New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Presidents Message has put The Evening
Posta in even 4 sorrier plight than 1t was before
No paper probably in the country has been moro
brutaIy and cynically Outspokcn In It's Criticisms Oh
the attitude of tho knights Of Labor and the Anti
Poverty people toward capital and socaled mon
opoes and yet here is its fetch in the White House
adopting substantially the same attitude.
nonse-Mr Eazzlc-Thcre's very important
election at the club tonight Toppingham Is running
i'f re Pa1le-Don,t you think your set over there
IS fest enough without getting up races Urine
The Murwump "watorbury American" thinks that
the Presidents silence to Civil Service reform
Is very eloquent Now what does the Mugwump
Evening Post" thnk1
A Horrible Discovcry.-Mrs westend-"I am greatly
disappolnted I'm that Mrs. Newcomer. was IN hopes
they would be nice neighbors, but see they arc no.
peope Of refinement; they are extremely ineXcusaoy
Mss wcstend-" why, mo, You said only a. few
moments ago that You had not yet seen one OF the
80, I have not but Just caught glimpse Of
their cOachman, and was shocked, posuFey SnVcheI
phia Record.
It IS said OF professor In certain New-Engand
Colloce that no never needs chair when hearing
rectations. lie sits on the class.
Too Much Competition.-BIg bee-Whats the matter
dc Mahl You seem to be out Of luck
Bi 81 I thought You had big thing as a
soap advertisement artist.
cobyIps Milias and those foreign fellows. tell
you Bigbee, there's no show for native talent nova
days -(Chrtstmas PUCK
Pbuadephia boasts Of having the prettiest telegraph
poles in the United states but its boast IS without
Foundation Telegraph poles are never pretty some
are merely less ugly than others
TIE PREMATURE SKATER.
Now the skater premature,
Whom the frost-bound ponds
Dons the steel again
See how swif he gides ana shcKi
whati-a crash, oni q PLANK there
savcd-but stG as any stick
Trot him up the , lane rroo rr.ss
great many men say that they go out between
the acts 10 get breath of ar; but it is noticed that
the breath they really get isn't of air by long shot
Easily located Philadelphia Girl-where IS it you
Younr Westerner fproudly-I reside in Adobe City.
bog pardon, but really do not remember exactly
Well. wcll That IS queer Adobe City is only
go miles from Mud Gulch.-(Philadelphia Record.
Says "The Montgomery Advertiser:
"Forty-three per cent of the people Of Alabama
who are ton years of age and over can't read
Fifty per cent u tho people of Alabama who arc
ten years old and over can't write.
an Alabama there arc GOTTA white men and
women twenty-one years old and over who can't
write
"In Alabama there ,767 white people over ten
years old who can't write.
"In Alabama there are 37o279 people who are over
ten years old and don't know how to read.
an Alabama hero 433, 447 people over ten years
old who don't know how to write"
Comportment-Flrst Talor-Do you bow 70 your
customers when you meet them In the streets
Second DlttO-Well. as rule do, but always cut
my insists l-(LOndOn Punch.
Democrats nowadays may be divided into two
classes those who by the President and those
who swear at him.
Fame First-ITiGh-minded Father-My son, choose
a profession that will bring you fame and after that
wealth VIII come.
Duiful son-Very well, father, will become pro-
fessiona baseball player New-York Weekly.