New-York tribune., 1910-11-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Around the Earth in Five TO Seven DAYS
is +ba headline of a circular letter sent
broadcast bv a man in Esslingen-on-the-
Rhein who wants 10000 marks to defray
+he cost OF a model airship with which the
earth circIing fight may be accomplished
THE inventor who has worked at the ar
shin problems for years. says the circular
.'is forty-seveu years old. a practical me
chanic. and I am his business manager.
The ship, the promoter adds. will have
speAd capacity of $50 kilometres an hour,
its passengers will take no risk as TO
safety. stops will be made without any
difficulty and as many as one hundred per
CONS will he accommodated. All that the
promoter wants now is $1,000 marks TO
build the model.
RiIev-How about that gold mine you
bought stock in last year? -,
Sr1iiev-Why we've called II The Bull
dog" it's the bravest little mine you ever
heard of.
Riley (puzzled)-Bravest?
Smiiev-Sure! There isn't a yellow streak
anywhere in it!-Puck.
GOING UP.
The aviator in his craft.
Nav oct the wallop. fore and aft:
The winds may yank him TO and fro,
And though
His engine may refuse to go
And let him drop a mile or so
Upon a oornfield or Il town
And skin him UP from heel 20 crown
You can not keep a good man down.
W. J HAMPTON.
Diggs-I see that they're making brandy
from Sawdust.
Wiggs-Good gracious. as If the forests
were not disappearing fast enough as IT
is!-Cleveland Plain Dealer
A hook of anecdotes OF famous physi-
clans by Gustav Hochstetter and Georg
Zehden has been issued in Berlin DR.. Mar
Gus Herr is credited with saying 10 pa
tient who read medical books diligently in
order 10 prescribe for himself: BE care
full. my friend Some fine day you'll die of
q rnisprint" Professor Langenbeck. in
speaking Of the increase in surgical prac-
tice, said: ''The human family may be
divided into two parts-one operates and
the other is operated upon
In China people worship their ances-
so I have heard Evidently they have
no college sophomores in China. chicago
Record-HeTdld.
The German Navy Department has
bought up all available ground in Heligo-
land for the extension OF its naval base on
the island The consequence will be that
Heligoland will gradually cease to exist
as a seaside resort and will become d
strongly fortified naval station. Heiligen-
damn. the German Newport on the Bal
tic. patronized by the Crown Prince and
Crown Princess, has proved failure as
a financial enterprise.
You are going to the polls regardless of
the weather."
Yep" replied Farmer Corntossel; my
idea of a real patriot is a man who will
travel jest as far TO cast his ballot as he
would to see circus. us."-Washington Star.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Of Kansas IS about TO vary the old
custom of presenting gifts TO Uncle Sam s
warships II has made an appropriation TO
buy enough Bibles and hymn books to pro-
vide one of each for every sailor on the bat
tleship Kansas.
The Hon Bertie-Anything unusual hap
pen while | was out. Charles?
His Man Charies-Yes. sir; your tailor
didn't Call.-London Opinion.
The office of a brokerage concern in the
Wall Street district has been the meeting
place lately OF a number of men who seem
10 be interested In the stock quotations.
but who according to the manager OF the
place. never played the game with chips
bought In his Office The group had he
come conspicuous because Of their animated
discussion on political subjects, which
usually lasted until the market closed
Warning his regular customers of his in
tention and its object. the manager had a
huge sign put up. on which was printed