New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-18
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

story comes from England Of woman who has
inst died who never rode on railway In her life.
II IS safe to say that If she had lived In this country
and had had the privilege of voting she wouid al
the last Presidential election have deposited pallot
| for Andrew Jackson.
"Thero arc sermons in stones'-especlaly In the
stone with which David killed Gollah. Cergymen
have frequentl used that stone as foundation Tor
q sermOn.-(Norrstown Herald.
A buxom young damsel called Bunnie'
| Thought a love-plght not any too funny;
But she can chucNe
When B. B.
PAYS her fort y five thousand In money
Bye Baby Bunting figures FIVE confronting
| Compensation hunting for each "h' and H
! Law your woong tramnes when you Art with Camp
bells,
| Man alone of mammals can be made to pay.
Go to selling HIM cotton co tov seek T WITH p9 aGie RrGo
! You had best declare a dividend to cara;
| Make your conscience falrer than her hrsnto bue
-(Buffalo Express.
We respectfully suggest that President Cleveland
might do good thing In presenting beautifully en-
crossed copy of tho Constitution Of the United States
TO L. Q. C. Lamar.
IN BURLINGTON.
To a melancholy Spanish serenade,
Nor do hearts hand In hand seek the Ice cream
vendors stand,
Breathing tafy while they wait for orangeade.
But the npplng eager air feeds the torchs lambert
And the swift toboggan flashes down the slide;
Everybody has his girl, everybody takes his whirl
And the bouion man makes many dime BESIDE.
Huntington Free Press.
An old rider says: "Give a runaway horse the
road" especially when tho curb Of protectionis out
of his mouth and the scourge of fre trade is whack
Ing bis heels as he plunges toward second term at
the White House. Give him room to ditch himself
In the Departments, o 80 a.
Chief TO Industrious Clerk-Why didn't you dot the
In the last word OF report last nightf
Industrious Clek-I beg pardon, but You see tho
clock struck inst at that point, and didn't care
Chief auoioeizes. and writes to the Secretary in
regard to allowance for extra Critic
The West End in Boston represents all that is good
and desirable In urban life and so we are not surprised
| to SEQ "The Boston Advertiser coming the word
"wesendency" to describe that state Of perfection
| which ls attained nowhere outside Of Boston. And
lust hero we will coin tho word Cityhallery" to
describe condition Of things in this city switch IS
but hadn't ougher be.' Down with "C:tyh allery'
A writer saws: "There is always s9mething
picturesque and striking about old MILL II the writer
wants to something Striking" he should witness
a modern mllp between couple Of noted puglsts
-(Norristown Herald.
Fall Brook, Cal, is prohibition town and all deeds
to town lots forever forbid the sale of liquors. CON-
pany is now building a hotel there to cost about
$4,000 to be named the Frances E. Willard. This
will be prohibition house and no wines will DO al
! lowed In It.
"what fs tho most religious portion Of the body7-
asked Maudle the other day. And. no one guessing
the answer, she told The head because 1t is be-
tween two temples. n-(Jswsh Messenger.
From Jersey City to Jacksonville, Fla in a vesbuls
train from AS a m day to 8 40 p. tho next
Shades of the early coloniss What will become Of
time and space in another century, at this ratef
Oscar Wilde thinks that tho culture of the world
will be In pettlcoats In the twentieth century.
A movement ia on foot in New-York for reform In
10 douht fuI sta I'm tv
will ever have big funeral as prize fighter
funeral in which corpse was not necessary would
ever be brought ab0ut.-lNOrristown Herald.
aThe Canadian Presbyterian divides tho Episco-
palans of Canada into three classes, the Broad and
Hay, the Low and Lazy and tho High and Crazy.
This old joke has gone far afeld. Many years ago
a witty clergyman applied these three soubriquets to
the three Episcopal Churches Of New Br ghton
Staten Island, and 1t Is quite likely that he did
not invent them.
Wealthy Flordlan-Herc We are wreathed in orange
blossoms and the birds singing in every breeze. What
could be loyeer In January ,..u.,., TINS,
one orange blossom wreath and Mendelssohn's march
ripping through the perfumed air-(Harper's Bazaar.
Thomas sherlock, an Irish member OF Parliament,
describes how William o Brien obtained the new suit
of clothes in Tullamore Jail 1t was done by the
collision Of three of the warriors, ono of whom
brought the clothes his ordinary clothes and
conc called under a heavy overcost. They lay In his
room for a few days, and when opportunity offered
were handed to O'Bren who warned against
putting them for three four days TO avoid sns-
pclon falling upon the officials. 1t was learned that
the day before he had designed to them the
visiting justices had arranged meeting to discuss
whether the suit that forcbly taken from him
should not DO given back to him. Thereupon O'Brien
anticipated the discussion by appearing before them
In the smuggled suit; after which The heathen
ragged in vain.'
Now the time when the man who turned
over a leaf turns It back again TO look for some
thing that he forgot Burlington Free Press.
"Tho Louisville CourlerJournal' reproves many OF
its Contemporaries In Kentucky for printing patent
medicine ads in place OF editorial matter
A Missouri says ttat he recently went into
the woods, painted black circle tho end Of q
log, and whom h went back to the log a hour laeS
no found 300 dead rabbits there tho animals having
mistaken the circle for hole in tho log ALI dasued
themselves u death against IL. Since story has
appeared In print, h has received letters from tho
publishers of several NewYork dalies, Offering him
tho position OF afdayit clerk, his duties being to
swear to tho circulation But no says no cannot tell
a Ae-lNorrlstown Herald