New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-26
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

1.-The Boston POST reports that $4,000
has been subscribed toward statue OF DR..
Edward Everett Hale, to be erected in Bos-
ton. In a strong appeal for further con-
tributions The Post says: "Dr. Hale gave
of his life and his exceptional talent for the
good Of humanity, for the uplift of those
who were downtrodden No memorial can
sufficiently recognize this fact, the supreme
and controlling impulse of this great mind"
az read that a chauffeur had been blinded
by an accident"
Poor fellow Wonder if it will make any
difference in his style of driving -Phila-
delphia Ledger
A PARADOX IN POLITICS.
bryan seems to be drying Up in Nebraslca.-
Troy Ttnlesl
Not only is he drying UP,
But he is playing high
To desiccate surrounding things
And make the whole state dry.
Now. how can. Bryan act Ike that
And still remain Democrat?
W. ]. HAMPTON. =
It was after the stone laying ceremony.
and a wire was sent to the builder with
the news: stone laid with great eclat."
The builder, smothering an awful oath;
nuttered, Another new foreign cement"
and flung the missive from him in passion
ate disqualification Globe.
Ex-Empress Eugene paid one Of her
periodical visits to Paris last month. in
order to purchase presents for the coming
wedding of Prince Napoleon Victor Bona
parte the present head of the house. and
Princess CIementine of Belgium Accord
ing to THE Paris Journal" the ex-Em-
press patronizes Partisan shops almost ex-
clusively giving the preference TO those
establishments that served her in the days
Of the Empire. During these visits she
lives IN the Strictest retirement at the
Hotel Continental. overlooking the Tuileries
gardens, under the name of Countess OF
Pierrefonds She refuses Systematically to
see the leaders of the Bonaparttst party.
has lost all interest in French politics and
has become utterly Indifferent to their
course She never refers to the past. her
encourage being forbidden to do so. but
Paris, notwithstanding the memories il
must awaken, remains her favorite city,
the Kingdom as she is reported to have
said. ''of those who have lost their
crowns" Ex-Enapress Eugenis Is now IN
her eighty-fourth year.
Father"
well. what is it,
1T says here, a man is known by the
company he keeps Is that so. father"
Yes, yes, yes"
Wen, father, If a good man keeps COM
pany with bad man. is the good man
bad because he keeps company with the
bad man. and is the bad man good be-
cause he keeps company with the good
man"'-Punch-
"'Cholera morbus' is a term with curl
Gus history" says The London Chron-
icIe" ITO our forefathers cholera meant
not necessarily disease. but one of the
four humors present in every human
body, as the bilious humor. excess of which
made a man 'choleric. Cholera and
'choler' in fact. meant Just the same
thing. So the comparatively mild ailment
which we know as English cholera was
referred to as the disease cholera or
cholera morbus,' in order TO distinguish IL
from the other sense of the word. Much
later when Asiatic cholera was introduced
to the alarmed notice OF this country.
cholera got transferred 20 it,
TOO many cooks spoil the BROTH" quoted
the Wise Guy.
yes, Just as too many appetizers spoil
Philadelphia Record.
The killing OF hunter In Childwold
Park by another hunter. wto mistook the
man for a deer. the third accident OF It's
kind this season in the Adirondack region,
ence, of which he said: MY wife and
had walked far into the woods from our
Adirondack camp and were thinking OF
returning. when we heard a shot and close
upon 1t another. A ball struck tree near
us and things grew interesting. We both
yelled at the top OF our voices and the
shooting subsidized. But we had the walk
through the woods before us. and took
turns in giving warning whoops Then Wa
sang. ! never sang before. and II / am a
judge OF music / never should do SO
again. But We kept il up without a mo-
ment's intermission, until We emerged from
the danger zole and the adventure Is