The New York herald., 1879-09-21
CHAT BY THE WAY.

CdAI By IdE WAY.
The man who is blind to the faults of his friends
will And that he has unusually good eyesight when
he looks for their good qualities.
little girl said to her sister, who wanted to take
some cakes which her mother had left on the table,
mo, Mary. don't take any. for though mother didn't
count them. perhaps God did, and then there would
be trouble. you know"
We are apt to take the motto Of our lives from
cas- You Like it," AID it is always perfectly
cusable for us to do as please; but when
judge the lives Of our neighbors we read another
play and give Measure for Measure"
When q gentleman at banquet speaking of
friend OF his who had had the smallpox twice. and
had died of it. Irishman who inquired
whether the man died Of the first or of the second
attack.
1t is all very we'll to send q stupid young man
abroad that he may the world, but it is great
pity that the world should see him in turn.
French paper gives new illustration of the
general subjugaton to which every husband must
in turn submit Some one stepped lady's
long and magnificent train. and she turned
brusquely with a few choice epithets just
ready for leap from the end of her tongue.
1t was handsome stranger who stand
ing on her superfuous silk. The frown changed to
q smile, the adjectves retired to the inner depths
and in the most fascinating voice she said. Pardon
thought it was my husband"
There is q certain logic in business which is ex-
ceedingly fascinating. and great many persons do
business in the logical way to which refer. In
stance:-A gentleman bought horse Of . dealer
who was never before known to get the wrong END
OF bargain for his portion The agreement-and
q very simple and fair one It appeared to be-was
that one-half of the price named should be paid
down and that the buyer should owe for the other
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himself and demanded his pay our logician replied
that the horse had been paid for. How can that
be" cried the unhappy jockey. ''Its clear the
light" replied the man OF superior intelligence.
.'Our agreement was that should pay you one-half
| your price. which did, and that should owe you
for the other half" Exactly" said the jockey;
"those were the precise words and now I've come
for the other half; don't you see?' II prefer to
stand by my agreement. for q Of my
word" the philosopher responded. "and how in
the world can you for the second half OF your
price. IS promised would il L pay it ? No. my
friend. I'll stick to my bargain and owe you just
as said would"
DR.. Fulton is very remarkable man. that in
teresting conversation which he had with the Lord
about taking the Rink amply proves. We have long
known that he was not appreciated by the people
and that he had certain eccentricities Of temper
which made long continued fellowship impossible.
But that this want of appreciation the part
public the result of its ignorance of his superb
and wonderful privileges and gifts were not
aware. The greatest among us are always misun-
derstood. The people refused to call him to the
Rink. and the Lord did it in dream. He is q
temperance man. and therefore the dream could not
have been induced by the application Of any alco-
holic stimulus to the BRAIN OF course 1t could not
have been Satan who appeared to him and told him
| to 60 to the Rink. though that would be one way,
| and some people foolish enough to say q very
reasonable way. to account for the vision. There
only one thing In the story which rather confuses
| us. and that is that Dr. Fulton wanted to go
| to the Rink than tongue can tell,
and that Immediately after he had con-
cluded to do so the Lord appeared to
him and told him to 60. We may remark just here
that is very curious fact that certain people al
ways have visions in which they are positively
manded to do the very thing which they have been
wanting do for months. 1t is so easy to hear the
voice of the Lord when he calls you from small
field Of activity to larger ono; but as the old
farmer said. If the Lord should tell you to go from
big placeto little he would have call three
four times before you would hear him. and then
you would certainly declare that 1t Satan
In some parts Of Europe very curious customs
prevail. the relics Of other days. In Heidelberg for
instance. the practice of duelling is popular
The law is against 1t, to be but for that
very 1t is considered absolute necessity by
the students of the university AS you pass along
the street your attention is attracted to the faces
certain young men which are. according to the popu-
lar estimation. beauthed and glorihed by the scars
OF ugly sword cuts They the symbols Of initis-
ton into some one of the college secret societies
Every in q while you meet grave Herr profess
with long his forehead or cheek. the
proof OF his vaor in early life 1t is mark Of hon.
orable distinction which money cannot buy; it can
be possessed only by the man who has felt the
keen edge of the sword. Two students meet in the
street. for example, and the gentlest Of all quarrels
ensues. Then follows the duel In little
building on the Necksr the chosen and favored
company meets. The bodies of the contest
ants are protected, also the neck,
where the jugular vein offers tempting
mark and the eyes. The duellsts kiss each other
on both cheeks. and then swords& When the
little affair Is the doctor up the cash, tho
contestants kiss again. and the whole company re-
tire to favorite beer saloon. where the festv
tics continue indefinitely. On the whole this GUS
| tom Is not 80 barbarous the "hazing" In
American colleges. for both parties have an equal
chance. We q freshman up in sack and sus-
pend him from third story window. or make q
baseball OF him and hustle him from one end of the
college grounds to another. and leave him with a
broken and entire loss of selfrespect; while
the German simply puts n sword in his hand. and
either gives or receives q wound. However. boys
will be boys, and IL is absolutely necessary to have
some vent for their tremendous and sometimes
awful exuberance of spirits.
The Spiritualists ought really to be little more
careful. cautious. or prudent. or something. We
hardly know what and II may be that the word ret
cent is what after II the rule holds good that
no man has right to speak unless he has something
pleasant to say then these curious folk who play ut
tahl to nj hpir lnat
revelations concerning the future life AXE 1t very
undesirable thing to die. in old age. II the
other world is what they describe it to be 1t is q
place to live In than this world is. We have
unhappy marriages here, and when wo choose an
elective affinity and after while find that the affinity