New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-04
TIE TALK OF THE DAY

ihc bOstoH -dtuiuiC rbNcHlnR UaZcte' tells
story showing That an ignorance of Latin Is sometmes
Il disadvantage. young business man OF Boston h.I
a slight sore throat early In the winter, and mee,ns
his cousin, physician land also something Of q w.ol
he asked him what to do for 1t. "Oh I'll vri,a
prescription for yOu," the answer lie wrote N
and the gentleman glanced at It before taking It ints
the druggist 1t read somethn like this: Aqua purA
ounces: Chloride sodium ounces. Shake beS,ra
using. and gargle with II every half h0ur.n "Hov
much It ?" quecd the patient, the druggist handed
him the bottle. 1.-TWO dollars was the reply. IAs>
week another sore throat asserted Itself, and remcm-
boelng the efficacy OF his first treatment he took IN
the bottle to be filed again. Another clerk waited
him, and when he inquired the price he was aston
slc1 by the cheerful answer: "Oh We don't chsra.
anything for salt and water!7 lie had paid two dollar.
before for bottle Of water with two tablespoonful a
salt dissolved In 1t.
Ensign Lehman, while promcnadlng In the Bern,
Geological Gardens in civil attire his colonel an.
proachiag In the distance and hastily conceas himself
behind a tree 10 esc1p: observation
,oIonel next morning in the barracks yard )-Ensin
lehman. how came to see you in plain clothes
yesterday in the geological garden
oW tho not eR . Sls
coOnel.-tFancn WOchenbatt.
Misery has been defined as a small boy with now
pair of boots and no mud puddle to wade in.
h, Couldn't suit poth;Mrs; i spInssIes. wish 70
Applicant-No. num-
Mrs. Spinks-Then you won't do.
Applicnnt-PleaSe, mum. when told Mr.. SPHINX
hated dogs and nd like to kin them, every one, hs
said ia Just sut-tNcw-iork Weekly.
In Salem Mass. dwell the descendants OF stern
old Governor Endcott, who cut from the English flag
the cross being idolatrous symbol. And yet
it Is from that town that the proposition comes to sub
sttGe Easter Monday for the secular holiday which
Fast Day has become, and TO make Good Friday the
religious day which Fast Day ostensibly is. What
inf, tipo c tIaff
the orthodox clergy.
PERvERsION
"Ive always reckoned" said Miss Mott,
Your sister and her aunt could not
Live long in peace and now I've got
'Canse yesterday a-e0in thro'
The street / met your sister, who
Just fatty said she's gon' to
Arrest her aunt"
Next day my sister CHANGED our way
And rehearsed without delny,
What had heard the gossip say;
Laughed til her eyes seemed brimmed with dev
Then said. the lady's Wits askew,
told her l was going to
y restaurant" -lBoston Courier
"Our firm" says young business man, "has Q
travelling man whose wife Is what is commonly termed
a terror. She regulates her husband in every pas.
ucuar, draws his salary and doles 1t out to him.
comes in and raises sancho with the house he is out
too long, and makes herself generally obnoxious. AL
the In the Office afraid OF her. and you would
hugh TO them all scatter OF and get very busy
when she appears. Well SIR. this year the firm
wanted to cut that drummer's salary down, and how
do you think they did IL; they knew his wife would
make things lively II she knew his salary was de.
creased. they fixed 1t up between them that his pay
was to be reduced, but that his wife should draw the
old amount, and that the drummer has little bank
account he would make matters square with the firm
at the end Of the year. Iows that for terrorixing
little l3Opound woman holding under her
thumb her husband and whole firm besides %
German Discipline. was to be grand TO
view and n I n OF The f0op Of German mar mson
Nov. men. II the Mayor asks you how you like your
grub, You say Good II colonel asks you. you musS
reply Very good II the general asks you. you muse
>ifings.
There is report that the Vermont Democracy ID
becoming dissatisfied with the leadership OF Hiram
Atkins. For many years now II has been the custom
speak OF Mr. Atkins the leader Of the fororn hope
Df the Vermont Democracy; but the phrase Is hardly
accurate no is really the leader OF fororn despair.
And after all nc has done the bakers doIcn OF other
Democrats in the State want to the old down.
Why these things thdsi
All Things Come OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES true
saying, isn't IT, that things come round TO those who
woodsn-I don't know. I'm What makes you
hink Of that now
Bulhnch-Wcil, there Is llardup; he used TO say that
H. would DC content with his condition In Lie
mtil h. could keep a carriage.
WOoden-Weil. he'll never have one. He never IVES
Known TO have dollar TO his and on top OF that
lc went and got married.
Brhnch-fes, but he's got his carriage. / saw him
,ut the other day.
WoOden-I0u don't tell me!
Eufnch-lt'> IA beauty, too; one he pushes himself.
= (l3oston Courier.
certain commtiter who drives to the stadon every
lornng In his own rig leaves himself so small
a,cip OF Tina fnp tI,o t,Sn ,h,kh
aliop about every other morning i'm order to catch
he train. lie says he thinks OF wrtin. a story Of
is experience. emitting it. From the Taco-Cnsin
, the Chase Train
CorectneSs.-Brainly-IIo altogether intellectual
nd classic that young Mrs. Montlang Is.
Shmton-ics indeed. She introduced mo to Mrs.
erninu>, the railway managers wife, and her two
aushters the other evening. She said Mr. Skimton,
irs Terminus and her daughters, the Miss Termni.h
t Yankee Blade.