New-York tribune., 1889-12-21
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

some other-that is. somebody else is sure 10 come
along and discount you with bctter1 Already as
the enterprsng Journalist Is fond OF saying OF things
Just begun and probably Just stopped already that in
dcx story told in these columns" Riggs, Corcoran
sndH-yOu remember lis beaten clean out of sight by
the latest performance of the Index Fend. Would
one might say mis- last Now the Index Ficnd has
two moods; the lazy. affected by young ships, to
whom the thoughtful publisher pays little for know
ing less, and the heroey energetic as nourshed on
modern library catalogues and Hpcned under tle
iettatura or evil eve Of the arch librarian himself
Lazybones goes through the book somehow, and as
feels mp to it, index that thing under letter that
comes handy, no matter whether any one can ever
thing under every letter from God see Fiskc, j."
10 " NH on Liberty. ditto on the Floss
In Mivarts "origin of the Human Reason
strangely enough he has fairly revelled. What say
yon to "Dog hunting pigs after family prayers, 7s
Hunting Of imaginary pigs after prayers 75 Imaginary
pigs hunted after prayers 7s; Pigs imaginary hunted
after prayers rs Archiepscopal collie dog. 1871 Now
Just glance at Dough- parrot up 10 its knees in" and
then prepare yor soul for The fifteen twstngs of the
tale Of a cockaoo:
Absurd tale about Cockatoo, 1886;
Anecd0te, absurd one, about a COckatoo, 1885,
Bathos and CockatOo 1856,
Cockatoo. absurd tale concerning one 1886;
Discourse held with Cockatoo, 1886
Invalid Cockatoo, absurd tale about 1876;
Mr. R and tale about Cockatoo 1856;
lTeposterous tale about COckatov. 1886
Questions answered by COckatoo 1856
Il, Mr., and tale about Cocliatoo, 1885,
ma,lonal Cockatoo a. asserted, 1856:
Tale about rational ;ochato0. as asserted 1856:
Very absurd tale about a COciat0o. 1876:
Wonderfully foolish tale about Cockatoo 1856.
correspondent wishing to decide a bet wants to
know the difference between a London fog, a New
l0rk fog, Chicago fog and a san Francisco fog.
There isn't any. Fogs bad things to bet on bat in
the end, like horses, they all alike. Some are
worse than others, but take them fog for fog and they
arc all vapor Some vapor with Just the least dash
of little something else in them, and these the
white and heecy sea fogs New Workers know best
and you Friscoese; while they Of Chicago, what
they know Of SUCH with salt water dried and sold in
papers at the drugstore on the corerl Theirs is at
best vapor from the great lakes at than best the
exlalation Of the fat black soil. And this of
they smoke thoroughly does your Londoner, and
then 1t is indeed wonder Of the world According
to altitude and foreign ingredients, such smoke.
London is accustomed to wearing its fogs In three
shades Black, as when the smoke blown slowly sea
ward for three days suddenly harks back with its
friend the fog, and hanging high makes itself
blacker than the darkest midnight. Pea SOUP the
genuine London particular IS the most frequent Of
all and the most annoying for it pepetates your very
vitals, while light pierce it. this is when the
roofs. pedestrians stray the Thames the surrey
Canal, and strong men, even oxen. have been known
70 die. Once II killed hippopotamus. After this
the white fog. fresh from the the exhalatOn Of
the damp soil seems like nothing; this comes when
the smoke has gone Off before brisk wind and fol
lows in It's wake with hull or calm. or at least with
out a change. d" Are you answered."
Speaking Of freak" verses Of old, yet not ancient
days, have you chanced to Sec and have you copy
Of the lines cast at the feet Of Miss Drusilla Flandars
let say, Buchanan being Consul The verses were
many and the glory OF each expanded and burst in
last fond rhyme to the name Of the adOred There
were jcssamines and ocanders, Of course, and the
poet incidentally said he had wandered where the
brook meandcrs, and until the English language.
ana with IL the poem, came 10 an end. Unless that
is. accepted the old c0lorcd messengers criticism
Why, hi Dcy done LEFT ont yellow janders" The
poet was a pOctcss, by the way.
Ever since propositions ceased to govern the obicc
tive case, they did in Mr.. Murray's time-and
really, the "world went very we'll then"-they, like
other dscrowned rulers. have been falling into bad
company and getting themselves treated with dSrespcc
by all sorts of people People one couldn't ask to
dine. hang IT. Now when three four of these prepo
stons Of place get together you shall find them in
that state that neither they you what they
would be at. more than a picnic. party OF them
climbed out up to- the roof the other even
ing A man, not distinguished, merely man, had the
misfortune 10 die in New orleans, he was buried
up: which curious. but was probably the fact.
Moral BE careful. never employ proposition without
knowing his character, and when you see three or
more gathered together save yourself