The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
THE CAPITAL OF IRELAND.

A correspondent of the Boston DG5IY
Globe, in the course Of letter to that pa
per from Dublin, gives the following &C.
count of the city:
Can you Imagine city of 100000 in
habtants that has comparatively no noise,
no teams in the streets, no smoke, no hur
ry, no manufactures Yet snch is Dublin.
Sackville street at mid. day, one of the
grandest thoroughfares in Europe, looks
like Broadway, New York, at about two
o'clock in the mGrning-that is the street
way looks like it, for that is the only
time to get Broadway clear OF coaches and
teams. But the sidewalks of Sackville
street are very lively and very fashion,
able. They are not like the jostling side
walks of New York or Boston; the side.
walks OF Sackvllle street are nearly as
wide as Washington street, Boston, and
the promenading ladies, and "swells
ON the Castle to the garrison, are never
obliged to elbow their way in the ap
proved fashion of an American city The
immense width of the street is silent and
empty, except only for an occasional
pigeon looking for wheat or sparrow
looking for a worm. Just think of a
worm in Broadway. Ugh the thought is
unbcarable but in Sackville street-in
tie very centre of 1T am sure that some
silly sparrow, not knowing things by
their aspects, often gulps an old grey
headed worm in mistake for his younges st
son. Grey. headed worm is style of
metaphor peculiarly suited to a descrip-
tion of an Irish street, for there's some
thing of "bull in it, and something
suggestive of dreary and hopeless wilder.
ness.
"There are at all ii mes plenty Of cars
IN Sackvillc street-but they are not
moving they are stan ding still in long
line, close together, out in the centre of
the great street. The raw boned horses
are generally munching 'wisps Of hay,
which lies on the ground before them !;
and the good-humored driver is lolling
half-asleep on the CUSHIONED seat, calmly
waiting for fare his whip across his
beast and all his ready rspartee couohant
and ready for spring. Nelson's Pillar
q fine monument, stands in the centre of
Sackville street, and in line with it is
'the car stand" Perhaps some of your
readers are Under the impression that I'm
writing all this about vehicles of the
family of the American street-car. Far
from it; Ispsak of the joliest, easiest,
hold-on tishtest, fling you-off- going
roun corners sort Of locomotion in the
world-the Irish jaunting car"
SILENT INFLUENCE.-We are touching
our fellow beings On all sides. They are
affected for good Or for evil by what we
are by what we say and do,
even by what we say and
&c, even by what we think and feel. Nav
flowers in the parlor breathe their fra
GRANGE through the atmosphere. We are
each OF us silently saturating the atmos-
phere about US with the subtle aroma of
our character. In the family circle, be.
SIDES and beyond all the teaching, the
aaliy life of each parent and child mys.
terlously modifies the life of eyery person
OF the household. The same process. on
a wider scale, IS going on through the
community. No man liveth to himself
ana nc man dieth to himself. Others are
Quilt up and strengthened by our uncon.
sclouS deeds and others may be vrenched
out OF their places, and thrown by our
unconscious influence. -RwGaz Ne,s York
81. @ 80"