New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-19
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The Florence (Col) Rehner" remarks; 'Mr ana
Mrs Joe Rookie had their baby christened on sun
dav when beer and wine flowed Ike ditchwater
rain" said the man who Is reckless with ms 1H NJ
fish. What looks Ike ram &c, So'u rSsckIess man
word splitter water, SAID the recAieSS man
cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE Boston Transcript says that little
stenographer IN a downtown office begged some
workmen who were putting up new telephone not
to place It so high the wall as they were uohs'
you see" she said. II have to use 1t as much
any one. and I am so short can hatd'y
reach it."
"Oh. we'll miss" said the humorist in charge Of
the work you can raise your voice can't you"'
wife had been turned into pillar Of salt for look
ing back? Can you tell Robert"
Just Jus; think for moment and see II you can't
Robert tentatively, after pause)-huoOeEnech'
brooklyn Life.
Mrs Primm the widow Of Judge Primm, OF ST.
Louis is still alive at the age of eighty-four. She
is the grandchid OF Amable GuIon, the first white
child born in ST. Louis, and remembers when Eng
lsh was an extra study In the schools Of that city
Just in Time.-"Hello! Is that Mr.. Hishmuss
residence
is that you. Fanny"
Are you aone?'
so am J. Everybody else AT the Office has gone
to the ball game want to talk to you ht'e'
'shl Don't you know the girl at the central
Darkness, was going TO say, may come on be-
fore / get around this evening It's nice day,
isn't It? Well goodby."-(Chicago Tribune.
"The Elizabeth City On CO Economist" says
that the people OF Currtuck County think OF erect
ing a tablet 10 the memory OF negro named Aaron
Thomas who recently died there at the age Of
he liVe
the war and did his part in caring for the families
OF the soldiers who in the military service OF
the Confederacy, and that in the terrible recon
str1ction period she faithful TO his old friends
This last IS the significant line. The paragraph
was headed "A Worthy Colored Man"
1mpressed.Isnt it aws-nnspriRgm said said ,.t the
S3G his " eaph FISHING forever forward on its track
superior TO all human direction and beyond all re-
Yes" answered the fair girl softly. after long
pause. 1T makes think If my new automohile
-(Washlngton star.
Range cattle in the Southwest are selling for $40
head more than they sold for six years ago
There goes the happlest man in the boroush,"
window to little elderly man dressed gayly who
ak S % U s veo% soas fellow
continued the barber. became rich suddenly atter
has money, he knows of nothing better &c, do than
sleep He sleeps all the time, and II Is running MS
health. In the morning he comes down 70 pIsdh,
fast at his boarding house. messes with the FOOD
a little. and then, as soon as MS beo Is maze,
skates upstairs for snooze. At dinner he tries
hard to eat but his appetite is bad He plays with
his food and blows 10 the other boarders ABOUT
the fine maps he takes while they are working hard
and II they pretend TO be envious he SHOWS that
he Is delighted OF course, he sleeps all the after
noon but at night though he denies this, II is well
known that he rests poorly. suppose il is better
II YOU are rich 20 ruin your health by sleeping too
much rather than by drinking or dissipating in
the other ways but just TO sleep seems TO me,
foolish thing 10 do because when you sleep all the
time you might well be dead. '-(Philadelpha
Record