New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-18
IKE rALx OF TEE DAY

Fndishmen have ea!d no end Of clever sna
biting things about shat dreadful Amercsuisms
funeral cbsequss.p And yet 90 Influential an Ensllsn
paper as Tho Liverpool Mercury recently spom
of the funeral obsequess of tho Austrian crown
Prince Can It be that tire English press is about q
adopt our faults, while refusing to initiate our vrost
Brief Courtship-Mr Baeklot (widowerI-i s'poss
Mrs Iandbank (wdow)-I dsw, Simon Haodot
Mr.. Bachot-S'pose we dew the same ~
Mrs Landbank-Pm agfeeabie.-Sbutnng'op f".
Press.
Recently a Methodist paper in Chicago publishes
an article by the Rev. Dr. Buckley, Of this city, win
the editorial introduction, "a little Of this knd OF
dirt may be enjoyed by our young readers Dn
Buckeyes friends amazed at this, unui ,nos
learned that adnr was a nispunt for diet"
sim widow.-rwo ladies from the West hap e.
to trains an Ss station
.How long has husband been deaa v Asxeo I'M III
About pi%aw was H iso ss state amt settled Se
philadelphia Record.
Says a writer In "The PhIladelphia Ledger : we
have our excess of free dspensares and our lack OF
financial support for the Oldest and one OF tho moss
noble medical schools of this country The establish
ment Of numerous dispensaries and hospitals In al
quarters Of the city may be attractive charity but
as we have them in excess of our need, IL would %
wiser TO place money where II win improve the quail
ity of our medical men and raise them more nearly
TO footing with the graduates Of great foreign
schools
II "a sometimes claimed that civilization has bad
effect on the health of the Indian, but this L mol ns
Isst annual report. Among the twenty deaths lsst
year were The following: Toma Which aged ioI yssm'
Widow JOS Levy, 105 years; WIDOW feoi LscooS
io3 years. Lewiston Journal
The anti-protecton Democratic papers are saying
that Mr. Mills would waEs the American peopis
up That reminds US that be walked them up IN INC
last camua,cn.. but it didn't help the free-traden
much.
Arc Sunday excursions copdeTnedi ;c hrssdIiins
s the ssa oa are many Christians snon
the passengers make tho complaint ehectye 49,. ~
not speak Of Sunday papers pesns a1es ss
lied and largely supported BY church peopie'n a'0n
man.
In his American commonwealth Professor
Bryce refers TO Missouri as Melancholy MISSOURI
As the State is rapidly getting rid Of Its Democratic
plurality, "Ths Kansas City Journal thinks thaa
the description is Inappropriate.
A COMPULSORY VOTE
Her foes, hip and thigh must smts;
There's no use In kicking
That's ega i'' q Eco course ise.' and al night.
She eomrels me my taxes 70 pay;
/ must there's no squrming away
Or my house DER my head
She will sell i = said
That too, Is correct, dare say.
Then why not compel me to vote,
Every bully, and hummer, and boatr
Comes up TO the scratch
| Their persistence 10 match
Let's have compulsory vote
Gays Washington female mind reader: 1t
positively unpleasant for to mix In society," because
| I see so fnghtfully deep into people,
The Hon. Tim Campbell had Just written the name OK
| n Nev-York friend on a wrapper.
"What Is the %. j. after 1t fort" asked corrc'
DON'T you know thati" said the ID c.
"No, what IS It a, ~
Honorable gentleman, Of course and the NJ o.
looked at the correspondent pityingy Nv Arlington
| Critic.
1t is asserted that nearly all the idols now wor-
Skinned in India are OF English manufacture John
BULBS principle would seem to be, Let me but mako
the idols Of a country and care not who makes i's
religion
Very many Of the socslIed beneficial societies, win
| b,ch-s9,,ndInr names that have come Up since tnc
decline Of graveyard Insurance are henehclsi ong -
their officers. An illustration of this is anoraeu W
one OF the philadelpha companies Just investigator "
the Dsuphn County Court. u has oeen IN pus'n,s ~
about ten years had collected 100000 from dues 81.
snr riesrfr rfnu1s. rho sespensess during n.
same period had been $4,000. This would be pretty
costly insurance" even II 1t insured-tPhiladel1ais
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