New-York tribune., 1891-12-18
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

II is pretty hard work TO convince the antifootba
crank that the game Is not brutal exhibition OF
smashing faces breaking bones. and otherwise causing
| physical wreckage. But II. in the recent great
game between Yale and Princeton, there is none Of
| this "brality,r and the men after a tremendously
| hard game OF an hour and half come of the Held
In the finest possible physical condition, you haven't
! won your point against the crusader for when you
| prove to him that the game was hard and vigorous
| but not brutal lie filings at you the argument; {;
| Well when was a boy we didn't 90 to school and
college to learn to play football, and that seems to be
the object OF the average young college man OF To-Day
Very we'll There is o school in NewYork where the
boys play football for Keeps" the small boy says
It's the Westminster school, right up the Hudson,
| at Dobbs Ferry. The Westminster football eleven
played such ratting good game this last fall that It's
total score the oi2, while its opponents
! made only eight points The Westminster boys
played good elevens nearly always defeating them
by zero scores, something like $50: 40; Go,
etc. Now this is what The Westminster Review,
| the school publication has TO say edorlaliy ABOUT
scholarship: "Thc standard OF scholarship has pen
raised much to our grief and now one has TO Cpn
thing about It Is that the entire eleven this
nst, which goes to show that football does not stop
So football in this school evidently hasn't proved
| that the average young man goes to college now
adays 10 learn TO play football and baseball ana 10 TO"
and to run. And this reference to football and college
publications gives one an opportunity to mention the
| generally admirable papers and magazines now pup
sed in nearly every school and college OF the country
4 Harvard, Yale and other big colleges get out
| regular daily newspapers during the college year.
Their other and less frequent publications are worthy
| of more than a passing glance and this spirit OF
college newspaper work is the more credtable for the
reason that there can be little or financial profit
in it. The work takes great deal of time which the
young men might be spending In more entertaining,
| though perhaps not more useful ways II is not easy
for Instance The westminster Review, ,'-something
| of a big name to carry, it must be confessed.
Te SS IS hews sEs y w
printed and above all. very sensible and modest. 1t
| Is an attractive little review"
tailor in Nassau-st. has found that 1t is an III
| wind that blows nobody good. In the last wind
storm which visited New-York land when wlnd-storms
do arrive on Manhattan Island certain paris OF Nassau
St. get the full benefit Of them) he learned lesson
which he may not have ACCOUNTED for good at the tme
to him or to anybody else. but the writer can testify
that there was some good in this wind. and that TOO
for the tailor. He had before his shop showcase
It was square glass box containing overcoats 1ull
suits trousers etc, and was mounted on four Wheels
| A gust of wind came down Nassaust. at an unusually
lively gait, even for Nassau-st, caught hold OF ono
side Of this showcase and at that instant the sidewalk
became tobOggan slide. Everything was favorable
for fine sport. The sidewalk had sharp decline the
wind was blowing down IT, and the men in the street
we're in sucb a bumor that they could enjoy any
| elses discontinue with enthusiasm. The showcase
started on n slow walk. quickened its pace to brisk
rot broke into sharp galop. and after, it had gone
half block was fairly skimming along like an ceboat
It reached the end of the block In short order eaped
half way across the street. landed between two car
tracks in shiver, broken glass and talormade gar
ments flying in every direction. 1t was fine sport for
those who saw It, And where was thS good which that
i'll wind blew Right in The ai9rs . ds. Sp Tor MS ne% agS
| no wind can blow 1T like rolicKng 1eather oo"h
| Nassau-st
People have an idea that in great city like New
York there is always strong flow Of mingled humanity
| so to speak. That is you can see all classes, all
qualities and all degrees in New-York crowd or
stream Of people But IN the morning hours this.i
not so at all. Just get u2 with the sun some morn
ing and see for yourself. The classes are as strictly
defined as the quarters of the hour Notice how sud
denly they change The stream which begins to flow
at O'Clock suddenly changes at half past that hour
| from jumpers and tin pals to coats and pipes At
o'clock the women appear, and for an hour or more
| they seem 30 be wholly in the ascendency, gong 10
shops factories and early morning stores Then come
| the clerks and cashiers. 1t gets along toward
o'clock and the stream is made up OF business men,
| bankers brokers, agents and managers. The "heavy
the proprietors have full sway until IL O'clock
Then 1t is woman everywhere. In the elevated trains
in the streets in the stores. They are the shoppers
Every one else either got where he belongs or is
not going there. 1t is the same story every morning
| That was an unusual occurrence commented upon
| the other day, when in December many hocks OF
birds were seen flying straight to the north. Every
| child knows that at this season of the year the
winged travellers are usually seeking the South Now
| here is a question to be pondered over for thre"
| ,nontbs or nossibly four II, as we have been
repeatedly forewarned this season. we have an ex
| 1remely severd and long winter, how snail We
account for this unusual action OF these migratory
inhabitants OF the air, who seek Dy lhsthct clinic
snited TO them. And if, on the other hano, the
weather in the coming winter proves, despite tn
nropheces OF those who declare they know, to be
mild and agreeable then what is TO be the GUIDE 1or
| the future-the weighty opinion OF the men VINO
,Mny @ S Silence or the swift flight Of birds
reason but who do not often err Ill lOno"lhS their
instincts
Two men on Long Island were in wagon when 1t
was run down by train. The wagon was deInoilshed
the horses attached TO 1t were killed, ana the men
| when picked out from under several hundred POUNDS
OF oysters were sound asleep. II a railroad COLLISION
shower OF oysters rained bodies and the general
uproar and excitement Of such an accident can not
| vohen two men, what in the world canl Dynamite
can have no terror for OF this stamp, and II an
| earthouake were to shake Long Island into the
! ocean, or q volcano were 10 have an eruption ike
| vesnvius. these two oystermen would probably have
| sweet dreams and smile in their slumberS like
children In their cradles. thinking they were being
gently rocked The sleeping beauty in the enchanted
palace Is not TO be mentioned IN the same Dreatii
With the sleeping oystermen In the railroad collision
The Car of Russia and the German Emperor may
write cordial letters until imperial ink runs dry and
| royal pens split" said the historian, "but Just so
| long as the Romanof ruler has the largest standing
army In the world and persists in pushing the construc-
| tor and armlng and manning of warships beyond the
mower of william of Prussia just SO long Will the
Younger sovereign continue write white messages
about the loyalty of his subjects which would compel
them to sacrifice all in this world and nearly all in the
next for him. 1t isn't question OF who is willing to
have ueace but who make peace at the point OF