New-York tribune., 1898-10-29
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The advocates OF total abstinence" says THE
Sailors Magazine" object to the breaking of a
bottle Of wine on a vessel when 1t Is launched and
Christians object 20 the form Of words which i'm
plies its baptism christening. when 1t is named
The bottle breaking is silly. and the christening
Is the PROCLAMATION Of q church sacrament. What Is
required for the abolition OF the custom? First
that II should be recognized irrelevant and alb
surd. and. second. that some appropriate ceremony
should take its place What shall that ceremony
be?'
Come, boys. let us go t9-day and pay our poll
some % real estate agent and Buy us LOT and build
us house. and then we will be citizens. oh. no.
that's wha some Old monkey will say and when
he marrics he will be moving on a wheclbarrow by
night-tDelta Miss Lighthouse.
IIarper's Bazaar calls attention to the military
tone Of some new dances this winter. cotillon
Is named after Admiral Dewey. In this dance
after marching and countermarching. the lines OF
opposing dancers carry on brisk battle with
confetti whose colored paper ribbons fairly enmesh
the company in a great ranbow-like web There
are stu other military hgures-the Charge of tho
Light Brigade. the Stars and Stripes and the Inn
perial Guards The Cadet Lancers instead Of
lelng danced I'm squares becomes really diagonal
dance. with resulting figures In the shape of ri-
angles and stars.
outside the Convention IIall-Bangs-H they
applauded,
probably
is telling them what Intelligen-looklng men they
are.-(BostOn transcript
THE Buffalo Commercial" says that a guest OF "A
Buffalo hotel was recently approached at table by
a waitress who said In n confidential manner: Mr..
Blank! Are you relative OF Admiral Blank
We'll yes" said Blank. modestly. "IIe used to
be my brother" a sympathetic CLEAN flashed
from the madens eye My mothers second
cousin to Dewey" she whispered.
and his wife? thought she was the light OF his
Jolydog-so she was but she went out too much.
-(Philadelphia North American
Mr. McNchol the general traffic manager of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. estimates that fifty
thousand people have gone TO the Klondike this
season and that twenty thousand OF them VIII
return 10 their homes without reaching the gold
fields Each man carried with him an OUTFIT cost
ING several hundred dollars. and his travelling ex-
penses were not less than $3.50 or $500, making
total average expenditure OF not less than 5000 or
a total investment Of s3o0O0o00 in pursuit Of
the phantom. Thus far less than onehfth az
much has been brought away. taking the miners
own statements as correct
What Else Could He Think? Mr.. Pltt-What do
MIR Penn-What do think Of the fiourmill trust?
II is grinding monopoly. OF course.-(Pittsburg
Chronicle
In Switzerland II a child does not attend school
on n particular dav the parent gets notice from
the nublic authority that he Is fined 80 many
,r,,cs. the second day the fine Is increased and
hv the third day the amount becomes a serious
one In case OF sickness the pupil Is excused. but
- thcre be any suspicion OF shamming doctor is
sept II the suspicion is discovered to be well
founded the parent IL required to pay the cost OF
the doctors visit
,,o-Old slle narrower may be hayseed. but
- mat cute 'nough skin them city sportSmen
who was shootin' round his place yesterday
III ICED them feIlers pullln' fer the train In the
evenin' with three or four ducks apiece, an he up
an made 'em poney up 10 TOT shonth ot EN-.
"ia,nin' they was hisn An the feilers left the
ducks behind. too"
''shoo Sile never raised no ducks.
..'('otirse not"
Whose was they them -
..Nobody's They was wild ones. all right, but
s,l. calkiated them felisrs wouldn't know the
diff rencs."-llfA