New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-30
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.


The watermelon at last is beginning TO be appre-
cated at its true value "Why should not this grand
fruit" says The Charleston News and Courier" the
biggest fruit in the world form the basis for the
syrup supply of this continent at least" Why not!
Plenty of Exercise.-Friend-So you have another
race booked! haven't seen you taking the regulaC
ton exercise spins 10 get In condition, while have
met your opponent rcigiously preparing himself for
Famous sprinter-Oh I take my exercise at
Friend-Whcre. and howe
L. Sat home. The baby gives me all the ex-
ercise 1 need, and more, too.-(Boston Budget
Stanford University, in California, will be formally
opened and It's students will begin work this IAN.
Already the main college building Is completed and
dormitorles in each Of which 2GO boys can sleep are
I'm process Of construction. senator stanford has had
agents travelling from Eastern college to Eastern
college for several months past learning their methods
Of instruction and taking notes of interesting features
I'm each college.
Everything in season.-Able Edtor-See here, Mr.
Phunnyman. you have had that ieecream JOKE IN
about forty times within month, this hammock Joke
about twenty times and this Soda-water joke AT icaS'
a hundred times. - 49,, -, $500
don't expect me TO write stove-pipe and plumber
stories in the summer time do you!-CTrenton lines
Hundreds of the subscribers of the Nashville Tele-
phone Company have been entertained for several
nights the past week with phonograph serenade,
tho music being furnished by one of Edson's phono-
of a brass band concert
The small boy from Spokane Falls who took Off
his red shirt to flag the train ana kept IL Iiua Ium
ming into burned bridge, Will live longer IN memory
than Little Lord Fauntleroy."-lHelena JOURNAL
VACATION.
"Goodby dear dollars mine goodby,
'Iis time that we should part;
Vacation dawns and now must
For recreation start
SO sang a youth and sped away;
Soon by the sounding sea
His dollars dwinded day by day
While he lived merrily
Amid the breakers white he rolled,
Al fearless Of Of o Do sol SOL he told
Beneath paraSoL
Filtration? Yes a little-of
Ice and opera airs
Upon the picr-then stlll some more
Filtration on the stairs
Result--a scarlet face ard nose
Tintypcs of lou and likewise Rose
-(Pittsburg Dispatch
As An old friend and lifetime associate ought not
lord Fife to have invited General Drum to his
| weddngl
A Desirable Tenement" But why do you charge
such an enormous rent for a fiat in such a-wel,
I'm such a plebeian nelghborhoOdl'
mont and You can get into it sunday by going
down the back stars."-(Bospn Courier
The Sunday closing movement is spreading from
trads TO trade In Philadelphia FROM inc pafDcrs
and the laundrymen it has now extended to tho
| bakers most of whom do considerable work
upon Sunday. The bakers have determined TO appeal
to the Legislature of Pennsylvania to pass law
prohibiting the opening of bakeries on Sunday.
Back from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., returned
To the city so early in the season
1'ramp-Yes boss, The city's good enough for me.
P.~W6y sol / supposed the country was para
disc in summer to those OF your nnd.
T-so il was once boss, but the farmers are now
all takin' summer boariers and work OIL their cold
wittlos on 'em.-(Boston Budget
II Is proposed In Fremont Ohio, to establish school
in honor of the late Mrs Hayes wife of exprcsdent
Hayes. The school is to be given tho name Lucy
webb Hayes Seminary"
Old schoolmatc meets Thompson, whom he has
not seen for several years. Old Friend by the way
Old man, how did your scheme Of marrying so you
could have some one 10 talk 20 pan out
THOMPSON Not well. You see, that's what
she married for tOO.-Tcrre Haute Express.