New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-23
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

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IarcbIt. has been at it again. Now be wants all
to know that the first thlmbe was made less than
| 200 years ago by metalw0rkcr named John Loftng,
and then called a thumb.bel. Hence himble. Pro
feor eb Us learned br tber.the Herr Dr. Eudamidas
I.oenkhed who 50 worhily fills the chair OF Extinct
and Useless knowledge in the Royal University Of
| Fnmark. at Hoepcroep says thumb-ball 50 sorry,
dear doctors but what says Professor Shakespeare
Thou lest thou thread, thou thimble' And that
was about century ahead OF your tbumb-bcller or
thumb-b aler. for Shakes peare died in 1916 greatly
regretted. Try again, dear doctors, on thymel, the
| Anglo saxon for thumb-stal, thuma IS or was.
] for thumb.
In the general feeling Of dry seasickness caused
| by having the daily morning dock scandal admin
lstercd empty stomach. don't lei US forget that
the docks themselves need reforming as well, or as
badly, as the department. Some Of them are even
as rotten. The docks have for years been a null
sance and disgrace to Of the greatest com
mercial capitals Of the world. Now they actually
outgrown When the Legislature meets let Us have
the whole thing looked into by competent com
mttee of with brains and training above hay
scale and give Us docks. dock system and dock
department suited to the nineteenth century. YES
and grab at this chance for a statesman
Miss Flora Macgregor has the good sense to wear
cafskn boots or shoes whichever the IS this
week., and Mr. Andrew Fairservice, her m. O.. or
free man OF color shines them. Il wish, Andrew
she said the eother day, that you would use less less
dictionary are Andrews strong suit, so TO speak
Yes miss" he replied, impertuTbably, ." and where
could purchase such picpalauon|
To bark back to hand writing and hand reading
there words and phrases that the inattentve
that IS TO say bad hand IS sure to get wrong
yea though you print them in the blacklist Of gothic
three line plea. He invariably stores the cargo that
you wish him to stow: he makes you hear Masanello
as often you tell him OF your visit 10 the opera Of
Masanieo he knows no Firth Of Forth. and Will have
none of It. Down It goes, Firth OF Froth. When you
| give a sympOsiOn he has symptoms. one of the
Vanderbilt in-laws" IS and shall be McTwomoN
furated.
The Professional Cynic tried the bad Handkerchief
once sign. The letters were somewhere about
two feet high. They were trying sight versus
good sight The goolslgted bad reader declared for
Painters and Glaziers. Not enough words, says the
near sighted cynic and crossing the street read out
House aud Sign Painters. In sp aking f. IS the same
! lie is cOck-surc to pronounce Dwight d. Wight and
! to mention Mr.. Hugh Grants Office as the MaOyaity
Have you ever observed how impartialy an &C
tive if not exactly numerous branch OF the Amer-
can people divides its time between bewailing the
absentOn Of business from politics and
jumping on' the last business man who has had
the audacity to take them at their word Not the
professional politicians mind you dear no. they just
smile, raise eyebrow. perhaps-and wait. No
sir, this doesn't mean NanauakGr. AZ least u
| =, II y,
peoples hair woad only curl as naturally as their
lip, what handsome family we should see.
Daldets "struggle for Life' IS said TO have led
the young Partisan dandy. formerly fond Of posing
as gummy, jockey, doer and feeler Of
nothing-at-au, or Ion1oner on the half shell, as
he as ion went, t. come ont Suggleforlifeur'
The term, or rather the English Of it, is Darwins
but Darwin had another notion and phrase or 50
dan .ei Ousy and cur. Usy the mark for these
callants tildng. Why not Poseur or Husteur.
Whatever else he may be- and he DO and has
been many things in his time, your French uifer is
! first, last and always posear. lie always poses.
He must pose. II he becomes a hustleur or a struggle
for lifeur, he will simply pose al hustling" And
what is the hustllng7 ltself but posing Is It the
struggle for life Not a bit Of Il. Point cut one
who has gained wealth position by the mixture
OF cheek tlcssncss and bad manners that passes
muster under the brevct rank of hustling and for
| each one you shall be- SHOWN at least hundred
Of industry, honesty. talent and opportunity. YOur
hustler doesn't get there he doesn't greatly car
whether n gets there not; it IS all sham, like
himself Hustleur va. Get out. You are blower
It's time for you TO "come off, then.
Clubs Everywhere Flfth-ave and the side streets
near It will soon be vcrable clubland, rivalline
the classic region of Pail Mall, the headquarters for
correct opinions. In some respects more than one
Of club, already surpasses any of its prototypes
on the other ,ide.' For instance 1t would puzzle
you 10 ma I'D a! ~. James EJDu breakfast OF
dinner as You may have If lucky enough to be Q
member or a guest at the Union League, such a
room 10 eat in. All the old clubs chock-abloc
New ones are forming every week The ladies
are taking a hand, too. One of the early troubles,
| next money (Which is an early and late trouble.
always in condition for the table, is name Some
! Of those in use are queer, others dreadful. As TO
| still Others use has made forget their badness.
| But what can beat the Turf Club, for men who care
naught for any their own, the Glover.
| or the Lark. or the Commonwealth. the Calumet
/ Yes Calumet i, good. But Bandanasl Nay, prthoe
| have me excused. Yet the cake is hereby aValded
that migit have filed tho male portion OF the Weller
family with JOY.
| II IS brilliant man who has been telling us that
| absent-lr ndedness is disorder disease Of the
! memory. Bul that IS a brilliant mistake. Absence
| Of mind involves not so much the memory the
observing faculties. Look where you ara going
Mind what you are doing; Keep your wits about
your" such fhe famti ar phrases that recall the
absent mind 10 the work in front of IT, When man
suffers I'm this way, his absence Of mind may be Of
iwo kinds Either he is thinking Of something else, or
he I, thinking, Ike Mr.. BunthOmc young ladies, OF
noihng az all But for insanity, 1t f. moi even "A
second cousin twice removed witness the heahic,t
! baby YOU know, sir Isaac Newton al his best and a
! iUbng horse. When SIR lsaoc hauI-bOld hia watch
| and held the or I'm his hand 10 when the ten
| he forgotten whut wa, inside an egg or waIcn. lie
| was thinking OF the PIinc.pia.