New-York tribune., 1908-01-25
THE T4LK OF THE DAY.

college Topics a University of Virginia paper
in recent issue tells of the resignation of Dr.
A s Joynes. who for years has occupied the
chair of modern languages at the University OF
South Carolina. DR.. Joynes was a professor at
Washington and Lee University when Robert E.
Lee was president of that institution and was
thrown in close personal contact with the South's
great general DIR. Joynes has also held a chair
at the University of Virginia Carnegie pension
has been granted him
Now that you have accepted me-" said the
happy young man, Il N going 10 get my life in
Perhaps you'd better attend to that before We
girl
Philadelphia Ledger
Investigations by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company have gone far enough to show that the
date palm be grown successfully in California
soil At the governments experimental farm near
Mecca. in the Colorado desert. several acres have
been set out and the trees thriving. They have
not reached the full bearing stage but several
branches have produced high as twenty pounds
each already. The successful growing of the date
of the desert in California is almost as great
a triumph the successful introduction in the
Mast few years of the Smyrna fig. Some packing
and shipping of both soft and dry dates may be
done this year Ultimately IT is expected that the
date will form important addition to Cali
tornias fruit product. So confident of commercial
success are those who have been watching the
date experiments that considerable planting has
been done by private growers The region Sc
1ected for the experiment is the CoacheIla Valley
of Salton and north of the Imperial Valley
There is no reason. experts say. why it should
not be covered with thriving date plantations
Teacher-Give an example of cause and effect
Pupil-Marriage and divorce.-Philadelpha In
qulrer.
OF all the many curious caIngs followed bv the
alien population in the East End of London there
is more interesting than that of the accred-
tied correspondent and love letter writer to the
iIliterate foreigners. There several who pursue
this means of gaining a livelihood, prominent
among them being DID, weather beaten lew Of
Polish extraction, polyglot lterateur and phi
losopher who once long ago followed the occupa-
tion of cobbler in his native ghetto. He Is TO
be found in of the narrowest side streets or
the Whitechapel Road, where on the post of his
street door be the legend in Russian
Polish, Yiddish and German: Letters Are Writ
ten Here Cheaply.'
The weather used to he in four acts-sprine
summer, autumn and winter"
But now nature seems TO have gone into wanda
Vile Louisville Courier-JournaI
Al the dedication OF monument in New York
recently two guns Of national guard field hat
terry ordered fire the national salute of
twenty-one guns. After the twenty-frst cbareo
had been exploded there was a momentary pause
and of the gunners ordered another sbot
rammed home and the trigger pulled. The officer
in charge of the firing rushed UP and demanded
from the offending gunner explanation We'll
the other gun fired eleven shots and l wasn,+
going TO let them have anything on us" was his
reply
r!s. rhe JGneses % arr, are living in an automobile now
VIVA W nat nave they done with their furniture?'
Got 1t with en- You know they had aluays
kept house in Harlem fat."-Judgs.