New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

| Everybody has heard of the meanest thief
| in the world The most hardened one Is
somewhere in Maine. A Skowhegan man
accuses him of stealing a real, live skunk
from his cage The Kennebec Journal
| tells the story and says that "a CORE
spondent wants 10 know what our readers
would think of man who would appro-
nriate a redoIent strper from another
mans tran" Whatever the answer. there
one thing that can safely be stated-the
act carried with it its own punishment.
First Passenger - That is Conductor
| Punchenl He is one of the most expert
enced men on the road. ...
Second Passenger-I knew 1t before you
| told me.
! First Passenger-How so?
| Second PasSenger-Because he slams the
! door at the precise instant that he calls the
stations name.-Judge.
THE CAT THAT FLEW WITH WELL
MAN.
Let Tabitha and Thomas Cat
| Whose home is in Harlem fiat,
Meow and purr most gently at
The cat that flew with Weuman.
Il is an honor when a man
Tries the Atlantic pond to span.
But is no greater honor than
GAA-A----
Put how could Wellman hope 10 fly
Across the oceans pillows high
without some mice to satisfy
The cat that flew with Welman?
The reason for the failure seems
4 lack of rats in mdair streams;
The oceans vessels grant its dreams
The cat that flew with Wellman-
wellman might gain the airy track
without the pangs of seasiCk's rack,
But cats, 'Tis known that cats come back!
That's why one flew with Wellman.
A. w. U.
Switzerland now has a prohibitory law
against absinthe. The act, carried In a
referendum eighteen months ago, has gone
into effect and henceforth the manufacture
and sale of the dangerous beverage are for
hidden. A correspondent of The London
Standard" says that "the new law means
A revolution in this country, and it is pre-
dicted that the Swiss authorities Will at
first experience some difficulty in carrying
it out
I'm certainly lucky man"
Il had on my good clothes yesterday
morning when my wife made her coIiec.
give any but old stuff away -Detroit Free
Press.
There's nothing slow about Rome, Ga.
II Is making all the advertising capital 1t
can out of Mr.. Roosevelt's recent visit
there and to every member or MS party
has sent, in the name of the Manufactur-
ers and Merchants Association, a pretty
little illustrated booklet setting forth the
charms and the chances of the place, and
the following apology: This association
nIeads guilty to negligence in not appoint
ipa the weather man on it's committee of
entertainment It was an oversight that
we hope time will efface in your mind 1t
rained 'pitchforks and battleaxes on the
day of the Northern invasion.
..Of course" said the surgeon who had
operated for appendicitis thele VIII Do
''rhat's all right" replied the patient
Leave any kind of a mark you ike thaI
will prevent some strange uoctoi u taoLh
coming along and operating again - WI Sh-
ington Star.
on a recent visit TO Baltimore Colonel
John s Mosby. the famous Confederate
LEADER made a protest In the newspapers
against the number OF frauds who pose as
"Moshy's men" Il don't reckon that or
the three hundred men In my command az
many as one hundred are still living,
says Colonel Mosby. 81 only know posi-
lively of about fifteen. and they are scat
tered all over the country. But II had
had as many men as now say they We're
with me | could have driven Grant out OF
Virginia. Every time they have reunion
there are some hundred or moro VINO regis