The National tribune., 1895-07-11
TIE HARDY Ply.

THE HARDY FLY.
There Is plenty OF evidence already that dur
ing the long cold Winter months not single
Fly got frozen or mislaid.-somerritle Journal
HIS KIND.
Taggs-Do you understand French?
Waggs-I do when / speak it.--sonsrriHs
Journal.
PROCEEDINGS IN BANKRUPTCY.
Lawyer-You were wealthy man three
years ago2
WitneSs-I considered myself so, sir.
Lawyer-And you say that all Of your prop
erty is now gone?
Witness-Every cent of it.
Lawyer-How did this happeny
Witness-I bought wool on the strength of
Congress- promise to make wool higher by
taking the duty of; bought silver because
the Chicago platform promised to rehabjlitate
silver, and went on the bond Of a Reform
candidate for Treasurer, who promised to clean
out all the corruption in the Office, instead of
which he cleaned out all the cash
Lawyer-Yss, L recollect that 1892 was a year
of much promise.
The people around that important portion of
our territory where Hudson and East Rivers
come together and flow into the Atlantic are
much exercised over the name to be given
Greater New York" when the settlements
there are united under one Municipal Gov
eminent. Many suggestions have been made
but the best one, and the that finds most
favor with most people, is that it shall be called
Manhattan" This is appropriate and historic
All traces of g New York" should be abandon
ed. The city bears no resemblance whatever
to the sleepy old English city for which it was
originally named It is not New" York, or
any kind of York. York, England. is little
city of $1,000 people. and the County-seat of
Yorkshire. 1t derives its chief Importance
from being the seat of the Archbishop of York,
tho second in rank of the English prelates,
and from having fine cathedral and number
of interesting ruins of monasteries, etc. While
they are at it why not change the name Of the
State, too, TO Niagara" "Onondaga," Adj
rondack" Mohawk" Erie" Oneida or
else truly American aud eupho-
nious?
Somehow Queen Lii has faded from the po-
ltical horizon, so to speak
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Indianapolis Journal: "The trouble with too
many women" says the corn-fed philosopher,
tt is that they regard the marriage ceremony
mainly as license to eat onions and wear ILL
fitting clothes"
Poor Tennyson is su fsrng fearfully from the !
misdirected efforts of the admirers who insist |
on knowing and telling all abont his personal !
habits They say his table manners were vile, |
and he smoked tobacco that was simply awful, |
in pipes that were even worse. He worked in |
a low-roofed, dingy study, that reeked with |
abominable odors of stale tobacco
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DISCOVERIES IN YUCATAN.
The Reriee of Rerie,rs for July has an article |
Of extraordinary value and interest-a sketch /
Of Prof LIE Plongeon's discoveries in Yucatan
He and his accomplished wife spent IL years in
that land of wonderful ruins and remains study /
ing the language of the people. photographing. |
measuring, and taking pGpier machs /
casts of the temples, columns and inscriptions, |
and interpreting the hieroglyphs. If We &C.
,ept only portion Of Prof. Le Plongeon's /
statements as true. his discoveries are simply |
amazing. He believes that he has demonstrated |
that Yucatan was the first and oldest home OF
religion and civilization, and that letters arts,
religion, and literature found their way to their
next home-Egypt-by the way of the lost At
antis He claims that the Maya language
till the speech of the fierce and savage people |
the Yucstan peninsula-is the old
est language in the world-far older than the
lead Sanskrit, and, of course, inconceivsbly
more ancient than tho Greek and Latin. He
claims to have found the tomb of the original
Abel, who was a Magyar Prince and that the
Greek alphabet are the initials ofs Magyar poem,
the submergence OF Atlantis. Be
FOND question there is limitless world Of his
tory connected with the wonderful ruins of
Y ucatan. and the hierogyphs are full of mat
Ter of inconceivable importance to the archie
,logist. 1t is beyond doubt that powerful, |
wealthy and highly yilized people once in |
habited that country. They were probably as |
far advanced in civilization as the ancient |
Egyptians, and had much knowledge in common |
with them. Who they were to what race they /
belonged, what became of them, are so far in |
Icrutable mysteries. They extended their in
luence and their arts as far north as Arizona I
md New Mexico. possibly farther-snd far
south rs Peru. The general presumption is that
hey became emasculated by luxury and wealth,
Ind were overrun and externinated by the !
fierce barbarians surrounding them every
,ide. Still. it may be possible, as Prof. LIE
Plongeon asserts, that a remnant of them &C.
,upying a rather inaccessible position on
peninsula may have escaped destruction, and
their language at least to their
descendants. These have also inherited an in-
tense antipathy TO foreigners. which was hight
sned by their experience with the Spaniards
Ind Mexicans. The main suspicion about Prof.
lie Plongeon's statements arises from his claim
ing to have discovered so much. Even admit
ing that he is a man of unusual ability, and
devoted IL years to his work, still, he has dis
covered az much rs all the scholars and ex-
,lorers OF Europe found out about Egypt or
assyria in a century, which is incredible.
PERSONAL.
Charles Swarthst. of Pleasant Hill, Mo-, some