New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-07
THE TALK or THE DAY.

| 1t is not so many years since the banana was AZ
scarce and expensive in this country as hothouse
grapes In those days the officers OF vessels from inc
West Indies brought special delicacies TO frends
bananas stewed in molasscs. Now bananas are as
common as apples or potatoes, and the importation OF
them is increasing enormously every year at has
been found" says "The Boston Transcript "that
there is no more hcalthful food for children OF al
ages nor one that surely holds It's attracuveness
with them. Physicians and students OF food products
have everywhere declared themselves in favor oil inc
banana It will be no for wonder, however, II
some searcher for mares shall suddenly arise and
declare that bananas nearsightedness or bald
ness or something worse Up 10 date the banana seems
10 be the Only article Of food that has not been al
ternately recommended and prohibited for everybody
Two absolutely unique specimens have been secured
for the mineral exhibit Of the Columbian Expostoh.
These are a mass Of meteorlc iron nom Arizona weigh
Ing 632 pounds, and smaller piece from the same
locality which is far more & PecaoSe "a ~
meteOric iron.-(Chicago IrlDune.
aThe Homiletic Review" tells OF a novel method
adopted in Belgium to determine whether Sunday shall
be day of rest for leter-carrers. sunday postage
stamps are to be provided. All letters with such
stamps mailed on Saturday are 10 be delivered on
Monday After trying the experiment for awhile II Is
TO be decided. according to the relative number OF
letters with these stamps, whether the majority Of the
letter-wrItng public want the postman to enjoy
Sunday rest II they do, then the carriers are to be
freed from Sunday work
lyon don't mean to say that Crochet and Miss
Uppersee are married Why. they sang in the same
choir together for over year, .. maj, and u,s.
quite comfortably .'-(Boston Transcript.
Bishop Fowler, OF the Methodist Episcopal Church.
recently gave this advice TO some candidates Tor the
ministry: Don't come into the pulpit with lot Oh
empty platltudes and glittering generalues. but DC
eoupped with something that will interest and help
your congregation. don't want you TO copy ron
the books, but H. in order to have something to say,
Il becomes necessary TO STEAL theh s'ea Out coas0
ously acknowledge the theft
RONDEAU.
With borrowed thought men say we twist
Cur yerse-not ours-from lovers tryst,
To disembOdied want and woe
Ring every change on buds that blow
And "skies that melt In amethyst
Each grinds in turn. the self-same gTist:
Ayei Chaucer, Shakespeare search the LIST.
And you shall charge Baccaccio
With borrowed Thought.
What bard the critic dare reslsti
Was Homer too, pagarist nj.
Net with uncovered head. for know
He pierced tho broodng spirit
With borrowed th0ught"l
-(Ellen Hamlln Butler, in Boston Transcript
"The Congregatonalist' gives currency 10 the state
ment that the president OF the bank through which tho
Louisiana Lottery conducts its business is an active
officer Of the Young Mems Christian ASsocnuoh IN
New Orleans
We learn from the Tfls paper Caucasus that. dur
Ing an excursion to the sources OF the Jagdon WIZ
was made recently by several explorers. no fewer ul
eight glaciers discovered six OF when were no'
marked on the nveversts to- inch map OF Caucasus
They have been viewed now and sketched from sWr'
khokh Pass The southern slope Of the branch raSe
ron peak, has also been sketched rom the
Pass and IL appears that several or the glaciers on '
part OF the chain not represented on the great ap'
,x.lf1 final snNw IL
The glaciers visited by the party proved % nave Wy
much changed their aspect since ISL seNeral ~ ~
phur and iron carbonate springs were vlsleo a. ns
rrussofs Valley. and several interesting Anlhe hV"''
In bloom wcio collected the passes.-tNature'
According 10 a recently enacted law In Georgia n,
physIcan or surgeon once convicted Of drunkenness"
can ever again practise his profession In that STATS
"The Cincinnati Times STAR In suggesting s'm~
law Cor Ohm SAYS: at Is but few days since
Cincinnati phy sclan taken of the streets sunenhs
from deilrlum tremens. while still another Is o.Ae'
mn in the workhousc convicted OF habtual druhAei'
ness IL Is not many years since one Of the mo"
promnent men In the Cincinnati Medical Society con-
scious OF his consuming appetite for rum, invarsoH
wrote his prescriptions twice each time keeping copy.
thinking thus to escape any mistake which ne We
fearful his dipsomania might lead him into.'
Too Mich of a RecommendatIon. Railway con- con,
troer ITO appucantl-Dut what has been your sP...'s
line OF wori-paSSengcr, freight or expense aceouhs,
Clerk-Oh Pm good all around railroad man o"A
turn my hand 20 most anything. - -. .,,o
RAILWAY controer.Ipml I'm afraid y1 DI,ne-s SS
yether too versatile for anything put ny ''"~~
that isn't vacant i-iPoek-