New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-17
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Colonel Watterson thinks that politics is a species
OF comic opera This Is not the first intimation We
have had that the Star Eyed Goddess of Reform Is
playing a burlesque part
For generations a certain Japanese family had q
box into which they put percentages. Said ono OF
them: If want 30 buy a garment that costs one
dollar buy It for eighty cents or give feast that
would cost five dollars give it for four dollars or 10
build house for one hundred dollars build it for
eighty dollars and put the balances in the box. At
the end of the year. meet open the boxes and give
the contents to the poor 1t costs some sefdena,
but we are always prosperous and happy" They
call this worshpping "The Great Bright God of Self
Restraint"
Saw the Artist.-Mrs. westend-Dld you sec the ar
fist Whistler while in England
Mr.. Lakeside (of Chicago)-Yes, indeed-heald her
whistle.-(Philadelphia Record
Some cheerful liar tells this story about wood
chopper in Nevada He discovered leak In one of
the mains Of the water company, where Jet was
forced out under enormous pressure. After expert
menttng he found that this stream would cut wood
equal to a nno saw he set to work and now makes
handsome brackets Of choice woods, which find
ready SALE
You say Mr.. Hankinson proposed to you last
night Irenei Why, Ive had a standing offer from
lie didn't make me any standing offer though. 1t
was all no could do to get up OIL his knees when TO
fused him He was in earnest this tim" AURA
Chicago Tribune.
Although the sentiment in favor Of Statehood Is
universal in Washington Territory the people modesty
refrain fiom saying much about It, "Thc Seattle
Post Intellgencer7 thinks that this is misia AXE. 1t
Is only by constant knocking and constant KICKING
it SAYS that that well-developed and healthy Ter
rory can get into the Union.
A Determined Man.-Country Wife (at French opera
Come, John, let's go this show Is poSltIVeP III
John-I know It is, Miranda, It's awful but paid
So for these seats, ana l IL sil ner tnIOubn II ~ mus
me- The Epoch
SAYS a Philadelphia lawyer: @If husband and
wife are agreed 1t is easy to get divorce as to say
Jacl Robinson The facility with which divorce pro-
cecngs can be conducted Is part of the evils OF the
equity practice in the Philadelphia courts The chei
charm which divorce suit has for the parties at In
teres in our courts is the secrecy with which the pro-
ceedlngs are conducted and the readiness with which
which the system Of examinations before master
and the rendering of decree practically out OF court
lends Itself to ther purposes"
Dress Reform-Charle-p Blanche, dear, wish you
wouldn't wear that terribly lowcut dress again that
you wore at the ball last night. .,s .o,,m. ,r.
Blanche-Why, Charlie You always said before we
were married that l looked lovely in IT, ,
Charlie-Yes dear but IT'S different now. II causes
remarks Young Thornton said TO me last night,
Il see your wife's back from Brookline. -(Boston
Beacon.
Tho Rev. Dr. Hole, the well-known Dean of
Rochester, England, recently preached sermon In
which he took tho ground that the person who par
took moderately of alcoholic beverages was more
manly and more noble than he who owing TO a lack
Of moral strength abstained altogether He for one,
he said would always oppose the attempt to mako
the church a total abstinence society instead Of
temperance society The total abstaineIs of course
denounce the dean a wine-bibber and the friend of
publlcans and sinners.
A news item after stating that when Mrs Barnard
Williams, OF Pine Station, Penn. died In her eighty
fourth year she had not gray hair In her head adds
She had never employed servant The Inference
IS that the non employment OF servant causes tue
hair 10 retain its natural color. Well no doubt some
servants enough to turn wOmans hair gray
(NOTistown Herald.
The payment Of fool election bets stu goes
The other day, IN Rincon, Cal, two men and their
wives probably reached the climax of Stiffness in
this matter The losing couple exchanged clothing,
and then for hour marched through the streets
behind band of drummers and followed by a crowd
Of bowling loafers.
DOES ANY ONE KNOwl
Does any one know what's in your heart and mine,
Inc SORROW and song,
The demon OF sin and the angel divine,
The right and the wrong;
The dread Of The darkness, the love OF the day,
The ebb and the ioy
OF hope and OF doubt brewer and aye
Does any one know
Does any one cream of the love that Is yours,
The heart that Is mine,
The depth and width Of the cup which each pours
OF richest red wine,
OF the hate that is dark as the midnight of grief
The anguish and woe,
The doubt clouds OF hating and blind unbeeL
Does any one know
Does any one see what We have In the heart
To love and to hate
OF iie's every motive an intricate part,
OF chance and of fate.
The mcm'ry OF Kisses. OF starlight, of songs,
OF roses aud snow.
OF women's sweet eyes. of prayers and OF wrongs,
Does any one know
Does any one hearken to music OF bells,
And the sigh OF the sea,
And the whisper Of woodlands that murmilrs and
swes
For you and for me-
The sound of fond voices that ever respond,
In soft and low
To the prayer are breathing into the beyond.
Does any ono knowi
-lNxop Waterman In Omcha World