New-York tribune., 1874-07-18

Here is n problem which recommend tO the
schooboys who are now in their vacations aud have
nothing better to do than to prove how much their
studies of the past Winter have proited them: II
a comet that comes no nearer to our earth than TWO
millions of miles-say little less than elght times
the distance of the moon from our planet-ean do 80
much mischief as has been done by tins one what
might not have happened if, was at one time
promised il had wrapped us about with ITS tallF
For if we do not slander our present Vlslt0f't
has set Chicago on fire, and has made MS Ne"-loik-
ers perspre enough to put her out; II has turned
Theodore TiltOn's head, and made even iiaNeneNf
confess that discretion is the better part oi nh'-
ness: it has made the penny-wise people of Mas'a-
chusetts cry dam" again, and the poundfooiNh
people of our city SHUT up Tray, Blanche and Sweet
heart
Hounds aud greyhounds mongrel' spauels' curs'
suoughs. water-rugs, and demi-wOiNes,'
and kill them off as if dogs were the only people
who are afflicted with hydrophobia. No doubt, too,
this meteor of ours has done his best to rival Nil.
tons glorious comet
"That fires the length OF Ophiucus huge
In tn arctic -ky, and from lls hOrfld hhr
Shakes pe>tienCe ana war
For war ours has stirred up the Indians again, the
Indian question being sort of canned trouole the
condensed milk of human unkindness We find II 30
handy to have III National housekeeping, while
probably the only for our LOT having a. Yet
had pestilence is that we have Street Commits
sioner any longer keep city dirty the streets
being now swept as clean as if Police Commits
sioner died and was buried every day. ~ one re-
spect our comet not having been able TO do enough
of its own proper mischief, has usurped a power
that the great poet just quoted ascrDes 10 the sun
in-eclipse who with fear of change pcrpleNes mon
archs.p We thought were well rid OF the specie
payment difficulty, but 1t cannot have ESCAPED
observation that, since the comet has come nearer,
the fear of small change has been perpleXlng our
monarchs in the House of Representatives,, and by
actual count the members of that august body WHO
prefer rags to money are in a formidable majority
Baskerville lname dear 10 boolcoll'ctorS Is also
the name OF a reverend gentleman belonging TO tho
Presbytery of Chesapeake. BY that body has tbs
apostle been tried for the rigid discipline 10 which
he has forced Mrs Baskerville TO submit. One >ur-
day morning he found eggs on his breakfast table.
Now, eggs, when they are perfectly fresh, whether
simply and softly boiled, decatey fried, or trans
formed into the toothsome omeette are both healthy
and Modifying morning food. But in this case they
had no such effect upon the steIUly lig0us nature
of the Rev. Mr. Baskerville. where did you ge'
these eggs, Mrs. BIZ he gravely asked lhe poor
woman forced TO confess that She had violated
the commandment and prOfaned the Sabbath ~
borrowing the said eggs OF a neghbor. This wa'
more than the rigid NJ. Baskerville could bear Dis
honor that sweet Sabbath morning by borro"ms
eggs! 1t was dreadful duty but such wickednt's
he must punish; and 50 he punched Mrs. i. IN inc
eye. lie said he would teach her 10 deseerate mo
Sabbath, Yes he would, even if forced hlnsei
to desecrate it by engaging in the manual lsbord
slapping her face and pulling her hair. Avery sell
denying man, the Rev. II. l. c. Basker'iNe'
w as Mt he ready put his own soul IN peEi 10 s','
her's' So he slapped and pinched and then eaihS
went before the Prcsbytery TO be tried for dolhs ~
We really wish we knew what the eceleslas'l'"
judges did for bim-but the account breaks Oh III
tantalzing way, without telling Ms Perhaps 'hy
voted him new Family Bible, 40. full call eA'I'
gilt Perhaps they relieved him from iGrthe1 c'''F
cal labors.