New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-17

riainal woman who could ntly I'll she bill is married.
She is fat, too. The form once fairy would now ut
the canoe TOO well and she could MT paddle
no web as she couid wsAdle. Why do beaut'-
frL girIs Indan-bred or Rye, marry and ger
fat Anacrson's self could MT write woman np h
she insisted on " pulling the scale down. Only TWO
short Summers ago | wyobe lynx to this same
Sarah. u began:
She 10 young,
She h. far,
VIII a rose on her lips
And in her hair.
How aye the lines to be modified 70 conform 70
present conditional Were ste a widow twouid De
easy enough to say
She rs young,
With a weed IN her mouth.
And weed IN her has-
Rnt she's not a widow-dy di NC Alhagd Snine-
times say in ny haste that | will write verses no
more. but just coniine myself 10 maga%ihe A''''oS'
editorials. and such stuff
Apropes of avoirdnpois. yesterday a friend AN"
myself guessed on the weight of lHIy "h1 s.id sho
had that morning been weighed. Ny friend guessed
within pound hit the exact weight 10 an ounce.
He declared that | had the lady weighed, ana
would not he persuaded to the contrary though
gave nv word. Now, 70 tell the truth about II
and explain the accuracy OF my guess Leu NE con-
Tess: dla her Waue-aL l@ohS ID -4i' "A
The idea of appealing to me regarding LADY
weight-though indeed, ought 70 know something
about IL. having been made 10 wait BY and for them,
long and often But If one knows something sbout
ANYTHING il is taken for granted that he knows
something about everything. Because I'm well No
ou Finance iJ by no means follows that Pm aa ta'f
in French However, over Oh IA opposite corner IL
DISPLAYED a g aiosc hOwtz-name OF fearful souLd
and dreadful meaning, q MISUNDERSTANDING III hoSes
and Confectinnr. V Ay does every one come seen
me- 20 find ont what is meant by confecsonS !.
should saw at a rcrgh guess that it must stand for
some sweet rifrr I'm bonnets hut I'm not a walking
Spiers AMI srrrnAe FOR all that. CONNECTIONS in tins
instance IS ci s,veerfneats. sure. The French spell
the like ~ that. c1utures Il Is absurd OF them 70
do it that way. I snow, but what wosld you expect
Of "a nation that spells hat c-ha-p-c-a-u lh'y
have no spelling-sclIools in France mor''s the pity
And I'm afraid chat good many Of them woald
have To sit down on k8ya,ieToeseras.
II seems re- me heres change come over the lake in
one Pespeet-feWer persons are seet NJ Moons ana
Nverss Where they 20 to Is a mystery 10 ne.
There's quite rs much 'hitsbng up as ever. ear
riage3 begin TO tFundle away from the hoteis al
about four IN the afternoon, dog carts roll Oh on
Yellow and red wheels, but drive out and you do not
ind the occupants at Moons. Follow on aad You
don: oven lind them at Myers You can't find shem
anywhere Not as IF old do they sir IN the piazzas
and swallow. as formerly, fried potatoes III GOV
geons sort # way. Not ~ Of yOre do you See two
souls with only single straw and sherry cobbler
between them looking ult upon tie lake. what tine
they gaze not one into the others eyes. Sometimes
I fancy that here we have the beginning of shat
contraction which Mr. Isaac Sherman talks about
that those who 20 TO drive take their own lunches
with tlcm and ,lt HIPS by the road-sIde, eat
iRg sold DO led POTATOES and ebee-e nOH.enlng 1Aielr
paates perhaps with lager to the manor born.
Where this contraction n TO end puzzles me. Ever
since Mr. Sherman began prea"hin- contraction -
ne. ever since I met him at Long Branch, III hic',
I've been contracting al that possibly couh. Eve
contracted debts on all sidcs 10 say mo'hing of the
contract " more bad Ia IA than yOn could stack
M III a ten-acre LOT but I'm nearer specie pay
nients or perfect bliss han zen years ago-nor 81
near If anything Impressed with the worthless
KISS ana immortality Of rag money, I've got T.'t OF
il as East as possible have even asss'ed NY Imam
el friend ia getting lid OF somc OF ms put,ine ~
a. on French pools in the name Of Jonathan Ld-
wards. for instance rye bought neither stocks nor
real estate for Sherman has shaken my confidence
in values tlae do not inhend to throw money away
on per.shable property when sPlir bamboo hy-rods
can se hal for forty-ive dollars apiece. III.
.tncks keep going up, and cannot yet afford 10 go
islllng.
Last Sunday instead Of going to church fooshiy
Went over to the United sJItes ana heard u iot oi
big Misunderstanding Hon. Chester Chapin. Tie
Hon. Richard L..;hcrs, and ny GaIniei, Isaac She4-
m.n-,liscuse finance. They proved plainly that the
soorAre The creditor class te rieh the debtor class,
contrary 20 the common Mea abeut 1t. But "a the
end of the conversation couldn't ascertain that a'y
one OF capitalists VINO took part IN 1t owed
ME awning. An indebtedness existed By ther own
proving hut ihe only who pnt his hand into las
waistcoat pocket was The Hon. Mr. Lathers and mat
was 70 take ont Adam smith on Political Economy.
President Chaplin didn't even by way OF squaFin2
accounts ofer me . pass over his railroad. Fd have
called !. even "a thI5 everyone else perhaps would
havo called /. odd. Sometimes think Pll abandon
finance altogether and devote myself 20 French.
JOHN PAUL.
RIFLE PRACTICE AT CREEDMOOH.