New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


the St Louis papers are telling sero-comic story
| in which a woman druggist of that city and her
husband also druggist. play the chief parts me
Young woman was graduated from the New York
College of Pharmacy in the class of o. The
couple ran competing drug stores four blocks
apart in St Louis and while the rivalry was sharp,
it was friendly also and stimulated business,
Then says the story, "a cloud arose and darkened
| the business scere. Cupid was driven out of the
mortar and the sued her husband for d1-
vorce. When the papers were to be served he was
too i'll to receive them and by strange caprice Of
physicians in attendance sent his prescrp-
ton to the womans drug shop to be compounded
Whether she prompted by the ethics OF her
profession or by the temporarily dislodged cupid
no one knows but the prescription was carefully
put up for the young husband to give MIN strength
for the impending contest
'I hear you is out of job. Wille?"
Yes 1 may be little too sensitive but when
the boss CIT to blazes out of mere before hiCk
ton illustrated Bits.
Following out plan of Archbishop O'Connen. of
Boston the music at the funerals of priests in the
future will consist of Gregorian chants. sung by
other clergymen. Fifty priests of the archdiocese
have begun rehearsaIs of the music. The move
ment is in accord with message from the Vat
lean some time ago in which the Pope expressed
the wish that Gregoran chants be used whenever
possible
Blox-A red flag is always sign of danger or
knoxNWhy the distinction ?-Chcago News.
If the Crimean War led to the introduction Of
the cigarette into England. another wharf.-the war
of the Crusades-may be said to have introduced
another article which, from the strictly hygienlc
point of view. writes a correspondent OF me
London Chronicle is almost as dangerous ana
quite as objectionable. The Crusaders said
to have brought home with them the bolster and
according TO DR.. Camille. their wives, in ignorance
of the only rational way Of using the article a. G
lengthwise as a support for the back of a person
when lying on his side) and not knowing what
else 10 do with it. put the bolster where it is still
found on the beds of those who have not learned
the wisdom of discerdng it altogether-under the
pil!o".
That brother-in-law Of yours seems to have
pretty good opinion of himself"
that He is thoroughly Bernard Shaved. Chi
cago Record Herald
\ North Bend (OreD man. after he gets out of
the hospital in that town. probably make
good living by exhibiting himself the champion
human ostrich According TO reports from North
Bend the following articles were removed from
his stomach: Five rife balls, three jack knives.
four door keys, seventeen horseshoe nails. four
sixpenny nails. fishhook, one end of jointed
rod one plate from a jack knife handle, fifteen
dimes three nckels and four ounces of glass. The
inventory says a dispatch is vouched for by the
physician who removed the collection. In ex-
PLANTATION of how to turn his interior into
a small junk shop the patient said that twenty-five
wears ago finding some glass and nails in cows
stomach he decided to see how the diet would af-
Gect human being. Now he knows
Let principle take the place of inspiration
thundered one worker for the uplift
..yVoudn't do for at ALL declared the press
humorist. when l haven't IDEA for joke,
have to steal.r-Louisville Courier journal
To the many honors already accorded Dr.. S. Weir
Mitchell of Philadelphia. neuroogist poet. essay
list and novelist, has just been added that of
foreign fellowship in the Royal Society of England.
The election is of the choicest distinctions to
which scientist aspire, and it has fallen 70
the lot of only three other Americans living
AIexa nder Agassz, naturalist and George ". Hill
and Simon Newcomb astronomers The Royal So
ciety Of England is the oldest and most renowned
scientific body, except the French Academy OF Sci
ences in the world 1t was organized in 1915. and
every great English scientist has been member
of it. Benjamin Franklin was the first American
member.
II you want thing well done. don't do it your
self in spite of what the proverb says. IL you
really want il well done, hire an expert. II you
try to do it yourself you pretty sure to botch
it.-Somervlle Journal