New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The spirit OF Peace on Earth, Good WIN
10 Men" crops out in most unexpected ways
and places. The Chicago Tribune pub
fishes a letter from the warden of the
Wisconsin State Prison, which says: In
closed please find postoffice money order to
the amount Of $40. This Is sent you by a
convict at this institution. The prisoner
has asked that the following instructions
be complied with: The money be used to
provide Christmas cheer for one poor fam
lily. He would like to have a Christmas
tree provided for out Of this money and the
balance TO be expended for a Christmas
dinner and presents for the children. I'm
DER our rules the prisoners name cannot be
given you"
\ man went to an insurance office 10 have
his life insured the other day. do you
cyClc2" the insurance agent asked.
NO." said the man.
no you motor?
do you. then. perhaps ny?'
NO, no." said the applicant laughing Il
have no dangerous"-
But the agent interrupted him, curtly
Sorry. sir" he said. hut we no longer
insure pedestrians The Argonaut
What the intense heat OF last summer
cost Vienna I'm sickness and mortality IS
estimated from the returns published by
the city sanitary authorities. The deaths
in July and August were 159 and Sll, re-
spectively. above the figures for the same
months last year. Usually the mortality
IN tho summer months is the lowest in the
whole year." says The Pail Mall Gazette"
but the death rate for last August was
as high as I'm any of the winter months.
1t was, in fact. the highest recorded in
many years. As might be expected, the
mortality was highest among very young
children, who fell easy victims to the
stomach and intestinal complaints brought
about by the hot weather These diseases
were extremely prevalent this summer,
amounting TO no less than 81 per cent Of
all the cases attended by the city poor law
doctors"
Paticnt-When laugh my side hurts me.
Doctor-Ah, well, well soon put that
right Send for your mother-in-law to stay
with you, and | Will send i'm my bill.-Pele-
Atlc.
Dr Il. Clement Lucas OF London. In an
address at the Royal College Of Surgeons,
predicted that men might In time become
one-tocd race. The little toe, he said, had
already lost one of It's extensor tendons,
and I'm quite an appreciable percentage Of
cases one OF its fleXor tendons was absent
also iOn the other hand. the great toe had
undergone extraordinary development be-
cause the inner side OF the foot was the first
TO catch the centre OF gravity In transfer
ring the weight Of the body from one foot
tC the other I'm walking If the world went
on long enough. DR.. Lucas added. In per-
haps half a million years the useless outer
tees. being less and less employed, might
gradually disappear.
- saw magician turn water into milk
last night
Hes no magician, he's a mllkman."-
Houston Post
How many times can coin be changed?
That was the sober mathematical topic Of
lecture recently delivered before the
Mathematical Society Of Ulm by Professor
Sautcr. The figures which he gave proved
that his contention was correct-that few
people know the change possibilities. lie
showed that "A tw6-pfcnnig piece could. of
course. be- changed but once and five
pfennig piece only three times and To-
pfcnnig only hVe times. The rise begins
with the 2j-pfennig coin. which can be
changed sixty-fou- times the nfty piece
i05 times and mark-i0o pfonnigs-53S
times Tho big hsurcs come with the two
mark niece. or note. which can be changed
II 9sl times the throe-mark note d9l,'5
times and hvs marks 5.--1. ~ times. From