New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Policemen stationed on Riverside Drive chase the
children from the grass Last Sunday officer was
indignant because one small grass-loying urchin re-
fused TO keep of, and admonished strolling man
and woman that they must keep him of.
Ever a boy?" asked the "Whatll do, tie
him with rope a ctan?"
"Weil. you keep him off, warned the policeman
81 will not" replied the man.
There vas an argument but before crowd could
collect the policeman was made to understand that
neither the man nor the woman knew the boy
didn't YOU sec that sign Fresh Paint" asked the
Sbu. I've seen so many signs hung up here announc-
ing something fresh that wasn't that didn't beleVe
it."-Boston Transcript
Apartment houses in New York are prisons to small
children who have been accustomed to roaming a.
large and doing what they pleased IN the country
One boy in Harlem has discovered that whenever ne
Jumps from chair TO the floor he is sure TO DC 'ou
you mustn't do that. There is some one below.
o,o Sunday he was being taught about heaven. eff
90 there, he asked, will be told all the time to
keen quiet because there is some one below
els YOUR wife so very economical them"
ooh yes: very Why, my wife can take an Ola
wornout $40 hat spend Sl5 on 1t, and make IL loon
almost as good as new.'-Puck
Among the children seeking air and play IN Ceh'fS'
Park one day last week the twelve-year-olo 50"
- an Amsterdam av painter. He the ringeader
in snorts with one crowd and felt his dignity was
being stepped or by another boy who later came UP
and tried to dictate to the players. he looheu ioi
something about the new boy which he could rdcue'
and noticed gold tooth which the boy showed when
ever he could. 49,,
Huh shifted the Amsterdam av boy my lS'nei
paints gas pipes with that stuff"
"Why do you insist on having your daughter take
Il want her to quit singing popular songs. II she
goes into classical compositions we may be able 70
convince a number of people that the way II souhu'
is the fault Of the music."-W ashlngton 0isr'
The mast Of Sir Thomas Lpton's yacht Shamrock
III, which has stood as flagstaff in front oil me
Brewster Building in Long Island City for the ias'
four years, will shortly be removed to one OF the
parks of the borough to make way for the queens
boro PIaza station of the dual subway. The removal
of the great staff will be no easy task IL IS en-
bedded in twenty-five feet of solid concrete his
cannot he blasted away without injuring the pole
An effort will be made to raise the whole mass and
then break away the concrete.
pr A.-why do you always make such particular
inquiries TO what your patients eau Doe' '"
DR. Mot that but it enables me to ascertain
their social position and arrange my lees "e'o'ue''
Topeka Journal
desDite the SUBSTITUTION Ol steam AO' SAN
continue 10 be supersttious lot. Recently on an
,ntovn subway train two discussing the loss OF
tho Fmnress of India and the probability that ner
cantair Kendall who lost her on his first voyage IN
command would get another good berth
81 dinna KEN" said Of the sailor men "He
were nae unooky. 1t was Crlppens snost tna'
wreclit his ship"
I. was Kendall it will be remembered, who arrested
Dr. Crppen and turned him over to justice and the
sailor had in mind the fact that 1t was at Faber Foh
in the ST Lawrence, where the Empress OF ireland
lies in ten fathoms of water, where Crppen, escap
inc IN America on his vessel arrested by Captain
Ker1cll
She superstitious after all these years! Don't
Won remember on the evening we first met how a
black cat ran across our path and you s"ore some
misfortune would happen to you?
He-Well?-Houston Post.
In in the "Tenderloin" there is a six-foot police
man whose fondness for the vernacular is exceeded
only by his willingness to discuss any subject under
the sun.
What do you think of the Kaiser, Mike" asked
one of the regulars his post
"On the level me boy" replied the big fellow; "he
reminds me of San Juan Hill gangster full oil COKE
When you run Up agin of them devils you do
just as the Kaiser has made all the other kings and
things do-call out the reserves"
care you going to take vacation this year ~
mo: I've got 70 spend two weeks at Atlantlc Clly
with my wife," said Binks.-Phiadephia Ledger