New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-18
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

NV friends" said Kansas clergyman the Other
day 'If God should throw an X-ray on your Souls.
what strange things would be revealed
Her Method-"Miss Girlygirl, why have you put
because am determined that critic shall bs
able to say that my work REMINDS MIN o. He''ss
Eliot."-(Chicago RECORD
Speaking OF woman In the professions writer IN
THE Congregationalist' says: The advance In
medicine may be gagged by few salient facts
When Harriet Ifosmer. sculptor OF whom Massa'
chusetts Is Justly proud, wished TO study anatomy
she knocked in vain at the doors OF ned'
ical colleges In New-England and New-fork
Crossing the Mississippi she went TO Dr. NC
Dowell. dean OF the Medical College In st.
Louis, who said to her, with true Southern
chvalry: You shall study anatomy In my college
and if anybody intereferes with you he will inter.
fere with me first Yet in her own State, not long
after. the first medical school in the world for women
opened. This was in Boston. November !. lsi~
with twelve students. In the same city to-day are
two hospitals. the New England Hospital for Women
and Children and the Vincent Memorial Hospital
which were started and are managed by women"
Specific Drectlons.-"I don't think you quite
ager to the leading lady. You know that eighteen
years supposed 10 have elapsed between the
first and second acts
wei. you should look older after that time"
II suppose II have TO. =
And youngef.'-Cndianapoi polls Journal
Captain John A. Dube, an old Mississippi steama
boat man. tells The Washington Post" a story Of
a game OF cards played by cotton broker named
Weed during the war. He boarded my boat" no
says "at Cairo after ne had made successful trip
or a cargo OF cotton for the landing. lie placed In
the clerks office of the boat box about the size Of
a candle box. but securely nailed and strapped
with iron bands Weed hailed me as was passing
through the cabin Captain said he. send me
boy and your carpenter When they on hand
he told the boy to bring the box out and the car.
penter 20 open It, 1t was full of crisp greenbacka
Then he proceeded to run up against the game Of
gang OF old river sharks. and by the time We got
down stream he did not have a dollar. He told me
he lost 100000 between ST. Louis and New-Oreans
The last time saw Weed he was river reporter In
New-Orleans. and he seemed perfectly happy -
though he still had his $500, OO0"
What She D:scovered.-"Charey is SO tender.
hearted" said young Mrs. Torkins TO her husbands
friend.
Il: he?
heard him tell somebody who had walked that
far with him that the kitty was doing we'll Just
think OF man as busy he is taking much
interest in poor dumb animal'-(Wa shington
Star.
There is new Irish member OF Parliament from
the rural districts whose artless simplicity is the
theme OF many stories in the London papers The
first time he heard the time honored cry Of the
mination OF a sitting. he exclaimed in astonshment
10 brother-Celt: well. did you ever see such i'm.
pudence az that? What business is II Of those fol.
lows who goes homer" But he eclipsed this per.
Torrance when he aghted on the formal an.
nouncement Of the severance OF Mr.. Sections con.
necton with the House. which was published In the
customary form-namely. that the gentleman il
question had been appointed steward and baif Of
one Of Her MaJesty's manors The innocent Hiber.
MAN pointed this out with great concern and
gravity to a brother-member. saying: Who'd
have thought that Tom Sexton would have sunk
low as to take a billet like that-and from q Tory
Government. too?"
Are you glad to see me- GIadys?" asked Philip.
weeks with broken arm.
be sa he hy sns a you AZ: Are @ The
pressure Of his arm about her slender waist
The Chicago Record" gives the following fancy
picture Of "favorte son" comforting with his
Rotary:
Have you made the daily announcement Of my
candidacy because Of a popular pressure similar -
the movement OF comet7
"Yes, SIR"
Have you Withdrawn the announcements
Yes. sir
Have you then reafirmed itr'
II have"
Have you modestiy revoked the reafnrmation n
my name?"
"It has been done"
Have you decided that. on tho whole can.
not. In duty to the State. whose favorite son am.
refuse to make the racer
THAT has been attended to-"
Coupled with a statement that my own personal
desire 10 to keep out OF the turmoil and thai
after all. my name will not be presentedr
Yes, sir"
Then We will take ay-o6 until tomorrow.
and will go somewhere and denounce Mckinley
tho holltU .Ao
Not Called On to Clear 1t Up-Great rocks nov
barred the passage Of Hannibal and his army
across the Alps.
1--WE Will split those rocks" announced Hannibal
'by heating them red-hot and pouring vinegar upon
them"
engineers, obviously, but II will take millions Of
gallons OF vinegar. Where are we to get II"
That" replied the great Carthagnian General
cycling him coidly, I've win leave TO the writer's
OF future school histories e sxplaln. "-(chlsaee
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