New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-05
THE TALK or THE DAY

seagull was shot up in Tioga County, Penn, last
week by a local sportsman who was prowling gun 10
hand along the bank Of a creek He was at loss to
know what sort Of bird he had killed, and finally sold
| 1t to a taXIdermlst for 81 so.
Sunday school Tcacher-what does 1t mean, Johnny,
in the prayer where 1t says Lead US not INTO tempa
Johnny-w'y, guess it means they needn't trouble
Yourselves because can go into 1t ourselves "hous
leadn'. -tWashington Critic
One OF the spirit pictures produced by Madame Ann
O'Dela Dlss Debar called "Woman Among the
Tombs on the Planet Venus When Ann ODela
starts ND the picture business again she might work
Off companion piece entitled Woman in the Tombs
In NewYork"
Yielding to Superior Forcc-Teacher- object Of
this lesson is TO inculcate obedience DO you Kho"
Apt Pnpl-Yes, ma'am; obey my father.
Teacher-Ycs; that's right Now tell me why you
Apt PupllJCause he's bggern me It'd Bits. :
Carter Harrison says that the water of India is alb
soluteIy undrinkable That's what Carer's Demo
cratic followers think about the water OF Chicago.
"The Memphis Avalanche is advocating the forma-
ton Of new state By cutting of slices from west
Tennessee East Arkansas North Alabama and North
Mississippi And It wants TO have the new State
named ~Tennarkaamss,n which Is barbarous COM
binaton of the first syables IN the names OF these
four States But why the first syliabies? a COM
binaon OF the last syllables, seesasmasspp" Tor eA
ample, would be Just as rational and euphonious
However, the country doesn't want another sola
South State under any name
His Hearing was Detective" Did you go to church
yests%rdsyf'
@We my hearing Is so bad that there's no use in
going Can't understand what the preacher says.
tonight. He'll roast the Administration brown
as that sol I'll have to hear that tLlncoh
Journal.
1t was a curious mistake that Mrs. Homespun made
when she got into an open horse-oar yesterday. She
asked the conductor II this was the pneumonia rail-
way she had read about. She evidently meant pneu-
matte but 1t was voted unanimously by those In the
car that she bullded better than she knew-(Boston
Transcript.
The Collectors Revcnge-vindctive Youth-Yes,
I've been cut three times by these Internal dudes
ths whole tribe OF 'em now. you bet They're every
one Of them Just wishing they'd g neVer been 00'h
'em death noticesl
for a fashionable clothing store "-Omaha World
Freight cars from the North still come into Chicago
covered with snow.
scheme, which gives satisfaction to her pupils When
one of the girls misses word the boy who spells u
edge Of photography, the Kansas school maam appears
to think that two heads are better than one but as
poor spellers.-(Nornstown Herald -
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has decided vat
the Prohibltory law OF the State does not apply 10
liquors kept for individual use. And now the would
be drinkers are asking bow they have liquors for
Individual uso II no one is allowed to sell any TO
them.
At Hotel Notwithstanding some Saratoga
chips sab - o.,orar .h,r,
Fetch me a Michigan sawlog and a toothpIck-l"ssh
ington Critic
In Difference 10 Protestant objections, Archbishop
Fabre has withdrawn the petition asking the MONTREAL
City Council to grant space in Mount hoya fara ior
the erection Of a statue to the Virgin Mary.
Senator ingalls, climbed the Tall sycamore OF the
Wabash yesterday. Washington Critc'
In Oregon the Wild flowers begin to bloom about
the middle Of February and winter docs not begin
until about the middle of December the season OF cold
&c very short In fact, an oregon winter generally
means a season of rains broken by eSs than
two weeks of light snow
Spoiled Dog.-omaha Man-Its mystery to mo
how that dog you sold me was brought up. lie won't
eat anything but porterhousc steak and won't drink
ANYTHING but beer. Where did you get hlmi
Dealer-I bought him OF o tramp.-tOmaha World