The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-22
CHAT BY THE WAY.

CHAT BY HE WAY.
Great truths and great men always simple.
A young man ran away with a vessel the other day
1t in full rig and the theft very crafty one.
| 1t one Of st. Paul's weaker vessels"
| Edison is at work patent lever, He says he
expects be able to raise anything with it except
| possibly minister salary.
Broils are good in their places, but they should
| never be taken into the room when the family
| gathers.
| There are very few people in the world who can
| grow better by taking themselves for pattern.
The man who will tell one lie will tell another
about the first and after that the dam is broken and
| you may look ont for freshet.
| All men are equal twice-when they born and
! when they die. In the interim between birth aud
death some look down with contempt. while others
! look up with envy.
This beautiful thought is from Allyn
| The fine and noble way to kill foe
Is not to kill him. You with kindness ma,
So change him that he shall cease to be so;
Then he's slain.
Good English is not always necessary to express
| deep feeling withal. We in hopes and
fears whether we have studied the grammar or not
| We all what the German meant. though We
| might not say it in the same way
But he ashleep in ped
So quiet a mouse.
Iprays der Lord '.D&ke anydings,
But leave dot fawcob strauss
Language is sometimes very suggestive. II is not
always necessary to boldly state disagreeable fact
1t can be limited at in such way by one who is
master of his native tongue that it will be per-
fectly understood - though it discussed for
| an hour. lis your master upY' asked gentleman
of q servant early morning. YES SIR the
| significant reply; 1--WE carried him up ut two
| o'clock
There Is something very remarkable about logic and
as for inferences-well. man may draw one per-
fectly though he never studied to be artist A
gentleman was sitting in his library smoking Ha-
vana. A friend entered who a fanatic
the subject of tobacco. Tobacco" he said, with
great fervency, lis the prince of evils. To-
bacco leads to drink, drink leads to theft.
theft leads to murder. Even pig has enough
not to smoke" The argument seemed conclusive.
and the last statement assuredly correct
The gentleman puffed huge cloud into the air and
| began to ponder. DO you tell me-" he said at
length chat pig wouldn't smoke % Most
surcdly he would not" the emphatic reply.
"Ah and you say also that you yourself wouldn't
smoke 2" II ?" the horror-struck reply: II
never" well. then, quietly answered the student
of the nductive method, lit seems to me that you
more like the pig than am.
$50 you are a slave and a colorcd man. said an
Englishman to q darby he looked At his black
face and wondered what gave him such . complexion.
Eyes. massa Use slave, but Use not q colored man,
was the reply. Not coloreds' and there was sur
prise in his tones. "No, massa. not colored was
born So"
We know all about Moses now. Colonel Ingersoll
has taken ecturing the subject and he talks
though he had been the private secretary of the great
legislator What Busch is to Bismarck that Ingersoll
to Moses. He knows more than anybody else.
and he tells more than he knows. 1t is wonder that
one such brain contain much. Biblical scholars
have been at work for centuries; but in short
lecture he has told than they all have been able
to find out. Gentlemen to whom Hebrew is a
mother tongue do not know half as much as niger
soil has guessed Such is the penetrative force of
his genius that he things which
do not exist. and such the fantastic power
OF his Imagination that when he wants to find fact
he find il whether 1t is there not. The only
thing for this generation to do If it knows what is
good for itself is to ask Moses to step down and out
and then ask Ingersoll to make himself into brazen
image. that may all worship him. He has tho
material hand in great abundance to make such
image of colossal proportions. He asserts with such
of authority that Moses did not write the Book
OF Genesis that he puts the question into mouths
"Did you write it yourself. Colonel p His native
| modesty. however. refuses an answer.
Mr. Beecher's ideas Of immortality are almost az
loose his ideas Of Congreg stonasm. and language
| can no further go. He hopes to some dogs and
| horses in heaven. and knows why they
shouldn't be there. There obstinate mule the
other day who deliberately kicked can Of nitro
| glycerne. He did not stand upon the order OF his
going but At once and in very great hurry. We
don't know how far of heaven isi e., Mr.. Beecher
| heaven-but unless it Is long distance away that
mule won't right through 1t and landed in the other
| place. Yes. the argument 10 fair one; If good
horses who never buck and shy go to heaven.
| then il must follow that wicked mules who kick
| cans OF nitro-glycerine go somewhere else. And
where did Mary's little lamb gos The poet has told
| US. One day
II strayed into the street
James Bropley locked " in his house
And claimed IL for his meat.
| Then little Mary went 10 court,
Her sorrows to relate;
The lamb sent into the pound,
And sold M all the state ments put forth are
correct) for "hfty cents plate, mint sauce added
There will be very few preached in New
| York to-day which will better up the whole
than the speech OF the little boy who said II
want to grow gooder and gooder every day Of my
4 life. Amen"
We have seen the story many times, but 1t IL In.
ternittent In its nature, and insists being told
| again. what shall preach aboutY' said an uptown
minister to the pastor OF colored flock which lie
was to address. We'll, most any subject will be
'ceptable" was the reply, "ony I'd like TO glib you
| one caution "Ah aud what Ia thatY' We'll, Ell 1