New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A Scotch newspaper refers 10 Mrs Lease OK
Kansas. as zone of those strange men. found ire
ouently in America who write under FEMININE
nom de plume
Have you finished your story Mr. serieant
nges asked t Mr. seriesnt sat down in the court
after an elaborate speech to the JUDGES na's:
WAS the the Sue ser IeRs noied
peacock. you can unfold your tale."-'househo'd
Words.
Those who visited the Worlds Fair and Inspected
th. brick battleship exhibition will read with In
terest this ironica poem about II in the Snicaso
Tribune:
THE OLD BATTLE-sHIP ILLINOIS.
Ay. tear her lath and plaster loose.
Rip OFF her plates OF tin. ,,,
Knock In her brick ana mortar nun
And let the daylight in.
No more with stern and warlike mien
Shall Neptunes gallant sons
Her grim sheet-iron turrets guard
Or clean her wooden guns
Marines no more shall her decks
WIN , ginger r, beer ssr and sb6rs ea sSa loo,
The dummy OF the lakes
Oh better that her battered hulk
BE dumped in some deep spo,S, Mia.
And rot. and rot, and rot!
Turn loose the wreckers the wreck.
Break up the rank old ark.
Disngure Jackson Park.
n
OF 500 for calling a brother editor a Methodist
The pub,ic's own Observation-Disclosures are
so common nowadays. l suppose. that nobody pays
Bizmog~Thats just it. People pay attention
10 them, and then they denounce thu bcyclists for
running them down.-(Roxbury Mass Gazette.
"Im endeavorng to become quite English" writes
a Boston man In London because It will save me
from the tips OF the first magnitude which servants
expect from Americans. l have mounted per-
fectly hdeous Derby. carry my right glove IN
my left gloved hand and swing a walking-stick in
my right. | wear English collar. and an Eng
lsh scarf with an English pin in it: my English
cuffs are spacious. am having more clothes made
at the Prince OF Wales's tailor's. And when 90
outside the hotel-t is directly opposite the Alb
! bey-the first cabman up says Driven many Amer
lean gentlemen. sir; know where they want TO so.
sir" Such is the vanity OF ambition
The little girls OF Boston reported to be over;
in a tramcar her age. with a view to half. fare
for children Whereupon the premature little darn.
| sci murmured. III you don't object. conductor III
prefer to pay full fare and keep my own statistics
| -(Soston Home Journal
The following were the rates OF postage in this
country in the year 1900: Every letter composed Of
single sheet OF paper conveyed not exceeding
| forty miles. cents: over forty miles and not ex-
ceeding 100 miles. l2ia cents: over $50 and not ex-
ceeding 800 miles. Il cents over 300 niles and not
| exceeding coo miles 70 cents 800 miles. - cents.
Every letter composed OF two pieces OF paper, double
those rates: every letter composed OF three pieces
OF paper triple those rates; every letter composed
OF four pieces OF paper weighing one ounce. quad
ripple those and at the rate OF four single let
tcrs for each ounce any letter packet may weigh
every ship letter originally received at office for
| delivery. with cents
| His way-"A statesmans motto" said tho
earnest patriot. should always be. BE sure you're
right. and then 40 ahead
Maybe So" replied Senator Sorghum. thought
| fully: But that's not my platform
Go right ahead and square It afterward.' 60
There will soon be established in Detroit the
largest salt factory In the world. THE water Of
the Detroit River" says OF the prime movers
In the enterprise. us especially adapted our pur
poses. being chemically pure. The chemical ele-
| ments which obtain In Lake Huron and the st.
Clair River. and handicap tho salt works OF that
district are entirely eliminated by passing through
Lake st. Clair. That body OF water Is an i'm
mense settling basin. and the water comes out
| pure. An inexhaustible supply OF rock salt 10
found here nj depth OF from six hundred to nine
hundred feet. our process IL to pump water into
wells and force the salt out In the form OF brine.
The brine Is reduced TO crystals by the direct heat
process. and from the crystal form Is manufactured
into the finest table salt The refuse Is used for
| fertilzing purposes"
A Kind Heart-Mrs Kndlie (reading letter.
MY goodness' Aunt Hetty. your great-aunt. you
paughter-Yss ma
You are younger than am. dear. Hurry up
TO the attic and bring down that green pasteboard
box lyins among tho old clothes and things in the
There are two green boxes there Which do
Bring the one with those outlandish Christmas
Inc psrior taSle"~tSs%.YorK weekly. PUT them %