New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Bishop Coke, of Buffalo, has turned hfs attention
from theology long enough 10 declare that girls WHO
ride bicycles look like old women on broomsticxa
This way Of putting 1t might perhaps be open To
criticism for It's lack Of dignity but 1t is admirably
adapted TO discourage the practice Of which the good
bishop complains. No girl wants to look Ike an Old
woman, and especially old woman on a broom
stick.
A Matden,s suggestion.-He-IIow prettiiy the moon
light falls upon the sea and the beach.
she-Yes but don't you think u u even more
beautiful stD among the boulders away from The
It had occurred to her. that he; TOO. might b
boldcr over there.-(Somerville Journal
The late Archbishop TAFT Of Canterbury once mads
an effective use OF sermon. Driving down HOLLOWAY
Hill, he was confronted by runaway horse with
heavy dray making straight for his carriage lie
threw a .ermon in its face. The horse was so b.
vildered by Che Guttcring OF tho leaves that 10
.wervcd and paused, the driver regained control, tho
sermon was picked up, and the Bishop proceeho' o.
his way al don't know he said to MS co"pao"a,
the present Archbishop Of YORK. whether my sermon
did any good 10 the congregation, but 1t was Oh consa
cradle service 10 myself"
THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR.
"whose steps are thosei Who comes 20 n"''
Let me come m-the door unIoch'
ATS midnight now; my lonely gate
| open TO no strangers knock
"Who art thou speakp "Men call me Fame
To Immortality ! lead
@Pass, idle phantom OF name"
Listen again, and now take heed'
a,Twas false. Ny names are song, Love, A@
Nv poet, unbdr the door, -.
"Art,s dead, Song cannot touch my nearI
Ny once Loves name chant no MORE
Open then, now-for see, stand :.
Riches my name, with endless gold
Gold and your wish In either hand
Too late-lny youth you stu withhod.'
"Then IL il must be- since the door
stands shut my last true name DO Know
Men call me Death. Delay no more;
l bring the cure Of every woe"
The door fees wide. "Ah guest 50 wan,
Forgive the poor place where dwell
An ice-cod hearth. a heart-sic man,
-(wat Whitman.
aThc Springfield Union says that on large oannes
erected in front Of hall In that city the other DAY
were the somewhat incongruous words "Gospei nieo"
ing, whosoever Will may come; For men only
Close To Nature-Clara-I looking over your
friends amateur play, and must confess ! diuh
think much of the plot. Do you THINK IL VIII NC
Maude-oh yes, indeed. Just think, the scene -
laid at the seaside and are all to come out III oa'a
ing dresses.-(Coak Review.
Women who wear dresses that trail In the streets
ought TO read the following paragraph from Foreign
paper: sgnOr Manfredi has studied the CONTAINING
ton of the surface of the streets OF large cites from
a hyglenic point Of view. In Naples he found thas
in some streets the mud and rubbish were so rich in
bacterla-from five millions to five mards In a
cramme-that the streets might be compared TO sew
age The heterogeneous abundant. not only In
the mud and rubbish but also in the dry dust. Their
number decreases during the greatest summer heas
and winter cold, and also after heavy rain. he most
frequent are the bacili OF teanus, oedema an tuoer
culosi..'