New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


About a year ago. says Brooklyn clci syman,
ga woman who had been deceived By her lover by
means Of mock marriage and who had discovered
the fraud came to with her tale Of woe and asked
nv advice She was living with the man she sup
posed to be her husband but believed that he was about
10 desert he- thought the matter over and told her
to arrange little party at her house and to invite me
as friend, but not minister OF the Gospel ana al
an opporune time propose to the lover That they SNOW
their friends how they married In fun she was
n bricbt little woman and carried out my instructions to
the letter The peOpe in the house when went there
knew OF existing conditions and readily ehteeu INTO
tie scheme, prompted by curiosity TO see now a
mock marriage was performed. was pressed INTO
service by the womas the plea that had brother
In the church. / took Bible she provided ana mar
red them fast made out the certificate In due iorm
Then 7 had an interview with the man. lie was very
angry at first, but around all rSht ana Tic ana
the little woman now living together very hapP,is
That isn't the way most mock marriages end, but IL
would be a good way to do IT,
Hlcks-what do you think Of punishment after
Wicks-Don't believe in IT, All the pounding EN- in
the world, for instance, Woh'0 "i'Ao " o
tender.-(}oston Transcript.
The first issue Of the quarterly edition OF The
Chicago Graphic has just appeared. 1t Is mag
n,ec.ntIv illustrated Worlds Farr number though
strangely enough, in common with most Chicago
peope it calls that event on ENpgSiuon.' NO pup
LEGATION that know OF has given such eooo e vi
what the Worlds Fair will be like when the buildings
NOW under way are completed. Besides the picu'reS'
the execution of which is remarkably good, there is
| history of foreign Expeditions and very complete
sketch Of the salient features of the coming Words
Fair.
lie Put On No Alrs-Mr hinsh--Thcre goes Pro
lessor sharpeye. the astronomer. He discovered
new comet oniy last week. 1870
Mrs. Airish-Taat no account little mani
eame,'
@H He doesn't look stuck up about It at all mil,
"Well-er-I believe the comet hadill any tn'i' -
(Street a Smiths Good News.
We Don't Always Want to Get There" The Boston
Transcript, remarks truly that You couldn't make
boy more unhappy than by presenting him with nice
bag of nuts Just as he !Oyully starting out for
days nuttlng
ia man who IS pretending to be deaf Is approached
from behind while Standing stone floor or sidewalk
a nru sharply GS y aropRd With view to picking it up
This simple device frequently resorIed to ~ eGmnes
o w other mint relieves man from army service
saw 1t tried in Paris six alleged deaf youths In
succession, and much to the examining physicians
tme.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
We arc apt to think that superstition is dead. at
least confined to the ignorant and terate. But this
Is far from being correct Recently. for instance.
St. Louis large building In one Of the best business
streets of the city was torn down simply because 1t
Wanted. Fig BeIl.-Young Lady-Good morning
Mr.. Surplice. You stated yesterday that YOU wished
OF the members OF the congregation would solicit
CIeraTmai ~ Mss Ne Goode 1t is my amb
ton to have the largest and finest bell in tie city,
-. Young LADY, have plenty of leisure. and would
Uergynnn-very well. Here IS book Don't
time S g 70 m e who %on ye c within X9
New York Weekly.
"The New Hampshire and Vermont Journal or
% The Farmers Weekly Museum published at Wal
| pole, n H., November 81, 1704, printed u blood
| thirsty ode called "The Guotine," the heading Of
which was as follows
Sung at the celebration OF tho Fourth OF July by
numeer OF French and American citizens at Hamburg.
Written by the celebrated Joel Barlow, who was then
at that place. Communicated by gentleman who was
present.
The ode. sung to the tune God save the King"
| thus:
! God save the Guillotne.
| Till England's king and queen
Her power shall prove;
| TIL each aDointed Knob
| Affords a clipping Job
| Let no vile halter rob
| The GullOtine.
| Fame Let thy Trumpet sound
Tell az the earth i around
Shall in the basket roll
Let mercy then control
| The Guilotine!
| When all the sccptred crew
| Have paid their homage due
| The Gul otlne,
| Let Freedoms lag advance,
| Till all the world. like France
| Ger tymnts graves shall dance,
| And peace begin.
at Is singular" says matchmaker, that spring
confined and protected In watch should be seriously
affected by weather. but in the trade IL Is quite
common 10 look for run on malnsprings Mt certain
times of the year. and during August the call for them
! IL heavier than during two ordinary months, pre-
sumaby because there generally thundcrstorms and
sudden changes during that month 1t Is not ques-
tion Of the quality OF the spring, OF the very
best going to pieces under weather influence and other
quite ordinary ones OUTLYING the wateh.'
Mere Is nothing that creates laughter on the stage
so much as an occasional damn Even the ladles
laugh immediately NJ these expletives aud yet some
OF these ladies have husbands who all day long,
and il doesn't seem at all funny to their wives. II
| must be the glamour that We hear much about