New-York tribune., 1908-03-27
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

There is a phonographic department connected
with the Academy of Sciences at Vienna, where
records secured well known persons artists
statesmen singers. actors. ETC. are carefully pre-
served To this collection more valuable add1-
tio, is to be made In the form of records on which
the many German dialects and other languages
used in Austrian Empire Will be preserved
Professor Josef Seemuler. of the Vienna Cnirer-
sity: Professor Schatz. of Lemberg and Professor
Tassak of Freiburg will have charge OF the col
lection which they think it will take years of care
ful work complete. The students at the uni
nersity who speak the dialects of their native
provinces said OF the professors. talk well
and fuently into the machine but when We have
TO depend on peasants for this seemingly easy
task we encounter the greatest difficulties. While
he speaks 10 the peasants conversation Is fu-
ent and he never departs from his beloved dia-
Iect but the moment his voice is directed toward
the machine he hesitates and nvolunarily tries to
talk like the city folk. Our best results have been
those which were contributed unconsciously-
Finnegan-And was you tn best mon at Null
Casey with both eyes bIacked)-Naw; 1 only
fought 1 was--Lippincotts
At the rate of four tons a day the British mint
has been turning out copper coins in an attempt
TO cope with the famine in pence in London and
Other centres. This strEgency always becomes
most acute toward the end of each quarter Nearly
all the English gas companies have adopted the
penny-in- -the-sot system of selling gas The auto
matte meters emptied at the end OF each quar-
ter. The popularity OF this system OF supplying
illumination is shown by the fact that in 1907
pennies weighing 1855 taken from the
meters in London This means average of
400, 900 pennies day.
Your wife likes the last word, doesn't she?'
Il don't think So answered Mr. Meekton Any
Washington Ster-
Negotiations have been begun by the repre-
sentative of a Chicago museum for the transfer 10
that city Of ancient tomb weighing 25o tons.
according Assuan correspondent OF THE
London Graphic" The tomb is situated the
pyramids OF Sakkara. twenty miles from Cairo.
and Is a favorite resort of tourists. who usually
make the journey cares across the desert
from the great pyramids at Ghizeh. The Chicago
museum authorities wish the tomb in
its entirety. To achieve this will naturally be a
difficult problem. 1t has been arranged that a
whole train shall CARRY the tomb in sections
the nearest point OF the railway 10 the coast but
no arrangements have yet been completed for
moving the tomb from the desert sands TO the
railway line. The sections Of the tomb Will be
carefully packed and placed on board a steamer
at Port Said Alexandria. Another special train
will convey it from the American coast to Chicago.
where the sections will be put together under the
direction of archeologists.
y accept all first contributions" declared the
LAS to how?'
The author buys many copies of the magazine
and nearly always frames the check we send -
Louisville Courier Journal
Under a Rome headline The Hebrew Standard
SAYS: The Vatican is chuckng little Jest
by the Pope. He has a friend in Venice who is
sick During the week he received in audience a
Jewish gentleman. who is also friend OF the in
valid In bidding his visitor farewell the Pope
said:
IF you see our friend tell him send him my
apostolic blessing
But your holiness. objected the other. Il am
a Jew
That does not matter retorted the Pope the
goods are all right. though the packing may be
bad -
Though at tho expense of the Jewish gentleman
all laugh.
Pretty shrewd barber that" remarked Tovn..
he has invented hair tonic that smells exactly
like gdSolenc.
Pardon me, but don't quite the idea
Why. Yen see. u enables his patrons to ac-
quire odor which gives the impression that
they own automobiles. '-Phia dephia Press