New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-11
Then what Is good match One that you dom

Then what is a good match One that you don't
have to hold on high till the suphury siroc' shall
pass away, lest 1t get into your nos
trils and choke you. One that always
lights but only on the box, for choice.
One that never breaks in two IN the instant OF agony
leaving the silly stick in your fingers to try your
temper and your gift Of tongues while letting ny the
burning head OF its offending to settle In the heart OF
your favOrite wastcOat scorch your wles pest
Daghestan rug. So Inconvenience Nonsense. Keep
box wherever there IS anything TO light Can't
afford such exravagance? More nonsense. You
have to use a match whenever you want light, no
matter how far of the box Is, don't you How do
you test the good and the bad! Strike the one I'LL
you come failure Strike the other till you make
success Then count sne s,r r1la indsed Vi
Thanks awfully, dear H. b. A., but your version of
the great lyric
Roll on thou Connecticut. who forever hast ran,
Bringing shad to South Iadley and pleasure to man.
can hardly be the original because it is not merical
1t hslts; lmps, even. So great singer must
surely have looked to his rhythm, even
while revealing the poets fine discomfort with syn
tax. Who was he!
And who wrote the touching specimen of encyclo-
paedIc verse that appeared many years ago in some
Down East paper Bangor, was 1t, thinkD begin
ming somewhat like this:
"To Lake Aghmoogenegamook, down in the State Of
Maine,
man from Wttequergaugum came one evening In
the rain
a traveller said he. just started tour
And 60 to Observation-Disclosures tomorrow morn at f0ur
Our valued correspondent who with this
wanting TO know, you know declines to guarantee
the version the topography, cited from memory.
upon once reading near beer jug by the roadside
thirty years syne. There was more of It. wherein
the traveller escorted by Skunks Misery Red
Dog, ROOShy- Pershy Creek, You Bet, Yuba Dam and
Bloody Gulch, until last he found peace with
healing and rest from all his wandcrings in some
Shady nook
Beside the pleasant waters of Neutrality-suspicious.
brilliant writer THINKS 1t strange that so few
great lawyers the Of great lawyers. But
isn't It 50 in everything Is it not only another way
of saying that the exception seldom follows the rule
Hoses, for instance. And then look at the many
splendid exceptions. such as the Fields, Dudley and
David Dudley, with stephen j. thrown In as extra,
for good measure Jared Ingersol one OF the sgners
Of the Declaration, with his two sons Charles j. and
Joseph r.; Alexander James Dallas and his
George NJ; the Binneys, and ever so many more
Now that the hard winter has set in the great
Rocky Mountain ranges the cattlebrander finds ready
work in our town laundres In branding ladies' and
gents" finest "high cockalorum' handkerchiefs.
Anything that can be seen on a calf at easy pistol
range is considered distinct enough for the family
wash. And picturesque, very.
Oh no. dear Chattanooga Times Jefferson Davis
did not introduce the signal; system into the Army
during his term Secretary OF War. His successor,
John p. Floyd did that. Dr. Albert j. Myer de
viSed and proposed the system. and was the first
Signal -,-icer lin 1901 with Lieutenant Z. Porter
Alexander, of the Engineers, as his assistant.
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