New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-09

THETALK OF THE DAY.

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There has boon a great deal of rain in the City o
Mexico this winter. Some of the more Ignorant PEG
pie attribute 1t to the presence Of number OF Baps
misso the city, Notwithstanding tho fact tina
| the Baptsts do not believe In sprinkling.
Tho agricultural interests Of this district, in the
orr of the oldest inhabitants, have never been worse
The products of the fam, excepting butter and cheese
but other grain is much below the average half crop
Quite a movement of live stock in poor condition has
feed to keep It here during the winter The pros peel
of all trade the coming year exceedingly dark and as
cOuraging intensifying beyond anything which have
seen the hope for change In the commercial re-
latOn. Of the United s ates and Canada by which the
Canadian secure a market for his raw material
(Report of United States Consul Kingston, Canada
Next to the Government ITSELF Orrin's American
Circus seems to be the most stable institution in Mex
leo.
tall young Swedish girl applied for employment 1T
at agency tho other day. Have you been long In
service ~ asked the proprietor. . .
No longer than am now SIR was the plushinB
repiy-( burlington Free Press.
great many people In Paris make as much as $40
a night az knot makers or tiers of crsvats" During
the social the good knot maker" Jumps into the
cab at out O'Clock in the evening and Is whrled to his
customers whose cravats he ties according to the pro-
valIng mode. For two minutes work he receives
from forty cents to a dollar.
You may shout and fume and stamp and rage,
And swear and boot and blast
But you' never reach your dwelling
With the horse car that is past.
The Nova Scotia Telephone Company has formally
taen possession of all the property and business Of the
i, Telephone Company In Nova Scotia Mr. "A Kpud-
son. of this city, Is the general superintendent
Madrid boasts of woman hundred and nine
years old, with daughter age sixty, whom she takes
OUT to walk every day, leading her by the hand All
of her lie she has been washerwoman, and only two
iaskcfn OF linen al the river edge The astonishing
f.
in the c.tya very dirty street Spanish city
Is terror and the sanitary experts consequently
IN great despair at the failure OF their heores-BostOn
Transcript.
Says EnglIshman In this city 1t strikes
an Englshman odd to hear evening dress referred
to I'm this country full Dress The phrase Is Of
meaningless for any style Of dress is full dress,
uncss you leave Off garment that ordinarily goes
with it,"
There Is charitable institution in Boston-we Will
say Boston-snd each day one lady has to take charge
of public deparime of It. One young lady has
selected Wednesday her day, and the first week she
TO commence her round OF duties another lady re-
celved from the president little note Dear MIS-
rang d that Miss - was to be here, but she forgot
thai It was the day sho to be married. and she
Can't come.'-&an Francisco Chronicle
During walk up Broadway, at II p. M, gentle
was accosted by three foot fveyearold boy for
aims. A few blocks beyond he met four foot older
lad. fvc-foot youthful beggar passed at Canal
St. At Niblos Garden middle aged beggar put in
his Irtton and a silver haired begged in Union
Square.
Paris reporters must have easy time If the follow
Ing fan exau pie Of the parliamentary reporting for
'''' p"p''' LATEST NEWS.
Senate
1t appears that NJ. Beral, president of the Repnbli-
can UIiOn delivered long speech. So did NJ Mar
cerc president Of the Left Centre We have no par
tlclaIs Of either speech. but can easily cons ole
ourselyes.-(Bcston Transcript
The street nomenclature of the City of Mexico Will
be reformed after which 1t will, perhaps be pos
sIble for man to saunter hundred feet in thorough
fare without discovering that the street has name
Broadway fruit dealer displays this sign, gap
aneSc chestnuts, warranted to keep for ten years.
The japanese must have curious idea Of America
if they expect to compete with the American news
paper chestnut with merely tenyear record.
In Society
Young MAXWELL, that girls sumner, amt she 2
Old man-What makes you think sol
Y; M.-why. she knocked me silly in about minute
Old man-gruhiy- didn't haze to hit you very
hard, either did she ?-WashIngton Critic
An honest Belgian manager has hit upon novel
method OF indicating to the public the moral character
of his plays. 1t IS by printing his play bills in differ
ent colors Thus red bill signifies that the play Is
pernclous and that therefore, none but adults should
1t. white bill indicates that the play is moral
and that therefore parents ought to bring their chill
dren to see It, StIll again blue bill signifies that
play IS the borderland of morality and that, there
fore, parents must their discretion in bring
ing their children to see It, Lastly, yellow bill sig
nfes that husbands should be careful not to bring their
wives to the play although presumably they may
go themselves.
Says druggist " settler water is something new in
tho treatment Of burns and scalds, and find very
speedy and enlcaclous in its effects. 1t relieves tho
pain almost Immediately, you have and, in my
opinion accelerates tho cure l think the carbOnlc
acid gas with which the water Is impregnated IS the
chief agent In efectlng such good results AS the