New-York tribune., 1908-08-06
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

THE little republic Moresnet, between Belgium
| and Prussia" says the journal des Deoats, rs
country give official support to the study
| of Esperanto. The republic has population OF
| four thousand In the school six hours week
are devoted to the universal language. The seventy
children have two hours forty men who are anx-
ious learn the language have two hours, and the
remaining two hours of the week are given to
twenty-five women Esperanto students. In the
same place the headquarters has been established
of society known the International Commercial
Travellers Association Every member of this or
ganization is studying the language in order to
make international commerce less difficult
Sergeant Instructor-Ere! What's the O.
your firm arf a dozen yards beind that runnln
The Intelligent Terror (after much cogitation)-I
thought il might catch i'm as g comes back!-
Punch.
An expedition similar to those early exploratory
VOYAGES to Alaska financed by rich Russian ner
chants. which resulted in the discovery Of the re-
sources of Alaska and the foundation Of Russian
colonies there has reached Attu, in the Aleutian
Islands letter to The Seattle Post-Intelligen-
cer' from Unaaska tells of the arrival Of a
schooner carrying of the best equipped scien-
tifc parties that has worked in the North Pacific.
The schooner which set out from Vladivostok in
April last and has visited Kamchatka and the
Kurile Islands, carries eighteen scientists. whose
expenses of nearly 100000 are being paid by NJ
Riabushinsky millionaire merchant of Moscow.
The expedition includes celebrated Russian eth
nogra phist. who is making a special study Of the
natives of Kamchatka and of the Aeutian and
Kurile islands There is also meteorologist, who
established three stations in Kamchatka and who
purposes to establish others in the Aleutian group.
THE BARDs BEST BET
Put up bluff at raking hay.
And since then |
For more than half my yearly pay
For wRen nssy sey Sapd n Pf%ff mSiie4
And hen
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And write another parody
Louisville Courter-Journal.
After a round trip the continent the
old Oregon trail. which he first traversed in 1852.
old Ezra Meeker. his prairie schooner and his OK
team that startled Broadway about year ago.
are back in Seattle. safe but not as sound when
they started Meeker left Puyallup. Wash,
on January %, 1906 with his OK team, and since
that time the old prairie schooner has creaked and
rurnbIed over $500 miles Of American roads. II
has also travelled few hundreds of miles IN
freight car Meeker does not count that Meeker
arrived in Washington twenty-five months after
leaving P,1valup and after meeting the President
he continued his way TO New York City. via
Cleveland, Buffalo and Albany. He returned to
the Missouri River by way of Pittsburg. Cincin-
natl St Louis ard ST. Joseph and shipped his
team from the last named point to Portland Ore.
arriving there on June <. The driven
from Portland Seattle. The old pioneer says he
paid all the expenses of his trek from the sales
of his book about the old trail
Mrs Hoyle-Thst snowstorm the stage
very realistic.
the acts borrow snow shovel.-Chicago News.
In recent address in Chicago DR.. ". A. Evans,
Health Commissioner of that city. gave ad-
vice on the care of babies in the summer time
Briefly he ted more water and less milk.
Don't make use of bajoy's stomach for purposes
of punishment or reward" said Or. Evans. when
haby is cross and fretfu don't be too hasty with
the milk bottle. \ drink of pure sterzed water
is better in hot weather. When baby is good and
crows happily while he tells you in the sign Ian
gpaee that something IS wanted. try good pure
water In hot weather When baby awakes and be-
gins 10 g1rsle and blink, don't get excited and
force the milk bottle upon 1t. All baby wants is
few swallows of good. satisfying, pure water" Or.
Evans prefaced his epigrammatic address with the
statement that baby has nothing to do except alb
sorh food and increase its weight 100 cent in
year and that being the case food and the di-
eesrion were the all important things TO consider.
Has that girl next door TO you sti got her par
NO; she exchanged ii for a cornet. I'm glad to
say -,
worse isn't t?"
Not al all It's only half bad She can't
sing while she's playing the cornet-
Press.