New-York tribune., 1910-08-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

On August 10 II will be forty-flve years
since the Suez Canal was opened. The fact
was spoken of yesterday by a merchant
who has as a remembrance Of the occasion
A guest card which designated the place
which his father occupied at dinner in
celebration of the event at Cairo. II shall
keep it." he said, until the Panama ditch
is finished. and who knows but I may have
a companion card then to frame with the
old souvenir.
''What we must do" thundered the poll
tician walking rapidly down the street be-
side his bored acquaintance. what we Eng
Iishmen must do is to put our foot down
firmly on these foreign imports" And to
show that he could practise as we'll as
preach at that moment he put his foot
down on the skin Of an imported banana;
and his friend walked on aione.-London
Globe.
The Ninth of Alb. a day of gloom. Will be
celebrated by the Jews tomorrow. 1t
commentaries the destruction of Jerusalem
bv Observation-Disclosures $50 B. c., and by Yes
pasian and Titus ESQ years later. DR.. Isidor
Singer in an article on the subject, says
that the day commentaries less relig-
ious than a national event; and If its cere-
monies assumed in the course of time an
exclusively religious character, that only
illustrates the curious fact that the old
Hebrews were unable TO separate the two
formative elements in the makeup OF their
people"
New Jersey must yield the palm for
gigantic and bloodthirsty mosquitoes TO
Florida The captain of a sloop in the
Everglades escaped from an attack by the
birds only by abandoning his vessel and
making his way down the river IN q leaky
skiff.-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Over in Italy producers of vegetables are
combining against the eXactions and ra-
pacity of the middlemen, and Consui d.
@ Wood reports from Venice that recently
the truck gardeners of Chioggia organized
a selling society, as an Investigation re-
vealed that many of their vegetables were
selling in Venice at 100 per cent hlgher
than what was secured for them al the
farm. To-day the Province of Venice has
fifty of these cooperative societies. and
all the other provinces of the district re-
cord similar development Of the coop
erative idea as applied to agricultural &C
uvites.
WHY is it that when the waitress brings
YOU your hot cakes she brings you only
one little pat of butter about the size or a
caraway seed, and if you ask for another
pat she brings you about three times as
much?-Baltimore Sun.
There is a concerted movement on
the part of the press of New Brunswick
to attract settlers to the vacant lands of
the province where the problem of the
abandoned farm is proving difficult of solu-
ton. 1t is said that there are more than
one thousand vacant farms in the province
available for settlement, and the land is
fertile and cheap.
Treed by q COW moose. q Massachusetts
man started to play phonograph, and the
over two barns and four havstacks and
losing itself in the woods We know ex-
acty how the moose felt about ii, and
nothing but the speed laws prevented us
two thousand different occasions.-Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
In fghting the tussocz moth. which
threatens to destroy its trees. Oak PARK
one of Chicagos suburbs. has enlisted the
services of the children by offering money
prizes for capturing the moths and destroy
ing their eggs. 1t is hoped that by August
%. when the contest closes. the destroyers
of leaves and trees will he wiped out of
Oak Park. but IT will take more than one
raid to keep them out. fer the tussock Is
persistent and hard to exterminate.
Some folks dat gifts more dan deir
share" said Uncle Eben. rs so ridic lous
dat dey amt Untitled 10 congratulations no
mo- dan de man who accidentally monooo-
lies de picnic by sittin' IN de lunch baS-
ket. Washington star.
Eyaporating low grade apples for export
has lately had a good start in the apple
producing districts OF Tasmau mia, and prom
ises much Increase. During the last year.