New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-08
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.
A Philadelphia man named Button. who IL the
father OF six young children always SPEAKS OF
them as 1.-THE six button kids.

A PHILADELPHIA man named Button who Il the
father OF six young children. always SPEAKS OF
them as 1.-The six button kids"
Now. Robbie" said mamma just before the com.
pany sat down TO dinner Ky you b n'sheS
his first piece with much d tTTx 10 th
breath and smIe th Str dandy pe he
asked.-Oudge.
man in Morganown w Va. has engaged
lawyer I, secure damages for the loss OF passage
money paid by Jonah when thrown overooard ana
cared for by the whale. He traces his ancestry TO
Jonah and hopes to secure principal and Interest
Gotham-I see you've got new bell in the Brook
"GhurchHI should say had
Il understand the tone Is naturat ,,o,,,., .,
We'll believe some who live In the Vicinl,y OF
the civ Hall pronounce It d unnaturaL'-fon-
kers Statesman.
A Georgia paper the other day somewhat infe-
Iicitously remarked OF the late General Avery. OF
Atlanta that although he was great journalist
he WAS an ideal gentleman. This suggests 70
The Montgomery Advertiser the old story OF
tho editor and the barber on n steamboat when
the editor offered to pay for his shave the barber
drew himself up and remarked: I'VE don't never
charge editors nothln. sab" But you can't
carry on your business unless you charge for IT,,
persisted TIE editor Oats all right, sab, replied
the darkey. 1--WE makes It up onn gentlemen"
Mr.. Pompous, n P.-yog,d ike to be present se1.m at
III see il I can get an order for the gallery;
Mrs Tomkins-The gallery. indeed The Idea.
at all-CTit-Blis
In the course OF address in the First Unitarian
Church OF Oakland. Cal, the other day, Professor
David Starr Jordan gave Il rs his opinion that II
II Is right to execute a man for murder II Is
right TO hang an insane one. He held that 1t is
proper TO prevent a pauper insane person or GRIM
nal from reproducing his kind as It is to punish him
A Utopia, with all work equally divided. he declared
10 be an abomination. 1t would be cheaper for
San Francisco he said. to board its evil population
in the Palace Hotel than to have Tar Flat as 1t is
Joncs-say. some of these old maxms give me
pain. Now. there's that one about friend In
Smith-Well. what's wrong with that
one who wasn't In neej.-tChicago News.
Uruguay News referred to the assassination OF
President Borda In reporting It:
Murder.
Exit Borda.
Enter cuestas.
Lovely weather.
Last grandc: 5l02. Grand prize In lottery)
Colonel TuncZ dead.
.What policy will Cuestas follow?
Hard times come again more
"Expcctation is the order of the day.
"Counterfet ten-dolar bills in circulation.
I'VE are all wise after the event"
Dissatisfied Customer-All these garments seem
made for eight arod children. and this little girl
Is only six.
Anabo Shopgir-Yes'm. Eight-year-o,d girls are
very much more In style this year than they are
usually. -tChicago Tribune.
Chootaw politics are just so violent as to re-
quire military intervention. and a squad OF twenty
men has been sent to Tushkahoma to keep the
peace between the warning braves. Their differ
cnces are local. and concern tribal administr ton
and the confirmation rejection OF a treaty and
have limited interest for the world at large But
they fight them like the Tammany plug ugly
over n nomination Tho military detachment sent
10 keep them IN order Is not very numerous but
the moral influence OF the uniform on the Choctaw
mind Is considerable. and the regulative and re-
pressive squad will very likely do all that Is ex-
pccted OF IT, The tribe Is about TO sell It's res
ervaton and move to Mexico. after which 1t may
be hoped that our responsibility for ts private or
public conduct may expire by Limitation. and our
small army Of observation be relieved for service
elsewhere.
Evenly Divded-She had been scolding him for
something like twenty minutes. but she suddenly
stoppcd to inquire:
What YOU thinking about now?''
Il thinking that things pretty evenly
divided IN this world after ALL" he replied
I'm what way
"why. a man can make more noise than
woman whom he tries but he has nothing like her
endurance" Post.