New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-21
THE TALK or THE d. y.

The Pennsylvania Weather Service Bureau has col
lected statistics show the extraordinary char
acter of the rainfall in that state during the last
two months. II has been calculated that enough
water fell in that time form u lake 900 miles
square and about thirty five feet deep. During the
three days when the JOhnstOwn food at lis
height, the dOwnpour the mountain plateaus Of
Northern Pennsylvania amounted to nearly 1000
100000 tons
The same Old Beefstesk-" What's the matter with
the beefseak?' asked the landlady.
have a horrible suspicion thst the COW was afflicted
with general ossiication. 7-(Washngton Capital
Chicago can count on one advantage over NewYorl
on the Worlds FAN question. With the hundreds OF
acres of farm and prairie land recently annexed 10
that city, the greater part Of Chicago may be
said TO consist Of eligible Exhibition sites.
Where Beauty Wouldn't Count.-John X. Davis
OF Cincinnati. is said 10 be very proud of the fact
that he has the smallest mans hand in the country
II he were poker player he wouldn't be SO proud OF
small hand.-(NOnfstown Herald
One of the latest bits of slang owes ifs birth to the
gifted Western baseball reporter. Enthusiastic fol
lowers of the National game, Ike General DXwell. OF
Roston now called fans by the young men who
write Of the battles with the BATS Even stakl
old journal like The Philadelphia Ledger has adopted
the term
THE PERVERsTTY OF FASHION.
The summer hats are all low crowned
No ostrich pumes above them hover;
The girls are to the beaches bound,
For the theatre seasons over.
IN autumn when the plays revived
And Nature spreads around her glOlies.
The Paris styles VIII have arrived
The hats built up 10 seven stories.
Boston Courier.
It is said that one $500 share in the New River Com
pany which was founded I'm 1912 to supply the Clerk
enwell district of London with sold recently at
auction for sG1f,OOo The last annual dvi-
IA.
purchaser was an insurance company. which
took the stock as a permanent Investment The
great disparity between the price paid and the earn
ing power Of the stock may throw some light on the
eagerness Of English capital seek investment in
American enterprises.
q cannot sing the old songs
She walled in accents sad.
Z cannot sing the old songs
Boston Courier.
why not make a test of the Brown-Sequard
elixir ON one of our District Messenger boys
The College Bred Youth-Ethel-I think Mr.. Muscles
education has been sadly neglected. lie SPEAKS uiea"
Mamma have always heard the cont airy lie He IS
n distinguish senior at Yale-a member OF us Dase
hall team and dances divneIy. -(Chcago Journal
The people of Paris are to erect monument to
Admiral Coligny 81 years after his death. In this
fact The Pttsburg Dispatch sees ray Of hope Tor
the Grant monument scheme. now in an apparently
sounoent condition. Why not have the Grant hioh1-
meut ready TO unvei by the time the Worlds far
opens, in 1892
First Old Conductor, raise this WINDOW
.haIl smother to death 80, .ao,- or
wrist q l. again-C Conductor will you raise
Irate passenger 0ntenuptingl- Conductor, holst
hot window and freeze OF those old women ~
Seotb. then lower it and smother the Othei Oue'
sJience I'm the car.-(W ashington Capital
Names Oldest man has just died at Belgrade III
that state His name Ellhu stevens ana tic
wos 1O1 wears Old He was married thiee uhes
and ros the father of twenty Children mos. VI
whom an, living. On the day he died he had o@o
descendants.
vo,,. ~ the sea the city fellow HES o
10 hattie with the waves and green he3d nc
or eek some rural spot his hours to lurk III, Ill, l.,
Vbere landlords bills and skeetrs get ther WOth H.
good many Of the shade trees in For1 JEWS
Y Y seem TO be in a dropping condition. Inc
por, Jeryis Uniono says that most OF the uecteu
oe .,, in the immediate vicinity of electric hehS,
, ,crests that the darkness OF night IS as heediui
90 t,ces for rest as It is to human beings
Coming Home from a Pcnc.-J0hn-But now loon
- S,se do YOU doubt that | love you 49,.