New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE TALK or THE DAY.
While the ex Emperor Of Brazil. Dom Pedro, was
attending tho scientific lectures and meetings az Paris
the furniture in his former palace OF Non VISTA was
being sold at auction Here are the prices PAID az
the auction for some pieces of the furniture: An arm
chair, having been used as throne. '2o mincs d
bOuouet of artificial flowers kept under grass siooe'
100 milreis writing desk belonging 10 tie eA'hm
press 5000 milres: prize Dieu, or prayihg-char'
100 mreis nine pieces composing tile WHO'S iuiii'uIo
of the ex-EmperOrs room, 4,4OO milreis: cioth
pjano 40 mlreIs; a Chckering square piano,
1000 mlreis The Brazilian milreis is worth little
more than so cents; thus the Imperial throne was
sold for about 1870, about one-thlrd the price o.
tanned for the American piano.
awhat was the greatest act Of Thomas Jefersons
life ~ inquired the teacher. $500. .,,., Al,
And the shockheaded boy. who hadn't sua.et .ne
lesson scratched his left shin with his right i0ot any
said he guessed 1t the last act OF KIP van "inhe'
Lakeside Bazoo.
Ararat PENN is the abiding place OF a man VINO
has lived in Susquehanna County all ms le anu nav
never vet set his foot upon railroad car, though
the Erie tracks run through his farm When the ROAD
was built he declared that the locomotive was the In
vention OF SATAN and lie wanted to die before one
whisted through his meadows All attempts to nduce
him TO take a ride upon train have thus far proved
futile.
advantage Of the public" said Thomas u rhurston,
Of Lu1erne County last evening let me e noS,t,c,i
p 20 purchase some Carlsbad salts dollar please
sSr 80 c cents exclaimed in establishment Not now.
SIR replied the druggist The rise in price Is owing
10 Well wv Continued Mr. Thurson 81 didn't believe
this but paid the dollar went to nv 9ee r ana as Sofs se
bin does not place amy duty whatever o"
Alphonso NH OF SPAIN not being much skilled In
tho handling OF fork and spoon, ate his chicken win
his fingers the other day. Ills attendant demonstrated
with His Majesty and said, Kings do not eat with their
fingers The little fellow quietly replied, This hing
doess and continued his meal in the same iashon'
81 think I've done my duty while in office. ] chal.
cnge anybody who knows anything spout IL 10 cricse
THE criticism, you will find. comes from those who
know nothing about IT, ana tney arc III VIC ""'"'''
| --tBOston Transcript.
| over an article about Professor Koch's discovery
the otter dsy an Ohio paper printed these wildwest
headlines in big type: Koch Sure OF Ii THIS THE
The Rig German Doctor Gets There With Both Feet
| And Knocks out the Bacillus"
THE UNIVERSAL STRIFE.
cricket fed insect
Too small for eye to see,
field mouse captured the cricket
| And hushed his minstrelsy.
gray shrike pounced on the field mouse
|
And hung him on a thorn.
| And a hawk came down on the cruel shrlke
| From the waving corn.
| And a fox sprang ont the red tailed hawk
| From under fallen tree.
| For bird and beast, by food and field,
| Of every degree,
| Prey one upon the other.
Twas thus ordained to be-
| nv rife laid old Reynard low,
| And Death-Death looked at me.
| ERNEST McGahey.
The Wisconsin Democrats wOrryng-needessly
| H. would seem-over the choice of another United
states senator in $685. when. they pretend TO think
! Mr. Villas NOW about to be elected in Mr.. SpOOners
place. will resign accept either Cabinet position or
The Vice Presidency. Bayard, they say, will not re-
slime tho portfolio OF foreign affairs again. and it Is
said that Mr.. Villas would prefer this to the Postal
Department over which he presided under Cleveland.
Minister ito little JOhnnie)-Whst do you go to Sun
! day school for my SON.
| Johnnic-Because Billy smith, what's in our class,
lives next to bail grouns, and he tells all about
! de games every Sulfday.-tIhe Epoch.
Thirty years ago Denver Col. consisted Of miners
camp and one saloon now 1t is talking about the time
in the near future when II will be bigger city than
Chicago IL covers an area Of fifteen miles square,
| 225 square miles, and has o population OF nearly
10000. 1t has unusually large number of splendid
buildings and its perity Is of the most solid char
acter. Its citizens point the fact that East
em capitalists making permanent investments in
IL as evidence that It's growth is not of mushroom
character.
There is no bigger fool than the who marrics
a girl simply because she Is pretty unless IL is the
man who won't marry girl simply because she is
| pretty--tElmiIa Gazette.