New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

According to table published in the current
number of 1.-THE Federation Review" sz25 immi-
grant Jews entered the Port Of New York IN Sep
TENDER. 1908 OF these, 2.433 were women. 2O01
men and 1871 children. Russia contributed 4607;
Austria Hungary, 1874: Rumania 27S; England IS:
Germany. 49,, Turkey. 10; Sweden and Spain.
each. and Holland 8. The record also shows that
1855 Of the immigrants went to homes outside
Of the metropolis. In the corresponding month
last year the number Of Jewish immigrants was
5,033 greater.
There is a certain Congressman from New Eng
land. a sef-made man. who is noted in y ashing-
ton for two things-his quick wit and pride IN hts
fine evening with fellow member from Kansas
when the Westerner, looking at the sky. remarked,
How bright Orion is Is tSln 1 Ts.dar so that
is Organ, is it? Well thank the Lord there
ITishman IN heaven, nyhow!-Idppincotts
At the recent conference Of New England Cow
errors In Boston, Colonel Sohier. of the Masss-
chusetts Highway Commission, made address
on reckless automobile driving, He said: The
Massachusetts Highway Commission has consid-
cred this year 142 automobile cases As result
It has revoked thirty-four licenses, eighteen or
which belonged to chauffeurs. and has SUSPENDED
fifty licenses twenty-six of which belonged to pr
waite owners. It has warned placed on file forty
FIVE cases This year 223 persons were injured-last
year 49, In other words with more accidents
the total number OF persons injured has dnlni5hen
one-third. We draw q large black line In MasSa-
chusetts between speed which is merely speed. and
operating reckessly so to endanger the public
or while intoxicated"
Say Ma" No.,
when a man who is bald and wrinked and tot
at him second time If he didn't have lots Of
money, the lady replied casting sIealtt ny tncx
quotations lit may he said that he has hved 10 r
green old age."-Chicago Record-Herald
The State Of Washington recently celebrated the
nineteenth anniversary Of its admission 10 the
Union In an address the president OF the state
historical Society brought out the fact that the
great Northwest has never been under the doml-
nation Of any foreign power. Said he: "A1 other
portions of the United States have at one time or
ofher been ruled by one of the European countries
You as children of the great State of Washington
NAV be proud of the fact that you live in the only
place in the United States that has always oeen
American territory. and over which no other flag
save the Stars and Stripes has ever foated.
loeonbar with the impressionstic nose. be sure
you are right and you won't get head. -Fnlla-
delphia Record.
THE Rev Dr. William T. Manning rector ~ an
Episcopal church on the corner Of Seventh avenue
and 39th street. New York. is the way the new
rector Of old Trinity is referred 10 in Utica paper
Would the venerable nr. Dix have been called
rector Of an Episcopal church In Broadway :
Evidently somebody up the state has mixed up the
rector Of the richest parish in the world with the
vicar of one Of his minor chapels. St Chrysostoms
You say that local option has been of great
benefit to this section of the country
Yes sir" answered Colonel StillwelL AS soon
as a lot of US citizens realized how far anybody
would have TO go for a drink organized good
roads movement. Washington Star.
Chicago has started vigorous crusade to com
pei physicians to report contaEious diseases. and
as salutary lesson two physicians have been
mulcted $40 each for failing to record cases Of
diphtheria.
Mrs Hcks-You mean to tell that you have
a servant girl who gets UP in the morning without
being called?
Mrs Wickes-Yes, she's in love with the milk
man. Boston Transcript