New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-16
Uncle JOSHS TRIP.

Get out my store clothes, Mar,hy Jane!
put taller my boots
ri wear that blue necktie again
Which my complexion SUITS.
An brush my hair back pompydore'
An comb my whiskers, too
I'm off fer Washintton n,,1 fer shore
To see Mckinley through.
THE Bugville Buge" says as how
A mighty host will go
To Washin'ton 10 raise row
Voted fer the ticket. an
II .horcly wouldn't do
II want thar to take nan
An see Mckinley through!
I'm s,artin' mighty airy so
I'll he thar II Bill wants 10 know
My views on fairs OF state
An then gee whlz; the taverns may
BE crowded. so ~ do
To see Mckinley through.
What's tina, you're sa .Iip;, Mar'hy 'ane'
ua ane pnf these store clothes back again!
Git me my glasses, quick; ,
WARS them condition powders?-say'
I'll tell YOU what I'll DO
RI let McK lex ns,yd CO. ,h nm, stay
S'e o'' ''''' baltimore News.
"The Selma (Ala) Journal reports debate at
meeting of the City Executive Committee of Selma
which indicates surprising ignorance concerning the
date of Washngton's Birthday. Mr.. Hayward.
saws the report, Offered as substitute to Mr.
Uooper's amendment that the date be March 4, Tor
said he II Is Washington's Birthday holiday, and
would
The members OF the committee agreed that Wash
inrtons Blrthday would be appropriately celebrated
by the holding OF a Democratic primary election and
March was settled upon the day.
Mrs Dc Form-Now tina, baby Is three weeks Old
John we must send out his cards to let folks know
the dear little fellow has hasa arrived dear don't
Won think he'll make the announcement himself
philadelphia North American.
When they cry wolf In the Government or sara
tof Russia II means something. During the last
two years the wolves there have devoured. accord
ing 10 the official returns HOO horses. 10000 horned
cattle. $1,000 sheep, 500 swine. 1000 dogs and 49,
900 fowl They have also during the same period
attacked sixty-elght persons devouring two on the
spot and infictng fatal wounds on twelve others.
In France il is estimated that 100000 OF these ami
mails exist and the damage inflicted by them Is
set down AZ about 100000 francs annually. a
regular body OF men, numbering over 1000 called
the Louveterie, Is maintained to keep down wild
boasts and the force has a certain efficiency. but Is
unequal TO keeping the country clear or them
From time 10 time high bountes for wolf scalps
have been paid as much as 200 francs In the case
OF a known n-eater. dreaded there as the man
eating tiger IL In the Iindoo villages: but the ami
NAL Is never extirpated In some years his ravage
Is greater and In others less but he Is always
In evidence In this country he has been pretty
well put down In the inhabited parts. a few days
ago a prodigious wof-drive was set on foot In
AtchIson County. Kan. five square miles being
covered and 700 persons participating. They round
ed up 20 Jack rabbits. but not single wolf. Con-
sdcring his fierce and predatory character abroad
and his resistance TO all efforts to destroy him. the
American animal must be set down as rather a
meritorious creature easily amenable to extinction
and not 80 desperately destructive. even where II
continues to maintain foothold
Hollis 'ss-Did you hear that Rood had put up a
.02- pound dumbbell?
Uemenway S9-You don't say so! Can't bor-
row something on our tennis racquets?-( boston
Commercial Bulletin.