New-York tribune., 1910-07-30
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

Notable Men Of Chicago and Their City.
a splendid specimen Of the photo-engravers'
art has been issued by The Chicago Daily
Journal for distribution among other pub
iications in the country. In its four hundred
pages are more than one thousand excel
lent halftone pictures OF well known men
i'm the Western metropolis, handsome resi-
6ences. public buildings ard institutions
and manufacturing establishments. with
brief explanatory sketches. The Tribune
acknowledges with gratitude the receipt
Of e COPY.
AUGUSTUS" said the boys parent. your
headmaster informs me that you desire to
become a missionary. This noble aspiration
pa replied the errat,c youth. that
was SO. But it's off. l've sWapped my
foreiEn stamp collection for white mice. -
London GLOBE.
4 nlea for the preservation Of the French
language by the French people has been
made by the Paris Figaro" in which the
writer points to the fact that English words
used in connection with sports have in
yaded the realm of the native tongue and
that the lend is not yet" Commenting on
The article, a German writer says. We
Germans have the same complaint to make
as to the English language. Among the
words which I notice in German papers IN
the last month are these: Stay, finish, rec
ord, race, pool, track, swing, path. football,
lawn tennis bunker, course, garden party,
fool, detective Cprinted detektive and detek-
tifl check, smoking. dress. snob, loop-the-
loop, week end, meeting, trainer boxer,
prizefight, champion. cakewalk. firt, cash
Ter. shocking, dam. pair, unfair, trick
strike, blotter film. drill, chance. match.
So,- L,.ah m in
terview. globe trotter boycott. king, sketch
and bellboy.'
Little Girl-You needn't brag. We've got
baby al our house, too
Yes, but yours is last year paby
Ours is the very latest style. Life.
big red touring car with four passen-
gers aboard came in contact with a news
boy in front of the federal building, to the
discomfort of the boy and the ruination OF
his stock in trade. II took only few
moments for large crowd TO congregate
about the machine. which a traffic officer
halted, and after cars had been delayed and
hundreds of questions had been asked by
persons who saw the congestion there was
an exchange of money for mud -bespattered
papers, the crowd melted away and the car
passed on. When it was all over a swarthy
little fellow, with papers clasped tightly
under his arm, was heard TO say: Guess
I'll hang around dis corner and make a
wholesale business"
Cityman-I suppose you have a dog on
vour place 70 keep tranps off
Subbubs-No but I have a horse that
Scares them away
Cityman-A vicious horse?
Subbubs-No. It's very quiet It's saw
horse-Boston Transcript.
Roof garden dinners have become feat
ure in Paris s widely circulated picture
entitled IAN Oasis" shows one OF the lofty
restaurants. with a view OF the city. the
conspicuousIy high architectural features
being easily recognized. AT the tables are
seated Claude Casimir Perter and Nine
Pe ier. Rostand' and his wife, Prince and
Princess George of Greece and number
of other well known Parisians, and In
group standing as though waiting for
tables are Gabrielle d dAnnunzio, Pierre We
and Nine. Rejane.
rs she q great singer
No l shouldn't call her great. You can
understand every word she sings detroit
Free Press.
One of the incidents Of the Kaiser's re-
cent visit 10 ISiel was his reception on
hoard the Hohenzollern OF DR.. Leutze. tse
new Minister of Finance The snapshot man
was active when the interview took place.
end >seyeral pictures were taken. Speak
Ing Of these pictures, a French paper says
.Dr Leutzes round hat is pressed tightly
upon his head. as frnly, in fact.sas the