New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The 10th anniversary Of the birth Of Goethe is 10
be celebrated by the Germans Of Boston next Sun
day.
TO THE FINNs
eve will never follow the example OF Poland -
Extract from Finnish newspaper
The Word goes forth. Films did you dream
Your Duke for ever would be dumb
On such theme?-
Would brook eternaily to hear
This burning ice, this mud stream clear
A Russian. free?
Too long has Freedoms balmy air
rs Sunk ,S in the Nultu res nos nostrs Nay.
oathsi What are they7
Traps to catch dots. in whom yet lives
The fond credulity OF yore;
Oaths have the worth convenience gives:
AS much-no more.
We from the first we'll trained well taught.
Knew what must come. In passionate haste
Death stouty faced.
We rose Against our title sty yor MIGHT,
Crushed Swo our rebellion ai proved us wrong
Fooled by our right.
Be wiser, you, than We Prefer
Toward slavery year by year to sink.
The tiger claws you: do not stir;
Move not, nor shrink
All measured weighed. and reckoned up
Is but one drop OF bitterness
In the great cup
Our house Of bondage opens wide;
Your cells prepared. your chains are new
Come H. TOT EVER We 10 Welcome aS5ns you.
Michael Henry Dziewicki. in London Outlook
Down in Manzanillo the other day." says The
Times OF Cuba" "a number Of didnt -know-it-was-
loaded people were trying 10 explore the interior
OF an unexploded shell which fell in the vicinity
OF that town the day last year when the American
ships bombarded the Spaniards there. The shell
had been lying about Manzanillo for nearly year.
but It stll had its destructive power within IT, and
the result was that three people were killed and
several others were wounded OF the party which
was so curious TO know what was inside IT,"
A Raise-"Perhaps you are not aware. sir. that l
"IIl 20 you five hundred better. am D. D. D.
"A dollar dinner Democrat" -Qndanapos Jour-
nal.
THE oxford CMo) Register" contains a para
graph TO the effect that Mr.. Coffin has gone TO
visit his cousin. Mr.. Graves. In Tombstone. Ariz.
The paper says that Mr.. Conn is on pleasure bent.
but nevertheless. the item sounds funereal.
A Reasonable Doubt-Judge-Prisoner you are
accused OF stealing this watch. Are you guilty or
sSy x W WSn9h but rs JsSSH
Weekly
A MANILA Halter.
A halter, with mind intent
On trading on a sentiment,
Knowing we'll what he was at
Got up an Admiral Dewey hat.
And. thinking then a point to score,
Asked Dewey for the size he wore:
The very same" heard Dewey say.
'As worn before the list OF May
Neighborhood Revenge.-"Aren.t we going 10 pay
the street-sprinkler this year. Edmundg
mo; those people on each side OF us wouldn't
employ him last year and now that they do
sprinkle I'm going TO let them how they like
h"-tChicago Record.
One day an old Yorkshire fisherman returned TO
his native village. after absence OF fifteen years.
and fearfulIy sought the house which sheltered his
deserted wife Entering without knocking. he seat
ed himself near the open door. took a long and
vigorous pull at his dirty clay pipe and nodded
jerkily to 't'owd woman"
"Mornin' Maria" he said. with affected uncon-
She looked up from the potatoes she was peeng,
and tried to utter the scathing TRADE she had
daily rehearsed since his departure: but It would
not come
Ben" she said. instead, once more resuming her
work. bring thesen DER to T. nre an Ah'll darn
that hole L thy Jersey. All meant dom II 4 day
tina went away. but suIumat put me or
The Unpleasant Feature-'T don't mind digging
UP your flower beds. Harriet"
Well. what are you making such fuss about p
~ don't Ike your standing around bossing me-"