New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-28
THE Talk OF TIE DAY.

Abandoned farms7 OF course. Even the ubiquitous
Yankee can't go West and stay East both at once.
Naturally, he has gone where no could make his work
pay the best. But II you are going to grieve about
1t, make haste for the increase Of population will settle
the whole question and resettle tho farms within the
next ten years.
1t has always puzzled US TO know why Mahomet
hestated about going TO the Mountain, expecting the
Mountain to come to him. 1t wouldn't have cost
him cent to stay at the Mountain as long as he
wanted TO. The Mountain House would have been
glad to deadhead him giving him me best sa suit o.
chronlcled in the daily papers, people would have
focked to the Mountain to see him. and he would
have been big card. lie, Is. sometimes called n,
false prophet but he would have been real profit
to the house where he put up.-CreAas shtings
The following inscription is bell now being
made by Messrs Meneely & Co., the bell founders Of
West Troy n. Y. for the City Hall OF Cambridge,
Mass The bell is gift to the city from forn@
resident, who now resides in Los Angeles. Cal:
"Cheerfully ring the hour
From my home within the tower:
But would a lesson teach
Even bells mems hearts may reach
THE LESSON.
Keep the ballot free and puro;
Thus the rights OF all
Public wrong finds antdote
When each voter casts his vote.'
Styles Magic syllable.-Frsnklln squeer tat the
Waveriey Place uanguidlyl 7-Hsw-nOi
rye been looking al some ovahcoafngs. ye KNOW
nevah weah weady made clothes !-Puck
The popularity in Mr.. Cleveland's case IS that he
Is fully as popular out of Office as he was in II.
-(Boston Sunday Herald. Oh, moro, much more (;
and the longer and moro industriousy he stays out
the more popular he Will become-especially with his
own party.
A New-Yorker saws the tower for the worlds Fair
should be 1902 feet tall with liberty
pole 400 feet above that making It 1892 But suca
make it io5a2and that would be 2 much."-CNor-
rstown Herald.
"The Cincinnati Commercial Gazete' thinks thaa
under favorable conditions recent distinguished
convert TO Democracy, with big, big D. might grow
UP to be as great Mr. Mills, whose In.
formation might be written in full in coarse hand 90
the surface of quarter Of a dollar.'
The Philadelphia Tines says that umpire whose
decisions are given Latin Is be the feature OF
game between druggists aud physicians In that city.
II the decisions In Latin given as careessy as
some prescriptions in Latin somebody IS going TO get
killed before the game is ended-tNorristown Herald
"we wonder says "Le Temps of Paris. in sn
article showing the Unsuitabllify of Chicago as tho
place for the Worlds Fair how many Chicagoans
who crossed the to visit the Exposition In tho
first city of France would have taken the same trouble
II the show had been IN Lyons, second city Of
importance? ~ This way of putting the case VIII
probably make both Lyons and Chicago hopping mad
The talk heard so often nowadays about Chlnas
growing friendliness the outer barbarans ROUNDED
ON error The Chinese hate them as bitterly To-Day
as they did thirty years more ago. Inc hVes anu
limbs OF foreigners in Canton said to De much ls
safe than formerly. nsOmuch that II they choose 10
visit unattended the temples the poters neld Nnei
the beheadng takes place. any of the otheT Ia1u
sights in the wonderful city, the FISK run u ''"
abe.-(North China Herald.
A little weazened scotchman, OF Australia na'"o,
Mclean, has probably the largest thlrteens ea''O.
boy in the world. He IS six feet sN i"0H'S "
height. and weights about $50 pounds
Worse by half than the hen and han pr1o sr two
this certain family consists OF one srsnsnr law
oTandmotherS one father law, two mothers-u'ia'
three mothers two fathers. two daughters oas '
one daug hter in.law, one son'ln,la@, one 1amiIy-
ter and there are only six persons In the FANNY"
Farm Journal.