New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-07
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"Public Opinion" which has been investigating the
Joke business says that good original Joke which =
easily illustrated brings high 81. The magsslnss
and papers which pay for their Jokes have regular
prices. Professional jokers send supply Of nom ten
to fifty Jokes to the papers paying best, and the
editor in charge Of that department chooses those
which suit him and sends back the rest These are
then sent the next bestpaying publication. and ~
on until they reach the papers which pay but 80
cents. Such as then returned the joker con-
sIders useless. professional Joker can make about
100 Jokes a week, and, 1okemakins must soon b.
come a habit, perhaps the brain Is not 100 srcsuy
tasked I'm their manufacture.
ain your editorial favoring Colonel Jons: for the
Legislature You say, Colonel Jones Is no thief. isn't
that putting it rather strongw ,... .,..
Perhaps 50. 1 wrote In q big hurry Just change
It to I'VE never knew him to steal anything "-tAt
lanta Constitution.
Lieutenant Totten predicts that he Will mystenousiy
disappear some day. lie has already disappeared-
from YALE But there Is no mystery about It,
There was an old lady in New-Engand once who
was wont 10 saw that she "never felt 50 happy as
when % eS Ths sas fn1 3 old
was told that there was no such tinng as eeesna.
punishment no literal hell expressed ner ssS
Intelligencer.
The management OF The Boston Budget mas ocSA
broadened strengthened. 1t has been changed 70
Joint stock company, and fifty young and aggressive
Boston men, representing the business, socml ana
literary interests OF the city, have been put on its
list Of stockholders 1t is proposed to make It more
than ever q representative society and literary Jour-
nal The president OF the company Is Charles En-
erson Cook and the and managing editor 10
william Grant james.
.The Christian Advocate" recently did Its con-
stituents service By denOuncing padded" and "pro
ns It %5 have n nsdsa Sas P'ay .s
of Baptist Who at the recent meeting at Marths's
Vineyard made bis prayer not confession OF sin 0us
to inform the audience. by Implication that he wished
to R1 in his ofnt m against ,e addrei t before his
sees ss would sSfr DO Ser 70
stand up in his boots aud make his protest than
to weave It into PRAYER which dlmSu,. 70 rcpy
to without transtSesslns ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Democrat-Fello! What 90 you foihs ~'ht I'd P'
a tariff on, anyway!
Republican-why, on things we can produce
"Then why do you put II on tn-plate7'
Because believe can produce IT,"
Nonsense! We can't
"Now. them what do the Democrats want to put
a tariff on"
Why, OF course, on things VIE can't produce
Then. according to your own showing, you would
put It on tin plate
(Bewtldered) "Ye-es.'
.why, then, do you abuse the Republicans for
putting 4 tariff on IL
The abomnable smell often noticed about very ,y
free from cockroaches which will scent pure paste
DTSk aTmy aa s0 s IN DO @ we'll car
acid. hut in bookbnderes, where there Is always
good supply Of paste and where the other attractions
for cockroaches numerous. carbolic acid really
the only ecca . s the ,n case no OF
has generally sufficient perfume about It TO counteract
n little unplaasantness Louis Globe Democrat
There IS a village on the Northern Pacific Rail-
road which has fifty four Inhabitants and two churches
both Presby terrain
TIE REroRT COURTEOUS.
To the pert laundry maid
what womlds't thou p, he cried. "Tell mo-"
And he straight away HE'D.
when she quickly replied
81 am washing and waiting for thee"
-(Detroit Free Press.
The third number of the fourth volume OF the Jour-
nal OF the American Society OF Naval Engineers" Just
Issued contains several interesting and instructive ar
tces from the pens OF the members In the science o.
steam and civil engineering. Among these are one
OF the mode OF action OF shipformed
solids OF the In which they and the mode
OF action OF this water upon them, determining the
OF the squattng OF vessels and OF their in
creasing rcsistances the water shoals below GER
tain depth by Chief Engineer 3. +. sherwood;
The Chase OF the Itata,' by Passed Assistant En-
gneer Ira y. Hollis; method OF Moulding In Loan
ana NAsung tne tvnnuerS vi tHe STuserS SiuCiuuAu
and Raleigh ut tho New-iork Navy Yard" BY Passed
Assistant Engineer George H. Kearney: "Formuhe
for Proportloning Riveted Joints and Calculating the
Width and Thickness Of Butt straps for Steel Boilers.
by Passed Assistant Engineer F. j. Schell and Feed
water Heating" by Assistant Engineer Thomas W.
Knkaid.
A correspondent vouches for the accuracy OF the
following: NV brethren" said q preacher. "such .
man 4, like the captain Of a crewless vessel on 9
s hs ming his men SAFE to land r-crd Bits.