The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-11

ia going into the hands of printers, while
Bond street Is place for jewellers. Then
fashion got up to Union square and Four
teenth street, with the lower part of the
Fifth avenue. These places, however, are
now devoted to trade, and fashion finds its
centre near Madison square, half mile
farther up town. Amid these changes the
leaders of fashion are soon forgotten.
can remember when Phil Hone was a lead
er of style, but now his name graces an old
lottery establishment, carried on by his
grandson.
MORE CHANCES.
Sam Ward, once fashionable man, now
enjoys the bequest of the late Mrs. Chan.
Ter, who has left him 81 200 year, which
Will keep him alive. Thirty years aro he
was one Of the magnates of Wall street.
Many of the former leaders of fashion are
now pensioners on their friends-and have
lived to see new butterflies sport their hour
in the blaze of external display. / notice
the recent death of one of these former
fashionables, the late James f. Penniman,
who once was among the stars of Four
teenth street. He started in life poor, but
got a situation with Sam Judd, once so ia
nous as a refiner of sperm OIL Judd was
an Englishman, and was the frat to bleach
OIL with alkali, and this specially made him
rich. Pennlman married Judd's daughter,
and became stylish. Their mansion in
Fourteenth street was noted tor its display,
but at present it contains a SNOWY clothing
establishment. Their wealth has probably
to large degree gone with it. Such are
some of the changes which have come un-
der my observation. Speaking of change,
""' Tod to notice what Byron SAYS:
Talk not OF seventy years as age; In seven
nave seen more changes down from mon
The humblest individual under heaven
Ihan might suiilce moderate century
through"
TIE DUAL LIFE.
The fact that some men lead dual life
is one of the peculiarities of our race. In
addition to Byron and Rousseau, we may
refer to Eugene Aram, who was the most
learned man of his day, and yet his true
life was not amid his studies, but in mid
night thievery, which resulted in murder,
for which he was hanged. Another instance
is found in the history of the great artist,
Turner. Who that views the glowing and
enchanting creations of this master would
imagine that his highest delight was found
amid the lowest haunts Of london? 1t is
now, however, a well-admitted fact that for
many years he frequented, under an as
sumed name, the degrading scenes of low
debauchery, where his real life found de-
velopment. 1t is the old myth of the Cen
taur-half man and half beast. For time
this leads to duality Of character. but
eventually one of the other must triumph.
1t is my conviction that Byron at frst es-
sayed a grand impersonatIon of himself
idealised in poetry. but that he became in
different to this as he sank under the power
of an evil life. BY the time he had reached
his 3Oth year, he had got tired of the role
Of Chido Harold lie then opened his
real character in Don Juan, a poem which
in its wide range Of thoughts its wit, its
brilliancy, its occasional gems of exquisite
beauty, and also its more Objectionable pas.
sages, form a correct picture of the Byron
ic mind. Here his letters and his poetry
harmonic, and we have that sad spectacle
of the polluted genius which is SO often de
plored by
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