New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-05
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

The title page Of Truth this week is embelshed
with striking picture, entitled The Love Letter:
Shall |, Shall Not?' 1t represents a beautiful
young woman standing by street letter-box and
holding in her hand a letter. The letter Is pre-
sumably sealed. and obviously stamped but quite
as obviously not addressed Whether the absence
of the address Is due to tho inadvertence of the
artist designed by him to indicate the abb
-mindedness Of lovers Is matter for interesting
speculation.
Little Margery has Just begun to go to the kim
HTrgafsem ana Is hed win due sense OF the
value Of the attainments that have thus been put
coming home from school. she remained in a
brown study for a time and then said: Mamma.
do know much now as don't know?'-(Bos-
ton Transcript.
In his lecture primitive Religious Express
sion" In New-Haven the other evening Professor
ID. G.. Brnton said that ceremonial law is found
exist in every tribe and is obeyed with
prtsing punctuality. 1t Is often absurd and ridicu-
lous but Is obeyed Just the Among certain
tribes II Is against this law to roast pig. only
boiling OF that animal being allowed; with other
tribes no fuel from two different species OF trees
may be used for tho same fire. and IN Kam-
tchatka q certain tribe has ceremonial law
which prohibits the scraping OF snow from the
boots with metal knife and another law which
threatens with boils any who kills very
young duck. It Is believed that punishment for
the individual. but upon his tribe Darwin found
very little religion among the Patagonians. but
the severest ceremonial laws in vogue.
NO" said the patient woman, with the aspect OF
h sSsn 1hSs G S to s 9 he
he believes his newspaper. "-(Cncinnati Enquirer.
According TO The Baltimore News" Mayor
Hooper has put 100 extra men TO cleaning the streets
without asking single. solitary question about
their views the tariff the financial question"
II Is such high handed this that plunge the
spoils politicians into the depths OF grief
Easterner-Are there many fourishing firms in
Boomtown?
Native-Wel guess. Poundext and Cutloose
Easterner-What is their line?
NatiyeIfoundtext is a preacher and marries peo-
pie. Cutloose Is "A lawyer and gets them divorces.
They divide the receipts.-(rruth.
1.-THE Philadelphia Times notes a curious
Incidence at quiet family hotel in Philadelphia.
One OF Its regular patrons is a man from dis
tant city, with the rather unusual name Of Beebe.
Sometimes his visits Il month apart; sometimes
only a week II happens. however. almost in
yariaby that whenever ne arrives another gentle
man named Beebe, from different city in an
other part of the country. comes and registers the
day. Sometimes one arrives hrst; some
times the other. They do not know each other
and have never seen each other but each has
noticed the coincidence and inquired about ii.
Sometimes one puts off an expected visit and then,
the visit Of the other There IL no doubt about
IL being a strange case OF continued condolences
and without any collision or generalization.
sbe-And did your friend take the doctors adj
vice?
He-Certainly.
And did he pay for IT.? ~
well | should rather say he did, Hes dead
-(Yonkers Statesman.
A Tennessee man accidentally shot a dog. and In
irving TO explain to the owner how It occurred acct
aentally shot him In further effort OF iilustra-
ton he accidentally shot the Coroner and is now
on bail trying to ind somebody TO whom he may
explain the latter occurrence.
The strinsency Of the regulations az TO immlgra-
ZION into the United States is once more reelected
I'm the return OF passengers debarked from Atlantic
liners AZ the port OF NewYork during the last year.
for while a few years ago. say In 1892, 10000 were
nled last year the total was S5 5l3. the decrease
heing most marked In Storage passengers. Fortu-
nately many OF the old emigrant steamers
nave been withdrawn-thus seventy-one "tramps'
crossed I'm 1898 and only thirty In 1896 that In
only $50 included In last years return: thus the
average number Of passengers per steamer IL ~
Il .ondon Engineering
An English coachman was asked to tie mp dog.
a nd resigned on the ground that II was the buffers
duty The butler declined and resigned, and after
six servants had left the Earl tied the dog up him
self
Billlngs-Comes now. do you really believe he mar
Holdman--To he sure. The kind OF love that the
Bible says Is the root Of all evil-lBost0n Tran
script