The National tribune., 1889-02-28


vances some odd ideas. Who does not, though,
who writes about the poet of the world and of
all time. For example, she deyotes pages of
serious discussion of the well-known lines:
o, all you host of heaven o. earthI
What elseP
And shall couple he'll?
Miss Gilchrist is sure that everybody up to
this time have been entirely wrong in their
reading of these. She believes that Hamlet
was thinking of his mothers fault. Then he
thinks Of his own love for Ophelia, and his de-
sign of marrying her, and says:
"And shall coupler"
that is, marry. At this thought he breaks out
with the impolite expletive-"h-l"
The Rev. Scott Surtees, of Lynsdale-on-Tees,
has written little book to prove that the au-
thor of shakspere's plays was Sir Anthony
Sherley.
We always delight to see much abused
individual triumph over his deriders. We ex-
| tend our congratulations to the grounding.
Once more he has shown the correctness of his
weather representations.
CROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH, of Austria, had
| an allowance of $350,00O a year from the I'M
| perial Treasury. and private income in addi-
| tion of 100000, making $650,000 in all. Most
young men viii think they could get sufficient
enjoyment of life on an income of s., 900 for
every working day to avoid employing pistol
to get rid of the unpleasant burden of existing.
| PRINCE RUPERT, the heir to the Bavarian
| throne is insane. As this makes their third
ruler in direct succession so afflicted, it may
| eventually occur to even the conservative, non
progressive Bavarisns that the "by- the grace
of-God" scheme of providing Kings may be
| defective, and that it would be we'll to try the
ror pop,tEi por Del plan for a change,
IT is very cold up in the Pennsylvania
mountains, but they have thawed out real
interesting story, which may in time have q
very pretty little moral of be-kind- to-dumb-
brutes attached TO it, for the benefit of the chill
dren. 1t is, briefly: Mr.. Weodoock, of Lehigh
! Lackawanna County, has vicious stallion
which he has often wanted to kill, and which
has several times come near killing him
Neither event happened, and now Mr.. Wood
cock is glad that it did not. Last week be
rode the stallion over to neighbours to talk
over Harrison's Cabinet and get bag of oats
! Little dog went along. 1t took good while tC
| fix up the Cabinet, and darkness was settling
| down like the interest on a Dakota judgment
note, when he reached a lonely piece of woods
| Little dog was nosing around where he had NJ
business. as is usual with little dogs and little
men, and attracted the attention of an old she
bear ont in search of supper. Woodcock rush
ed to rescue of little dog. She-bear turned hel
| attention to him and was about adding him IL
her stock of Winter meat, when the vicious bu
faithful stallion went to the bat, and with few
well-directed kicks reduced Mrs. Bear to a con
dition to be refrigerated and sent East. Grateful
Mr.. Woodcock says he never-no, never-wil
again think of killing the stallion. This stor.
must be true, because the Philadelphia paper
take about two columns to tell it, and every
body knows that they would not give up tina
much valuable advertising space to story tina
| was not strictly true.