Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-11-11
THE FRESH. WATER ooIDEeIAs.
Jay GOuld's Kept Man Comes TO
Grief i'm Airing his Miami Univer-


Jay Gonid's Kept MAN Comes to
Grief i'm Airing his Miami Univer-
sity Erudition.
Albany Times. November l.
considering that Harvard selected
Senator Baysrd for an honorary degree,
she must feel amazed that the Senator
murders the Kings English by deliberately
writing, Il had rather in response to an
invitation from Harvard students to make
political speech. Mr.. Bayard's gram
mar ia as bad as his politics. "-Neto York
Tribune, October 80.
The university regent who edits the
New York tribune is uot half 80 smart as
he thinks he is AMI he will evidently need
better education before he can critcise
or Mr.. Bayard's grammar. ITO have
rather" is ''to desire in preference" (See
Latham's Johnson's Dictionary And the
expression 81 had rather" is perfectly
good, idiomatic English. The Bible aud
Shakespeare will probably DO accepted by
most readers as better authority than any
newspaper, even though edited by re-
gent OF the university"
~ had rather be o door-keoper in the
house of my God than TO dwell in the
tents of wiokedness. = Psalms, LXxxIv.,
10.
81 had rather have this tongue cut from
my mouth than do offense to cassie. y
Othello, act ., scene 3.
"Brutus had rather be villager than to
repute himself son to Rome. Julius
Caesar, act |, scene 2.
Had you rather C;e lar were living and
die all slaves than that Cpsar were dead p
-Cm,ar act g. scene 9
n had rather be a cog, and bay the
moon than such a Roman. "-CHiar, act 4,
scene 3.
Il had rather had eleven die nobly for
thoir country. "-Ooriolanus, act /, scene 3.
81 had rather YOU would bid me argue
like father. "-Richard H., act /, scene 3.
81 had rather than q thousand pounds
he were out of the house. Merry Wives
of Windsor, act 3, scene 3.
81 had rather my brother die. "
Measure for Measure act 3, scene |.
II had rather than forty shillings had
such leg, aud SO sweet q breath TO sing,
as the fool has Twelfth Night, act 9
scene 3.
The New Empress al Russia.
The marriage of tho Gar Alexander to
his favorlto, the Princess Dolgorouky, Was
so bitterly opposed by his children that
they fled from st. Petersburg sooner than
witness the ceremony. The Uzarewitch
want tn Hapsal, on the coast of Esthonia,
while the Grand Dukes Constantine and
| Vladimir escaped out of the country to
avoid being present at the marriage, which
was celebrated Jnly 81, in the palace
chapel. let this hostility, while perfectly
natural, was perhaps unwlse II is known
that the late Empress, NJ first bitterly
reseptful, finally acquiesced in the liaison
and even showed some kindness to the
Princess actusted by fear that If the con
| nection WAS dissolved the Emperor might
fare worse, and by the knowledge that the
influence Of Of the Princess on the Em-
peror was, on the whole, beneficial to him.
The lady who for 10 years occupied this
painful and anomalous position nj court
position she could scarcely escape from
under such despotism-is o. high birth,
and her pedigree is even more aristoeralc
than the CZar'A. She lineai descendant oil
Ruric the Narengian, the founder OF Russia,
and the Rur,koyitehi are nobler born than
The Roniauoll5. She is said to possess
many graces OF mind ana person, to be
intellectual ard wel'-Iead, amiaole and
kindly ia disposition, aud modest anG
deoorous in mannefa There is much
more OF the Msintenon than Of the Pompa
dour in her conduct. She will undoubtedly
be declared Empress ara acknowledged al
head of the imperial household ms soon a
the year Of mourning for her predecessor
has expired. But then the Emperor viii
make his son 60 regent and PRACTICAL,
abdieate in his favor. Meantime the pal
are at Livada but The Gar hos bough
for the Princess the palace of the Crane
Duchess Catharine, and made other hand
, some provisions for her. Her health i
bad, while his own is failing rapidly, hi
disease being chronic asthma, which hi
J reputed fondpess for champagne ha
J tended to aggrevate.