New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-22

of prayer won't go down here. with all these labor
reormers clamorng for shorter days and less work.
The minister took his rcbukc with his characteristic
meekness and did not intimate That the persons
whom he had especially In mind were the Oily daing
lawmakers themselves.-(Co ngreganohalist.
Instances are constantly cropping up, showing how
names become metamorphosed. That pleasant fellow
the Listener Of The Boston Transcript relates that
young stopped him the other day and asked
him to direct her TO the OCOnneiy Depot meaning, Of
course the Old Colony Depot Station. as we would
say in New-York similarly he suggests that scoiay
Square may become Sculy square, possibly as tribute
to the Irish born citizens of Boston. Indeed he de-
clares that the change has been already made by
popular usage. The same tendency TO change in
England turned Querouaes and Marie-labonne into
Carwheel and Malone, respectively.
The visitor from Maverick had been invited to id
dress tie sunday school " am reminded, Children
said he of the career ,, OF boy Tno W." Se ocS no Larger
lie played truant when he was sent to school, went
fishing every e ycr o learned d" tS dn o o se
tobacco play cards, and slip in under the canvas when
the circus came around lie weilt into baa company
became pickpocket. in a 1T OF drunken madness he
committed a cowardly murder. children ir, &c con.
Is now 2, He stands before us - guessed the children
with one voice-(Chcago Tribune.
Tn an article in this weeks Independent Profes
sor Goodwin Smith thus pours vtro on a Canadian
statesman in his terribly cold-blooded way "a men,
OF Congress, Mr. cAPcSScu
prise the other day that certain Canadian baronet
should have made of letter OF his which had
n,anfcstIv been stolen or obtained by dishOnorabe
means No Canadian would have been much surprised
had the barOnet been detected In absractng the letter
from Mr. HITS desk with his own hand. Nothing Is
less like the genuine British arstoerat OF the better
class than the coOnist who apes him. and thinks that he
makes himself aristOcratc by paradng contempt Of
Yankees-a habit it may be observed to which no
Canadian Tories are more given than those who are
themselves American by birth or by Connection
.wopK WORK. WORK.r-A SCHOOLGIRLS LAMENT
Work. work, work,
At thy books, Academee,
And would that my tongue cooN utter
But the lesson don't come to me-
O. well for the board of trustees
- As they talk Of when they were boys,
q we'll for the little boy who tries
And succeeds-in not making nolset
Rut the school goes daily on
Till examined soon III be- .,..
And o. if the touch of q vanished thougne
Would only come back to me-
Work. work, work,
AZ thv books Academee,
Rut me tender thoughts OF a lesson that's gone
Will never come back 10 me!
-(Charles L. Fralley, In Boston transcript
Mayor Mathews OF Boston, says that in fifty years
the majority Of the people OF New England will be Of
Irish and French descent. The remark is perhaps a
little cheSnutty, but is interesting, nevertheless Ihe
Boston Transcript" thinks however, that the original
Yankee will always maintain their asceadancy In New
England. II says "The fact that they are OF tie
same religious communion will tend IN time 10 rise
the Irish, French and Italian Inhabitants OF New
England into one compact class, while the separate
faith Of the Yankees will help to keep their blood pure
II Mayor Mathews is right savages Genealogical Die
tonary with its faithful account OF all the people VINO
came before 1892 Will yet be the Domesdsy book Oh
an American aristocracy Where IS the calamity ABOUT
being elevated a sort of Norman upper cassf All
fraDlxav pD a
An Oklahoma -Waiter-FelIer in the dinin'
room saws he wants a napkin. What shall DO
Landlord-Um mini Napkin Er-teil nm In, tney b 70
out 81 season this time o. year Um-no! TEL MN inc
French cook is dead, an so we hant settin' up no
new. tangled mixtures that Liddy don't know now 70
cook.-(Munsey's Weekly