New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-12
CHANCES HERE AND THERE

CHANCES HERE AND THERE
leading Democrat said the other day The
trouble about your Harrison Is that he is making
good President, good for Never mind about the
IiIe postofiices, we all do that, but most OF the
Dig appointments arr Just right. bar the fact that
the men are not Democrats. as they would have
neen u our people had not gone into the swamp after
haps '
Kings no longer wear crowns. as everyday mat
Ter and some crowns have longer any kings
to wear them. but that the civic crown Is sim worm
and become common than ever, any one may
see for himself by CHANGING through the open door
or window Of the first municipal office he chances 10
pass. Though collars, coats, waistcOats, cuffs,
shirts are cast TO the winds, the City Halter
cllngs with conviction 10 his hat. II is pretty much
sleeps in III
II the colored men want their lives insured and
the companies decline 10 take risks for business
reasons Just they usually refuse to write policies
on the lives OF women and children, why do not the
! colored men organize more mutual companies
and fake their own risks? There about a million
ana a half Of them, including numbers Of men who
have the necessary ability as well many smau
capitalists The figures of the census and the war
returns indicate higher death among the cOlored
population than for the whites; for one thing the
former are more liable and succumb more readily to
pulmonary diseases, and It seems probable that
theT comparative immunity from malaral disorders
was formerly overestnated. OF course the profits
OF lie Insurance mainly derived from the careful
seleclon OF lives yielding average longevity In
excess OF that indicated IN the mortality tables then
there Is the moral risk to be considered but these
,hngs would naturally be covered by a somewhat
! higher premium
II any one wishes to think well Of the class Of
oh. lafp
living, such as It is by showing garlands Of shoe
strings, baskets Of geoogcaooking cakes, barrows
OF the assorted rubbish Of all nations, and stands of
apples and peanuts in the way OF he passing throng,
let such one. II such there be- wander among
the siid and be thankful that he does not or sorry
that he does live the river in Jersey" II
these dreadful skids are strict necessity, they
seem 10 be, every day and all day long for every
downtown trade between Greenwch-st. and the
Hudson aud If the intervals between sklds be kept
filed with boxes barrels and bags Of all sorts m0stly
unsavoryl, then a little foresight would long since
have cOmpassed the construction Of an unobstructed
overhead fooway for the Of thousands of citizens
now and for years past condemned 10 daily course
Of barreldodging aud kid-climbing. little more
foresight and a very little public spirit might even
have provided convenient alleys and courts by which
the stores might have been approached in the rear
and the front sidewalk left clear for MS original and
sskiddingE '''' -
How little even the most intelligent people notice
things that happen daily before their eyes You may,
if you like convince yourself by watching any train
on the sixthave elevated road 1t stops at Forty
second-st. on its way downtown from Harlem Al
whatever hour every is almost sure to be fulL
seats asles. platforms aud all. Close behind comes
a Fifty-elghh-st train, in plain sight, with perhaps
not half the seats filled. What does the eager crowd
in waiting at the station do Walt. to go comfort
train Not
biz Of II; nearly every man woman OF u,rt ~ u.s.,
force his, her or its way INTO me dcns anu seeming
mass the Harlem train. Moral DON'T
senator Frank ITscock was looking remarkably
well and happy at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the other
day. As Thsckeray say when his most praiseworthy
banker-O Il sic omnla tells him he may withdraw,
" things ISN'T so BAD
A CORES pondcnt who lived long in England,
but not long that, like Mrs GhoTey In the Mighty
Dollar he had forgotten his own land and language
tells Of an incident a railway junction near Man
chester where the TIME allowed for changing was of the
brefest Iank passenger. In Tapping SLOUGH hat and
fun suit of coatracbullt Western black, came rush
ing up 10 the guard IN great heal, crying: say con
duc,or look here which way is the baggagecar"
OF wbich brief sentence. AZ our correspondent was
fortunately present explain the dazed Official under
stood not word uul friend thus translated II
Guard In which van is This gentleman' luggage "
Yet both sentences are English but as she IS spoke
by different branches of the great family. Inc same
friend SAYS hr asked at country house dinner
in England why we Americans arc 50 given to double
names, lie was rather taken aback N first, privately
thinking the fashion quite English but well knowing
the Kind OF surgery demanded In applying facts and
Jokes in that quarter he began tell ne Of row, sure
enough we had In COugivss men named hnatchOuI'
Uugessen and Selwyn Ibbet7on, AMI schlatcr Booth.
and Uenneker. IleaOu. and Cavcndlsh- Bentinch ana
Vghtrsd j Kay.shutleworth, and lot more. " on,
hit saw interrupted his host what curious coinci
Ience why we've lot Of names like that In the
IIolt,e Of Commons" Curious. indeed.
Names ara curious al Tins. We should not k
N mention IT, II the venerable Autocrat and Poet
bimSslf had not set the precedent by speaking OF
- Budd Dobe. whose catarrhal name,' ETC.; but the
fact is that not far from the home Of Mr.. Peggotty
and Little Emily, where peoples doctors send
them 10 escape from hay fever, lives, or lived,
worthy green grocer named NOrford Suhlng. Brighton
has a bonseacent who calls himself Mr.. Tudor Priest
and Victoria. D. C. Brit Reg. has, or had, chaplain
called the Rev Teignmouth ShoIr. which at first
.irht or sound rather suggests pleasant watering
uiare' on the DevOnshrp coast. Sir what made You
think smith an assumed name" puIZhng witness
was once asked by puzzled counsel. Because II
sounded so anonymous"