New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Mime. Katherine Breshkovsaaya, = vro
pisaded not guilty to the charge or having
peen crimnally active in the Russian reVo-
lullonary organization, but added; / ad-
nut tnat / am a social revolutionls'' at
the opening of her trial in st. PetersourG'
Is popularity known as 'the mother Of the
RUSSIAN revolution" and the Russian Joan
or Are" She served twenty-three years as
a nard labor convict and exile In Siberia.
ana Tor two years has been confined in the
fortress OF SIS. Peter and Paul, ST. Peters
purg. Nine Breshkoyskaya has lectured in
'he United States, and q petition for her
leIsase was sent TO the Car two years ago
signed by fifty prominent men Of the
Chlted States Nine. Breshkovskaya is
more than seventy years old.
clever? -N' "
She-Beautiful. / think. You see. there
III AZ rota OF stupid men, but only 4 few
piind ones.-RoSton Transcript.
A correspondent writes to The Tribune:
"A man accused of crime in New York, to
prove an aiibi, declared he was in his
nome IN Philadelphia at the time the crime
vas committed. In order TO see If he Was
telling the truth the court catechised him
On MS knowledge OF his native city. One
question was, Does the Schuylkill River
run through Philadelphia Judge, he re-
Piled nothing runs through Philadelphia
Discharged, said the court" Just now the
question arises, How about riot? That gen
orally runs. and pretty rapidly. too.
a PESsIAIISTIC CAROL
prudent life is hard 10 lead:
You think h11p
Determined that you will take heed
Win lowly mood and meek.
AIid When at last you've told your mind
With wisdom sadly small
on wish; as critics harsh you find.
fcu hadn't thought at all.
Though You select your path to climb
As through the world you stray.
on re sure to wish full many a time
You'd gone some other way
IN thrift you, stoutly perseyere.
Ana nnd, Whate'er you try,
INC substitutes about as dear
AS what you wished to buy.
Washington star.
Tho disappearance Of Miss Violet
Charlesworth from her home" says the
''Morgen Post" '.Is proof that the English
people have recognized the value of adyer-
Using on the American plan. When the
young woman finally returned 10 her haunts
as quietly as she had vanished and in the
mean time had made her name familiar 10
all England and wherever English papers
are read, the trick was suspected. All
doubt on that subject seemed to have been
removed when her name appeared on tie
playptlls Of q London vaudeville house,
and now the disappearing lady IS receiving
Scoo marks a. week. That is not English;
that is American"
50 she treated you coldly?''
Coldly? Say, I'd have had 10 have
to find out what latitude I was in If / had
been there for that purpose. ''-Chicago
Record-Ierald.
The people of Milan we're permitted re-
Gently 70 get a glimpse OF the convict island
OF Lipari by means OF scenes IN Rossana's
greWsone play. ''Den1iciIio Coatto'' Lipari
IS the Italian Siberia, where second and
third offenders are sent for betternnent, but
where. IN fact the last vestigs of good is
crowded out of them. The i've hundred In
Ia hitants CT the island may do as they
please III the daytime, but az night they
are herded in the old Norman castle The
cenVicts are not allowed 10 work and re-
ceive % centissinni daily. The scenes and
situations produced by this arrangement"
said one who witnessed the performance,
opened the eyes Of the Italian people, but
it was all so dreadfully shocking, so hor-
rible, that 1t became uncomfortable and the
fact that it was a true picture made it
doubly So"
We just got big dictionary" said Uncle
Henry.
You don't need one in your business do
youE' asked the owner Of the general store.
Yep" SAID uncle. It's pretty near time
for summer boarders, and | amt son' 10
have em sskin' me how TO spell words
when they're Writn' letters. Buffalo En-
press.
An enterprising clothing hrn in New
York has brought out little booklet with
q silver OF wood piercing the cover and
these words printed thereon: - piece of
the North Pole and the absolute facts as
10 who first reached the frozen goal" The
joke is that the inside pages Of tho book
let are blank.
L. Let see, VIC sometimes call a man
Yes, when ne brings disaster"
That's the funny thing about it. The
original Jonah was a prophet, while the
modern Jonah is loss."-Boston Tran
script.