New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-14

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some things can be done as well as others'2 Mayor
Grant thinks so too When the wires safely dis
posed Of there are other obstinate nusances waiting
for you, Sir
Minks-were you away last summer'
Winks-Yes, OFF about month at summer RESORT
How did you spend the timer
awaiting for It to stop raining"-(New-York Weekly
The muskrat who holds high rank among tho
weather prophets las we'll with the perfumers
Is sad TO be building his house unusually high this
year on tho banks OF the Assinbone Therefore, say
the other prophets it will be extraordinarily cold on
the banks OF the Hudson. Pooh!
Only eight dime museums in different parts Of the
country exhibit the only genuine stool on which
Sullivan in his last fght.-tAIilwaukee Sentinel
Left to herself New-York would soon become an
inland city, by reason Of the refuse that she is con-
stanty dumping into her harbor and asking the Gov
ernment to dredge out again-(Phadelphia Inquirer
Cheer up, esteemed friend; all this hardly follows
because big steamer, our oty's nameSake, tried 10
come up the bay across lots. Gedney's channel Is
good one to stay in.
London undertakers are Advertising Reform
Funerals They ought 10 be profitable; the number
of reforms buried IS legion.-Spnnghed Qlll state
Journal.
The expressmen ought 10 put up sign "NO
Thoroughfareo at each end OF Park Place when they
need the sidewalk for their exclusive use. Many
pedestrians dislike to intercept the movement Of big
boxes. y over inc ncdIcSI "OulA
pay the companies
The coming theatre hat modelled after the Elfel
Tower Will not DO so Objectionable after all. The
Eiffe Tower can be through II is built that
Way.-(Norrstown Herald.
More than twice as many visitors paid TO SEQ the
Paris Exposition between its opening IN May and
September 30 as were admitted to the Exposition OF
1873 during the same period. The exact figures are
in 1878, 0,646,462 In 1880, 1881 $50
What crander scbcue couId he conceived than ~
turn millions of Of now worse than useless land
into highly productive farmsl That is the aim O
West The project should have the support Of every
sensible man in the United states.-(san Francisco
Chronicle.
1t is said that Postmaster-General wansmaber
means TO recommend free postal delivery I'm all places
having 600 Inhabitants $s, 900 annual receipts
for hostage But since every reduction OF limit SC
far has moro than paid for itself why not extend the
free delivery still further, say to all places having
a thousand inhabitants within half a mile Of the post
| office
Another deluson is wiped out The "busy bee
works only three or four months I'm the year and
then on the fair days sdpplns al the stormy ones
At best he Is fair weather aoorer for one1fourh OF
| fonrthS n would be impossible TO run a newspaper
on the busy bee" plan.-(Martha's Vineyard Herald
spce the Discontinued and the Democratic press got
caught quoting the census valuation OF all the farms In
the country as representing the exact figures OF the
rortcacoe on them II turns out that I'm Inlnols-the
| only state whence complete record Is available
all the town and farm mortgages outside OF Chicago
amount IN 1923 1888 O9s instead OF about 5000 O0O
for the farm mortgages alone as uncanddly repre-
scented.
! New-York Man ito acquaintance)-I understand that
| your daughter Is married.
| Yes"
DO wellP
Oh yes, surpassed her mothers fondest dreams"
al am pleased TO hear IT,. AFTER short slenee)
| So she has good husband, ehf
| ooh She has no husband at all. She married 81
! Italian nrlnce. p-lArkanSsw Traveller.