The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-28

sis that at this day would object to, and that
is where he says that Reed belongs to the neuter
gender Blaine may belong to the neuter gen
der, as he is written down, but Reed, submit,
is masculine to the last degree. Blaine's an,
cestry, it will be noticed, are only Saxon and
Danish, whereas Reed, with some Saxon aad
Danish connections in remote period, adds
the classic ancestry of Greek, Gothic, French,
and Irish, and it will be noticed that in Irish his
name was identified with the rod. In the
United States his name is identified with the
gavel and the whip. The evolution is easy and
natural. On the attributes assigned to Blaine
py the great photographer, let the reader form
his own judgment. But who can doubt the accu-
racy OF MIR. Websters analysis of Mr.. Reeds
comprehensive character? l. Aquatic plants
This must be prophetic of the Speakers order
banishing all Intoxicating liquors from the
House restaurant. and 3. Everybody must
have noticed the music that Mr.. Reed has re-
Gently made, not only in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, but in Maine, in his own Congress
nional district, and especially among the other
great men of Maine. H. An arrow as of reed
headed, but not Reed with feather head.
bald-headed arrow, let us say. 5. Thatch. BY
all means. Thatch is always on top, and Reed
seems to be on top now beyond question. The
reformation is that there is very little thatch on
top of MIR. Reed. 6. Whether weaver's instru-
ment or not, Mr.. Reed has woven wonderful
web. He has separated both warf and weft
and brought them together at will, just as he
needed them for the purpose of weaving his
particular legislative fabric.
X X X
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, is one of
the most entertaining men in public life. He
never makes dull speech on any subject
There are some men who are humorists or iolers
and nothing else. But Senator Vance is not one
of them. His information is as varied and ex-
tensiye as his native wit is overhowing. 1t
would be difficult to find a great thought and
good joke more closely associated than in the
following passage taken from the Senator clos
ing speech in the tariff debate:
tThis is the last high-tariff bill that ever will
disgrace the American statute-book, and mark
what say; it will come upon you in the future,
Tor no force in the moral world is wasted. We
are told, sir, by philosophers that the air which
was set in motion by the first words spoken by
our foreparents in the Garden of Eden will con-
tinue to vbrate until the last trumpet sounds and
the earth is botted out of existence. No force is
wasted either in the physical world The man
who threw stone at dog and missed the dog
missed the dog, but, thank God, the stone was not
wasted"
At this point the Senator was suddenly inter
rupted by the chair The following brief ex-
tract from the Congressional Record presents a
very good specimen of the Senator's ready wit
and his never-failing good humor
The President pro tempOre-The three hours as
signed to the right Of the chair have expired.
MI FdnCe-bI. w ellSI, Wueh
Sans writing of his first love letter said when he
stopped well, Samiyel, my son, amt that rather
a sudden pull-up?n Laughter / will observe
the admonition of the chair and close.
X X X
There is boarding-house in this town where
you can meet almost as many nationalitles as
you could meet at the most cosmopolitan hotel
in Constantinople, There are as many Ian
guages as nationalites, and as many religions
as languages. Most of the boaTders speak
several languages SO that there is no difficulty
of intercommunication and many good Joke |
told about one nationality at the expense of the
other. Sehor Alvarez is very lively and mis- |
Standard. and Herr Stein Is q very |