New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The rails of the Mexican Gulf Railroad laid
on mahogany sleepers and the bridges built OF
white marble. In West Mexico is line with ebony
sleepers and ballast of silver ore drawn from the
mines beside the track. The engineer constructing
these railways had no other material on the route
and found it cheaper to use these seeming eX-
travagances than TO import the ordinary material.
A GLASS HOUSE.
[sr Clarke by taking the initials Of the words
he SUGGESTS m new name for the country in question:
It's dangerous work Sir Edward Clarke
R M % SOY ol h@Ss cd f dnds and
But here f1 Wed or Of goTs sou
To ind it rhymng with "Bellona"?
And had you thought. before you made
To Uncle Sam your pat suggestion,
How in his countrys songs 'twculd sound?-
No one were well aware. vii doubt 9o
st 4Gut Hs Us Go saS PsaS Sn TeS whole
Sounds stronger, much than Hail Usona!"
''Usona" might be We'll supposed
BY Cheap snSs sas Ga2 aa'T S
Or better still, the "U.S.A."
Might rescue it from g.cse labels
AS their address. for use in cables!
But on the whole with N ,nest John"
We in close agreement, surely;
Is risky work-done well or poorly,
For if, "Usona" called by us. .,,s,o
GSat Britain nm Y@nsee TO css it Gub
UNITED Kingdom o Britain and Ireland
-G.ondon Truth.
Apropos of knee byeeches. correspondent Of
THE London Express" quotes an anecdote from
Captain Gronows Recoliections which puts the
whole case in a nutshell. The Baillie de Ferrette
was always dressed in knee breeches, with
cooked hat and court sword, the slender pro
portions of which greatly resembed those OF his
legs do tell my dear Baille, said Mont
rond one day. have you got three legs or three
swords?'' Soon after which. we should imagine.
the Baltic went home.
guess my ,H Ts expects 5e G besa9
the day by making the house unfit for any one 10
live in'-GLife.
ON one occasion great public dinner was given
to Isaac Hull by the town of Boston, and he was
asked TO sit for his picture to Gilbert Stuart the
celebrate ted artist who was a great braggsrt. When
Hull visited his studio Stuart. according to The
Indiana polls News took great delight in enter
tanning him with anecdotes Of his English success.
stories Of the marquis of this and the baroness OF
that which showed how elegant the society 10
which he had been accustomed. Unfortunately, in
the midst of this grandeur. Mrs Stuart, VINO did
not know that there was a sitter, came in with
apron on and her head tied up with some hand-
kerchiefs from the kitchen, and cried out: DO
YOU mean TO have that leg of mutton boiled or
roasted?" to which Stuart replied with great pres
ence of mind Ask your mistress
Miss Griffn-rm sure it must be Mrs Jones.s
fault that she cant manage Mabel The child is
most affectionate Polite Visitor eager TO agreed
Yes tAe way she gets on with you shows That!
There may be suicide in France. but
father there recently married off four of his chill
dren In one day. NJ. Girard. farmer of the viii
lage of Huguetiere, in the Vsndee. such event
occurring in his own family determined cee-
brate it in style. on the day of the weddings
Huguetiere gave itself up rejoicing, did
numerous guests from the surrounding country
side. who had assembled to the four couples
and the imposing procession which accompanied
them At midday a banquet held which
more than four hundred guests sat down.
Inbertted-"Miss Peintz tells me she inherited her
WAS her grandmother a druggist? Cleveland
Leader
The experiments with submerged coal which
began at Portsmouth about eighteen months ago
have been resumed. In May. 1868. five crates
of coal each holding two tons, sunk in No >
basin and a similar quantity was placed at the
coaling point in email heaps, covered with tar
nau,,ns six months ago of the submerged
coal was raised and burned. in conjunction with
sir,uar quantity of that which had been kent on
land and the results showed that the submerged
coal had greater calorinc qualities similar test
Is Ia ba made on the present occasion IL is To he
hoped that a means for beating the Coal Trust
will be discovered
PROMOTED
II was out yacht
That met my fate;
And / said will you not
BECOME my matee"
So she, signed with