Show BILL NYE TELLS TJS About Brother Danfferfield and Adds Some Other Facts William Airs Hi Knowledge of Remains and Also About the Oyster in LawCholera Notes Copyright 1692 byEdgarW Nyel L Tbe mail brings the sad intelligence that in the case of the people of Illinois vs Isaac Dan erfield of Chicago the defendant defend-ant has been held by Judge Glonnon in the sum of 20000 to the grand jury cf Cook county on the charge of embezzlement Mr Dangcrfiold stood high socially in Chicaco and was one of the first gents west of the AllcRhanies to wear a box coat It did not touch him anywhere except on the shoulders and is still believed to have been made in England ELJ c ON THE STREET He is charged with taking keeping retain re-tain in c and clinging to 10000 which was deposited with him to bind the bargain in tbe purchase of the Pontiac Oxford North railroad a Michigan line 100 miles in length which Mr C T Gregory began the purchase of about two years ago through Danger eid The trade held fire I belioyo and so the depositors one day naked Isaac to return tbe 10000 but he had put It into a team or something and so claimed that the money was forfeited He has had the money now two years and was hoping that someone else would come along and forfeit a like sum before cold weather came on Isaac at one time published the speeches of Emory A Storra of Chicago in book form but the widow did not get anything in return except social recognition by Mr Dangerllcld whose manners are easy and fluent Later on ho published a book for me in an unguarded moment and has corresponded corre-sponded with me ever since in a light airy and graceful style which has been a great help to me When 1 began to correspond with him my style was rather heavy and labored but after the first two years people d noticed that I was getting a command of language that indicated deep thought and mobility Socially Mr Dangerfield is ambition 1 and ha may be found at all times hobnobbing hobnob-bing with his superiers in a bright and cheery way When he began to publish my book T got the refusal of a good cow hero where I live paying 5 for the option and promising to pay the balance on receipt re-ceipt of Mr Dangerfields check We are still without milk 1 Mr Dangerfleld is well fitted to shine In society but in a business way he is erratic er-ratic conservative and past finding our Ho entertains with a lavish hand mussing around in the salad and making while you wait a style of mayonnaise dressing that 2 should teach us not to cling too closely tot frt to-t life but rather to be ready at all times to accept our doom such as it is and give a J receipts Game Dangerfield is not his real name but I i have it on file for the use of those who contemplate con-template dealing with him Branscomb Ruth of Mudhaven Mass writes to ask for Information Can you bo goes on to say tell me if you ever a traveled among the people of Beled El Mehgrcb I am quite a student of those I and kindred races and am also passionately F passion-ately fond of paleolithic and neolithic remains 1 re-mains Tell me all you know regarding i this people and their country I am teaching ij teach-ing this season hoping to get tbe means to Jrt i visit that region in a few years God < r knows that I woula not teach a summer c school here at Mudbaven and try to do r right at 18 per mo if I did not have hopes of seeing theworld and writing a book upon it L You will succeed Branscomb if yon press on and you will no doubt see the world and write a book upon one side of it at least 1 have taught a summer schnol myself and know how tedious is At the ago of eighteen yearn and three months I taught a country school composed largely of youtb and middle aged people I taught in the English language and tried at eventide even-tide to learn tho violin by means of a pamphlet I am still proficient in the English Eng-lish language and last month while paying a visit to New York remembering what a great violinist once did I took the bow from the hands of a blind musician at the oopot who had been permitted to play there but who bad not heard the plunk of a penny in his poor old hat all day With a creat gulp of joy I took the bow from bis trembling and as I may say sobbing 47 sob-bing hand As be could not sea me of course bo did not know that a considerable of virtuoso had the instrument In fact as be afterwards told me ho did not know me from Adams off ox Running my fingers carelessly along the fingerboard to eee if the gamut was all right I put some il rozzum on tbe bow meanwhile looking about over the sea of upturned dry goods boxes with a stern but beautiful side expression ex-pression and then sweeping the strings with long earnest strokes 1 soon struck a intotho smooth cadences of 11 Trovatore and Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Bless-ing arranged for me by Chubb the fish inJ > rod man Business began to show signe of congestion conges-tion Carts and wagons stopped and blocked up the street Some knewme by 4 my truthful and faithful efforts to look like my cartoon The blind man held hIs bat and pennies were ever and anon dropped into it by smiling bands as it s I r were The crowd grew apace Fully five thousand people were gathered about me near the ferry They were good natured and generous and the old mans eyes twinkled till I feared he would forgot himself him-self and see thIngs but as I wearied and the crowd began to ask for other selections a tall man with pompadour hair came in on tho Pennsylvania road and every man woman and child deserted me to follow him away Nsed t add that it was Corbett the trimmer trim-mer and copal varmsher of my fellow author John L Sullivan They had come there to see him According Accord-ing to the report made by a very well known paleolithic expert of France there are abundant signs of paleolithic men allover all-over that country The region is west of the Nile and toward the southeast corner of that belt of vlrvin real estate known as the desert of Sahara M Chatelier says that the spoor of paleolithic paleo-lithic man points to the existence of human beings hero in the quaternary period and even back of that at a time when the distribution dis-tribution of land and waters was far different dif-ferent and when the desert of Sahara was a little streak of sand where tho Egyptians came to get material for plastering An old limekiln is still on the ground though some claim it is a royal tomb or sarcopba gus bed The scientist says very truly I think and I am borne out in this opinion by my fellow scientist Tunk Brady author ofTen of-Ten Groggy Goes and Ten Seconds of Silence a book that had a large sale while Tunk was popular but is now out of print that the paleolithic man appears to have been succeeded without a hiatus by neolithic communities who developed to a high degree of perfection the art of making mak-ing stone Implements As thero are no whiskers found in any of the graves it is presumed by Huxley and I that these men perfected the stone razor to such a degree that even tho king made ail kinds of excuses ex-cuses to leave the throne in order to be shaved twice per day M Chatelier also says that the most striking features of the prehistorical remains re-mains are tho megalithic structures tha dolmans the menhirs the cromlechs tbe trilithons stone circles etc which are abundantly scattered over the soil from Fez in Morocco to the Trip Utan cha teau Unfortunately I did not know this until I had furnished my house I would have been pleased to look over a few of those myself Discovery of Roman coins in some of these dolmans shows he says that they may have been contemporary with the old settlers of Beled El Mehgreb also that a coin pocket in the dolman has always been regarded as a safe place to keep money from the hand of man Similar megalithic remains have been found in Palestine far away back in the early history of the cave bear the three toed horse and the old settlers of Islip Tne Amorites also left megalithic remains and two or three Cornish jokes still bearing bear-ing tbe marks of the clumsy stone implement imple-ment with which they were hewn out It must be a great comfort to these people to know that they have been successful in leaving megalithio remains Washington awoke one morning to find himself the father of his country but he left no megalithic megal-ithic remains Columbus discovered the country of which Washington in a number i of well chosen remarks officially became the father but even Chris left no megalithic megal-ithic remains which would resist the elements ele-ments and the overzealous tooth of Time What may we learn from this One hundred dollars in cash or farm produce pro-duce will be given to the first one who discovers dis-covers what wo should learn from this r 1i ii 3c t I ilt I PERSUADING THE DOG I wrote to a paper once that was trying to boom its circulation by offering 1000 to the first one who should write the correct solution Of a rebus published in this paper and enclose 1 also for subscription The editor sent me a letter in which he said that my solution was correct as also were many others But unfortunately his wife being right handy to the office had been the first ono to solve It and as she was avery a-very needy person and very well connected con-nected by marriage he had awarded the prize to her Another correspondent writes from Star Prairie Wis to ask regarding a question of law as follows Would you mind taking tak-ing the time to answer publicly or privately pri-vately as you may choose for the benefit of a young law student whether or not tho oyster lsas a matter of fact real estate or personal property Oyster8 running wild or In a state of nature are neither personal property nor real estate but upon becoming domesticated domesti-cated and put to bed as I may say they are ruled by the New Jersey court of chancery chan-cery to be real estate and subject to tbo laws regulating the taxation and alienation of real estate Judge Pierce of Ellsworth Pierce county Wis and Judge Hough of Now Richmond St Croix county have both held that the oyster itself may be and often is real estate but that the oyster bed is personal property and may pass without regard to the statute of limitations or the laws regarding the alienation of realty The statutes under Justinian hold that iv Q oyster plant while growing was realer real-er t butwhon detatched from tile realty it became personal property while tho oyster bed in this case or the oyster plant bed becomes rea estate Then comes the question of taxation of the oyster bed Shall wo regard it as furniture fur-niture or farm These questions have nuzzled nuz-zled greater legal minds than mine and John Randolph and Daniel Webster went down to their graves not knowiagwhether the oyster bed should face the north or be made up with the oysters head toward the ensign Another correspondent asks to know if cholera is known to exist in North Carolina Caro-lina and also whether the groat hand to hand combat between Miss Lottie Collins and the soft shell crabbers of Fire island will be renewed in the future In reply would say that there Is no cholera in North Carolina at this writing Western North Carolina is the point to which many thousands come to be absolutely abso-lutely free from all fear of cholera Our air is perfectly pure and people who do not have too large a living surface are cordially cor-dially invited to come and help themselves Friends with means and abort one lung are coidially requested to come and cough with us without charge The sporadic case of cholera reported from near my house at Buck Shoals N C turns out to have been brought on by the use of a medicated watermelon with chemicals in it which had been administered adminis-tered by these fair hands It grew in my patch and so I felt free to manipulate it as I saw fit The man is now out of danger but has been quarantined till I can got my bulldog to give up his pantsnot the bulldogs pants but the mans pants Tho trouble at Fire island on the 13th and 14th of September was rather disgraceful dis-graceful but resulted from the fact that our government is not quite despotic enough in case of emergency The popular clamor of Islip which turned out to be the ua popular clammer of Constables Hook would have gone to Siberia for life if ho had acted in a cholera country as he did hereFreedom I have always said is a good thing for those who havo been brought upon up-on it and who have had it on the table with their meals ever since they were children but for those who are not used to it it becomes too exhilarating and ono j I whiff of it seems to call for another until they fetch up iu a new made grave i This is the reason that the torch of Liberty I Lib-erty shone down upon a picture of perverted I per-verted freedoma pathetic and pitiful exhibition ex-hibition of the way ignorance and selfishness selfish-ness may still abuse the rights so dearly bought and so ill bestowed |