Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-12

w liitt itS the surge, the Narrler OF the man.
And like Il blasted orb once overnight
His eye Il ruin burned, and on his cheek
immortal beauty hidcOusly shonc.
In one of the poems Of James Hogg, the
Ettrlck Shepherd, occurs the couplet:
And forced IL man to sing Il sang
That he er could sing Il sang ava.
1t surely must be to such singing that
Dcrwent Conway refers when, in Forget
Me Not" he speaks Of ''melCdious dis
cord" Allan Cunningham would have us
believe that he had discovered 4 new
sense, for in the amulet" he says:
feel the fragrance Of the thorns
Where lovers love to meet
This, however, is surpassed by Conway.
who has made Il more remarkable discov-
cry. as witness the lines:
Or rose Of sweet Provence
All flung their Odors to the listening sense.
Ii is something - feel smell and to hear
one; but the late Lord Lytton was still
more sensible for he writes:
hear the vain shadows glide
DIR. Magin supplies good example Of the
bull in the following: THE feet of the
Rabbi slipped from under him, and he
rolled down great hight. When he re-
covered he found that his companion had
fallen also, and stood by his side" Disra-
eli, in his "Curiositics of Literature"
states that When Clarendon was en-
ployed in writing his history, he was in
constant study of Livy and Tacitlls;7 and
in Audubon's American Ornitho!ogy"
occurs the curious statement that "the
earth was rent asundcr in several places.
one or two islands sunk forever, and the
inhabitants fled i'll dismay toward the east
trn shores.
To come to more modern times, we find
a coroner Jury i'll the north of England
recently delivering themselves thus,
" That the deceased was run over and killed
by train on the Great Northern Rail
way, but how his death was occasioncd
there is not sufficient evidence to show"
Quite recently the town clerk of Durham
drew attention ut Il council meeting to 4
standing order which he regarded as a
Chinese puzzle, and which ran as follows:
When two or more persons rise to speak
at the same time, the Chairman shall call
upon the first person who rises in his
place This reminds one Of the Alder
man who informed 4 council " that the first
meeting Of the committee was held, but no
one attended, Lieutenant-G General Bur
roughs, writing to 4 contemporary in F'cbrll-
airy last, on Il question arising out of the IN
vestigalions Of the Crofters Commission in
Orkney, made the statement that James
Leonard, the father OF nine children. is an
abIe-hodled man in the prime of life, and
50 Is his wife"
There are many Scotticism+ which might
not inappropriatelv be classcd As linguistic
incongruitiea-to wit, the use of double
negatives, common amonga CERTAIN section
OF the Scottish peasantry, and such phrases
rs | feel 4 sweet smell" 4" find no
pain, and ~ four-s4uare table" In this
category ofblunder' We may also appropri-
ately include this curious epitaph, which
may be seen in Montrosc churchyard:
Here lycs the h3leyS Of George Young ard
lsbcl Guthrie, aud AL their posterity Tor fifty
yercS bacEwardi.'
And the following, which is Inscribed
on tombstone in Arbroath churchvard:
Heir lyes Alex Peter. present town treasurer
Of Arbroalh, who died the 10th January, 1870"
/; i, said that 4 French miser pcrpctra-
ted the most practical Of all bulls by max
ing himself his own heir The I-oiiairc
recently, in the account OF an attack upon
gentleman. stated that he received q stab
(which cut the carotid artery of the left
hand NJ. de Cassagnac predicted not
long ago that France would throw herself
into the earns Of liberating sword :"
and the Figaro described the monument
Of Quinet as " an equestrian statue in
sitting posture
it Is not proposed to narrate here how
Sir Boyle Roche accomplished the feat of
writing Il letter with sword in one hand
and a pistol in the other; how on one oc-
cision he heard nothing but silence; how
he refused to give his autograph in note
which he signed or to allude to the many
facctious doings and savings of that great
bull king bat few examples of lingJis-
tic incongruitieS may be picked from the !
utterances of liibernian orators Of the
present day, for Irishmen are noted for
their liability to perpetuate amusing blum
dcrs.
Speaking in the House Of Lords in 1889
on the Arrears of Rent ,Ireiand) bill, an
Irish Peer said; Ny Lords, YOU viii
drive the Irish landlords off the face Of the
earth, and they will have to beg their
bread from door to door" What follows
uttered by one of the members for Wick |
low in tbssLower House, is not less ludic- |
rous." SsAs long as Ireland" he ex-
claimed, 20 is silent in her wrongs, England
is above all her cries" An Irish member |
informed Mr. Speaker that while three
quarters of the outrageS Mr.. Forster had !
reported were totally unfounded, the other |
half was grossly exaggerated" and Mr.. I
Mr.. Moore NJ. r., in the course of an |
Irish debate, said that, &" until YOU reform |
the workhouse, 50 that a man may go in
without shame and come out degraded |
woman, You will do no good Mr.. Par |
nell, when conversing with an American |
reporter is stated to have said: " The Irish |
party must fight the coercion bill, step by |
Step, with what shreds of liberty remain |
to them under the powers with which, in
future, the already omnipotent Speaker |
will be armed O'Connor Power once in
formed the House that, since the Gov
eminent have let the cat out the bag, there
is nothing 10 be done but to take the bull by
the horls;' another irishman told the
same august asemblage, when referring TO
the Irish prevention of crimes BILL that |
if they imprisoned the agitators they would |
make the agitation greater still. : London |
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