VARIETIES.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 982, 18 August 1877, Page 3

VARIETIES.

A Virginia negro recently ale forty-four hard-boiled eggs at a sitting. He would look nice sliced up. The Rochester (U.S.) “Democrat” indulges in the following reminiscence:—“l wish I were you about two hours,” Mary said, with great tenderness. “And why, my dear,” he asked his wife with considerable interest. “Because,” she said, toying affectionately with his watch-chain, —“because, then I would buy my wife a new set of furs.” There is a story going the rounds concerning Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., the Napoleon of booksellers, as Artemus Ward would say. Mr Smith offered to take the bookstalls of a certain Continental railway, but was refused. “ Ah,” (said he, with a sigh of resignation, “I know what it will come to in the end ! I shall have to buy up the line itself, for I must have my trade pushed in that direction.” French News. — A correspondent of the Paris “Figaro,” lately strolling about the London streets, noticed a large crowd hurrying into a wooden booth. Having paid his shilling, he entered also, and found the great attraction to consist of a sailor sitting quietly smoking and drinking beer. Over his head was the following inscription ; “ This is the only sailor in the Arctic Expedition who succeeded in perspiring at the North Pole.” A Refined Man. —A retined man is never “loud” in his dress, for refinement is always allied to simplicity and a judicious and tasteful employment of the means of the good and happiness which it has at its command. It seeks to divest itself of superfluities, and aspires continually to the utmost possible purity. Refinement leads to personal cleanliness and elegant neatness, good taste, and simplicity. Needless display and bashfulness are alike repugnant to its spirit. The Lunch Player. — “l say, boss,” remarked a lunch fiend not many miles from John O’Counor’slUnion Square Room, at the time throwing in his mouth huge slices of corn beef. “Well, say it,” remarked the “boss,” in surly tones. “I was jes’going ter say it,” continued the fiend, as he deliberately stowed away another ration. “1 was jest going to ask ycr if ycr couldn’t scud my victuals round to my stopping place after this. I am gitten’ tired coinin’ over here so often, an’ I only live around the corner, wher’ yon could send them just as well as not.” The proprietor gazed upon the ungrateful wretch with a mingled ex- | pression of scorn and anger, and turned ; away without reply, being at that moment much like the lunch fiend—“ too fall for ■ utterance.” ! Always Marry Poor to cet Rich.— The public is advised from the pulpit to marry young, and even marry poor. Marry young man and woman, and struggle up together. Hard times, poverty, want, j anxiety, worry are good. Teach you how to live properly. Teach you how to enjoy yourself. It is good to get up in the morn- ' ing and find nothing for breakfast. Nor anything to buy breakfast with, flood thing , for a plant, you know, to be constantly stinted of air, water, sunshine, soil. Makes j vigorous, healthy fruit. All the smart men | in°this country commenced low down. Were poor’. Opened clams, &c., and oysters. Like the present Astors and Vanderbilts, the Boston Adams, the Lawrences. And lots of others. All young men who commence low down and struggle up get rich and become great. Like the 150,000 tramps in the Eastern and Middle States, want, worry, fret, anxiety, two radishes and a peanut for breakfast, make brilliant men and women. Find ’em floating in the bay every day. Suicide from want. Six last Sunday. Nobody gets discouraged. Marry, young men, and struggle up together. Everything to encourage you. Brilliant exceptions of poor young men who get rich always published in hooks and papers. Biographies of self-made tramps, and suicides in gilt binding no!, so common. About 10,000 a year. Marry poor, young man. Have live" children and earn six dollars a week. Fourth story garret, two rooms, wife doing her own washing, hones for breakfast, makes soup of them for dinner, fry the tin plates for supper. Makes you strong. Teaches you virtue, honor, honesty, self-reliance. Marry young and si niggle down—to the rumsbop—to the dock —to the jail to the grave. Good things, luxuries, fresh air, country in the summer, prime roasts, airy streets, will ruin you. degenerate you, will make you coarse, unrefined, and unhealthy. No. Live for twenty-live cents per day. Buy stale eggs, diseased meat, poor Hour, and the poorest of everything, because its cl leap, llicsc things 111 make you strong and healthy. Add also to your mental power and clearness. Culture and development come of the poorest circumstances and surroundings. Marry young then, and very poor.—New York “Graphic.’