The National tribune., 1895-01-24
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
1. urroNARY PUZZLE.

1Saac MCCLELLAN.
REVOLUTIONARY PUZZLE.
The following curious composition dates
back to the American Revolution. Though on
its face il is a Tory production, as was the
fashion among poetasters of the times. il WAS
evidently written by a patriot, as its second and
third lines show 1t can be read in three ways.
First read the whole it is written; Second,
read downward on the left OF the comma IN
the middle Of each line; third, read the lines
downward on the right Of the comma. BY the
first reading the Revolutionary cause is con-
demned; by the other two 1t is praised:
Harkl bark the trumpet sounds, the din of wars
alarms,
Der seas and solid grounds, doth call all to
arms.
Who for King George doth stand, their honors
Their ruin is At hand, who with the Congress jon
The Acts OF Parliament. in them much delight.
] hate their cursed intent, who FOR The Congress
The Tories of the day, they are my daily toast,
They soon viii sneak away, who independence
WHO non-resistanI hold. they have my heart aud
hand.
May they for slaves be sold. who act a W higgisb
On Mansfield North. and Butte. may daily bless
ings pour
To North and British lord. may honors stl be
done,
FORKS AND FINGERS.
Rev. DIR. j. s. Lemon, in a recent article on
fingers and their uses. gives the following in
teresting information on the invention of forks
and their introduction into England:
Fingers used to serve for forks. Even now
we cannot get wholly at meals without
using our fingers. aud hence the call for finger
bowls seems quite imperative. Forks were
invention ia ltaly first noticed in the 18th
century. Two hundred years passed before
they came into use in England. and then only
lly the wealthicr and more fashionable classes.
Away up into the 18th century, the inns Of
Scotland bad no forks. aud travellers carried
with them knives and forks Al FIRST even in
Italy. only gentlemen used forks.
Thomas Coryaie (l577-l6l71 was an English
traveller and visitor. In 1911 he went into
Italy. We fnd this entry in his journal:
II observe custom not used in asy other
country. They use little fork when they cut
their meat"
lie bought one and on returning TO England
used il. but met very unkind ridicule- lie
wrote IN his diary:
Master Lawrence Whitaker, my familiar
friend. called me Lucifer for using fork at
feeding"
Coryate. writing further Of his Italian expe-
Fience. said:
Neither do ] think that any nation in
Christendom doth use it (the fork but only
Italy. their forks being for the most part made
Of iron, steel. and some Of silver but these arc
used only by gentlemen"
Later on, some chy-bejeweled forks-crys-
tai, coral, gold-adorned-were presented TO
Queen Elizabeth. but she refused 10 have any
thing to do with them. After her death a
very able divine declared that forks are an
insult to Deity. il was claimed that seeing
God has furnished thumbs and fingers. we
ought 10 be satisfied. aud that experimenting
them, as though they were not good enough,
10 an ofense against Almighty God.
THE NAPoLEoNIc CRAZE
The Napoleon Bonapartc fad is at its hight
in New York. The leading magazines of the
country started the craze with their Napoleon
sketches aud memoirs and now everything is
Nspolconic. Every art store in New York dis
plays paintings. etchings and engraviEgs of
Napoleon and miniatures Of Josephine in their
show windows. and curio dealers have resur.
Tected all sorts of relics of NAPOLEON and the
First Empire. One would think that Eapo-
leon's time was divided equally between sit
ting Tor has portrait and fighting battles
There Is Napoleon as Lieutenant at the age
of l6; Napo cons passage of the bridge at
Lodi: The Treaty at Leoben; Napoleon before
has expedition into Egypt: Napoleon's triu,o
phal progress through France; Napoleon cross
ing the Alps; Napoleon at the battle of Ms-
Tengo; Napoleon the night before the battle at
Ansterliiz; Bonsparte at B0uiogne; Napoleon
going back to France from Moscow; Napoleon
taking leave OF his officers at FontaiBebleu:
Napoleon meeting bis soldiers on his return
from Eliza; Napoleon at the battle of Water
loo; Napoieons hnal resignation Napoleon in
Exile
There are numerous miniatures Of NapoIeon
and scores oil Josephine An engraving from
the famous painting by David representing
Napoleon ~ Versailles IN the act Of crowning
Jobophipe Is q favorite subject.
fashionable young men are beginning to
affect the Napoleon bang, which is a decided
Improvement over the part-in-the-middle-
pisHteTed-siown -oyer-tbe-ears style that makes
men look like sheen.
An improved cut Of the hair is the Napoleonic
front and football back, most startling COM
binaton.
have been watching for the great coat and
eocNeo nat OF The Emperor, and recently was
rewarded by seeing young mRn on Fifth
avenue with a yplcal kapoieguic outft
dc wore the traditional gray cloak butfoned
up TO the chin, aud three-cornered hat and AT.
tracleo the coveted attention Of pedestrians
The mustacbe, which has been sinking into
dsisvor for some time is totally tabooed dur-
ing the present craze for the smooth. clean.
shaver face
Women reviving the Josephine gown at
homo and at teas which is worry becoming ia
the wIllowy. graceful woman.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. the poetess OF passion
always wears an Empire gown.
She was one of the receiving party al a tea
last week. and WAS very becomingly attired in
Josephine gown OF pale-blue Grape and served
very strong punch in a very aesthetic manner
Lenore Sherwood.