New-York tribune., 1909-01-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

C'ne Of the Chicago T. roads reports that its
cars are swept and brushed every night and washed
twice a week with antseptcs. It's smoking cars
are swept out after every trip. Every car is In
! spected each trip and made as tidy as possible
! The windows kept clean, and earnest effort
is made 10 maintain Uniform temperature. Other
roads follow much the plan. which leads
The Tribune" to say hopefully: Perfection may
be distant. but definite progress is plain
Hicks-How is your fat heated?
! Wicks-By growing at the janitor-Boston Tran
script
! Professor Thomas c. Chamberlin. head of the
geology department Of the University Of Chicago
and his son. RolIin T, have sailed for China and
the East. At Peking they will Professor
Ernest D. Burton of the divinity school, who is in
China These three men compose a commission
/ which the university is sending investigate the
educational systems OF China They will be gone
about year. and in that time expect TO visit all
the prominent schools and colleges In the
empire.
7 What y makes axe You 50 sure YOU could make rep
, BECAUSE" answered the LAWYER. Il have in
to look for somebody. y."~washington Star.
Frenchman quoted IN a Paris letter Of The
London Globe" tells OF the origin OF the present
day bank check It is we'll known he says that
; the fog is at times dense IN London that every
thing is blotted out That is the opportunity for
the marauder. and he is not SLOW in turning it TO
his profit. At the beginning Of last century the
attacks made upon bank messengers and others be-
came so numerous that tradesmen and manufsct-
urers began to think seriously Of devising some
means of protecting themselves They therefore
! invented the check. which enables go
about with little ready money and renders useless
the indiscreet exploration of pocketbook-
Polly Pinktights-The leading is rather &C.
Fanny Footlights-- Eccentric! I should say So
He even goes around telling his real salary.-Phls-
delphla Record
! After year of prohibition in Atlanta The Con-
stitution reports that by the Atlanta police
decreased $50 the collected in the Recorders
court fell off .8455O and the fines worked out on
the streets less by SlO3ss.
One of the historians advances the theory that
Horaces poems were written as advertisements
Yes and I'll bet Michael Angelo was an agent
for some marble quarry Chicago Record Herald
The first international sportsmen's show which
was TO have been held Vienna 1905 but was
postponed because OF the jubilee celebration, will
take place in that city IN 1910 Every country &C
cordng to the prospectus which has just been pub
lished. has already secured space. and from the
interest which has been shown, only by people
directly concerned but by the public generally It
may be assumed that the show will be a great sue
cess"
., Silence in The court" thundsred the Judge, and
MI BailiF, continued the instructions from the
gravity.'-Ph Philadelphia Ledger.
A man who is known the vaudeville pro-
| grammes In Paris Paul Conchas has gone many
steps beyond the performers who make the bal
anclng Of heavy objects speciality. Before he
! appeared the boards star the men who
| balanced farm wagons. small pianos. or other
| equally heavy objects considered the mas
ters OF this peculiar Conchas however raises
with the assistance OF others. cannon described
| As "a regulation field piece Of artillery. Weighing
several toDs." until he get his head under the
pole. and then he balances the piece with the
! mouth of the tube pointing upward on his fore
| mead man who saw the feat, in describing it,
/ says: 1T looked so impossible that when IL was
! all over had TO think OF the papier mache can
non balls with which the side show used to awe
US in the days when the circus was the grandest
! thing earth.
! What were the prehistoric animals?"
Those which got left at the dock when Noah
! sailed. Chicago Tribune.