New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-05
THE TALK or THE DAY.

A Young woman was arrested in Vienna the
other day for trying to climb church steeple. She
said that she wanted to place flag between the
two be.fries. that everybody could see IL She
expected that II the Emperor told that a
woman had put It there he would want TO ace her.
and he would then be anxious TO grant her wish.
This was to get her grandfather admitted as one
Of the twelve old men at the next annual feet-
washing at the Burg Palace on the Thursday be-
fore Easter.
The bucolic republic OF Washington and Franklin.
are s s' from us Just as the dyiic days OF the
stage coach and the wayside Inn have gone from
much-dreaded splendid government Yet We are
still free people. We have survived All me dan;
wrecked nations. May We not give the lie direct 10
Greece and Rome has the were mnHe a no prog
in government and letters Are We as supfrstlious
In the end The ready prey of demagogues and
despots? II we be SO nothing can save us Bu, we
i is "S dirrSrence "Louisvilie Courier-JournaL
Gardner is said to be the only city In Maine
where the local and standard systems OF time are
both In vogue. The town clocks are kept
tventy-one minutes apart, and each has It's devo-
tees with the result OF much confusion In keeping
business and social engagements Visitors are en-
tircly at sea, and the natives never quite sure
they know what time II is.
Called Him Early.-"He says his soldier life re-
minded him constantly of home and mother
They wouldn't let him sleep late mornings
Chicago POST
The Detroit Journal says that forty-two fami-
lies out OF ever cundred In Detroit own their
homes and It adds: "Of the twenty eight cities
possessing over 100000 population Rochester
stands at the head. with forty-four families In
every hundred owning their homes. Detroit
and Milwaukee come next. each with fortytwo.
St Paul and Buffalo next. with forty families TO
the hundred who pay taxes instead OF rent and
Cleveland follows point behind
Thoroughly Anglicized-warwick-T Throck-
mortons are getting too COMPOUNDED English for
dress English and talk about THE Prince until it is
on how to Conduct wars They have their win.
dows stained fosgy SO that when any one looks
London I could stand all that, but don't visit
there any more. The last time I was there ri be
such an insane degree that they kept large waste.
basket standing In the hallway.
Wckwire-l don't see anything English In that
Warwlck-Oh. visitors were expected to drop their
his In 1t on entering the house.-(Judse.
It is generally believed that hospitals were un-
known to the ancients. but The London Standard
reports that the remains of an ancient hospital
have been unearthed near Baden. containing four
teen rooms supplied with many kinds OF medical
pharmaceutical and surgical apparatus probes
tubes pincers. cau,erizing Instruments and even
a collection Of safety pins for bandaging wounds
There are also MEDICINE spoons OF bone and silver
measuring vessels. lars and pots OF ointment some
still containing traces of the ointment used"
Commander-what is your complaint against this
-, Buetacket-Weil, sir, as I was a-waikin' art
Now ere ow BOY Soud up ana calls me bloom!I idjt
'ouiI supposln YOU wasn't one?-(Punch