| Show GEORGE FRANCIS AGAIN GEORGE TRAIN once such a celebrity but for a dozen years or more the occupant of a latticed bench beach in central park new york and with no other companions than sparrows has been entombed disentombed dis and permitted to stalk forth to engage in the practices which were his wont in the days long ion 1 I agone he spoke at a socialistic gathering in new york last night in behalf of tha condemned condemned anarchists aud and at vie the close a collection was taken up for the of their families netting some he says he will continue speaking in their interest until the fatal day dai arrives november alth next train is one of the most peculiar and eccentric char characters deters the ever produced he is no mere charlatan or mountebank as has so often been charged but a man of brain brawn and parts he has always been in possession esi of so se much animal vitality and ma magnetism netiam that he was never properly balF ballested ballasted bal lasted sted those who have heard him speak will remember that it seemed to be an exertion to him to remain on terra and keeping still was entirely out of the question his fund of language was something marvelous and his descriptive powers power s one of the wonders of the world but bat he dovetailed his bis subject so much and was out of one into another with such astonishing toni shing rapidity that those who expected to extract the gold from the gravel without an effort on their own jart part were badly disappointed he h had a most excellent understanding with himself in faethe and train were the best friends in the world and neither was at ajl aji solicitous lic itous about third parties stepping in to mar the harmony prevailing be tween the damon and pythias in uno he spoke twice ip this city to lar large lare e and appreciative audiences here re he formed more new acquaintances than he ever cared to have anywhere else because perhaps the good that was in him was perceived and substantially recognized but even those who professed to be able t to 0 see nothing in him were greatly entertained and aad on several occasions joined heartily in the applause and laughter in some of his r rhetoric h herodotus was never more powerful cicero more lucid horace more chaste nor homer more ornate but he would break oft off suddenly sudden lv from such a flight and be in the middle le of a western joke b fore a majority malo rity of his hearers knew that one had ended and the other begun he had the brain of a statesman and a faculty of assimilating ideas such as a webster himself might envy in person he is above the medium and and of portly proportions with a classical handsome countenance disclosing intellectuality in every lineament that he has been induced to break from his se seclusion lusion and again mount the rostrum is due to a cause not yet explained Pl pla ined |
