New-York tribune., 1909-07-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"One OF the simplest things to represent on the
stage would think, is daylight" says an italian
named Fortuny in the 'Theater zeitung" and stiu
| its accomplishment has always bafIed stage man
ayers. our dayligh: does not come from one point
but from all directions, and this light. from the
SKY. Is What has not yet been produced. The diff
cuties however. have been overcome and on the
stage Of the Royal Opera House at Berlin the
stage daylight of my invention will be seen when
that house is completed The effect Is produced by
electric light mirrors prisms and silk cloths OF
various coors. through which the light is made to
stream"
THE HUMOROUSNESS OF THINGS"
What we cail sense Of humor is curious affair:
some say us rather common; some consider II
It's funny when somebody seats himself upon pin
Provided it's somebody you're not Interested in
It's funny when the gold brick deludes trust
And leaves his crops in and puts his family in
It's funny when small children eat green fruit and
And suffer paiiH-thoush could never see exactly
It's laughabe to a man in most things brave
Break down and seem quite helpless when arec
tion's hopes go wrong
It's funny when some man in whom the public
Gets out and makes silly spurge with other peo-
It's funny when you stand for hours as on the cars
IT'S funny when big autos have explosions or COL
lide. VI 0ol-
When note the timely topic and the gay satirIc
IheTG no doubt sense Of humor is very curious
Washington STAR
Ihere is wave of fear in some parts of Scotland
that the spread Of the temperance movement will
cause marked decrease in the consumption of
Scotch whskey. with corresponding loss TO all v,bo
are Interested in its production. ''Dynamitlrds"
as naphtla drinkers called have reappeared in
Edinburgh. This "naphtha" is a milky colored
compound of great staying power" and is COM
ni1tb
Of methyl alcohol and three-eighths of l per cent
OF petroleum. with as little water added as tsste
calls for. 1t kills quickly.
The man with the CLASSY eye and preternaturanv
noQkihs oinGs at CharinE Cross AMI demanded n
clerk Ths W6udbe ira, hapPfd the booking
dgnity.-London Globe 4
Brazil has some tariff duties which maxi, o,r
highest look like amateur efforts-penknIves eq1
per cent screws. 33i per cent: iron racks 4ao per
cent; iron bits, 52s cent: school chalk 552 per
cent: key rings. 629 per cent: American canned
vegetables pay duties of $40 per cent; canned goods
AS onions, GIG.
Nobody ever dies in Tombstone unIess-they bring
it within" or fall into G00-foot vertical shaft or
or try to thaw out powder mistake cyanide of
potassium FOR FOR sugar sugar or start off county seat re-
ners of Daniel Boone, bit none have ever been
tracted in Tombstone. aside from the above men
uCred causes and occasionally abnormal tight
ness about the throat, superinduced by a coil of
nGnila rope, or from cold caught through hole
made by .45.-Tombstone CArizJ EpItaph.
From the fact that for more than half of his
transcontnental walk of nearly four thousand
miles Edward Payson Weston had TO pound the
ties" because the roads bad 1t would seem
that there is lots of room for good roads move
ments between here and the Pacific Coast
Recipe for making a constitutional monarch:
Take a few thousand troops, a good general and
o eleven machine guns; turn the latter raD-
idly until white flag appears out of the palace
window; sprinkle the quiveTing ruler a few
threats of what will happen to him If he isn't
good then when you take him out, the chances
are that you will find nice, tender. constitutional
monarch lt to grace any table.-Syracuse Herald.