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

GLANCESpHERE AND THERE.
II you want to faihom that strange mystery, the
Rise of the Charlatan. Just fix your attention for
moment on McGinty and try 10 account for HIS sud
| den and absurd success A name to tickle the ear
OF dulncss, empty hopper in the great floating
elevator Opportunity No l, and there you are.
How do you take out ink salnsl Book here
the pessmist for pleasure overheard lone Iom
bachelor asking lady of great charms, tempered
yet not too rdely, by experience. One of the sort
10 be frank. that Mr.. Anthony Weller besOuEht his
son Samuel to beware OF. Then with the wrongs OF
years and lauDdres rising in his gorge, our friend,
he pessmist, cried aloud Don't madam. don't, for
| goodness sake, go and tempt that poor boy TO his
ruin by telling him salts o. lemon All You were
going to; you know you lndebble ink,
ma'am; tell him to saturate the whole wrotched cuff
with the very best Jet black indeble ink, observe
To the nearest laundry and If II don't out, why.
| i'Il eat It, Look here. That's where the mark was
Doctor saws i thc pcasSn %dow WE Smiling or laugh
ing or both ctwerc scarce safe 10 study 100 closely.
mnrEnp y0u TSo give rs ,G 9P1 for n psD
TO be sure cries the little doctor, promptly. "Sals
OF lemon OF cOurse.n
All, and the beaver has Joined the noble army
OF weather prophets In the Zoo, by the crystal
schnyldll, he is getting together his materials for
IiEf Dlg Jam. lis hardly worth IL. tne Wca ncf
being rather uncertain than the white man
SILL If the Maniioban muskrat the Michgandr bones
the shoeless OF Connecticut and all the eels Of
me liousatonic really going 30 hold that conven
lion to agree on course of weather from the almost
| come winter. why the Pennsylvania beaver clearly
denias with the 'i rest Of them i he dodges tncn
may hatter's aight upon the scion of furry sire
| ana naughty boys dance upon his DAM
ooh, that mine enemy would write book stuffed
/ aDnc viii of
edge Alphabetically arranged. gou know. The
prayers Of the Question Editor lightly upward for
him that shall compile and print such Dictionary
and even at the thought the toll worn burrows on
his brow disappear beneath the advancing harrow OF
pleasant anticipation
The deadly dead wires still hang. Somebody will
deserve to. unless they taken Presently
the winter gales will set in and then every dead wire
ay S cGme to life Il any moment ready and bT to
everywhere. Look aoft and see them dange.
Shake hands, dear Washington Post. on the lovely
and artistic way in which thou hast downed" as gal
liant Sydney hath #, the false knight, Sir Bompard
dAubOnpere. And now let make up party and
butter the pavement for these frauduescent phlio-
9ger Professor Cymry RarebIt Herr Eudamidas Lon
Aled, OF the Royal University OF Hoeperoep ana inc
whole gang, and make their lives hardly worth living
bui ours, OH so happy
Numbers of houses placed where can them,
instead Of exactly where can't. Every street
plainly designated by sign that be on every
Every street lamp TO tell the number of the
house before which It stands. Not wild dream that
Why notl What say you, Mr. Grant and Mr. Gilroy
Or rather say nothing; only do it:
Some traveller who has struck or been struck by a
Streak Of bad luck has been growing horribly about
the Pullman car and the Pullman porter and Ringing |
assorted adiectives at Mr. Pullman himself as the I'M
feeling author compiler of many woes. Really this
is unfair Worse still, such unfaimess tends TO |
mi he of :
really hurt Let be just. al all events. We all
know that the word Pullman stands for the great
est comfort Of tho greatest number OF raveers-the
greatest yet attained. And for ncvility. you may
travel many thousands of miles without meeting any
thing like from any servant Of the Pullman Company
What by the way is the secret of civil servants ?
Nay, Reformers dear, this is not for youJ Why,
good and courteous masters. Like master like man,
in manners as in other things. Proofl Perhaps you
don't remember the sudden change Of manners that
overcame the employees OF the y. J. r. r. and T. Co.,
like summer cloud as soon as ever the PENNSYLVANIA
took possession OF the line. Well IT was all the differ
ence between sandpaper and sweet oil. Stay-between
an elevated whyo and the late Lord Chesterfield.
Waste of water again, cha Nonsense You forget
that New York is great manufacturing town, great
commercial town, and great city Of the stranger
Three hundred gallons per head per day may seem like
terrible waste, If you imagine that ii is all swallowed
BY the million heads or used for washing the two
million hands But you forget all the horses, all the
strangers and all the steam boilers. ahoat and ashore
Now we are asked to believe that at some time and
in some place the trains on the elevated roads are run
under one minutes Roadway. Cbeerfuly. cheerfully
only please say when and where so that may per-
chance take passage on Of these phantom trains
Meanwhile, Is 1t not fact that the maximum service
Is not kept up, while the maximum c3wGlhg Is
And how about last summer! Feed us on facts.
Among the many words regularly done to death
Is prepare" When you can't think what you do to
o0a artl Scfflp no
for YOU and your tired brain throws down the word
prepare The other day the president Of certain
distinguished society gravey announced that pc had
asked an uncertain yer well Unknown poet to prepare
A poem. lie had prepared II. And presently when
the preparer came to read his preparation, the word
seemed not 50 bad.
Do you want TO be amused DO you want to see
your children amused your brothers children. or
your sisters or your cousins, or your aunts! You
see, there are many amusements that don't amuse'
that's why one really has to ask. Then, have In
Punch and judy Of evening, aud pile charity
on holic's head by sending for the young deafmuie
who does f. and does II well. OF course owing to
his affection, # IS all in pantomime, and If you were
an English child of whatever age of course you
couldn't fancy Punch and Judy without squeak:
but, as Miss susan Nipper neatly put II, Them as
is otherwise constituted thinks different Here Is
what valued correspondent says. His address Is
james ". Stratton, No. las Nnth-ave, between
one hundredth and One-hundfed ana nus ne
Kew Thomas Gallaudct, rector OF ~ ANN Chutrh =
Egheenthst. recommended him thus we nag +
chlden's party at my house on THURSDAY evening,
dnd engaged Mr. stlattOn 10 come ana dhusc uie
children, who thought 10 the best punch ana judy
they ever saw and nearly laughed themselves mo I
nts. lie only charges 10 an evening with - for
expenses so now here is The Tribune's Christmas
gift to the Rev Mr. Gaaudct's protege ana 10 every
reader happy in having father or family
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