New-York tribune., 1903-01-03

duction was success and at the fall of the curtain
there were clamorous calls for the author. to which
Mr. Shaw was at length induced to respond. The
audience were still cheering; but there was one
dissentient in the gallery who was "boofng with
the full power of a pair of very strong lungs MI
Shaw looked up at this glorious minority OF one
and said very seriously: Eyes. sir, quite agree
with you; but what can we two do against whole
houseful?''
THE PROLETARIAT.
rM- O. Wells has discovered the upper class will
' In a sense be proletariatl
In the future he foretells
Peers win be the very commonest OF men:
So what most you must approve In
This H9u dea and he Sna rery best Of circles then
Though that question What's the next
Articie?' now makes ,e US yeTed ed - without -sbrxs
And we ali shall feel so joyous
That our ecstases will cloy u.s.
When we're measured for-the next pair-by
duke
Earis will in their lordiy way
Cali for orders every day,
And my grocer be visSouns: sas shouio thnk'
Dainty little bishopesses
At the bar will serve the necessary drink
All, when here that golden age is,
Shall a countess board wages
Daily minister as cook to my delight
And one boon boo, more we shall shall have Is
And the sweep as its a black man. be knight.
Then, according to my notion.
We shah note the titled newsboy's noble air.
And from all the crowd distinguished
tOft have for such thing Wished
lho'sh 'onii''''ei ' IN. 5.
THE Brooklyn Eagle Almanac" for 1903. that
authority on everything connected with all the
boroughs of New-York and with Long Island, Is
at hand It is enlarged this year and is substan-
TALLY hound in red cloth, unusual feature of
newspaper ANIMALS. OF especial interest are the
maps in color which include not only street maps
of the greater city but a map of North America
and large maps of the island possessions OF this
country and of Alaska.
THE HOTEL OF 2o0s
clerl-Michael, you about through moving
Porter-Yis sor; in a few minutes.
over the front pavement. Mrs. HibawI has just
telephoned from the top floor that her husband has
fallen out of the ow'-(Smart Set.
campaign for the municipazation of every
thing has ragged in San Francisco for a, con-
siderable period, but so far it has not carried all
before it. At a special election recently the propo
siton to issue bonds to the amount of 100000 for
equipping and operating street railroad
beaten decisvely that similar measure is
likely to be brought forward again at present.
sist mainly of blank cartridges. making considerable
noise. but doing real execution.
For Keeps-Mamma-Don be so selfish Let
your baby brother play with your marbles little
Tommy-But he means to keep them always.
Mamma-Oh 1 guess not.
TOMMY guess yes. cause he's swallered EN-
philadelphia Press.
A Missouri writer is lamenting the gradual dis
appearance of the pawpaw- THE persimmon is
left" he says, though it is becoming scarcer with
each succeeding year. There 'possums yet to
be found and quail may be in smaller focks
than formerly. The typical fruit of Missouri the
luscious pawpaw. is fast disappearing along with
the red Indian and the buffalo. There are some
pawpaw bushes in obscure places, where the rude
hand of the tconOclast has not reached, and there
cultivated pawpaws to be found in gar
dens here and there But speaking generally, the
Missouri pawpaw is becoming thing of yesterday
"As State. have gone from the pawpaw to
the banana stage. We buy fruit at street
stands instead of wandering out the wild woods
In the fall time and finding 1t. We have reached
the breakfast food stage of civilization. We eat
soft stuff with spoon. instead of scrambling over
the hills and through the briars in search of the
forest fruits. What will become of a generation
thus brought up. instead of fed upon persim-
mons and pawpaws7 We fear It Will lack iron I'm
its blood. strength In it's muscles and the ability
TO stand up alone underneath the blue sky. The
pawpaw and the persimmoa period passing takes
with it the days OF the pioneer who worked long
hours and played hard. who knew nature and man
morals and soft and silken ways Alas that the
pawpaw should perish from the earth"
AS the Storls Sees It.-First Stork-I just left
baby that millionares house.
Second Stork-Funny things these human beings,
I've just delivered three in a teue-
ment and her husbands out of work and they
haven't cent-lBrooklyn Life