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ferior in many respectF. Nor do students,
as Thk Col'kikk editor ought to knew,
ever neod to 1)2 held by restrictions from
overcrowdiug an inferior department
when the work '19 almost wholly electi ve,
no matter what the branch taught.
The Courier's reflections upon Pro
feesor Wotfe's personal character are ab
solutely inexcusahleexceptjon the ground
of violent pn-julico. Fortunately for the
professjr, ho is too well known in Lin
coln to need any defense. No one whoiB
at all acquainted with him. either citi
zen or 6tudent, can deny him the re
spect duo to a man who is thoroughly
honorable and upright, who does not
hesitate to act the right he believes in
even to tho disregard of his pen-onal
farety, as events hive shown, and who
-even though ha may at ono time have
been a Nobuuka "ploughboy" is alto
gether a gentleman. I do not say
however that Professor Wolfe possesses
tho suave ics"ncerily of manmr which
is sd evidently The Coukieu's ideal of
gontlemanlinesj.norhasit ever occurred
tj 1119 to search out his "family tradit
ions" for a patent to that culture which
is his as an educated man acd student.
The Courier's assertion that 1he
student demonstration was thit of a
"noisy minority of Prorerssor Wolfe's
coniid-nts" censurad by "the large and
respectable pait of the student body'' is
simply a misstatement of the facta
which needs no denial except outside
university circ e3. Professor Wolfe not
only exerted no icllunco to encourage
the demonstration but diJ endeavor to
quiet it as may be readily proven. And
a? to the student cngiged baing in the
minority The Courier most certainly
cannot refer to numeiical relations.
The flings .at the character of the
student.-canaiile -as The Courier would
evidently like to term them aie merely
absurd, rather tho more so coming from
a graduate pen. But very likely thete
are soma o! us who haven't tha reuislto
"threo generations pedigree' of The
Colrier style of gentleman to fallback
upon for our own credentials. It may
even chance thut some of us arochilcren
of border pioneers. It is our misfortune
and The Courier should be charitible.
Finally, the concluding paragraphs or
tha editorial mentioned should Lava a
moment's notice. With all due modesty
I am led to suspect that I am one of tho
'little mes" The Courier refers to, for
1 have had, 6hal! I say, themisfortune to
intlict some sketches upon Courier
readers. W'hether tha charge of "cyni
cism, selfishness, conceit and misan
thropy' be truo or nt though I do
hope it's not quite all of that mat'ers
not. What does mafer is tha implication
that these qualities spring from Professor
Wolfe's influence or characterize his
students. This is certainly untrue, ilis
orn charactar is I ha opposite of all these
and as is his character so is his influ
ence. 1 have been in his classes and
known his students for three years and
I know whereof I speak. And to close,
I believe that Professor Wolfe's influ
ence has been to many what it has been
to me, tho strongest and bc3t of the
university course.
II. B. ALEXANDER.
RANDOM NOTES.
Dodd I hsara great officer was killed
yesterday. How did it happen?
Todd He had captured a Turkish
garrison. Ho was t-ying to repeat the
name of its commander and died for
want of breath.
He At what age do you think a girl
should marry?
She When she's asked.
Doc't you think I have a lovely fig
ure:
Said a pretty little maiden that I met,
And remembering she wes heiresB to a
million,
I said her figure suited me, you bet.
The other day some passengers on the
Fort Lee ferry boat were engaged in a
discussion of the appropriateness of the
names of the various water craft seen
about Nejv York. Tho discussion was
started by somebody's calling attention
to one of the city dumping scows moored
just abovo the forry slip oa the east side
of the liver. Hundreds of "Department
Public Works" carts had deposited their
miscellaneous burden on the big flat
boat, and it was piled fifteen feet high
with garbage, ashea, scrap paper and
other refuse. It was bespattered and be
grime J, and altogether it was about as
unsightly as an thing one could find on
the East River in a day's journey. But
at the stern on a standard rising from
the deck was a conspicuous signboard,
and in large letters was the word "Ve
nus." "That," remarked a passenger," is
a fair sample of the taste of the peoplo
who give tho names to the boats here
abouts. The more degraded the usa to
which the craft is put, and the more re
pulsive its appearance, the more esthetic
or high Bounding its name. These re
fuse scows are frequently 'Lilys,' 'Vio
lets,' and 'Pansye,' when they are not
Aphrodites,' 'Parynaa' and 'Psyche3.'"
The others chimed in and told of tho
funny names they had seen.
It was not explained that every boat
has to bo known by a distinctive name
or number, and be registered bero e it
can have the freedom of the poit. In
conforming to the maritime regulations
the owners are not particular to find a
name that fits the craft or its uses. Any
old name will do. Frequently they usa
numbers. Many of the entries are like
this: "H. & K.'s No. 2," or " The Blank
Company's No. 7."
Within the past few days the vendors
of fresh sod have made their annual ap
pearance. Great piles of square pieces
of greensward can be seen in busy parts
of the city, far down town, in fact, close
to the di-plays of the street candy and
fruit merchants. It is a bit odd to see
sod offered for sale in localities where
there is no grass visible or any attempt
to grow it for many blocks. But there
is a good demand for it. A considerable
quantity is used in patching the back
j aid grass pIo!s, and in some of the old
residence portions of the city there is a
squara bit of grata, surrounded by a
stone coping, in front of the housa that
may need a little reinforcement.
Almost every afternoon, and evening,
too, for that matter, fashionably dressed
women can be s;ea goin into a dingy
littlo hole in Orchard street. Sometimes
they are observed in tuzh numbers that
thy attract attention, and the inquisi
tive investigator who follows them will
find himself in a veritable sweat-box,
ciamped and evil smelling. But wait
ing in a small room he may see, as one
observer saw the other day, Letween
twenty and thirty women showing evi
dences of wealth. They were waiting
to see tha proprietor, a Hebrew, who
makes women's dresses. This man has
a reputation fsr making garments that
lit, and he makes them, according to one
of his customers, for "next to no hing."'
So he has plenty of patrons, and some of
them are aristocratic. The proprietor
employs the cheapest kind of labor, and
many of his customers find it convenient
to air their garments for twenty-four
hours after they leave the sweat shop.
But for the sake of the fit and the price
they will ngly submit to all these annoy
ances. A peculiarity of this Hebrew
tailor is that he never makes any mem
oranda of his measuring. There are not
less than 6even or eight items in the
measure of a dress, and he keeps these
in his head. He can cut out a dress
from h:s memory of measurements tak
en a year before. His record of cames
and addresses is kept the same way.
The newsboys are beginning to give
City Hall park the playground appear
ance that it usually takes on at thistimo
of the year. Pretty soon the big foun
tain will bo running daily, and then tho
boys will liavo a chance to keep the park
policemen busy, lha boys have a pre
dilection for miking tho fountain a
bathing pool in tho warm weather, and
lust summer it happened more than
once that streat uichinB wero caught in
a decidedly negligeo attire, enjoying tho
te'reehiog downpour. Sonut.moB the
crowd of onlookers would form a circlo
and protect tho boys while thy wero
dressiog after the bath.
There are some accomplished persons
behind the counters of the city's stoie?.
In a Seventh avenuo store a woman was
examining a pair of imitation diamond
earrings, and she ventured to it-mark
that they were not a good imitation
Tho young saleswoman said in choicest
East sido patois: "Oh, I don't know;
dase good enough tor chuck er blutl
wid."
Possibly there is no competition in
this city so keen as that between the
Bioadvcay lloristB who cater to the so
called swell trade. In theEas'.cr scison
this rivalry was manifest in tha largo
number of showy branch stores main
tained. But it finds expression a!l the
year in gorgeous externals that make
the florists' business aeetn the most luxu
lious in the ci'y. Elegantly attired car
riage men and Hunkers of various sorts
are one character.stic f'ature of these
establishments, and a fe.v of then have
shops that are marvels of beauty and
magnificence. But it is in the one di
rection of delivery wagons that ths com
petition produces tho most striking re
sults. Theso wagons, with their uni
formed attendants, are the adm ration
of the town, They are gilded and vjr
nished chariots that glisten in the sun
like tho crcus wagon of old. They are
st off with burnished silver and nickel
and braes, and the horseB are roya'ly
caparisoned. Recentlyone or t.o new
wagons have mada their appearance,
and they are more dazzling than tho
others. When llowers aio ordered for a
private residence cna of these splendid
vehicles nukes one or two trips, and
sometimes it remaits in front of the
residence a half hour or more. It is a
proud day in a New Yorker's life when
he can look out of his front window ;tn 1
see one of theso turnouts b fore his
door, and observe the admiring glar.es
of the neighbors.
ing article in the extreina provincialism
of the collection of boroughs that have
just been joined together under tha
name o Greater No.v York. Sometime'
when I havo a little moro time, I may
attempt to do something in this line for
The Courier .Tint i i passing, I may
tnuatou a few things that have made an
impression on my crude, west rn mind.
Tho ptreet car facilities of Now York
would bo a credit to Brownville, Neb.
Tho only lines that uso tho cab'.o are tho
Broadway and Third avonuo roads, and
only ono short lino uso3 electricity. All
tho others, and thoy are way hi tho ma
jority, are run by horso power, and tho
cars are dragged along, well, not at tho
pace that kills. Horses wero discarded
in Boston, Philadelphia, 'Chicago, Lin
coln and other p'accs yours ago, but the
BparititHlequino still holdH Riipromity in
this imperial city. Some of tho most
important ferries nro met by ante
diluvian cars drawn by cno ante
diluvian horse, and tho passenger him
self is likely to pass into senility before
be r caches his destination.
Then there are those wonderful relics
of the past, the Fifth Avenuo stages
Much has been written about tho Fifth
Avenuo stages, but tho subject has net
by any meanB been exhausted if the per
sons who ride in them have been.
Fashion-d like no other vehicle on
earth, driven by men who look neither
to tho right nor to the left, and who are
deaf and dumb, rumbling as they do
over tbo worst paved st-eet in Niw
York, the Fifth Avenuostages are worse
than hundreds of things that Parkhur6t
and Hainford have pounced upon. This
coach is greatly inferior to the Concord
stage couch tint civ.lization has driven
out of the wilds of Wyoming and Won
tana ami Colorado. Somehow it holds
it own here in New York, and is as char
acter cof tho town as the Washington
arch on the G jildtss of Liberty.
Tho L road does measuie up to the
s'aturjof rcctropoliianism, and it is the
only railrua t in the country that I know
of wherA absolutely no provision is made
for smokers. It is a crime to get on an
L train with an unlighfd cigar in one's
hand. Perhaps it is unnecessary to re
mark that all of New York's street
railroads wero completely paralyzed
dur.ng the Grant day crush.
"V. MORTON SMITH.
New i ork. May 12, 1S97.
There is a fini theme for an in'.e'eat-
MONEY LOANED
on Diamonds, Pianos and any
good personal security. Diamonds
bought and sold. Eusintss strictly
confidential.
WALT MEL1CK. ROOM 20 BURR BL'K
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