New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-14


here md say they didn't? ,,v.
.prt 7 didn't state that they worked three days
at my house.
YES. you did,
mo- ddn'u
"What did you say. then?
81 said they were there three days
That Was A-"wen well WELL And .s 80 =, tns eaIi
Huoe CO "a hang it. how he changed woulon
IN noWed I'M When did he git to be one OF '"e'"
s Amt NO popuis Jst the same old straight n
Republican he always was re Su. shave or st his
seven I o yea am as le Williams got elected town
ship trustee."-(Chicago News
"The New-York Journal" has reprinted IN con.
vcnient book form the text OF the treaty u peaoe
r,,th sna,n. and accompanying documents wh'cn
have already appeared in its columns ihese papes
40 urderstood TO have been obtained oy II ifohi
Spanish sources, and cursory eAa''.
them discoses no reason for questioning tne'i "
stantlal accuracy. Tho presentation vi "e
This form will doubtless be agreeable 10 many tvau
ers who do not desire TO await '"o O
ton of the official text.
ARIG-FOOT, THE PLAYHOUSE BEAN
-Four hundred yards after Kipling)
Whenever go to the playhouse sit IN inc Gnu
Co ittle reck with the rubber neck or tho girl
p W.T." dh int at each fail OF the curtain. ordained by
p soH a Wretch on the quarersrech is seized
with, raging thirst; rr,,nvs: he Jumps on my
He walks all over my IrilDSS' Az ''
cherished corn , ,. ,,. dad far
His numbering tread would Sn1r ar0us' '''
40 letter. sho oe vii, We know the monster box-toed
1ruall anu All M truce with Abig-foot the man that
walks like a oea-'
I'll rotbar bs hlt by the trolley. tho It rended me
limb from limb 49,, ,-.,,, hi,
Yea Let me be ca ir6T, bi hua'" '''
Keep , ie a, me fall Of the curtain he took me by
was reading jests in the programme did not n''
have ave- not Waited with women probably won't
So mark. when the orchestra tooteth; then is tho
Take yn no chance on Abig-foot the man that
VANS INV NCNe,y-O Orleans Tmes-Democrat
9TH. philadelphia Record" says Almost the
first thing visitor does upon entering the room
in which the Declaration OF Independence was
signed is to add his autograph TO the vast collec-
ton OF more than twenty years Assistant super
ntendent Reeves who IL the custodian OF the DOCK
few days ago In speaking OF bis experience. said:
You wouldn't believe It, but We have had only two
attempts 10 mutate the register or to write any
thing IN Il except names and addresses ana on
both OF those occasions the culprits were women.
There's another strange thing about the vsitors'
he continued. or the thousands who come here the
only ones we have any trouble with are the women.
We have n tape stretched across all those chairs,
he said as he pointed to long line Of seats OF the
mighty as 1t were--chars OF the signers-to pre-
vent peoplk from sitting In them. Wen, one woman
only yesterday wanted us TO cut the tape for her.
because she claimed she was descendant OF one
Of the slgners and thought she had right to sit
in his chair and she went away mad when We
wouldn't make an exception In her case"
Excessive Politeness.-C ustomer-.I haveat any
change with this morning; will you trust me
for n hostage stamp until tomorrow
customer-But suppose should get killed. Or
/ Drug Clerk-Pray don't speak OF IT, Mr. Jones'
The loss would be but trine.-(Chicago News.
"A small boy OF ny acquaintance" says a writer
IN 1.-THE BOSTON Transcript" stood the other day
taking lesson in feminine human nature-not his
first lesson but a bitter one-with qulverng lip and
deeply perplexed face. lie exclaimed. having ref
erence to his still smaller sister;
DOLLY cries because l don't do a thing and
when | do IT, then she cries because DO ~
This was true and natural but the boys re-
mark was not so profound was an anecdote
which once read In the French wife so this
story related was awakened by her husbands weep.
! Ing and bowling in the middle Of the night lie was
/ evidently having n dream. and she woke him and
asked what was the matter
oh my dear he said rubbing his eyes, I
! dreamed that YOU de idr
"'Har she said bitterly and turning away from
! him. great griefs mute"
Most Remarkable Observation-Disclosures do you
know anything good for cod'
! Potts-NO. ! don't even know OF anything good
! for the grip indianapolis Journal.
a Trieste newspaper says that a freight train on
| the way Vienna recently met with slight acct
dent. In consequence OF which barrel OF brandy
/ In one Of the cars began TO leak In short time
the villagers OF Prestranek were on the spot with
| cups and glasses. and when after few hours the
police arrived from "A neighborns town more than
/ hundred and nfty found drunk.
Four OF them atterward died from the effects OF
! the debauch'
And then the fair maiden went with her
narration. Il covered my face with my hands ana
wept"
Impossible" calculated the young man. as he
gathered her 10 his bosom. You could not cover
your face with those small hands" .
And she was his from that day forward, and they
lived happily ever after.-(Deiroit Free fress