New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-09
TIE TALK or THE DAY.

visitor In Pass Christian Miss. the other day
heard some pistol-shots. and asked negro boy
what they meant oh" was the reply them
fellows dun be shootin TO hats" Shooting for
hats exclaimed the visitor, what on earth do
you mean?" Sure dere is muffin strange bout
dat; theys dom it ebry day. most When dc train
Is comm day jes fires dem shots when she gets
good on 10 de bridge. an dc men day sticks dere
heads out to what's up. an de wind jes' takes
dere hats off an drops EN- in de bay Den dey
rows around an picks 'em up. Sometimes dey
gets a lot Of em. Other day Josh Johnson got
scbcn." What does Josh Johnson do besides
shoot for hats" was asked. "Oh. he fishes an
does odd Jobs an lives"
OF course. It is an ingralned conservative, and
a cynic into the bargain. who asks: What Is the
difference between Mendelssohn and the average
give il up answers: zone composed songs with
out words, and the other composed songs without
music" and walks away chucklins.-(Boston
Transcript
THE Memphis Evening scimtar" doesn't like
the course of Professor McMaster in submitting
the manuscript OF his forthcoming school history
OF the United States TO committee Of members
Of the Grand Army of the Republic for their APP
prevail before venturng to place 1t in the printers
hands
A SERIOUS LOVE SPELL.
young lady sings in our choir,
Whose hair is the color of pholr
But her charm Is unique
She has such fair Clique,
IT is really JOY to be nhor
Whenever she looks down the aisle
She gives me beautiful smaisle
And of all of her beaux
| am certain she sheaux
She likes me the best all the whaise.
Last Sunday she new sacque
Low cut at the front and the bacque
And lovely bouquet
Worn in such cute wuet
AS only few girls have the knacque
Some dav ere she grows too antique.
In marriage her hand shall sique;
Which I'd greatly regruettc,
She shall share my six dollars wique.
Norwich On. " Telegraph.
Cincinnati will soon send a colored cadet TO An
napolis He is Richard Carlton Bundy, the son of
the Rev Charles Bundy. the presiding elder of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church for Gin
cinnat
of the bloodhound given at the little town of
Bronson in Allen County the other day; me town
for the purchase OF one of these animals the pur-
pose being the detection and capture OF thieves
who were operating In the ncighborhood. and test
Of the hound was considered desirable. At noon
three men started out on foot and walked four
miles into the country. Then trey mounted horses,
| and BY a circuitous route returned to the town.
Six hours later the hound was permitted to smell
glove which had been worn by one OF thc men ana
| the next instant. with deep howl, he caught up
the trail and followed 1t on the run At one point
and when the hound came 10 thls point ne carried
his nose along the rail with hardly any reduction
! of speed Coming to the place where the men had
mounted he took up the trail OF the horses and fol-
lowed II into town. where In a crowd OF more than
| one hundred men, he picked out the whose
glove had been given him to smcll-tkansas City
Journal
The following unique and pathetic advertisement
appears In The Dyersburg Tenn) Gazette: ION
I tuesday March ls, my dwelling house. thirteen
miles above Caruthersville. was washed from Its
foundation and noated down the Mississippi River
II IS a new two-story frame. painted white and
built In T shape with hall In the centre and a
two story front porch all the way across the build
ing 1t contained all my household and kitchen
furniture. including an organ with j. C. engraved
on the plate. The cook stove Is an od-fashioned
No range A Marlin rihe-sixteen shot, IS callbre
was also In the house. Any one knowing the
whereabouts OF this house will be rewarded by in
forming me at this place. j. l. Hopkins, Dyers-
burg. Tenn"
1t was evident that the gray haired old gentle:
man was put out about something. Yesterday"
he said. II heard YOU refer 70 me as the old
.'yVell don't like H." returned the old gentleman
81 suppose you meant nothing wrong but II Is dis
siderate with the boys In the office and | don't
like 10 be repaid In this way" did you ever know
of any one who was unpopular being called the
old mann asked the young man. Eth? What's
man is known through office Mister. isn't 1t
IA l0-to-l bet that he Is pretty generally dishked
or feared?' The old gentleman thought II over for
a minute Perhaps" he said. I'm view OF my
own recollectons OF an old man and how re-
garded him I'd better withdraw any objections to