New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-07

THE TALK OF THE DA Z.


Chicago has had 500 burgaries In three months.
An Arizona paper offers Prize OF demiohn OF gin to
any who will furnish 1t with correct list OF the
twenty worst In the town.
Eastern Journalism wants to keep pace with the
erprse OF the young and vigorous West must dsh up
its news In this shape " Rev. william Wacks, the
Sas@sd 500 converts IN four weeks."-Norristown
II erald.
Absentminded man at a street fruit-sand gazing at
pile OF apples marked 80 for cents"-But want two
for five cents
Fruit-seer tcogitatng)-wel I'll let you have two OF
those for hge
| Aforementioned man picks out two. hands over five
cents and walks on, thinking he hasn't made bad bar
gain. Frut-seller smiles pensvey and rearranges his
apples and peaches.
Was not Priscilla the Puritan maiden that came over
tho Atlantic in the Mayfower i-lBoston Gazette.
The model for the bronze statue Of Schiller. to be
erected in Fairmount Far Philadelphia has been COM
pleted. II represents the poot standing, and with
scroll his left hand. The right is slightly bent
ana in the hand is pencil. The costume is long
coat breeches stockings and huge buckled SHOES
The attitude is easy, the men commanding, ana the
head has been modelled from DanDeckers celebrated
bust OF Schiller. The pedestal, nearly twelve feet In
height, will be OF bronze and granite.
Maud-IIave on the letter-sheet envelopes
Edtb-Yes, they are Just lovely
81 have not tried them yeti $500.
"You must get some. dear After writing yo1r letter
Won have the OF the inside OF the envelope Tor
postscripts"- Omaha World.
The Rev. Dr. Bridgman. OF this city. tells with great
gee tho following story. few years ago. when he was
pastor OF church In Albany. there noted charac-
ter in that city named "Nicky" De Freest. whose
peculiar ways we're known to all One Sunday morning
mickey" went TO hear DR.. Bridgman; aud AFTER ser
vice. as the Doctor leaving the church, he overheard
"Nicky talking to himself as follows Yes, yes L
tell you like man, an like his preachin' Blamed
n wouldn't be Baptis myself II wasn't so darheo
afraid OF catching cold"
First Omaha Critic-I see ". d. Howells regards the
book OF Job as a novel.
Second Omaha CrItic-I am not surprised.
"Why no 1t meets the requirements OF Mr.: Howellss
obvious standard-an talk and no plot" lOmaha
World.
A weird, uncanny rumor comes hither from Elmira TO
the effect that Governor HIS various Agricultural
fair addresses are published volume with nu-
merous illustrations by Pttclss oornhed artist
The Boston Tos modestly hopes that in its eight-page
form 1t will make just as good q hustle as ever.
A missionary enthusiast In England wants to raise
money TO buy balloons for foreign missionaries Ihoy
would be handy, he thinks, in escaping from cannibas
other carna minded heather. and at the same time
would strike the natives with and make 1t easy to
convert them.
II Lieutenant HEM is the born sailor his friends say
he IA he must have been born In the hatch way New
Orleans Pcayune.
"In Honduras" says Colonel Peter Donan, "you
never hear OF sitting down so hard as 10 rip MS
pantaloons because he has stepped on banana skin.
oranges Why. they're so largo and Juicy that
they open the branches like baked apples In
forests 1t common thing to fnd the ground I'M
der orange damp though 1t bad been moist
ened awn-sprnkler just from the juice that drops
from bursted fruit tell you that's great country.
Honduras grows wild than are cultivated
In the groves OF California and Florida combined and
other fruits IN proportion"
Bar Association In Dakota the other day discussed
the question /" The Revolver as Means OF Making
Difficult Collections"
THF NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE has advanced the price OF
composition TO 81 cents thousand ems-the hlgnet
price paid In the country THE TRIBUNE Is non-unon
Office. and this shows how powerful ana rich com
binatiOn brutal ADVANTAGE or "unorganlzed
labor Its printers rather like IT, though
Herald