New-York tribune., 1908-09-26
TIE talk OF THE DAY.

Uncle Sam has struck blow at a class or pro-
fassfonaI men peculiar to Washington. An order
has been issued prohibiting United states govern
rnent clerks swelling their incomes by practlslhs
medicine or filing teeth on the side IL mas TOT
a long time been a common practice for depart
noent clerks to attend night colleges. and. after
securing diplomas practise professions after OF
fee bours These so-called "sundown' doctors
dentists lawyers. architects, etc. were able ma
terfa!v 20 increase their incomes Protests were
made by regular members of various PROFESSIONS
cor,nlolnfrg Of the unfair competition Of the sun
downers" who cut prices. This has resulted III
the order prohibiting clerks from engaging In any
outside business that requires their personal at
tention while IN government employ
Mullfgan-The bye7 say We licked poor casey
Shurn he niver hurt my mans feetns. ,r,
,,1d nnrriEd" farred 70 me as his contimperary.
d ~, he the contimperary to no Twin
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A ern engaged in the manufacture Of aluminium
wares at I.idenscheid, Germany, has placed on the
market souvenir spoons made from the aluminium
which formed a part OF the Won Zeppelin alrship'
which was wrecked on August 5 One side of the
handle lears the date of the catastrophe and rae
sinpile signature OF the aeronaut. On the other
side there is in relief view Of the arshlp salHhs
over a city and the inscription. Cast from the
remains Of the Won Zeppelin airship.' An Amer
irao saw one Of the pretty souvenirs at cologne
and writes The demand is fairly good for these
trinkets and the dies having been made aluminium
being procuratle and the Yankee spirit having
deveIoped among the Germans it is safe 10 predict
that the supply will not soon be exhausted
WHY don't you try to get him straighten up?'
Hes his own worst enemy
its pretty hard TO patch UP that kind Of quar-
rel"-Louisville Courier-JournaL
In connection with the work OF discriminating
rats from Honolulu DR.. l.. E. Cofer OF the United
States Marine Hospital and president OF the Board
tn n
which will display rat-catching instinct TO the
highest degree This will be done, says Popular
Mechanics" by natural selection and cross-oreed-
ing. All residents OF Honolulu who have cats that
are especially good ratters have been requested to
contribute them.
Many has been wrecked on f. the Tocs TTe on on
the sde.-Philadelphia Record
Consul General Guenther writes from Frankfort
that in many parts OF Europe IL is customary
among the people 10 burn sugar in sick rooms. a
practice which is considered by physicians as an
innocent superstition. neither beneficial nor harm
ful He adds: Professor Trilbert. of the Pasteur
Institute Paris. has. however. demonstrated re-
Gently that burning sugar develops formio acety-
leue hydrogen one OF the most powerful antfseptic
gases known. Five grams of sugar G7l6 grains)
were burned under glass bell holding 10 quarts
After the vapor had cooled bacilli OF typhus. tu-
berculosis cholera smallpox etc. were placed in
the bell in open glass tubes and within half an
hour all the microbes dead. II sugar is
burned in n closed vessel containing purified
meat or the contents of rotten eggs the offensive
odor disappears AZ once. The popular faith In the
distnfecting qualities of burnt sugar appears.
therefore well founded.
There's no excuse for anybody's having any
kind Of Illness" said the resolute person.
perhaps not" answered the man who always
tries to agree And person who is really III
bodv's pardon. anyhow. w ashington Star.