New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-30


"A gentleman who has lately become an inebrt
ate." edvertises for a home in THE London Lam
Get" He says he is eighty years OF age. and has
an income OF 80 a year
The editor of a newspaper that has adopted pho
netlc smelling In measure received pH Sch rsad
as follows: II hev TUX your paper for leven years
but II you kant spell emmy better than you have
been don' fur the las months. you may Jest
stoppt It'd Bits
It remained for the present Administration TO de-
termne the weigh,y question whether an artificial
leg attached It's owner and wearer is or Is not
subject 10 duty A sapient collector OF customs at
Ogdensburg assessed such member. coming into
the United States from Canada, SIS as a 'manu-
featured article" evidently laborng under the i'm
preston that an old soldier has rights which
this Administration is bound respect But he
has been overrued and the leg comes in free
He Found 1t Desirable-"Yes." said the patient
pedestrian Il find ii desirable walk 10 business
every day
~ method o. pFOonging l!fe"
1T ISN'T that The only road I take 10
trolley road" -(Washington Star.
The Philadelphia Record" says that the sparrows
lost one OF their best friends when Mrs Mary Jane
Reed the mother OF Roland Reed. the actor. passed
away. AS long the neghbors can remember, II
was one Of the first OF Mrs. Reeds daily habits TO
come out early in the morning on the narrow side
walk in front OF her house. and break a LOAF or
bread scattering its parts. so that hundreds OF
sparrows could enjoy a good meal The birds came
every morning. their numbers increasing every day,
and they never failed 10 find the loaf OF bread
prepared for them by the knd-hearted old woman.
A Month after the Elopement.-she-I got letter
from papa to-day. saying that ne mad mace MI
He-Do we come in anywhere?
She-Not directly, but he has left all his money 10
asylum FOR idiots indianapolis Journal
al from
the Carlisle Penn. Indian School writes 10 the
school as follows: Il was expected 10 come home
and go to the dogs. but | have kept my promise
with captain and bracei up Ike a man, faced al
the temptations and resisted all. am working
in n large store bookkeeper and assistant post
master When made up my mind 70 be man,
made 1t up for good-'to quit you like a man. all
my wickedness and vice and stand the contest OK
the battle OF he alone and win 1t II there was me
least chance OF It, only wish | could come back
there 10 make the place short visit'
and I may some day had to pay my own way to
Carlisle and back. out OF my own pocket, and
don't regret II bit, either"
An odd circumstance happened once at VIM
chester; As DR.; Wilson was one Sunday morning
heard a woman cry: "Mackerel, All alive. all alive,
Se ef i the the sa ma
eth away from his wickedness and doeih that wnicn
OH These last words the doctor proclaimed aloud
In the true tone OF the hshwoman, TO the great
was SO studtous and absent that he knew not what
he had done.-tHousehold Words
A correspondent OF THE Boston Herald recalls
the origin OF the word lingo" now widely used
both sides of the Atlantic Some years ago. NJ
the time OF the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria $50
wildly described and so vigorously reprobated by
Mr. Gadstone). the adyslbiity or English inter-
ventlon was agltatcd by large war party. whose
members were OF all shades OF political opinion ana
joined forces Only on this point. There is no
public question In England that does not sooner Or
later get into the songs In the music halls. and 50
OF the popular singers OF the day wfo's
a dlt,y with these lines for chorus;
We don't wan, 10 fight but. by jngo II we 90;
We've got the men we've got the SHIPS we've so'
the money. too
This song was received by the patrons or 'n'
music halls with every demonstration OF eh'hus'
asm and the refrain quickly found its way INTO
the NEWSPAPERS An anti-interventonst Journal oae
morning contemptuousy referred editorlaliy 10 'ne
extremists as "jingols;s." The word was not l'"s
afterward heard the floor Of the House OF Com.
mons and quickly thereafter took IT, place III '.0
popular vocabulary. being presently s'M9hheul '"'~
LIMOGES"
A novel feature which It is stated has mas, 'a Yorkk
road Inc has done much to increase me po'uAfew
OF the excursions on tsat particusa atad trolley
cars was speeding on, the road the sten s,,,sr
voice OF the conductor rang out aposy .ne ninutes
and laughter OF the merry making lniee a"rbough
in a tunnel" the conductor sang ou' anu aandnctor
there are no tunnels on the road me x0i,'S down
gave a very good imitation OF one oy pu' mn down
the trolley pole and leaving the car 10 ru II only
one OF the long hills in utter darkness men in the
took about ten seconds for the YOUNG M M ha, for
party size up the situation. ara IL - manv un-
the next few minutes there were 80, 80 "nsapoerons
mistakable sounds OF kissing that thc vn,pprman
OF the party moved TO call upon me t,nneI"
10 put on full speed and get OUT OF 'ne ,ha foot
lust nj this minute the car arrived az nv .r.Iev-
OF the HILL and the conductor replaced ne uod is
pole The sudden reappearahce OF tne nsn.s on
closed two or three "huggne bees n p'v * ans
every seat. which apparently justified ne sr
picions entertained by the chaperons;; 49, nownanv
has been besesed BY applications from excn ,bntm
parties anxious to 90 over the "tuhne' 'S~'
-(Phtladelphia Record