The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-25

Latin poem which in simple, direct, and ap-
pealing words pictures the sorrow OF the
mother of Christ and the complete dependence
of the human race upon the mercy OF the cruel
fed Son, has been from time immemorial
source of inspiration to those who would clothe
with harmony this beautiful story of the cross.
AS compared with Rossini's effort with which
the world is most familiar, Dvorak's compost
ton is more virile, more dramatic, with the
unities more carefully preserved, and infinitely
more tender and sympathetic.
Crank Elliss hair was combed.
''Covington was we'll represented.
''Leopold Burckhardt enjoyed it.
Frank Woodrow was rather late
Sam Posts eyes sparkled with joy.
''Will Howe relished the lemonade
81. r. Murdock indorsed it heartily.
''Harry Rosenbaum was enthusiastic.
"a tank show tO-night-'The Deluge.'
''Chap johnson was ubiquitous as ever.
'Brad Shnkle is a regular enthusiast"
Now / submit that the combing of Frank
Ellis's hair and the enjoyment of Leopold
Burckhardt and the sparkling of Sam POSTS
eyes ought not to have been allowed to stand
pat with Professor Vests beautiful thought.
X
The literary productions of the State De-
partment are even more peculiar than those
which come from the Department of Agricult-
State Department is entitled 'Cookery for
is reprint in full of Scotch cookery book
which our consul picked up in Glasgow a
frontispiece to this yoluminous dissertation on
the various kinds of Scotch porridge. 1t is
strange to see the pictorial seal of our State
Department, displaying a spread eagle with a
! bunch of arrows in one talon and an olive
branch in the other, Columbian shield stuck
on his breast like a porous plaster, and in his
beak a ribbon bearing the legend f. Pluribu
! Ununl, as if there had been fire and out OF all
Nlsea Ghn
only one saved.
| am Democrat bat my heart warns to the
independent act of public man who still holds
that his soul is his own, Notwithstanding the
small knot of presumptuous dictators who
generally stand for party. l care not whether
IL be Democrat like Archie Bliss, of Brooklyn
who sacrificed his place in Congress rather thar
submit the interests of his constituents to th'
procrustean bed of Texan craftsmanship; or
Republican like Ben Butterworth, who has thu
courage to criticize a bad tariff bill framed by
those who call themselves the Republican
party with as much freedom, fairness, intelli
gence and business as Lord Macauley, for in
stance, would have criticized stupid book, b.
whomever writtens Ben Butterworth is too BIZ
a man to render entire obedience to any of tn
little stunted intellects around him, | am glat
he is not, and hope he never will be, like tina
other statesman, who,
Born for this universe. narrowed his mind,
And to party gave up what was made for man
kind"
X r
If Senator ingalls, plagarizes it is remarka
bic fact that he nearly always improves upol
the original, and that kind of plagiarism
good. Now, for instance, when Macbeth an
Banquo (act l., scene - appear on the heath
where the witches are, here is the conyersatio
that passes;
''Macbeth-so foul and fair day have nc
seen"
"Banquo-How far ist called TO Forres
What are these (alluding to the witches) S