New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

There are some drugs which said to be worth
So 600 bottle and the druggists say they don't make
much them either
A single charge Of powder for the eve-nch guns
used i'm the English navy costs pounds 10 shninss,
II things go in this way II VIII cost SO muCI 10
lin a man that the pension will have 10 be paid TO
the Government instead of 10 the heirs OF the uecease
-(Boston Transcript.
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, who has Just hnshsd
his term as one of the pastors Of Harvard has THIS
TO say about his experience: " It has never Deeh my
privilege in any church prayermeetihg 10 lead n'
devotons of more attentive, responsive, and ap-
parently devout congregation than that which as
sembles thus in Appleton Chapel every hiornins' !
may add that the effort 10 crowd INTO TWO minutes
what will fix the attention of the congregation on the
Scripture, and hint to them Its centrai uuh' Is eA
ccedingly profitable as intellectual and spiritual
exercise to the preacher and not without pro"'' /
think to the hearers, alSO.'
The owner Of London weekly journal not only
makes his own paper, but also grows ne grass trom
which the paper is made. Up to the hour of going to
press he had not succeeded n making me SEED hom
which the grass is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Herald
aTbe Buffalo Expressp protests against the de-
bauch OF gags under which nearly every comic
opera now hiccoughs and staggers through the coun-
try TO its own shame and the disgust OF decent people,
That's all right but the debauch VIII 30 on until the
people have become educated up 10 something hlgher
than gags.p When will that be! Really we have
misald the exact date but it won't be tomorrow or
next day, that's certain
Just Like a Phllosophcr-Ie had worked on iarnl
all summer and fall; the kind OF work that chases
man nmt ~ bed before the sun has begun business
Tor the day and keeps him tearing at his muscles
hin, ~ GER nm for the next days grinding toll. All
| This he had gone through for HlO month ana iouh1
d w tbe hnstng city. lie thought little recrea-
ton had been earned and proceeded to recreae at,
tbe ortbodox fashion. While feeling that bubbling
snortivencss within him that follows liberal dose
| Of 81 udceo he wandered into faro layout ana
placed his all on t rS ' him for ever cr " ~
an come easy go n was all he sald(Phiadel
phia Inquirer
This is how an Ohio paper prints marriage notice
- Mr. william Jones, of Malta Township, aged eighty
| three passed peacefully away on Tuesday last from
single blesseness to matrimonial bliss. after short
but sudden. attack by Alice Blossom blooming widow
OF thirty five
Clara-Mlss Mink tells me- darling. that she owes
'oT s"@6' that doesn't matter at all Her dress
maker said TO the other day that Miss Mink neve
pays what she owes so don't care, you sec--(Pick
Me-Up.
Alack aday! The only hlppopotamuslet we eve
had is dead.
The randi spread of the influenza in Russia ISM
altogethrr P astonishing. All Russians have kof
-(Boston Herald
A social authority declares that man can afor
to dress badly II he IS genius or chump. But
be isn't one or the other OF these two things he mus
toe the mark Of fashionable convention.
In making final proof before the United States Ian
Office! Judge Cmchards, of Waa walla usually asks
- Have YOU a family ~ Most of them answer IN IN
| aeirmstiye but the other day he got hold Of a ma
who had the biggest family on record. Have yo
a family IN said the judge "a he pulled down his YES
| . w. srp said the man somewhat confused "Wha
does il consist OFF, continued Mr.. Guohard. "Wel
said the man, looking up toward the ceiling SO as
refresh his mind and give a true account wife an
tweIye ch ldren, two married. a hired man, gans
| plough, sceder, Balm wagon and span of mules.
=. That's enough" said the judge with SMILE, an
| tho settler got his final papers without any furthe
trouble. Portland Orgonlan.
A speaker in the Evangelical Alliance meeting u
Boston bewaed the fact that many bad men siv'
money to the Church. But how VIII no prevent "
IL would DO hardly feasible " demand certificate