New-York tribune., 1909-05-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

More than two thousand employees Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad were receiving pensions from the
company on Janunry l. 1909 The payments au-
thorized to be made 10 them in 1905 amounted to
$544,245 0s. Since the pension department was
established. IN 1900. $3445,793 II has been paid to
retired employees. These striking figures brought
out in the annual report Of the pension depart
ment OF the company, which has just been issued
All employees no matter OF what rank, receive
pension allowances on relatively equal terms. For
every year of service rendered the company re-
tired employe receives 1 per cent of his average
salary for the years Immediately preceding his
retirement. In other words q man who has worked
for the company fifty years. and who received an
average annual salary of $1,000 the last ten years
of active service, receives pension of $500 year.
IN. THE SPRING.
IN the spring young mans fancy lightly turns TO
thoughts Of duds-
His balf-hose vie
In vemal freshness with the buds.
In the spring an old mans fancy lightly turns to
thoughts OF how
on cleaning day
louisville CourIer-JournaI
Time brings revenges even in the timber trade,
and a humble confer long treated with contempt
seems, literally TO be the point of getting rise
in the world. Hitherto the black spruce" says
THE Dundee Advertiser" has been despised by
our few British foresters OF meagre CONNER
clal value, the yelOWlSn JinDer Delng SOlt ana
easily indented. though very light and long OF
grain 1t has lately been discovered that, by virtue
of the last named two qualities, this tree furnishes
by far the best wood for aeropanes. AS yet the
black spruce has rarely been planted by our sylvi
cuturists save for ornament or shelter"
coIIector-You promise to pay this, bill every
time ! call. When are you going TO do so? I'm
getting tired of coming up here week after week.
Owitt-I know it, and intend paying you-in
time-Chicaso News.
Students In the classes in newspaper work in the
University of Illinois this week IN charge OF
"The Daily uIini." the student paper OF the uni
versity, and are putting into practice the Ideas
they have been taught through the year. The
paper has eight pages five columns each. and is
issued six times week The first copy goes to
the compositor at o'clock in the afternoon and
the last at IL o'clock at night The paper is delv-
cred to subscribers before o'clock in the morning
They were, arranging. their plans for the summer
shady place where | could stay as long as wish,
regardless of expense.
Well responded her father, why don you
put on your hat2'-Washington hIar.
An uptown jeweuer, in commenting on the in
creased diamond importation in Apr-$1, $50 S29 55
against $lg7 23 So In April year-said that the
diamond trade had shown marked Improvement be-
fore the importation statistics had been made pub
lie. In the course of the financial panic valuable
pieces were dismantled and paste was substituted
for gems ''The fact that many of the pieces have
been restored to their original condition is proof
that the diamond business is looking up he said
Joan-Tm awful frightened at the lightnln' I
wish there a here.
Misrress-What good would that do?
Joan--He'd tell me not TO be such a fool.-Punch
Albert Langen, the founder and publisher Of
"Simpicissmus and of the semi monthly MARI
who died in Munich a few days ago. was only forty
years old, The cause of his death was an auto
mobile accident. Speaking of him. a fellow pub
Usher said: His unique character compris-
ing artistic tendencies and business ability and A
geniality which made him a general favorite'
she seems to be a clever woman"
Clever | should say she is. She car actually
get the painters and decorators to do things inst
a. she wants them done.'-Detroit Free Press