New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-01
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

In the Boston city election last year, . womsn
voter back to the ward clerk after having de-
posted her ballot and left the wardroom to ask IL the
balotbox might not be opened and her ballot taken
out as she had been told that she had voted for
wrong person on the ticket and she would like to Dus
In different ballot'
Father-My son. stop. You must not dispute your
Boy-But she's in the wrong.
Father-That makes no difference; and you might
well learn, child once for all that when iany
say thing is so 1t is So and then no added earnestly
even II 1t Isn't so !-(Chicago Globe
Being asked to announce from his pulpit lecture
nv an escaped num- the Rev. W. H. Thomas,
Methodist minister OF Worcester, Mass, thus replied:
81 am not In harmony with the un-Christan IN
American dLscourtcous assault upon the Roman
Catholic Church, popular about Boston.
am endeavoring educate my people to higher things
and must decline to read your notice.
Helpinc Along-First Kentuckan-say, Colonel,
there's Mormon elder down the road preachin' to
crowd % young women an singn' " Would were
Second Kentuckian-welI ] kin furnish the feathers
You cit some tar to stick 'em on-tPhiladelphia
Record
Things look dark in Boston. There is no nov
craze the carpet for tho coming season.
Johnny-Pa this paper Per, says that Mr. Smith died
Pa-It means, my son, that-er, that MT smith nad
something the matter with his intes nesnsome sort OF
Inflammation Of the bowels probably-lBoston Trans
crfpt
Nothing remains Of tho famous English settlement
Of jamestown, Va, begun In 1907, save the ruins OF
church tower, and this is crunbling year BY year
Tree roots have cracked the monumental slabs In the
church yard, and thus Of the few localities. re-
calling the first years of American history is slowly
losing its distinctive features.
The Dfercnce-New Yorker-Don't you find things
cheaper in New-York than In Philadelphia
sdelphan-Notbing but Pennsylvania COAL
philadelphia Record
A Kansas paper predicts that in i've years Kansas
will make her own sugar and in ten years VIII have
millions Of pounds to sell.
Patti sleeps twelve hours Of every twenty four
That Is where she has the advantage over those who
want to hear her MARBLE They have to hustle at
the Observation-Disclosures Republican
The time between the City Of Mexico and San An
tonic, Tex, is forty-eght hours. And yet Tho Two
Republics" Of the former city, is fourteen days In
reaching San Antonio, being sent first to Ncw,forA.
and from here to San Antonio Don NJ Dickinson
must be running the Mexican postofice department.
They have queer ways of getting money for charity,
out West One of them is a dainty bazaar occupied BY
five pretty girls and adorned with the following legend
Drop five dollars In the slot and the girls will throw
you five hsses."-( burlington Free Press.
Saws "The Terre Haute Gazette II Tho Gazette
had had any idea four years that it hurt the Re
publicans as much be beaten 1t does now, Wen
be dog goned If we would have ciowed over them
There are some men who cultivate white hands,
with fair nails. For nothing else do they care very
particularly all is well If only their hands be fine
There is even ridiculous notion that elegant hands
the most unequlvocal test of what Is called good
birth. We say, for own part. that the finest
hands saw belonged 10 woman who kept
butchers stall In Fulton Market So much for
the about fine hands.-lNew-York Ledger.
"The st. Louis Republic announces that the coun
try has moved West, and that the few efete voters
left in New England and Ncw-York will no longer
be allowed to exercise any Influence in the National
elections. We seem to have heard something like
this before.
Agn Annex alton" I'm unalterably against an
nexaton,' said Windsor man at the wharf yester
day
"Why?" asked Deroter.
Because enjoy more privileges over here
The air seems purer, the birds sing more sweety
and there's feeling of liberty that cannot be found
in the States
MY friend" said the Detroitcr, {" what was your
business when you lived in the Statesl'
" I-sr-you-I-mean u
"Just what thought. II confronted ny
such condition I'd feel Just exactly as you do.
My advice IS that you stay right here with your
pure air sweet music OF the birds and that feeling
Of security. It's safer.'-tDetiot Journal