New-York tribune., 1910-08-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

If was a hundred years ago yesterday t'ih'
Robert Fulton made his first trip up the
Hudson in the Clermont Inc Hillei ic
Citizen of August II, 1olo' contaihS 'i'i'
,.raqranb. "Mr. Fulton's ingenious Steam
Boat, invented with u View to t1e Na'isd
+io, of The Mississippi from New Orleans
unvards Sails to-day from the Norlh
River near the State Prison, to Albany
The yelosity of The Steam Boat is Calcu-
lated at miles an hour: it is said that II
will make a progress OF TWO dsaiiis'
current Of The Mississippi, and If SO 1t
will certainly be d very valuable acqulSl-
,ion to the Commerce of the western
c+a+asr According to Edward Hagaman
Halls history. the Clermont made the trip
ia Albany in thirty-tuo hours. The state
nrison referred to stood on the block no"
Rounded bv Washington, West 10th. West
and Charles streets, in old Greenwich VII
lage.
4 yorksbireman was standing next to a
representative of the Red R9se Gu ,naotinc
,rban i,e remarked: Il understand that
Justice is meted out very quickly IN .,,Ise uneso
parts" ouck1y, ,,nk nxcaiihsu a is Why WI mate
liz Yesterday an airnan fell out OF MS
aeropiare and he was trled anq seni ~ tbe
TO six months III laii pelol9 .n; What was
srounn, gro %; ''ysgrancy: he had no vsi-
bic means of support t'-Dundee AoNo'
tiSer.
The design of the postage stamps TO De
issued to-day by the Austro-H Hunsaiiai II
postnfice Department in conllnelnora'ioi
of the esrtieth birthday OF emperor
Francis Joseph consists of the liilpei Id !
bea1 of the regular issues, with the addi-
tion Of a scroll above it bearing the o@te
1880, and one below it with the oa'e
.,o1o, Collectors will be interested 10
,.nov that this issue, which is d small one
will be withdrawn at the end of the year.
,,,or oil the stamps remaining unsold VIII
he DESTROYED. A special issue has peeh
printed for snia-Herzegovina
C,onductor-What do you think? That
woman that left the car at 1ith street
didn't get off Backyard. .r,,. ali Tho
Motorman-say, Blil, r ! tlopsif i17 dis@,,lseE
time that thaL was II ii'h III ~
Chicago News.
A dinner will take place this evening at
tho home of a New York merchant, for
which invitations have been accepted py
twenty men who represent many profes-
sions and branches of business, but VINO
are all natives of Austria Hungary. In the
co,,rse Of his letter of invitation the host
saws: I'VE are all American citizens, ana
will he none the less loyal TO our country
if we drink to the health of our old
Kaiser who will celebrate his eiShueth
birthday on the 18th. Come, and bring
vo,lr thirst with YOU and he prepared to
ioin In singing, "Gott erhalte Franz den
Kaiser"
Friend-So your great Russian actor was
a total failure?
Nanager-Yes Tt took all our profits to
nav for running the electric light sign With
his name Oh lt-Puck.
The "chain prayer craze. denounced by
bishops and clergy in this country as the
invention of fanatics and a nuisance. has
struck England, and pulpit and press are
invefghing against it. The vicar of St.
Augustines South Croydon, advised his
parishionerS who received such prayers y
with requests that they be sent on to nine
other persons. to drop them into the waste
basket. IF the whole population took to
writing chain prayers" he says, lit
might be a good thing for the postofffce,
but II would be an intolerable nuisance to
the general public. Eighty-one persons
would be il volved in the second round I29
in the third 6.561 in the fourth. 50 049 in the
fifth 531 Al in the sixth. 47S2,969 in the
seventh and 49, ~ in the eighth. Every
one in Great Britain would receive the
chain prayer on or about the eighth day,
the whole OF Europe would get it on the
ninth and the whole world the day after
''He tells me he caught ten pound trout
in that lake"
Give you any reason to believe him.
Gave me a tolerably good cigar
Washington Herald