New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY


~ natinum there are only two laboratories IN the
country which prepare the precious metal lor ooa'
merce The raw material is sent nom the r'H'au
Government where ii is found to 81 fetersouis, anu
thence for the most part 10 England, where u Is e
fined During 1888 only thirty-one ipuds, 0: l'ooo
mounds were refined in Russia. The price OF platinum
went up between 1856 ard 1890 from 3ooo 10 i5'ooo
roubles per pud or from about 81 to 336 rouoles
no,rd In the sixties it was believed worthless by the
gold miners In SIBERIA, who used it often as shot,
Mrs. s,dter-There's one objection have to steam.
boats The staterOoms are so large Hal one aiio''
ee Mrs. Holmes-Mercyi You don't call this narrow
contracted thing s5 rO Sear that have lived in
fiat for several years. Boston Transcript
The first land which has undertaken the legal reg
ulatlon OF the practice OF hypnotism Is Belgium.
few DAYS ago the Legislature adopted law WHICH,
In all probability Will serve a model for the egs-
lative action OF other countries 1t declares tlas any
one who exhibits publicly person hypnoazsd by
himself or others will be punished by imprisonment
ranging from two weeks TO six months, and be lined
from IS to 5000: that any not IN possession OF
phys lclan's diploma who hypnotizes person under
twenty years OF age, not In the fI possession Of
his faculties will be punished by imprisonment ana
fne whether the subject be exhibited or hot' ana
that any one who allows Iypnotized person to sign
document or other paper, whatever It's nature VIII
the object OF fraud will be punished BY imprisonment
The same penalty threatens person who attempts
10 use a document signed by while hypnouled
The people OF Belgium have welcomed the adoption 81
the new law.
These Men," john said Mrs. Billus. ait you'll
Just shovel the worst OF the snow OIL the Walks Deo'
you 90 doI ntown I'll finish the Jon with the broom.
MI Billus compiled faithfully with the request ana
went to his work Half an hour afte"ad MI Nj, b ans
explaining things 10 Mrs kajones. who had happene1
along Just expected, s nave 10 90 IN, a ght
Chicago Tribune.
Though the year is yet young, the funny men have
already worked OF a big crop of leap-year Jokes
$50 that Is an umbrella laup!' said Mrs. Homespun:
don't see how any could take that lamp along
with an umbrella An umbrella Umbrella IS al woman M ts cae
cumbersome things. "-(Boston Transcript.
"The Glasgow (scotand) Herald" gives the following
as the twelve greatest American poets in the order
named First, Edgar Allan Poe; second. II. W Elmer
son third, James Il. Lowell fourth, j. Roimsn Drake
hrth Henry W. Lohgfellow sixth, William c. Bryant;
seventh Oliver W. Holmes eighth, join c. Whittier;
ninth George F. Morris; tenth, Thomas B. Read;
eleventh, Walt whitman; twelfth, Bayard Taylor.
TIE COMING HUMoRIsT.
("Ths Democratic candidate will sweep the state
without the aid Of any questionable means Of that
sayeth not. "-David b. HllD
O. David d, much admire the humor Won betrny-
The legal air OF mystery surrounding what You say;
The Democratic candidate Will wn-and that's whaps
But who that candidate will be- deponent sayeth not
You have given Observation-Disclosures without
In yonr last few months of Office. We begin to CON-
The lmmcasurabe victory you and your party got 49,
But who shall reap the fruits OF IL, "deponent saSe@
mott
Oh David B, we marvel at your wisdom, nerve ana
drag;
You not on tn. gravel trainyOur prospects do not
The man who buncoes you must hasten early from his
We question If that exists"deponent saycth NOT
Grover Cleveland is ambitous-his supporters all de-
That he is better qualified than You 70 fill the chair
Is the filler pure Havana ARE the delegates req no.
For Grover and his followers "Deponent sayeth not
OH David b, fain would read the answer in the
Or browse for it within your brain you let down tho
In tho shue Of convention, II the prize fall to your
We don't expect to hear you cry "deponent sayeth
not"
on. F. Carey in Albany Press.
"Tte Chicago Tribune which thinks that the wife
OF Columbus has been neglected, gives this sketch OF
her Columbus was married In 1870, or thereabous.
to Miss paestrello of Lisbon whose father had dis.
tngushed himself navigator. part OF Miss
Pales'rcios marriage dover great collection OF
valuable charts, journals and important memoranda
From childhood she had displayed wonderful enthusl
the subject. partaklng To marhed degree OF
the speculative and adventuresome ideas ana schemes
In the line Of geographical discovery for which Lisbon
was then headquarters. She possessed hnc edue''-
ton, and was widely known brainy, brilliant
woman who was constantly urging her husband on In
the path which finally brought him to the wonderful
goal with which We are so familiar. While a girl MISS
PalestlcO made "a number OF hazardous voyages
with her father in unfamiliar waters, AMI later
many geographical drawings, several Of which
were used with great profit by Columbus when
a., I'd her for uif SET
more mIortant wandcrings the great aeep
There is probably no picture OF this brave, talented
woman eyant. bnt certainly it would seem gracious
and most ltting thing that her memory receive some
tribute upon the forthcoming OCCASION
Housckeeper-why don't You go to work ana car"
money! A., ..,L hin.
num- am Pm afeared Of bacteria.-lGood News