Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12

DISPAIOH,
deserved it because / did not leave my
money at the Office. However, judging from
the way the matter was handled afterward,
if had left the funds in the office 1 would
have simply saved the burglar a disagree
able job. I speak of this because Boston is
a city of good hotels, notably SO, and only
regret that 1 did not go where already
knew they were good. stopped az tne
fremont
Speaking again of Canada, the Dominion
was founded in 1867 by the union OF East
wick and Nova Scotia.
VERSATILE ERAsTUs- wIMAN.
People of Toronto especially love to tell Of
Erastus Wiman, who, besides being neigh
Dor of mine on Staten Island, is regarded
among Canadians as a phenomenon, because
he started there as a newsboy or peanutter
and is proud of it yet He was brave and
venturesome and with a cool head ana
Yankee enterprise, for although the miillon'
aire of to-day was born on Canadian soil, ms
parents were American and he was born In
the Dominion while they were visiting
there. We will let that go. Sufficient that
he makes good speech, lecture or railroad
deal on the spur of the moment, and 10
show. his democratic methods 1 Will
only add that last summer, during
the great Washington celebration, ne not
only furnished the boats for an army OF ,
Governors from North and South, Senators,
judges and statesmen, but when he found
that seats were scarce, he took of his coat
and busted 200 chairs so that his guests
could be comfortable. To-day he has lOO
irons in the fire at once, and yet none OF
them suffer. He can make a good speech,
open bottle of Mr.. Elijah Halford' justly
celebrated sauce, walk four miles, deliver
lecture, buy telegraph or railroad, pay for
it and come home by the 1850 boat. He
proposes now to have direct communication
via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to
England, the freight being rehandled only
on the shores of Staten Island.
A DISCOURSE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The Dominion buildings in Ottawa rank
first, in my estimation, in the line of public
buildings outside the Capitol at Washing
ton. They are even more artistic and beau
tiful than the State House at Columbus, o.
The capitol at Columbus, considering the
great men who have graduated from it, is
what Mr.. Tennyson would call quite rocky.
The base is fiat and some like the Tombs in
New York, though not so picturesque. The
out of all proportion to the rest of the build
ing. Nothing but the wsrmest and truest
loyalty can keep the populace from pulling
it down, as did the French, with much less
reason, the beautiful VendOme column in
Paris.
The buildings at Ottawa are grand ex-
ternally and beautiful internally, comforta-
bic in arrangement and great credit to the
vnun0 nnroin;on Chould che ouar riee tn
join hands with us, she can always point to
these buildings with pride, even as the Rev.
Joseph Cook does to himself.
However Canada considers herself too
great country to unite with any other,
and she very likely will not. Moreover,
the United States is a Republic already
large enough, and it would be now almost
unwieldy for me to govern, together with
my other work. We do not need area now
so much as we do good government and
good times Good weather and imported
maladies we have already, duty free. If
the street car lines would be very much
obliged. I've had more than my share of
it for three months.
A CANADIAN NEWS ITEM.
saw a queer fashion item in q Canadian
paper the other day. 1t was not in the
funny page, but 1t should have been, l
thought 1t was this:
"There has been great falling off in side
whiskers this season, and now. full boards
are to be seen on every hand" did not
know that they were to be worn there.
Looking over this letter see less about
Canada than had at first intended to say,
but the printer will expect me to stop pretty
soon, and so will close with a little poem.
There is nothing that soothes and lulls to
rest the weary reader at the end of long
letter, filled chiefly with statistics. like a
sweet little poem that one can readily under
stand-a love poem-and so give one here
that found in an album-an slbuminous
poem, as it were-which wrote many years
ago and found yesterday on the center table
where used to spark" but where now,
alasi she is another's:
First Verse
omy darling, o my darling.
Wilt you ever think of me2
For my darling. for my darling,
will ofttimes think of thee.
And my darling, oh my darling,
When / ofttimes think of thee
It will be indeed pleasure
If you erstwhile think of me.
Thus my darling, oh my darling.
Should you erstwhile think of me,
Whilst my darling, oh my darling,
Ishall ofttimes think of thee,
We will think about each other
Till the bright eternity.
Second Verse.
It is fun to write a poem
While pause to think of thee,
For know you'll not forget me
While you pause to think of me.
Thus adown life's sunburnt pathway
LoIter to think of thee
For hope and trust that also
You may sometimes think of me.
Third Verse.
It Is not so very wearing
On the thinker, can see,
Just to think of you, my darling
As you doubtless think of me.
So, my darling, as I stated,
If your thoughts are true to me,
win do some heavy thinking,
Oh my darling. just for thee;
And we'll think about each other
Till the bright eternity.
Yours truly,
BILL NYE.
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