New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
A MERE MAN.

He was OF middle age
Amid the bizzard's bitt5r rage.
- he crept. !oof TO seek
ALAS he cri d. Il have a rome;
- lis y. warm and bright
And yet, without l have roam.
Unshe tered through the ght.
my WIFE within The parlor sits
And works ndustIio
Cpol scme most mysterious bits
Her mo her holds the dining room
Safe II, each curious eye
And thre1tens with aveng rg broom
All those who venture nigh.
zone daughter in each bedroom csnns.
Cook guards the kitchen o'tr
And my two boys The little scsmps.
In snowdrifts to each kaee
While my fond family prepare
Their Christmas gifts for me-
Then, suddenly. The midnight bell
I9Ied owly through the night,
Ind And saw fash Of l2ht,
C3d work "S w is dG4e "a my friend in glee
Then, st.ftly throush the snowdrifts he
Crept off 10 seek his bed.
Herr Book Of Babenhausen Hezse) has been car
rying observations of the humming both of tele-
graph and telephone wires The hun mi g of wires
rum ng east and IS said to pre- age a fall OF
temperature often ten or more hours in advance
of the thermometer; the humming of wires north
and south advises rise in temperature. almost
always seve al hours in advance OF thu the-mom-
eter The wire Is hardly equal to the goosebone for
long distance forecasts.
The teacher of a coIored school here in Wash
ington recently asked a pupil to go to the black
4apb young GS Snen the Word
pousy to the front blackboard and wrote in la & =
sprawing. uphill hand these words. DE win
Life
writer in London Truth recalls that Brown
ing when asked the meaning of a passage I'm "Sor-
dellO" replied Well l know the poem had a
meaning when wrote it, but what it was
[ he writ
parallel answers OF Coieridge and of Goethe which
comforted him long ago when he first TRANSCRIBED
them. Coleridge wrote the greater part of Book II
of Southeys Joan of Arc" and annotated the
long passage beginning, Maid beloved of heaven
thus: These very fine lines. though l saw il
that should not but hang If l know or ever
did know. the meaning of them. though nv own
composition" Lord Francis Egcrton when trans
latinG Faust" wrote to ask Goethe's EXPLANATION
of a passage which puzzled him. and received tho
reply that the poet himself at loss 70. their
meaning. Surely" runs his answer to Lord
Francis you at twenty -four Snou;d know better
than at seventy-fOur the meaning of a passage
/ wrote attyOu age.
Jack-Colonel Blank is the finest af,er-dinner
Tom-Indeed: / wasn't aware that he had any
Well. he has, all right 1 have dned with him
several times, and after dinner he Invariably picks
IN pay the bill "-(Ch!cago News o. my W.
When the Afro American Bank failed a., .,r,.
depositor met the president ard demanded his
money.
Where my money? l want my money. I don
keer fur de bank l des want my money"
How know where yo' money!" said the presi-
dent contemptuously Where de money when de
white folks. hank fail? You amt posted Wat Won
know .bout business? When de bank fan hit des
explode and dey amt no money
Sudden Infatuation. SO Miss scadds is going to
YES she took him ont to look at one Of those
pieces ~ raaY estate her father told her she oul3
have the choice of cor a home. and he proposed on
the SCOT" -