New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"A picture recently published IN Munich shows
that the peculiar vanity which manIfests itself In
q desire TO be photographed often Kills the sense
OF decency,' says "A writer in a Berlin paper.
THE picture shows I'VE uniformed men standing
on the smoking ruins OF building. In front Of
them. propped up against the debris. are eight
rnutilated corpses- Under the picture Is this
legend: The Indian coast has been infected FOR
hundreds of years by Malaga pirates Recently a
body Of Europeans, conducted by natives. sNrsued
and cap,ured one Of these robber bands. whom
they bound and cast into pagoda, which they
then blew up with dynamite. The men who posed
for picture, IN which they seemed to gloat ever
the deed the fruit 81 which forms the grewsome
foreground, were all Europeans
Doctor growled the patient ~ seems to me no
nine It didn't take YOU over half minute"
~ITy dear sir replied tho famous speGiahs Isl, n
minute 7 have spoiled over eleven peoks OF such
eyes as youTs."-Success Magazine
Politicians are sometimes the victims OF queer
tricks One of the friends of Mayor Wittpenn or
Jersey City visited his honors ONCE one day last
yveelx and invited him to luncheon In the course
- .betr talk while eating, tho visitor made &
known that he would like an appointment. which
the Navor eaid he was unable TO provide When
luncheon was over the visitor hurriedly departed
leaving the check for the Mayor to pay.
Caretaker (to prospective tsn9n)-T Ss,. this
ouse Is TTe osa SnG 'andy. ana there's pub Just
mus the way-and a pawnbroker's round the
corner.-Tf-Bits.
THE Canadian Courier" recently conducted a
hsr1ottnR contest 20 select the ten biggest cana
dams" Nominated for the roll of honor were 10
Iood,rr man OF these the following were de-
oIared the winners: Sir wilfrtd Laurier. Lord
stra+hoona Sir william Van Horne. Goodwin
sr,ttb William Mackenzie, Sir Charles Topper. the
Hon 8 Fielding Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, Sir
Sanford Fleming and R L. Borden
There was something unusual about that funny
story Jones told Yesterday.
Yes there was, though. It wasn't credited to
Abe Lincoln. Detroit Free Press
There is more than ono way to skin a cat Also
trara ara several thousand WAYS OF mulcting
city and getting around an obnoxious law. I'M
Cages Aldermen have voted themselves an IN
crease In pay Of $3.50 year. placing the figure
after April l at 5000 This will affect only the
new Aldermen to be elected this spring. But the
'hold-overs," who barred by law from any IN
crease during their terms Of ONCE, are not left
out In the cold A provision that they shall have
81. 500 a year for private secretaries" has been
adopted for their benefit
There is comparatively little real whiskey' said
the y 1904 answered Colonel stiweL when I lived
in prohibition community years ago was asst T3I
ished TO ind how many mugs i ma asbinptan
Star.
walton is TO be strictly enforced in Kiangsu says
''The North China Daily News" Several persons
who have travelled in the country report that none
az all is being sown this year Across the border
in ShantunK they are still planting 1t, though In
reduced quantities. Il may be that the high price
Of grain is tho actual cause, for the farmers say
that they can make almost as much on whent as
thew can with the poppy. and. the income being
the same they would prefer to raise wheat But
the officials are In in their efforts to sup
press poppy culture while they are as lax as ever
in regard to the use OF opium, the dens stu being
wide open. Anti-opium pills-a very euphonious
name for rnorphia-are being used more and more.
They should be entirely prohibited. as many Chi
nese are actually fooled thereby. They consider it
. very easy way to break the habit of smoking, but
do not reflect that the pill habit remains"
yves nna'am" said the tattered tramp. Il have
belned carry out a great many benevolent enter
Your cried the lady "oh, impossible. In what
way?' - . -
ma am. '-Cleveland Plain Dealez.