New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-29
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

The electric llght has now been long enough In use
in houses. theatres and public places to lose the
right TO claim any special privileges or immuniues as
novelty or playthine VIII some ono kindly notice
that there is nearly always too much OF IL No
sooner was gas laid than people who had con'enuody
read their book by the hight OF a single iickerng
candle must have gas tets equal to fifteen or twenty
candles Now # there Is not a regular sunburst OF
hundred candle power the people feel that they
are IN the dark II Is too, too much; AZ one or two
Of the theatres for instance YOU cant eJoy Ins com
fort you would otherwise derive from the dlminishei
heat and improved ventilation. because OF the giarng
auditorium lights that str1sc you Ilhu'
Things are not what they seem,' as little Butercup
sang. and greater singer before her One would
have thought the ruthless aduler1iOr might have ept
his hand of vinegar but the wretch would net
even spare his own mother. much less the mother OF
vinegar the pure. the beautiful the true cider
vinegar; and shall benceforth go IN dread OF an
acid stepmother, or still worse perhaps. mother-n-
law. Connecticut OF course Not content with ruin
ing her nutmeg growers. the thrifty manufacturers are
now casting envious eyes on the orchards.
Did you know that Murray Hill was not called after
some great resesate operator or some merchant who
made a and fortune in whale oil or privsteer
ing. but just for the family of our own Lndley The
Murray who taught us altill our teachers found him
too old.fashioned- the verb TO be, through all
before Il, as I the man who command you, not
who commands" and the equally valuable information
that two negatives in English destroy another
and equivalent to affirmative. nor did they
not perceive him; that is they did perceive him.
You. Master Edwin and little Miss Angelina there,
know none of this robust teaching you tenderiy
nurtured on daves and are not even allowed 70 hear
OF : improper thing As that wicked old indefinite
the Widow Murray's farm-Lindey's mother. YOU
knOw-gave the name 10 Murray Hun, and her cottage
used 10 sand on or near the site Of Rufus Hatchs
house in Parkave.
One of Professor Rsrebits brothers says again, and
has long enjoyed immunity in saying. that the dollar
mark Is a contraction OF L. :. Well he'has enjoyed
HIS fun long enough. Our American dollar, whether
it IS called because coin something like
it made in JOachimsihal, I'm Germany whence
Joachhnshaler, next thaer, then daler, and finally
dollar. 1916. borrowed by in 1892 directly
and avowedy from Spain. Jefferson recommended
IL the unit OF the decimal coinage and
Congress expressly enacted that 1t should
be Of the weight and fneness Of the
spanish milled dollar, ss then current. Well,
the spanish mied dollar called by the spsnards
eight" that is. of eight reals that has delighted US all
IN every tsle OF adventure on the spanish Nan IRON
Raleigh 70 Stevenson. inclusive via Captain Kidd and
Charles Kingsley; And the Spanish merchant ard az.
meaning TO cross p and perhaps to cross an s. Just
the Briton crosses his {. And 50 dpar Professor,
! no more means L. D than i means bflJsn Lion.
Beware" said great Greek scholar and philologer
IN one-Porson It p" beware, young gentlemen of
false analogies in philOogy and do not too hastily As
that because 'sstrapes means sarap. therefore
'ratrapes' must of necessity mean rat-trsp.'
There is new trick in one branch of what Arthur
Hepss dear old Ellesmere used call the great
eating interest," The wine trick. shall call It
You order let say, La Rose of rs ClcQuOt, Vel
low Label, not Amnsdab Seck's successor says
in the :" Candidate because you like il. but 10
entertain a friend from the wilds Of NewJersey or
wyoming The waiter makes you wait as long a. Won
can will. longer. Then, in brisk and busting
haste, half apologizing but only half. he opens the
bottle-of something else. with the label washed off
and the cork 10 be seen II seen not 10 be he
leved IN. Commits sOns. commissions" the old mer-
chant who is dining with YOU says. Then look TO il.
messicurs the proprieOrs before the commission of the
walter becomes the omission OF the guest. Couldn
harpcn in a frst-class place Did. though three
times In evening. not 40 many evenings ago, ana
we're you told where II would make your hair curl and
YOur-well, would feel II You were just crossing
the bar outward bound, and your statefOom not yet
put 10 rights.