The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29


As was walkin' down de street
4 pretty .yeller gal l CHANGED 10 meet,
And Wild her | stopped 70 talk,
And her foot covered up de whole Sidewalk.
New YORK gals, pretty faces.
Bran new frockG, trimmed Wld laceL
J Ankles small, waist so slender,
An An, ADJ and . good-by Johnl
As ! walk out By d. Ugh! Oh d. mOon,
came across a biz raccoon
4 settin' on a rail three tines
A Slespin' very sound.
Deh At dis coon l take q peep
As he lay dere 30 fast asleep,
Den up 70 him | softly creep
And pail him on de rail three tlmesl
And ding him on dc ground.
Den he beEan to scratch and bite.
! bit him once Wild all my might,
buhg he eye spite his sight,
oh, Use de chile 70 nght lrepeAtI
And 70 play de banjo too. NJ Y.
have heard II stated that thtIe is q difference
OF length Of time between two expressions OF indeh-
mite past time, time out OF mind" being one: the
other I cannot now recall, Can you supply the
obtAinsi II. n. r. HAYWOOD.
Now dlscardedln practice. there was such dlstihc.
toni In the oldlAW texts. and the difference had . more
or less important bearing upon the doctrines Of
prescription and custom. The shorter In prior
duration Of the tWo, time whereof the memory
Of man runneth not 70 the contrary" land there's
the forgotten phrAse) Is Is much ~ to say that
no man then alive hath heard any proofe Of the
contrary, nor hath no knowledge TO the contrary;
this is called the time OF living memory. The
time OF legal memory, phrased A. tim out Of
mind" has a longer prior duration. but II starts
from = definitely hIed point, whereas the time Of
living memory floats indefinitely between the
competency and the senllty OF the most ancient
witness who may be produced. Time out Of mind
time lmmemonAlisa nother name for time OF legal
memory-beElns at the nrst year Of Richard J.,
because the statute Of Westminster !. q Edw. I.
cN liked that period as the time Of limitation for
bringing certain real actions. This interesting
nicely is set forth in Llttleton III. from which the
matter above quoted has been drawn. and In Coke
on Ltteton, ia b.
where Is Cabin John Bridge. why so called and
when and by what authority was the name OF Jetfer-
son Davis as Secretary OF War erased from ~
SELMA,
II is a masonry bridge in the Glen Echo suburbs
Of Washington which crosses the deep valley Of
. shallow stream known as Cabin John Run not far
from lts confluence with the Potomac. The bridge
was built In the late 'SOs TO carry the conduit which
supplies the water for the capital and was for many
years the longest single span OF masonry In the
world. Its architect and builder was Montgomery
c. MelGs, later ouartermaster- General Of the army.
and Il was erected under direction OF the War De.
partment. A tablet In one spandrcl gives the
usual Information as 10 date OF completion OF the
bridge and the names OF those concerned In It's
structure, among them that Of the Secretary OF
War. But as the late Secretary OF War, Jefferson
Davis, was In 1851, when the bridge was completed,
engaged upon the other side Il was deemed prefer.
able not TO carry bis name upon the bridge and q
blank billet was left In The stone above the oficlal
title. II this course needed any warrant in war
time II was undoubtedly authorized BY Mr.. Davis's
successor In the CabInet Z. NJ. Stanton.
Can you help me to Identity Lieut.. Derby's
bicycle that went without wheels' | have a faint
9y.D 6g. 'H Sor y S IVA T 4 IRst to sHI ! GsnG aSx real
memory OF the rest. WALLACE RANDOLPH.
Surely not John PhGnlI. he who recommended
through military channels 10 Gen. Scott, "old fuss
and feathers the combination OF the ring on the
saddle and the hook on cavalry trousers. That
bicycle can have been nothing other than
Philosopede Of Charles Godfrey Le-
IAnd's "~Breltmann Ballads" II began like this:
Herr SchnItEerl made a ph'losopede,
Won OF de pullyest kind;
II vent mitout a Wheel In front,
And hadn't none pehind.
Won Wheel vas In de mlttel, dough,
And II vent as sure ash ecES,
For he straddled on the aIel dree.
Nit der Wheel between bis lechs.
Pleyel's hymn used to be sung. as we'll known
inder that name as Drumclog or Brattle Street:
tut why Pleyel'sl HENRI LEE CARTEL-
Named after It's composer, and bis popular fame
70 rest entirely on tnat minor produet Of a
most prolific fertility Of composition. ITnIz
was born al Ruppsrsthal, near Vienna, In
7S7 and lived 70 1881. Eduested In music under
ySnhal and Haydn he completed his preparatory
ludles BY q tour extending TO all the great musical
entreS Of Italy. In lisa he became k~apollmeister
4 he Strasburg Cathedral, where he remained
i7p5 with a single interruption. when be went
o England 10 conduct the London Professional
In the winter OF 1871 %. After leaving
~trasburE he vent 70 Paris and became q publisher
Emusic aud maker OF pianos, In which he obtained
sufficient competency 70 enable him to retire
D an estate which he had bought near the French
aplul.
We note . reference TO the diamond back dis.
Kindly define the boundaries OF the dis
and the origin OF the term Diamond Back"
5 applied 70 II, ID, b, HICKS.
Its boundaries are about a. Indefinite as the
Of Bohemia, but In . general way It runs
-om Flftleth street 10 Central PARK and such mar
Nv distance east and west Of Fifth avenue Is may
Q regarded smart. The Tsnderloln Is . police
nrchment Of our municipal vocabulary; the d. a
lOnd back comes from the politicians. who regarded
ie residents Of that district as Sufnciently wealthy
dine hSbltuAly upon teuapln Of that most e.
,st Gas m cIti,.n,hin not noutlo.llv -n,rou1hIs 4
! n, nm s,ocLIng eIsnent
- a
Is Il correct 70 say "nrSt on" when at nrst" 10 I
cant, and II 10 why not last Cd" Instead Of at
str Z, g.
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