Show TOO MUCH GOOD LUCH isyou bild A to let it lie new york sun if you ever happen to find a silver dollar in the course of your travels you let it lie right where it is when you see it said a jolly young broker yesterday I coming down on the elevated a few days ago he continued 1 I noticed something bright wedged in between the basket work seat to the arm my 0 knife blade and found my prize to be a silver dollar I 1 bad niver found any money before and I 1 felt so good that I 1 got off the t rain I 1 stepped into a cigar store and bought four cigars for a dollar instead of three for a quarter as usual that noon at luncheon I 1 felt awfully thirsty and being a dollar ahead I 1 or ered a bottle of claret later buoyed up with the I 1 ame thought I 1 asked the boys I 1 0 take something and the round cost me go cents when it me time to go home the elevated trains were crowded so I 1 thought id arend my dollar for a balsom cabling drive home stopping at a theatre where on account of my find I 1 bought tickets of a speculator n stead of at the office I 1 told my wife about my I 1 tick and showed her the identical dollar which I 1 bad saved 6 he was delighted insisted upon my baving the piece smoothed 0 ir on one side and the place and date of in good fortune thereon 0 tle c arraying out of which conceit cost me almog aher I 1 should think my find coat me fly 10 so take my advice and if you run across an I 1 garay dollari don t pick em up why news is not reported forbin how comes it that baseball and horse racing news is reported with great care acil while the leading rali loue evelti are either ignored altogether ow indifferently reported per editors have learned that per ons who belong to the theatrical or t ho sporting or ahe tile public buy their papers according as they and in alom full prompt and sympathetic treatment of theatrical sporting and market nova whereas religious people us such do not there patron age of newspapers witha correa I 1 exactness in other worde 0 religious people feel as keen an interest in religious news as iho baseball base ball public feels in baseball base ball news pr as the borse racing public eels in the news of a horse race do the religious people to any considerable sid erable degree choose one paper r ther than another because one aper gives more prominence to re ivious news than another or treat t with a more apprel b bension you cin go up one bench and down another at a ame ball 11 game and every man in the crowd wali tell you what papers of the dext morning will have a full and glowing account of the match tl en it progress and which will cism i ile it in a few cold lines and very ma ny of the will make their pu of a paper on the following morn irig on that bamis of choice now apply that mode of reasoning to re assembled in a city for some nota his religious occasion how m ill be able to predict the prominence that will be given to that meeting by the newspapers and how many will go to the news paper stand the following day and lubit a paper confident without look ia gives a good ae count of the event in short it is not after all a question of supply and demand ake golden age of american forum the golden age of the american book trade was the time of trade courtesy contrast the state of our literature now with what it was t hen daring that time we had something of cooper and irbing and Poe virtually all of hawthorne taylor prescott and blitley bl otley and the moot that we have had from bancroft holmen and urs stowe during that time too came not to attempt to mention all worth men parkman Park mau lowall stedman howells james clemens cable and warner since they rose there has been time enough to see who are aing there is tome cang benl t be grateful for but let the reader himself jud ge er our literature has any such prospects unde r r a as it bad under even an arpe r f eeck substitute for justice the competition of foreign stolen goods which our law en coura is not only a cruelty to our authors but is embarrassing their production by driving them into back work and is a deterrent happily nat always nn effective one to young persons of talent from entering that profession when they do embrace it there chances of at are materially obstructed twelve years ago any author whom a standard publishing house would be tested without any such risk as must now be burred of late some good houses have even got in the habit of returning all manuscripts by unknown authors A brother arl ansac aarder the congregation of a church at elk rock were much shocked upon learning that their preacher had do pasted under most discreditable circum stances on the following 7 sunday it beamed to be the aim of nearly every one to bush up the standal and under great restraint many uninteresting were held merely to prove that the members of the church could rise above sensational gossip just be fore the services were er elijah P Brook rod aroe and said brethren and sisters since we last met in this house something which seems to have caa a gloom over this congregation has occurred we were all much attached to our minister in fact we loved him I 1 now propose that we offer up a prayer for the wanderer A sensational wave swept over the audience another brother arose and turning to elijah P Brook rod said lam astonished that you desire this congregation t ray for our erring minister you bove all others aty B ceausu he ran away with your wi kil yes I 1 know elijah replied land that is the reason why I 1 think he will need our tyers 11 the bourt acos not london A learned counsel in days court in the quentis Que etis bench yesterday applied to his lordship to adjourn a case until after the luncheon time of the court as the telegraphed flat he had mi sed the train day DO TOU ask that the case be postponed until aft x the adjournment for I 1 court does not that is n c t n epoch in the life of the court laughter I 1 do not sp eak it individuals do but the court does not lunea |