New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

15oa Karsten Of Chicago recently sentenced
three highwayrneu Imprisonment in the peni-
tentiarv fo~ life. The trio had been arrested for
holding up a citizen with revolvers and demanding
his money He allowed them 10 make search
and it yielded just 46 cents. The severe sentence
was made possible by an act passed two years
ago. providing ife Imprisonment fo- highway rob
berry whenever deadly weapons are shown TO com
pei the victim 10 surrender.
SANDY Pikes-I thought yer told dat lady II she
gave YOU q you'd get busy.
Gritty George-And did get busy, pard | sawed
hole hole Though Toi de Ice an went !''Ns'e'
Among those who went to Washington from
New York on March 3, 1865. to witness the in
auguration OF Abraham Lincoln and Andrew john
son we're four men, whose expenses were paid by
four others who had voted for and bet Me-
CIelan and Pendleton. A souvenir Of the occa-
sion is in the possession Of one Of the men, who
stiu lives in New York, IN the form Of a little
book in which pasted the parade badges OF
white silk which the pictures OF the capitol
the White House and the successful candidates
onuear: a clipping from an illustrated paper, show
ing Lincoln taking the oath Of office. the menu
cards of the old National Hotel at Washington for
March and T. with cheCkmarks to show what the
four men ate on those days and hyleaf on
which these words the four signatures are
written: IF we had voted for the Democratic
ticket we would have read about tive voted for
Lincoln and H."
Sister ito elderly prodIgal who is much given to
pawnng his things)-What's this ticket on yer best
SandVEThat was the nicht l. was at McPhear-
sons ball they tack yer coat from ye at the door,
Sister-Hm-aye-I see there's yin on yer troosers
a well.-Punch.
Major Charles Loefner, the White House door
keeper who filled that office for forty years. and
who has retired 10 make room for Thomas f.
Stone who was cfef usher at the White House
IN the Roosevelt administration. is reticent man.
who has always taken his position seriously, and
has seldom spoken of the incidents which came
under his observation. Writing his paper
about his visit the White House In the first year
of the Mckinley administration, a German editor
said: The contrast between the surroundings of
the American President ard those of other rulers %
impressed itself me in the dnteroom. There
were no uniforms. A soldierly looking old man
stood guard the entrance to the Presidents
chamber. but in such an nostentatious manner
that one would have thought him to he waiting as
we were, to be received. He called nearly every
body by name and his strong German accent made
me feel perfectly ct home.
Yes" says the lady. after an acquaintance of
ten or fifteen years before has been renewed. Il
remember you perfectly"
''Indeed?" murmurs the gratihed man. I am
glad know that.
Yes at one time 1 thought of marrying you"
oh he replies. detectedy, I thought for the
moment that there might nave been something
that made me dinerent from all the other men you
ever knew. Life.
Sir John Tenniel the celebrated cartoonist of
punch" has entered upon his ninetieth year the
eightv-ninth anniversary Of his birth having been
observed on February 81 Sir John Joined the staff
Of punch IN 1851 and retired in 1901.
John dear am afraid the baby is left-handed.
In grasping his nursing bottle ne almost always
does ii with his left hand"
Hurran5 he & may haKe 9s @ n91n u = IaEnols some
of the major leagues"-ChcaEo Record-Hersld-