New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-26
THE TALK OF The DAY

Hon. David A. Wells showed, IN a recent lecture
New-York that some of the largest English steamship
lines never received a dollar of Government subsidy
in any form. Yet subsidy mongers pretend that
the English merchant marine lives upon subsidy pap
philadelphia Record. Somebody has been playing
upon the sweet Recorder The first statement re-
minds ono of the Irish lawyer who offered to produce
fifty witnesses who didn't see the defendant hit him.
And for the second statement liberal reward is
hereby offered for the apprehension and detection OF
any sort of monger who pretended any thing OF
the kind
Mr.. Dumpsey. to the wife of his bosom-Maria
here I've gone and sat down in that chair vanished
Mrs Dumpsey-Wen, for once you've stuck to your
work.-(Builington Vt) Free Press.
Land Of Freedoms Bird" Sir Edwin, what
sonnet for send-of. Thanks, awfully, We swear
by the Great Scott no more.
JAP MILLER.
From The Indianapolis Journal
Jap Miller down Martnsvlle IS the blamdest Teller
yit
When he Starts in atakin other folks is apt to quit
Pears like that mouth O. hisn wuz MT made fer nothin
But jes' to argfy em down and gether in their pels
He'll talk you down on tariff; er he'll talk you down
And prove the pore man pays 'em an-and .hem's
Relgen, law er politics. przefghtln' er baseball.
Jes' fetch Jap up a little aud he'll post you bout 'em
And the comcaest fcller tilted back cheer
And tuck chaw tObacker kind o. like he didn't keer,
There's where the fellers strenth lays-hes so CON-
mOn-lkc and plain,
They haint no dude about old JAP you bet you, nary
grain
They 'lected him to Council and II never turned MS
And didn't make no difference what anybody said
He didn't dress finer. rag out in fancy clothes
But his voice In Council mectins Is a turrer to his
foes.
He's fer the pore overtime and in the last cam
He stumpcd old Morgan County through the sunshine
and the rain,
And helt the banner upards from aalln IN the dust
And cut loose on monopoles and cussed and cussed
He'd tell some funny story ever now and then. you
Tel blame it, it WIZ bctter'n iacko lantern showt
And I'd 20 flrlcr y today to- hear od Jap nors'e h
Than any heightened orator 'at ever stumped the
state.
wy that air blame Jap Miller, with his keen sarcastic
Has got more friends than any candidate at ever rum
DON'T matter what his views IS, when he states tbs
They aus coincide with your'n the same as two and
You can't take issue with hIm-er at least they haint
In startin' in to down him. you better not COM
The best ways jcs' to listen, like yer humble servant
does, ~, -. - ,rsr u1zi
~ - JAMES WIITTCOMB Rllbf'
Rv tbe time the Socialists have been long eoous.
IN the country TO be able TO translate their pan VI
owning all the land in common into EhgHsu' Wv
Indians will probably all theirs In s"' ~.
BY the way. It Is only very few years since on -
land west Of the Aneghanics owned IN common.
this IS by tho United states of America and see
tho country has dccayed since it was divide"
Some one estimate that getting born costs I'M, INC
peoplc of the UnteA States S22J.0000OO amman
getting married. $500, 900: getting ourhu, ~, mai
600 900 From This calculation II viii be sesn .,
the people of NE United states can save m mn hnreS
money annually by stopping getting born anu set mar
and choosing the cheaper of the three eVlls-s0'
red-(NoTistown Herald