New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


TIE TALK OF THE DAY.
Not long ago Mr. Frank Smith, the head Of the
New-Jersey Good Templars, sent circular letter 10
each Republican Senator and Assemblyman who voted
for the Local Option law, asking permission to use
their to head petitions In their several counties
for special elections OF the persons addressed
saw through Mr. SMITHS scheme and refused the use OF
their names on petition which they mover saw. There
upon Mr. Smith had the whole thing published In
"The Voice." which shrieks over IL In Its accustomed
cracked treble But it fails to explain why Third
Party Prohbltionists who are committed against local
option should interfere in this matter at all The
Local optIonsts OF New-Jersey can attend to their
own business without the impertnent advice OF their
enemies.
Even nature seems to fight against the cold water
people in Atlanta, ca. It is now discovered that the
city water a thick reddish coating to form on
the inside Of steam boilers, which eats holes IN
them. aJcst think of teller tskn' that kind Of
stuff in his stummick,' say the old soaks, as they
present their jugs to be filed again
An eighteen-year-old Bluehill girl, whose nearest
neghbor lives quarter Of mile distant, kept house
for her father and mother to make visit while ago,
stayed all alone day and night took all the care OF
hook OF Sheep and hens and chickens too numerous
spinning, and harnessed her own horse to take her
butter and eggs to market Last summer she picked
ana soa 20 WORN Oh Defries ana o,ha
worth (Me.) American.
In Death Valley, Arizona, there thousands Of
covered with deposit Of borax two feet thick,
and near by immense quantities Of salt, lime and soda
The locality is ninety feet below the level Of the sea-
and is evidently the bed Of drted-up sea-
The American Union Masonic Lodge, Of Marietta,
Ohio the first Masonic Lodge established west Of
the Allegheny Mountains The warrant to establish 1t
was granted on February 49, 1916 by Richard Grid
ley, Deputy Grand Master whose jurisdiction extended
to all parts Of North America where no special
Grand Masters appointed
AN AcRosTIC ORACLE
WHO is tho man whom the peoples eyes
WILL turn next fal We only can sur r
BE sure whoe'er the priceless prize shall gain,
OUR country star Of nations wiz remains,
NEXT autumn when we're voting who shall be
PRESIDENT, when In every State we see
THE party strife, let's keep from anger free.
MAN never is but always to be blest
is it not grand nations choice to be,
ELECTED by the suffrage Of the freei
(BostOn Courier.
A Philadelphia Sunday school superintendent
addressing his Sunday school tho other day the
need Of spiritual grace. "Now children" he con-
cluded "what is it that high and low rich and poor
must have every day." There a dead silence
for moment and then little youngster IN a back
seat piped out, "Scrapplel"
An indianapolis church has established dino saw
lngs and loan company, which receives any sum down
money, and to help them to buy fuel in summer
when 1t is cheap for the following winter when 1t
is dear Thus far 1t has proved successful beyond
expectation.
No hospital or dispensary physician in our large
inatity Of the present. methods Of treating pauper
and INDECENT oonsumptives DR.. selbert has averred
that poor S@t sS not
class DR.. Paul III. Kretzschmar confesses to
not quite bad. Many patients in the first stage
improve for time, but the percentage Of cures Is
the In G't city there are
thousand cases Of consumption, with I'VE thousand
at least sOy % o esr snt Of Ss
could be cured and restored to useful citizenship
(Medcal Record.
The Doodle exiIes in Canada subscribe for largo |
number Of American periodicals But tho paper |
called "The Age Of Steel" is not among the number.
The worhngmen talk about boycotting beer. II |
they would boycott beer and all other kinds Of liquor
for one year, and capitalize the money they would |
thereby save, they could virtually dictate terms to
all other capitalists. But they won't do 1t.
SPRING FANCIEs.
In the spring the old mans fancy turns to things
And in liver regulators he invests his surplus wealth
In the spring, when flowers waking and shoot
The loving mother gives her children sulphur and
molasses.
IN the spring the house needs cleaning, cellar gar
ret room and STAIR
And dear wives proceed about IT, driving husbands
to despair
IN the spring, the husband fools around with spade
and rake aud hoe,
And plants and sows lot Of things that never,
never grow.
n the spring. the youth is anxious to be fashonably
dressed,
he has his last years overcoat repaired and sponged
and pressed
n the spring, the maidon's fancy turns to cOlOrs
bright and gay, |
md in the spring She decks herself In beautiful
array.
thus perceive that in the spring, when buds
adorn the trees,
It's in our nature to display our idIosyncracies.
-(Boston Courier