New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-21
THE TALK or THE DAY.

This "arpeal" by the Gallcian Aid Society
shows that elections I'm that country are
not quiet: "A dreadful catastrophe has be-
fallen the residents Of Drohohyez. At the
election for delegates twenty-five human
lives were sacrificed and twenty-five dam
gerousy wounded men are battling with
death. Women have lost their husbands.
and upward Of eighty children have be-
come orphans The families are given over
TO poverty and anguish, and appeal 10
all who ere able 10 sympathize with the
unfortunate to help. We cannot restore
the dead to life, but with prompt aid we
can assist the living who are in distress
81 see that the War Department has per-
fected a quick firing aerial gun that VIII
scatter projecties at height Of fifteen
aeroplanes will do now?'
why. they'll have 10 go up 15,lO0 feet.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There Is always something doing at
Carlsbad on the Fourth of July writes
a New Yorker from that place. land this
year was no exception There were the
usual decorations in which the Stars and
Stripes predominated and the usual music
evidence There were also the stereotyped
dinners and receptions the value OF
which hotel proprietors know how to esti-
mate And then, on the next day, came
the newspaper accounts Of the festivities
with the never missing list of 'distin-
glushed guests one Of these reports gives
the names only OF these Lord Westbury
Lord Lonsdale, Baron Puttkamer, Baron
Reischach. Count Potocki, Count Harber-
stein, Count Stechany and Prince Do
rotzkof. The Americans were looked upon
evidently as those who also ran
Emdee-That last case has made me miss
the big dinner this evening 10 the dtstln-
guished DR.. jay. It's too late now.
His Whichever mind, dear, the speeches
will he published.
Fmdee-Yes. but the dinner won't.-Bos-
ton Transcript
PETER sTUYVESANTS LEG.
fNote: Artists and historians in New York
City arc discussing among themselves whether
& was Of the right or LETT leg that the late
Peter Stuyvesant was shy.
Historians and artists now
Are studying hard 10 know
Which leg Of Peter stuyvesants
N was that he let go.
But why should they he so concerned
That they will almost fight,
When by II very little thought
They'd know which one was right?
Because II makes no odds all
OF which he was bereft,
For anybody ought TO know
Tie one he had was left.
W. j. HAMPTON.
Little Tim-Father, I'm going TO take up
NIurphy-Don't We dare, We see what hap
pened 20 him, didn't ye? Ye kin follow
Emp'ror Wilyum or the Mikedoo Of Chny.
but Orll not have ye imitatin that Porty-
gese dagO.-Puck.
"They have way of asking a stranger
when he comes TO Vienna" says a letter
from that city. who is the largest the
most reliable. the smallest. the best and
the worst dealer in cigars and cigarettes
in this city, or course, the stranger does
not know the answer, and the native tells
him tr,umphantly: The government
The government has the monopoly, and
every person employed in a tobacco shop
they call them 'trahk'-is a government
employe. Having had notice weeks ahead
that the prices would be advanced on
cigars and cigarettes on July /, the shops
were crowded on the day before and smok-
ers laid in stocks as large as their purses
would permit"
81 tell you" said Farmer Corntossel.
"bein' a sheriff around here is mighty
hard job
You never arrest anybody"
NO. But there's an awful lot o false
alarms Every time one O. these summer
girls sees "A caterpillar you think there =
murder bein committed" Washington
Star.