New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-23

him BOT to do to the extent OF catching inc peo III
his naked hand
Brown" Had lunch, RobinsOnl'
Robinson" Yes, al the Aston House,
Brown" Conf rtsble lunch! III,
man look ng shoulder watching every moulin
ful. and wondering If you expect to Sit there all Jay
Epoch.
A convention OF church members of Now-Jersey
has been called meet at the headquarters
Of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Trenton
go before the Legislature to urge the passage OF
the Prohibition bill
Miss Polly (of NevadaD-"I surprised TO hear
of your engagement with BIN Founders hitty'
thought yon Intended to refuse him. , ,rt 10 90, tbs
drop on me- and had TO say yes Bill Is the quickest
man with gun west of the MsSonri'-Epoch-
1t looks as though the very finest of fine italian
hands written by gentleman residing at Worces-
ter Mass "The Worcester Spy" states that an adj
vertisement was left IT'S Office the other day making
inquiry for a fawncoorcd bull-terrer pup When
the advertisement appeared the inquiry was for fire.
alarm bell tower key" Every professor of penman-
ship will admit that person who writes fawncolored
bull terrier pup so that tho intelligent compositor
reads It fire alarm bell tower evidently born to
witch the world with noble penmanship
Harmony.-smith- What IS the idea in always put
ting the +" Rest in Peace on tombstone in Latin
Jones-IIarmOny mo boy. harmony Latins dead
language. 20 know.-(omaha Republican
In Boston, but no place else, there arc still some
women who write In haste" on thcr letters. They
think that tho postmaster Will hump himself when
he sees these omInous words In scrawly feminine
hand.
read Rider Haggards lastl"
with a commonplace Imagination. I've done better
First Citizen" Indeed: may ask whcre9'
Second Citizen" In Kansas city. ! was tho adj
vcrtsng of real estate firm there for two years.
-(Omaha Republican
There are no mosquitoes on this weather.
"The Minneapolis Tribune has invited all tho old
settlers of Minnesota tell In its columns how much
colder the weather used to be In the days when they
young Some picturesque whOppefs may con-
fdently be expected
"Too us round the Ocean Drive, then down Belle
vueave and across to the Second Beach, was tho
order given TO Newport hackman the other n day.
Have you been here long! asked the driver.
"Naw we came in on the Brittanlc lawSt Monday
and ave just arrived"
Where did you buy your ticbet?'
"Why. at the Pennsylvania depot in ''-York'
"Thought My English friend. this is Newport,
neutrality-suspicious..
An International Council of Women will be hold in
Washington on 25, celebrate the first womans
rights convention which held at Seneca Falls,
n. Y, In 1s49,
A western man has offered 81 600 for the capture,
dead or alive OF the devil lie doesn't offer enough
to make 1t pay.
The Christian scientists would have believe that
Imagination that keeps fellow awake all night when
he has a felOn his thumb And we don't suppose
It would do any more good TO poultice the Imagination
than IL would the thumb Noristown Herald
Some lrreverent Americans recently sang Here's
How Dye Do' before the great bronze image of
Buddha at Kamalura, Japan Tho natives thought
It sacred hymn in praise Of Buddha, and they
imagined that the Image showed distinct Signs Of
pleasure. The image would feel differently about 1t
If should hear the song played a hand organ for
about a hundred consecutive days.
The confusion IN the question whether the year
1900 IS a part of the nineteenth or Of the twentieth
century arises probably from the comparison OF the
age with the years Of the century We do not
call a child year old TIL he has lived a year and
we call him ten for instance. all through his eepenth
year. But the year one began with the day NO. !,
and We call II the year one up and including the
365th day. 80 the years from to 100 comprise the
first century and the second century begins WIN mo
year 1OI and ends with 200 and The nineteenth cen
tury began with the 1901 and ends with the last DAY
OF tho year l000-(SprlBghed Union.