New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

the Car of Russia while he and his family
were visiting Germany" says a Berlin cor
respondent of Paris paper, was a hunt
ing party on the imperial preserve, near
Borgsdorf. Nearly three hundred animals
were slaughtered for the fun of it., and
the natives who had an opportunity TO see
/ the. two monarchs drive away from the lit
tie station got a glimpse later also of the
trophies Of the hunt To some persons who
were there the Expresses, with their
feather tipped hurting hats. We're less at
traetive than Prince Oscar, who rode on
the back seat alone. and he was conspicu-
GUS because of the monster rosette on the
back of his hat and the gigantic cigar be-
tween his lips"
ooh, yes, Tommy said the teacher, IF
you have dog you are the owner of a
quadruped.' "
mo. / amt insisted Tommy.
Don't contradict me! | explained to you
yesterday that any animal with four legs
'4Yes,n; but Rover lost one O. hisn fight
in a trolley car"-The Catholic Standard
and Times.
THE Kennebec Journal has a tale of the
Maine woods that is not unlike the familiar
'mistook him for a deer" yarns that gen
orally tell OF the death of q hunter. Tt says
that a Hartland man starting out after a
horse before he put on the harness so that
the animal would be warm. Arriving at a
likely place he tied the horse beside wood
road and went into the woods He had not
travelled far when he struck an old road
Following this for about mile he saw in
the distance what he took to be a moose
standing in the road. Taking careful aim
he fired and was much pleased to see the
animal fall He rushed up and found he
had killed his own horse.
CHRISTMAS TRANSPORTATION.
Renders mighty skttsh and
Dey don look strong o limb.
Fob travellin cross de winter land
out in de starlight dim.
NO c a s1e Wh6 az ae 5feI I you draws
If wus Mistuh Sanity Claus
I'd get myself a mule.
Course. he could have motor car
But s'pose she staht to skid?
Dem aeroplanes dey travels far;
But S'poSe dey comes undid
An draps de outfit?-if he'd pause
An figger calm an cool,
bet OF Mistuh Sanity Claus
Would git hisse'f a mule.
washington Star
]. j. Repin's portrait of Tolstoy, showing
the venerable philosopher in bare feet and
wearing a long white blouse. has been re-
produced in cheap form and thousands of
copies have been sold to admirers in E,I-
rope and in this country. A New Yorker
who received one from Germany returned
it to the sender with this Endorsement:
Years ago a brilliant American humorist
and sage wrote that men show by the way
they wear their shirts on which rung of
the ladder of civilization they stand. Those
who wear it Topping over their trousers
are away down. That's where Tolstoy
nv b9 rd tha N,
spoken of portrait of the novelist shows
that at the time of his death ne had still |
some climbing to do
80 your old sweetheart is going TO be |
married"
Yes
who is the happy man."
There's lots of EN-"
why. she can marry but onei"
That's what I mean. Houston Post
young woman who was a passenger on !
board the Lloyd steamer Prinz Ludwig |
with the German Crown Prince and |
Princess on the way to Ceylon writes that |
the royal couple seemed to enjoy every
moment of the trip. They We're so demo- |
cratic that no one would have suspected |
their rank and consequently they We're the
most popular people on board" says this
observer They dined with the other pas
sengers and joined freely and without re-
serve IN the deck games. posed for snap
shot pictures and We're. In short, just pas
sengers The Crown Prince went below
to the crew sometimes, and the stokers |
speak of him as a good fellow "
Waiter-What will you have, sir?
Customer docking over the restaurant |
bill of fare)-Permit me to cogitate. In
The correlation of forces it IS a recognized
property of atomic fragments, whatever
their age, to join, and"
Waiter Shouts across the halD-Hash
for one!-Tit-Bits.
The porter at the Grand Central Station
who abused c. L. Spofford. OF Utica, be-
cause he offered him a 10-cent tip, recalls
the story told by an old commercial traveller
at a recent gathering of ''drummers," IF
there's anything man learns when he sells
goods the road IL Is how. when and
where to do the tip act was the introduc-
ton to the story. Il went to the station
once in the same bus with a fellow sales
man at Chicago We We're both bound for
St Louis. We We're met by the hotel porter
with our checks. | gave the man a quarter
the usual fee-and when the train had
started and we were having smoke NV
friend told me that he had given the porter
nothing because he late In getting bis
sample trunk to the hotel when he arrived,