Show ill boston alio city of ideas anil tho capital of american culture ahe chick of a practical ia beio gradually hatched out of the egg of the theoretical thero is n movement from the all to the of tho this we have hearil much of evolution of the concord school of philosophy but out of the abstract truths which all these systems of knowle ge and brain widening have implied wo are only now getting to the concrete fact which this general large mind edness has brought about the roost patriotic son of tho pilgrim fathers roust admit that for n generation or two the yankee has run rather to mind than muscle lie has himself lla has chosen to be an intellect with the least carbon hydrogen and oxygen possible and his habits of thought and hia environment have urged him further and further away from the world the flesh and the devil and into the domain of the ideal and ane abstruse now civilization cannot afford to loosa the yankee the world may fun at him or her for the yankee is an epiceno noun but the yankee will inherit the world the long run ia his or here and none may dispute it if the race comes to a wire edge for want of a proper consumption of roast beef veal cutlets and boiled mutton with aper sauce where would progress be mark the kindly cure of nature dorher most favored nation on tuesday of last week if we are to believe one of the most accurate of the boston papers miss muriel tiffany was courted by mr george albright and mr howard wheeler all of them were back bay people as the reader might know bv the mayflower flavor of their names the courtship came to a focus and the lady was requested to declare which she chose she could not eay she loved them both albright proposed that the question should be settled by the rules established and laid down by that famous english lawgiver the marquis of wheeler agreed seven homeric rounds were fought with the bares while mibs muriel like marys little lamb waited modestly about until the victor did appear then she went home with him it was wheeler groggy perhaps and minus some claret and epidermis where the dukes of the conquered albright had found an opening at his peepers his potato trap or his sermon catcher haughty as befitted the successful champion the marriage is to what need that we should point out the lesson he that runs may read it here is a wholesome re turn to first none but the brave and the well may deserve the boston fair muscle brawn fortitude forti dude skill and wind are to be considered in the analytis of the yankee of the twentieth cen tury shenew will not alone as to his forehead but s to his chest and his arms natural selection properly applied will make him a physical terror as well as a psychic phenomenon future ages will bless the girl whose keen philosophy has b rough about the amelioration of the down eastern american man the captain ea id that cleary came to the religious meetings at seventh avenue drunk and created a great disturbance by shouting and using vile language when cleary was ordered to leave be abused the salvation captain who then had him placed underarm rest cleary said 1 must have beba drunk or I 1 would never have gone there he was sent to the island fora month arizona belul an alabama man charged with stealing a calf made the following statement 1 I was always to bo honest an most always have been but when I 1 see that calf I 1 cave I 1 never wanted a calf BO bad in all my life ahyou all know that when a man wants a calf he wants him the jury returned the following verdict we this jury are satisfied that steve the calf but M the feller that owned the animal is con eid erable of a slouch we agree to clear steve an make the slouch pay the cost atlantia Atlan lia alon caleb gushing once sat down on dictionary and discovered and made n list of 1100 errors in the first half of it he was going to the second half after bearing from the public but he never heard from them |