The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-04

AT a large dinner party once, the poet
Rogers was speaking Of the inconvenience
of having windows formed of one sheet of
glass. They look as if there was no glass,
he said. A short time ago, as / sat at the
table with my back to one of these panes
it appeared to me that the window was
open, and such was the force of my imagi-
nation that actually took cold.
Dear me, said Babbage, who sat OPP
positc, how odd it is, Mr.. Rogers, that you
and 1 should make such different use of
the faculty of imagination. When l sleep
unexpectedly away from home, and conse-
qucntly have no night cap, would naturally
catch cold. But by tying piece of black
thread tightly around my head, / go to
sleep imagining | have night cap on, and
catch no cold at ALL
The late DR.. Marshall Hall of England,
said: III was seriously i'll with consumption
| would live out of doors day and night, cX-
ccpt in rainy weather and mid-winter; then
would sleep in an upholstered log house.
! Physic has no nutrimcnt, gasping for air
cannot cure you, monkey capcrs in gym
nasium cannot cure you and stimulents
| cannot cure What consumptivcs want is
| air. not physic-purc air not mcdicated air
plenty of meat and bread"
Scott half despised the art of novel-writ-
ing, says Il writer in Temple Bar. lie
wrote TO satisfy no inward sense of artistic
| beauiy--not to cmbody the tecming forms of
Il shadow haunted brain, but to build Alb
botsford; he wrote which would sell best.
| On the other hand. Bulwcr held the art of
novelist second to none. Writing was to
him a necessity strong as speech-thc out
pourings.of soul Overlooking with passion
that would have utterance. No man was
ever more eager for istinction-yearncd
more for fame and appropriation yet to
obtain them he never departed from the
ideal artistic standard which.hc had fixed
in his mind.
"Pour in knowledge gently" Plato one
ofthc wsest men of ancient Greece, OBJ
served that the minds of children are like
bottles with very narrow mouths if you
attempt to fill them too rapidly, much
knowledge was wasted and little received,
whereas with small stream they were
easily filled. Those who would make
young children prodigics act as wisely as il
they would pour pail of water into pint
! measure.
At mission Sunday school not long
since, Il little boy in the infant class was
seen crying bitterly. The teacher upon in
quiry, learned that he hadilost his mother,
and she in Sympathy remarked to the schol'
airs that no one knew what loss it was til
they had lost mother and that Jonny hat
good cause for crying. At this moment q
little urchin jumped up and said, Oh, teach.
or, you just wait till he gets II stcp-mother
and then you'll hear him cry?'
The peculiar obliviousness of Il certain
class of authors as to all temporal consider
ations is nicely illustrated by an anecdotC
of T. W. Parsons, the poet. In running
some of his Dante work through theil
presses, his publishing house was annoyed
by the unconscionable time he kept tho
proofs. In answer to II request he sen
back not the proofs, but this word ~ ex-
poet to be student of Dante to all eternity
and, therefore, cannot afford to be hurried
by the cxigcncics of your house. Tn.
fortunately, the publishing business does
not extend into eternity, which may talliat'
if not excuse the unseemly haste of publish
ers to have proofs returned by authors be
fore everybody concerned is dead.