New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-11
THE TALK or THE DAY.

"The Boston Courier prints some fair to mddina
poetry the refrain Of which is sour Nine will ksep
the leading place. few years ago every one
would have understo this reference 30 the niue
muses. but things different now, and the baseball
nlno occupy the inches once sacred to the muses.
Employer-GoIng to a funeral7
Clerk-No, sir. I'm going fishing In the forenoon,
and to the ball game In the afternoon.
EmplOyer-A right. YOu can go. And here's
$40 to enjoy yourself with.-tBoston Courier
London Fun" prints some doggerel lines about
Mr.. Edison which it entities ais I'D Is on.' II is
such efforts as this that make the average Engishmsn
feel tina: existence would be very Jolly II 1t were no,
for the funny papers
A New ExpanauOn-Bessle (who has never seen Q
real black negro before)-Mamma. what sort Of
man IS that?
Mamms-A negro, my dear
Besse-Well | guess he must have spilled some
ink ia his complexion powder-tBurlington Free Pres
"welI. Clles,' said English physician to country
yokel, has my medicine done your wife any goodP
Noa. CUR" the reply II dOant reckon It ave.
doan't odd WI they white stufs. GP me zummas
black stinks, zays'
A woman created quite sensation In New.York
the other day by going into the street. procuring
handful of mud and smearng 1t over the portrait OF
An actor on a wall. How that woull sling
mud II she edited organ during Presidential cam
naiSn And 1t wouldn't lniure the candidates any
more than her mud hurt the actor whose portrait che
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES HefdfL
This is pen-and-lnk sketch Of an American girl
as given in an English comic paper; Baron Won Small
pumps-Titles. wealth. posiOns-all these l offer
why then lovelet of Amelias. Will you not be mine
Miss Wander; rompSwhy, Barn, I'm ready to marry
baaf of We termorrer for them feet Of yourn
inst lovely But as things stand, I've got 10 take
YOUR head into the bargain, and caynt bring myself
to swaller that nohow.'"
"whas are the prospects" asked one Democrats
politician of another few days after the harr'sours
Very dscouraging' tho reply " and growing
more every day.
@Why. every day since the convention the papers
have contained reports Of iron manufacturers voluh
tarlly Increasing the wages of their employees
That IS bad news indeed, and doesn't give iree-
trade arguments apy kind of a show."-'Norris'o"n
Herald
A correspondent wants 20 know how long It Will Dc
before the steps leading up 10 the City Han VIII %
renaired We don't know, but we hope they will DO
finished by 1892
q arlincs he said, "your eyes are as bright as
diamonds your teeth white as pearls, your lips as
red as rubies and-andD .,u ian, ,,ou,r.
Then George went out into the Jet black nighS
Jewellers Weekly.
avbat are Won doing. sticking bill on my fenceP
said an old gentleman 10 a man with pas'e pot.
(" Not exactly.o was the reply " I'm blln' STICK.
And he looked with critical scorn on the picture Ok
an actor unknown to the gallery which he was pdS'-
ing up
eft always sort o. makes me feel sad and down,
hearted TO read about the prodigal son In tne EiDe
said Farmer slilens 10 his male OFFSPRING WIN was
home on his summer vacation
Z" asp a., ~. .,,r,.s
"Yaws, echoed the old man, as his lips curIea
contcnut,ously, " he came back and says honorapy
and fatfooted 1--WE done wrong am want anothei
chance"
"Y-a-a-s?" -, .,..r,,s
"Yaws: he didn't back 10 the farm plzentr
the very butterflies with the smoke from MS
an says. Pops. ole boy. I'm dead broke couiont 20"
let me have twent TO keep up my end with inc ies
at the club p Not much he didn't" -. A..
And the old man heaved sigh and went on, 10
feed the hogs-(San Francisco Wasp
Another man besides Governor Hill Is now sons
before the country with the declaration, I'm DEMO
GRAFT, His name is John L. Sullivan
The King Of Serva so poor that he cant a,or 30
buv n crnwn Ills brother mOnarchs of Europe ougnt
either 10 give him their old ones or chlp n anu ProSe
him with a new one.-(Philadelphla Press