New-York tribune., 1889-12-23
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

From Rochester comes, with the authors conpn
ments. sixteen Years on the st. Lawrence Dy f'
Babbage 'Phat Boy,'' and leaf turned 10 lcad ote
| straight TO an account Of the authorship OF u'ose
| beautiful lines TO Lake Ontary," lately quo'ea III
these columns Thanks, Mr.. Babbage, but VINO Is' UT
who was "a Mr. Fletcher who is said 20 have
written this lovely lyric In 1882, and II ne sun n'
| then where Is he
And thanks too, thousand rcmerciments'
! TO the valued Brooklyn correspondent
| who is kind enough to send this If the man VINO
'ganoes here and there will but glance al page 40
Of versatluties. by Robert II. Newell better known
perhaps as Orpheus c. Kerr he viii ma 'thc Aheii
| can Traveller set forth at length' 30 L"hc
Aglmoogeneegamook and all the rest of them are III
the American Traveller are they But aach
and alas the book itself TO have gone to that
! bourne from which not even American Traveller
returns. Even the secondhand BOOKSELLER or r'tNci
the seller OF secondhand books, Knows II not nor
yet the Mercantile Library Can the gea, S nccd
t securely in that iron-bound library VI MS az
there is lending ASns Win ae er Ts y i've
speaklng OF ,hat myth Of an hour or so, TIC great
papal bank with the capital of a hundred millions
Tor was 1t a thousand dollars, francs Or pounds =
! how one forgets y do you happen 10 rememoer inc
great relgiospeculative bank, the Union "eheraie.
started yes and stopped By that famous caratan Oh
and later sad TO say, of TouOn where those useini
| vet fatguing galleys arel The Emperor of Austria
backed IT, and many of the faithful of the church ana
the fine old French monarchy went into IT, from the
stad old family solicitor TO the young family maid
ofallwork, without stays for It's mission was 10
chaser the German Jew And various people blew
! their brains out and Lyons utterly ruined ana
Paris impoverished and BontouX and the rest went
10 the forced works. commonly called the galeys, ana
those cverlnteigent directors VINO az usual .
Il NOT ayar md
was about ten years ago and there have been great
| charatans before and since luchleSo Agamcmhoh ae
| BOntouX.
Times change "The Times Three days
after the famous opening Of the Liverpool and Man
chester Railway, September 15 1880. that paper had
printed no other account of the affair than brief
mention mainly occupied with the death of Mr. HusFls
SON. In 1882 Thiers crossed the Channel, at the
instance of Mr.. afterward sir Moses Montefore and
| Baron Rothschild to look into the workings OF the
| English railway system, with view 70 the constru6-
| tion Of similar lines in France The King, Louis
Philippe, strongly favored the scheme but the ttle
gentleman his Minister could see nothing IN u 80
| France went without railways for ten years
sGoing home. eh?a some fellow Mutual said the
other night to the pessmIst for pleasure "you canJ
| 20 home how can a fellow like you have homel
| Home. replied the p. with dignity, us where j
| keep my other clothes"
| The Hon. f. j. Phelps is one of the many who
think there too much reading and writing nowadays
of course all thoughtful, rational observant men are
agreed ON the main point which is that there is too
much that is bad, and more than too much that Is
worse. But in the end you come, for all of us. TO
the question asked OF part OF us ought women WON O 10
never read before who never could read
before, and naturally, they ~ read for wllat %ood
books really worth reading. you may unless you
are by occupation capitalist. bankrupt yourself 10
morrow in the nearest bookstore
Sanity of santes. No sooner has one eminent
anitarian buttered the pavement for uS by letug us
into his little secret about the extreme unwholeSoc
ness Of oatmeal than along comes eminent santarian
M 10 assure us privately that all this conversation
at meals is the one true and only cause Of the
dyspepsia from which we suffer, ard TO avoid when
all the other eminent sanltarlans have been fcrvchty
imporing us any time these thirty years to gab0le
while we gobbed Now we must goohie ana not
gabble Look at the English. Well, but dear FRO
fessor flats what you said the last time Holting
our food was the word then, and awful enough ~
sounded surely. that soon you hd iOe Oi us "ea
minded ones nlbblng feebly 20 slow netronome, Au,
besides we have looked at the English. and say what
you like this is what they DO STopblG ir3t anu Eaue %
between times. In the actual swallowing act t'cy
beat the biggest bolter OF us all And now worn IN
lest you reduce many of MS 10 the last state OF tle
pessmSt for PeaI S To dscoyeT a. %r" a. in sanitation
solemnly avows, That Is the way have selectsl 10
die
In trying 10 explain why many Enrlishmen marry
American women. while few English women are
married TO American men, really shrewd observer
has hit upon solid fact lie (Or sle says the Smeri-
can man has not the patience for the evouton of the
line that the British tactics prescribe. Well, and
isn't the converse also tine The young EngiShman
has a chance to know what the American girl Is like
before etiquette big brother requires him 20 commit
himself. Does not that explain too why so many
Englishmcn Of the richer middle class marry beneath
them. choosing. for instance. their cook or houae-
keeper. precisely because she the only woman they
know well enough to ask without dreadnC the sting
| II rlttfF9 Manu- In
Venus's specimens" Human, various
If short accounts really make long friends"
silcott has prepared for himself happy old age.
BY the way If we are really going into the fercign
son-inaw business, usually known as
marriage Of convenience thc incorvenenre
coming later on. for goodness sake let
us organize it deccntly and not expose the raw
details Of family marketing before the enger huck-
sters and the gaping grinnng public in the market
place. Get "an honest broker" sir or maan to
borrow Bismarck's phrase. confde in him Just how
| much your girl can give; find out just how much the
prince, duke. marquis. baron. chevalicr or what not
owes; pay the honest broker',' honest commission;
and have done with IL. To that complexion II VIII
come" and the complexion itself, call it swarthy)
@Tlme cannot heal Time only destroys, like the
dentist with the nervcn says Mr. Besant in The Bell
| of ST. PauS7 Yes the dentist destroys the nerve,
but the gum remembers.
Do you remember that when the horse disease RACED
here. in the winter of 1s7a-'73 IL only took few
weeks to the continent by regular marches
So regular that Wells. Fargo q Go. could
predict and prepare for is arrival In
san Francisco to dav. This was against
the winds, mind you. three of mountains,
and across thousand miles OF desert Account for
it There are more things in heaven and earth
and so on
Mr.. EvARTS AND THE NO SNOKING' PLACARD.
From The Washington Post.
\ gentlemen who riding in the elevator in the
State Department building Yesterday looked up at
the " No Smoking" sign and said
During most Of Mr. Evarts'S administration as