New-York tribune., 1910-12-10
THE TALK or THE DAY,

Paris pet lovers are said to he up IN
arms over d proposal by the MunIolpaI
Council TO levy a tax Of approNiI'l''te'y
40 cents a head on cats. One of the Demo
cratic leagues has decided 10 protest on
the. ground that the tax on cats Is, or
would be entirely anti-democratc, Tor
+bare would be no means OF arriving at
fair apnortionment between the Angora
prize cat and the tabby mouse hunter
which Is kept in every restaurant ana
grocer's shop as one OF the first articles
Of necessity.
Contenptuous Waiter fwho can stand 1t
no Ionger)-Scuse me, sir, you don seem
liable 70 get ali that soup hup with $gur
spoon. Shall ! get you q piece Oh Htot-
ting paper?-Tit-Bits.
THE RACING QUESTION.
One may be wrong, one often Is
But as one studies things
Which out of ponies and the tracks
Investigation brings,
He seems somehow 20 tind hinnsef
BY this conclusion moved:
That something else besides tbe breed
ii7'i' W. J. HAMPTON.
eha-Fov- long do YOU suppose young
married couple could live on toVs
Ee-Oh. as long as il lasts, ! IIndGi1e e
Chicago News.
According to d seth-smith. curator ot
birds of the London Zoo, birds of para
disc are not so very rare. His statement
is called forth by the great interest shown
in one of the birds exhibited at a rece,it
show in London that said 70 bc the
only one IN England and valued at $500
Mr.. Seth-smith writes to The London
Daily Mail to say that while the bird III
paradfsc lis becoming scarce In lis OWN
couutrv solely on account of Inc harbarons
fashion Of ladies wearing its pluInea in
their hats. there are now nvinS in the
geological Gardens in Rereut'= Park no
fewer than forty examples of this Won
derful family"
How did You get along at tae card
fF;isi Fine. my husband lost FIVE games that
he couldn't blame me for. '-8et~olt Free
Press
Elnli-a IS incubating a comprehensive
schoolboys' garden plan for next year.
Last summer. according TO The Adver-
tiser" q. hundred boys made good farm
ers of vacant lots. and II is now proposed
To place practically all such unused prop
ertv in the city under cultivation, the pu-
pi1s of the public schools to be the gar
products.
Il made five hearts glad today said
the minister / married TWO couples De-
That's only four Where's the fifth happy
heert - asked the pa-shioner.
You don't suppose | married them Tor
nothing. do YOU Toledo Blade,
Buffalo has a censor of moving picture
films. He's Police Captain Forrestal. ap-
.,~;,,.o4 T,.- SuDeriu+eudeur Rngan after q
series of Juvenile dereictions said to have
been traced 10 suggestions in the views at
cent theatres Captain Forrestal tells
,'rhe Buffalo News that the pictures he's
seen so far have too many hugs and
kisses'' in them. and he proposes TO reform
that al once Captain Forrestars work is
made comparatively easy. there is one
general clearing house for all the films
ueed in Buffalo. The managers of the
amusement places are not taking kindly
to his SUPERVISION at all. They say that
the films they use are ell censored In
Chicago before they are sent out. The
Ruffalo police retort that Chicago and
p,,fyaIo are not in the same class morally
and that their say goes.
.sualf a loaf is better than no bread
,id the ready-mada philosopher
..Sometimes" replied Mr.. Sirius Barker.
.rT2,It not if it's half of one OF the loaves
my daughter learned 10 MAKE III COOKING
school Washington Star
sydney f Marshall. who died at Wash
in,,ton a few days ago. was one OF d party
of three young fellows who spoke To John
Wilkes Booth in front of F'ord's Theatre in
washington Just before Booth entered the
hYtIdine TO assassinats, President Lincoln.
and 10 whom the ASSASSIN said. in answer