again He
finally caught and tied In cellar at No. s5 Austin
street His supposed weariness of the green spaces
of Middlesex Fells cost the printer a substantial
sum. and he is asking. II the deer pro-
tected by law, How about the storekeepers and
their windows"
What did that man say when you told him you
had seen serpent?"
His conversation became suddenly irrelevant
He began 70 talk about local option and prohibt-
ton n-"-Washington StAe 4