New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-03
THE TALK Of The DAY.

The stones or Iemple bdr dIo ooiu5 P"' '"oN'"'
to form gateway to brewers residence Inc
structure ought to be called Temple Beer now
10 is astonishing to observe how few people un-
derstand the common rules OF measurement In puichaS
ing wearing apparel For instance man WI, VIII guy
asynS smaller or size larger ia what no prob
ably needs but no does not know what size Is
Well sze' In a coat is an inch, SIZE In under
wear IL inches a Size in a sock is inch, In collar
10 an inch In a shirt 1-2 an inch, In shoes l-oth
OF an ha, nTn paI an Very few purchasers ever
understand tho schedule named.-(oI' LOUIS Olooo
democrat
Tho photographic Office warns mariners that
February IS tho tImo when cebergs and field ice begin
to DO source of great danger to transatlantic travel
les In the nelghborhood OF the Banks Of Newfoundland
The ice In the North Atlantic during the northern
summer cannot DO compared either In quantity or
szo with that brought up from the Antarctic zone INTO
tho South Atlantic during the summer months there.
From December 1854, to April, 1888, ono mass OF
ice sixty miles long and forty miles broad ana WIN III
elevation OF 300 feet above the surface OF the sea- WI"
ronorted twenty-one times north of the Falkland
Islands.
Near Sighted Artist" B'Jovo there's a. glorious
subject Just walt till sketch it-a beautiful amber
and gold sunset with white cloud slowly moving 70
be- it would DO worth a fortune"
farmers Boy" What yer talkin about oc In and
tho clond IS tho old white horse aeatln' grass
-(Sprngfeld Union
A CORES pondent wants the WOman's Christian Tenn
perance Union stop referring to itself as the W. u
T. T. To refer 1t In this way Is in his opinion hard
ly boftlng tho dignity Of an association which num-
bers IN Its ranks 81 c;any prominent womep OF the
country.
Llterary-Mrs. Stuyvesant ION a visit to Boston, ana
addressing little ,mes Henry Concord four years old
And when arc you going to write BOOK my nttio
J. #. c. (gravely).-I have not yet decided Proba
bly, not until something definite has been agreed upon
IN International Downright Law Boston
Courier
The public charities OF Tohr, China, are very extern
sve, and poor people need go hungry, One OF tho
largest phlanthropc agencies is called the Hundred
Gocdnesseso and dspenses millet and rice to all who
wish It.
Dora--Uave you heard the latest engagement
Flora-Oh, you mean Miss Blanks. That Is nothing
new. She has been engaged before. Nora whose
fathe in the real estate hhsess-l hear that she had
the refusal of six men I-tJewish Messenger
young man who Is called Choly' by all his
fond, wants to know how, In spite of that fact, he
may achieve greatness Tho is difficult ono In
which give advice; but II he announced himself as
the disooverer Of the tariff policy Of the Democratic
party he would at once corral tho greatest kind Of
greatness.
Miss Clara Ito Fcatherly who is making an evening
calD-PoOr little Bobby swallowed penny to-day, ana
we've all been so much worried about It,
Feathery (someW hat at loss for words OF encour-
agcmcnt)-Oh, I-er-wOuldn't worry, Miss Clara
penny Il not mucn-kndip DoLai
Some ono sent the editor Of The Norwich IN "
Bulletin" dozen doughnuts, and he at once thanked
the " dough-nor'
"There's a s5 bill,' said Dumley, looking at II
obviously, that am afraid IS bad Some miserable
scoundrel has passed y on me-"
why don't you take it to bank Dumley' and find
And have them stamp It counterfeit II 1T is bad
Why, would never be abic to got rid of 1t In the
world."-(Epoch
Yady has n ben hat
crews. sho, tho hen, struts about tho hennery as
though she wero the cock Of the walk
THE SUBURBAN RESIDENT.
Summer
When Sol In his might
His arrows shot down,
IIo pitied each wight
Who living In town
IIe was healthy and stout,
And often he asked:
In the suburbs, like mot
Winter
He goes to and fro,
In the wind and tho raln
Or wades through the snow,
'Twxt his house and the tram.
When he leaves us at night,
We can tell by bis frown
He envies each wight
-(Boston Courier.
correspondent says that as soon as the prisons
are thoroughly equipped with execution dynamos
some genius will offer patent medicine for sae
which Is warranted to mako the human system an
absolute nonoonductor OF electric currents And then
the operation OF charging medicine Insulated culprt
will become . ridiculous farce
Advertising funeral Is the latest idea in louisiana
Recently pAcards wero posted In Concordia parish
which read follows'
There will be q large
FUNERAL
at
TROGMORE.
Tho Grandmother
(Charrle 6anders)
OF Thomas A. Johnson's Wiie.
SUNDAY, AUG. 7TtI.
All arc Invited to attend. Ice water In abun-
dance free to all Como one, conc all
Trains leave Vidalia at 8 30 m; Black River
at a. m. Returning to Black River at p III. ;
Vldalia, O 90 p m.
Fare from Natohez, $50. vldalla, Coo; Con-
cordla, ESQ.,. Black River, 49,; Stanton and Chevy
Chase, 600.
Reu 'Iamea f,andai pay penhen sheltnn Rey-