New-York tribune., 1908-01-17
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Chicago is copying New York in the matter of
police uniforms. The old style helmet has been
discarded for the winter and the military caps
now familiar to New Workers have been
adopted for patrolmen, sergeants and lieutenants.
Another leaf from New Ycrk's book thai. Chicago
has borrowed is the precinct numerals on the left
side of the collars of patrolmen.
Heidi you tell your father darling?
She-I told him l was was, engaged dear but not % 10
break it to him gradually.-lIte
Norwegian woman physician, DIR. Julia Bang
Klnck. will be of the first persons to spend
a winter at Advent Bay, Sptzbergen. Nc one
has been brave enough to face winter in that
place until the present year, when two mining
companies decided to keep at work on the coal
mines They advertised for two doctors and DR..
Bang -Klnck and her husband also physician
responded and were accepted. The mining colony
will consist of about hundred persons, including
seven women.
Did you feel nervous when Jack proposed to
%Rather I was afraid we might be interrupted"
London Op1hion
If language is a true measure of conquest. as has
been contended. then Anglo Saxon speech is rap
Idly conquering the European continent according
IN the Investigation of a contributor 'IIarper's
Weekly" An Anglicism introduced into Italy
few years ago created little short OF literary
tunlut in Rome. The first subway in the Eternal
City short passage under the Quirinal hill. was
.'il tunnel" Patriotic Indignation was awakened.
''Tramway' had been accepted, but angry profess
sors and students besieged the Roman papers,
demanding to know what had become OF traforo'
or '.galleria good Italian words, and where TINS
English madness to end. Nevertheless, III
tunnel thus far holds its own.
'Hailr' exclaimed the old school tragedian to his
@Siush.' replied the other. who was one of those
vaudevans.-DetrOit Free Press
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'.Aorgenpost." Of Berlin, says: Artists and all
lovers of the beautiful arrayed against the
municipal authorities OF Venice, by whom II mas
been proposed to illuminate the Grand Canal with
gas The canal has never been brilliantly lighted
except on festival occasions, but who cares? The
moonlight has been sufficient. Modernism in all
It's forms has been at work along the waterways
and now the is to be eelipsed probably be-
cause 1t frowns upon the motorboat The charm
of the Venetian night the indescribable light and
shadow effects, the mystery romance and imaSl-
nation lurking In the dark corners Of the palace
walls all these will vanish before the Ioud shrll
poetry destroying light" The protest movement
has taken the form of monster petition to the
ctv authorities and the artists, authors and lovers
of the beautiful who have signed it say that TINS
is a fight for Venetian moonlight"
"Ab once a bohemian always a bohemian ex-
claimed the unscssored poet; "a bohenhan never
NO. not even his collar replied the practical
man who had met few bohenians.-Chlcaso
Wilbur T Gracey, United States Consul at
TsiDe-tau China. writes regarding an experiment.
that is being tried IN the Antarctic: Recent news
paper articles that hfteen Chinese ponies
have been sent from Shanghai to the order OF
Lieutenant Shackleton, who is in command OF the
Nimrod conveying the expedition about to make
da sh for the South Pole. The animals with twelve
sets of sleigh harness specially made to order.
were supplied BY a British firm in Shanghai The
ponies were shipped via Hongkong to the Bun
New Zealand. where they will be handed over TO
the expedition The of the ponies is said to
he entirely Lieutenant Shackleton's idea, ana ne
is taking his farrier to shoe the animals with
Ice shoes. The plan is an experiment, but Lieu
tenant Shackleton has great hope of its success
after the party reaches the solid ice. Inquiries
were made regarding the capabilities Of horses in
freezing latitudes, and eventually Commander
Sbackleton decided that the Chinese pony from
Northern Manchuria the best suited for the
purpose The expedition is also provided with mo-
tor cars and the trial between motors and ponies
is in itself interesting.
"Do Won believe that mosquitoes carry malaria ?"
Not the mosquitoes around here answered
Corntossei. "They couldn't possibly do it
and he so healthy. y.'-Washington Star.