New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-29

Unfortunate Guayaquf In Ecuador. has been al
most destroyed by fire. with loss of millions Of
dollars. The light. infammable buildings We're con-
structed chiefly with the dread of ruin by earth
quakes and burned like finder. This generation is
afflicted by direful calamties in many parts OF the
globe to an extent almost unknown for centuries.
The Usual Northumberland do you mean by
saying that my baby is Just an ordinary baby
the best that ever lived. isn't he?-(iife.
Few newspaper paragraphs reach the Intense dra-
matte nature OF the following notification in
English paper: THE announcement made In this
yesterday of the birth. the 9Th inst. of
twin sons TO Colonel -. was without foundation"
THE bow OF a ship" says humorous handbook
OF nautical terms us, as not evidence OF poteness
ANU displaying lack Of good 90 t tast Ss' u inc '0A
scrub at her waist
This. it may be remembered. occurred off the
Isle of Rudeness. where
A spit down to the bay
And a tongue of land projected In most unman-
merry way. -(LOndOn Globe.
The German newspapers are actively at work
proving that the Polish troubles are all due to
agitators The opposition Of the Poles TO the Ger
man language is obstnacy so the papers say and
the following gem of news is seized by the
Hamburger Nachrichten' to point its own moral:
Two doctors in Rybnik about perform
an operation on a workman. and in order TO make
the rendering of the anfesthetic easier they in
structed him to count slowly from to one hun
bred AS the workman explained that he did not
know German he was told TO count in Polish. which
he did, until the influence of the chloroform began
to assert itself. when he continued counting in
German! And" explains the Hamburger Mach
richten' Historically, ''in properly pronounced and
accented German, too!' The moral would seem to
be that anesthetc is all that is needed TO make
a good German OF Pole
DUMB-BELLE EXERCISE
The 'smartest set In New-York tits said.
When on Broadway daily walking.
May be seen with an elegance quite we'll bred.
On their fingers deftly talking.
For thus, in special wire we're told,
By a correspondent graphic,
afs a6ie TO S yenr TIC hold
IT'S an excellent plan to thus checkmate
What the rattle and rush and hum do:
In the way that atf the ID deaf r aPd dumb do;
But. pray. don't think that 1T copes alone
1t may wen be turned. as might soon be shown.
To a number of other uses.
For example. think of those dreadful folks
Talk Very small talk and crack Weak p"j oRes
At the play and Covent Garden;
The chat they themselves imfe iSs e IN.
II they'd only agree those signs to use
Which the deaf and dumb converse in.
Let classes for learners then say we.
At which the deaf and dumb signs may be
So that those who go to the play may know.
Thanks TO PREDATORY labOrS,
How their breath to and to so behave
AS to not annoy their neighbors
-(London Truth
A Western farmer in the flood district watching
his mortgaged house and barn fall over and float
down the river remarked: THAT represents my
floating indebtedness"
What He Wanted to Know-It NAV not be gem
orally known, but a certain prominent Huron-st
resident belongs to family in which he Is one OF
twenty-four brothers and sisters, sixteen of whom
are now living. There two mothers in the
family, the first having eleven children and the
second thirteen. The man in question belongs TO
the second group. One of HIS sisters grew 10
before he was born He was uncle before birth and
great-uncle at five years of age. Ii Is said that
when the latter event came TO pass and the Young
ster was informed that he was now really and
truly great-uncle. he who had been an uncle for
I'VE long years cooked his features into an ex-
(Ann Arbor Times.