New-York tribune., 1909-07-25
Inn TALK OF THE DAY.

with tho War Department calling for more man.
the ranks of the infantry cavalry artillery
Eiueer signal and hospital corps all being short Of
their fun quota with the wheat and corn helds
Of the West fairly shrieking for able and willing
hands to garner their store Of wealth the conges-
ton OF unemployed labor in the big cities seems al
economic mistake. The government associations
and private individuals working together TO
bring about a better balance Of things, 10 the
benefit Of all concerned
What makes the altitude Of the English s1ftra-
Fettes the more ungratetul IS that klis E1. "a
price OF divorce DEGREES reduced. Can't they un-
derstand that he is doing his best 10 make 'heh
happy Rochester Democrat
An ingenious fraud III the butter linz was brought
10 light recently I'm England. In that country tho
amount Of moisture in butter IS limited by law TO
IS per cent. Australian and New Zealand buffers.
on tho other hand. usually contain only per CEN
OF water Taking advantage Of this fact, several
urms imported large quantities Of these colonial
buffers 70 which per cent Of water was then
added thus bringing them down 70 the British
standard AS the added water naturally cost moth
ing and the product sold at the current butter
price q substantial profit was made
STUBBORN sUFFRAGETTEs
Nineteen sufragettes in JAN.
Getting thin and wan and pale,
An they cay refuse 10 eat
Ice cream. salads. fudge and meat
SWTs'6Tea8Sin S5Tg oTG Ein 'EUJtis moTe her Jaws
Tins stubborn Eunragette
Keeps on getting thinner yet
Starving Tor the right 10 vote
Scorning cooks and table dhote
Mourn for Britain's boasted beef
Mourn Tor kings and cabinets,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Foo,bau 10 4 game whose origin dates back to
the Danish invasion Of England. In the year .S@
the citizens Of Chester captured Dane and aIter
boreadiny him. kicked his head about the city for
att a~fi
nea+sd whenever the head, Of an enemy could be
got In after times. 1t was not possible always
to obtain q mans head for the purpose Of enter
tiproant the shoemakArs of the city were bound By
their charter to provide "a bale OF leather calleo
= footballe. Of the value Of four shillinses
4 small boy went into south Boston drug store
v,TipIIGd his face rubbed his head and rubbed his
IS f2G5 uR a%8 d9gP rat S had escaped him
ssSav'' he began, will you tell me the name or
the place where we Americans have 50 many sol
Fort Sheridan"
Oh no It's further away than that
That amt lust It. bat it's somewhere around
SPcrnaps YOU mean Manila"
after l,3 While ' want bottle Of manila extract for
navorn'. They're goin' 70 have ice cream. --Bos-
ten Record.
It NAV be A surprise TO farmers in this latitude
10 learn that wateunelons have been brought to
ma tiritv out of doors on the Hot Springs Farm in
the valley OF the Tanana River. Alaska, which is
in latitude 64s north. II seems that part the
farm the sell is warmed by the same heat supply
which keeps the waters of the springs warm. This
farm has now l50 acres under cultivation, OF
it being devoted to potatoes.
In the newspaper. my children, eleven al
vertiscmenJs of something lost against ono
lonely advertisement OF something found. What
does It signify? That finding is dozen times
thousand years OF the Sermon the Mount. 1t isn't
possible that people who find much less
ious to rush into print than are people who lose.
Puck.
"A martyr in the cause Of italian liberty" says
the Rome Gazette" recently died in that city.
Annibale Lucateln was eignty-rve years old. In
the SOS he was active in many revolutions against
the Church. having been OF the ten hOtheads
who melted the revolt of 1851, which failed. His
brother Cesare executed. and he was SEN
fenced TO the bagnio for life. Together with a
number of colleagues he was pardoned in 1870. and
received a professorship at the Industrial Museum.
where he known King FTumberts personal
friend.
Ono of the most remarkable menus ever drawn
up must have been that Of the feast to which
Franklin, Lavoisier and other distinguished men
q guests of Parmantier. Every dish this
banquet was made of potatoes and the
vegetable. This was Parmentier's final proof
his skeptical fellow countrymen that potatoes
not poison as they persisted in believing. Louis
XVI himself was one of Parmenter's earliest con-
verts, granted him land on which TO grow his
plants. and did not dsdain to wear the potato
flower in a buttonhole. Then Parmentier cleverly
Withdrew them by night so that people were
tempted come then, steal, and be convinced
The allpotato banquet ths climax the great
camnaign.-London Chronicle.