New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

That longevity is deserving OF reward in China
Is proved by the following curious imperial edict
from Pebing: THE sons Of those people who are
over seventy years OF age are be exempted
from the service Of the government the brevet
button Of the ninth rank IS to be given to those
who are over eighty years OF age; the brevet
button OF the eighth rank Is TO be given to those
who are ever ninety years OF age; the brevet but
ton Of the seventh rank Is to be given to those
who are over ono hundred years Of age; the brevet
button OF the sixth rank is to be given to those
who are one hundred and twenty years of age.
and monuments are also to be erected for those
who are one hundred years Of age and over"
Irate Parent-Am to understand there Is some
Young ass Lord BiIariSS Su anu 'na' ounoHS
Fair Daughter (very sweetly)-only you. papa!
illustrated Bits
Savannah authorities have an elephant on their
hands. BY virtue OF the new Georgia prohibition
law they have connscated twenty thousand gal
Ions Of whiskey. several hundred cases OF wine
and large quantity OF beer. The law prohibits
them from selling It or giving II away II they
should turn It down the sewer II Is feared the
rush Of thirsty people TO save 1t would a
riot They have offers for 1t from outside the
state. but II they were allowed TO sell the trans
portation companies are prohibited from carrying
It One Of the Oificials OF the city says; II sup
pose what will have to do finally IS to dump
IT all down the sewer but the date Of the flow
will not be announced"
MY daughters music" said the proud parent
''IndeedI' rejoined the visitor Did some
neshbor you?'-Chicago News
Commenting the recently published calendar
OF the French Academy. Paris paper says that
ny Frenchmen viii be disappointed when the
vacant chairs in the Academy have finally been
filled by the election Of immortals- Henri
Poincare and Jean Richepin have been formally
received into the fold There stiIl six vacan-
ces two Of which made by the death
of Gebhsrd and Ludovic Halevy. They will be
filed on March IS. General NobsI and Gustav
Schlumberger, Raymond Poincare. Frederic Plessis
and Emile Bergerat aspire 10 the former place. and
Eugene Brieux. Alfred Capus. Georges de Porto-
Richie and Emile Bergerat want Halevy's place
Another election will DO held April 1. when
FRANCOIS Coppees and CASTOR Boissierss successors
win be chosen Ernest Daudet, Edmond Haran-
court Georges de Brevills and Emile Bergerat will
be candidates. The last vacancies will be filled on
May 27 when the chairs OF Cardinal Matthieu and
Victorien Sardou viii be filed.
For millionaire he plays mighty close and
We'll. there amt any rebates in poker"-Iouis-
vile Courier-JournaL
There arrived at Bagdad recently the first postal
automobile. and II filled tho minds Of the natives
with wonder and The car carried the mails.
hitherto borne cameis backs, from Aleppo, a
distance Of s25 miles. in sixty hours. This
hardly be called a speed record. but when Il IS
membered that the roads rough camel tracks
leading through the deep sands OF the Syrian des-
ert and the stony plains of Mssopotamia, the four
ney at the of little than ten miles an
hour appears creditabe.
Dad-Do you know what happens to little boys
Tad-Yep II they tell good ones. they get away
with tt<-Cleveland Leader.