New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-27

snarrovv ts here In fact they resemble the sparrow
in build although they are pure white ana hsFe
quite large beaks of delicate pink. They are Vety
afectionate and will sit for hours pressed CLOSELY
against each other their perch billing ana COO
ing in fine style. The dealer who is florist says
in confidence that he has them on sale because
flowers are too common in summer for the young
men to send the girls and he thought the love BIRDS
would just about fill the bill.
suddenly voice from the head Of the stairs broke
milk pitcher on his way out."-Csyracuse Herald
special committee Of the Canadian Parliament
is struggling with scandal something on the
lines the embalmed beef episode in the Spanish
American War but much smaller The amount OF
money involved is only So OOO but the Conservatives
insist that the goods delivered were worth only
800 and intimate that there must have been
"divvy" somewhere
Same Old Feeling-'Did you have good time &c
the Exposition was the question ha'ur"HS put
We'll" he replied thoughtfully, you know no"
you feel the morning after
After a night with a convivial party. Of course
You go through your clothes and ind two car
tickets and a quarter Then you figure ,S out t aow
noon do a little suInrin mental arithmetic and say
With TO tRe acceh We OH the must h@%e had s00o
Yes. l know the feeling
Just that way about Pars1Gnly w Pt So must
Four hundred elk teeth were sold in Spokane.
Wash. the other day for $1,000. The demands of
the members of the order OF Elks and the growing
scarcity have increased the value of the teeth Four
teen years ago Montana paid only $50 for an
Indian headdress that contained 500 elk teeth Last
year a similar headdress containing only $50 teeth
sold for $500.
A Close Estimate.-'I don't want to hear any
body. sayin that our boy Josiar doesn't earn his
salt said Farmer Corntossel
You said it yourself once said his wife 49,. ho,-
any injustice. have been lookin over these maj
ket quotations, an have CONCLUDED that Josla aT
he didn't mis- pepper reckon I'd nave 10 give
in."-(Washington Star
The tramways department Of the Glasgow cor
poration. the occasion OF the celebration Of the
British entry into Pretoria, exhibited an electric
beautifully illuminated with $50 electric lamps
The lamps were of various colors, and were formed
into numerous patriotic designs
sight of yours. growled the city editor to the new
'.How's that?" asked the new reporter, in tones
that indicated a gladness over having committed
In your story OF the speech of the Hon. Win D.
TANNER at the convention you do not say that he
sounded the keynote of the campaign
Some day the reporte. will learn that Il is
not wise trample ruthleSsly upon the time
honored traditions OF Observation-Disclosures Amer
lean.
The Boston Transcript tells OF woman who
was so averse to answering the questions OF the
census enumerator that she moved from one dis
trict into another in order to dodge him. The cen
sus work been completed in the district in
which she established her new home, and thus she
outwitted the Government official, though at con-
siderable cost to herself
maEFabie citzen' said the New England man to
the visitor. What IS there remarkable about
not the original of the character of David Harum
Baltimore American.