New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-08
THE Talk or THE DAY.

Tho American Baptist Year Book, Just out, gives
IN, total Baptist membership last year as 316i22'.
Tho total this year IS 3269 sos, an increase OF loo'-
10 Tho number reported baptiZoi IN $500 was
t4oO5s: TT 1901, 1GO,2i7. The total contributions
r,nort,d in 1891 were siI,2I5,o7e; total in 1902,
All 5ss55- slight Increase not proportoned 10 the
In numbers and wealth. In the contributions OF
,s veor three states exceed 81 100000, In the fol-
lowing order: Massachusetts, 81, 937 ,40s; Newfors,
81 $40 b34; Pennsylvania, 9, ,ol2,7ld.
4 gentleman was trying % talk with neiehborins
town the other day over th" long distance pnone.
ON the streets OF the cWn. Could anybody be found
Who would go out and pick u up. Inc yonig in!i III
without stat the reason why, and lnally the aeIp
OF Utica Toll board Wa inpo!ei me GonSsSig az,
interesting Just step out on the street sne
told him, "a1d ask the first man Or woman YOU
"' i can't he replied, "as there's no one here
Is that nid said Toll board. "well. YOU run
rrh, along. and III watch the store for YOU -.
rne young man Went aha tba rccSrer AZ Ttica
forty miles from the sccnc.-(Uuca Observer.
why are there not some entertainments that could
h cnioycd by those who are hard of hearingl' asks
Boston correspondent. Apparently there Is no ballet
| In Boston.
The Difference ommy-Paw, teacher wants to
know the difference between effects and "conse-
Mrs. rgg-I think l can answer that. When your
father came home from that BANQUET last nSm h no
| conscquenc indianapolis Journal
"Arc Won going THIS summeri' means, In Boston
d" Arc you going TO Emope~
r. o. james, of Amlty, has sheep that has a
| remarkable record I'm raising family. Two years
ago She gave birth twin lambs last spring she had
three more ana r ono s %, .e min , g az
mo the world aad one OF her daughters pair OF
tr,ns She is already the maternal ancestor of
,,reIve horn in the period OF two ycars.-(Ortland
OrcsOnlan.
| Saws "The Springfield Union: should DR.. Park
hurss efforts TO purify Newlork result In his assas
| snation, that city would witness an uprising similar
to TINT which occasoned the downfall OF the Tweed
dynasty. The police. from the point OF view OF SELF
interest alone should to 1t that DR.. ParkhuHt Is
given ample protection. Their onical lives are too
closely bound ND I'm his life 20 have anything happen
TO him. Anonymous threats SAVIOR OF cowardice, and
undoubtedly DR.. Parkhurst's life Is as safe as any
Onc's can be In city OF thugs
"rvo got n washing machine herc'-began the
Thc cpita,t looked at him in the cold calculating
manner common To capitalists. and answered, =" Well,
II were you, I'd run right home and msc ~ ~,
Tlat night the Anarchist Bund received another
application for membership. indianapolis Journal
4 Maine paper tells OF the queer predcament in
which a HddcfoId IL. lie fifty Of land
I'm the suburbs Of Hlddeford which his grandmother
left him. but he can't find It. The boundary lines
haven't been run for generations. There is some dim
record Of the original grant at Alfred, but not clear
enough enable him to find out Just what hc owns
lie has had a surveyor at work trying to the lines,
but each time he has encroached on land TO which
Others have clear titles. Now the property Is adver
Used for taxes and possible solution has presented
itself to the He says he is going TO let the
city sell the land for taxes bid ii In himself and let
tho city find 1t for him. The city, he argues can't
sell anything 1t can't deliver, and can't deliver any
thing IL can't find.
A quack doctor stood on his wagon at the street
corner selling his curcall. a group of people
gathered about him and he undertook to explain u
them the anatomy OF the throat. "My dear friends
he began, perhaps yOu don't know It, there nre two
passages that 20 from tho back OF the mouth to the
stomach urse Is called the aesophagus and the Other
| ucsophor. Now. the solid vIctnals go down
the aesophagus. and the liquids down the aesophag
over the top OF the holes Is cover with hinge
In tho middle. and whea You swallow beefsteak the
little door over the acsophagus flies open, and the
little door the aesophagi drops down. and vice
versa when you take drink Of coffee This descrlp
ton proved too much for farmer who stood the
edge Of the crowd. Shading with laughter, he re
marked in a loud tone: Gosh. but those doors must
go hpper Hopper when "A follow eats bread and
milk l"-(Youhs Companion