New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-25
THE ITALIA or TIE DAY.

1t Is che common belief that NerSennes, W.. WHICH
incorporated In 1883 and now contains only i.'7s
Inhabitants Is the smallest city in the United states.
People who hold this belief howe ser vastly mis-
taken. They are Of the facility with which
cities are created under the elastic laws OF the State
OF Kansas, which has no limit on the Inferior side to
determine when n village may assume the dignity OF
cyhood. In that State there no less than 1862
Incorporated cities, while the total number Of cities In
the United states Is only about 1861. OF the 3i2
Kansas cities only I6 have more than 5000 IN
habitants, 315 have less than 1000, 2G6 have less
than 1000. and 10 have less than 100 Inhabitants
apiece At the date Of the last census the duly In
corporaed cities Of Avilll and Appomaitox In ;hat
state rejoiccd In the total of THU tyfour inhabitants
each The aosuriity of n system which permits such
state OF things ought to bring about change In The
laws that would make II impossible
Tommy-Mamma, isn't it awful sangy 10 say got
His Mother-n is, my son.
Tommy That's what | thought when heard you
tell Betty this morning to set up and get breakfast.
Chicago Tribune.
Philadelphia physician who has Just returned
from a trip to England says: Il stopped with .
gentleman In Liverpool who IS making fortune ont n
one OF the most curtci, applications OF the dropa-
penny inthe-sot idea that have ever seen. In Eng
kind, by the way they It for dozen things that
we know nothing q In this country. The use for u
to which allude however, Is the furnishing OF illu-
minatDg gas to small consumers. A small device 70
fastened to any ordinary gas meter and each time Q
copper penny IS dropped in the slot certain amount
OF gas IS let into the meter and thence into the pipe
leading to the burner little dial shows how much
gas is admitted TO the meter, and dozen or nsro
pennies can be dropped in in succession II the pur
chaser 50 desires. over 1000 OF these are now In
use In Liverpool, and the demand for them in that
and other big cities Is great that the company own
Ing the patent cannot at present begin to make them
fast enough to supply it."
THERE WAS A FAIR LAND.
There was fair land by tyranny brghted.
Until her brave people did wander away;
Her SOUS and her daughters by wrong disinited.
From the land OF their fathers ire exles today.
Have planted with sorrow the land Of their birth;
Her industries ruiled by taAas exaetcd,
Ard scattered her children all over the earth.
Driven from home and npprentccd to nations. 49,.
from their veins.
And holding In council the highest Of stations, a.
Their cOlntry's misfortunes have been the worlds
gains
Md the bursting OF shells and the minne'
wild play A.. ..... ~.
The first in the fight and the longest to stay.
But now we have parted, they. love the oppress'r.
The gam9r OF party has ihaS d h sr" T
For English free trade they are voting to-day
Oh. b. ~ sons Of Erin whatever possessed you,
In th mazes Of folly To wander astray;
And help the proud tyrants who always distressea
By voting the wages of labor awayi
Providence News.
At an entertainment recently given at Bridge
port Conn., by the w. L. and C. Club in aid Of The
Tr bunes Fresh Air Fund, the following lines were
read
We are sitting here in the noon-heat,
And the breathless nosome night
Brings little OF comfort healing,
Brings naught OF youths slumber light.
To us, who cry out for your pity,
Happy children to whom for your share
Falls life without the great city,
With its tOrturing din and glare
Life that indeed Is living
Months and months Of Gods bountifnl gNn6
And, think Of It, years Of fresh-air.
THE REPLY.
We are listening here in the fair homes
OF park city, skirting the sea-
And your cry strikes note, sad, discordant
In nfe's happy harmony.
But you cry not in vain for our pity,
eyed children to whom, for your share,
Falls life In tho terrible city,
With It's blightnk sin and despair,
Life that seems hardly worth living
But, wait. Is there not In our giving
At least some short weeks OF fresh-arf
ELIZABETH BULLARD.