New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

MAY missionaries in the Far East play tennis and
other worldly games7 II appears. says The Japan
Chronicle" that the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church. at Denver. last month prac-
tically dismissed from the service Alexander and
James Waite. both missionaries IN Presbyterian
mission in North China. because they sent in a COM
plant against their brother missionaries who
played tennis and INDUCED in worldly athletic
pastimes with their charges. The Waite brothers
were OF the opinion. outlined in their charges
to the assembly that their associates in China
could not apply themselves To the business OF
saving the heather" and playing tennis the
time. They therefore asked the assembly TO
censure the tennis playing brethren. Their request
boomerang. however. for the committee on
church poty. IN report. commended the religious
zeal OF the Waite brothers. but suggested they
might do better in another field OF endeavor and
recommended their change OF residence. The report
adopted and tennis saved.
Lawyer TO complaining ciient)-weu. have YOU
at last decided to take my advice and pay this bill
OF miner
Lawyer-very we'll CTo clerk Williams. just add
S. I'd. 10 Mr.. Smiths bin for further advice-Tit-
Bits.
It was nifty years ago. on August Q. that Richard
Wagner finished, at the Schweitzerhof Lucerne
the score OF Tristan ind Isolde" Writing about
this anniversary tourist Gays: Anecdotes per-
tanning 20 this musical achievement in great num-
hers have been resurrected and among others. one
the day following the completion of his work q
message from List which read: For the com
peted Tristan the heartest we'll wishes OF your
unchangeaSly true Franciscus.' The composer wrote
10 Mathide Wesendonck: 1 have no mortal to
praise me- l in the position in which the
Creator found himself about six thousand years
ago. and so 1 say TO myself: Richard. you are a
devil Of a fellow
Folks dat trusts in love at fust sight" said
Uncle Eben, rs terrible apt TO finish by beIn
ton Star.
Under the caption "a Bleriot IN l76l" the Der
liner Tageblatt" says: in the library OF Bergamo
letter has been discovered which states nothing
less than that Us years Italian monk crossed
the English Channel in a flying machine. Brother
Andrea Grimald was the mans name. He lived
at Civita Vecchia and had spent much time in
the East Indies He built great bird which
had many wheels and much machinery and wings
twenty-five feet long. This bird he steered through
the air. but II had TO come down every three hours
to be wound up" The letter shows that the
flight from Calais to Dover was successful and
that Grinlald received by the King. who
treated him with much consideration. There is
nothing in the article TO Indicate that 1t was not
written I'm good faith.
.'One writer says that genius is the capacity for
taking pains. Genius. however. has never been
satisfactorily defined"
It's simple enough. Genius Is the capacity
for existing without regular meals-Louisviiie
CourierJournal.
Robert Stanton. of Paris Cornell graduate, has
been appointed assistant scientific secretary OF the
newly created International Bureau OF Public
Hygiene. opened this year under the auspices OF
the French Foreign Office.
American-Miss Goidyn-Rocks has a very impos-
ing figure
hear.-Harper's Weekly