New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-19
THE TALK or THE DAY,


"The indianapolis News thus describes the way
in which certain little Western banks were started
" corn broker or a pork broker feeling out for m
extension OF business pits few dollars into bank
and Is given credit In another bank Whose owner
nOminay puts up like amount. This process u
repeated, and a thousand dollars are made to do duty
as bank capital In dozen communities.
The whole business is farce and an outrage upon the
public. This state was disgraced for generation
by its wildcat banking methods, and was only be.
ginning TO get over 1t when the cornpork brokerage
system introduced. The first financial furry has
brought these banks down. and has probably given
an effective warning In time to avert serious Dis
aster.'
She frowned On him ard called him Mr.,
Because in fun he'd merely Kr,
And then, In spite,
The following mite,
This naughty Mr.. kr Sr-(Life.
The champion mean man has been discovered n
Kansas lie gets up very carly in the morning u
order that he may have more time to be mean q.
EXTINCT MONSTERS.
Oh, had lived IL the good old days,
When the IchihyOsaurus ramped around
When the Elasmosaur swan The bays
And the Sivatherium paved the ground:
Would have spent my precious time
At weaving golden thoughts IN rhyme1
When the Tnoceras snooped about
And the rlerodactyl Tapped Its wings.
When the Brontops with the VARY snout
MOseyed around for herbs and things
Would have bothered myself O'ermuch
About divine 9ftatus and suchl
The Dinotherum aourished then
The Pterygotus dashed the seas,
The Rhamph0rynchus pro,percd when
The Scnphosnathus peIched IN Trees
And every creature. wild or tame,
RejOiced In some rocco name.
Pause and ponder; who could write
A trioet roundelay
While Megatherium yawped all night
And Hesp2rornis yawped all day;
While, now and again, the bray Ira. son"r9us
~ ~ Ia ptado tSpe
II I'd been almost anything
But n poet, i might have got along,
These cxinc. Monster, OF h9of and wing
So nature reserved this tender hard
For the kindlier Age Of Pork and Lard.
--(Edgenc Field In Chicago News Recoru.
A baltimore dramatic critic has found play which
combines the tense interest Cf a TRAGEDY wtp tns
genial relaxation OF a comedy
with a $1,000 rod
And IA $50 reel,
With a 200 line
And q 400 creel;
book fun Of 100 40 al.
Away with his 1900 ticket he hics
Thus he spends $1,000 ere he starts out,
And returns in week 10 worth o, front,
But blank won't sup
The thirty nine ninety-the sum he Is shy.
--(San Francisco News Letter.
ain n certain New-Ycrk town., says commercial
traveller 81 once ran some artificial straw.
berries which were sod by local grocer Nter
he had been selling for week rival grocer
discovered that they all Of the same Size.
whole quart might be searched and there would DO
no enc berry larger or smaller than any other This
excited suspicion, and close examination showed taaS
the alleged Strawberries were a mixture U apple
Jelly coored with aniline dyes and favored with
strawberry essence. The moulds were perfect and IN
each one Of the Irregularities timothy seed were
droprsd so that when the mess was poured In
and moulded the seed stood ont the outside. JUST
as those In a real berry stood. This looked -
natural that the commences Of the berries had NOS
been questioned II the fellow had not made then
so large and perfect he might have gone on for .
long time without detection" D.
An Ambitious Boy.-Little Boy-Papa, may I stulN
elocutiOn
Proud Papa-Indeed you may, my boy. II you WISH
You desire to become great orator. don't your
Yes, that's it,
And some day. perhaps, have your voice ringing
through the halls Of COngressl'
II shouldn't care for that want to be an aftess,
dinner speake''
"Ah, you are ambitious for social distinction.
NO. / want the dinners."-(Street d Smiths Coo
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