Show f THE OLD AND THE MEW NEW THEY TREY aak ASKED ED the sad eyed poet met for ft a rhyme with which to erect greet the coming oming new bom year aino also to hold within chiq hl sweet pink eyes A crystal dewdrop dew drop diamond glistening tear form for 1889 but hla his muse had gono gone sleighing afoa U fort ho the ocean beach there camo came ashore night a wreckage battered and wave worn there vi was as nothing to tell its story excepting that upon a piece of 0 wood which might have ben been part of the prow of some gallant craft could be dimly traced the figures 89 11 and BO so upon the beach of eternity the waves of time have cast up another grain of sand another year compared with all the years that have gone with all the years that are to come what is one year taken from the span pan long life of one mortal it may be a great deal the trim ship 00 90 that has just choseed the bar has bas old glory fluttering from her topmast top mast and is laden with ft a cargo of possibilities aul an hopes such as none other ever carried ass january 1 1890 THE till in now york who w ho has been supplying tho the highly y interesting special telegraph service to TUB tin STANDARD for some months past began bis his rJay with happy new year to TUB STANDARD the same to you and many of them mr lane HAS knoffer an offer of 1000 a week to travel with cir cus cos here at last are fortune and fame famel I 1 the man on horseback will do well to accept service under the prince of showmen DEPEW sa athe B the journalist is the historian of the hour P it is true ue jie provides the data out of which the history of the century and the slate state is compiled SOME OF the maidens W who bo coasted last night on oft THE tue STANDARDS STA hill w were ere of themselves a poem on the beautiful snow |