New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-26


The "money digsers' are back again to their old
naunts in Pston the east shore Of the river SIX
miles below Gardiner There arr thicc Oh thcIu ote
Cnnntv Their operations confined To the old lot
OF land called the money hole where men nave
becn digging for Captain KIDD buried treasure long
time rhey have sunk one shaft, five by four feet,
and ten feet deep. near small brook. lhey hrst
hii they have cNcavaicd another hole. perhaps six
feet The money diggcr' are In deld e RE :
and toll away with shovel and pick in the hot sun as II
certain of nndns kidds gold.-(Lewston tMeD Journal
There are four letters in the Pcncoyd. PENN post
| Office the addresses Of which would puzzle most
people. They are as follows:
Ann lIcrrn Karl Dur,t. Pcukoyd, Contri Monto-
camri stadt Penselfcnle pheladca. NOrd Amerika. .
"Yohau Krosh, Pcnkod, Tips st. Pensefene, Nord
America Mr. Pant Bukkvoy United ST. Amerka.
| via England. Montgnmore, Pcncoycd.7 AR HerI.
Yoscp Kandroc, Conti Montsumrl, Pencod, Nori-
amerika, Pa
something about you, to-day, which, hope. Is not
| true | heard that You were In the habit OF using
Mrs. Popnjay~ Well II that isn't malicious
| sauderl You know perfectly well. Socrates. that |
have never allowed myself TO any stronger terms
Than "odous. or "hypocrItical.7 or intermcddlng;
! or "scandal pongerlng' when speaking OF my neigh
tSe p Sf Tture. Dsrspectf terms, indeed
burlington Free Press.
Philadelphans trying 10 console themselves for
their loss of the second place in the column OF cities
By the fact that the state Of Pennsylvania gained
900 900 In population during the last decade, and
thus easily holds her old place the second State in
| tho Cnlon.s
| "Mr Bilusr demanded his wife, freezngly "what
is the meaning of that long hair ON your coat collar
Z" 1t means madame retorted Mr. bllluS, that I'm
| from Chumptown. That's what il means. Maria "
TX plain yourself. siri' one Of the BOYS ut tho
ago and said didn't dare let 1t stay there. said
| did dare to; said You were woman OF TOO much
! sense 10 notice such little thing | told him you
wouldn't even see IT, lie offered to bet me 50 you
would, and took him Up. Maria !" Snorted Mr.. Bius
Il took him up!"-(Chlcago Tribune
The figure nine seems to have largely entered into
| the life of George W. kcene. IF Boston Ills father
died In 1859 at the age of sxty-nin and buried
on January 20. Mr.. Kcene married MAY 30 and
enlisted in the Civil War June 49, 1868, the figures
OF the year when added being "a multiple OF nine lie
was mustered out June 20 and discharged july %.
! His son marI led october 20. and on the 9th Of
the present month he was injured and had 10 go to a
hospital. from which he discharged the 10th.
As Mr. Keene is in his hfty-ninth year he might
attribute his injury TO that fact.
Forgot Hmself.-Mss Portland how much is that,
Charley Ribbons (who Is posing as a millionaire,
abaactedly Thirty seven and half cents; Cash
o, ser, That is forty love.-(Lawrcnce
American.
| Commenting the fact that 5000 original pack
| age' saloons have been closed in Iowa, 1.-THE Iowa
State Register" says: Democrats really objects
OF supreme pity. Just think how woes thicken about
| them. Fifteen thousand doors shut at oncel 1t
will stop many streams OF rot gut and glucose beer
sw IL will kill the fires in $4,000 stoves around
which the old soaks would have sat and bloviated and
spit and raised crowds that far TO that there
Is hell without the help of Revelation. Then the loss
OF all the hopeful connections of campaign lies and
nnucndoes, and the hope of debauchlng the youth so
to make them tit to vote Democratic tickets and do
other desperate things. oh, IL is terrible blow 10
the party, the shifting up of these by-ways to hell
A Queer Potato Patch-Dr Peables calls our re-
pOrters attention 10 remarkable OF vegetation
Mrs. Bryant, Of Auburn hung up a calico wrapper. in
| the pocket Of which was u potato year ago. She
did not the wrapper till day last week, when
she discovered whole hill Of potatoes In her pocket.
There eight perfect little tubers.-Qew-
lston (Mco Journal.
The widespread popularity of lawn tennis in the
United states Is attested by the publication by A. c.
| spalding Brothers OF another book on the game
Lawn Tennis In Our own Country by IL. W.
socum, jr. Mr.. socum Is vice-president of the
United States National Lawn-Tennis Association, and