A REMARKABLE POEM.

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1893, Page 3

A REMARKABLE POEM.

Made Up of Quotations From Thirty-eight of the Heading Poets. The following very remarkable little poem is a contribution from the pen of Mrs. H; A. Demiug; The reader will ccc that each line is a quotation from oue of the standard authors of England and America. This is the result of a year's laborious search among the voluminous writings of 88 leading poets of the past and present. The number of each line refers to its author below: I.IFE. J. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? . kif e'a a short summer, matx a flower. 8. By turns we datch thi vttoi breath and ale. 4. Tho cradle and the tomb, alas! so algh. 6. To be is better far than not to be. t, Though all men's life may-seem a tragedy; f. But light cares spoak when mighty griefs are dumb. 8. The bottom is but shallow whence they come. $. Your f ato is but the common fate of allt JQ. Unmingled joys here no man oan befall. Jl. Nature to each allots its propor sphere. I#. Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. JB. Custom does often reason overrule 14. And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. 15. Live well; how long or short, permit to heaven. 16. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. 17. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face — 18* Vile intercourse where virtue has no place. 10. Then keep each passion down, however dear, 80. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear. 81. Her sensual snarea let faithless pleasure ' lay, 82. With craft and skill to ruin and betray. 23i Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. 24. We masters grow of all that we despise. $>» Oh« then, renounce that impious self esteem! 28. Riohes have wings, and grandeur is a dream. 87, Think not ambition wise because 'tis brave; 28. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 29. What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat— 80. Only destructive to the brave and great. 81. What's all tho gaudy glitter of a crown? 82. The way of bliss lies not on beds of down. 83. How long we live, not years but actions tell--84. That man lives twice who lives the first life well. 86. Make, then, while yet ye may, your God your friend. 80. Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend* 87. The trust that's given guard and to yourself be just; J5& For live we how we can, but die we must. i. Young. 2. Dr. Johnson. 3. Pope. 4. Prpor. 5. Sewell. 6. Spenser. 7. Daniel. 8. Sir Walter Scott. 0. JLongf ellow. 10. Southwell. 11. Congreve. 12>Churchill. 13. Rochester. 14. Armstrong. 15. Milton. 16. Bailey. IT. Trench. 18. Somervillo. 19. Thompson. 20. Byron. 21. Smollett. 23. Crabbe. 23. Massinger. 24. Crowley. 25. Beattie. 20. Cowper. 27. Sir Walter Davenant. 28. Gray. 29. Wil11b. 30. Addison. 31. Dryden. 32. Francis Charles. 83. Watkins. 34. Herrick. 35. William Mason. 86. Pill. 37. Dana. 38. Shakespeare. — San Francisco Times.

What Slakes Telephones Dour. Telephone charges in our cities are high because the American .Bell Telephone company steadily increases its capital, its royalties and its profits and to a much less degree because of the expenses or profits of the local organization with which the customer dealß. The local companies are by no means worked as charities or managed for the benefit of the public. Quite the contrary. The Bell Telephone company of Philadelphia pays and has paid for years past a steady a l2 per cent on its capital of $560,000, all cash as to local subscrip- , tjqns. .It had accumulated in 1891, after , ten years, a surplus of $651,894, and it put $414,931 of this into underground conduits and the loss incident to the change. Since the year ending 1 December 81, 1886, -when the company began its regular quarterly dividend of 8 per ■ cent it has just about doubled its business, advancing its gross receipts, as nearly as can be made out from its very-' 1 inadequate reports, from $350,412 in the calendar year 1880 to $710,534 in the year ending June 30, 1891. This is very fair prosperity. Dividends of 12 per cent, an, addition of $91,---195 to surplus and $414,951 put into., plant in five years on an original investment of $560,000 is certainly such a return as would satisfy most. But this is r simply nothing to tho march of the parent company. — Philadelphia Press.

Is the Fair a Rich Man's Show?

In an editorial you say there are "65,---000,000 Americans to be amused, and fully one-third of them have money enough to pay their way to Chicago and back."

I challenge that statement. One-third of 65,000,000 would be 21,666,6665. I venturo to say that not one-half of that number have money enotigh to pay their way to Chicago from their homes and back. I venture to say that not one-sixth of the inhabitants of New York city or of any other city, town, village or hamlet in the United States 200 miles distant from Chicago have money enough today to pay their way to that city and back. As tor the World's fair, it is a rich man's show. The poor man can't attend unless he lives in Chicago or very near it. — Cor. New York Advertiser.

Building Bridges In Egypt,

When the railway swing bridge across the Nile at Kafr Tayat was opened, the khedive complimented the engineer on his work. With the customary salute, the latter replied to the following effect: "It is my duty as your highness' faithful servant to point out to him that if anything should happen to the swinging part of the bridge we have nothing ready to repair it with, and a serious delay might he caused in the traffic." "What should be done?" asked the khedive. "A spare bridge should be ordered," replied the faithful servant. A bridge was ordered and after lying in heaps for some years was utilized in another part of the country. — Engineering Magazine. ,

Poor Judges.

There are two equally untrustworthy; witnesses to the excellence of a given: article — namely ,«the man who has used' it for years, and is therefore bound to back up his course, and the man who' tries it for' the first time and is in the first-daze of ft new sensation.— Boston Transcript,