New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-21
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

4 Louisville (KyD man. who says be never orihH~
tells of a farmer who has produced breed OF iui-
bearing chickens which sport In Ice water ana cacAte
brisky in the midst Of almost eternal snow. ms
WAS ACCOMPLISHED by skin-graftng a selected COCK
and hen with rabbit skim half an incn AT ''me
The process was painful. but succeeded adm!rap'y'
Eggs of the new breed sell rapidly at 81 20 Dozen
and are Matched out by ordinary hens VINO ih'arr
ably die Of fright upon perceivng the strange ap-
pearance of their offspring
Ought to Be Big Now.-The Colonel with ostenta-
tous modesty)-les' oid III" So"'e ~
Mrs Kaustlk who had heard ms tales 100 Tt,en
been growing ever since you Killed them'-tChicaso
Record.
Here are the names Of a few couples who nave
recently taken out marriage licenses IN Shicaso.
A. Staniewlcz and Stanls.awa Szynikiwicz, Aoet
schramm and Ida Eckmann. Charles Wik and Hill
ma Elm. Anton Iglinski and Branis.awa BanhicAA
Robert Split and Annie Kast.evy. JOSEF JasoaHn'a
ard AdnIe Czeszka Fred Bundy and Gusse bes-
fuss John He.frich and Viola Curtis. frAhcNSA'
santore and Morcano Maciewska.
A knife is being brought out in England which
Stamped in remarkably plain letters the rates for
letter and parcel postage BOOK ana iSrsis epsrams
The United States is large country, ous II wopa
seem that there could be spee,a, isrtions and N
some larger metropolitan districts timetables eouo
be Used with advantage.-tHardware'
The Birmingham CAla) Age-Herald' says thas
II the New-England cotton manufacturers go SCUM
IL will be because they see great Industrial POSSE
blites in the Cracker 1t says: The superior
inducements of the South. such cheap fuel. cheap
cotton low taxes, etc. is all myth. The Cracker
is the only attraction. Thus the Cracker, VINO mas
been the laughing stock OF the so-cslled arstoeras
OF the South is the humble instrument Of the sou'hs
redemption from the curse OF poverty. Inc usS
duckling has become the swan"
sHUFFLE-sHOoN AND AMBER LOCKS
ShuffieShoon and Amber Locks
Sit together building blocks;
Shuffie-Shoon is old and gray,
Amber Locks little child
But together at their play .
Age and Youth are reconcileo'
And with sympathetic gee
Build their castles fair TO see
~, When ss. grow Snt: 70 be Sr,,,n mar ran,
Il shall build a castle So,
With gateway broad ana granny y
Here a pretty vine snail grow.
There a soldier guard shall stanas
And the tower shall be SO high
Folks will wonder by-and-by'
shufie-Shoon quo,h: YES. know;
Thus | builded long ago.
Here a gate and there wall
Here a window. there door;
Here a steep.e wondrous tall
And The as ysars sf have mere isvelisa low
What bui.ded long ago.!
So they gossip at their play.
Needless Of the teeslng day;
Where his dead hopes buried lieS
one with chubby cheeks aglow
| Prattleth OF the By-and-By. -,
Side by side they build their blocks =
| Shuffie-Shoon and Amber Locks. ,.
| --(Eugene FfeiA
According 10 'rhe British Medical Journal the
rearing of fowls in Tunis. Italy, has been almost
abandoned. owing To the enormous mortality causca
by disease characterized In the formation OF iaise
! membranes In the throat Among persons atteho'ns
! TO fowls In Tun5 large number OF cases P's
senting symptoms OF diphtheria occur Lon
Ducloux have made meteorological eSami"s'
OF six such cases, and In child suffering i'o"'
| severe angina with false membranes. WHICH "e's
neither very thick nor very adherent they iou'N
the bacillus which they had observed III iows
child resided on a farm where the lows ' WV
suffering from dlphtherla for six months
! Rural Ijars-Old Inhabitant QoainG az re-
Roads grocery --Takn' about crop la, Ia, mn al tina
member "A time when people ha1 20 cav 40, ,bev had
| farm stock and then I'VE on '"e i''
| Older Inhabitant--Huh. That's notnin WY,
recoliect the time when PROVISIONS 80. 30, 81, shoot
,hat ina starvln farmers he'd 10 30 ou' a." s 49,
h Nm, With the wood from the No Trespass signs
| fNew-York Weekly.
"The Rochester Post-Express says 'ha' whe" W.
| University OF Chicago was opened two yeiis we.'
,ronossd for adopton as the official college ye'.
| The first which was adopted temporarily was
| follows; Chicago! Chicago! Chlcago' 10 IL Sne.
| 20 II Chica go II Chicago" The other. sugges'c'
| nv q Madison paper, was. ~. rah. ran! wee ~
| wssI Spare ribs. pork chopsl U u CT ---~