New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-17
THE TALK or THE DAY.

upon a hearty welcome from the family
THE TALK or THE DAY.
Numerous ambitious and learned correspondents OF
"Thc bermuda Royal Gazette still wrestling owe"
the hen and a half problem prOpounded by "1hc
Tribune some months ago. They are rapidly using
up all the agebras the Island In their ehdca'or'
to solve IT, visitor from this city introduced IL 10
the citizens and then wtckcdly left without furnishing
the f he ever goes back they Will meet INN
with clubs.
TWO OLD CAT.
Oh, yes, saw the players and their parti-coiored
And the captain and the umpire and the pitch
They arc modern Innovations that noted as 1 sat
Alot with you. It won't compare with
Old
Cat!
You remember how played It, Jim, when you and
And upon the farm together Why has poet never
OF the game of lane and roadway What can now
compare with that
There Is lifeblOod in that memory OF
Old
When the odors of the haying sweet and musky made
And crows were cawlng far away and natures face
When the corn was waving softly, then the boy with
Old
Cat
Our bats were whitfield out of pine and any size would
Our ball of yarn wound tightly round piece of rubber
And covered DER with calfsn tight and, oh, ehosha
How We did welt the whI11ips thing in
Old
Gait
I'm in favor of improvements but the style Of ball to-
Seems to lack the healthfu features of the good old
It's complicated for mo- and the game these were
wasn't stirring in comparison with
Old
-(Chlcago Mall
Miss Leg OF Montana has Just married man
named Hand. She thought she would rather be
right Hand than a left Leg
AT the scaside.-shc bathing for the first time In
her now suiU-Why. Charles. how strange! 1t feels
just as though had my shoes on
She (crcamIngl-Why, It's crab Huntington
Free Press.
A storekeepcr of Wallngford. Conn, makes the fol
lowing announcements Confetti ncry TOYS ice cream.
tobacco, cigars, pipes, news room, stationery. bank
notes drafts blank books. temperance drinks, bread,
pies fruits tea coffee, baseball goods fish hooks, etc
sale
Papa-Now run away, Bobby. Papa's busy. ~
Bobby (hoding up his Joined hands oupwse)-Drop
a nickel in the hole, papa and you'll see ne CO.
Judge
An onion weighing seventeen pounds has just been
raised in Phoenix, Arizona. When the rival towns
think OF it they feel like shedding tears.
Hello Jones Where are you going ~
Getting ready to develop my gold PInc.'
@So me III take my wife along ben be to
find the pockets if there any'-San Francisco FIX
amncr
The World IS printing letters from men who claim
to be tho youngest grandfather Thus far the man
who says he was grandfather at thirysix holds the
belt
WHEN THE SWALLOWS DOWNWARD FLY.
We have seen the sun Ia his glory burst
From tho fogs of our changefu chmc
The days hot and men a,e athil St
We have come TO the swallow time.
-(BostOn Courier.
Says English gentleman who has been visiting
this country: Our great desire IS to have the United
States the richest market In the world opened up
our commerce. OF course It will be a bad thing for
you; but we can't be blamed for looking out for our
own interests rather than yours Every thinking
man knows that this is the truth, and yet the Free
Traders deny IT, BY the way, why doesn't our fair
minded contemporary, The World instruct its Eng
llsh correspondent to get the Views of the great
birmingham and Manchester manufacturers on the
question: Their for desiring free trade in the
United states would be interesting to Democrats just
now. They might also be asked how FREQ trade would
benefit American workinsmcn, as Is claimed BY Amer
lean Free Traders
The Return of the Prodlgal-Eascrn Capitalist
My son, didn't | give you $4,000 two months ago
to so out to Ohio and start Democratic campaign
paper!
Son (mcekly)-YOu did, sir
Eastern Capt. alist-Id you start IL
Son more meeklyl-No, sir. 1t started me-to the
Eastward-(Time.
The President still continues to run we'll in Eng
land.
These are the days when wonder II our good old
uncle and aunt in the country wouldn't really enjoy
two weeks visit their city nephew with his wife
and chdrcn-(Sprngfe.d Union.