The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-24


Boston Globe: There are many in.
ventiOus of comparatively recent date
which the world could not wholly lOse
without considerable Inconvenience.
Among these ARE the print Dg press,
steam engine, the sewing machine and
the common brass pin. The pin Is "A
sort OF distant and l0wly relative of the
sewing machine. The former was the
earlier born, but the latter is the most
Conspicuously honored. One does Its
work with exceeding quietness; the
other organizes national revolutions.
The one IL a nimble servitOr which
falls lightly into its own place the
other eClipSes the distress Of millions
and takes the tremor from the song Of
the shirt The one often gets irrecOv-
erabIe lost, and provided its fellow be
near 10y, nobody cares for the wan
dereG the other is always at hSnd, and
sometimes very muuh IN the way The
one becomes disabled and il rul hlessly
cast OUT the other, In its intirmi,y, is
often carefully tended hy professional
expert. The one, in It's pristine aud
individual integrity, j. always 70 tie
sought for; whole tribes Of the other
disappear and are no more seen ur
heard Of Though the pin be tut litlle, |
it is sometimes, like Hernia, fierce, |
and it's Influence uloH civilization Is |
By no meuu- 10 be overlooked. Toe |
spell hound ass mtlies, ia which n pin |
might have been heard to drop, are
not intrcQueut occurrence At the |
Monday lectures the wonderful sound |
OF the dropping pin may have been
percpptlble. Had IL fallen in some
parts of the hall it might, pr 81 8,
have made an audible noise, even dnr-
ing the {" QaughterhD or the Gap
plau c,") Such is the power of the pin.
The boy who knows well the posi-
bilities which inhere with this slight
implement
Oh, what are the prizes We perish to win
TO the first little "shiner' we cAtgh with
pinl
The pin itself WAS little sinner.
SiBlilju SinlHiJuS c,Ud1tur The spor-
tive who swings his bare feet from
the decaying log at the brook side,
Watching, with the twinkle Of fun in
his eye, for The twinkle OF fin in the
water, is different sort If child from
the suppos,tious one who murnurs in
the verse, "l'm sorry they let me 60
down tC the hruok.n Boys are slow
t. learn tEat fishing is cruel sport
Indeed, the question is not wholly
settled in the adult mind. Isaac
Walton WAS toerab'y amiable man
who loved to 20 fishing. Byron was
a passionate poet and a passionate
man, The latter said of the former
that he wished
The quaint old cruel coxc0mb in his gullet,
Had sharp hook and II small trout to
pullit.
But the uatchiog Of fish continues
and it is so desirable that men, and
even great nations, are willing to disa-
gree concerning 1t,
Malicious urchins have been known
to place the pin, in perverted shape,
on the seat of the schoOlmate who Is
temporarily engaged at elOcution. The
reader is npt u supplement his task by
the remark, cough" This interJec-
ton brings the teacher around, anu
great trouble ensueS. The boys "set-
tie il at recess. Such Is the power OF
the pin. Every boy knows the pin to
be thing of value, because it Is u sin
to steal it. He often trafiics in ii. Pins
medium. He pays certain number
OF Them for n superior Slate pencil or
an extraordinary specimen OF spruce
gum. The pin hrs for ages been the
emblem OF neatness. This accounts
for its relations to the tidy" on the
chair in which you sit, and from
whence, in a c0wardly and insidious
manner it sometimes penetrates the
tile capillary covering OF the Uranium,
and more too.
A single pin may become the cause
OF much controversy, "a when the per-
foratiOns made by one in certain dOcu'
n ents were the subject Of argument
by learned counsel in recent ceIe'
bruted trial at la. The orator
who il entertaining q vast multi
tude of his felow.citizens may al the
point Of perOraliOu become suddenly
and painfully aware OF the presence ~
foreign sui stance in the back OF MS
neck. There il dissolution OF the al
Justment between the pin and the doZ-
Ell folds - eravat and collar. There Is
sudden and subtle and searce'percep-
tible sharpness in the tones OF the
speaker. lie has been wounded at the
base of the brain.
Notwithstanding the well proved
impe-tsuce OF the pin, II is sometimes
used as the type OF insgniIicance'
Hamlet did not hold his life Eat pins
lee" There are hundreds Of persons
Who "do not care q pin" for the opln'
ions Of Others. Some persons, but
Their number IL limited. "dD not care
arrow of pins" These appear 20 have
comparative regard for public senti'
ment Pins, like jokes, or horses, are
almost worthless unless they have
good points, and, like great politicians,
they are OF little use when they have
lost their heads.
No Poet More Honestly Loves His