New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-04
THETALK or THE DAY.


District Attorney Fellows, IT is understood, still
erciseS 1t In office hours.
In Wonderiand.-Bobby IS a little Harlem boy, and
bis mother reading Alice in Wonderland, to HIM
When She came to the para graph in which Alice found
her Quarters SO contracted that forced to put
out OF the window and thrust one 100, up me
chimney, Bobby drew breath Of intense interest,
and exclaimed Why ma, she must have been In
Harlem hat p-(The Epoch.
From now until the sixth of November tho DEM
ocrato party will be side show; after that it will
be outside show.
A little time ago we gave under tho heading a
Busy Clergyman tbs name OF the Rev pr: Macrae
who had made between $50 and 1000 visits among
Row j. ". Totem, Of tho Methodist Church Mark
ham, has In one year In his present charge Dealcn
that record by about 800, making nearly l3OO visits
I'm the one year. Mr.. Totten has mado $50 visits in
six mOnths.-(Toronto Globe.
In urging "beal and forbear policy" in this matter
of tho fisheries treaty, Mr.. Erastus Wiman shows
that no has nice Of the fitness Of things.
The treaty Is indeed bear movement against the
American interest and clearly enough quito In the
interest OF and for the Canadian Bear
A Case OF observation-disclosures Merchant (buying
a bill of goods OF Chicago drummer)-' What Is your
usual tmc thirty days %
Chicago Drummer (aDsentmndedly)-" or ten
dollars. I always pay the ine-oh-er-l beg par
dom yes thirty days, or two per cent of for cash
-(The Epoch.
The Coored Reformatory Industrial School, Of
opened on April 1. 1t IS being erected by an or
sanzaton whose ambitious Is "The Universal
Congregational Methodist Church, OF the United States
of America and which has for its object the better
ment Of the colored spiritually and morally 1t
hopes to attain this object by having connected with
each church q temperance hail. home factory,
an Institution of learning The Nashville Institution will
open with about hundred young colored people
of both sexos
hata haau arfn yrDy0 ne In Touf
four weeks already next month they PIT on summer
underwear In April tho natives discard their collars
and by tho list Of June they are parboiled In July
the heat in ST. Louis Is dry and sting hut endraole
to those who have lived through June.-(Chicago
News.
It Is stated that the business Of the London postofce
is Of such gntude that the present PostmayerGen-
oral has saved in sealing wax and twine
expenses alone. That's nothing few years ago
q drummer for Chicago dry-goods house boast
Ing in tho presence OF of his charac terstIcally
modest professional brothers from Boston of the
Immense business which chs FIRM transacted. The
Bostonian listened with respectful attention to tho
tremendous figures which the other man produced
for his benefit, showing the colossal receipts and
expenses of tho Chicago house. When he got through
tho Western drummer complacontly remarked: "Ah-
how much of business do you people do ?" "Im
suro l don't know quietly repeated the drummer
from down East. "But can state one fact which
may give you some light that point. The first
OF last January the head OF tho firm directed the
bookkeepers and the shipping clerks to refrain from
dottlng rs crossing It's until further notice. The
result saving for the year of over million Of
dollars In ink bills. believe the precise
amount was million and forty-nne dollars and
five cents"
A curious freak of memory is that OF forgetting
words of q poem speech which has been said over
q great number OF times. The leading lady of play
which has been performed 700 times cannot remember
it fhn mo xillAn n nrf "
complete rest OF a day two would recall them.
Another actress In Play which had great run had
TO be constantly prompted toward the end rchearsod
oyery day and vet was constantly pursued by terri
Bile consciousness that what she was saying TO tho
audience was simply unmeaning gio6erish.-tbostOh
Journal.
A story Is told OF Catholic priest In Australia whose
bishop gave him horse. To commemorate the event
the prlest named the horse The Bishop" soon after
tho bishop dinod with the priest and during the course
of the dir or the ress of MI work came IN and
said in an audible whisper: It's hot day your
reverence an was thinkin' IL would be good thing
to throw bucket OF water on The Bishop" The
bishop was somewhat startled until matters were
| explained to him.
An Anp,ers,s Club-The timo IS about ripe for tho
formation Of a club OF anglers in New-York City,
modelled somewhat the Fly Fishers Club, OF Lon
don. There Is no lack OF proper material for tho
formation Of such club and It would not bo difficult
TO bring this material together Al present there y
and Reel Association, whose headquarters in the
city, but this association exists mainly in oor 10 hoiu
nycastnK tournaments, and Is In no sense social
organization, having no rooms or library, and II has
never bscp abs to gather its membes 10 social u.n-
ner and besides, rs membership Is not sufficiently
| exciusve-tForcst and Stream.
A correspondent of "Foest and Stream protests
against tho modern tendency Of many sportsmen to
become connosseurs and collectors OF hnc tackle,
rather than observers of fish, thcir haunts and habits
II does seem nowadays he says, as II wo had more
varieties of tackle than OF fish, and az II we know tho
points of the tackle rathor than OF the fish. To hear