New-York tribune., 1912-03-14
THE TALk or THE DAY.

on the twenty-fourth anniversary OF the
great blizzard on Tuesday, "A New York
man showed to some visitors at his home
an interesting souvenir of that blustery
time. 1t was a photograph taken on the
west side of Madison Square. on the top
of mountain of snow could be seen a sign
with the words Keep off the grass. New
York, March l3, 1885" In the same frame
there is another blizzard scene, which was
taken near the Zylonte works, in Berkshire
County, Mass. The scene shown I'm the
picture Is wilder and the landscape more
bleak than its companion, but resembles it
in so far that there is also sign on the
snowdrifts which reads: Spring has come.
Keep off the grass, March IS, 1855" Later
I'm the season the two pictures crossed in
the mails and were assembled and pre-
served the owner said, TO show that it
takes more than blizzard TO freeze Ameri-
can humcr.
He regarded the water wagon with a
critical and knowing eye.
Isn't that-er-chassis a trife out of
date?' he dueried.
Whereby IL was made TO appear that the
cause OF temperance has to contend with
certain difficulties Of q very essential and
inevitable chardcter.-Puck.
PERVERSITY OF PATENTS.
Whenas / spent my idle hours
In cutting grass and trimming flowers
In tamping sidewalks to my doors
Ia fixing ceilings, mending floors,
In painting DER the clapboards wide
Which wall my Villas ev'ry side,
In pruning, perking, prnking things
About my home when time took wings
And flew to spring-whenas, l say,
/ did these jobs my heart was gay.
But nevermore may eager thought
Evoke the charm past acts have wrought;
may not hear the mowers squeak,
The scissors jaws / may not tweak,
The hammer, rake and brush must now
BE laid away with ancient plough.
For patent law as now made clear
Brings TO an honest heart fear
or prosecution If we ply
The tools We need and therefore buy.
Fear OF the law makes me go slow
In sprucing up my bungalow
So. Ill know just where I'm at
I'll languish in a New York fiat
Do nothing. eat my food still raw.
And thereby keep within the law
A. w. l..
THAT prlma donna must love music
thoroughly"
"Oh, ] don't know" replied the manager.
"She doesn't seem TO get bit OF pleasure
out OF hearing anybody else sing WE'LL
Washington Star.
A few days ago. writes an American
woman from St. Moritz. We saw the "pomp
and circumstance" of royalty in England
and to-day we had peep at royal sim
plicitv and democracy which was truly re-
freshing. ON the snow-covered path lead
ing TO the bob sled course we met a group
of three young people. The two women
tramped along arm in arm. their dress In
no respect different from that OF the middle
class guests. The man OF the party wore
knickerbockers, no head covering and a
mufiler hung over one arm. Boys with
sleds and others with skis paid no atten-
ton TO the group. although every one knew
that they were the Grown Prince Of Ger
many, the Crown Princess and the Princess
Victoria Louise
Magnate given to adviceD-My boy, II is
the little things that tell
Young Business Man 6savagely)-T know
it, She's got little brother.-Judge.
The latest addition to the list of human
diseases which are spread through the in
strumentality OF biting insects Is. according
TO The Lancet" kala-azar, or black
fever, and the propagator is the bedbus
The disease is found most often in India,
and there. under the direction of European
scientists, war is being made on the bug
This incriminatiOn of the bedbug," says
an English army surgeon, affords another
instance OF the Importance of cleanliness in
dwellings and the need Of waging constant
warfare against biting insects, more par
ticularly on those which rely upon man for
sustenance."
Come on. ole man. letsh go home"
Not yetsh-the time ish not ripe / got
two Of eyrything now eXshept exshuses
and who wants to go home in thash con-
dishun Philadelphia Record.