New-York tribune., 1879-03-27
work to clean and drain their streets, We shsI
have more faith in the good to be accomplished b,
National appropriations.

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National appropriations.
| The trial Of the Rev. DIR. Tamage ought IN a.
| q somewhat serious business but what with IN.
eccentricities Of the reverend defendant and tbs
disposition of the audience TO take q cheerful view
Of the matter there is rather more laughing in
the room than is consistent with the grave paturs
Of the affair. There was really at one time ssm.
talk Of turning out tho audience, and OF sittin,
with closed doors The Moderator seems TO have
put the matter with areasOuabIe degree of precision
when he said: "It is allowable to laugh when
anything Of q funny nature occurs, but beyond
this, hope the audience will repress themselves,
This was surely reasonable, for why should the
audience laugh when nothing there was to lauoh
at DR.. Crosby wanted to know if the spectator,
were to be allowed to indulge IN cloud laughter
and all the Moderator could say was that it wasa
difficult point to decide-that is, just how sOnorous
the vaccinations might properly be. DR.. Crosby.
to whom the laughing not agreeable whethe,
it was loud or moderate, wanted the graduation of
the gggles definitely fixed. DIR. Spear put it in a
highly scientific way. He begged Of the audience
to keep their respiratory organs under such con.
troll as not to produce the vibratory motion result.
ing in sound" This had a restraining effect upon
the spectators, and for time there was not 90
much "derisve laughter" Putting the religions
any need that there shOud be such constant havoc
made of its dignity We suppose that both the
tribunal and the respondent are in earnest The
public might be more inclined to think so il the
comic element were, once for ali, eliminated from
the proceedings.
Well. we don't blame him. He lived in New
Hampshire, and his name was Ebenezer Leathers.
Ebenezer could be modified or molliGed 10 Eben.
hoe ch. nj l..
what can you do with Leathers There seems to be
reason why LeatheTs should not sound as well as
Montagu or Plantaganet but the stubborn fact re-
mains that it dOesn Uttered seriously or affection
atey suggests irony. Uttered lightly, Leathers has
quality of chaff in it. Eben Laethers determined
to be Eben Laethers no longer Soshe went to tho
Legislature and prayed that he might be called
something else-n fact, that hereafter he might bo
called Rutherford B. Hayes 1t was rather pre-
pOsterous prayer, but the good-natured Solons
granted 1T. lie had all directories before him where
to choose, and he chose TO he r. B. II. Now let him
call his children after the Secretaries, and what
pretty household cabinet he will have!
An wful warning TO the over-facetious comes to
US from sherman, Texas. There a funny man,
Mr. Douglas, also postmaster, addressed few
humorous remarks of a personal character TO Luke
Edmondson which, so far from exciting the rls-
bilihes of Luke, filed him with dOmineering
passion, and caused him to seize his shotgun
and to blow out the jocOSe brains of the
untnely jester. Never will this YOrick
of Texas utter another quip Let us hope
that he has passed from Earth to Paradise which
viii certainly be great improvement upon Sher-
man, Texas, even If facetie there forbidden
1t seems that as one of the hard conditions of liv
ing in Texas one must not be funny as he can
Possibly Douglas added the aggravation of puns,
and these may have been the straws which broke
the back of EdmOndsOn's equanimity.
sad town. Gloucester, Mass, must be. The Feb
rnary storms made fifty-seven widows and $50 or
phans there. with by 10 means large population
Very few railway collisions are followed by such an
aggregate of mortality is here suggested. while
the bereavement comes in o mass to one locality
Gloucester has good many benevolent societies.
but the wants which these shpwrecks have ere
ated are too numerous for their limited resources
and they are asking for outside aid. Money OF sup
plies may be sent to any of the following organza
tions: The Gloucester Fshermen's and Seamens
Widows and Orphans Aid Society; the Female
Charitable Association, and the Gloucester Relief
Association. All these respectable and trnst
worthy. and will prove judiciOus almoners of any
bounty which may be forwarded.