New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-26
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The city psychologists OF Chicago have
made a collection OF public drinking cups
from hotels, schools, stores and railway
stations. and have, with a view TO prov
ing their unceanliness. made bacterial
cultures and mlcroscopical examinations
from them. They found germs OF many
varieties and specimens of .diphtheria and
pneumonia. Pigs were inoculated with
these germs and all those which wero
treated with the pus germs developed fatal
Assesses. Many positive tests were also
made with the dipbther!a cultures. The
secretary OF the Illinois Board OF Health
writing on the Same subject. says: THE
public drinking cup is as antiquated as the
ducking stool and tho inquisiton; people
never think Of eating from public plates
or wearing public clothes or smoking pub
lie cigars"
Mrs Gramercy-The number Of buttons
the present styles call for Is blessing IN
disguise. Va
now possible to spend two hours dressing
without wasting your time.-Life.
One OF the cars of suburban train which
came into the Grand Central terminal a
few days ago had it's usual complement OF
early morning passengers. but many or
them were standing, although number Of
seats were unoccupied. The conductor, UNI
able to account for the cause. asked one
OF the standing men why he didn't Sit
down and was told that the child sitting
in the centre Of the deserted part OF the
car had the whoopng cough. The child
was coughing, and its mother. blind TO the
small panic created by the youngsters evil
dent distress. was slapping the little ones
back vigorously. She was the last to leave
the car. and when told how the child's
malady had frightened the other passen-
gers she said: "Whooping cough nothing!
The kid swallowed piece OF chewing
gum"
THE people in these foreign hotels" said
the voung tourist, have the queerest
ways ever saw
whats the matter nowT
Why. Just now asked .rs sns c spS bs
replied that the Russian interpreter was
out. ia like to know what connection he
thought tnere was between the two. LIP
pincott's.
A writer in the current number OF "Our
Dumb Animals" speaks Of the articles "evi-
IDENTIFY paid for and sent out to an impe-
cunious and easily hoodwinked press to
prove that "aigrettes are taken pa'nlessly'
as untrue-uslng the shorter and moro ex-
pressiye term According TO these ac-
counts" says the writer. the plumes
Of the white heron are only gath
cred as they fall from the birds I'm the
moulting season. Pray tell us. gentlemen
Of the feather business, why three men. as
game wardens appointed 10 protect the
white herons, have been murdered by the
plume hunters, and why men OF unques-
toned veracity. who have seen the slaugh-
ter going on under their own eyes. de-
nounce tho traffic IN aigrettes rs worthy
only Of savages?"
Guzzler-Tve just bought a yacht, but
she is rather small.
Wigwag-What is her capacity?
Cuzzler-Fifteen cases Of beer and room
for four people.-Phiadelphia Record.
In the current number OF THE Journal
OF the American Medical Association" Drs
Ludwig Heckton and George II. Weaver
report experiments in which attempts are
made TO inocuate monkeys with scarlet
fever. or thirteen animals ten showed no
signs of infection. while three became Sick
shortly after incubation. one monkey de-
veloping a fever four days after inocula-
ton" No eruption was found on the skin.
The Investigators conclude that az mon
keys are susceptible to scarlet fever the
susceptibility would seem to be slight. and
that there probably is a good deal OF nat
ural resistance 10 this disease on the part
OF monkeys as In man.
Maud-Jack is telling around that you
are worth your weight I'm gold
Ethol--The foolish boy. Who is he tell
ing il 10?