The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-28
Ina. the universal bon. of contention ia the jaw

The editor proves his staten emit true by that
one occasion. when two boys were pummelling
each other, third cried out In the language OF
Virgil Soc et To em Romeo.
The attention OF scientific men has lately been
called 70 q very curious physiological problem. The
matter was frst broached by Dublin paper, which
announced that Wilson, the celebrated vocalist who
hac been overturned in carriage, was nevertheless
able TO keen his engagement and actually appeared
on the following evening in three piecos
some OF the Wall street gentlemen who have found
the gridiron oil speculation uncom Portable place,
aud who have only done been undone thereby,
will appreciate these obituary lines:-
Monday dabbied in stock operations
Tuesday owned millions, by all calculations,
Wednesday my Fifth avenue palace began,
Thursday drove out a spanking bay span;
Friday gave maRnihcent ball,
And saturday "smashed'' with nothing at all.
There is nothing quite SO consoling as philosophy.
II things 60 wrong they will begin 10 Strengthen
themselves out wnen you begin to growl al them.
Good luck 10 apt TO come back II you keep good tenn
peTed and If you do not there's htte demon in tho
air who takes delight in snarling you up moro and
more. Keep grumbling, and he lounges round; but
have hearty laugh and he folds up his tent like tho
Arab and silently steals away. A man got used
to anything, and make 81 It, instead OF butting
81 life like an angry goat he tries to mako the best
OF matters. Punch makes one OF his heroes say of
test OF mans endurance: -'sAh we'll, my dear TEL
low marriage is the best thing in tho long run aud
can assure you that alter year two man gets
used and feels just jolly If ne had never mar
ried at alL"
The English language is sometimes vory bcwilder-
ing, II We may Judge by the following ADVERTISEMENT
which Is to- good not 10 BIO hibernian:-Purse lost
by poor woman who has sick child containing
thirteen shiilings and a letter" We have heard Of
att.-
mode life modern times develops, but 10 havea
child ''contaning thirteen shilngs ana letter" 10
almost TOO UGH bear
lnordiuate curiosity Is what gets into hall our
quavrels. Ii man would just mind hts own business
and let his neighbor alone tho amount Of brothcrIy
love the world would be doubled in week. But II
we happen to hear anything derogatory now we
stretch out with cngcr listening, and when
We tell what we have how natural " Is 10 whitte
down the sting OF 1t 10 a nne point Every man ana
woman in the world rather likes to hear something
bad ABOUT the person who lives next door When
this curiosity offensive It Is very ludicrous
Frenchman was sitting at the same table with West
ern hoosier who ate voracisusly. The Frenchman
was astonished beyond measure and said 'Sare, vii
you pc polite tell dat your breakfast or
your dinuer vat you make 2" High words and q duel
followed. AS the Frenchman lay dying, he said, 80,
monsieur, sail die happy II you will tell me- was
dat your breakfast or your dinnsr vat you maker"
Blusterers are very seldom brave. When man
gets right angry but says nothing look out Tor
him. The volcano is working and by and by there
will DO an explosion. But when man threatens to
The city IRE, crush the planet IN his nst and
works himself into a lever OF terrible exccms why,
that's his vent, that's all He'll feel easier when he
has talked himself nearly death, and b. quite ready
to forgive his worst enemy. A blustersr in The
presence OF pale faced towards 10 terrible avenger
but when hc looks into The face Of real man
sinks like dog who barks iuriously till you take
tho whip to him. and then shuts his tail between his
legs and runs of with fearful ki-y. Alas il was
Yankee this tine. In d. OF anger he brandishsd
huge carving kniie and exclaimed, Who darss 10 say
that he don't like bssY II looked Ike tragedy.
stout Engishman went up him, however, and said,
~ say so' The Yankee saw that he had mis- match.
10 simply replied. ''ws n that's SO, you can have
mutton, l suppose" Great takers havsn't the timo
or the inclination 10 do much.
This is from the Hebrew ethical writings Of the
Middle Ages. and yet II is inappropriate to our
own days Three chief organs God created IN man
the ear, the eye and the tongue-0ut 10 each he at
tached the means OF guarding against abuse TO the
he attached the lap ready means TO stop hear
ing when III spoken Of thy neignbor 10 thy prssonce
the ego protected by lids that mayest always
be able 10 cover them when unseemy sights pre-
sented; and the tongue, tho most precious, and,
~ the same time, dangerous organ. hc encased
q double wall Of flesh ard bone that thou mayess
understand that rsdoubed watchfuinsss Is neces
sary Says tho Tamud - "A rabbi babe his servant,
ON q Friday morning, go to the market and purchase
the best thing he could find for the sabbath. The
servant brought him a tongue The following Friday
he comma ndcd him TO 90 TO the market and buy the
worst thing he could nnd. Again he brought
tongue" 1t is the best grit rightly used, the worst
II abused. Life and death arc in the tongue.
Some people who are In the habit Of breaking their
word when 1t Is inconven.ent to keep IT, and not
prlcked in their conscience thereby, make a great
pom, Of their honor. when they make promise which
they would IKE TO keep Hcrod made oath give
the eau ghter OF Herodiss whatever she might ask
when she demanded the head OF John tho Baptist ne
sighed heavily, said he couldn't break his word and
sent some one out TO oehsad John. A little SUNDAY
school girl, whie ponderiug the story, said al
guess ifshe had asked for his own head Herod would
have icit himself obliged to keep his word" and
possibly she not far IRON the truth.
WHAT a wonderful sonorousness there Ia In these
lines on the eternal pendulum They remind one Of
. clarion that makes itself hoard everywhere
swing on, old pendulum OF the world
Forever and forever,
Keeping the time OF suns and stars,
The march that endsih never.
Your monotone speaks toy and grief
And failure and ehdeavor;
Swing on, old pendulum, to and fro,
Forever and forever.
Lcng as you swing shall Garth be glad
Aud men be partly good and bic,
And ach hour that passes by
tn ousand souls DO Dor AMI DE
Die iron, the Garth 10 live, trust,
Unsnacxicd, unssd with dust.
Long us you swing shall wrong come right
AS sure morning follows night;
the days 10 wrong: tho ages never;
swing on, old penduum--swing forever!
Human nature is a conundrum which u Is hard to
guess. II Is many sued enigms, the meaning OF
which most psopc give up sooner or later. sun tho
aide that has perplexcd most Is how mother
should be wiling TO allow her daughter
to engage In me risky enterprise OF mar.
rying bal man with the hope OF re-
forming him whether II is supposed that tho mscr-
eros Of such married lilo viii have tendency to
sober him. or whether II Is imagined tina, the girl
who Gnds II Impossible to influence the