New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

An Atlanta man has Just received the following
letter from his brother, who IS In the Klondke:
Dear Jim: Stay where you air. I'm sorry I
ever come here At this wrltln' my hat IS froze
to my head, an II to go in church couldn't
| pull It of. My boots is likewise. Two weeks ago
I lost tho big toe what chopped with when
! | a boy. Please send me good wooden
| leg Oeft leg), l expect to have leg sawed off
next week Jim. sell my mules an the oxen, an
send money enough TO get home on. I'm
uredr'
Times Changes. I;Whrers-1AAh, How de DO do?
said you were going back 10 your native town to
hunt up your first love, from whom you parted
about, You know Did you ind her?
Differs Csady)-Y-e-s She's drawing $50 week
GNew-York Weekly.
This is the composition OF Georgia boy the
Legislature:
The Georgia Legislature has Done met. My
Pa was a Georgia legislator. lie says he worked
Hard don't suppose they pay legislators any
| thing. Pa always came homo dead broke. Pa
SAYS he workln FOR the People. wish the
People would take up a subscription for him"
Here" cried the managing editor, what does
this mean? The account OF this mans death Is
headed Gathered to His Feathers, This kind of
! prOOfreading has got TO stop. Gathered TO His
Feathers" why, The man who let that slip must
Joke Foldng-bed accident, you know."-(Chl-
cago News.
A restaurant-keeper IN the Jeco and Coat Creek
country. Of Kentucky. has the following business
card:
twenty-five cents m Eats cents a sleep. The
Edwards House. T. ". Edwards Proprietor, Coal
Creek Tenn Directly opposite r. Il. depot. Not
the largest hotel In the berg. Not newly furnished
! throughout No FREQ bus TO trains. Not the best
grub tho marke, affords. But simply clean beds
and something good to eat. Toothplcks and ice
water thrown in. Try us, Pay up. And II not
satisfied keep mum our city Is composed mostly
OF hogs. dlggers. merchants and lawyers. named In
tho order Of their Importance, Good cross-tie
walks on all the principal thoroughfares."
But surely" said, more men apply to you for
work than you possibly employ"
He looked at me with some wonder at my ignor-
ance For long time have been looking for
l can't do tho work that once did; and II could
and and py h Foo keep ha the t
fellows 20 10 the cities. and tho rest are mostly a
wHcn haven't a Job for any decent man who'll
ask for IT, l have TO go looking FOR men, and then
walter A. Wyckor in "scribners."
Tho Rev Mr.. Gilhnm. OF Mintonve, Ky. has
been trying to deprive his people, OF some of their
religious soace, in consequence OF which they have
risen up against him. Tho other Sunday he
preached n sermon in which he affirmed that there
! is no devil. The congregation took offence. and
/ when tho reverend gentleman attempted 10 speak
again he was elected from the house and about
twenty pistol shots fred after him
Politics and Grls-"In politics" remarked the OBJ
server OF men and things. you find the gang and
| lattcr don't, being respectively analogous. in
way e the girls w wSeS Say second ana e
! ice-cream Is suggested. "-(Detroit Journal.
In tearing up n siding on the stratsvllle dlvl-
sion OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the other
day the section men discovered that several of the
rails had been mado In 1859. Subsequent investiga'
! ton revealed tho fact that these rails were part
of n lot that were bought In England during tho
war at n cost of si25 per ton in gold The rails
were stlll In very fair condition and for light mo-
| tive power would last ten years longer.
Adolphus Burlington (pleadingly)--Dont be cruel
| and hard hearted. Colonel. Give me your daugh-
ers hand and | promise she shall never be sep
Colonel BIuntiy~Thats precisely why object to
the marriage Detroit Free Press.
A Glasgow scientist. who visited Canada few
years ago. made trip through Alberta, one OF tho
Northwest Territories OF Canada. and spent some
time as the guest OF ranChcr Il fixed him up
az well rs | could" the rancher relates, "but he
| complained that he did not like sleeping with his
clothes on So after the first night stretched n
cowskln across the shack. and told him he might
undress II he liked. He took off most OF his gar
mcnts and put n long white night dress III
the morning my foreman came In while the gentle
ma was st sleeping. Observing the white night
dress he said, in n whisper, Rather sudden-ehE
What? / asked The hoof the old man
He's not dead-hes asleep. | exclaimed. 'Iheh
what's he wearn' them billed clothes for? was
the reply. Never a chap laid out IN plled
clothes afore. cept he were dead"
This story Is told on n brakeman OH CERTAIN"
road coming to Atlanta: ..w.,r ..a
lie discovered q tramp asleep In poNcaT dhu'
entering the car ordered him out ,
The tramp slowly raised his head anu III u weak
voice said. IT., .... u.
Gods sake let me die In peace! .., .
The brakeman Jumped twenty Feet IN gettinB out
OF the car. but he shouted 10 the SICK man "s 'he
freight moved off: ,, ,,.o..o cor
stitutlon.
Benin CITY on the west coast OF Africa, which
only a few months ago. before the British captured
II wos known as the City OF Blood, Is now law
abiding and civilized II has n British resldency.
a council of chiefs, "A regular postal service and
golf links.
Mrs Gabb (hosiess)-Y Your little son does not APP
pear 10 have much appetite
Mrs Gadd-No. he Is quite delicate -
Mrs Gabb-Can't you think Of anything you would
like. my little men? -
pig Of mysSH.-iNSw.York Weekly.