New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-13
TIE TALK or THE DAP,

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| Natural gas Is said to be giving out. AIreahv
Plttsburg people are talking cheerfuly about making
! IL srtncially.
The stage version Of "Unce Toms Cabin, e. 10
! be greatly improved this year Uncle Tom. Eva
and St Clair are 10 die in the first act. which will
permit more dog and donkey business in the following
acts. But why not make II sun more popular by
killing off the entire cast in the first act '-Norrstown
Herald.
magnificent English tree known as the I" Win;
farthing oak,' which measured IS feet inches in
girth In 1744, has Just been remeasured and found
10 have grown Just seventeen inches In the interval,
1870 years.
An Indiana man, age eighty-two, advertised for .
wife and got ner by paving 5000 she was
another exemplifcaton Of the rhy hmic claim that:
There never yet was goose so gray
But one day, soon or late
An honest gander came that way
And chose her for his mates
-(Chicago Mall.
Tho colony Of Victoria, Australia with 100 900 In.
habitants. is said to muster $50 "relgious sects.
easily beating the record Of country OF which
1t was once said that we had "a hundred religions
but only one gravy But what Is rel gious sectsi
TWO of these Victorans are set down as secret
shippers one as a fatast.' and six profess "rs
ligion d.
Discharged Employc-Have you any doubt Of my
Employer-Not the least
Shy do you discharge ms
According to an official statement, the population
Of Chill partly estimated, IS 3115,sI5 THIS includes
81, OO7 foreigners and about 10000 Indians. Santiago
has Is9 332 Inhabitants; Valparaiso. 104.oj2.
WASHINGTON DEMOCRACY
Free lumber free iron, free hops and free COAL
-(Seattle PostIntellnncer.
A Milwaukee man has set up a training school for
A hepQ truc t Z neXt
and then some awfully rich beggar may be expected
TO endow chair OF mendicity at some leading uni
versity.
"The New-York Medical Journal SAYS the weak:
ness and bad health Of American women are caused
We differ The weakest woman doesn't know wash
board from waflelron nor 6r99ms,ck from the
north pole-(San Francisco AltaCalifornia
Twenty-four thousand six hundred and thirty pil
grims visited the of Lourcs, in France during
the month OF September.
On the creased pole of success there's always room
at the tOp.-Puck.
Did you know that the postal card, called In
England postcard" and on the Continent cor
respondence card" celebrated IT'S twentieth birthday
on the 25th Of last month"; Prussia suggested It four
years earlier, but Austria began It, America took II up
in 1873, and by 1878 its use was universal. During
the Franco German they were issued free to tho
German soldiers ia the field ana sold five for cent
10 their families at home
The Harvard boys didn't fall Of appreciation Of
Sir Edwin Arnold on the Upanishads, the MahaboaTala
and The Bhagsvad Ghita. but, on the whole they
rather prefer lillian Russell In The Brgands'-
Boston sunday Herald.
IL the Chinese editor IL as Invariably truthful as
his American brother, then The Picking Gazcte' Is
600 years old and has 800 editors by decaplta
ton The first one probably beheaded for print
ing the early poems of ConfIcus, Isl his soph. year.
erich and rare the gems she wOre,'
When she was dressed TO XIII;
And terrible the Oahs he sWore
When her husband saw the OH. TIL,
In London lately fourteen policemen were put OK
dutv in two days by bites, kicks knocks and punches
adm Mustered at the hands feet and teeth Of the un'
r,ly citizen Bobby should come over and taka
a few lessons in clubbing
Ten wel-known women are going to write on tho
subject Some Things We Should Do IL We Were
Men, One of the things they would do If they weH
the theatre or else get eiected-Norristown Herald.
The Russian clergy, says The Pail Mall Gazette
have set up a massive clock TO commemorate thu
Borfd railway accident, I'm which the Gar and his
family narrowly escaped death. The clock faces ths
scene of the accident, and year, at the exact
hour heavy silver bell tolls for five minutes.
A New-Jersey weather prophet, who predicts an
omen winter. has put in Ave extra tons OF coat and
purchased the heaviest he could find This Is
an indication that are going to have some weather
before next spring -(Norristown Herald