New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-21

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| canize There Is no force in the peciiDary argn-
ment they present. 1t would no doubt cost great
deal of money TO rent site for the Exhibition but
they can raise two millions for Fair outside the
Park easier than one for project which encroaches
upon it's limited area, and destroys for years its
beauty and value. Better have no Exhibition at all
| than mutIlated Park.
Somewhat more definite Information is desirable
rcspecting the slips from Shakespeare's mulberry
trceo which the Mayor Of Stratford-on-Avon,
through Charles Reade, Author" at the request OF
Miss Clara Belden, an American lady, has Tor
warled to the Mayor of Now-YOrk. One Newly ork
newspaper, in its haste to communicate fresh ana
interesting information tells us that these s'ips'
which are TO be planted in Central Park are from a
tree now growing the grave of Shakespeare,
which is curious considering that the Immortal
| bard is buried in church. ind 10 visitor ut that
shrine has ever seen mulberry tree growing in the
sacred edifce. Everybody who has looked INTO the
| matter knows how the mulberry tree planted py
! Shakespeare at New-Place was cut down by the
Rev. Francis Gastrell in 1856, because the pilgrims
who came TO visit it annoyed him. Most people
probably associate the mulberry tree Win
the house in Henley-st. in which Shake
speare was born. If these Sips nave
any amthonticlty they must be from tree itself
grown from slip of the original tree in the grounds
of New Place; and when any ole speaks
of them as slips from Shakespeares null
berry tree he INDUCES in trifng poetic license
especially when he expresses the hope that one Of
them at least will take root and grow to finer tree
than the original" How anyone knows that Shake
speare planted" tile tree from which these slips
have descended we are not told. What we
learn from the whole matter is that great fame VIII
carry a deal of the loosest KIND of tradition.
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It looks like plenty OF business and scarcity of
politics for about year.
Nobody has interviewed" either Hendricks or
Thurman since the election The sanctity of the
grave was never more scupulously preserved.
Campaign biographies usually short-lived, but
Forney's # Hancock is likely to be an exception 1t
takes high rank among humorous American works,
and 50 long the reading public demands to be
amused Forney's arficulate inspiration" will be
sure of a market He might greatly increase tile
sale by giving public readings from the book. There
passages in It which can be depended on 10
throw both reader and audience into commissions.
Mr.. DorSheimer has recovered from his fraud
spasm, andfs wiling to admit that General Gar
fields election cannot be successfully disputed. lie
is of the opinion that the Democratic party can |
neither die nor be killed, and that 1T can march |
to glory platform OF trade, civil service re-
form and currency reform. Mr. Dorshelmer seems |
to be a man OF IIfDte hOpefulness.
President GarfiePs Cabinet s crowded already, |
and yet lie has not begun on 1t himself.
There seems to be an abundanceof Democrats who |
are able to construct a platform, guaranteed to
carry the party to victory four years hence. |
This is the same old delusOn which has ruined the
party for the past twenty years. Instead of resolving
to make n record for honesty and capacity in the
administration of affairs and going before the
try with platform based that, they construct the
platform in advance, and try to fool the country |
into believing that they will live mp 10 1t hereafter.
1t is like trying to build a chimney by laying the
tOpmos5 brick hrst
few lively Republican quarrels would make the
Democrats upcommoply happy; but the prospect is
bad for any just now.
General Butler is waiting for both parties to break
up ana for the formation of new one with him at
its head. He is a patient man, and willing to wait.
probably.
Barnum and Company very quiet, and tho in
ference is that they have concluded that their party
cannot easily be injured any more at present. Per
haps though they are puzzled like the bad boy of
whom correspondent speaks. He had been caught
in lie and persisted IN denying that he had lied. |
Don't yOu know he was asked. that yCu are
telling another lie r. He hesltated a moment. and
then sad Well, how shall | Tx it 50 that l amt
told one lie ~