New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-05
THE TALK or THE DAY.

As n rule the Canadian papers are quarrelsome JUS
now they are discussing the expediency Of publishing
Sunday edition. And though they all take grouha
against suoh course they got into fierce quarrel
over the question.
THE HOME OF THE PINK ARBUrUs.
sophrona asks where she will be most likely to IND
the pink arbutus just now
Far In the depths of the mighty woods,
where the swapping turtles run.
And The brndie COW in the branches broods
From the dawH 10 the set or sun;
Where the caribou and the panther hght'
And the blue fox bowls the Iiyeong night
Near the den Of the BOolum shark;
Where the ramptiOus Mugwunp makes MS lair
Aud the amOrOus guyascutls
His love song sings 10 the grizzly bear,
You'll md the pink arbutus.
psf you don't find IL there let US know Boston
Courier.
few DAYS ago a gentleman left Kingston, Ont, in
the morning and arrived In Boston In the evening.
when he left Kingston the ice in the Bay OF Quinte WAS
frozen over solid for hfty miles. But rs soon as he
reached Vermont he experienced temperature of9O,
and began 10 think he was In the tropics
An article IA going the rounds OF the newspapers
teilug about the first pottery In America. said To nave
bern eat Ibsnen in this city AnOut the year 1851 Inls
may have been the first porcelain pottery In this country,
hui IL was certainly not the first pottery There Is
plate In this city made in Lancaster County as lar PACK
a. 776 aud marked with the date OF its production
Yellow ware was made at a still earlier date In Pha-
depbia. The term pottery Is very DfOau ohe-Hucn
loo broad 10 be limited TO industry esat shed IN this
country only nftynye years Philadelphia Ledger
Professor william Everett says that the MugwumD has
a red crest We don't think red crest Is very orna-
mental IL is much better than red nose ana there
fore we congratulate the Mugwumps.
Rumor has IL that OF our local skating rinKs WIZ
first AT tho end OF thi month win cieI
nront of $4,000 Aud some cergymen VIII declare
that there il good in roller skatins'-tCanOrdse
Mass Chronicle.
ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY.
John Bull to Russia -
"You'ye gone quite far enough-come OIL
our power you seem to sheer at
The Russian Car to komarot
March Oh, my boy, " Herat'
J. B. tor:
''Why do you at all treaties soon,
And obligations Jeer afr
Tho Russian Car to kOmarOn;
" March on, my boy. to lieraI
]. B.toR.:-
Say kG n ian Sln tS Sns Pssr St "uSA
The Russian Car TO kOmaron;
March ON, my boy, To heral'
]. B. to r. -
re Iawyc ye knaw well then, hold on,
While preparations we're az
The Russian Car TO kOmtrou
March ON, my boy, 10 horat. -.
The real estate lying beteeu st. Paul aud minneapolis
,s In sooe cases doubled In value during the last six
outbs This Is taken to that the rival cities VIII
soon he built up to each other and become QUE
They think little Of the power Of the press In DAKOTA
An
9nnty was railed the OtLer night aud the forms anu
cases 1ed causing n damage estimated NJ $50 As soon
as the editor secure pass. he WIZ gather III s.h'
Start for Chicago and lay IN dress Tran
script
vhie the officers OF the British corvette Garnet
,teuded n hon. the officers Of the Russian corvette
stl, took skip 80 that the Brshers should not get
the lump on them mt the wrong timc'
coi,y to neil on wheels" Is what an Illinois minister
calls roller skating. -Lvenango Spectator
Tnourins youngster-" Uncle. why do the hippopot-
o,nrsps ALWAYS have their mouths open In the snow
huls p, Uncle with malicious equvokel-r To take III
the public my boy; now go and play
r,rst Western Citizen" Thought you were going to
mDye 10 Boom CITY y .>, ..-a an cha ootion
second Western CltlLeh- Nv e"'0 NF w.
ae What's the matter with it, 1heard it was an embryo
Po9h nothing OF the kind IT'S dead andalive sort
OF pluce, not worth notice
"IOu don't say 40 ....t,. s,oros and
"Yes; nothing there c nn' i"o'oiio'' ''''''
churches. ST. Philadelphia Call
Tho opening of tho sporting season Is haiieo WIN
,leas,re AT yassar College. There are eleven law"
,epns courts there already In full operation anu
.ni ~ once be added to the OF developing ana
.ustaintug the strength of the young LADIES' nan
rIavs form feature OF amusement life there' lno
Passing Regiment" was recently gwen ny 'i'e Ai'i"
permisson of Augustin DAILY
rno AFGHAN matchbox or Jazail has parallel az
ahe face OF the earth. II about nluo feet
long aud IA fitted near tile muz1le win prong wheu
supports on the GROUND wnen "oo ~ 20, No hnn~
fuse An Afghan marksman has 10 depend upon Tue
state of his fuse and therefore ne Is by no means Gc a
ioke among the British soldiers that an Aghsh WOMB
poise his Iazai upon rock calculate when his enemy
sse and then 20 on to little distance and sit down
and smoke If the enemy arrived In front OF te
killed but II no didn't, and the weapon went on q
quarter hour after ho had passed. IT, then no har