New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-04
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

oro ~ tho MANY celebrations for when
81 Ci,y Hail has been Illuminated took
Mace on August IT, 1883, when the Atlantio
cable was completed on that occasion q
shark from the fireworks came near oe
stroving the building. A diary record nlauo
az that time and still preserved IN Ne"
york home reads: This day Will De re-
nerobered for all time because OF the cele-
bration in honor OF Cyrus W. Fields great
accompIishment. Thousands Of our clti-
zens have decorated their homes and IL
Illuminated I'm honor OF the event. but only
. TOW rer,enbered that this is the ami
versarv also Of Robert Fulton's first Voy-
age up the Hudson In the Clermoht' VI
'Fulton's Folly If We see what fultoh
novelty has become since then, we nat
urallv ask, What will Fields he in nfty
years.
Didn't I tell you that when you met
man I'm hard luck you ought TO greet nm
with a SMILE" said the wise ana gooo
'o IVES replied the finty-souled person.
ct went even further than that. l gave
him the laugh. Washington star
THE FOURTH.
To-day we celebrate the Fourth
With dignity; for we
Have scattered broadcast through the
North
The plea for sanity;
Well watch in moving picture shows
Our former monstrous errors
And rest contention this day knows
No terrors.
But. spite of doings safe and sane"
Some very little boy
VIII have his fingers blown in twain
By harmless cannon toy;
And some mature men will be killed
(Which fact we shout the louder0
BY guns they viii, not know are filed
With powder
A. W. U.
Long Faced Individual tell YOU, young
man YOU are going straight to hell.
Young Man-AH ri. old chap! See you
later-BostOn Transcript.
Fame may he a fine thing for the person
who has acquired IT, but be IT ever so great
II Is never complete. An incident In the
SUPREME Court few days ago might be
cuoted in proof Joseph II. Choate. leader
Of the New York bar appeared in court Tor
the first time I'm several years. Il see Jo-
seph H. Choate is here said a reporter
TO a court clerk. "Who?" asked the latter
official. "Choate," replied ,he scribe. WHO
,s hep again queried the clerk you
know. Mr.. Choate," said the reporter. The
clerk replied nonchalantly and In all serious
ness. Seems 10 me ! have heard OF him.
You call that horse race success?
asked the American I'm Europe
~ marvellous success. 1t took months
Of the most careful preparation.
But there was no remarkable speed de-
T"Certainlv not But didn't ytu observe
that the horses finished In the exact order
In which their owners would go In TO
state dinner" Star.
The China correspondent Of "The Lancet
gives a grewsome picture ~ the disposal
OF the victims OF the plague In North
China. The greatest difficulty, It seems,
has been experienced in this matter. About
one hundred and fifty grave diggers took
five DAYS 10 dig pit large enough to hold
one hundred collins the ground being
frozen deeply. The dead. cofined and un-
cofined, accumulated in huge stacks but
the local officials absolutely refused 10
cremate as advised by the foreign doctors.
II was not until permission had at last
been obtained from the throne that the
dead could be burned Pits Is feet deep and
q feet wide were dug and fires OF wood
made I'm the centre OF each: then the bodies
were soaked in parafflne and thrown in
why did you decide to come out or
hiding"
All my friend" replied the ex dictator.
YOU have never tasted OF famel What
satisfaction cen there be in remaining hid
den when the public no longer displays the
slightest curiosity as 10 your whereabouts? p
washington Star.