New-York tribune., 1909-04-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

You read about that iron worker being killed
by fall from the Manhattan Bridge last Monday
didn't your asked a contractor of friend We'll.
do you know, those cowboys OF the sky the struct
ural iron workers. hate Monday They do surely.
It's their hoodoo day. they say-a real blue Mon
day. Why? Well, they will tell you that the
greater part of the accidents in their trade happen
on Monday, and they'll cite you figures prove
H. Yes. 1t may be due tc unsteady nerves after
Sunday free to do they like, but 1 don't know.
do know this. though-on job OF bridge work
had up the state every serious accident had
happened on Monday. Lay it to anything you want
TO. but the facts the Friday amt in it
with Monday for bad luck in kind OF trapeze
work"
Nell-What excuse did Mr.. Goodlelgh offer for
BeeHe % said aid he s Iss merely 0beyi3g @ the Golden
do unto hin.-Philadelphia Record
The increased cost of living in India generally
and in Calcutta particularly is severely felt not
only by Europeans but also by Indians, according
to a correspondent of The London Daily Mail"
House rent in recent years has trebled, and
quadrupled Ten years ago a family of half
dozen persons could live comfort for $1,000
year, excluding extras. With nothing less than
t2500 they live in the way now. This
is recognized by the government. and the salaries
of subordinate officials have been revised. Domes-
tic servants wages have increased enormously. A
good cook cannot had for less than 800 a year.
whereas half that considered sufficient
decade ago.
Mother-wen. darling. what have you learned,
and how do you like school?
Tommy-Oh, mater, the boys call each other fools
and idiots and asses-its just rippin'!''-Punch
Near the Hospice Of St Bernard. Switzerland. is
monument to Barry, of the dogs, which al
WAYS interests tourists. This animal died some
years ago and writer in "The Wide World Maga-
zine tells his story: During the ten years he
was at the hospice he saved the lives of forty
persons who had lost their way in the snow. On
one occasion he found a child years old, lying
in the snow under the influence of the fatal slum
her which precedes death. The dog warmed the
child with it's breath. and then reused it from
sleep by licking This much accomplished.
Barry by lying down it's side, gave the child an
obvious invitation to get upon its back and ride
The child did so and thus carried to the mon
asterv Barry was killed by some unknown person.
probably in mistake The inscription the
monument is Barry. the heroic. Saved the lives
OF forty persons. and killed by the forty-frst
''Rut g" asked the first coed why did you elect
to take up the study of German instead of French2
oh replied the other. the German professor
was awfully handsome, you KNOW -Catlolle
STANDARD and Times.
DR. David NJ Robinson, associate professor of
classical archaeology at Johns Hopkins University,
has been appointed director of the American School
coming year and will leave Baltimore for Europe
summer In Copenhagen and st. Petersburg, where
he will study in the museums of those cities
Can l offer you little friendly advice?"
IF you'll take a little in return
Here negotiations ceased.-Louisville Courier
Journal.