New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-26
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Says man who has been wearing russell shoes:
II used to pay 10 cents to have them polished but
don't do it any more. saw that paragraph about
rubbing them with the inside OF a banana skin. I
tried it and it worked first rate. One day had
banana peel by me. l tried small tomato
and that worked first rate, too. Since then I've
tried all kinds Of stun-potato parings, apples
rots. turnips-I don't know what all-and I find
that they all work well the banana or as the
polish that you pay for"
Mammal wonder what your papa is stamping
Little Boy-I don't know. 1 DIDN'T 20 into his
room. cause he acted cross
Little BoyYes. he cam cause rs pnt IL right back
where he keeps II, soon as got through taking up
tacks.-tGood News.
John Sartain. the most widely known engraver IN
America. celebrated his eighty-hfth birthday on
Tuesday last. Probably" says THE Philadelphia
Record" mo living artist has done more for the
advancement of his profession in America than
Mr.. Sartain. In 1898 he began the practice Of
mezzotints. and thereafter seldom resumed the art
he had first learned in its purity. but combined IL
with s;ipp!e and mezzotint. Mr.. Sartain at ons
time also occupied prominent position in the
literary world, where his memory is still green.
In 1913 he became editor and proprietor OF Camp
bells Foreign Sem-Monthly Magazine and held an
interest in The Eclectic Museum which subse-
quently became The Eclectic In lsis he bought
a halfnterest in The Union Magazine which lateu
became widely known as 'Sartains Magazine"
DENTAL sONG-A PARODY
Drill. drill. drill.
With thy dental machine. said she;
And would 1t were seemly 10 utter
The groans that arise in me.
Oh well for the laughing maid
Whose teeth are pearly and sound.
Oh well for the youth in whose molars
No cavities deep are found!
And they pass the dentists office
Without a thought OF fear:
In his little blank-book appear!
Drill. drill. drill
pS M the n tender sSd Of sse co sSd ba, e
VIII never come back TO me.
-(Mary 5. Lothrop in Boston Transcript.
THE Seattle Times mentions the following
among the agricultural wonders OF the State Of
Washington:
An apple weighing pounds and ounces
One strawberry 10 inches In circumference.
bunch of grapes weighing pounds.
An onion weighing pounds and l ounce.
\ potato weighing pounds and ounces.
a radish weighing 9l2 pounds.
a beet weighing 90 pounds.
A pumpkin weighing % pounds
A watermelon weighing Ga pounds
a cabbage weighing So pounds
a squash weighing l2O pounds.
Timothy 7 feet inches high.
Glover feet high
Alfalfa. a yield Of IL tons per acre
Cornstalks Ii feet high.
A hill OF potatoes that yielded 43 pounds.
Sxty-seyen pounds OF potatoes from pounds
planted.
Hops from a yield Of 1852 per acre.
Wheat from a yield of 6s bushels per acre.
oats from yield Of i2J bushels per acre
A blackberry bush showing a growth OF q feet
this year
A branch from prune tree 50 Inches long WIN
46 pounds OF fruit on II.
The Gift OF a season.-slr Edgard Fitz Wales
You Amewlcans chahmingly thoughtful 20
know.
had YOUR own summer ye know. you nave an
Indian summer,Ioh the pooah hd''e'' "'PPo'e'
Chicago Record
THE Milwaukee Times" in commenting on the
-cnort that many farmers In Minnesota and North
Dakota are feeding their wheat to hogs because In
hat way they get almost double the market
price for it, says: This condition OF the wheat
market is a strange commentary on the Republican
heory OF protection" Oh. no. It isn't; 1t Is
strange commentary on the slogan OF the North
western Democrats in the last campaign. vote
or Cleveland and get 81 Is bushei for your
wheat" They voted for Cleveland. and now wheat
s lower than it has been for thirty years.
Don't you think the Rev. stiIt's sermons srs
,wfuy narrow ~ ~ ,,.r..
up for Il. should think, in the lensth"-(Ch'caso
inter Ocean.
The Rev. Dr. H. l.. wayland tells this story on
himself: ION Il recent occasion the Rambler. ac-
ordIng to his feeble light. preached the Gospel IN
village which is enriched. illumined and sanctt-
led by the presence OF school OF the prophets WIN
uch capacity he was possessed or ne ehdea'oleo
O preach TO the people about God Christ, the
soul and the eternity that spreads around
md beyond u.s. local paper OF the following
week, wishing to do the handsome thing. stated
hat the pulpit was occupied by So-and-so, ana
dded: The Doctors remarks were very enter
aiming"
How was the prestIdigateur last night Hamieyr
"Wonderful! Why actually, Paxan, that feiow
ook dollar out Of old Skinhints ear" -
"Humph! 1t would have been more wonderlui