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

TIE TALK or TIE DAY.
Look out for plenty of serpents next season
Each log In the big raft is possible and potepiai
sea serpent.
Tho nbiouitous office bow has discovered new use
for old business letters which he now sells 10 various
firms at from len to fifty cents hundred. The
buyers use them Tor the addresses contained he~h
which are duly copied and In turn sold to sewing
machine and patent medicine men, who ~ tho ists
In sending out circulars In many OF the large cseaR
from part of the globe, these letters furnish
Weekly.
SPY the way what Is the price r. said a Bohemian
to his tailor after ordering pair of trousers Sixty
francs" the reply " How .manv pockets wouh
you like ~ added the artist ae th)n-ht. None
at ALL" said the customer; 81 shall have no need
If them when I have paid for the trousers."-(A
Paris Figaro chestnut.
Constltuent-Mr Sharpe, want you TO do soms-
thing for our neighboihocd There's sewer that's
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mr. Greene, II opportunity
yours but, great heavens man, the Mormon cancer
must be eradlcatcd, matter what becomes Of your
N B. At last adviccs Mr. Sharpe mad forg)ttrn
both Mormon cancer and Mr. Greene's sever h1t was
election could be secured -tBoston Transcript
Says Professor Goodwin Smith. in "The Toronto
Mailr: If President Cleveands policy finds favor
and the United States advance In the direction Of FREQ
trade. the maintenance Of tho protective system in
Canada will become morally impossble.' Goodwin
Smith Is not a fool he knows a frcet trade message
when he secs 1t.
Most American novests are doing good work In tho
short-story line. The result IS agreeable to every
body and IT maintains the reputation OF America for
the best short stories in the word-Baltimore Ameri-
The handsome building Of the. Atlanta School OF
Technology is rapidly approaching completion. 1t 10
object of reverenal interest for tho "crackers'
from the country who visit Atlanta They speak OF
1t that thur new tangled school of take-in knowi
edGes
How sweet 1t Is In foreign lands
W.T., To meet friend who knows you %s,,.
Who rushes up with Outstretched hands,
And almost Oyerthr0wS you.
But OH how sad, when that same friend,
Whose Joyous greetings thrill you
Exclaims, you both hands extend,
Lend me ten dollars, VIII you !! ,,,.,
A man in the western part Of the State wants thu
abbreviated Of the State to be written thus'
Any Yk" Pretty soon some one will want
written "Nyyk.' and then "Nyk"
"Johnny, will you have some vegetab,esf'
"NO. thank you aunty the medicine mamma
brought homo last week 4 purely vegetsblc-fhat's
awful that tastes YOU would know why Fever want
anything moro to do with Vegetables boston
Transcript
Western farmer says that dark horses moro
Presidential bee always attacks dark horses
The renown that she is winning abroad through
johnsuvansm is making Boston careless about
her reputation IN some other respects 1t Is assert.
OF Shelley's poems throughout the length and breadth
Of Boston .-(rhadclpha Ledger
It is said that Governor Hill likes to rcd headed
politicians Perhaps he has superstition that they
may result in his seeing the White House
Have q cigar, Charley7'
"Dont care II do
"some that my wife gave for Christmas
@Er come to think Of It. Tom, guess I don't
feel Ike smoking today '-(Boston Transcript.
During the coming year fashionable walking sticks
will weigh five pounds so 1t is said.
What Is this fair New Yearl
A flower that dropt from the bier
Where the Old Year lay. ere time bore him away
-(Boston Transcript
Fourteenthst. vender dIsposes of jewolry In
novel manner. Tie offcrs a watch "hain for Is
cents, and to every purchaser Of chain he presents
a stem winding stemseting watch perfectly rcgn-
lated, free OF cost. Within stones throw Of this
vender a dgnifed firm also sells watcho, and chains
for tho modest sum of 500 In the eyes Of popular
fancy however, tho o5 cont has tho CALI tho
market
young college dcbater vii sfsue for hours
tina, the pursuit Of happiness = er than tho real
refuses for the fourth time TO marry h,n-tlcrchans
Traveller.
Mr. Pickett. Of "The Memphis Avalanche" and Mr.
Keating Of The Memphis Appeal" recently engaged
in little war of words after tho OF Southern
gentlemen and the epithes traitor" and lar went
hurting through the air In the most blood cnrdling
fashion. Rut the white-winged dove Of pc co has
settled down on the situation, so TO speak. The
doughty Mr. Pickett acknowledges that tho word
traitor" not used in q personal sense, and the
pussant Mr.. Heating therefore wthdraws tbs wore
"no' in its personal sense
We have on the Mojave desert Q turtle that eats
grass. It lives 10 holes In the sand, which 1t niakea
TO escape the intense heal VI the sun You may
bates AgAssizn, Just iausly named for the grss:
naturalist, yer. pretty turtle hat gets On Svo~
feeding TO DO about ton inches long ana W wogn
ak to eight pounds woman down on tho aosotS
last summer wnere l was had eight or ton Oh tnom
in open pen. which she was iattenins 70 eaS
get fat, a. they quickly do on tho grsss tnoy ocas
ali tho frogs or roast turkeys you ever &@ Az
ordinary one OF these turtles II worth u OF e4-tA
Naturalist In San Francisco Examiner.
"Tho Empire' is tho name Of the now eight pasa
daily paper Just started In Toronto - tho organ Of
the Conservatives. lts name 10 not ono to arouse
much enthusiasm In Canada ct thu present time
hut rs u I. vol edited and has plenty Of moncy back 81
It, II may sucosed.
!. His Imroral Majesty Alexander III, Car Of An
tho Russia, recently presence snS Sosai,sn cxsi,
necklace Tho gonna used are ell large cnier.ids.
perfectly matched ~ to ,oor and sixe be matching
Of tho stones slone 10 upled period OF thru years
Tho Imperial towol 10 said to be highly prised ~
Xcxanacr's consoit.-lJeweiiers' woekiys