New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-01
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

1.-THE Boston Transcript" suggests that the spirit
of Victor Hugo is abroad in Paris editorial rooms
Victor Hugo never forgave General Grant for hang
ing John Brown having mixed up North and South
in his impressions of the Harpers Ferry affair.
sympathy.-He-I got note from Dunno to-day
saying that he absolutely must have the money
owe him by tomorrow morning. She-Oh. the poor
fellow!-(Life.
'rm afraid" said the actor, when a cabbage
within an inch of his nose that somebody
in the audience has lost his head"
THE GOOD EXAMPLE.
Homer Campbell never gets
No dirt on his hans face,
Ner his clo'es-he never sets
On tn grass, er any place
Where there's leaves er mud er dust.
Has 9a a 9is Rnn att he s H gG 61st
If he slid a cellar door!
''Do like Homer Campbell doesr'
ATS TIL only thing hear.
sf Holieq as i r IL at iSI NV wU ear.
Homer Campbells in my class
Arrays has his lessons right,
Never gives no one no sass
Arrays answers up polite
Notice Homer Campbell boys
SEE tn teacher. ever day.
"HOmer never causes noise
Ner disturbs in any way
Nav SEE Homer is so good
If all other childurn here
Would Jest ac' like him it would
Fill their parents full o cheer.
One time in tn Sunday school
Teacher asst US all what wuz
Give fer our golden rule
She lest smiled an looked at me.
Men said we should ell take pride
An be good as could be.
Takin' Homer fer our guide
DO like Homer Campbell does.'
Paw an nav an ever one
SEE much, il seems to buzz
All arouu an spoil my fun
Men they think at I'm ashamed.
Homer Campbell be dadblamedr'
-(Chicago Tribune
There's an ancient superstition in certain parts
of Italy that the vineyard who takes a
bath in the foamng juice of his grapes as it
bubbles in the vat will have a year of prosperity
for himself and his family. wine producer in
the Roman peninsula was following the oldtime
tradition recently slipped in the pool and was
drowned in the generous juice of his modern
Falernian. Accidents win happen now and then IN
the best regulated reservoirs of Chiant, and on
the other side OF Acheron this well STEPPED vo-
tary of Bacchus may enjoy the privilege of cnk-
ing glasses with the Duke of Clarence whose last
breath was exhaIed in butt of Malmsey.
well. Mary. had another proposal last night"
'It must be nice thing to have money,"-(ChI-
cago Chronicle
The funniest contribution to the great fiscal dis
cusson in England is reported to have come from
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman the Liberal leader
who solemnly quotes David Harum as real person
to sustain his side of the question. He informed his
audience that Harum is prominent banker Of
New-York City, who is popularity accounted a par
ucularly cute man IN monetary transactions. And
the book OF which David Harum is the hero has had
a large sale in England too.
In Fashions school are some with knowledge
Stoke,
And some that Midas in his cradle rock'd;
Some merit have, and others not bit
Some, mere tomnOddies, fripperies of wit
Who, in their grammar. often drop stitch.
And hold that psyche is pronounced pesitch:
While belles-lettres they may not Understands
They think Bells letters all very grand"
To trace Dame Fashions wondrous pedigree
BY the rules OF law. the rule of three
To primal roots OF her ancestral tree,
Would take Blackstone and full many a Coke
And in their wheels OF genius many spoke
And so we farm that out TO other folk.
IT'S clear. whate'er her ancestry, OF fault
She's no descendant of one Attic Salt.
John Freeman Baker. in The Albany Law Jour
nal.
tombstone In the old village cemetery of Lex
lDgton. Mass, bears this curious inscription: