New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

T. j. Mciunn Of San Antonio, Tex, says "An old
friend Of NINE named Cabanss. recently told me that
Abraham Lincoln worked for his father in 1882 At
that time great rise occurred in the sangamon
River and a steamboat. taking advantage OF the high
water came up the stream My friend was then q
child and the whstling OF the boat frightened him.
Lincoln. then a tall. angular young man. took him In
his arms and carried him aboard the boat. After
the departure Of the craft Lincoln wrote rhymes
about the Incident one verse Of which the Cabaniss
family preserved. 1t thus
The Illinois smokers. green and raw
collected on the sangamaw
To boat I'D the stream.
They surely thought II dream
For this doggerel he invented n melody, and he and
others sang 1t. The song never found It's way Into
print. The elder Cabaniss always told his children
that the amlable kindly Lincoln would develop into
great man."
Young Lady-How muchi
Telegraph OperatOr-Twenty-fve cents
For that one word yes ~
"Yes'm same price for ten words or less. You
can repeat the word yes ten times. y you WISH an
swer TO proposal OF marrage( portland Advertiser.
a rural farming district in Michigan" says "Ths
Engineering Magazine" has provided itself with
telegraph line eight miles In length. connecting large
number OF scattered farms with the village store the
proprietor OF which ociaes as telegraph operator eA
press agent postmaster. and so on. The total cash
expenditure for the outfit is said TO have been only
some 500. while the expense OF maintenance WIN"
is but trlnng sum. is assessed equally upon the
owners. The small cost and enormous convenience
OF such system as this in country districts ought
10 lead to a more general adoption of the PLAN Is
pecally after the expiration Of the telephone patents
I'm 1894 such a system OF intercommuncaton BY wire
would be possible in every township throughout tho
country The individual expense would be almost IN
significant and in the item OF useless travel alone
would save many times It's cost every year"
TIE wHEELMAN'S wOOING.
Let me clasp your handles, dear.
With an arm around your waist;
Let me watch the trcadle gear,
As along lifeS road We haste.
Let us mount d tandem bike
And softly scoong down ifcs pike,
Reach age on pneumatic tire.
"TNe Kennebec Journal tells this story Of Man.
ocer Tucker of the Maine Central Railroad. some
time ago a section boss was sitting idly by the sta
lion when MI Tucker stepped of train and asked
him II he needed help. When the boss re-
piled in the negative. Mr.. Tucker walked htue
distance along the track, picked up couple OF bricks
and removed them to their proper place. Every
time | have passed by here for several weeks ne
then remarked TO the boss, IL have seen those two
bricks living there and | thought because you leit
them maybe you didn't have help enough" WIN
TINT no mounted the train again and moved OF, wav-
ing a pleasant goodbye 10 the section crew. VINO
will never. no never, be caught In that way again.
Il wondah. now where | got these seven single
csnts doncher know" SAID Goslin, as he drew iOith
some small cash from his pocket. ,.
You must have changed your mind," suescS'oN
Dolley IIarper's BaLar
Last Saturday all his brethren OF tine fupi'
edgero of Philadelphia united In giving reception
Mt the DreNel Institute In honor Of Colonel NJ heau
Muckle The Colonel Is Of the Oldest ana mos
popular members OF THE Ledger family. lie las
been I'm its service for half century, and the reeeV
ton was In graceful recognition OF that fact "o"
man BY descent, although born In Philadepmae ~
has always been prominent In efforts for the "enas
Of the Germans. For this work. and espeeiaHy luz
assisting in the restoration of the srasburg lAp"i''
which was destroyed In the Franco Prusslah war; no
was twice decorated by the old Emperor "iiiam-o''
with the ribbon and the patent Of the Order OF tne
Crown, and again with that of the Black h'se'
which is only conferred upon kings and foreign po'c
ates He has the distinction OF pehg he o'y
native American to be thus ennobled we tender u
The Colonel the assurances OF our distinguished eon'
,deraton.
81 am not wealthy" he said but y .ne deno rnn
Of true and tender heart goes for anything WIN '''
1T goes well enough with me- Mr. spoonful, IN ~,
errupted the fair girl, with Pehsive ioon III ,cS
ace . but how will II 60 with the grooerr-uuSs