New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-08
THE T.fLK or THE DAY.

THE Medical Record says that an income tax
| would be peculiarly unjust and oppressive to the
medical profession. because, as rule, the physi-
| clan who $1,000 or more is obliged TO spend
much more than physicians having a smaller in
come. Besides. 1t says. 1t would be hard for many
physicians to say whether their income is $500 or
$4,000 owing to the uncertainty of payments.
The following beautiful instance OF mixed meta
phor IL copied verbatim from a brief filed recently
by counsel in case pending IN me supreme wOars
by remarkng that. however formidable an array
that the opposing Tor has by , hs se
are but ts ces prnse S law and eaSs
Jurisprudence. '-(Green Bag.
THE Week" Of Toronto. has always been an
admrer IL not a euogist. OF President Cleveland
Its admission therefore that he has not covered
himself with glory in the Hawaiian business 70
most interesting. 1t declares that he PLAYED =
double part in his dealings with the Provisional
Government" and ntmates that ne overstepped
constitutional bounds. From all which, 1t would
appear that the cuckoo does not flourish In Cam
ada.
Delionizing Himself-Mrs. Haut Ton-How did
you come out with that literary lion you were
Mrs. Societe-An utter failure. You made
my husband give hri $40 for his current expenses
suit Of clothes Just before he was to appear at
my soiree. too.-(Chcago Record
Heard at the gallery where the seney collection
OF pictures is on exhibition: Enter large and
uncultured- looking man with a woman much young
er, but apparently. his wife His attention Is at
tracted by Courbet's The Rising Sea- in which
there Is a great of tumbng green waves.
Go and See whose that is" he remarks TO his
companion, for they are not provided Win cata-
losue The woman crosses the room, ana IN mo-
ment returns. saying: IT'S by Corbett-G. Corr
bctt" We'll" growls the man. ''Mr Seney must
have been feeling bad when he bought that What
r.lo tion ed n between
ture and the hero OF the recent prizefght only
be surmised
The Figures Against Him-Lawyer lin whis-
per)-Here comes the jury Ten TO one they'll ae'
Client after listening the verdict)-It seems 10
be twelve none they don't.-(Chcago Tribune
Governor Peter Turnay. OF Tennessee. though
seventy years of age is still enthusiastic deer
and fox hunter. Uncle Tim Dyer. OF Vina
Haven. Me- has just celebrated his ninetieth BIRTH
day by taking alone and unaided. fishing in open
dory. halibut weighing 1872 pounds. J. G. Rich Of
Bethel. Me-. who is now seventy-three years CT age.
has record Of having killed seventy-three bears
1t is evident that the American Nestor do
something besides talk.
She giggled when he talked to her.
Ssh She gisEsd w when HI he t stopped; fra,
She giggled when he popped;
She giggled when the day was set.
She gigged when they wed;
And now he often wonders II
She'll giggle when he's dead
-(Kansas City Journal.
little Brooklyn girl astonished her mother the
other day by her proficiency In pathological pur-
suits. Mamma" said she. there three kinds
OF by's.' aren't there?" What do you mean. my
DEAR? responded the mother. In surprise. We'll"
sweetly lisped the little one. there's by when
you go by some one on the sidewalk and there's
another when you go to the store to buy some-
thing. and then there's by gosh" The mother was
not long In reaching the conclusion that her daush-
ter needed little careful instruction in the minor
morals.
There's no use In talking" remarked man who
had just lodged broken trolley wire; even IN
this country man must show respect for lineal
descent."-(Washington Star.