New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-26
THE TALK or THE DAY.


"Today there Is no city in the country" says
SCHOOL, Of this city, where the Manual Training
experiment, is having so wide trial as it is in this
city Its introduction has been gradual with marked
caution. and so far with gratifying success Inc
difficulty has been in this. and will be with all new
methods that any change In great system must
be conservative rather than radical. The expenses IN
maintaining the schools are attaining great magnitude
and a rash experiment would involve the city IN an
expense OF many thousands OF dollars
johnnie Knew it All.-wfe-John, here IS something
I'm this ba seball report that do not understand.
wish you would explain 1t TO me-
; sbanddResd ny dear Lear 70 II, and one out he
reached first IN the eighth inning AMI ran cn 10 dh IN
Tiernan's Wild throw in but became ratified and held
his baSe7 What does that mean! MI,
Husband (who knows nothing OF the Same-bless II
wife with slgh)-I'lI have to wait until Johnnie
(sX years old comes in.-(Boston Courier
Beware of the booby-trap.7 In other words, II
you are asked to be seated in rocker when making
social CALL don't rock. For II you do your
entertainers will set you down social chnmp and
drop you from their list If they happen to know about
this test The booby-trap IS doing deadly work in
Philadelphia.
physician says the old-fashoncd cooking Of our
grandmOthers. such as Is lamented now, would maze
think f. would, but we don't suppose any of their
cooking has been preserved. A doughnut cooked by
to % no CaD h ys So arc
| cooked two DAYS by young lady graduate Oh q
fashionable cooking school-NOrristown Herald
Electricity Is llfen is favorite saying with fakIrs
at agricultural fairs But when you touch dead'
wire in this city you come 10 the conclusion that
electricity IS death or, If you don't, your friends DO
| for you.
In vlnest. cable car, the other day. we're an old
gentleman, with an ear-trumpet, and very pretty
| Young woman accompanied by little boy. She
smiled at intervals the boy, and showed her pretty
teeth in bewltchng way All az once tng o rha a da
IN the way peculiar to so many deaf people VINO 40
not know how TO modulate their voices, SAID III tones
loud as to be audible all over he car oS To
| saw that the pretty woman was mad IS putting IL
mildly She founced around with Eush OF anger er
blazing in her cheeks, and sgnaod me conacror ~
let her out at the next crossng-(Cincinnatl Times
Star.
| A writer on "The Chicago Globe' who recently
moved into a new boarding house. says " About l
o'clock this morning l was awakened by vigorous
shouts Of He's a liar! All And he Is perlurer'
periurerl Ho Is a malignant pustule He Is wart
Of bumanItyrS The writer adds that he discovered
the sounds to be a rehearsal by the big lawyer Tor
the defence in the Cronin case
LITTLE girl of the Italian race is In the habit OF
VISITING certain houses In Boston quito regularly re
ceiv at the several doors, food ana sometimes o' th
aric,~ which she slows snueY away Ill =" ro,,nJ
bashci which Is her constant companion In her Iolna
Of one TSo DAY b5d nH b % the good lady Of the
hou,c. after supplying the little girl as USUAL re-
marked: , 49,. .r,o,h,rc too7s
ooh no ~ was the reply. She's rich! Her fafher
works. ,, .,z.- ~, =, ,ho ovas q,
the poor.-(BosOn Times
A Leadville paper refers TO "the calm, majestic
bocofsbpcss with which the State Treasurer continues
to pocket the interest the peoples money!
A laundering drug clerk in Philadelphia, in filling
a ubvsicians prescription, gave a customer WHISKY
instead OF more naIiseatng sort OF medicine ana me
latter GOT as drunk the prOverbal D0lied owl:
| Instead OF the mistake damaging the Druggist
PRESCRIPTION business 1t Increased 1t 10 per cent
(NOrrisOwn Herald.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the press statne
that when church members in Chicago are particularly
pleascd with good point in a sermon they whaeH
tho new I'm front of them with hymn book ana snort
rpt we shall refuse to believe IL unless is confirmed
Inv Chicagos most eminent truth-tcer. Colonel Eugene
Field.
A Very Sad occaslon.-Mr. BIznis-Whewl but I'm
tired QUIT -, ..,
MIR Blznis-The second bOOkkeeper asked me ,i ioi
n halliday off to attend bis aunts funeral ana iIAo
a smart Neck / said would 90 with him. ,. ann.
Mrs. Bzns-Was 1t a very good game "ha' was
the score {! 49,. ,.o,o1 ,nveelf
lie really was going TO his auntS funera'-'i0'i0
Iaute EXPRESS.