New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-14
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The moose hunting season In Maine will open
to- morrow. and VIII continue until December /
Reports from the woods generally agree that moose
are rather numerous than they were last
yesr. and the animals appear TO have ranged over
wide area \ correspondent OF The Boston
Transcript" writing from Bangor. says. The big
bulls hitch once found here not SO nurner-
Gus. and it is difficult TO find moose with a good
set OF antlers There many OF the smaller bulls.
however. and II the hunter goes 10 the region
where the moose most plentiful he should have
little difficulty In getting a bull with fairly good
head This region is. without doubt. TO the west
and southwest Of Mount katahdn. Here the moose
are almost as plentiful ever and scores OF them
have been seen during the past summer"
The Doet9r-Eow that you are soigs to school
when irresistible force strikes an immovahle
object
English papers announce that the fund for the
purchase and preservation Of Glastonbury Abbey
is now complete Glastonbury Abbey IS OF the
most interesting buildings In England. According
to the legend. Joseph Of Arimathea went thther.
bearing the Holy Grail and founded the first
Christian church in Britain. The present abbey
was built by Henry de Blois in 1856. a quaint
story tolG OF the abbots' kitchen. Some Of the
old abhots used 10 entertain lavishly that
English monarch threatened the destruction Of their
wooden kitchen. SO the monks built a kItch-
en- with walls several feet thick, which they
thought would withstand assaults. The kitchen ex-
lists now in good state of preservation Four oxen
could be roasted in IT at
Small Boy Qcciting "CasabiancaD:
The boy stood on the burning deck.
Whence 'Sawbuty' had fled"
Smaller Brother (sho"ing Intelligent interest-
Who ''SRWhuty'?
Small Boy spose he must have been the cap
tain.-Phadelphia Inquirer.
A passenger in a full railway carriage in England
has perfect legal right to push away any one else
W no tries get into It. Imagine such law applied
in New York's Subway. This decision given
at Marylebone Police Court when com
planned that he was pushed Of n carriage at
Bishops Road Station by another passenger. who
said the car was full 1T is the duty of conduct
ors" said the court Ito that the trains are
not overcrowded. They are perfectly entitled to
boarding when they full. II they fail to
avsn themselves 81 this right the passengers are
entitled to act for themselves"
The Conductor-Bad money should be passed
Tt-Bits.
King Edward is of at least fine Christ
mas present. This truly royal gift is the Cullinan
diamond, a present from the Transvaal govern
ment to His Majesty The diamond is the largest
in the world. its value being estimated CONNER
ciaIy at 100000. Tho diamond split into
two stones weighing respectively 1TOO and LOCO
carats Some OF the chips from these weigh
800 carats. The two large stones will adorn the
crown and sceptre of the British sovereign. They
Something old and something new. something
borrowed
ITO what are you alluding?"
"A brides costume
'Oh. l thought maybe you were giving recipe
for joke column" SAID the press humorist
YEARLY louisville Courier Journal.