The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-12-25
TRIBUNETS.
UP IN The CHnIP

7 p IN the choir 1 sat, and there sat She
The Autumn breeze with breath of bush and tree
would float
-, And bore away from me each soft. sad note
mat stirred her breast with sacred melody
L rose: there was no soGEd of song in me
IIelSned to sing. devoutly frank and free;
WINE a lark lifted IN her swelling throat
Up in the choir.
How fullest the Sabbath spent might be
Inc parson showed, with heads some tyventy-three
With many proved and poUs text to quote
Instance and illustration learned by rote-
How fullest spent! think found it, We
Up in the choir.
III. T. Banner, an Christmas No. Of Book Buyer
The next breeze that sweeps from the South may
bring to the crash of a crumblinc male
despotsm,' and the erection upon its ruins of "a
republic OF eElancipated women 1t transpires
that III the way of a surplus of unmarried women
Paraguay lays away over" Massachusetts Politi-
cal wars and bad whisky to say nothing of the
mortality connected with cock-fghts have so
weeded out the men of Paraguay that they now
average less than one TO every two women The
ladies consequently do about all the work in the
fields and the shops, and the men devote the leis-
ure thus acquired to politics. chicken disputes and
monte.
The framework of jokes are handed down from
one generation to another like andirons and spin
ning-wheels. For instance: The Hartford Post
learning that there is a coin in Southern Russia so
small that 1t takes go of them to be worth ST. re-
marks that they must be very convenient for ehari-
table purposes. The joke appears in every age.
without much alteration. 1t is first noticed in
English literature after the ascension of James L
to the throne had brought in horde of hungry
Scotch plaee-hunters, to the great disgust of the
English, who wanted all the places themselves.
Jokes at the expense of the Scotch of course, be-
came very popular and this was one of the most
popular:
Why are they coming farthings again."
To give Seotehmen opportunity to subscribe
to benevolent objects"
Net0 York Tribune: The reduction in rostaoe Il
must be admitted, has worked very well so far.
but it gives owners of patent medicines corn
cures and other ancient and modern inventions
mean advantage over suffering and over-worked
humanity at large. When one cent used to carry a
crcularit could always be detected by the unseaI-
ed envelope. Now they come sealed like any
other communications, and the average mans curl
osity is never satisfied till he tears open the wrap
per and brings forth the contents. Then by way
of revenge the air is split Without such express
sions should not appear in print
PittSborg Chronicle Telegraph: And now the hon.
est tramp, while anxously hunting for JOB at
haying or picking Strawberries, weeps as he reads
that in the new Congo country hair-pin for fe-
males and tooth-picIl for gentlemen constitute
full dress suit.
Boston Transcript: The conversation at eSum-
ner hotels next season will usually begin with
some such remarks as When was in New Or
leans last Winter or During my visit to the Ex-
position" or something about those charming
Creoles the romantic picturesqueness of the
Crescent City. People who shall die between this
and Spring will have good deal to be thankful for
COMEDIES OF TIyISsFJTP
There are no end of funny stories about twins.
constructed an immoral comedy on the
rlisadventures which followed the visit of Anti
phoIous of Syracuse with his Dronio TO Ephesus,
where, unknown to him. resided his twin-brother
and his Dronio. The main features of the plot OF
the pretty little opera of Cirohe- Giroha are the
resemblance of twin-sisters, and the misadvenures
of their lovers. Wherever there are twins of any
degree of likeness there are sure TO be an endless
succession of comcal mistakes made. IN Toledo,
(Ohio not Spain), there formerly resided two young
gentlemen named Welles who were twins and
greatly resembled each other. One of theul-Geo.
Event out as Adjutant of the 6Sth Ohio and at
% was the Colonel of the regiment, with we'll
earned reputation for gallantry. Innumerabie
laughable blunders in identity are recounted con-
corning them. The Colonel Geo. E.) was ratheran
Indifferent billiard player while his brother VIII
liam was an expert. Once the Colonel was engaged
that his defeat was inevitable. Exeusing himself
for an instant he slept out into the corridor where
his brother sitting, and explained the emer-
gency to him The latter pulled OFF his coat
entered the billiard-room, picked up his brothers
cue and easily vanquished the other fellow who
never suspected the imposition upon him.
An entirely new twin story comes from Penn
sylvania. Near the little town of Edenton in that
States resides family which has twin boys who
are wonderfully alike Their elder sister had "a
love of bonnet" waiting for her at the milliner's
which she anxious to wear to church on
Day. She wanted one of her brothers
10 go to town for it. Boylike, they squabbled OYER
the erfand, and finally the mother exerted her
and ordered Dick TO so. He went OFF in
bad humor. The millinery store has a large mirror
facing The store door. As Dick entered he caught
sigh, Of his reflection in the glass; and Thought
Il was his brother, who had sipt through the fields
ahead to play a trick on him. He flew into rage,
shouted and shook his fist at his own reflection in
the mirror and stamped backed home withouisyca
asking for his sisters bonnet.