New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-09
get ready for evening service. THAT'S an ". Al
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Reference was recently made 10 the rcnark.h,. ~.
Of the word "quiet" In connection with such evant ~
receptions and weddings. But even more remsrs.,,.
Is its constant use in connection with fnneras In 49,
counts o; these sad events are repeatedly od ,r..
they were quiet, the plain inference being that II wa
were not so informed we might think that they us,s
noisy.
"You are In awful condition. sai1 the Asse,..
thai You have violent attack Of the vo O1 yoor eye
"Y6 don't say So" exclaimed the pale young sc :,
% on PY Would SGe G NOT dare prescribe sAa 90 "a
have % 20 to some man witt more experience '5 en y2S ,a
you" Straight to the old doctor the scared young nep
went and 2l6 ho what the Young doctor had sad
situation, "vox popu you've got something wr nc
than that. You are in tire last stages OF vox 81
There is only one thing that viii help you and that /,
i 10 me qniek said the young fellow he was atul
70 faint IN take ID L y chokes ae. 7 want 70 Nv
the week out, anyway. '-(Cincnnat Tines star NV
"The Springfield Republican, speaks Of ser,,.
burlesque actress cockahoop" Now what We v,-,
to know is whether this presumably mugwumpes. wos
is loaded or not, and If so. with what. Does 9Th.
Republican, like people who are "cockshoop'i
patent has been asked for a device to tab, r,.
sengers on the cable while the train Is In fnn
motion. SO far as the device be understood frass
the description it is sort Of platform wheels. rs
passenger stands II, the cable along "a
automatic hooks catch hold Of the platform and VA
it along to the next corner BY that time the passes
ger has taken his seat and the platform Is released ara
dropped for the use Of the next man. IL may BE- A
great scheme, but most men would about as soon Ia
fred out OF cannon as TO be jerked up bodily nv :,
car going at tweIvenile gait But IL shows th.p "a
ventOrs are equal to any emergency that may aria
-(St Louis Globe Democrat
G.. W. Dunn the California naturalist has mat No.
turned from trip through Lower California ana
Sonora one day." he says caught 200 inserts "A
~ rio rybI I ba.yo
asked for and which are worth % cents apiece That,
what call pretty good two hours work. For fou,
or five years I have had scientists writing me far
these and was never able 10 get them until this tinss
Mr. Dunn says that catching insects and reptiles ana
picking up rare plants pays very well. Years ago he
camped out in Lower California with Professor Jordan
now president Of the Palo Alto University. He win
start soon for the Cuyamaca Mountains 10 collect
bulbs, trees and shrubs for the Palo Alto Botanical
Gardens He has collected 10000 Of the insects
known as coleopteras, or horn-winged; 5000 or
thoptera, comprising grasshoppers and cnckets from
1900 TO 1000 epOdoptera, or butterflies, and plants
and rare animals without number. Over 100 Of the
insects collected on this tour are new.
son an average 500 bears year are killed In
Name" said the fur-buyer on Thursday. Il buy
every year that the bear In Maine is becoming ex.
tnct. have bought many beaTskins In the last four
weeks and am buying them every week. The bear
is quite crop, ali in all. The trapper who gcts a
big bear gets $50 to s35 for the skin and IS bounty
Five hundred year. averaging half as much, make
$4,000 year for our profits from Names widest
beast.'-(ChicagO Tribune.
According to the superintendent Of the San Francisco
House Of Correction. the opium habit has been the
chief agent In breaking up the lawless gangs Of saa
Francisco hoodluns. 1t stupefes aud enfeebles
them that there is no longer any fight in Them
1 always imagined the stories about od-fashiona
people believing shoes and other arucles could H
transmitted by telegraph pure Inventions bat
am inclined TO modify my idea since some doctor In
Prussia has discovered that bacl can be trans
mitted by telephone. Ii takes a scientist TO define
what bacillus is. but on the theory that II
microscopic insect ID would be Interesting TO know how
1t could be transmitted from the lungs and mouth
Of a man through tTansmitter, along, in or over
wire yards or miles long, through the central Office
and out into the ear Of some one listening at the
other end The papers state that the Prussan postal
authorities having the matter investigated when
they get through they should endeavor to ascertain
whether severe blow the earth dsturbs the peace
and repose Of persons at the antipOdes. scare is
often amusing and very often senseless.-lSt- Louis
Globe Democrat.