The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-19

cuded that the water was too cold suicidal pur
poses and scrambled out AS quickly he could That
evening he went the minstrels and laughed at the
jokes of the end Life still had attractions for
him. and in two months he was writing poetry to the
long eyeashes of another girl All, the delightful ro-
nance of boyhood daysl Still. we old folks have
compensation, for
When with envy. Time. transported.
Shall think to rob us OF our joys,
You'll in your girls again be courted
And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Great grief certainly does produce confusion of
IDEAS and the worst thing man can do under such
circumstances attempt to write poetry. Let us
ILLUSTRATED
She was such little seraph that her father. who is
sheriff,
Really doesn't to if he smiles again.
She has gone we hope to heaven at the early age OF
Funeral starts off at eleven where she'll more
have pain.
Aman may denounce inndelty in a spirit which
is itself essentially infidel David Hume said to
such a person, 'You hope shall be damned for want
of faith and fear you will suffer the same fate for
want of charity"
1t often happens that man is willing to pay
compliment when he is unable to pay his other
debts. compliment, however. may look like the
honey of the bee and yet conceal the sting Of the
wasp certain lawyer was compelled to apologize
to the Court. With stately dignity he rose in his
place and said Your Honor is right and am
wrong as Your Honor generally is" There was
dazed look in the Judges eye, and he hardly knew
whether to feel happy or fine the lawyer for con-
tempt of court.
Nothing could be more natural or proper, when a
defaulng clerk fails to keep his accounts straight.
than to send him to the House of Correction.
1t is unfair to make sport of the weakness of the
other sex-i. G.. the tongue. The last quotation in
the way of abuse is from Tennyson:-"Men may
come and men may go. but she runs on forever"
Religion even in its most diluted form has q GER
tain value. When the coachman was dying he con-
soled himself because he had driven many poor
body to church, though he had never attended one
himself.
slight change seems to be gradually going on in
the relation of parents to children. Time was when
the father in his ignorance regarded himself as the
head of the family and had the audacty to give ar
bitrary orders to his offspring not even saying, III
you please" The days of such despotism are, how
ever. happily Offspring are no longer to be
crowded into corner and deprived of their inalien
able right to do they wish to. They have risen in
successful rebellion against the servitude Of centu
res and will probably consign the parental fossils to
the shelf of curiosties where they belong As kind
of courier Of the condition of affairs which will
shortly appear is the following incident. which
ought to serve as warning to every father
of family not to interfere with the best
interests of his children There funeral in the
neighborhood, and it was expected to be as cheer
full as polite undertaken. whose only object was
to serve the public to the best of his ability could
make it, 1t certainly an opportunity for youth
full refreshment not to be disregarded. The boy
asked his father for horse with which to attend
Instead Of kindly oahing the beast and bidding the
innocent boy speed his way. and enjoy himself
among the mourners of his own age he harshly re-
fused. Alas he forgot that the good old times Of
despotism over and in order to impress that fact
on the aged parents mind the irate boy with an IT.
repressible longing for independence in his heart,
flew to his chamber seized his gun. and nobly broke
the chains Of his serviude by shooting the old gen.
tleman dead. The boy cast into dungeon by
the unapprecative officers of a groveling public.
which still labors under the fatal deluson that pa
rents have rights which their children are bound to
respect.
If the order should be given to ''strke the Tyre
nearly every in the world would get ready to
| dodge or parry the blow.