New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-19

From Chicago comes the interesting statement
that Mr j. |. Case, the owner of the WondeTinl
little horse Jny-Eye-Scc has refused an otrr OF
$50. 600 for him, placing the price at 100000.
Life must seem an awful responsibility to Il beast
whose instinct teaches him. A. jay EyeNre, doubt
less. does. that he is worth rs much "a, that. With
out wishing to turn the head render nervous the
Gait Of the great troter We would remind him that
the widow of man who was killed by corpora
ton in the Southwest the other day only received
$4,000. Horse 100000; man, $1,000! II
looks rs if the must 60.
II Ina, been judicially decided that it WAS not libel
Ion, for a Nashville paper TO call former actress
" a small lady with a very big nose and ugly Tins
suggcsts unuttcnble things Is 10 the standard OF
beauty i'll Nashville.
Mis-, Jennie Collins so we'll known in connection
with Bottn's Bower IN Boston has just sent ont her
thirteenth annual report. She gives many pIttiul
instances of the straits to which working women
are reduced by the keen competitions OF trade
which keep wages down. In the course of the past
year she says five young women In whom she was
particularly interested died of consumption, and
one committed suicide by drowning-aI under
twenty-five years of age "Thcy could earn from
three to four dollars per week. 1t would be lhpOs-
sblc for them to get twcnty-one OF the piihheSt
had 10 resort 10 one meal or meal and n half,
day." Exhaustion and consumption soon followed.
One item in the work of Bofin's Bower shows its
usefulness to this unfortunate class. For nine years
il has furnished free dinners to women ont OF emf
pIoyment during the hard part of the winter Dur
ing the past year g. 100 meals were furnished, and
in many cases this dinner was the only meal they
had during the day.
The two great collisions of the wcek-betwccn Mr.
Vanderbilt aud the groom, and between the
pavonia and the Observation-Disclosures the great
moral truth that personal safety is on the whole,
more valuable than the right of way.
Lord Coleridgc talked in an easy but sympathetic
and serious way on Wednesday to the students of
Uaycrford College, near Philadelphia, upon the
authors they should read. Putting Milton next TO
Shakespeare ne told them that John Bright said he
had built himself up on Milton. lie then named
Wordsworth and said " Ii have any fault to find
with America it is that fear you do not do Words
worth quite the honor which he deserves Gray,
shelley and Keats followed in the order named.
Coming to American poets, he said: Iou may be-
surprised at the name | shall select from your
American poets. when tell you to learn Bryant. !
do not say Longfeow. because, although he is a
sweet and noble and delightful poet he is not Amer
have been written in England, or Italy, or Germany
or France rs in America-but Mr.. Bryant's poetry is
full of the characteristics of his own country, as
well ~ noble natural and inyigoratIng' Among
prose writer's he named Lord Bolingbroke as a
writer of the most perfect English next, the
greatest advocate since Ciccro-and say this, even
| remembering your own Webstcr-Lord Erskne Y;
thon Burke Hookcr-nOt to be read rs whole,
except by theological students'-Lord Bacon aTt
Cardinal Newman Among American writer's he
named Daniel Webster, and "your greatest writer,
the master of IN exquisite and absolutely perfect
stylo-Nathaniel Hawthorne The appreciation
which the little talk manifested Of the aspirations
of youth and the vital Importance Of the formative
period of life made it a delightful and winning adj
! dress.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilts fall at Fleetwood
Park, we are assured, had no connection with the