New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-09
THE DAGUERREOTYPE,

THE DAGUERREOTYPE,
You hev to holt 1t sidew1se
Fer to make the likeness show
'Cuz it's sort uh dim an shifty
TIL you git it right-'bout sol
An then the eyes winks at yeh,
An the mouth is cheTy.Tfpe.
Law! 1t beats your new-style picter$
This old dgerrytype! -
Thar's a blush acrost the dimples
Thet burrows In the cheeks;
F'om out them cumps OF rnglets
Two little small ears peeks,
Tibet brooch thet lines her neck-geaS
Is what they used to wear
big gold frame tibet sprawled aroun1
lock O-some ones hair. -
Twas took fore we was married.
Thet there-yOur ma an me.
An times study on It,
Why u faxes me to see
Thet fifty year amt teched her
She was when sudie scriggens
Took Boone c. Curds's nama
The hair is mebby whittier
An II In Al,
But her cheeks Is Just as plnky,
An her smiles amt Stacked up nome
I reckon lower somethin'
Yerluminates her face.
Like the crmsOnt velvet linin'
Warns up the plcter case.
IS say these cyardboad portraita
They make me sort nh tired
Agrinnin' fort upon yeh
Give me the old dgerrytypc.
Whar the face steals yer sight.
When yer supper's actin right: - .
Eva Wilder McGlasson in Harper's Weekly.
"Tie amount OF moisture a letter OF two or thre~
pages will carry" says business man, ais enormous,
and is frequently heavy enough 10 turn the scale an
call for more postage large batch OF mail matter
OF mine was reported held for postage not long ago.
and on going TO the postoffce found 1t weighed we'll
within the limit. 1t explained. however, thas
the mail was damp when delivered, and that
the water soaked up by the paper must be paid
for although 1t has since evaporntcd. which seems tn
indicate that II Is copy letters ut least
an hour or two before mailing them"
An UnIucky Jewel.-Yabsley-Don you know that
the opal Is an unlucky stone 49,. ,.on INV oo,.
Mudge-I gless not. This one mas Deen my conS
slant companion for hye years a. ..., ,,,.,, ,,r,..
in.-(Tndianapois Journal
Chicago seems to be ahead in everything. Some
one now claims to have found out that 10000 Chicago
husbands are supported by their wives.
In Food Products.-Grnncn-Yes, I've been having
some more teeth pulled. They are all gone now, ex&
iRarrett~What grinding monopoly II must possess
Chicago Tribune
Saws 1.-THE Boston Transcript: Now that photos
graphs made In London by Elliot Fry, and properly
labeled in fair sacerdjta text The Lord Bishop OF Mas
sachusctts' have appeared in Pollocks window, the
question OF the really authentic portrait OF DR.. Brooks
ms, be supposed be definitely settled with all gooo
Angicans Ii is lucky for them that the London pho'
tographs OF the LORD Bishop very good. They ara
very like him. and show him with an alert look full VI
spirit The Listener l. glad that In these highly np'
proved pictures the Bishop does not happen to be In
his robes but is dressed in very handsome broadciota
frock coat such as We all are accustomed to seeing
him in.'
sweetencd poison will kill as quick as that which
bad day does not always begin with dark
The darker 1t is all around the more our light d
Many very eoodlooidns people are deformed on
More good advice would be taken Il 1t were given
II we keep praise alive there will be no lack OF
ivy iosfsr in the church is as worthless as he Is
any II some parents would laugh their children
would weep lcss.-(Ram's Horn
This evening the harvest moon will be full. ana
for several evenings it will rise at pretty nearly the
same hour
Had Read the Newspapers Mr.: Southsids1
"a UuIlo Uncle Reuben. You got In town last night.
hear. Didn't blow the gas out At the h3,el, oIH
youf' Uncle Reuben-.No, newly. I'm no ha S,
I reckon left the blame gas burnin'.'-tChicago
News Record
Mrs. A, T.. " Robertson. of Muscogce. l. T., mas
I'm nsatcd tho New Testament from the orighai "reoA
into the language of the Creek Indians
There are comparatively few round-top trunks maue
now The idea that greater resisting power
ronld be obtained with least weight by mitatine 10
some extent the shape Of an egg, which as we KNOW
will bear an absurdy great weeht, BUT unoruna,eiy.
here was no guarantee that the baggaee-smasnrr
would always stand the trunk the right way up his
saIlmre 10 do this gave umberless reminders OF the
nct that no box Is than at Its weakest point
and tho damaged sides became very common NOW
most trunks are made with fiat tops and are so strong
MI over that It Is very difficult even for an expert
Trunk smasher to break one.-(st. Louis GlobeDemo-
crat.
Smithers-I consider this silver discussion the our-
ing question OF the day. =.
Is ALFRED important.
NOW COMPLETE THE GOOD WORK.