New-York tribune., 1890-01-02
ON such a day meaning Monday the young Louisa
tn, ~ her Telcmdque did write

The devil sends the wicked wind
That blows our skirts knee nigh.
Bur Heaven j, Just and sends the dust
That fie, IN the bad mans eye.
But ia these highly improved and stll Improving
DAYS there are perhaps. neither Louisas. Telemaques
nor imaguatous naughty enough 10 divert itself 50
iuuocently on the fly pages
4 former collaboration has kindly sent The Tribune
a copy Of the scarce volume Of "versatilltieS' by
Orphcu, C. Kerr containing the lines on "Thc Amcri-
can Traveller lately quoted in these columns, and.
il /, pleasant TO know quoted correctly after memory
of a single chance reading about thirty years ago.
Ilumor,t, were not so plentiful then, but Mr. Newell
wa, certainly ouc If not Number one. Tue CORE
s2onden lust referred t. audcs 10 the capital series
of Orphic letters tAat appeared in The sunday
ullltcs there ADMIRAL Head, the inventor OF the
iroucad oath who always sTOre IN an ironplatei
silver my umbersr lie considered as belonging u
a by gone age.
Speaking Of forgotten books naturally suggests
forgotten authors. How happens 1t that such a
writer A. Herman Melville, strong, 50 original 50
true SD full OF everything yon want. be good
a, forgotten or as bad, in hS very lfctimcl Being
an. ante mortom classic NAY be- some compensation.
perhaps. in a small group Of cultivated men Of
wide and constant reading only two remembered
White Jacket AID Israel Potter Take your
choice Of White Jacket and Typee7 for Compar
SON with TIE le.t sea novel, ever written hut for
Israel Potter II IL does not contain marvellous
portrait of Franklin in Do, habit he lived then
I5 "A man character not worth studying by man.
And I'm the same aS,cmbltee only one knew J. Ross
Brownies EtchuCs of a Whaling Cruise one Of the
best t~uc sorc, Of The sea ever written Md II You
know a better book Of travel, than his lu>c u
must be kuglahcs Eothen' You are thinking OF.
ono who desires to Doe a nsmeless, not an aim
loss CORES spoudeut Crols because be is aroused at
bv the festive rumble Of the iron a>hcart and again
at D 80 by ,he five gallon banging Of the man that
come, ~yo0ulng" o announce that he has left your
three pin- lf milk somewhere down there. for account
and Is of thc concerned. Really, dear -r, what can
The Tribune do about 10 II You lave best ear,
frru over ul 10 AZ about 3 80 AS measure of pre-
,autinn and pallatlOu When tips fail some al
troritf.- have tried pea shooters with good results.
The common pea shooter If North America. with forty
round, of Uakcd clay pea, I'm your-well, whatever
Won have about Won, al tat hour. only take care
That the shutters are closed against tile dustiudn ,
lcycnsc,.
From a recent Illustration II appears that there are
person, ,tlI cNtlut who think Dogencs lived in a
wa-htub Why just because You and your father
and Your grandfather Il any, used to climb into one
and De- parboed and have palm soapsuds rubbed into
,.lr c,,. every saturday night, think You there can
I,. lid other iu.- than yours DloEeuc> lived IN a
,.-k of course. and good biz one YOU may be-
-u., and u iuc same sort of tub. only smaller, the
t.rcc mcn IN the put 10 sea, and twas an empty
one perhaps they used tp ~attncc 10 ttmpnrllc WIN
tne Whale. b. mean, barrel' in England To this
day a, well qs the tub ot the laundry aud the batn.