New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Cleveland. home OF the three-cent street.
car fare. has added TO It's rather unusual
tariff OF rates n transfer scheme which
IS probably unique In tho history ~ the
trolley system OF tho country. inasmuch
as an additional penny Is charged for the
slip OF paper which enables one 20 take
another car That In itself is peculiar
enough. but the most amusing feature IA
that upon presentation OF the transfer
10 tho new conductor the passenger re-
ccivos back his penny. tho company thus
acting In the dual capacity OF salesman
sud purchaser.
Women arc 40 unreasonable said the
baseball fan" when I got home tie
other evening my wife was utterly de-
pressed
What about?"
That's what I'd like to know! Our team
had won a beautiful game" Washington
Star.
THE OesterreIchlsche Wochenschrift"
tells this story: The Ianltor OF the Buda-
pest synagogue was about TO close tho
doors after a religious service when two
little girls about eight aud ten years old
respectively asked II they might enter TO
pray for their sick little brother Between
sobs they told the old man that the child
was near death and that a mass might
sac him. But this is not the place for
mass said tho Jauitor. this is not
Catholic church Tho children insisted.
ana the janitor hastily summoned ten
men, the number necessary for a Mosaic
service and under the leadership Of the
senior prayers were offered for the little
sufferer, which tho weeping children fol-
lowed with closest attention. few days
later a letter was received from the
father OF the children. saying that the
child was on the road 10 recovery and
giving thanks for the Jewish mass.
III give YOU nickel I suppose You
Will spend IL In the nearest saloon, said
the philanthropic old lady.
NO, maam' replied Thirsty Theodore
"Dere's one up In dc next block wot
gives de biggest schooner la de city fer
a nickel "-Philadelphla Record.
when a sculptor receives commits
sion, executes II and sees his work
erected. his troubles on that score should
he over" says letter from Christiania.
but those OF the sculptor Stading. the
creator OF tho statues of Ibscn and
Biornson, which stand before tho Ma
tional Theatre in that city have just
begun. Among those who say that they
are inartistic is the son OF Bjornsor. who
declares that the big circular blocks
which form the pedestals look like
gigantic cheeses. and tho figures which
surmount them remind one of dealers In
that dairy product. who have climbed
10 the top OF their respective stocks.
Ibsen looks as though he were calculating
his profits, and BIornson as though he
were expatiating on the superiority OF his
cheese. My father always looked upon
the sculptured caricature as libel, and
IbAen invariably maoe detour TO avoid
looking upon the work"
This Is the story OF Peleg Oatcake,
farmer who didn't talk dialect, and John
-. Hustle. a New Yorker who didn't
talk about BROADWAY all the time. both
types often met with In real life.
But pshaw! What's the use OF writing
that kind OF story?
Nobody would read it.-fouisville Cou-
rier-Journal
They were strangers I'm this part OF
the country, and on their first motor
trip along tho Long Island shore The
machine had been housed in order that
slight repairs might be made, and the
man from the West and his wife went
In quest OF a quiet place TO dine and
landed In a boarding house. The first
peep into the dining room,' said the
tourist. convinced us that we had gone
wrong hut n waa only a matter of one
meal, and We concluded TO stay The
landlady-my wife called her Mrs Kat
zenjammer' profuso In her atten-
lions, and when the dessert had been
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