New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-07
THE TALK or THE Day

An Irish theatrical manager recently an'eruses
for broth of boy to make "supe''
His First osepce.-Miss Gotham 10 Mr Wabash
recently returned from abroad)wi suppose you We"
az Mr. NUN Wabas nneass %wcIi-er-yes, Miss Gotham,
but only and then got OH Win DieroS ''"A''
nal fine IIarper's Bazar
Eugene Field the learned savant and funny mar
NJ Chicago thus throws light the origin OF the "orn
cbumps: "The word newborn about 1883 ana
originally used to designate the heavy English SOFT
Of swell who bought wine for chorus girls Inc es'
sentIa conditions Of true chumperfy are: W ms
man must be large in person and solemn In nanher'
(o) he must open wine''
young widow, in erecting monument en-, 20 sn:
dear departed, cleverly avas herself OF .ns ~ r.
tunity TO inscrbe upon the TOMB, oacIsu NJ uts
memory Of Mathuzn Bezuchet who deparse e LIT "a
age sixy-eght years, regreting me men ylsan
parting from the most charming OF wome"' ''""
Francisco Wasp.
Another fakir scheme is an advertisement s,"u"s
that the advertiser will send TO any one enclosing
the sum of one dollar the secret Of perpetual ie'
The q s,chers who sends the dollar receives by re-
turn mall neat card, which are printed 'he "oio'
" Don't die"
Wheat IS all torn up, they say. But the farmers am
abundaniy able to sow Ii.
Mrs sniverly is the wife OF the captain OF youn-
feer company. She attended review a. which a hsI
iangbed ali the time and when she was asked what
was the Of her meTimenf she replied a was
,ne inn nnr dared omen his mouth at home, ordering
ali those men about, and they doing Just what ne ,o,,
them. Why DOESN'T ne uy tHd' e'"'0 v" ~
thine.
Ice-skates will be cheap this winter as several OF
the patents have out
A Clever Device-Countryman 20 passenger en-
route for Sing Slng)-Whats them thm-[pss you's
Sing G Sing passen ger~Thats little device Of my
stranger I'm very p POPULAR o s eSaan sans
with cvesy Tom, Dick an Harry
Countryman-Gosh 1.-The Epoch.
IT has been well said that District Attorney Fellows
spells vocation with an a
That simple Christian, Colonel Fellows. con-
temptuousIy refers to Warner Miller, the Methodist
He Was Acquainted with It.-ExamIning Doctor
of Divinity TO candidate for ordersl-fou arc
thoroughly familiar with the Bible, of course,
Candl1ac--Yes sir; acted as book agent IN sscs
tions and took orders for large numDeE-tDraAes
Magazine
In may towns in Germany and switzerland are
found hotels owned by shareholders, which are en-
tirey under the management OF the "Evangencai
Union.n In some of them there is evening prayer
at halfpast every evening, conducted by the house
father.
Uere,s a communication declaring in favor of FREQ
trade, pure and smpe' said the subordinate to The
managing editor of the Democratic organ. nat
shall DO T,h III pea for az TarI Reform and
let it go in."-(Norristown Herald
The other day a Boston received a letter on
the envelope Of which the words Blood Bloodl
Blood !, I'm big red letters. Thinking that 1t con-
tanned threat to kill him, he gave 1t unopened to
the police When they opened 1t, they found IL was
harmless appeal from a salvation Army crank
Says an old Yale College man: 81 never knew
whether attach any significance to it or not, but
when l was in college the law school adioned the
jail: the medical college next the cemetery,
and the divinity school the road TO the poor
house,
Forgotten Much of It-Miss Waldo Of Boston, and
young Nj. Wabash, of Chicago, were discussing lit
erature, and he allowed her to do all the talk
ing, he getting on fam0usly.
You have read THE Quick or the DeadG OF course,
Mr. Wabash ?" she said
Oh yes,' he replied, "but very much Of II has
escaped my mind. 1t must be ten years now since
I read t.'-(The Epoch.