The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-07-24
NEW YORK LITTER,
/" Reasonable !" Talk About
Fashion, Men and
Politics.

From our Own Correspondent.
NEw YoRK, July II, '73.
Of all seasons OF the year this is by
all odds the dullest in the Metropo.
lis. 1t is the season Of recreation
and business lassitude when, as much
through habit and fashion as any
thing else, all who can afford to do
SO, and can get away, 60 TO the sea-
side and rural retreats, TO Europe, 70
the mountains,-any where, in fact,
for recuperation and change. The
comforts at public houses, in water
ing places, in tents and cottages, IN
seven by nine rooms aud curtain par.
titions to sleeping apartments, arc
not as great as they are at home, to be
sure, but then 1t is the mode and, per-
haps, after all the mere change OF
scene does one good. It is certainly
blessing tor those o'erourdened
---:.i - .~:is ard sssA;s.,oiis Of city
lie ten months in thu year, 10 get
out OF the ruts of routine operations
the remaining two; to have the
blood started afresh in the veins, to
give the liver jolt, to STIR the DOR
mant digestive apparatus, and in a
word to take new lease on life.-
In this busy, wmi ling, exhaustive
lite, the STRAIN must occasionally let
w, or the silver chord will be sud.
denly loosed and the golden bowl
broken. There are many who pre-.
fer 10 remain in their own cosy and
comfortable homes in town, where
they can have the luAurles OF all
climes, large AIRY sleeping apartments,
the enjoyments OF a bath and many
other advantages which render lite
enjoyable, and to which tho average
country resort is . stranger; but
then those mostly belong to the cant
getaway club, with whom il may be
said, the grapes are souri,
The ranks Of tho funny writer's
have lately received an accession in
the person OF James NJ. Bailey, who
presides over the destinies Of the
Danbury (Con.) Nsws. I have be.
fore mo q volume OF Lis writinge,
just issued by q Boston publishing
house. composed of quirks and quips
selected from bis paper. Mr.. Bailey's
sole literary aim and end is evident
" to make people laugh, but If his
writings have q moral, Iiall to dis
cover it. His humor is rather gro
tcsque than fine, md his art consists
in presenting the Incidents Of every
day life in bizarre relation. He il
illustrates the thousand and one little
perplexi,ies Of life amusingly, and
with o certain homely truthfalness,
that makes The most trivial Of hil
| sketches entertaining reading. Whe
| ther like most OF his predecessors il
the same field, he will "go up like
rocket and come down like stick,
or whether he will earn an enduring
reputation as humorist, will, o
course depend upon the elements Q
growth there are 10 him.
The wonderful tide Of immigration
that flows in upon our shores iron
the old world, as increasingly as tn
waves Of the Atlantic. recallssstbe in
tu,tiye utterance OF the gifted Bisl'
op Berkeley" Westward tho Star Q
Empire takes its way" Observation
establishes it that the SUMS course
not more true from east to west tia
! is the course Of emigration from tn
ovsrcrowded populations Of Enrop
/ to the United States, along tho roat
Of fixed .paIallolIs Or, a. scientifl
| men Il crm it, isothermal lines. An
whom, a. at the present time, fro'
thirteen to seventeen thousand SOU