New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-24

Imagine NIascagni's surprise when on the following
b bai,ss With placard on the organ en- which was
Inscribed in large letters: Pupil of Mascagn."
|
THE TALK or THE DAY.
Nashville. Tenn. claims to be the first city in
the world for hardwood lumber, and the largest
milling city Of the South.
Slug One--An't there copyright law in this
country -
Slug Seven-Of course there is Why?
Slug One-Nothin. only wish So me one would
had his copy. right only about three times In SIX
weeks an T.. blamed lam 4 Hn o sfn tired OF cor
Japan claims to have banking -house that has
been doing business without a break for more than
800 years
most OF the great Inventions OF the world con-
She-Oh they are driven to nventng. They
haven't any hairpins to do things with.-dndanapo-
lis journal.
william H. Seward secretary OF the Master
Builders Association OF Boston. thinks that the
best thing to be done with the Old State House 70
to pull it down and give poseriy chance to
what DO in putting up handsome and
substantial public structures They didn't begin to
know 100 years ago what do about construc-
ton"
WEATHER JINGLE
The sparrow he keeps hdin' oct.
The possums layin loa;
The rabbit, he will frisk about
And track up all the snow.
Ketch him Tiger kech him!
Fling him high and hat;
Rabbit. fine and fat!
The doves are mOpins in the wood
The raccoons In the ''holier;
The cold it makes the possum good
He's worth d half a dollar
Ke,ch him. Tiger keich him.
Find where's he's at;
Postum, fine ana ,ai e, c,..,,,,.,,,
The Medical Press tells story OF gentleman
who went 70 visit a friend who an inmate Of .
lunatic asylum when he had been there about
half hour he looked the clock and asked II It
right. The lunsc gazed at him with a look
of compassion for "A minute or so. and then said:
do YOU think it would be here il it right you
lunatic?"
one Way Out-sweet Glrl-Oh papa. have found
a way for you To escape the income tax
sweet Giri~Ycs. have You give half your
stocks Mr.. Sllmpurse, and then III marry Mr..
Smuie and * al ths Money wS % s Se keP CENT
-(NewYork Weekly.
"A hoary-headed joke" says The London Chris
tan World" has repeated Itself in connection
with the Laud celebration. North Country gen.
tleman to the celebration because. he told his
friends, he thought Laud must have been a good
man. or King David would never have commended
him in the Hundredth Psalm. wherein In the inetr-
ca. version he sang In the North nearly every Sun
day. Praise Laud, and bless his name Away.
Here are schoolboy answers 70 examina-
ton questions: "A point" boy is
that which will not appear any bigger even M II
cannot inclose a space unless they crooked,
said another who may have mad IRISH blood IN NJ;
at the far end OF intnity, Is equal TO some poetry
Things which are impossible are equal 70 p o, s sn
acty mathematical-(iivin Church
at is not generally known" says THE Phladei-
pha Record" but 1t is fact of history. neverihe
less that Bristol Township lying on the east size Oh
Germantown had a very narrow escape from being
selected as the site OF the capital OF the United
States. 1t very small matter that turned the
choice toward Maryland and Virginia. So positive
were some members of Congress that the capitai
was going to he located near Germantown that
they purchased real estate there not OF course as
a matter OF speculation but simply to be near at
hand when the removal from Philadelphia to Bristol
took place When the vote of the Commissioners
was taken there was tie, four peihg tor nrS'o'
and four for the District of Columbia washington
cast the deciding vote. and Bristol Township was
left out in the cold
The War Eagle, of Biddeford, H. his patriotic
1--WE ought to have the money here that was sunk
beyond the Mississippi IN the coal ana IRON mines
grass in South Dakota. Q.aughter) / won't say
that did get caught once. for | did, about
ago. when a man was here In the interest or
gold mine In Montana. | took some stock and have
not seen the since. daughter and applauseD
Later a young entered my office with
prospectus of gold mine. and when had examiner
II. as far | could see he was trying to sell me
stock Of gold mine on top of the one ! had
recently become so interested In. aughterp-tLewls-
ton tMe) Journa..
Bishop Fallows. Reformed Episcopal, OF chicago
has opened a church saloon" In that city, though
he calls II a salon to wound the sus-
capabilities OF religious people. He offers free
lunches. music by concertna player and beer
In regard the latter he makes the following ex-
planation This drink will be made OF hops
and mat and will be charged with carbonic scid
gas Ii VIII look like beer. foam like beer. taste Ike
beer and smell like beer A beer-drnker might
drink II all day and never know he had not been
drinking beer" With such inducements ne hopes
to catch as many old topers the salon VIII
hold But others are not hopeful. 1.-THE Chicago
DISPATCH says that old-tmer who sampled the
stun declares that 1t tasted like dishwater that
had been frozen and thawed out. with dash OF
cider favored with sarsaparila and iemon-peeL
any OF you quote verse from Scrlp'uIe " P'yys
that II Is wrong for man to have TWO YVES ,nv
raised his hand well. Thomas. said the ieacner,
encouragingly Thomas stood up anu saln'
man can serve two masters The question e"os~
there-(Boston Home Journal.