New-York tribune., 1910-06-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

'Pastime,' little paper published
monthly at Port-au- Prince. contains this
Item: 1T is pItirul to see the foolish way
in which the city cockneys expose them
selves to be crushed by the locomotive en-
gine. They fancy that it is cowardice to
get out of its way. But we were all taught
quite the contrary from our boyhood." The
same paper contains a biography of George
Washington, of which this is the intro
ductory paragraph George WASHING
TON died at his residence at Mount Vernon.
in Virginia United States Of America, De
cember, Saturday t4th. 1899, at the age of
sixty-eigh years. He was born February
Friday end. 1872
Scene-Soldiers' barrack room at dinner
time.
asks: Amy complaints. mem
Voice from the other end Of table: Yes
Oficer-WelI what IS it?
VOce--SpUds is bad. sir.
Officer-Spuds is bad! IIaw-eri (Turn-
ing to sergeant. Spuds is bad! Haw,
sergeant I5 aG (gaFi1g G ty aR@fi man
hisgerant, sir; he means 'taters" Tit
Bits.
The action of Representative De I,ouen,
who has given notice that he will Introduce
a bill in the Louisiana Legislature to pro-
hibit the playing of bridge whist, will un-
doubtedy be good news to a New EI-eisnd
physiciaI:, who spoke in favor OF similar
legislation for his state last summer He
was attending a child whose mother was
devoted TO the game and who did not allow
the child's illness to interfere with her
bridge engagements. One evening, when
the physician made his usual call at the
cottage which the woman was occupying
for the season, he found the patient much
worse and the mother absent, playing
bridge as usual He left note with the
nurse. in which he said: Called this
morning, mother at bridge; called at 8,
mother at bridge; called at s, mother at
bridge Patient would be no worse and
the world better if mother were in jail"
The note became public in the little town,
e.nd for short time the power of bridge
was broken.
NOT WITHOUT HONOR.
whats that? Jim Grayson wants to be
a member of the club?''
"Who ever told that bonehead he could
calls himself a pitcher Why, that ordi-
Couldn't even land a job of pitchin' hay"
In this wise spake the Podunk fans (per-
haps not without reasOn)
When the local team five years ago. was
planning for the season.
Jim Grayson. premier pitcher of the
worlds champion team,
P0dHnk,s P6aI 5 favorite son. comes hQUe to-
ITO think we helped him learn the game
il really doesn't seem
hoorayr
In this wise 1.-TWO years later) did the fans
their pride restrain
When the dub returned in triumph. The
morals trite but plain
Chicago Record Herald.
The so-called daylight saving plan has
been found to work well in the big plant OF
the American Bank Note Company in OF
tawa, according to the manager. The
scheme is simply that the big printing
company starts an hour earlier in the
morning in the summer time and closes
earlier in the afternoon. giving employees a
chance for recreation before nightfall. The
idea has struck the manufacturers OF ST.
Paul as good one. and eighty-nine con-
Germs, employing six thousand hands. have
agreed to try it until fall.
Howard-When DR.. Incision operated on
me & ne left pair Of sqrgicai SUR Sa scissors in my
Lawyer-Better just send him large bill
for storage.-Life.
Referring TO the controversy in The Trib-
une as to Lincolns ancestry. a man who
has made family rames study says:
Some years ago / met, in little town in
Schoharie County. Vedler. of undoubted
Jewish descent. whose name was Abraham
Lincoln. In answer 10 my question as to
where he got the name, he said: My name
is Abraham Linker. When ! began 20
peddle in this part of the country. and told
the people my name, they called me Abe
Lincoln. and ] couldn't make them do
otherwise. Ii got that my letters were
addressed that way, ano merchants from
whom / bought goods made out the bills
10 Abe Lincoln. 80 the name WAS forced
rpeS ms. "Linker," the senealegist con-