New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

building in the United States is the quaint old adobe
palace Of the Governors IN Santa Fe. n. M Ihls
long low structure in the second Oldest city or
the United States has been the seat Of government
under the Spanish Mexican and American regimes
for nearly three hundred years. 1t now contain.
the museum OF the New-Mexco Historical So,
ciety of which L. Bradford Prince, native New
Yorker and former Governor of New-Mexico, is
president Governor Prince considers this 1.-The
most historic building in the United States
WHEN wINIFRED WAS TWENTY-FIVE.
To guess her age was something few
OF her admirers cared to do,
But when she ordered me to try,
As one who could not tell lie,
I said "Nineteenl"-as If 'twere true!
Angry. she cried: Then. to your view
I'm a mere child-a schoolgirl. ''Whew-
ITO guess her age
But thinking that had the elew
To her desire. l guessed anew;
II did but Jest said I, "for why
Should your thirty years deny?'
frank Roe Batchelder, in Life.
The Mexican Postal Department has taken a new
and novel means of informing the public OF the
weather bulletins given out by the Weather Bu-
reau Every letter which passes through the Office
is now stamped with the indications for the next
twenty-four hours. This stamping is done at the
time that the postage stamps the letters
cancelled and the receiving stamp affixed.
are fools
Mr., snappe-Yes? Unfortunately for you. dear
the rule doesn't work both ways.-(Philadeiphi
Press.
This paradox l choose:
1t often seems the gayest mans
The one that has the blues.
cornell Widow
A recently published table of the British census
gives the respective ages of all the married couples
in the kingdom. There is one husband Of ninety
yybn has 70 Of ,,-I,{In
three husbands ranging in age from eighty-fve to
ninety-fve have secured wives of twenty-five
Elderly wives and youthful husbands are rarer
and the greatest disparity in this direction is be-
tween a wife OF sixty-ive years and her husband
of twenty. The oldest couple in the list are aged
100 and ninety-fve years, respectively, while the
youngest pair have only numbered sixteen and
fifteen summers, respectively
AN OMAR FOR LADIEa
Alike to her who Dimes both Loud and Long
oE Ger H HnCd Ban r snuns the Dinner gong
1t makes no Dtfference-both of you are Wrongi'
Why alt al the Health Reformers VINO discussed
Square toed and Waistless forth; their buds are
And Venus might wei! have been Bust
Myself when slim did eagerly frequent
Delsarte and Ling, and heard great Argument
Spent on my Modiste what I'd always spenti
With walking Clubs did the best could;
With my own Feet | tramped my Ten Miles. good;
And this was ALI that out of it
I ate much more FOR Dinner than I should.
And fear not lest your Rheurna tism seize
The JOY of Life from other peoples Sprees
The Art will not have Perished-au contraire
Posterity will practise it with Easel
When you and have ceased Champagne to Sup,
And while we pat old ' Tabby by the fire.
Full many Girl will lead her Rrinded Pup.
Josephine Daskam. in Harper's Magazine.
A brief note in a Russell paper states that Judge
h11
the members of the local bar that they will no
longer be allowed to appear IN court in their shirt
sleeves. according TO THE Kansas City Journal
Probably Judge Reeder is to blame for this
He to be simply the helpless instrument Of
that effete civilization of the East which is over
whelming the primitive democracy of the bound
less praries. But nevertheless this order will sore
ly try the souls of few remaining members of
the ancient Western bar who did not consider them
selves equipped for business until coat was off
suspenders down and shirt thrown open at the
neckband. Coats, indeed! Time enough has not
yet elapsed make forget the picturesque G.
Polk Cline who used to come to this selfss me
court in overalls army shirt and bare feet often
giving slight annoyance to his brother attorneys
by working the mud from between his toes while
his extremities elevated above the common
table And neither reconcile this pert or
der with the fashions OF not so long ago, when
bluff old Sheriff Lanahan used to convene court n
this short but emphatic formula:
Take off yer guns and hats We buns and sportsI
The honorable coort is now in session.
Not a Success-Lowe Comedy-Hamm made his
debut in vaudeville last night.
HI Tragedy-Yes 1t was monoIogue, wasn't II?
Lowe Comedy-Not exactly. Hamm intended II
to be. but the audience chimed in with few
choice remarks before he got fairly started-Phiia-
delphia Press.
The hideous massacre at Belgrade brought IN
mind the old fashioned alliterative lines which ran
in substance something in this style:
An Austrian army awfuIv arrav.d
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade
Cossack commanders cannonading come
Dealing distinctions devastng doom
Or similar syllables followed by aphabetic art nj
like tenor. But there was no Austrian army and
there Cossack commanders concerned IN
the revolving butchery of this month In servia
The Doctor-Yo1 regard society as merely n ma
chine. do you? What part OF the machinery do
you consider me, for instance?
The Professor-You one OF the cranks.-(Chi-
caGo Tribune