St. Paul daily globe., 1892-04-14
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

tD'~ss-NefF---N
at CAicagn has been let. Sealed proposals
for the Democratic nomination will be ne
celred up TO June 2t. The committee re
serves the right 20 reject any and all bids
The pedant Of 1872 Is Just az disagreeable
as his prototype Of t01 years ago. There is
now and then a pedant as far west as et.
Paul This Is sad. but true. One OF them
dropped in OF Signals few days since
He came In 10 say that he had detected one
of his most intimate friends in misquota-
ton Explanatory OF the case al issue, he
said:
''The gentleman % whom refer quoted
from Goldsmith. He imagines he knows all
bout Goldsmith ana the old English poets
Speaking earnestly OF the rapid advancement
Of plutocraey. he said It reminded him OF the
palmetto lines written by Goldsmith:
"Ill fares the land. to Fastening Ills prey
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
# promptly called MS attention to the fact
that he had mSquoted Goldsmith
How SO? he inquired with some show OF
warmth
why / said the first line as quoted by
you contains a gross breach of the rules OF
rhetoric. Ill fares the land, 70 hastening.ills
prey, IS hideous example of tautology Of
which the accurate and erudite Goldsmith
would never be guilty lie saw at once the
force Of my criticism, and retired somewhat
abashed. "
But we urged, "are you positive you are
correctT'
Am I corrects / wish / had as many
dollars as am correct in this matter. You
do the gifted author of The Deserted Village
great injustice to insiuuate otherwise.
Without desiring to do DR.. Goldsmith the
least injustice in the world, what do you say
10 an examination Of the poem!
Agreed"
The book was hunted up and the reference
found The lines read:
iii fares the land. 10 Fastening ills prey.
Where wealth aceumulaies, and men decay.
Then the pedant picked up his hat and
went wearily out into the cold, the cruel and
the caustic Werd.
Whitelaw Reid has suggested Senator Cal
win :. Brice as Democratic candidate for
president, ont the suggestion was made at
banquet; yes, at the close OF very long
banquet. when a man is likely 10 suggest
almost anything weird. grotesque and grue-
some.
Jaggles-There 1sn t the least little bit of
diplomacy about SwoggIes
Joggles mean hypocrisy.
Jaggles-l guess you are right; the terms
however, are usually synonymous.
Col. Bob IugersoIl says that Harrison has
nol earned Il denomination lie hasn't. Gee
whiz What has he been lying awake nights
for:
Cartoons in the Republicans press are in
dustrously turning Grover Cleyelands ''pict
ure to the wall And why not. Grover
makes EN- sick. The licked Brihshers
treated George Washington the same way.
The Chinamen find it hard TO understand
why they should be excluded from this coun-
try. It's horse and horse. We canuo un-
dersIand their laundry tickets.
Between chill brcezes aud decollete poll
ties April promises to be decidedly wiady.
Ex-Prss ident Beers is experiencing some
difficulty in satisfactorily connecting himself
with MS $4,000 pension. This IS a bad year
Tor the outs.
Harrison may plant. Wanamaker wIter
and Dudley fry fat, bur The fact that Blaine
has gone iato training with Muldoon Is not
without due significance.
Olt in South Dakota the rain is busily en-
gagged IN falling upon the just, the unjust
aud the Sissetol boomers.
1t is true that Isaac Pusey Cray Of Indiana,
halls from maiaria state; still. that will
hardly account for his halucluation that he
/ is presidential candidate.
The death OF Franc u. Wilkie, in Chicago,
removes from the profession, not journalist
| of the old school, Bohemian. a vagrant
Iri1cr i'll the newspaper field, but an earnest,
manly worker. fully abreast OF modern
| thought and modern practice lie was con-
nected with the business not for what there
was in it," but for mis- honest love of jour
nalism. and desire, which never waVered
to do his share ia its advancement and EN-
couragement. He never shIrked duty, nor
did be hesitate to lend helping hand to
other and younger men. But for the sham
! journalist the youth who came in at the
cabin windows instead of up from the fore
castle, the dawdler and worthless shirk,
Franc b. Wilkie had no IN ercy. He was an
! honor to ths profe ssion. and his loss will be
! deeply deplored in The city which for many
years has been mis- field of labor and with
whose journalistic successes he has been
| closely identified.
'Hill cannot be trusted shrieks the Re-
| publican Boston Transcript When has Sen
ator Iiill ever asked the Republican party to
! loan him anything?
| Among other hot stuff over the wires
| comes the announcement thst Pitcher Stagg
| will come west to Chicago" This com Dletely
| explodes the idea that he ever intended to
| enter the ministry.