New-York tribune., 1890-01-01
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

when Washington made his picturesque crossing
OF the Delaware at Mr.. McConkey's ferry on the
night of December 20, 1916, and falling the rear
OF Kniphausens unsuspectng Ile5sians. bagged tho
lot Of hcm the British commander at Princeton took
the noise OF the guns thunder and stayed quietly
In his snug quarters. So the Yankees laughed
consumedy and since then many is the history and
historiee that has enjoyed itself in poldng fun at
John Bulls ignorance. However, ours Is cnmatc
without a conscience, IL is capable Of everything
and If these hasty critics could only have waited =
hundred and twcnty three ycars they mSt nave neaT
your old Hessan six XpOunder smoothbore affairs.
Special to the corps of Mounted Boomeranscrs. who
hover about the editors peaceful lines and harry his
reserve quotations Beware the seac0ast howitzcr
'Tis loaded, and with curious things, incongruOus
maybe. yet singularly useful at short range As mild
Il hammered al the mild West contains does
but intimate. and this most casually that Goethe
once made some remark somewhere about man study
Ing man (meanlng some other man, probably, than
incontncntly you charge at a hand galop to cX-
terminate him, ninGng explosive bombs charged with
Popes Essay on Man. cut for short range, into his
dsmayed ranks. Fight fair. you Boomerangcrs Of
the Bush. What II Pope did say The proper study Of
mankind is man7' lie didn't say 1t first: Nor, of
course did Goethe, although he said something like IT,
Charron, who died in 1903, whereas Pope wasn't born
til 1923, said La vraye science et lie yrayc etude
in letter, Of gold over the portlco OF the Dclpmc
templcl Know thyself,' ch Well, then. 20 and
and his father out Of a dispute, while the family
were cOopcd up there on the ark the slow trip 10
Ararat, as to the seal origin OF this very quo'a'oh
Why docs all literature, prose well poetry,
take IL for granted that the master patent for Christ
mas is owned or controlled in Northern Hemisphere
Holly and mstlcoc and santa Claus gons about In
the snow on runners and coming down the chimney
clad I'm triple fur these are al very well (as rule
mind youl In these attitudes. called temperate for
fun but how about Brazil and Australia, for instance
OF course their winter Is summer, their spring
our fall they raise crab apples and roldenrod IN a
grape, and roses t-tccIiiOu-c-. Ilclr sun
stroke season is Just at IL height when pneumonia
comes iu bloom with n. ono can fancy the Whiting
society of Wlg-a Wagga, rrvclnc over these lines
from the styloglaph Of the master:
Dh to be in Queensland now Orto5cr's there.
When the cucalyptu, hine~ its iran-rancc on the air
And the wise iang8rQo lsls4, In Its ample pouch
Knowing fun Wei % never can rcmemhtr
How. whc. or why June change, to December.
And 50 on.
Tho tradcsman. storcbecpcr. shoplccpor merchant.
what Won will who doesn't want 10 sell his goods,
ought 10 place % sign in hi, biz window 40 goods
sold here. This store kept for fun Then he would
mend his manners and spare Our tcmpcr-. Paste
I'M, in his black skull cap. which he wear, from
profound conviction that good men are scarce
An accomplished Dickcn-ian scholar writes to rhe
IT Jamcs's Gazctto uHdcr the name of j. Gurdon l..
stephenson. 10 say that the ian described IN Pick
wick as the Marquis Of CRANKY, at Dorhins Is really
the Kings Head. but that the nomc is transplantcd
from "A roads tavern OF the village green. at E,hcr
Like enough dear Nj. GurdOn stephenson lrealy one
must try pick up that styln Of namcl, but II yon
viii overhaul your Pickwick7 once more Won will
see that Dickens wrote roadsdr public house OF the
better cln~-' not luu. or 20 " tavern. me
things are quite distinct tu England, and no English
man ~ them an WI, 80 nttlc lacly TO muddc them
the author of PickWlcl.' see also how the picture
boz the earlier editions represents house of four
lust the text dc-fIlNt~. Ut Won inllpN TT
closely. Count the doors ana window Aud the
Ntrkls % CRANKY p.ry1dcd surrey IN his day.