Show BREVITY THAT PAID poetry of the superior batt cornea comes high notwithstanding the stories aa as to the poverty ol 01 the great writers and the paltry price they received for some of their best works pope got for hie his translation of the iliad and it was a great bum sum at the lime time bat it does not compare with the bonanza that has fallen to a recent rhymester A halfpenny half balf penny paper in england offered a prize of for the beet original poem A great number were offered and some of them were very poor according to the report of the judges at all events the prize went to a little product production loa covering five lines which accordingly yielded to its author 1000 per line or perhaps a word sword the referee i leave us in doubt whether the poem was merely less poor than the others other s or whether being equally poor it wo won n because there was less lose of it ordinarily a good many five line jingles can be bought for HEBE is another evidence a of I 1 the manner in which what the doing cratic free trade press characterizes a humbug increases the american foreign export trade the south american journal of london england says the busi business riess results of the reciprocity of mr blaine are already discernible in the trade of the united states even english companies operating in brazil are now purchasing their supplies largely in the united states to secure the benefit of the reduction of 23 25 per cent in duties THEY the laugh on rev T da ds witt talmage now afew A few sundays since he electrified his congregation by describing how the Roundhead i under cromwell went into battle roaring the doxology praise god from whom all blessing bless lagi flaw flow and emote the enemy till the going down of the sun it has hag just been proven by a philistine in whose heart there is no love tor calmaza that the aforesaid doxology was not written until fifty year last battle and forty years after hie his death A STARTLING proof that advertising pays came to a philadelphia merchant who one morning put a notice in la the paper boy wanted when be he got home at night he found hie his wife bad had presented him with a pair of them TUB tue BALTIMORE american proudly bays says baltimore has not had a bank failure for fifty seven yeara years neither have we in oden ogden neighbor we go eo you 0 one no batter better for 0 oden den has never had a bank f failure CHAUNCEY DEPEW thinks the late election has lessened cililla chances of the Dimo Damo cratic nomination to the presidency improved Clev elands and made of mr flower himself a possibility AN OBSCURE justice of the peace in washington tan has risen to remark that he fie is not without some claim to distinction lon at the hands ol 01 his countrymen he once fined general grant 5 for fast driving IT is 18 a shame that the honorable cowboy name of maverick should have been made odious by the opar a actions t long of a bunch of boston bankers |