New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In the far West girl who works in a railroad
restaurant is known a biscuit shooter"
PGnd Him s 34 the shall he
he lnaI turned q pale couldn't be happy with such
heads on myself'-(Chicago Tribune
The song Fair Harvard" was written many
years ago in the Fay House. which is now the home
of Radcliffe College. whose students constitute
"Fairer Harvard"
1t has been found possible says Professor DOL
bear. by employing large lenses of proper local
bly, in few years or sooner, one. as he rides along
the highway on cloudy day, will be able to read
overhead how Senator Smith was snatched from the
grave by few doses of Jones's infallibe pills.
lowell Courier.
An English ventroqust recently beat handbag,
at the same time mimicking the cries Of dog. 4
sympathetic rushed up and gave the man
thrashing The ventriloquist sued him for damages;
but the decided against him. on the ground
that the dog champion acted In good faith.
IT want" said the astronomer. IAN inscription
for my new telescope which shall be In the nature
How would here's looking at you doy'-(Bufralo
Express
A steamer from Savannah recently arrived at this
port, having as part OF her cargo 2i.Oo0 boxes Of
oranges. AS box Of oranges averages between
$50 and 20 in number. and about eighty pounds
in weight, this load weighed about l.6S0,oO0 pounds
and amounted in round numbers to between $780,
900 and 100000 oranges AS the Florida orange crop
this year is estimated at 100000 boxes there should
be plentiful supply of cheap and delicious fruit
Oh woman. in our hours of ease.
Uncertain coy and hard 10 please
Into heroine you're turned
Where bargain counters are concerned.
washington Star.
Thompson Chandler. Lyons Farms IN. j. farm
err is the father of two boys according 10 a local
paper, the eldest being sixty years Of and the
youngest eight. His eldest has a forty
years DID, who in turn is the father of a boy six
teen years old. The latter is twice the age OF his
grandunce. While Farmer Chambers eight-year-
old is going TO school at Lyons Farms. his
sxty-year-old boy is prosperous business man Of
yineand, ~ j.. and the latter's forty-year-old
Is a bank director.
A hackman found this order written on his slate
last summer. according to Maine correspondent:
the following TO the Bar Harbor train:
"One wife.
Two nurses,
Three servants,
-Four children,
Five trunks.
-Four valises.
"Thfee grips.
1.-TWO bundles
"One me Outside preferred" -Nouth's Com
panion.
AT Easton" says THE Philadelphia Record"
"a road alongside the Lehigh tracks, and
slightly higher On this road strikers and their
boot at and deride the men who stuck by the
company. AS an engineer was passing in his cab
the other morning he greeted with the usual
cry OF 'scab, Kisses. boots, and other little EVIL
dences OF the feelings OF the crowd Slowing down
his engine. he said quietly to the men and women
who were so close that he could almost touch them
with his hand: That's all right: say whatever
you please / buried my wife two weeks ago. and
have two little children at home. ] am going to
work for those little ones That man has passed
up and down there frequently since them but no
body has made any further efforts to annoy him."
Perennially Large.-They had been talking learn
edly OF the crops and the varying yield from year
We'll" said one, other crops may be poor or
good date crop especially Of the American variety"
What Is the American variety Of date. I'd like
to know"
THE candidate" (Pittsburg Chronicle.
Mr. Clevelands Secretary Of Agriculture may nol
be a poet but yet in his first annual report he has
to alliteration's artful aid In order to
enforce his point and make proper impression on
the country. lie says that the vague character OF
the organization of the Department offers opuene
opportunities for the exercise Of the most pro-
nounced paternalism." After that there would ap
pear be nothing for Congress 10 do In the matter
but to change the law at the very earliest moment
To leave Secretary Morton exposed to 'opuent OPP
single day longer than Is aoso-
utely necessary would indeed be a cruel thing.
Ingenious. Anyway.-'I appreciate the service
YOU do me- sir In onern' me Their job. said Road
side Workam but l cannot take it,
"Why notT' 49,,
wen / think of Their thousands of my fellow
men who might have it-how can ! deprive them
II Their means Of galnin honest Livelihood py
akin of 1t mysef"'-(Chcago Record
Says 1.-THE Boston Transcript: The first lady
who ever gave money to Harvard College could
Tot have fancied In her most imaginative moment
hat more than $50 years later her girlhoods name
would be- given to a college for women at Harvard.
Anne Radcliffe who afterward Dame Mouisoh'
ent her hundred pounds over seas from England 70
I'D the of education. She cast her preao
ipon the waters. and 1t is returned to her memory
n honor after all these many days. Mrs. Agass'~
he president of the Harvard Annex, Is consratu-
ated this most charming and suggestive cho'cs
# a name"
Bohby-Pop. what Is reason? -, s,.s an.
FL Ind Parent-Reason, my boy, Is tnat WHY" -"
bles a to determine what Is right.
Bobby-And what Ia instinct? . IT. -ou.u
Fond Parent-Instnct Is that whicn teils q wyTiSs
he II right whether she II or not-(Brookvn A"s'