"PEARLS OF THOUGHT"

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3883, 9 June 1881, Page 2

"PEARLS OF THOUGHT"

A German authoriijßs,inadeiic<^l^«iion of mixed metaphors, wJMehfhjecC^ pearls of thought. Some- of them are worth quoting if only:MsJa.'jiraT^MWi^^igl*flown orators not to allow tbe.ir maxnilo* quence to fly away wi^ tfte^ »iV)|tHber. " We will," cried au inspired democrat, " barn all bar shipsv awdrotb;ip**ry sail unfurled steer boldly out into the ocean of freedom !" Even that flight-is-sttfpawed by an effort of Justice, Minister. Hye, who* in 1848, in a speech ,t6;Uia¥ienna students, impressively deolaf^^^jrJ*he chariot of the revolution; is* rolling along and gashing ifcs teeth; •••.% roll*." A pan-Germauic mayor of a JShtneland corporation roae stiU higher m-an address to the Emperor. He slid, "No Austria, no Prussia, one only Germany, such were the words the. month:; of-rjour Imperial Majesty has always had i| id eye." We hare heard 11 of ntfc*:m<mth having an eye-tooth, but never before of the mouth's eye. But there even literary men who caunot open their mouths " without puttingliheir foot in it." Professor Johannes- Scherr is an example of such. In a criticism 6W Lenaji's lyrics he writes :—" Out of the Aafk^regioos of philosbphieal problems tota|)a«t^uAlMly lets swarms of songs dive up, cabptnK far flashing pearls of {fiolglii in their beaks."; Songs and beais are citrtaioly related to one another, but were never seen in that incongruous connection before A German preacher, apeak ing. of a repentant girl said : " She kndt in the temple of her nterior and prtyedrfervently "7-* feat 00 indiarubber dbll Wul^^'itti^.^ p*he German Parliaitteotary oratorr iof^he present day anVda e£amp]eX of metaphor mixture^ tut two Count Frakeaberg is the author Of tWhrn. A few years ago he peinUd (OU^to^K^ countrymen the necessity of 1! aeixio^the stream of time by the forelock; ""and in the last sossion be told tl»fe Minuter of War that if he really thought the French were seriously attached to^peaee,- he-had better resign oißce'anX "reborn to his paternal pzen."... The coMnt had no doubt the poet'a paterna i lira "in his-mrad at the time. Bat uone of these pearls of thought and expression in Eatberlami wrpaii the speech of the Mmbrtal Joseph Prudnotnme on being pretented wjth a sword of honour by the company he-commanded Jfl^!. -*^OMI Gu*rd 1 oi^«f France. 2 Gentlemen," aaid^e.^t^ii swt>rii is the brightest day of my life !"-~Gali K nai|i.

Professor: Which is the mOat delicate of the senses? Sophomore: The fbach. Profwsor: Prore it. Soßh6mQ«e^ When yoo sit on a tack. You cantbearU; you can t see it ;.yoto can't taste it; you -can't smell it; but it's there.', - -..-*" "Six years ago, General— —t»me to this Ptate without a cent in his pocket and the other day he ttgnoda oheqie for twenty ei^ht-thovtand dotlaii. tffl»ckilT though, he signed it with anothtr man.