New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-20
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THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

nailed the small house OF the trainstartsr at the end
OF the platform OF the City Hall Elevated Station.
Judging from the tedious delay in starting tho trains
uptown times could be blamed If ho mistook
1t for dormitory.
Boil the water you use and you viii have cholera"
all PUTS an enthusiast the subject 1t Is certain that III
raging in prohibition Kansas is not. cholera Nothing
IL but medicine from drug store put up In pint
Rye water AGS now to- .s H Tey fry bake IT,
troll itbut they never can boil t-Chcaso IrDune'
The Reno Nev.) Ga=ene came out the other day as
follows; II the property holders expect the boys to turn
the next fire they had better show them some
cigars they feel Tery not getting thank
you from anybody The editor has since explained
that he wrote signs" where the compositor set
cigars"
BEAR. BULL AND BEER.
The Russian Gar
"rll brew you, John. some Afghan beer,
And may 1t speed your rule or ruin
John Bull.
80, no! you wont, for much fear
The beer that is OF Russian Brun."
The Russian Gar
What won't accept That's mighty queer,
thought you lOnged for this llDatlon"
John Bull
" I did; but blast this tax on beer
i Roxbury Advocate.
"I,s doo-sld hot" remarked Brown to Jones' as
though he had evolved an original idea. Yes" an
swered Jones, "a he took of his hat AMI mopped his
brow; and It was 80 hot last night that couldn't
sleep Just kept tossing about from pillow to post all
night long"
A Greeneyille woman whose husband had been
missing for three weeks concluded Thursday that he
,.t he Tie man who was drowned the Yantic River
she called upon nndertakers and finally reached
number OF articles by which the dead man might be
Identified. she shown the ten dollar Dill ana the
two two-dollar notes, and that settled It. | don't
know" said she. when my man had a. much money as
that. When h. left he had not cent with hlm -
Norwich Bulletin
The robbery OF church poorboxes be thirty
ing business in Brooklyn and Jersey City. One man
caught in the act excused himself by saying that he
was poor, and merely helping himself to what was
really his This was ingenious but 1t was bardlysan
adequate defence in the eye OF the law.
Tho that Haches out Brood of Chickens and
the Hen that n Prophetic Egg getting In their
work sweet Girl Graduates appear IN the headlines OF
Apples are ripe enough to transplant into the
waste-basket. The silly Season has opened iairIy-
Philadelphia Record.
The italian Government certainly cannot com plain Of
variety Mr. Cleveands selections OF Minister at Rome
Mr. Kelley was ready blow up the Quirinai; Judge
stallo Is equally ready to blow up the Vatican
RoNDEAU.
o, Conveys Islel
Why turn my thoughts so swift 10 thee,
Why gaze longing DER the gstning bay
10 NY white shore upon whose sands breakers
And where the reuton quaifs his beer
Thou art not as thou vast IT'S said.
Now Fashion to thy shore IS led -
The sharpers left thee eyernore,
o Conveys Isle!
And so-and so-when comes each year,
The summer with its heats more near,
Awearied OF the citys roar.
feel "a longing for thy shore.
Yes, even for thy clans 80 DEAR
-[ToJn Topics
Poor Mr. Mash had his namo changed by Brooklyn
Judge the other day. lie fearful of being
thought "masher" that life burden to him.
Ig4 S.s.
unto green old age.
The State Industrial University at Champaign. H.,
has suffered much from misun tcrstanding or the
character OF the institution. because OF that word
Industrial" that the Legislature has stricken It out
from the name Of the college. The word has been
much applied to refomaory institutions that 1t has lost
It's character -lsprlngiield Union
A Western Democratic paper says that Brooklyn
hasn't irst.class Democratic politician OF National
reputation In the words of contemporary young
statesman, Is General slocum here g.
SHE KNEW THE GAME.
s'What is the simil arity
Miss Ethel" asked the beau,
Yawned Ethel. " don't know"
"why itsa match. of course" GRIM ed he
With idiotic bliss
ain which miss IL caught, you see,
Because court a miss"
allow smart" said Ethel. who announced
She had riddle too
"The ball you play with must be bounced;
Why like the ball are You |"
He eyed the clock Because" sighed he,
'Becpusc I'm always 'gOundW
80, alwaysl suppose" said She
"FOr runs you are renownd.'
"Indced am and home runs, too
WHY all the boys allow
40 Tni so glad" she smiled, for you
Can make home now"
III. c. Dodge in Detroit Free Press.
"U O. r." writes to The World complaining that the
q" Belt Line monopoly" frequently charges him two
fires for the short distance of thrteenblocls ride
Now any one who knows IL. o. T." or Hubert o.
Thompson will think this little unjust thot he should
complain In horse-csr he Is somewhat OF monopo-
list so far as seats concerned. and is not un-
inst TO collect two from him for short ride
hundred or two yards north OF the entrance to Fort
Wooster, on the East Haven hills south OF the Four
Corner. lies an ancient Indian burying ground.
Nothing romans Indicate the place. except the slight
in the turf which mark tue graves OF the
onee powerfu Oninnipacks. Bodies have occasionally
beet dug up by the curious. They found buried In
reclining position, facing the rising sum- at the depth OF
only three or four feet from the surface. Whnpum.
heads ana hachets found 20 have sometimes been
hurried with dead Fort Wooster was built IN 1914
Inv the spontaneous efforts of citizens OF NewHavon
aided large companies OF men from the nsighSoring
towns to repel anticipated attack from the British
feet which held possession OF the 5ouud-l Hartford
Times.