New-York tribune., 1908-10-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

plan TO give free breakfasts daily 10 ten thou
sand of Chicago's public school children, who are
said in a special report to the Board Of Education
to be 'habttually hungry has developed opposi-
ton TT would be ridiculous to spend $4,000 a
year for free breakfasts" says Charles R. Jones.
chairman Of the Prohibition National Committee.
TT would that drunken fathers and mothers
would have so much more TO give to the saloons.
After Kansas City had enjoyed enforced prohibition
for less than ninety days the public schools re-
opened for the fall term. They had to employ
eighteen teachers because no fewer than six
hundred boys and girls from twelve to eighteen
years old had come to school for the first time.
These gave as their reason for attendance in
former years that they had to assist drinking faith
ers to earn livings for the families"
Stationer-Typewriter ribbons? Yes sir we have
all kinds What particular brand do you wish?
Private Secretary (Of trust magnate)-Have you
the writing will fade away entirely in few days?
Chicago Tribune.
Professor Ellie Metchnikoff, who has been invited
to Russia by the official medical board of St.
Petersburg to help fight the cholera epidemic, is
assistant director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris
and has been probably the most distinguished sci
enlist of that city since the death of Pasteur In
1885 He is a Russian. Five years ago he pub
lished a book THE Nature of Man" which at
tracted wide attention. He holds that civilized
man should live to be a hundred and thirty or
more years old. Professor Metchnikof says cholera
be avoided.
Hiram Burrows-How's yer chawin' terbacker.
Ezra?
Failin fast; don't expect it TO last the day out
Puck.
Cornell University has for the first time in its
history a blind student William H. Moore, Of
Brooklyn. He has entered as a freshman in the
college of arts and sciences, and hopes to be able
to take the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Moore for
some time was a student at the New York Insti-
ind Ie bas n reader Vyh
VIII assist him in his studies, His work will be
carried on with the aid OF raised type. He says
that after he has been a college for a short time
and gets acquainted with the buildings and the
campus he will have trouble in finding his way
wherever he wants TO 60
(Which do you think affords greater pleasure,
pursuit pOssesslOn?
Il don't know answered the man with a motor
car. Possession Is a fine thing. But have some
times suspected that the police get more fun out
of nv machine than 1 do.'-Washington Star.
The Moscow correspondent of the 'Novosti" says
Mile Trefloff, a Russian actress, has been fined
10 rubles for kissing her mother on a streetcar.
It appears that both in Moscow and St Petersburg
fl is unlawful to give kisses in public. a kiss in
the street being penalzed by a fine OF rubles, 10
rubles being the fine inflicted those who prac-
tise osculation in railway trains in streetcars
A recent enactment even renders persons who send
declarations of love post cards liable to a fine
of rubles.
Long-They say, you know that people can be
killed by kindness.
Strong-Is that why you attentive to your
wife's mother?-Boston Transcript.