New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-03
THE TALK or TIE DAT.

"Iustice shiYas has collar button story which
he tells with great deal gusto,' says THE Chi
caro Record Herald" "A in Pittsburg, where
he used to live. had wife who was complaining
Of dyspepsia, and she heard of a certain remedy
! that was put up in capsules. Her husband bought
a dozen at a drug store, and brought them home IN
4 pill box At the time he bought dozen
collar buttons made of d metallic composition that
looked very much like pearl. and the druggist
gave him a pill box similar 10 that in which the
capsules put up TO carry them In he TOOK
both boxes home handed them to his wife. ana
the same dav she began to take the medicine After
she had taken twelve doses she was entirely cured
and advertised the wonderful remedy all over inc
neighborhood About this time her husband lost MS
collar button and. opening his Pill poXr FOUND II
empty 4 brief investigation showed that the cap
sules in the other pill box were still there and that
his wife had swallowed twelve composition collar
buttons two day for six days. and been entire
~ cured of dyspepsia
sue--Is he a serious minded fellow? -, 1900.
Prue-Oh yes. indeed. m certain heA propose
Detroit Free Press
II has recently been discovered that there are
about thirty thousand cats In Berlin and. full Of
their new knowledge the German Society for the
Protection of Animals has conceived thoroughly
Teutonic idea According TO its carefully conceived
plan the Town Council of the city is to take the
matter in hand and to issue licenses for cats just
as they do for dogs. Cats are only to perambulate
the city when wearing their authorized little
badges, hanging locketlike. from their throats
Clara-Didnt you find Charlie Castleton too fresh?
Maud should say SO aiGn l,c ,rI ib 1iS he s
me to be his wife.-(Life.
Thomas o'Day, of Switzerland County Ind, is
ono Of the few survivors of the famous charge of
the English Light Brigade at Balakava. on Septem-
Der % In that conflict, immortalized oy len
ryson, Mr.. ODay was in the thickest OF the HSh''
but he escaped with only few slight wounds
hot tra brigade was re0TRaDiZPd, and
when peace was declared it was transported to Gil
braltar. and then TO Quebec. Canada. where Mr.
O'Day was honorably discharged.
How superior your butler Is: His lofty manner
or don't mind him He is only suyns you
dire
The postoffice of stable place has troubles
that are peculiarly it's own" says The Springfield
Republican" Among those OF the Springfield Of
flee may we'll be classed the many letters that
come in from people who are bent on looking UP an
old relative or friend whom they have not seen
for wears The following received from Gardiner. IS
Il sample of what the Office has to deal W tn; =" ouid
You inform me to the whereabouts OF a 1ello"
by the name Of George Waldo Howard RICE: Al
the time Of my acquaintance with him. fourteen
Years ago he was attending school at Yale UniVer-
.it,. Another inquirer wishes to know OF the
family of a man that died in the Northampton In
sane Asylum seven eight years ago. oatch OF
these mssives come In every day. Such lntorma-
ton easily 0OtdlnaDte Is sent III Iep!S W SNN
letters Some kind of answer is sent In any
case Sometimes an old employe of the postOffcc
who dates back the beginning of things VIII re
member something that will give clew 10 the tactS
wanted. At others inquiries are made among the
families of the same that of the party
sought a general thing. however, II Is impossl-
BILE TO send satisfactory answers.
Come pretty near not having any balloon ascen-
sion at the county fair this year. SAID the dusty
What was wrong?" asked the with the in
capdescent whskers.
Couldn't hardly get enough hot air to make the
balloon go up You see. last year. they had one of
these here perennial candidat ties on the grounds
gredient and that made EN- kind of careless this
faIl'-(Baltimore American
The innumerable scions of the original Peapack
s,nitbs have had their 'Old Home annual re-
rnion at the primeval Smith farm. and spent de-
ob+fuI hours in abstruse calculations OF their sew
80, daerees of consanguinity May they live long
and prosper as Rip Van Wrinkle said. But why
dbes Peapack retain its unmeaning ana uiscord-
ant designation? Why isn't Its name changed 10
smithtown. Smithvile, Snlth lily Si'ii'i N
roads or Smith Centref
man in public life noted for his brusqueness
in nire sPse'h was 0''',' -. .u ,,,u
rei5 Sec secretarS wilson and that is. he
mnort1nes the departments to get promotions or
pcS Thats readily explalned commented sscretary
Root; The hasn't any'-tPhiiadeiphia saturday
Post.
Kansas preacher undertook to give his hear
ars = vivid conception of eternity. This Is the
nav he did 1t: 1T little sparl ow were to dip
tts hill in the Atlantic Ocean and take one drop
ne water and then take one hop a day across the
courtrv and put that drop In the Pacific Ocean,
80. ,han bnn back to the Atlantic one hop day,
until the Atlantic dry as bone. il wouldn't
be slln-up in hell
10 II In a Colection.-A singular incident Is re-
ported from MARROW The vicar was accos t at the
Sower show by a visitor, who Inquired IL ne mad
found an / i for shilling In the e epllectn citing bag
piving in the affirmative the visitor remarked that
he would discharge the debt. and. rendering shill-
ing he eynlained that when he arrived at worship
on Sunday he discovered that he had left his purse
behind and thereupon he made out the | o L.
which he placed in the offertory bag.-Uondon
Globe.