New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-15
TIE Talk or THE DAY

That there Is still profit in sailing craft is shown
BY the fact that the Dover Navigation Company,
ew-Hampshire corporation owning several three-
masted schooners, at its annual meeting recently
held, declared dividends averaging II per cent on
four Of its largest vessels. These dividends repre-
scented a years earnings, and on the earnings OF
one of its schooners which. after six months OF SAIL
ing is stuck in the mud the Louisiana shore. .
per cent dividend was paid. \ weil-kno"n Bath
built four-naster only seven years Old. mas area'y
Melted 10000 for her owners.
Would Have the Fun Afterward:-His Mother
Tommy. II you fight with little Willie Waters TO-
Tommy-Put me to bed. now ma-tChicago REQ
ord
The Chicago papers think that the Greater New.
York will be largely devoted to the raising OF gar
den truck.
Figg-what does this paper mean when 1t spear"
OF the timbre of Sofas voice? 49,. ~. .,.r
Fogg-Thats a polite way OF saying that MS sing
ing is wooden.-(Boston Transcript
Among the many vessels which have been driven
ashore and wrecked on the English coast since the
winters storms began was the schooner Draper.
which was lost with all on board. The Draper was
more than ia years old, having been built in l0s,
and was one Of the oldest vessels regularly engaged
a freight carrier.
There are people whose greatest pleasure IN ex'
perrin ersoinE as ,ha, ~ brageing OF their pas, mis-
deeds. Boston Transcript.
"The New Nation" which started some time
ago by Mr.. Relamy the author OF Looking BACK
ward has suspended publication.
The average newspaper reader must be about az
clear in his notions concerning who i ahead IN
way 10 test eggs for goodness "All you have 10
do" said she. lis 70 put the egg IN the water:
which. "-,Sprngtield Republican
The Richmond Religious Herald quotes gifted
preacher as saying that all the theological ns,ruc-
ton ne ever received contained in single re-
mark addressed to him by an aged father In the
Gospel. Tell the people" he said, precisely what
they tell you He did it. lie went from house TO
house and what he heard he remembered and
brought out in his sermons. Like Bunyan, in his
"Pngrm's Progress" he held up the mirror IN
which each saw himself and thus the multiiGdes
followed him.
Mr. Crltlc-If that's "A Hunting Scene why don't
the men have guns?
Mr.. CausticSPerhaps the artist painted them 50
naturally that they've gone on-lhing Jester.
What is fame? The question is suggested once
more by the fact that a religious editor in Boston
has spoken OF Richard Henry Dana the Editor
OF THE New-York sun" and In n religious paper
published in Chicago there appears a review OK
James Whitcomb Riley's last volume in which the
poet is spoken OF twice as Mr.. Whitcomb"
1t isn't the biggest horn that makes the best
music
Starting to heaven on gravestone Is risky ous'
II you religion a cloak your soul may
freeze to DEATH =. a.
Perseverance accomplish wonders, put "
cannot make bad egg hatch. - ~.
Build fence anywhere. and the nrst poy VIM
comes along will want climb II. ,..
4 preacher with dyspepsia has 10 keep yer! c'os'
to the Lord to preach the gospel right ,,, -.
IL is hard 10 convince the young that lime "a~
not hung up his scythe and gone 10 sleep. .,.
Many n man fights for his creed who never 'h'hAs
OF carrying umbrella for his wife. -.
d n
cause there is handsome Bible on the par'or
table. ~, g.
1t won't do any good pray for the South sea
Islander as long you won't speak 10 the man
who lives In the next house.-(Rams Horn