New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

number of the newspaper men who
cover Police Headquarters employ as
messenger a youth quite unlike the gen
eral run Of sharp, gamin-like Office bovs
of New York. AS one Irish policeman
says, he's so Crane its a wunder the
horses don't eat i'm up" The other night.
when things were dull, one of the report
ers ordered Tommy to take this pail and
go over to the Bowery and get 10 cents
worth OF compressed air for the COPY
tubes And Tommy trotted off on the er
rand. -ts~. ....t--
Phyllis (up from the country)-But Diek
Lhfs Is just like the last piece you brought
This ,, is The Naughty Girl OF Nice'' and
sure,t srT other ,ea, vas The Grasse Widow"
are TWO entirely different places. Punch.
Entering a Tenderoin saloon vbers
forty rod is 1.-The best In the house, a
customer called for whiskey. He drank il
and gagged and gasped. .'Gr me another
ana let me take whisk BROOM he said to
the bartender
"ot oye want Of whisk broom" de-
manded the 'mixologist"
Il want to dust clean aI.ca -, a.,
hoor where / can have a it," was the
answer. ~
And then somebody went ont On his
head W
Go ahead, old Nineteen Nine
Send the snewdrifts down the line,
spread your clouds across the sky
Let your frosty arrows fly
rlhcn our ears and nurab our toes,
hedden each obtrusive nose
Set us shivertng as you will
with the north winds clustering chill
And get through it.
Let tho climate quite exhaust
All its store of wind and frost
So that when young Nineteen Ten
Greets us, earth may smile again,
Like some garrulous old scold
You will shout until you've told
TO the last your tedious tale.
We must wait and let you vail
And get through it:
Washington Star.
One OF the public schools at OakdsIs
Penn. had 10 be closed because some bows.
dissatisfied with the decision as TO the
duration of the holiday vacation. took re-
venge by placing Limburger cheese in the
radiators. The odor did what the authori-
ties failed to do. On last April Fools Day
some boys at boarding school near New
York made use of the same fragrant ma
teriai. A small particle was put on all the
doorknobs throughout the building, with q
result which was highly satisfactory only
to the perpetrators of the joke.
Does YOU believe it's lucky TO see do
new moon over yoh right shoulder %
'Sho | does replied Mr.. Erastus Pink
to see any kind of moon any waW.e T.eey
Washington Star.
Writing about the family OF King A,bert
nf al
genpost' OF Berlin says: Little Prince
Leopold is making rapid progress as -.
vioilnist. He displays no phenomenal ta1-
ent but holds his instrument and u.ie,as
the bow in manner to give his instruc-
tor encouragement. The music teacher has
a painstsking and intelligent assistant q,
Queen Elizabeth. who is an Accomplished
violinist. and does more for her sons musi
cal education than the paid teacher
picture which was recently taken sbou.,
the Queen in plain black skirt and .
white shrtwaist. with not the smaIles, or
nament visible, standing In plainly fpr
nished room, violin In hand teaching IN.
little prince. 1t is the kind of nIc,,,.s
which Will 90 far toward winning the re
spect and esteem of the people"
This feler Cook began Uncle Gosb,u
oh. let up on the North Pole"
Il don't blame him about the North po,s
part of 1t. hut ! do blame him for scat,era
ing around lot OF low Temperature fp-
ures and putting all our local reminis-
cences on the bum. Louisville Cour,eS-
Journal.
Or. Nen. Phiiadelpha's Director =,
Health, has stirred UP fine hornets ras,
among the medical men OF Quakertown hv
declaring that hard as IL Is 10 BELIEVE
there are some physicians who viii nor
give antitoXln In diphtheria cases. nor adj.
minister II as preventive in houses where
there Is diphtheria. because II will cure and
prevent disease. and so render visits from
these physicians unnecessary aud keen
them from taking In additional 5o-cent
fees" Wow, What a rumpus there ia
nov, As II there was not trouble enough
over the directors general charge hts chief
medical inspector pr. Cairns. had TO come
along with tank Of kerosene to add TO