New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY

aTbs Boston Transcript vouches for this stsry.
The other day alady called on the wife Of the pastor
OF Boston swedenborgian church. "Mrs. K-,' she
asked do you get help fer peoplop Mrs. X. looked
puzzled. Excuse me- explained Tho visitor, :" but
isn't your husband the minister of the swedenborap
church ~
He IS. Mrs. X. replied
"Weu,n continued the caller, SI understood that
you got help for people, and want real good
swede girl, and thought you could supply me With
one"
Mrs H. Just discovering that she used help In
the New England sense of servants, could only reply
that she knew Of no Swedish girls in the parish
Il am so disappointed' said the would-be EN-
ployer Here I have come all the way from the
Back Bay and you can't find me Swedc, after all"
She went away, evidently thinking that the sweden
borgan Church poorly fulfls It's missisA
THE QUARREL.
She.
I'll take glance upon the sly.
Just be saunters slowly by,
In take glance upon the sly,
frGm haSs m 9Es fs aaar aea Sssndsa
III take glance uRop s the sly,
III pass her way and show TO nor
That am not heart-broken;
No womans whim for memo, sirt
III pass her way and show 70 her
Upon my life she casts no blur,
That am not heartrbroken.
Both
saw your glance, II was loves OWE,
mountain could not hide IL;
saw your glance, it was loves own,
ing gw yeai i let me &c conGde It
m ySmr slan could % nos hSs own
-CDetroit Free Press
A correspondent asks If the American people have
decided on National flower. No; they have so
many National flowers that they think it invidous to
make any one of them the" National flower.
It would be nightly consolng to Stanley, and set
his mind quite at rest, could be know as one plack
bred other black gentlemen are standing ABOUT IN
eager anticipation Of the last dying moan OF the white
situation. "-(BoSton Transcript
A Boston clergyman is out with appeal to tho
women of Boston to do their Christmas shopping be-
fore o'clock in the evening, SO as to enable tho
clerks go home in good season. But It isn't likely
that such an appeal will be any moro e6lcacous in
Boston than it would be In this city.
A Needed Contrivance.-LfttIe Dot (after getting
paper and stamp and numerous other useful articles
from the automatic nickel machines in great hotel-
Oh amt they funny, mammal Are there any noref
Mamma-Perhaps there are well look
"wel, let's hunt TIL we find one that says ,nrop
nickel in the slot and get little brother '-Phils-
delphia Record
disappointment Clerk Gene Higgins is getting
good deal Of free advertising just now. some one
has COMPOUNDED him with gentleman in this city,
and describes him a great matrimonial catch, with
an income of $4,000 year
Madam's small boy has broken out In new place
He had been visiting one Of his schoomates' ana 40
came back with serious face. Mamma be SAID,
guess it's all right with that piece Of poetry you
told me about, He Doeth All Things Well oh.
indeed said Madam, and why ~ well, l think
He did Just the square thing In giving me to you
Instead of to Mrs. Dunnep For I've been over
there three hours and / know never could stand
that woman ln-(Boston Beacon
1t is estimated that the American clergy have given
Robert Elsmere" about $50 900 worth Of free adj
vertisng which has benefited Mrs. Ward to the OK
tent Of $500 thus far.
The End Of the Honeymoon.-Young Wicklow the
world movesl There's Bessie Gray, an Old chum Of
mine, graduate OF the normal school. has Just en-
tered medical college. She Will soon be able TO write
NJ. D. after her Women coming 10 the front,
tell you. Formerly girls were taught nothing but
housekeeping
Young Husband-Yes, and now they're Taught
everything but housekeeping Boston Courier.