New-York tribune., 1885-01-04
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.


MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LOUNGER.
This small piece Of legal wind who has been arresting
all the Board of Aldermen and threatening the Mayor
another Of the signs Of what going to happen when the
organic forces OF society give way to let little simmer
ing set Of scphomoes calling themselves rcformers rul-
us by other moral power than insinuation. Ulti-
maely the nsnuaor by profession will carry his Jaw In
a sling.
Carlisle is to be the neAt Speaker hear,-or Randall
Both great political economists The industry they
revive will be the wooden hammer, which they VIII
WELD by the custom OF gavelknd. The history OF
slavery which degraded labor and halted commerce ana
Development neither Of them thought to abbrev-
ate This interference with business and deep subtiey
In economies Is decidedly posthumOus. As Covngton
Is to Cincinnati Carlisle Is bis times His organst In
the true slave spirit, says "Why does Randall come
into kentuckyT How natural 1t Is for the old slave
spirit To take up the next thing back Of slavery Tree
| trade. There three eternal Democratic party
principles: State iniospitality hate Of fair play and
jealousy OF civilization.
Since the Rev. Heber Newton has succeeded in making
the Old Testament interesting much Indignation has
been aroused In the general clergy as among the moh-
mental pprescrbcrs fact OF Fordyce Barker con-
| e"thS WIN ~ SOLITARY nOiHtOpatn Oho yV"ht NS'"'
inine iatey became monk, and lest 1t might not pe
observed he put uniform ard had ceremony. M
need OF such expen-e taking the vow OF chastity
when tho Salvation Army paraies daily and chasty is
its speciality! wanted to mOrtify tho flesh. ana DC
| pilgrim, think that instead OF becoming monk
| should become a lctter-carricr.
In election times bet hats. TO we ever ask our
selves how the manufacture started In this country
lrav We aVnrc that fun hum
ago Virginia offered premium Of ten pounds OF tobacco
for every good hat made OF wool fur within her
bounds' wemade many hats In America 100 years ago
| that the Felt Makers Company OF London petitioned
Parliament to prohibit all Ortaon OF hats from the
American colonies, the ground that New-Engiand
alone Was turning out ten thousand hats year. Psra-
mcnt "graciousy acccded" to the request Conse-
quently the American hats took their own course ana
glorifed Instead OF being made to receive the ia
OF elephant ont OF third story window they were
made light with reference the sunshine and the DcVet
age which inspreth Danbury in Connecticut was max
Ing bats l0l years ago As late as lsi5 all the mats
made OF skins The poor OLD beaver disap-
reared from the globe In to furnish mans brain
with false dome Next nutria had 10 sacrifice him
SELF gentle muskrat called into rcauisition
the rabbit drafted The Danbury hat folks im-
ported rabbits breed them artihciay. but the ree-
minded rabbit died or jumped over the fence Are you
aware young gentleman who have paid hat bet but nave
how TO mako the present silk hs These hats were
started In this country Just fifty years ago. or In 1889
Frenchman In Paris put his hand on the Chhese sA
hat ana stole the idea We probably aware that
In nearly all the English books the American hatsre
feed TO as OF ghtness and STYLE yet 1t has be-
come the habit OF that class Of young mcn VINO cannot
ea, dinner up an alley without dress coat to buy all
their hats Of English make II they might possibly i-
port with the hat col responding hraih. hoss"'n
had great influence In United states Ia Introduce here
the wide -brimmed soft WOOL hat
The world {. becoming bunerer. Rice will not always
do IN India Hence the condition improves 10 th't
greatest of all conditions. equality, we shall su raise
tho su.tenance for developing humanity Meantime,
our own markets are the most valuable IN the wofa
because we arc accustomed to the best and profusioh
oft.
Ihear the little bird say that the mugwunps are In
the situation related by tho patriarch who remarked
With my stsf have passed over this Jordan ana Io'
, am ccomo two bands" It seems tnat schurz wants
20 To Secretary OF Interior and another tree ana
appolut another uaght This strikes the rival mug
wump as improper and greedy. "Whaw, Ehaw is our
consistency e. cxclaims the well-provded-for mug
who 4, already thanking God that he Is not Ike
thi. publican OF public lunch so the beauti
ful-eyed German physician uptown was delegated 70
inform tho President elect that unless no gave cosid
.ration " TO Minister Schurz tho Independents
would all return to the Republican fold Tho same
sveet prescribcr In whose eyes healing bat who Is
at present hesler" for his great and good friend
waited on tho envious nugwump No. and protested
AGAINST DERIVING Minister SchurZ OF Ills due There
mon tho fierce cherub mugwump who guards Cieve-
lands Ellen xtn Q fiery swJrd had'the great apostle
aero. the river called tho service and said apostle
wroe TO tho Governor that to give office to any pro-
fe.sional mugwump would be direct impugmng OF
every amateur mugwump. Tins stands the case. ana
haa np1y ana
follow Lot him take the link Of sausage which was the
oace o, Minister schurz the Of Rostadt when
he hid thcro from the present Emperor aud divide IL
into three parts-a tripartite covenant az II wercaha
give piece TO ihcn. the Governor stands IKE
solomon with his butcher knife suspended no doubt the
true OBSERVER OF the will cry: Let tother one
take IT," Thus will q mild beam OF charity be shed
a,bwart the envy and aspcry OF the witch-burner's
camp
"what do think OF Cleveland r. said caller not long
ago "f think that man will got up sone morning
when his stomach ~ not right good ami KICK sonooouy
out OF the Cabinet"
Mr. Kincad who has returned In advance of tho body
OF Joel r. Hart the Kentucky sculptor says the ch"lera
has greatly disturbed the Mediterranean trade and only
ono ship IA running to Neg-iork. Mr. kincad Is o
descendant Of Judge Wilson. washinsons polntee TO
the Supreme Bench His father wns In the Mexican war
and lost 10 negroes by the rebellion without losing hls
common sense.
Some time ago told you that looked IN the evening
at Rogerss statue OF General Reynolds at Philadelphia
ON my recent visit TO Philadelphia saw tho statue In
fnll daylight and spent some time going around It.
tnk It is one the best statues In the country OF the
equestrian sort ThisRogers is not tho gentleman who
made tho Seward statue In Madison Square, New-iork'
but the other Rogers who has made the pretty
which are many households and which viii ut some
time be souveuIrs OF our hero period whom many OF
,hem are broken and those which remain will acquire
virtue Naturally q criticism on Mr. Rogerss statue or
Reynolds 4, tho comparative insIgnoance OF the rder
comparcd TO the horse. General Reynolds 10 depleted