New-York tribune., 1910-10-05
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

According to a statement Of Z dealer In
picture postal cards, the Jewish New Year
is now second in importance in that line Of
business and the sales for that season are
eclipsed In quantity only by the Christmas
card sales. At Easter and Thanksgiving
time much business IS done in this line,
''but." said the dealer, lit cannot be com
pared with tho Hebrew New Year demand.
We handle about twenty sets, and each of
these has from twelve to twenty designs.
Tho queer thing about the cards is that
most of them go TO Europe and bring the
government two cents each There seems
to be style in these goods as well as there
is in wearing apparel Last year we had
one series of portraits of which the Roose-
velt card sold best and another series with
Zionistic subjects. Both these sets arc no
longer for sale. and the cards most III de-
mand bear illustrations from the Bible and
all are inscribed Happy New Year in
English"
''They are talking great deal about the
prosperity of the farmer"
yep" replied AIr. Corntossel, but life
seems about the same. SUppOSin' I did
have a gold hoe or an AK with diamond
studded hande-it nd he just hard as
ever TO dig an chop wood d"-Washingto
Star.
AUTO NUISANCES-
The town complains, and well It may
About the constant smoking
OF motor cars which do not care
How many they are choking.
But, say. although the smoke IS bad
Wherever autos strike
Gee whiz, if all their noise were smoke
What would the town be like?
W. J. HAMPTON.
Kind Old Gentleman-Are you in pain.
my little man?
News.
II is rumored in Paris. and the rumor is
firmly believed by many, that the ghost
Of the Chamber of Deputies has again
been seen. This ghost is known as the
yellow Man" and it must be a ghastly
apparition for it is tail, emaciated, almost
transparent and its face is dark yellow,
while around its neck there is a dark circle,
as OF blood. so says the tradition, accord
ing to which the yellow Man" made his
first appearance in the chamber in Novem-
Der, 1851 Just before the coup d etat Of Ma
poleon III. The ghost reappeared in 1870,
shortly before the outbreak Of the Franco
Prussian War, and was seen thereafter on
the eve of the death of Gambetta and of
the assassination or LarnOl- VI course. II
walks only at night, haunting by prefer
ence the gallery that leads to the private
apartment of the president of the cham
Der. Supertsitious Parisians are speculat-
ing as to the nature of the new misfortune
which this latest appearance presages.
''Have q cigarette
That's Illegal in this state.
"Suppose we start Il game of cribbagC.'
Hardly worth while. That's illegal IN
the next ashinSton Herald.
In commenting on the Engineering Mag
aZine's'' article on The Modern Seven Won
ders Of the World" u writer IN the Nor
genpost' at Berlin says that the world
will probably not accept the list. which in
cludes St. Peters at Rome. the triumphal
arch of Paris, the Suez Canal, the Eiffel
Tower the St. Gothard Tunnel the Firth
of Forth Bridge and the fastest ocean
liner. "These are all wonderful lac admits,
but a triumphal arch VIII some day
eclipse the one in Paris, and the Panama
Canal VIII be a competitor for "A place
among the seven America will have sky
scrapers. II they do not already exist. to
rival the Eifiel Tower. and the great
steamers mentioned MAJ soon be relegated
TO second place The underground and
underwater railways of the New Wcrld