New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-19
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

10 produce one of the fleet footed Still, word IN
season: the excuse has only lasted few days yet
the practice is of some standing, and had been grow
ing ere la grippe" heard or heard OF III the land
so presently reform II altogether gentlemen VIII you
he 30 good Remember. "A facility That ceases u IA
ciliate becomes a nuisance. Don't economic IN tie
things men pay you Tor
When the Injunction Account, suggested some time
ago in this column. shall have been made up, audited
and put in trim for digestion, will some one kindly
look up the Pettfogging Account and see how much
has been made out OF that1 BY the clients, under
stand. Define "pcttlfogging7 As well ask one to
define pettifogger nattery or a hanson cab, or
anything you like to Why, you can't dehne
anything. Try to define hanson cab, viii YOU, Just
Oncef You know one when you sec II you cdi c'tl'
easily enough If you not going far, or II you
have lots of money you may even pay for IT, But You
can't define It, What Is here meant 10y t pe'' yo
ginE' Is what you mean by IT, dear SIR Wha' YOU u"
counsel means by IT, If you are 80 lucky a, TO
have found and 50 wise a. to employ goo1 one VIVA.
the judges recognize when they sit upon it. For they
do. you know. And what does it all amount to
The oil bOilS at last
Filibusterlng for instance. What good has it ever
done to any man, cause or party What has ever
been gained by it that could not have been won by
simpler and more straightforward methods? There
is the excitement, Of course. one can scarcely help
thinking your true flbustcr have about him
something of the fox hunter 1.-THE genuine not the wild
anise brand who cares nothing for the carcass but is
ali aglow for the pleasures OF the chase Yet again
have you not observed that the oil bols at last
Statistics as has already been remarked. like
Mr. Wclers veal pics" VERY good things wen You
know the old made en- Only the other
day a usually. even unusually well-informed neigh
Dor cited Captain Cooks report of tie population of
the Hawaiian Islands in 1875 proof Of the rayace
caused 10y the lcprOsy since $780, when the Chinese
are alleged. quite enormously, to have brought tile
disease there. Well Captain Cooks figures were only
estimate good one, or il wouldn't have been
Coot's- this the basis OF 50 maay ISLANDS
saw. they contained So many Villages ctch NiiitTe
had nuts each nut housed 30 many p'INvi-
mult ply and aid at the Ike rate for the Villages ana
Island, I've seen. and the sum Of IT all is 400,
600 Now mark The first ccusu, Wa, taken In
l-32. eighteen year, before the coming Of Clnaman
In $3.50 the census gave -I1Gjr in lo77 57.Jrj:
IN 1--4 -o,j7s. OF those la. 1l.232 were natives
and alfcasrcs. The dminuton Of the native popa
ation has, YOU see, been les, rapid since l71O than
IT, was before
There is one man than the Pettifoggcr.
Thi, is the Grandifogger. The little one impacs you
on small points. tanGlcs You In fine mc-hc,. liii
biz brother wraps you III impenetraiC mist Of words
dazcd. History ha, walked around him with stln-
gently alin art has passed him by without speaking
yet here lie Is.
whoever or whatever takes the Columbus Fair
ought to see that while senior Don Cri>tobal i, well
remembered that equal. more modern di>coverer be
not forgotten who first found ont that business can
only Dee done properly through st or hole about the
size u the orbit of man, eye aud on level WIN ms
elbow. If he requires monument look around We!
Well boy viii grow up II We wait long enough. And
don't WEI blame not the boys. now. crudgins
company makc- u slow hos. Mud slow boy grows
an old 10y before We see him again.
ono signing himself or herself Bunsby. IT," (vhy
air. please D.. wants to know why frozen salt
wafer becomes fresh when melted 1t doesn't. Cap
tain. dear. That which y0u cut in the straits Of
Magellan must have been glacier ice. else how got II
ll2 feet above the sea Scawater doesn't fall mp.
when freezes. and doe, not part with it, salt
when d thaWs
The poor fellow whose one ambition it was to drink
champagne out Of It celery glass finds running mate
n the old negro in Mis- Wool-ons Jupiter I.ght-.7
who cannot understand the hcroine'- indifference 81
tha' 'eloIed ,once oil "uoh No. Tor Ill., p1', IN; Ma
ing. flnt> nothing. kort> is NOT enough, !
amt never hsd on .' pa,hGar , mGrmg' , ~
at a, she had found thing there was enough Of
Phoenixlaua~ is not out Of print after all
If YOU 10 read a masterpiece of American humOr.
all Of the oden time ana kind Just turn to that
dcrful Pacific Railroad Report the even more
remarkable illustrated Edition Of the san Diego
Herald The best OF the latter IS. its all true.
After losing lcallcd lending five copies. 1t l. pleas
10 know there can be 81 sixth. Tn which one NAV
.u,cihc with regard and esteem. From his affection
ate self. got To- bee taken away
some one living in India asserts that he has found
ont that i moderate dose OF cobra poison almost
certain to cure the cnolcra. Almost, not quite, pray
observe. With that simple reservation, which would
you rather hav., cobra cholera Here Is the logic
Of jhc tmuc V.u'- blood contains venom. Choer,
is segregated v.uoIn The cobra sc-rcsatc- his
Winch was 10 he demonstrated. nothing Hike logic.
there u seems that "a few more experiments are
needed before success, can bee q cmcd quite p.ce.
NJ right doctor. 60 ahead with your experiments.
and may punle~s prosperity attend >ou. If You
cotalu, horraue. commonly called rattle~nahe. toNi.
copn.~ p,ciVorou>. wor~a SHOWN a, water mo,ca-ln.
rironoccphalus contorrIN. coppcrhead. or sympa-
thi1er. Just cable.
Robert Loui, Stevenson says one of those float
Ing paragraphs, growing fat i'm the Gilbert Islands
Meaning the Equator, Ell Good name.
Another such paragraph insists that Claus Sprcckcl>.
hereinafter called The old sugar king looks so
much like the conventional idea Of santa Claus that
no one ousht TO De surprised At hi, being named
BE- Claus md no one il. but not for the reasons
stated Nou don't suppose " the old sugar king
lad full white beard. rosy checks and luNuriant.
snowy hair" when his sponsors IN baptism gave him
that name, now do you
30 far has the daily practise Of the law departed
from IL, ancient landmark, that a LAWYER In Ncw-
Jersey ha~ had to claim that his client, could not
be questioned because they virtually under
arrest Arrest or no arrest. Won can't make a
or woman give evidence to be used AGAINST him
her. You do though, every day Yes. but not law
.nsnoct~ ina, ,yyfiimg he NAV -ay vii! he u,cd
against hun. We 10 be drifting into the draw
backs Of the French plan without any Of i's adj
advantages.
II you want 10 hire servants or lind situations, 10
let or hire houses. 10 buy or s"ll real estate. to fni
study the macy columns OF short advertisement, on tie
eighth ard ninth page, of The Tribune io day.
writer, OF strongly dramatic >hor, stories for
Rows ana Girl may md prompt market 1y address
ius {. STUART, 80 Warren->t. brooklyn. =.