Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1884 — English as She is Wrote. [ARTICLE]

English as She is Wrote.

A Rochester lawyer has brought home from Italy the advertisement of the “Vesuvius Wire Railway,” which contains some amusing examples of “English as she is wrote.” The following are illustrations: Carriages belonging to the Wire Railway Company are only allowed to stop on their way for momentaneous repose of the horses. No drinking money is due to coachmen. At the interior station on Mount Vesuvius passengers will receive a centerticket and conformly to its order’s number they will take place in the train. The train is composed of ten passengers. Those who willingly loose their turn cann profit of the next train always when there is an empty seat, but can not pretend a special train. The company is not responsible to foreigners who would serve themselves of guides not belonging to the same, or Having no number. Guides have to behave themselves most politeful towards foreigners in showing them all the particularity of the crater to accompany them during the assent and descent and bring them round the crater, but are not obliged to follow’ them in the dangerous locality of which they will be advised. They, are not obliged to gather stones or to do impressions unless they have not bargained w’ith them before. ~ The station’s buffet is provided of all things that travelers could desire at the same prices fixed by the company. The station’s telegraph-office is opened to the public, and telegrams can be wired to all destinations at the usually tariff. Foreigners can retire from the Naples office photos acquired on Mount Vesuvius and will even be brought to their residence if they require it. In this case a receipt will be given to them for their relative payment, and which will serve at the same time to control and retire the articles acquired. Shakspeare Sold the Use of His Name. Now, William Shakspeare, loved and' loving gentleman as he was, is understood to have been very shrewd in money matters. None knew the ’meaning of poperty better than he. Had he not been so, and rightly so, his father would never have stirred outside the door; the Lambert mortgages would have remained unpaid; nor would the Quineys have swarmed around for their kinsman's crumbs, and nudged each other to look up good things where he could place the wealth they saw him hoarding. Is it not, therefore, impossible to supppose him ignorant of or indifferent as to the cash value of his own name? Is it not quite as impossible, again, to believe that, if printed at his own instance, he allowed the publisher to dedicate the book to a friend; that if dedicated to either of his own patrons, Pembroke or Southampton, he (Shakspeare) was unable to write his own dedication: or, writing it, asked his publisher io sign it? If the escape from these difficulties is not by way of assumption that Shakspeare sold the use of his name to the printers of anonymous poetry precisely as he is known to have sold it to the printers of anonymous plays, then tho e difficulties are hopeless indeed I—Manhattan Magazine. Wire lath and glass shingles are now being manufactured, and by and by it will be so'that a dutiful father will have to go cleat up into the primeval lumber camps to pick up something with which -to caress his erring boy.—, Burlington Hawkeye. ■ There ate 419 type-setters, beside the apprentices, ii the Government Printing Office. ’ ~ Heavy late suppers are fashionable in London.