New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
KEEP THESE-THE MAN WHO |
GAVE THEM WILL NEED THEM
SOME DAY.
The souvenir hangs in the boys library. and his
grandson has often heard its history

The souvenir hangs in the boys" library. and his
grandson has often heard its history.
rs there a garage near here, my boy?"
well, there's none within smelling distance,
sir,'-Yonkers Statesman
One of mans best friends. says "Prometheus."
will have a 25oth birthday some time in 1908 The
day cannot be fixed when the lead pencil was first
used but all signs, all records. show that it was
just about hundred and fifty years that the
useful article invented. The ''preductal' of
ancient Rome, which leaden disk used to
draw lines was undoubtedly its progenitor. In the
fourteenth century lead and silver points used
in Italy, but employed exclusively by artists. For
the sake of cleanliness these encased in wood
and became the first lead pencils. but the pencil
similar to those OF the present day after dis
covery of graphite, in 1865. The first German pen
ellis were made in Nurnberg where there
thirty pencil factories which out about eight
hundred million pencils every year.
How shall We announce engagement
Tell couple of your girl friends and make them
promise not to te'-Houston Post
The Paris police have taken leaf from the
book of experience and practice of New Yorks
Police Commissioner. who recently dumped few
thousand coniscated murderous weapons into the
bay to prevent their resale to dangerous charac
ters owing to the increase of outrages by the
Paris hooligans II decided by the authorities
to DESTROY all weapons belonging to les apaches.
as these ruf'ians called. which fall into their
ha Previous to this decision ali the revolvers,
knives and knuckle busters resod at auction.
as was formerly the in New York. Now,
however. they broken up and sold scrap
iron.
Pa. what IS dyspepsia
1T is the remorse of guilty stomach. my son.
Puck.
you soon learn in China that you trust
Chinaman carry through anything he agrees
to do for YOU" says Samuel Merwin In Success"
nha1 'oi -f,y anhn in
terpreter a Chinese draft for $500 (Mexican), pay
able to bearer, and told him go to the bank and
bring back the money I had known John little
more than a week. yet any who knows China
will understand that l running appreciable
risk The individual Chnaman Is simply a part
of family, the family is part of a neighborhood,
the neighborhood is part of village district.
and so If John had disappeared with my
money after cashing the draft. and had afterward
been caught, punishment would have been swift
and Very likely he would have lost his
head. If the authorities had been unable to find
John they would have punished his family Pun
ishment would surely have fallen somebody" "
What are you crying about. my little man?
licked me for letting Jimmy lick me, M" and and Jimmy
licked me again for telling father. and now l sup
pose shall catch ii again from father. The
Pathfinder
Paris has a building society which promises 10
sweep all the chimneys of the members houses
provide medical attendance free of charge TO all
tenants and to give every tenant a chance by
lottery month of getting three months rent
returned to him. Whenever baby is born the
parents will. il they have lived in the house for
year more. receive three months rent as the
baby's birthday present.
Mr.. Askitt-Do you think marriage Is a failure /?
Mrs De Vorsay-No; merely temporary embar-
rassment-Illustrated Bits.