VARIETIES

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1241, 27 February 1878, Page 3

VARIETIES

It is when a man is carrying a pound of honey on one arm, a bag of eggs on ihe other, and leading a bulldog by a string, and attempts to brush a fly off hia aar, that ho feels that no man. (>ap be expert in all things. The are turning slowly yellow; their Summer's hue is hence ; the ripening £rnik ts on the mellow ; the small boy on the fence. He looks around, be views the ground, and thinks the moment suits ; he tills his pockets full and round, then jumps the fence and s:;oots.

How often, oh, how often, a man wi ih only one solitary button on his slurs, and that one a brass pin, looks, with devouring envy upon his wife’s new seven button kid gloves, and wishes,all the shirts iu his collection wei;e just one glove. There does seem svmet(hiug wrong in this division of buttons.

The Brooklyn Young Men’s Club are discussing the question, “What can one poor weak woman, with a club, do against a tyrannical husband who crawls under the bed and refuses to come out ? ” “ When I die let me be buried within the sound of the hammer, the dang of the workshop, the hum of the mill,” says the candidate in his speech And then he goes home and seats himself in the rocking chair while his wife carries the coal out of the cellar to get supper with. The “Medical Examiner” reports that some interesting statistics have been published by M. Gortiaux on the dangers of travelling by land. lie states that in the old diligence days a man had one chance of being killed in 300,000 trips, and one chance of being injured in 30,000, On the railway, between 1835 and 1855, there was one chance of being killed in 2.000. journeys, and one chance of being injured in 500,000. From 1855 to 1875 one chance of being killed in making 6,000,000 journeys, and one chance of being injured in 600.000. Now the chances of being killed are as one to 15,000,000, and of being injured one to 1,000,000. Consequently a person travelling ten hours a day at the rate of forty miles an hour would, in the first period, have had a chance of escaping destruction during 321 years ; during the second period during 1014 years; and between 1872 and 1875 (luring 7439 years. There was a noble youth who, on being urged to take wine at the table of a famous statesman at Washington, had the moral courage to refuse. He was a poor young man, just beginning the struggle of life. Ha brought letters to the great statesman, who kindly invited him home to dinner. “ Not take a glass of wine ? ” said the great statesman, in wonderment and surprise. “Not one single glass of wine ? ” echoed the statesman’s beautiful and fascinating wife, as she rose, glass in hand, and, with a grace that would have charmed an anchorite, endeavoured to press it upon him. “ No,” replied the heroic youth, resolutey, gently repelling the proffered glass. What a picture of moral grandeur was that! A poor, friendless youth refusing wine at the table of a wealthy and famous statesman, even though proffered by the fair hands of a beautiful lady. “No,” said the noble young man, his voice trembling a little and his cheek flushed, “ I never drink wine; but” here he straightened himself up, and his words grew firmer—“ if you have a little good old rye whiskey, I don’t miud trying a snifter!”