Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-08
ASTEROIDS.

There arc some huge cOnUUdrUmS avail ting
solution in this great country of ours; for
example, the poetry or Walt Whitman,
which appears to an ordinary mind to be
nothing but mere shattered catalogue Of
words, vet which IS setting all literary Eu-
rope 10 wondering, and ecIipsing the pOpu-
laTity Of even LOngfeilOw and Lowell in that
country. 1t i not at all strange 10 find peO-
pie over the sea who claim 10 like Whitman.
when q large class of our upper ten thousand
people look Owly and feign to love and com
prehend Swinburn and Robert Browning.
IL is said that Douglas Jerrold was at one
time cOnvalescing from q severe Illness.
when he asked his good wife To select him a
cook 10 read from the library. She handed
him Robert Browning. BY and by he again
called her and requested that she take the
book and read from the same page he had
been perusing. She did SO, and he then said,
My dear, what is IL about" She replied
that she did not know. GOD be praised"
he spoke out Il thought / had lost nv
mind, when it's only Browning that's csazy.''
It's great Dodge in these degenerate days
with certain class TO speak Of reading and
hiking obscure authors, when the fact of the
whole matter is they are too shallow Drained
and ignorant to Ompreheud our plaineSt and
most simple writers. Many persons, also.
read poetry for the simple Jingle and melody
OF the verse, while, if il contain any senIi-
ment at all, they lose sight Of it. Still there
Is not even rhyme or rythm in Whiman's
productions, but there are now and then
gems that flash out like the CLEANS of a star
from between tire ragged edges of counter
drifting clouds, but they are too few and far
between, and without the enchantmant Of
time and melOdious euphOny 10 be popular
with the human heart.
After the advent Of spring with Its dearJh
of amusements il will be exceedingly re-
freshing-lndeed, we might say, it is soft
hell-craoS-on- toast after hard tack. TO think
and TO really kHO,U, beyond the peradventure
OF an if or but, that the season OF the circus
and the base ball is upon us. Happy people!
We have already had an installment of the
first, and, with the evidence of Dom Piatt,
the presence of the far woman. the bald
headed baboon and the temperance family
1n-WaX, we can assure our cOlOred friends
that the institution has not changed, and
that they will have plenty of chances To
spend what loose cash they can skirmish
together and clamp on, outside of "dat air
Freedman's Bank which am done gone an
shut up dar, }" before winter comes and freezes
them into alternating quarters. But base
ball is cOmmencing-a little slow, to be sure,
but steady and certain. Broken fingers and
iodine are already on hand, for base-ballist
besmears his fists with iodine just as surely
as a barber eats garlic. We met one OF
these knights of the sphere and willow in
full uniform yesterday. He was sweet aud
fascinatingiyoung rooster, and we thought
how we would like him for a son; but never
mind, he'll match mother-in-iaw some of
these times, and that will bring things even.
He had been clip't and sand papered ..;ntJl
the hack part of his Uranium Clicking ont
from beneath his little cap, looked precisely
IKE the Dutt-end OF coc0anut, his pedal ex
tremities being shod in uugainly canvas
shoes, while he carried a whacking great bat
as long as the Beecher- Tilton trial. sOut on
fy"-fifty cents admission.
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AT the present time the outlook for en-
ployment for those of our colored population
who have been living on hope, faith, and
charity all winter long, is anything but en-
couraging. In word, work-that is labor
sufficient to decently support them and their
families, is not, and wifi not be in the city
this coming summer and autumn. But there
is always q demand for the willing laborer
in the country, and there is the place 10 90.
1t is cheaper living, and the children are re-.
moved from squalor, contagious disease,
temptation, and idleness.