New-York tribune., 1908-07-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A, IN wind carried out of the window OF a
smoking car the price Of two monthly cornmutatioh
tickets on Tuesday evening. With a boaro on thel
knees four commuters were playing bridge as
+h.,- do twice every day between their homes and
New York They play for points only, but at the
end of each month the score keeper makes loot-
inss and the two low pay the next month 8
tickets for the two high men. The June recofu
was so close that much depended on the results
of Tuesdays play. and this was being ngureo
when a passing engine created a sudden draft,
which sent the sheet sailing out OF the WIN
dow Three wanted the train stopped me
only man in the party who seemed TO Dc cool IN
the face of the shock the one who had no
doubts as to his being the low man He hao an
other chance the next morning when, by mutual
agreement the result of the first rubber was taken
as substitute for the last score.
poor man." said the kind lady. How did you
foist time dat noticed 1t when | was out
iookin' fer work."-Chicago Record-Herald
"The London Globe recently published an ar
ticle on THE Worlds Oldest Tree" which was
reprinted in several American papers The writer
said that the granddaddy of all present trees was
to be found on the Isle Of Cos, on the coast OF
eia Minor was estimated to be considerably more
than twenty-five hundred years old and had
circumference Of 321a feet In letter to Inc
Tribune Ivy L. Lee, head of the publicity depart
ment Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, disputes The
Globes" statements. 1T is evident, says Mr.
Lee that the writer of this note was not famil-
lar with the big OF California. large number
of which are probably more than twenty-five nun
dred years old, and It is certain that the Oldest
and largest Of them-namely the Grizzly Giant
In the Marisopa Grove, near Yosemite PARKS
inward of eight Thousand years old. Calculations
TO this effect have been made by eminent sclen-
lists and there IS probably no doubt OF their cor
rectness Not only Is this great tree and many OF
its companions of such great age, but it shows no
ard this
more than a hundred feet in circumference"
Why are you forever hummins that Merry
because it haunts me-. go
NO wonder; you are forever numbering tt
Pick Up.
This years senior wrangership' at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge England. gives great honors to
young Russian Jew. The result of the "Mathe-
matical Tripos' shows that Selig Brodetsky, whose
home is In the East End Of London, and whose
father sought asylum in England from Russian
oppression has been bracketed with Mr. lbbot-
son scholar Of Pembroke for the coveted British
blue ribbon of mathematics This is the first time
that the honor has been by student who Is
not a British subject. In 1890 and again In 19oo,
however, Indian student was bracketed first
Tess-Yes, she said her husband married her for
her beauty. What do you think Of that! Nv,
Jess-Weil 1 think her husband must feel like
widower now.-Phiadephia Press.
The health authorities of Chicago. in common
with those in many other cities. are waging
vigorous the house fly. DR.. W. A Evans,
health commissioner thus characterizes the insect:
He is the flthiest, most dangerous and most COM
mon Of disease-spreadng insects that infest these
parts in summer. He IS born in and lives on de-
caying vegetable and animal matter He was a
maggot before he a fly. 1t is only natural that
he should carry thousands Of disease germs on his
feet and deposit them in the food you eat. Doubt
less much sickness and many deaths can be pre-
vented by keeping the fly out
"Gumbot and l have made bet and agreed to
leave it you. He says drowning man gets his
lungs full of water, and 1 say he doesnt t Which
of is right?"
What are the terms OF the wager?'y
THE loser is pay for dinner for the three
of u.s."
''II'u-I never knew Gumbot to pay bet. You
lose Chicago Tribune.