New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Beal Green. Of Kansas City, who has Just died.
helped to clear the trees away from what s now
Main-st. forty-nine years ago
The Inevitatle-"so the whole thing ends In both
OF us being obliged to give UP the throne" said
YES" answered the other. IT'S the old story
OF competition being crushed out by combines If
you're not IN the syndicate there's only one thing
to DO and that's abdicate. "-(washngton Star
The Kansas City Journal" says: "out of the
1,21O men composing the 2oth Kansas only eighteen
are Of foreign birth. Nearly the whole Of
Al glo-saxon blood. and good many more than
one-half are the sons of farmers"
LOVE LYRIC
Dear in the darkened west the sunset fades away.
Soon from the rose-tipped hills will sink the dying
I need you, o. my love! Why tarry thus ATARI
You know mosquitoes fly the scent of your cigar
-Chcago Record.
There will soon be daily motor omnibus ser
vice from Meran in the Tyrol, 10 Trafoi and
back. from Handeck to Trafoi and back, and
from Meran to Handeck and back. On the first
line l0-horse-power car for fifteen persons will
be used. and the second motor OF equal
power. the seating twelve persons, and with
standing room for six. The third car is to take
the mail and ten passengers. and will run at
higher speed.
On the yf Si S BIZ h
way OF a buggy and ran into the curbstone, to
the serious Of o his front ont wheel in the
buggy, stopping 10 look at the wreck IF call
that mighty poor turn out'-(Chicago Tribune.
Says THE Philadelphia Record: The examina-
tons in the public schools this month have been.
as usual productive of crop Of funny answers to
questions in the various lines of study. Among
the funny responses were three made by young
scholars who were being examined in geography.
The question was: Describe savage One little
hoy wrote that a savage is a person who wears no
clothes except undercothes'; another's answer
was: The savage is black and wears only rag;
lille the third response was: A savage doesn't
wear anything except hair and feather stuck In
it, \ class that being examined In anatomy
was asked to describe body. There were varl
Gus aughable answers submitted, but the most
amusing description was the following given by
twelve year-old girl who had in mind article
OF wear: A body is something to hold up the
panties.'
| .'Wot are you breathin so hard for. Dusty"
! "A shoemaker me out o town for most a
mile"
cause handed b him "a, couple q boot heels an
! halfn hour. "-(Cleveland Plain Dealer
This is from THE Terak EAST India, Pioneer:
'Tuan Syed Mahomed bin Abdulla al-Hadad, Of
Singapore has arrived on visit to his co-reigion-
! lists. The man has seen some seventy-eight sum-
/ mcrs. and IS accompanied by his harem. which
consists of four wives and two slaves. We are
told that he never allows the number OF wives to
! fall short Of the figure given above, and that he
has altogether contracted no less than III mar
! riages."
/ The Philadelphia postman usually manages TO
deliver a letter however deficient the address, but
= he had hard nut TO crack day ago.
| when he found in his batch OF mail a small en-
velope seemingly directed to "A. Good Mann, Rt-
tenhouse Square" After some hours OF fruitess
search he was forced 10 confess himself beaten
and the wag in him impelled him to return the
letter with the somewhat libellous Endorsement,
No good man In Rittenhouse Square" But the
Joke was ruined next day, for he then got the
missive back with Try Blank Goodman, Blank
Nineteenth-st," and this proved to be the right
address.-(Philadelphia Press
Michigan huckster is trying the experiment OF
creating new vegetable by grating tomato and
potato vines. but Kansas man discounts this by
grating the milkweed and strawberry pant IN tue
expectation OF producing strawberries and cream
No Trouble.-"Did you have any trouble about
your vote while you were at homer
mo. subj answered Mr. Erastus Pinkey II
didn't have no trouble ! les stood on my dignity
picked out my canerdate an when de 'spute
stahted ] said dat ef dey wouldn't let me vote foh
him l wouldn't vote fob nobody. "-(washlngto on