New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY,

| The appointment OF Isaac Pusey Gray to MexIos
makes The Chicago Mali happy that 1t drop
into rhyme. Hear IL Hung be the Heavens win
roseate pink Go hide thou sun! With envy blink
Today We sing roundclay-a jobs been given
gallant Gray. What Grayi oh, say! Why, Pusey
Gray, our key Indiana Gny-with Grcasers he Il
y Ing to stay. IIurray. Murray. wow!!! Boom.
decay! NY
seldom has any statesman made 50 many people
happy by going of somewhere by himself.
Mary-f you please. IN. you at 'ome ID Mr.
Johnson as as jus rtng the bell
show her in.-funnv Folks.
An American paper published In Paris recently con-
tanned the following unique advertisement: "A
young OF roeabe presence, and DESTROYS OF get
ting married. would like 10 make the acquaintance Of
an aged and experienced Gentleman who could Dis
suadc him from taking the fatal step
Byc-election- .-Gladys-Listen. sibyl. p,na
has won great moral victory. What does q moral
victory mean, exactly
sbyl ,yho has had more experience)-oh. It MEANS
well, that We are to be the victims OF political economy
and not TO go TO London, after all.-(Punch.
bin to annex squantum to Boston Is before the
Massachusetts Legislature. The squanlum folks think
annexation would De good thing for Boston.
Tho Listener has seldom been more diverted than
W.
the window Of the photograph store there. very good
picture OF DR.. Holmes coIspcuously Labelled Ralph
To BE- Su r.
was doing. for he had decidedly sly and wagdsh
look on Ids fac face it wa was a, much as to say pp:
but that's what am and who knows, after all, but
that We changed In infancy, and that really
Emerson and Emerson Is really lIolmes!- There wcs
little group OF people In front OF the WINDOW, and
they an seemed TO see the point OF the Doctors Joke
for they were gr.nning responsvely.-lBoston Tran.
script.
In recent sermon Archbishop Ireland told story
related TO him by the late Cardinal Lavigerie about
those who are more Catholic than the Pope. 1t Is
OF two Jesuit fathers from Paris. who preached Q
two weeks retreat TO convent In Algers, during
which the good nuns found no time to make rochet
for the Cardinal. being engaged in two Dovcnas for
the Iope's conversion.
ReyenA.-Tbe eminent entertainer and song-and.
dance man had Just got Off his little Joke about TAX
ing bath once every year whether he needed II or
felt hurt Il guess said he. that ought to have
raised the limit In this town. suppose we make Il
once in live years. Now. do you see the point''-
"The Boston Transcript" thus explains the phrase
getting the mittenr one hundred years ago gloves
were unknown In the country towns. Mlttens were
knitte and wOra Il famili's. II yourg man going
home from singing school with the young girl OF hh
getting cold, and took TINT opportunity TO urge his SUIT
II the offer proved acceptable the hand would remaln
II taken by surprise. effort TO withdraw the hand
would leave the nitsn. - the suor would get the mt
ten but would not get the hand. The use OF tie
word "mufr,' meaning foolish. laundering person,
also has easy explanation stupid youth was saa
to be- IL muf' because. like the article OF feminine
wear called by that name, he held woman's mana
without squeezing it. The sedaic old times were Eos
without their gallanries.
How They Expressed Their sentiments.m" III b
the stocking. whereat the fire. burning for notice.
said IN be bowed Here the elohesl line rema,ked:
ALARMED the dog o that lie OILY paused say an =
hanged II | don't be dOggoned,' and fed That endea
the discussion.- indianapolis Journal.
The waters OF the river Tinto, In Spain, are a.
yellow as Il topaz, and petrify the sand In shors
time II stone falls into the river and rests upon
another they both become perfectly united ana con-
CULTIVATED in year. 1t withers all the plants on Its
banks as well as the roots Of trees which 1t dyes Of
the same hue as its waters. No fish live In the
stream.
Crlnone or cholera,
Which one will IL be,
To sweep the Western Continent
In eighteen ninety-threel
-(Detroit Free Press
"The Atlanta Journal Hole smiths paper says
that for the first time In its history there are -
colonies In Georgia They are all In Washington he'V
Ing TO govern the country.
Harold came into the study one day. The BOY hse
an aptitude working. and his father used 10 cs!e
70 his mechanical appetite NJ all times. That morn
lug Ilarold's eyes were bright. 49,.
Oh father did you see about that Yankee uo""
East that made un engine entirely OF paperl' "a
Mr. Jackson smiled. NO. my boy tell me soous
Il was Il a donkey engine y
NO stationary. "-(BOston Budget.