New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-28
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

try IL, some time aftef dinner, IUf insohoos WV"
the fountain of talk has dvindled To trcklc. 10"
remembcri Names Of the original thirteen States
IL has been tried on q dog to speak, with the
result that nine out Of ten answers begin: Maine.
Now.IIampshirc, Vermont. Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, New.York. Now Now you may stop
your victim and tell him he has made two MISTAKES
already, and need wander no further Hc ana tho
other eight have forgotten that Maine was at hrst
o province OF Massachusetts and Vermont part OF
New York. claimed by New.Hampshire. ana also
claiming itself. On the tenth man. who knows so
much. you may now try the watch puzzle
American history puzzle No. q; prize q saloon
passage 10 New,Jersey on any hrstcinss steamer
For whom did New-York vote at the nrst Presidenoa
electionf Why, Washington. OF course. you OK
claim and SO docs every one, bar one phenomena
idiot who guesscs John Jay Bad guess SIT. eho
wrong all Of you for New York didn't vote ut ALL THO
Legislature had the choosing OF electors ou' whe"
the day came, tho Senate being Federal, the HOUSE,
anti Federalist with two sensorships 70 weight inc
quarrel the two houses could not agree on anything
and adjourned without action. Only ten states Voeo
that time for Rhode Island did not rHofy the Coh-
stption till the following year, and North Cafohns
hsylng once rejected IT, mad changed her mihd anu
ratified IL too late for the election.
American history puzzle No. 3; first prize, mccall
lion portrait OF George Washington. In coors win
beautifully scalloped borders; second prize aito "
BENJAMIN Franklin. ditto, ditto: Give the western
boundaries Of tho original colonies ~ nAea ny uien
charters would you be surprised to learn tha1
Massachusetts, Carolina and Georgia ran tC "the
gouth seas" and therefore took II ION parchment
Oregon in,yt a Louisiana and Teas. and slice OF
Meyico, This 4, what made the lsto Robert J.
WALKER talk in the old hftyf9ur forty or-hght days
about the remuneration Of Texas
wben the Hon J. p. Deliver had sat down to cool
of after his great speech at the Lincoln dinner OF
the Republican Club one OF the veterans OF Tue p'V
who has followed 1t into and thruSh all sorts Oh
pI.res was moved To say this In his neigbors best
car ; Best political speech ever heard Fact. Now
watch Chauncey, will your Don't get your point
"Noti well you know how II Is When Depc" 'oi""s
Porter or Porter Depew, fellow comes NEXT nhu' y"
his subjects gone: Horace and ChaInccy u'el ON
all nd see! Well. now, Cncquot To crackers ths'
Dollivcr has come tho Dcpcw game on u NJ hin'Scn
.nd got AWAY with every OF his best SUBJECTS
And truly about two speeches later "heh aino''
mono lookcd and few listened, our own great ora.or
might have been seen with pleasant smile ana seh'le
step Withdrawing nom the hall
Mr. DouIver,s effectiveness as speaker Is Increased
rather than diminished by an Individual manner anu
strange gesture two not laid down III INC oooAS.
one OF these is quite peculiar rs tho antique
,.,vc gesture a, Garfield used TO call IL, ana lar
,,or, effective When with hands in pockets the
Iowan orator has developed proposition ana got MS
point well In then his way Is IN set MS hp' hrhp
and hammer that point home with his head 70
home 1t goes.
sno,kins NJ Jchcrsonlan simplicity genuine In
stance is 10 be found In one Of the arguments by which
Mr. jefferson himself sought 10 enforce tho raunca
ton OF his Louisiana purchase. There "a'' no ""'
Informed, and through him. the senate ana IN turn
the House, o great mountain OF sat- about i'ooo
miles up the Missouri River, and the size OF THIS
mountain was forty five miles In breadth by $50 In
length With which wee grain OK salt Congress 'ooA
the treaty sal sapit omnis."
Another reminsccnce Of Jefferson Davis, war
ranted genuine. Ii In " Pervc's time ana thoy
werc speaking Of KosNuth. whose fame ana nat o'er
Swallowed the land though rs to his name tho dircc
tons for pronoancing It had not yet come 10 hano
why do people try " work themselves mto
sympathy with the hungarian. revolution'' he said
" sympathy with all aspiration for freedom No.
SIR The MaSyars arc noble, and the revolution Is
not In the least an uprising Of the people. but
simply al insurrccton Of the aristocr'y As such'
Americans have. and ou4ht to have" no IN
tere,t In II whatever. Then he added shIowd thlns
The Iungarians failed because they put kossnth at
their head and nature made him not for the leader
Of q rebellion. but for IT, editor. As is editor he
0N'-'~-
Hungary must have succeeded
II was not Ia ROchcfouCauld. but 1t ought To
have been that said this the other day ats the
letters written you. not those you write that show
what you are
Twas not the famous French duke. but member
81 tho Junior Genesis II. II, 3D. that started the
following dialogue a. she and "Clarssa, her friend
were returning from the Metropolitan opera House
one afternoon last week. The talk ran on Wagner
and lett motifs and what not. Then said Dru>illa
:" Let's see; who wrote tho lbrctto Of Lohengrini
Queer. forget
Claris.a-" Don't know. oh. yes. do. Faust
Drusilla-"Of oDurse. Forget my own name
next" Curtain.
To show how history repeats herself let US repeat
a bit Of history. John Quincy Adams being lres
dent George VI. Dallas (who used 10 tell the story
with great gusto) one evening relieving tho
boredom OF ball by talking things with Charles
J. lngersol. ~ political career exclaimed Mr.
Ingerso: why It's chasing q Will o. the wisp. You
wade the boys and then, when you succeed what
have YOU got! Nothing: absolutely nothing. And
as for fame, why look around you; in all this bril-
liant assemblagr among all these beautiful creatures
I dare wager what you please that yon cannot find
one that knows who is President OF tho United
state,.' No sooner said than DONE Next 10
agree upon the lady oracle. She knew, oh, dear.
yes; why, OF course. Adams squinchy.
One Of the kind ladies that have been shedding tho
light OF these days upon the ramLo Of those otlcS
days wants To know. the principle Of Ut for tat.
whats "A bifnnf OF course you remember how IN
the Holly Tree Inn" Master Harry Walmcrs sug-
gests the faithlcss Cobbs the Boots. that he thinks
a .bfin Norfolk bifiln. CObbs,' would revive the
drooping spirits OF his livc sweetheart Truly. but
don't you remember. ma am that when Master Harry
first says bfin.' C0L1s Instantly Interrupts with
"a what? Dickens was no careless master OF ink
mind You. BE the bnln then rarity
even In Norfolk. And did not certain country man
OF ours. nine year, a zone, make the Tour Oi
Norfolk In Twenty Two Days In search Of a Eifin
Gone gone. every biiln ~ them all, and the serving
men that knew them know them for ever, and
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