The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-03-20

the New EnglanderS pi"sS" y" N"S"
southern brethren q nd dearly has the
South paid for it's tdunder'
Colonel A. X. SIC ciure. the veteran
editor OF the PhiladeI Mia Times has ac-
cepted an invitation to. visit Mobile. Biz
rningham and other Southern cities. the
latter part OF March al 'd make addresses
On Southern developn ient. Why not
make an effort to have him INCLUDE RICH
mond in his itinerary? our people would
hear him with pleasure nd proht-
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The Buffalo Times sugg ests that we re-
christen the Amazonas. Buffalo. Why
not take the Abreuall 70 thai city?
When asked for his fav orite source of
amusement. Howells replied significantly:
IT have written seventy books but peo-
ple will continue TO wonder what he does
with most OF his time.
Mosnuitoes have already appe AIRED in
New Jersey, and the coast defen'es there
are now regarded as tolerably sufficient.
Love. Sunshine & Co, is the name of
firm of wholesale grocers in 10 hnstown.
Pa. but they have sprung up there since
the food.
The Baltimore American says: Three
weeks more will wind up the Legislature"
Unwind it. perhaps.
The poet in the London Spectator who
sings "And I try TO remember the future"
must have been on a terrible spree the
night before.
The war bulletins will soon be in second
place, with the score card strong first.
It has not been decided to man the
Amazonas by a company of Amazons.
Tucker-I see from the reports that "the
senators listened with baited breath to
Senator Proctor's report.
Hawkins-why did they sit with "baited
breath?"
Tucker-I don't know. unless 1t was to
catch his remarks.
weyler is laying himself liable to the
charge Of being a base plagiarism OF Billy
Mason.
Queen victoria's physician is dead
Everything points to a further wait for
the Prince of Wales.
Bread riots in Spain will probably cause
them to reflect upon the grandeur OF one
Joe Letter, who has 100000 bushels of
wheat.
Buffalo Bill wants to fight Spain. Well.
Spain would have no show to beat him.
Jekyll Island has turned in n hurry call
for adequate coast defence. This island
or the coast Of Georgia. Is owned by
the millionaires who are periodically sell
ing their steam Yachts to the Government.
and. as they have nothing but rocks. they
might throw up a few coast defences
themselves.
A Maryland fruit grower has raised a
crop of peaches without fuzz, but none
of them has ever raised one without a
few frost stories.
Debs advises his followers to Read.
study. think. vote" but he fails to pro-
vide an hour or so for honest labor.
An exchange says the Iowa Legislature
has passed a bill to regulate barbering.
Probably prohibiting them from cutting
prices.
The organ grinder is at his monkey
business again.
From the condition Of the sidewalks in
some localities. it would seem as If they
had also been paved with good resolu-
tons.
That Indiana man who bottles sunshine
might take a few orders from some Of
the candidates at the late primary.
Governor Tyler will go aboard the war
ship Chesapeake. Of the Virginia navy, to-
morrow, but this does not necessarily
mean war.
The poem ON the launching OF the bat
tleships at Newport News is about due.
a Philadelphia lawyer might be able to
settle the status of the City Attorneyship.
Interminable
Clara-I thought he would never kiss
me.
How long did you have to waltz"
Fully five minutes" - Detroit Free
Press.
Saved.
She threw the fellow overheard,
And never saw him more
She thought he would swim back 10 her.
But instead he swan ashore.
Detroit Journal.
Wanted il All.
ooh, she's a selfish thing"
"No?"
Why. ] believe she's selfish enough 10
wear spikes in her shoes at bargain
sale"-Life.