New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-18
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

The Washington Monument at the ma
tlonal capital. highest OF stone structures.
and designed by its builders TO stand as
long as the Pyramids. IS suffering from a
disintegration that, while not Immediately
fatal will materially shorten It's life. says
John S. Mosby, jr., In THE Popular Me-
chanics Magazine" This great shaft. SIS
feet In height, consists Of walls Is feet
thick at the base. These walls are made
up OF an outer facing of marble blocks and
a four-foot inner wall made Of granite and
other hard stone. Between these two walls
there is q filing of heterogeneous stone,
reid together by cement This describes
the first $50 feet, which is the part now az
fected This part was built continuously
from the beginning Of the structure. Then.
for years. the construction halted at that
height. 1t Is the interior filing between
these walls that is now. through the deadly
effect of heat and cold and dryness and
dampness attacking II alternately begin
ming to dsintegrate and ooze out between
the Joints OF the outer wall.
Captaln-Can't you do something FOR that
seasck passenger. doctor?
Doctor-No: he wants too much.
Captain-Why, what does he want?
Doctor-He wants the earth!-Yonkers
Statesman.
THE POINT OF THE PIN.
Though ladies all. OF course. are tair,
Complaints from time TO time arise
Because the hatpins that they wear
Are quite offensive I'm our eyes
But woman knows what she's about
T. ell haf
She'll stick TO them without doubt,
And you may pin your faith on that.
Though when, upon a crowded car,
They pierce our muscles and our Joints.
We fancy that we are not for
From keenly feeling all their points,
This point we do not catch at all
We men are all as blind as bats
How many years, can you recall,
Have We complained of woman's hets7
On battleshlps, for ages past.
When crews prepared to die or win.
They nailed their colors to the mast
In token that they'd ne'er give In.
SO woman at the present day
VIII not capitulate; instead.
III token that she'll have her way,
She's nailed her colors TO her head.
G. 3. NJ.
Customer-Ca' you AXE up perskIptive
for a bad cowd?
Chemist-Certalnly Have you got the
prescription with your
Customer-No. bud I got tho cowd.-
Punch.
A delegate TO the recent hotelmens con-
gress I'm Berlin, who has been connected with
hotels I'm several Continental cities I'm va
rlous positions from chief porter TO pro-
prietor related this story to a Dresden
reporter: 81 slipped away from my friends
one afternoon and went TO restaurant for
a quiet smoke and a cup OF coffee. ] rec
ognized in the man who served me
friend Of my youth whom / did not address
by name, fearing that he would feel humil-
lated. On leaving l gave him tip OF one
mark-a sum much beyond the most lib
eral point. He took II IN silence, followed
me TO the door and said: Franz calling
me by name, now you still owe me four
marks He had recognized me also and
when his duties as waiter had been filled
reminded me that when we we're fellow
workers borrowed Ave marks from him
which / never paid. | have given him
place on my hotel force"
Funniman-Here' a joke that I can't
think of a heading for. Can you suggest
one2
Editor (after reading iD-Yes; Back from
the Dead."-Boston transcript