New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-12
THE TALK or THE DAY.

| sports make me tired" said the man who cannot
| wheel. row play ball, but there is good
feature about them. The papers are not filled with
| ads about Cornell winning her races on the cele-
brated Whizzer 81 model she'll and all that sort Of
stuff"
| The Doctor-Mrs Brown has sent for to go
| His wife-what is the matter with the boy?
book What to Do Before the. Doctor Comes. .
and must hurry up before she does it.-(Medcal
| The motions OF the tongue palate and arynx in
| taking and singing may be investigated with the
aid OF rays. that an instructor In eocution or
| vocal music may the more readily detect and
| rect the errors CT his pupils. DR.. Max Scheer. 4
| German physician recently described his expert
ments in this field before congress Of medicine in
| Berlin.
Costly Plants suppose" said the amateur
plants in the world" II am not so sure of that"
replied Nj Dnwiddie. Il have seen the assertion
in this country. "-(Pittsburg Chronicle.
| Paw" said little boy reported by The Indian
| apolis Journal" what is a gentleman OF the old
SCHOOL," "Er-ah-he is one Of those fine, smooth
| shaven old gentlemen who think 1t awful that a
woman should know how TO repair punctured
tire, but Just perfectly lovely for her know how
| to fix a sewing machine"
A FIvE-ACT TRAGEDY.
l. Jones poisons his wifes cat
II. He processes deep sorrow at its disappear
i'll He offers a 80 reward for its recovery.
". Numerous animals are brought for inspec-
| V. Mrs. Jones Identifies one .:(Pck-Me-Up.
THE Louisville Courier Journal tells a story of a
| good old mother who received dreadful shock the
other day through a telegram from her boy, who is
| in this city enjoying himself. As enjoying ones self
sometimes money. 1t is not strange that the
| young man sent the following somewhat slangy
| dispatch for funds to his father: Had my
| leg pulled. Broke. Send me $50 by wire" When
| the mother read this appeal she was plunged In
| grief. MY poor boy!' she moaned. "He must have
| been In of those cable-car things. Send him
$780, ather and tell him get the best doctor In
| the city,
Declined With ThanksI"I have proposed to
seven girls ms summer alrcady, said Iitmm,n s
Dirged II am not beginning to feel like one OF my
| poems '-(lndianapois Journal.
! An evangelist named f. W. Sanford has estab-
| shed an institution at Durham, Me, to which he
has given the queer name of THE Holy Ghost and
Us Bible School" His followers believe that all
other Christians except themselves the
wrong road. Sanford casts out devils every day,
and claims to be in personal daily communication
with God.
Excited wifs-Oh, professor. the cook has fallen
and broken her collarbCne! oo, vo, ,o,, ,or
what to expect il she broke anything de
trolt Free Press.
Mr. Moody says that the three great temptations
assailing young to-day are the bicycle the
| uoley-car and the Sunday newspaper.
How happy is the bachelor!
How free from care MS Ire:
How much more best he really Is
Than II he had IA wife.
He has no dressmakers to pay.
And similarly he escapes
From many other Ills.
The pretty girls all smile him.
TO catch him II they cam
They'd pass him by with cold neglect
Were he married man.
oh, yes, indeed. the bachelors
And yet he's thinking constantly
-(Somerville Journal.
Apropos of the recent death OF Captain Boycott.
the fact is noted that the word boycott first came
irto use at the end of 1850. Thus In 1.-THE Daily
News" OF December 49, 1880. may be read: Already
the stoutest- hearted are yielding every side TO
the dread Of being Boycotted." At that time II
will be seen the word had still a capital letter and
was placed I'm inverted commas. Gradually these
marks of neoogism disappeared, and by 1886 The
New English Dictionary" recorded that the word
no longer required capital letter To boycott, 10
be boycotted. q boycott the boycott had all become
common forms In English The verb made the
tour OF the world and appears as boycotter In
French boycotten I'm Dutch. boycottiren In German.
and In Russian bokottrovat.
While standing top Of Lookout Mountain
few days ago | Was carried back TO memories of
dear old BIZ Nye. for we had stood upon ne same
toId Ms that we could see seven States from that
point Of view. where's North Carolina Nye IN.
the purple horizon What makes you think mat at
The direction and the conformation of the noun
tains there" the man replied We'll. ! know that
ia not North Carolina" Nye declared with some We
hemence and you would know II. too. u you
would stop to think. Here IL map OF the United
5ink Besides I know 1t is pink. live in that
State considerably. and I've helped to paint !, RED
fades ,e leaving pink Won No Ore s noy yHn o az
color blind man could see 10 purple" Nye said
those things so seriously that the man WAS almost
dazed lie gave Nye a puzzled look and then went
on pointing out other sisters In the late Confed-
eracy-(Chicag0 Times-iierald