The Morning herald., 1875-08-26
o.. ...a....I=.I.l...l.,...a:,..,Ql:NE.G|::I:EENST:.
4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
HERALD RFFRoRTrE9 AMONG TIE BOOKS
! AND PAPERS OF THE INsTITUTE LIBRARY
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sl,!Y yiIA;F AZ sAw THERE AND
The FUNNY PEOPLE IL NET NET E p:',' r.
However common, rainy days are these
times, many 81 our citizens have yet to learn
how to pass them pleasantly. With such an
excellent library and comfortable room as
we'have H. our midst, tie solution of the
difficulty rs plain enough. 9iDo.as we did
yesterday afternoon; good -humoredly stack
your umbrella, unbutton your coat, judici-
ously pick your book, or paper, or magazine,
fall back into an arm chair in one of the
little hooks, fnrtively steal your feet up to,
the other end of the horizontal line running
from your head, and If you do not pronounce
yourself In excellent trim, you have nothing
in common with the Indifferent "Yr's Truly"
Out Of respect for the author, be he Homer
or Mark Twain one always glances through
the first chapter, but in such delightfully."-
Kaleidoscope place as the Wilmington
Library for the display of human nature, 1T
is very difficult to get over into chapter
second without looking up at yon old gentle
man just arrived. Let us watch him. He
dofs his hat, deposits the omnipresent UNI,
brella in its righiful place, gives longing .
glance at the historical books in the corner,
among which, by the way, there is local
work Of his own, rubs bis bald crown
and very gracefully places two hundred
pounds of official flesh in one of the seats
around the magazine table. For one hour
does he hold his benevolent counte-
nance within four inches fthe Contemporary
Reuieu, then with equal grace retires to
his municipal post where we hope that he
experiences no trouble in paying off the
workmen on the new basin. But here are
long rows at the newspaper files; very
small man trying to read the Courier-Jour
nal, the top of which paper is two feet above
him. "Humph," said Douglas Jerrold,
when at ball one night he saw very tall
man waltzing with very short woman.
"Humph, there's the mile dancing with the
Here in the corner, though,
who is that journalistic parsonage watching
so intently one particular part of the files,
and SO jealously contemplating the readers
thereof O, vanity of vanities, tits only
Wilmington editor weighing the popularity
of his own paper. r. "7. '.a
Not to mention the courteous young men
who habitually congregate about the en-
trance despite the "Ordered by the execu-
tive committee" etc., the young ladies, who
so costly nook themselves and so very pref
tily and pleasantly annoy people reading the
papers, are prominent feature of the room.
"Wall, wonder how many books this yer
place holds" said visiting Bostonian.
Said I, soto voce, "Wall, 'ner bout six thoue-
and, l expect" And according to the cata-
logue, which ] looked into few moments
afterwards, this is the correct number.
Most of these books are standard works.
some novels can be found however the reading
which would be very Improbable for Miss
Amelia, Of Delaware Avehue.f /Just look
at that Tauchnitz collection. "Ah, yes,'' :
replied, "a fine lot of books, very fine lot,
how many magazines do you have here?"
"About twenty y-all the first-class American
ones, and a few of the English periodicals.
On the files. there are some thirty papers,
coming from all parts Of the country
eyes, yes hem! Where are the Peninsula
papers :" - -. ,,,-
i''UOnC Keep any at ala HerefS the 4VG31-
tfactwrT and Builder, The Scientific Jour
val and.the London Engi'.cer for our machin-
sts. We take It to be an excellent part of
he .room--though, to tell the truth"
dded my informant, SHfthey arc only looked
nto occasionally" .....,,,,.,t ..,,.;
As in other libraries of more notoriety
han ours there is q set of "characters;"v
ookish, stoop-shouldered, learned old fel-,
ows who hate the chess players and their
oise. GH~51q ltiH' ihI5 .fIi ~ 'e.A' !e'. al'.
One of these can be rseen1,eeping into all y
he dusty books Of tbs library, rubbing his
pectacles and fanHs, ana IN the most
estate rnootly pfenIsome indccorous youth
'ith a tinical step glides. past, eoncealing y
rom the yigilant keeper of those ''brave
tensiis," d cigar lighted at Iindle's just
wo minutes before. ."A fine way to spend ~
rainy afternoon" qupth ''ee. Yes, try it.
PEacHEs TO EUROPE =
iii ..ittf "uihGG--4TWior ~. gl.rnr!
HE FIRST CARGO-THE ARRANGEMENTS
"A 4 n ~ opHi nnp 1,vry,oo,