New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-19
THE TALK OF THE DAP

DIR Clouston of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
says that purely mental and moral causes play out
a small part in the production of insanity, as com
pared with bodily and physical only I'D
per cent of the cases he has examined were due 70
anxiety mental shock. The rest were traceaoie
to causes acting the brain through the medium
of the bodydrink, faulty development, gross brain
disease, strong hereditary predisposition, child
bearing etc Showing how mental troubles were
the fruit Of bodily disease, DR. Clouston declared
that 1.-THE recent epidemic of influenza had caused
more insanity than all the public and private anx-
iety in connection with the war.
'The for Richard Mansheld's non- I,3n
ance at the Cleveland Opera House last Monday gr,
and Tuesday has been fully explained ASIDE from ron.
nothing not more than ham, fight between capital and
labor" observed a local Cleveland Wit anu tle
Of employing Union help pas The union objected md
Mr. Mansfield yielded without w9rd ORD FI Wi v DC
lin The musical union Objected 6n,ons price for
that sort of work for evenings performance a,s
being 81 per- and since he was ior9@ue Tndiaan
oils Press.
During 1895 and 1896 Coin Harvey's book sold oy
thousands. 1t the book most talked about ana
most read. and thousands of people were misled oy
its fallacies He has recently issued
a financial book. but it meets with small sale
At the Country Postofce-summer vistor-Is It
true that the postmaster is supposed TO read an
the postal cards that come through the office?
to Tee read Of EN- g folks GLIB
talkin', but when 1t comes to writin they can ant
come up the boys in the lowest class IN our
country Standardization Transcript
For some weeks past" says business man or
Pfttsburg. 'our Eastern and Western correspond
ents have been sending congratuatory letters
They came to me personally and referred TO some
thing OF which knew nothing. gathered from the
letters that the writer's referred to my business
card hut even then I could not solve the prooieu
But this letter does the business 1t Is from my
head bookxeeper We have two styles OF business
-, orNII o16r he
silver. My stenographer took those cards and In
answering correspondence placed silver cara IN
each letter going west of the Mississippi RIVER All
mail directed east of the Mississippi contained a
gold card. IT has caught the fancy OF both the
silver people and the advocates Of the gold stan
dard 1t means more business from the advocates
of both of the question: and that stenograPher
is going to have an increase in salary
Merchandise you want job. Ell? What kind OF
Appiicant0T don't know sir. was until re-
Gently assistant instructor in a boxing school,
Merchant dnterrupting)oh can use y T'T al, all
right Come around d IN tne n Sews anu
Several hundred people from Illinois will visit
Maine during the coming summer While the CLAIMS
are ripening The people who compose the excur-
sion are grandsons and granddaughters OF people
who went to Illinois from Maine before the prairies
ploughed-young folks who never saw the sea
hill high as their heads
CredulouS.-The yellow correspondent AT the IIoilS
regarded the Kaffir runner narrowly and wondered
If he were trustworthy. - -
were about to be captured?' he asked. Would you
swallow them?"
yes" replied the Kaffir. I'VE credulous
people, sir" ,,-., -
Here the correspondent started violently ana
dismissed his doubts.-(Detroit Journal
The battle flag OF the Gate City Guards. of At
lanta Ca which was captured by John Howard,
of Toledo. Ohio during the Civil War, has been re-
turned to the survivors of that organization by
George l., Emminger. The flag had been given 20
Emminger bv Howard'e wife into whose possession
IL fell upon the of her husband several years
ago:
II want to show YOU some of our new renovator.
said the insinuatfng stranger. IT'S the best thing
for the hair
II don't want it snapped the bald headed grocer.
And ii will make last years maple sugar cakes
look just like new ---
put me down for a dozen boxes" said the grocer
Plain Dealer.