New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-03
TIRE PHOE MN.

1.i.o ob,,r. i made perhaps sonnet in'- h"' " va
ant s,u,, foundation, that newspapers u''''' 80,
selves too largely 10 tic cph"meral nv RI
IN, incidents Of the day to ihc PN''">'"" "
r.l,.d subjects Of permanent human lh,'''H'
-, ro,,,. This clarsr let ~ this morning -
tho latest south American r"Voluu"" "'''' -
H., ,,, and 30, out of the way last night ahh
tic next one not hrng duo III '"''E '''''
,.,.... L., ~. W, rcr-at. talk" up the cohs!"'r'
..,.,l.in, ,uot. lasting than the eternal
hills Let H. talk" a calm LOOK ~ '''' w
tory wild fowl known ~ The pho'I'N'
~, mood 81 course. usc bn; small space hrrc ID
III an, ~ tL. old habit which this p'ch'lar or"
t,1 and go snppose still has. OF retiring once II
,., L,,,,lr.d year, - "A dry and draugAN pdI' "
,,,h,, and tharr making an ornI'hoIog.c1l o'n"'"
-, himself Immediately arising from his ashes '"''
,.c,iug The Insurance. and winsih@ hlS way '''''
,,,rd low he escaped the serious charN" VI al
,. p,t clrer a. thl- distanc". In 'hiS iesP''V "
..,r.. =, lac. been more fortunate IMAM '"'' w"
,o,ic individual who bought tll"usahH c's"'' Io'
.hcn iusnre, smoked thc'n,Hnd ul"i 10 c'H'c' W.
.,.,,,,.. b.,t -. taken into custody for ln'ch-
diori.n lM, spcculation- on minor ha"l p'ih''
,,rc,ruinc 50 noble ard conbustpl" a 'H" ~ '''
pho.ni< are. perhaps somewhat frivolous 90 WV
i the idc9 recently put forward hv 'h'ca'" o. ""
,.t that the phoenix probably caught UT" iio"'
,Isfr
like the prc-"nt. ,,
,,,ar al fine greatest filing winch ~" phoenix
coompli,hcl so,ms 10 have been 30 furnish an "'s'
ne,,r.,iso, far tie hurried newspaper writer IN
snc,kin.. Of the appearance OF any other news
a,or oftc- bovinr a fire in it. Office. Ihis II NJ
cows rising. pAocniv.li;c. from its ashes IL the
loo,ix ,rcrc In carry ont his self destruction now
,ho occ,up,s Of il in orr ably edited contemporaries
,yo,Id all hcrin with the remark that SENSATION
,os r,odpccd Yesterday" follow with references -
,he unfortunate bird" AMI close with the ooNer-
! ~,,ior that no caus, assigned Tor III" r'sn
act Indeed it is somewhat ditcut 10 "hn I"
GOOD reason for suol proceedings on the par. % y
| bird which lived in 20 warm country AZ Es'P'r
Had the phoenix been In tlr habit OF "\pT''h''"|
surh winters n this hi desire 10 get himself 'ho-
ouglly warm for once during the season would nave
| Lcon amplr explanation OF his action. IN" ahio'"'
az excitement; which the personal conl'aeratloh o.
| the phoenix produced must hav" varied grra'Y
with Tin, nciahborhood selected Tor tue display II
!, ,ycr. = reuo,e part Of Arabia it could have al
trac,rd but LITTLE attention unless INDEED, II hao
b..n Oh, hold of by some special rsponlrnt o'
rnterpri-ing a. the Scra nton. Penn, writer, wi"*
effort, have ,nrichcd confcmporancons lt"ratnr" ioi
the p1st two years Some authorities. however, con-
| tend that the phoenix always went 20 the city oil
.Irliupoli, Egvpt apply the match. In this Gus
the disgust Of the lclopo- fren'n, as they daShc"
around the corner with their en.inc and hook-anl-
ladder truck only TO lind that il was the same OH
bird which had called ont their thirty second de-
gree great sranifathcrs five hundred years BEFORE
| ,nus. L,v, hccn intense, l,ut the Joke was the
| nhoeniy when A chief more enthusiastic than com
mon ordered the stream turned on and "NtinSulshrl
| the flames and left the bird with half his feathers
burned on and tine others wet and bcdragslci y
phoenix drying himself the roof Of the lIclioioll
temple Of The sun and wondering where he was go
ing TO get some spicrd kindling wood to start
IN the fire again must have presented somewhat
undigniGcd spectacle. On the whole, II is our be-
lief that the bird burned himself and rose from his
ashes in Arabia. Had Scranton been in existence
no doubt lac would have preferred II. but it wac
not
Having successfully disprovcd the charge OF
newspaper cphcmeralncss, we may now return Il
current happenings.