New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28
THE TALK or THE DAY

General Meredith Read 10 HIS speech ct the ban1ret
given in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Historical
Society on 20Oth anniversary Of the introduction OF
printing the middle colonies announced an interest
ing discovery which he made when United States MIN
lister in Greece In speaking OF Franklin he said;
Wherever types are set, the electric spark may
wander and work, Franklins name is commemorated
The most remarkable result Of Franklns discoveries
the electric telegraph It's name to that mother OF
utilization the Greek language, and 1t Is remarkable
fact that the venerable rocks which watch over tue
violet city OF Athens have assumed the pnioso
piers features For discovered many years ago. whio
daily scanning the outlines OF the ancient Acropoh thas
the northwestern profile looking toward Mars Hill and
the sea perfect likeness OF Franklin as the SOUTH
eastern is OF Washington. It is happy and striking
that the father OF country and the man
whose key unlocked the mysteries Of the universe look
down from that classic hill from whence flowed the
Influences which gave mankind the sciences aud the
art OF not governing too much"
"Yes, We had q row, your Honor" she said in tho
Police Court the other day
What caused IL ~ -
81 She said NV husband had run away from me, and I
gave her slap"
You shouldn't have cared for what she said"
ut couldn't help It Your Honor When hen my o mus
lie hasn't and I'll not stand by and near any
raduce his loving charaeterF-Detroit Free froA
Benignant Columbiai From ocean to ocean,
All patterns OF worship find places TO bow;
But what is this weird Oriental devotion
That reddens each eyelid and burrows each browf
What document. scattered through high and low places
Engages each eye while the mind steals awayi
In broadcloth, IN shoddy, IN ginghams In laces,
The readers toll through it by night or by day.
No spark OF emotion betraying. they pore on.
Through dullest OF rituals zealously wade
The Tamud OF Rabbi. Mahomets old Koran
And bull OF Pope Leo are left in the shade.
Hist man." says Columbia, "a thanksgiving chorusI
Turn there for answer your hungerins ear"
CHoRUs
Thank heavenl No Presidents Message can bore
In man sion or cottage but once in a year"
In their strong, vlrs way the st. Louis papers
boasng that AS literary centre St. Louis knock
| the spots oh'n anything that Boston can show.
mighty poe has just arisen in the great metropolis OF
| Missouri who has written epic about Sam Jones
| called The Jonesaid." 1t begins thus:
You have read In Virgil how LAGOON
| And crushed tor advising the TrOans not
To admit the wooden horse-what blot"
Probably nothing just like 1t has before appeared in
| English literature
| in the village cemetery stands monument OF
economy which we think has no counterpart in tn,
purohasei it OF another who had erected large
ment and OF the second hand tomb stone went
cheap Having made the singular purchase the present
owner who by the way the female head of the family
proceeded to hare the inscription altered so that ~
C@ B., vile Of r. b. We roth here"
The very unmporant part which the husband oils Ia hs
family as indicated this description is only exceeded
in s absurlty By fact that both OF tue parties the
tombstone informs the reader lie there under the sod are
alive and promise to be for many years TO come AZ
an economic rather pars imonous, Transaction this
deal In q second hand tombstone stands vi head -
lCatskil Mail.
story Just got into circulation which indicates
that President Cleveland believes in his lncS During
stay the Upper Saranac in the Adrondacks last
summer he invited evening to join rubber OF
whist and asked lady to be his partner. But play
80 poorly Mr. Cleveland she said alphabetically. that
fear IL will destroy all your chance OF winning "oh,
never mind that" returned the President peasantIyi
" we shall have Cleveland luck you know"