New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-05
THE Talk or THE DAY.

\ Gentleman who lives not thousand miles from
this cts has recently been absent from home several
month, ON iu-irc. Not long ago his wife received
a letter from him. which She began To read aloud at
IA, breakfast table. Bu She was somewhat inter
ro,ed Ay vouns son and heir. who apparently found
other thing, more interesting than the letter. My
child she sad in "A tone of maternal rcbukc, "don't
,ou want 10 hear th. nice letter from papa ~ Papa,
mana. wa, the puzzled reply. oh ye~. you mean
the man who used to live az our house
rh. 60 lln pao7 says a gigantic fish was seen one
da, lately at shaol Slang. floating there not far rom
,cI ON it, head and made thc line fast. and the
G-h not moving while the end war taken ashore. the
'' was dead rhc fish. however suddenly cayor'ed
round and the hoatman was washed on and crowned
The f~h hauled ashofe.-lAlta california.
rn, able humorsts who occasionally write para
,rn, n,it Pat,i the fun Of which consists In making
hc diva peal. very broken English. would be sur-
missed to be- told that she brought mp IN t, city
and tlnt ENGLISH j, practically her mother tongue.
,.,, - v,naccr-G have singer | can recommend
hr9,ti,l STYLISH grand dresser. splendid pre,cnce--
Manager Y hat about her voice 49,,
Ngcnt DO You mean to SAY that YOU require tha''
| tco tFlcgcndc Batter
At an auction sale Of unclaimed freight the other
dav a Baltimore man bought what he supposed TO bo
p barrel Of l,mphlack for - when he opened IL ami
discovered that it prime whishey he went of into
a corner and hu;scd himself for joy.
Color and Music Acd.lt i, well known 10 IA
WIN, hnvc .tudicd mn. that there are three fndl-
mental notes, VIZ. The first, third and ann Of the
.cal reprccntcd In the natural hey OF major hN inc
letter, 4 IT, and g., These notes, when sounded o.
ccthrr nrolncc the common chord and the found,
tlnn of All harmony in musical composition - II IL
i'm chron,ntic,-therc likewise Oaly three fnnda
mental color,-blnc red ana yellow, forming NJ trad
/ whence arise, all harmony IN painting Dry -Good'
Chronicle
4 curion, fact in statistics o( population l. tie
greater number Of people whose age Is expressed ia
dcclmar of ten. For instance in the last censl, of
Rhode Island there were more than twice many
people nf, years old there people forty nine
year, old So again. II shown in the last census
that there were in a certain county 1000 colorcd pco
pie sNtyninc years old loo seventy ole wears old
and 10000 seventy years old. The fact Is striking
numbers 4 man who is fifty nine sixty one years
Of age Is quito apt to call himself sixty and In u
similar case "A viii call herself forty hity.
\ Woman, Rcason.-Maudc- have you thrown
! Clarence oVcrnoaif'
Madec-i roldn't marry man With "A broken nose
Maudc-llOw did his nose gct broken
Madgc-I struck him playing tcnn!s.-(rhe Epoch.
4 CORE pondcnt of The Christian Union" brings up
the old question why city churches generally have
SIGNS giving the undcrtahcrs name and address, while
giving no information 10 the name and denomination
Of the church the name of the pastor. lie thinks
that churchc, ought not to declare In this that
/ of the living.
Freely Tran lated Kaiser William Ny dear Prince
am incxpressbly sorry to part with you. Get ont.