New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-24
THE TALK OF THE DAY

Colonel John Rodgers Mclean keeps booming fos
Cleveland In tho still small voice OF the editsna cornns
in The Cincinnati Enquirer while Colonel George Alfred
Townsend keeps right on booming for Blaine in the nevV
columns OF the same journal. At last accounts Colonel
Townsend led the by several laps Philadelphia
Press.
correspondent OF family magazine wants 10 know
how boil cabbage without the ffsagreeable odor Of
cooking filling nearly every room In the house The psa
Is very simple and elective Place piece OF old rubber
Of the rubber kills the odor Of the oabbase-and
You will probably want 10 kill the person who suggested
the pan after you have tried NorristOwn Herald
The S. Stephens Rerier weekly society paper pub
hed in London reads the religious papers OF this coun'
try lecture for being "nasty particular" about Mr.
Clcyelands private life. "The religious writer's IL says
who thus cast stone at General Cleveland have ap.
paenty forgotten the story OF King David" IL will bs
to the American people TO be told that Mr. Cleveland
IL General and that he is worthy to be compared with
the reputed author Of the Fifty first Psalm.
No fewer than 1000 make living in Paris by
the production Of artificial flowers ami the majority OF
almost to perfection At present there are many
of these women out of work. owing in part to flowers
being out OF fashion and partly TO competition In Eng
land, Germany and Amerca-lPmladelphla Record.
recent number OF The Sam Weekly Advertiser. pub
lshed in Bangkok. contains the following paragraphs
The Raah of Tuluban by the permission OF His
Majesty the King has given to General Haldernan. the
United States Minister for presentation to his Govern
nent exquisite gold mounted Kris and two rare gold
Malay artisans in the Rajahs province. lie will be
remembered the friend OF shipwrecked seamen. and
the recipient OF medal OF honor and magazine rife
from the American Government His Excellcncy the
Prime Minister superintendent of the Malay states ar
ranged the presentation"
You say Virtue is its own reward. remarked the in
dignant tramp. and that honesty Is bound to win'
Look me; did of with milliODare's daugh-
teri Did ever fail for ten millOnsI Dd ever 80 10
Congressl | a Snnday-schoo superintendent
president of a savings bankf No, sir Ny life Ia
perfect picnic OF honesty and what's my rewardf
cold hand out with an order 10 20 out In The street ana
eat IT, I'm going to quit this honest racket and DC q
politician something - Pittsburg Chronlcle-Iele-
graph.
The st. Louis papers are now making fun or the
Chicago drug They say that half the people whe
20 to them prescriptions die before they get them
and the other half die after they get them.
The London Word apparently likes the clergy no better
than American girls It thus describes type of Eng
sh cergymen. Formerly the fool OF the family was sent
into the army; nowadays he shues into the Church or,
If the newly edged parsOn has any ability about him. an
ncurabe sluggishness Of disposition prevents him from
displaying 1t to advantage. He has no wish 10 come TO
the front He has neither pluck spirit power Of
pication nor 60 poor, invertebrate. weakkneed
creature morally and physically limp with an ignoble
torpor His one idea and object Is to exert himself as
little "a possible do the least he and to do 1t In
the most slovenly fashion that will pass muster"
Two German Americans were walking down Che'tnut
st. Philadelphia yesterday talking politics one of them
said: Cleveland Who is hel Vat is he Vat has he
doDei Nodding He ia an excuse"