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KERR. + +CHAPTER XV. + +"SPOTTED." + +When the bell of St. Cow's began ringing for Ritualistic +morning-service, with a sound as of some incontinently rambling dun +spinster of the lacteal herd--now near at hand in cracked dissonance, as +the wind blows hither; now afar, in tinkling distance, as the wind blows +hence--MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON was several miles away from Bumsteadville +upon his walking-match, with head already bumped like a pineapple, and +face curiously swelled, from amateur practice with the Indian Club. +Being by that time cold enough for breakfast, and willing to try the +virtues of some soothing application to his right eye, which, from a +bruise just below it, was nearly closed, the badly banged young man +suspended his murderous calisthenics at the door of a rustic hotel, and +there entered to secure a wayside meal. + +The American country "hotel," or half-way house, is, perhaps, one of the +most depressing fictions ever encountered by stage-passenger, or +pedestrian afield: and depends so exclusively upon the imagination for +any earthly distinction from the retired and neglected private hiding-place +of some decayed and morbid agricultural family, that only the +conventional swing sign-board before the door saves the cognizant mind +from a painfully dense confusion. Smelling about equally of eternal +wash-day, casual cow-shed, and passing feather-bed, it sustains a lank, +middle-aged, gristly man to come out at the same hour every day and +grunt unintelligibly at the stage-driver, an expressionless boy in a +bandless straw-hat and no shoes to stare blankly from the doorway at +the same old pole-horse he has mechanically thus inspected from infancy, +and one speckled hen of mature years to poise observingly on single leg +at the head of the shapeless black dog asleep at the sunny end of the +low wooden stoop. It is the one rural spot on earth where a call for +fresh eggs evokes remonstrative and chronic denial; where chickens for +dinner are sternly discredited as mere freaks of legendary romance, and +an order for a glass of new milk is incredulously answered by a +tumblerful of water which tastes of whitewash-brush. Whosoever sleeps +there of a night shall be crowded by walls which rub off into a faint +feather-bed of the flavor and consistency of geese used whole, and have +for his feverish breakfast in the morning a version of broiled ham as +racy of attic-salt as the rasher of BACON'S essays. And to him who pays +his bill there, ere he straggles weakly forth to repair his shattered +health by frenzied flight, shall be given in change such hoary ten-cent +shreds of former postal currency as he has not hitherto deemed credible, +sticking together in inextricable conglomeration by such fragments of +fish-scales as he never before believed could be gathered by handled +small-money from palms not sufficiently washed after piscatorial +diversion. + +It was in at a country hotel, then, that the young Southern pedestrian +turned for temporary rest and a meal, and pitiless was the +cross-examination instituted by the inevitable lank, middle-aged gristly +man, before he could reconcile it with his duty as a cautious public +character to reveal the treasures of the larder. Those bumps on the +head, that swollen eye, and nose, came--did they?--from swinging this +here club for exercise. Well, he wanted to know, now! People generally +used two of the clubs at once--did they?--but one was enough for a +beginner. Well, he _wanted_ to know, now! Could he supply a couple of +poached eggs and a cup of milk? No, young man; but a slice of corned +pork and a bowl of tea were within the resources of the establishment. + +When at length upon the road again, the bruised youth resolved to follow +a cattle-track "across lots," for the greater space in which to exercise +with his Indian club as he walked. Like any other novice in the +practice, he could not divest his mind of the impression, that the +frightful thumps he continually received, in twirling the merciless +thing around and behind his devoted head, were due to some kind of +crowding influence from the boundaries on either side the way, and it +was to gain relief from such damaging contraction of area that he left +the highway for the wider wintry fields. Going onward in these latter at +an irregular pace; sometimes momentarily stunned into a rangy stagger by +a sounding blow on the cerebrum or the cerebellum; and, again, irritated +almost to a run by contusion of shoulder-blade or funny-bone; he finally +became aware that two men were following him through the lots, and that +with a closeness of attention indicating more than common interest. To +the perception of his keenly sensitive Southern nature they at once +became ribald Yankee vandals, hoping for unseemly amusement from the +detection of some awkwardness in the Indian-club-play of a defeated but +not conquered Southern Gentleman; and, in the haughty sectional pride of +his contemptuous soul, he indignantly determined to show not the least +consciousness of their disrespectful observation. Twirling the club +around and around his battered head with increasing velocity, he smiled +scornfully to himself, nor deigned a single backward glance at the one +of his two followers who approached more rapidly than the other. He +heard the hindermost say to the foremost, "Leave him alone, I tell you, +and he'll knock himself down in a minute," and, in a passionately +reckless effort of sheer bravado to catch the club from one hand with +the other while it yet circled swiftly over his skull, he accidentally +brought the ungovernable weapon into tremendous contact with the top of +his head, and dashed himself violently to the earth. + +"Didn't I tell you he'd do it?" cried the hindermost of the two +strangers, coming up; while the other coolly seated himself upon the +prostrated victim. "These here Indian clubs always throw a man if he +ain't got muscle in his arms; and this here little Chivalry has got arms +like a couple of canes." + +"Arise from me instantly, fellow. You're sitting upon my breast-pin," +exclaimed MONTGOMERY to the person sitting upon him. + +They suffered him to regain his feet, which he did with extreme hauteur, +and surveyed his bumped head and swollen countenance with undisguised +wonder. + +"How dare you treat a Southerner in this way?" continued the young man, +his head aching inexpressibly. "I thought the war was over long ago. If +money is your object, seek out a citizen of some other section than +mine; for the South is out of funds just now, owing to the military +outrages of Northern scorpions." + +"We're constables, Mr. PENDRAGON," was the reply, "and it is our duty to +take you back to the main road, where a couple of your friends are +waiting for you." + +Staring from one to the other in speechless wonder at what this fresh +outrage upon the down-trodden South could mean, MONTGOMERY allowed them +to replace his Indian club in his hand, and conduct him back to the +public road; where, to his increased bewilderment, he found Gospeler +SIMPSON and the Ritualistic organist. + +"What is the matter, gentlemen?" he asked, in great agitation: "must I +take the oath of Loyalty; or am I required by Yankee philanthropy to +marry a negress?" + +At the sound of his voice, Mr. BUMSTEAD left the shoulder of Mr. +SIMPSON, upon which he had been leaning with great weight, and, coming +forward in three long skips, deliberately wound his right hand in the +speaker's neck-tie. + +"Where are those nephews--where's that umbrella?" demanded the organist, +with considerable ferocity. + +"Nephews!--umbrella!" gasped the other. + +"The EDWINS--bone handle," explained Mr. BUMSTEAD, lurching towards his +captive. + +"Mr. MONTGOMERY," interposed the Gospeler, sadly, Mr. DROOD went out +with you last night, late, from his estimable uncle's lodgings, and has +not been seen since. Where is he?" + +"He went back into the house again, sir, after I had walked him up and +down the road a few times." + +"Well, then, where's that umbrella?" roared the organist, who seemed +quite beside himself with grief and excitement. + +"Mr. BUMSTEAD, pray be more calm," implored the Reverend OCTAVIUS. + +"Mr. MONTGOMERY, this agitated gentleman's nephew has been mysteriously +missing ever since he went out with you at midnight: also an alpaca +umbrella." + +"Upon my honor, I know nothing of either," ejaculated the unhappy +Southerner. + +Mr. BUMSTEAD, still holding him by the neck-tie, cast a fiery and +unsettled glance around at nothing in particular; then ground his teeth +audibly, and scowled. + +"My boy's missing!" he said, hissingly.--"Y'understand?--he's +missing.--I must insist upon searching the prisoner." + +In the presence of Gospeler and constables, and loftily regardless alike +of their startled wonder and the young man's protests, the maddened +uncle of the lost DROOD deliberately examined all the captive's pockets +in succession. In one of them was a penknife, which, after thoughtfully +trying it upon his pink nails, he abstractedly placed in his own pocket. +Searching next the overwhelmed Southerner's travelling-satchel, he found +in it an apple, which he first eyed with marked suspicion, and then bit +largely into, as though half expecting to find in it some traces of his +nephew. + +"I'll keep this suspicious fruit," he remarked, with a hollow laugh; +and, bearing unreservedly upon the nearer arm of the hapless MONTGOMERY, +and eating audibly as he surged onward, he started on the return march +for Bumsteadville. + +Not a word more was spoken until, after a cool Christmas stroll of about +eight and a quarter miles, the whole party stood before Judge SWEENEY in +the house of the latter. There, when the story had been sorrowfully +repeated by the Gospeler, Mr. BUMSTEAD exhibited the core of the apple, +and tickled the magistrate almost into hysterics by whispering very +closely in his ear, that it was a core curiously similar to that of the +last apple eaten by his nephew; and, having been found in an apple from +the prisoner's satchel, might be useful in evidence. Judge SWEENEY +wished to know if Mr. PENDRAGON had any political relations, or could +influence any votes? and, upon being answered in the negative, eyed the +young man sternly, and said that appearances were decidedly against him. +He could not exactly commit him to jail without accusation, although the +apple-core and his political unimportance subjected him to grave +suspicion: but he should hold the Gospeler responsible for the youth's +appearance at any time when his presence should be required. Mr. +BUMSTEAD, whose eyes were becoming very glassy, then suggested that a +handbill should be at once printed and circulated, to the effect that +there had been Lost, or Stolen, two Black Alpaca Nephews, about 5 feet 8 +inches high, with a bone handle, light eyes and hair, and whalebone +ribs; and that if the said EDWIN would return, with a brass ferule +slightly worn, the finder should receive earnest thanks, and be seen +safely to his home by J. BUMSTEAD. Mr. Gospeler SIMPSON and Judge +SWEENEY agreed that a handbill should be issued: but thought it might +confuse the public mind if the missing nephew and the lost umbrella were +not kept separate. + +"Has either 'f you gen'l'men ever been 'n Uncle?" asked the Ritualistic +organist, with dark intensity. + +They shook their heads. + +"_Then,_" said Mr. BUMSTEAD, with great force,--"THEN, gen'l'men, +you-knownor-wahritis-to-lose-'n-umbrella!" + +Before they could decide in their weaker minds what the immediate +connection was, he had left them, at a sharp slant, in great +intellectual disturbance, and was passing out through the entry-way with +both his hands against the wall. + +Early next morning, while young Mr. PENDRAGON was locked in his room, +startled and wretched, the inconsolable uncle of EDWIN DROOD was +energetically ransacking every part of Bumsteadville for the missing +man. House after house he visited, like some unholy inspector: peering +up chimneys, prodding under carpets, and staying a long time in cellars +where there was cider. Not a bit of paper or cloth blew along the +turnpike but he eagerly picked it up, searched in it with the most +anxious care, and finally placed it in his hat. Going to the Pond, with +a borrowed hatchet, he cut a bole in the thick ice, lost the hatchet, +and, after bathing his head in the water, declared that his alpaca +nephew was not there. Finding an antique flask in one of his pockets, he +gradually removed all the liquid contents therefrom with a tubular +straw, but still could discern no traces of EDWIN DROOD. All the +live-long day he prosecuted his researches, to the great discomposure of +the populace: and, with whitewash all over the back of his coat, and +very dingy hands, had just seated himself at his own fireside in the +evening, when Mr. DIBBLE came in. + +"This is a strange disappearance," said Mr. DIBBLE. + +"And it was good as new," groaned the organist, with but one eye open. + +"Almost new!--_what_ was?" + +"Th'umbrella." + +"Mr. BUMSTEAD," returned the old man, coldly, "I am not talking of an +umbrella, but of Mr. EDWIN." + +"Yesh, I know," said the uncle. "Awright. I'm li'lle sleepy; tha'sall." + +"I've just seen my ward, Mr. BUMSTEAD." + +"'She puerwell, shir?" + +"She is _not_ pretty well. Nor is Miss PENDRAGON." + +"I'm vahr' sorry," said Mr. BUMSTEAD, just audibly. + +"Miss PENDRAGON scorns the thought of any blame for her brother," +continued Mr. DIBBLE, eyeing the fire. + +"It had a bun-bone handle," muttered the other, dreamily. Then, with a +momentary brightening--"'scuse me, shir: whah'll y'take?" + +"Nothing, sir!" was the sharp response. "I'm not at all thirsty. But +there is something more to tell you. At the last meeting of my ward and +your nephew--just before your dinner here,--they concluded to break +their engagement of marriage, for certain good reasons, and thenceforth +be only brother and sister to each other." + +Starting forward in his chair, with partially opened eyes, the +white-washed and dingy Mr. BUMSTEAD managed to get off his hat, covering +himself with a bandanna handkerchief and innumerable old pieces of paper +and cloth, as he did so, from head to foot; made a feeble effort to +throw it at the aged lawyer; and then, chair and all, tumbled forward +with a crash to the rug, where he lay in a refreshing sleep. + +(_To be Continued._) + + * * * * * + +CHINCAPIN AT LONG BRANCH. + +A QUAKER friend of mine once observed that he loved the Ocean for its +Broad Brim. So do I, but not for that alone. I am partial to it on +account of the somewhat extensive facilities it affords for Sea Bathing. +Learning to swim, by the way, was my principal Elementary study. I have +just returned from taking a plunge in company with many other +distinguished persons. How it cools one to rush into the "Boiling Surf." +How refreshing to dive Below the Billow. I don't think I could ever have +a Surfeit of the Surf, I am so fond of it. Oh! the Sea! the Sea! with +its darkly, deeply cerulean--but stop! I am getting out of my depth. +Would that I were a poet, that I--But I ain't, so what's the use? + +As I sat on the verandah of the ------ Hotel the other morning, gazing +on the broad expanse of Ocean and wiping the perspiration which trickled +from my lofty brow, (the thermometer marked 90 degrees,) I could not +help recalling the beautifully appropriate lines of the celebrated bard: + + "When the sun's perpendicular rays + Begin to illumine the Sea, + The fishies exclaim in amaze + 'Confound it! how hot it will be!'" + +What a pity that the Bathing here has a drawback. I refer, of course, to +the Under Tow, which has caused some Untoward accidents. Those who have +experienced it, say it is impossible to keep your Feet when caught by +the Under Tow. Presence of mind is indispensable in such a case, but, +unfortunately, timid swimmers are too apt to lose their Heads as well as +their feet. Some of the lady visitors are Beautiful Swimmers, and their +Divers Charms excite universal admiration. Many of these fair +Amphitrites are so constantly in or on the water that it would hardly be +a Fib to call them Amphibious. Their husbands and brothers are, I regret +to say, not so much On the Water, preferring something a trifle stronger +semi-occasionally, if not oftener. + +You know what a popular amusement crabbing is here. I seldom indulge in +it myself, as I have bad luck, which makes me Crabbed. + +Our "distinguished guests," as JENKINS would say, are very numerous, and +it is truly an edifying sight to see judges, legislators, eminent +politicians, and other "Heads of the People" bobbing about in the water +together. + +Some folks don't seem to care what they spend when they come here, and +no sooner arrive at the Branch than they Branch out into all sorts of +extravagance. There is some superb horseflesh here just now, and the +fastest nags may be seen doing their Level best on the Smooth Beach. The +Race Track, Grand Stand, &c., are all that the vivid fancy of a +PUNCHINELLO can paint them. The bathing costumes! who can do justice to +them and their lovely wearers? Some time ago, (as I am informed,) a lady +made her appearance on the beach as a Nereid. Did you Ne'er read of the +Nereids, Mr. PUNCHINELLO? If you have, you are aware that they were the +Sea Nymphs of the Ancients, in other words the Old Maids of the Sea, who +never got married, and frequently played Scaly tricks on Mariners. The +Nereid referred to was arrayed in pea green and spangles, with green +tresses, which is very well known to be the correct costume of a mermaid +of antiquity, copied from the latest Paris fashions. This Spritely lady +was, however, unprovided with a tail, which was Unmermaidenlike in the +Extreme. + +You know how brilliant the Hops are, so I will Skip them. One thing, +however, is worth noting. At some of the Hotels they have a Spread on +the carpet before the dancing begins, as well as a supper afterwards. +The excellent music of the Hotel bands is Instrumental in drawing crowds +of listeners to the Ball rooms. Some Chinese Jugglers gave an +entertainment here the other evening, but I didn't go, not being in the +Juggler Vein. Yours Reverentially, + +CHINCAPIN. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: PRUSSIC ACID. + +"FIFTY DOUSAND FENIANS ARMED MID REPEATERS FOR FRANCE! LET 'EM GO! +BEESMARK WILL MAKE DEM NOT COOM PACK TO REPEAT IN DIS GOONDERY NO MORE!"] + + * * * * * + +THE POEMS OF THE CRADLE. + +CANTO IV. + + Little JACK HORNER + Sat in a corner. + Eating a Christmas Pie: + He put in his thumb + And pulled out a plum, + And said, "What a brave boy am I." + +In Canto I, I have shown the varied emotions which seized the tender +soul of Old Mother HUBBARD'S Dog. Emotions so fierce in their sorrow, +that they left not a single wiggle in his tail: his hopes were crushed, +his expectations ruined. In Canto II I have pictured the musical +propensities of the genus _Cat_, the wandering vagaries of the moon-dane +cow, the purp's withering contempt thereat, and the frisky evolutions of +the dish which rolled off on its ear. In Canto III I have portrayed the +"tender passion" and its melancholy result on the hill-side--a fitting +illustration of the fact that the course of true love never did run +smooth, especially if there were big rocks to knock one's toes against. +And now, in Canto IV, I am about to portray childish innocence in the +pursuit of bliss. + +All things are graded, with the trifling exception of many of our +streets. But who cares about this grade of bliss? I don't, and I am sure +the poet didn't when he sang the lines at the head of this chapter. +Bliss is graded. The old man in Wall street, with white hair and white +necktie, and smooth polished tongue, has his degree of bliss when he is +engaged in throwing stones at the Apes in the tree-top, that they may +return the throw with gold cocoa-nuts. The young lady has her degree of +bliss when her waist is entwined by "Dear CHAWLES," who soothes her +troubled spirit with the tender melody of "Red as a beet is +she,"--alluding to her would-be rival. The nice young man has his degree +of bliss when he chews a tooth-pick--poor goose! (not the nice young +man, but the fowl which gave the quill,)--and is given a smile by a +dark-eyed female in a passing stage. + +And Infantdom has--But our poet beautifully illustrates this in the +stanzas we have quoted. + + "Little JACK HORNER," + +says he, with the easy grace of one perfectly familiar with the subject +he is to treat; neither frightened at its immensity, nor putting himself +in the way of a dilemma by stopping to examine details. Little JACK was +the poet's pet because he was the afflicted one of the household, and +poets know full well how to sympathize with affliction. Perhaps JACK sat +down to dinner next to cross-eyed SUSAN ANN, "by Brother BILL'S gal," +and perhaps JACK'S nose was tickled by a little blue-bottle, and that he +sneezed right into her soup-plate; and then he was hurried from the +table for blowing a fly into SUSAN ANN'S soup! He would lose his dinner. +His napkin would miss its accustomed wash! + +"Shall it be thus? No!" says the poet. "Dry your tears, little JACK, go +to the well-stocked pantry, my boy, and get something to eat. The jury +will not convict you of stealing, for their verdict will be that you did +the deed in self-defence." And he did--go to the closet, and-- + + "Sat in the corner, + Eating a Christmas Pie." + +See the smiles as they wreathe themselves on his chubby countenance. How +little JACK looks at the pie! how he turns it round and round to find +the best spot whereon to begin the attack! How he smacks his lips, and +thinks how nice it would be if he _could_ wish to give SUSAN ANN a +taste! But he can't. + +Suddenly an idea strikes JACK. He has heard Uncle TOM talk of a big war +between Frawnce and Proossia, and all about the soldiers and the cannon, +and the big noises. Little JACK will make war on the pie. He will be +Frawnce, the pie will be Proossia. He sets it squarely before him on the +floor; rolls up his sleeves, may be; his eyes sparkle with +determination; he finds the most vulnerable spot in the crust; he makes +one bold dive with his thumb, it goes down, down down, crushing +everything before it; it feels something; renewed vigor flows through +JACK'S veins, and gives him new strength for the attack; victory crowns +him; and, in the words of the poet, + + "He pulled out a plum, + And said, 'What a brave boy am I.'" + +--Now he is happy. He has realized his fondest hopes. The blue-bottle +has no tickle for him now. He was Frawnce and he has licked Proossia. +There is nothing left but the plate, and his teeth are not hard enough +for that. + + * * * * * + +"Hooray for the Impurrur!" + +The ardor with which our Milesian element embraces the cause of France +furnishes a puzzle for many thoughtful minds; and yet its solution is +simple. In planning a passage of the Rhine, LOUIS NAPOLEON proposes to +BRIDGET. That's all. + + * * * * * + +A Roland for his Oliver. + +OLIVER DYER, of the _Sun_, is the original "Dyer Necessity that +knows no law." + + * * * * * + +OUR PORTFOLIO. + +And now comes to light another divorce case in Chicago. Mrs. HUGG sues +Mr. HUGG for a decree _e vinculo matrimonii_. If there is anything in a +name, no one will gainsay the observation that if hugging has lost its +charm, Mrs. HUGG is the last person to make a fuss about it. She took +her HUGG with a full knowledge of the circumstances, and it is contrary +to public policy and good morals that her plea of "hugged out" should +enable her to obtain the remedy which she seeks. + +In France they do not wait for the completion of the years of +adolescence to dub a scion of the royal family with the title of "man." +The Prince Imperial, prior to his departure for the wars, was presented +at Court as the "first gentleman" of France. For a youth of fourteen he +is said to have gone through the trying ceremonies with great credit +until directed by his mamma to dance with a venerable female of noble +blood, just as he was about to lend a beautiful American miss through +the mazes of a Schottische. The son of his father took one glance at the +ancient dame, and one at the lovely creature beside him, and then set up +a right royal blubber of disappointment. + +"Remember, my son," said EUGENIE, "you are a man now, and men never +cry." + +"Oh! mamma," sighed the afflicted Prince, "let me be a boy again, rather +than dance with _cette vieille_ yonder!" + +Alas! for the ambition of monarchs, who put forward their beardless +progeny to do the deeds of men, and to suffer with men's fortitude, when +they are more fit to be puling in a nurse's arms, or unravelling silk +skeins for some maid of honor. + + * * * * * + +THE WATERING PLACES. + +Punchinello's Vacations. + +It was hot when Mr. PUNCHINELLO started for Niagara. So hot that no +allusions to Fahrenheit would give an idea of the tremendous +preponderance of caloric in the atmosphere. The trip was full of +discomforts, and there was great danger, at one time, that the train +would arrive at Niagara with a load of desiccated bodies. Of course the +water all boiled away in the engine-tanks, causing endless stoppages; +and of course the hot sun, pouring directly upon the roof of the cars, +caused the boards thereof to curl up and twist about in such fantastic +fashion, that they afforded no protection whatever to the passengers, +who were obliged to resort to sunshades and umbrellas, or get under the +seats. Added to this were the facts that the ice-water in the coolers +scalded the mouth; the brass-work on the seats blistered the hands; and +the empty stoves, almost red-hot from their exposure to the sun, +superheated the cars to a degree that was maddening. Added to these was +the fact that the intense heat expanded the rails until they were +several miles longer than usual, and thus the passengers suffered the +tortures of the transit for an increased length of time. + +When, at last, Mr. P. was conveyed, in a stifling hack, (the fare had +risen, under the unusual circumstances, about one hundred and ten +degrees,) to a stifling little room under the hot roof of an hotel +exposed to the sun on every side, and had taken an extempore Russian +bath while changing his linen, and had partaken of a hot dinner, he +might have been excused for saying that he would like to cool off a +little. + +Inquiring if there was any stream of water convenient, he was directed +to the river Niagara, which runs hard by the hotel. + +Reaching the banks of the river, Mr. P. was very much pleased by the +prospect. There is a considerable depression in the bed of the stream at +one point, and the water runs over the rocks quite rapidly, carrying +with it such leaves, twigs, steamboats or other objects that may be +floating upon its surface. + +Mr. P. immediately perceived the advantages of this condition of things +to a a gentleman suffering from the heat, and procuring a boat, he rowed +close to the foot of a cascade formed by the inclination in the bed of +the river, and throwing out his anchor, revelled in the luxury of the +cool spray and the refreshing sound of the rushing water. + +[Illustration] + +Does not this look cool? + +When sufficiently refreshed, Mr. P. rowed to shore, feeling like another +man. With the greatest confidence in its merits, he recommends his plan +to those who may be suffering from the summer heat. + +After breakfast the next morning, Mr. P. set out to see what he could +see. He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional +guide. + +He had heard of their extortions, and determined to submit to nothing of +the kind. He intended relying entirely upon himself. He walked some +distance without meeting with any of the places of interest of which he +had heard so much. + +Meeting at length with a respectable elderly gentleman, Mr. P. inquired +of him the way to the Cave of the Winds. + +"The Cave of the Winds? Ah!" said this worthy person. "You turn to your +left here, sir--ah! and then you keep on for about--ah! half a mile, and +you will--ah! see a gate--ah! Behind that is a man and the cave--ah!" + +Mr. P. thanked him and was proceeding on his way, when the worthy +citizen touched him on the arm, saying: + +"Twenty-one dollars, if you please, sir." + +"Twenty-one dev----developments!" cried Mr. P; "Why, what do you mean?" + +"Information, sir; fifty cents a word; forty-two words; twenty-one +dollars." + +It must not be supposed that Mr. P. submitted tamely to this outrage, +but after a long dispute, it was agreed to refer the matter to the +arbitration of three of the principal citizens. They promptly decided +that the charge was just and must be paid, but, owing to Mr. P.'s +earnest protestations, they agreed to throw out the "ahs," as being of +doubtful value as information. The sum thus saved to Mr. P. exactly paid +for drinks for the party. + +Mr. P. now very sensibly concluded that it was about time to leave, if +his editors, his printers, and the employés in his pun-factory were to +expect any pay that week, and so he set out for home in the evening, +taking a shortcut by the way of Montreal. + +He thought that a day might be very profitably spent here, especially if +he could fall in with any of the French-Canadians, of whose +peculiarities he had heard so much. The study of human nature was always +Mr. P.'s particular forte. + +On the morning of his arrival, Mr. P. met, in the dining-room of the +hotel, a gentleman who was unmistakably a Frenchman, and being in +Canada, was probably Canadian. As they were sitting together at the +table, Mr. P., having mentally rubbed up his knowledge of the French +language, addressed his companion thus: + +"_Avez-vous le chapeau de mon frere?_" + +The gentleman thus politely addressed, bowed, smiled, and after a little +hesitation answered: + +"_Non, Monsieur; mais jà i le fromage de votre soeur._" + +"_Eh bien_" said Mr. P., as he scratched his head for a moment. "_Otez +vous vos souliers et vos bas?_" + +The other answered promptly, "_Je n'ote ni les uns ni les autres._" + +"_Votre père,_" remarked Mr. P., "_a-t-il la chandelle de votre oncle?_" + +His companion remained silent for a minute or two, and then he said: + +"I forget the French of the answer to that, but I know the English of +it; it is 'no, sir, but he has the apples-of-the-ground-of-sugar of my +mother-in-law.'" + +When Mr. P. discovered, after a little conversation in the vernacular, +that his companion was a New York dry-goods clerk, he gave up the study +of the French-Canadian character and went on with his breakfast. + +When he went out into the streets to see the lions of the city he was +delighted to meet with some old friends. In company with them he visited +the Government House; the Cathedral; the Statue of NELSON; the VICTORIA +bridge; and everything else of interest in the place. But nothing was so +delightful to him as the faces of these old friends, from whom he had +been separated so long. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: When, at last, they left him, he returned sadly to New +York.] + + * * * * * + +IDIOTIC ITEMS. + +On Tuesday last one of the swans in Central Park laid a hen's egg. + +A celebrated English professor of heraldry is now at Long Branch, +studying the crests of the waves. + +Dr. LIVINGSTONE is no longer a white man. The large colored princess +whom he has been compelled to marry has beaten him black and blue. + +Louis NAPOLEON'S first bulletin about the war was the bullet in the +pocket of NAP Junior. + +An intelligent cordwainer of this city has invented a bathing shoe to +fit the under-toe at Long Branch. + +The lock of the writing-desk made with his own hands by LOUIS NAPOLEON, +at Hoboken, has been presented to the Empress EUGENIE by a gentleman +residing at Union Hill, in exchange for a lock of her Majesty's hair. + +Yesterday, while three eminent Wall street brokers--names, BROWN, JONES, +and ROBINSON--were engaged in watering stock, they fell in and were +drowned. Loss fully covered by insurance. + +CARL FORMES is oddly reported to have lost his Bass voice through over +indulgence in lager-beer. He drank a barrel of beer a day, and his voice +has now become a barrel organ. + +In France the _Marseillaise_ has become the national Him; while, in +Prussia, BISMARCK is decidedly the national Herr. + +A French paper has an article respecting certain musical fishes found in +the Indian Seas, They ought to be engaged for PIKE'S Opera House. + +The annual panther, weighing 8 ft., 9 inches, from snout to tip of tail, +and measuring 213 lbs., has just been killed in the Adirondacks by a +reporter. + + * * * * * + +POLITICAL CLAPTRAP. + +The sympathy exhibited by the _Sun_ reporters and editors for the +unhappy victim of Ogre Tammany is particularly touching. + +Association with the Wickedest Man in New York, the Honorable JOHN +ALLEN, _protégé_ of the Reverend OLIVER DYER, has evidently demoralized +the pure beings who control the immaculate sheet known as the _Sun_, +whose putrescent light "shines for all." + +These panders to the depraved taste of a depraved portion of the +community, may exult in the spectacle presented in the City of New York +on Sunday, the 7th inst., but is it not a sorrowful thing in a so-called +Christian land to see a murderer borne with triumph to his grave, while +pseudo philanthropists deck his bier with flowers, and deliberately +charge a great political party with having hunted the wretched man to +his death? + +Was there no nobler game worth the killing by Tammany? Was there not a +"stag of Ten" to be found, to be struck, if party necessities required +it? Would OAKEY HALL and PETER B. SWEENY put such a slight upon these +bastard allies of the O'BRIENS and MORRISSEYS whose columns are open to +the highest bidder, and whose lips reek venom while their hands are ever +ready to strike a victim in the back, as to pass them by while they were +on the war-path? + +But hold--perhaps we have a clue to this singular conduct of the Tammany +warriors. They may have foreseen how apt the sweet people are to confer +immortality upon those whose death becomes them better than their life, +and therefore wisely forebore to disturb those blissful with murderers +and felons which seem to bind the Satellites of the _Sun_ and the +denizens of the Tombs together. + + * * * * * + +SUMMER ON THE CATSKILLS, + +BY REGALIA REYNA. + + +I. + + O thou Mount Katskill! whom I now survey + In roseate brightness of the new-born day, + To thee my thankfulness I would convey, + For self and crowd; + Who from the glare and hum of hot + Financial lives, + Have sought repose upon thy wondrous crest, and + Brought our wives-- + I gaze upon thy placid brow, where storms do + Reckless rage, + Forgetful of the storms of life, and Mister + BEACH's stage. + +II. + + I gaze upon thy beauteous vistas + Far and wide; + I see the day-break beautifully paint thy + Rugged side: + I see AURORA show the panorama + Night did hide: + I see the lazy Hudson grad-u- + Ally glide, + Reluctant to abandon thee, and seek + The salt sea tide. + I think almost excusingly of that tough + Two dollar ride; + And only for my wallet's sake, I longer + Would abide. + +III. + + Nature has kindly gifted thee with meadow, + Lake and dell, + And for the Falls of Kauterskill I know no + Parallel: + Humanity has crowned thee with this festive + Gay Hotel, + Where Fame and Fashion eager wait to hear + Thy dinner bell: + O Mount! O view! thy beauties now I can no + Longer tell, + For, after breakfast, I must say--O Katskill! + Fare thee well! + And leave thee--in one of those abominable stages, + "which I wish it" + Was in H------eaven! + + * * * * * + +Extraordinary Ledger-demain. + +The Soldiers' Monument at Cambridge is the result of the combined +efforts of CYRUS and DARIUS COBB, whereas, SYLVANUS, alone and +unassisted, is able to raise, every week, a tall column on the surface +of the _N.Y. Ledger._ + + * * * * * + +Censor of the Press. + +The unfortunate official who sought reliable information, the other day, +respecting the age and immense property possessions of PUNCHINELLO, on +comparing his notes subsequently, remarked to a friend that he felt as +if he had temporarily lost his Census. + + * * * * * + +Appropriate. + +DANA, of the _Sun_, is about to open an undertaker's establishment for +the arrangement of murderer's obsequies. Motto--"Pinking done here." + + * * * * * + +The Wrong Mouth. + +A LITTLE Fourth-of-Julyer in Pittsburgh, going along with his mouth +open, (after the manner of boys), caught a fire-cracker therein, just as +the cracker was going off. He had often had crackers in his mouth, but +preceding ones had proved nourishing and non-explosive; whereas, this +cracker was quite the reverse. As a consequence, the boy has lost his +voice, but (what is curious, certainly,) is otherwise all sound. + +Were we certain that heaving a fire-cracker into an open mouth would +always produce such a result, we should certainly hire some one to shut +up the noisier of our public nuisances--such as G.F. TRAIN, and several +members of Congress. This could be easily done, as their mouths are +always open, and usually are very large ones. We invite proposals from +boys, relating to next season's operations. + + * * * * * + +Theft Extraordinary. + +A weekly journal gravely informs a correspondent that "the line, 'A +thing of beauty is a joy forever,' occurs in TUPPER's _Proverbial +Philosophy_." + +Shades of the poets! More than fifty years ago, JOHN KEATS commenced a +poem called "Endymion," with that very line. To think that he should +have gone and borrowed it from TUPPER! + + * * * * * + +Politician's Plant. + +See WEED. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: + +THE LATEST MELODRAMATIC DODGE OF A PLAYED-OUT POLITICIAN. + +PROMPTER DANA, OF THE "SUN," GIVES THE CUE TO A _REAL_ SKELETON.] + + * * * * * + +Conversion of the "Sun." + +It was said of Bishop COLENSO that he "undertook to convert a Zulu +Kaffir, but the Z. K. converted him." + +Such a circumstance may be fallen upon without going so far as Africa to +seek for it. JOHN ALLEN, of Water Street, was, once upon a time, the +Zulu Kaffir of DANA of the _Sun_ and his fascinating Satellite, OLIVER +DYER. + +The ways of JOHN ALLEN were very wicked when these pious +missionaries threw themselves upon his trail, and tried to convert him. +Perhaps the reformatory effort was well meant; but, alas! for the +feebleness of all human arrangements--JOHN ALLEN remains the reprobate +he was, while he to his flock has brought DANA, the _Sun_ man, and DYER, +the Satellite man, converts to the Allenian theory that money made from +dirt is the only healthful stimulant to virtuous toil. + +And so it was that DANA the devout, and DYER the saintly, went forth to +convert the Zulu Kaffir of Water Street, and the Z. F. converted them. + + * * * * * + +Ready for Another Heat. + +The horses of PHOEBUS. + + * * * * * + +A Royal Game. + +The ex-queen of Spain fears that ALFONSO will be "euchred." She remarked +to him recently, Play you're king. + + * * * * * + +CONTEMPORARY SENTIMENTS, + +On the Great War Question. + + "WILLIAM'S my man!" cries one enthusiast,-- + "He'll be in Paris, _sure_, within ten days!" + "'Paris' your Granny!" cries one just as fast; + "'Ere that, man! you'll see Berlin in a blaze!" + + "France has the finest soldiers ever seen!" + Says one who knows; "they never can be beat!" + One who knows also, says, "the French are green! + Their only real strength is in their fleet!" + + "Oh, hang their fleet!" exclaims another man; + "It's useless now,--it has no work to do! + But let France use her navy all she can, + You'll see if Prussia doesn't put her through!" + + "Prussia ain't able!" cries an eager one: + "Let her drink all the lager in her shops, + She'll find the little job is not yet done, + For all there's such enormous strength in hops!" + + "And if there's any danger comes to France," + Remarks the seventh man, "_Ireland_ will arise!" + "And if she does, old England will advance!" + The eighth (an Englishman,) with pride replies. + + And so they have it hot, for half a day,-- + First A., then B., then C. and D. at once, + And thus the precious moments roll away, + And none can tell who is the greatest dunce. + + * * * * * + +The Aldermen to their Dinner. + +Gorge us! + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: THE OVATION OF MURDER. + +_The Devil, (soliloquizing.)_ "NEW YORK'S THE PLACE FOR ME! THIS IS WHAT +I CALL _REAL_ ENJOYMENT--A MURDERER'S FUNERAL PROCESSION GRANDER FAR +THAN THAT OF ANY GREAT AND GOOD CITIZEN, AND THIS IN A CITY OF +SUNDAY-SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES!". _(The Devil's Walk: Sunday, August 7, +1870.)_] + + * * * * * + +HIRAM GREEN AT THE FEMALE CONVENTION. + +The Cardiff Giant and other Fossils at Saratoga. + + "Duble, duble, heaps of truble, + Wimmen's rites will bust the bubble." + + SHAKESPEAR. (WM.) + +The wolves in sheeps clothin' convenshed agin for an annual rippin' up +of things, at Saratogy. + +The undersined, in custody of the undersined's wife, who is a +Hicockalormn of the Skeensboro Sore-eye-sisses, was present at the +singin' of the above selection from the defunct bard. + +Male and femail wimmen was there dressed emblamatical of their callin'. + + "Black folks and white + With red hair and gray, + Mingled for a fite + In Sar-a-to-ga." SHAKESPEAR & GREEN. + +SOOZAN B. ANTHENY was scrumpshusly ragged out in broad-cloth. + +A turkish towellin' vest-pattent lether butes and silk hat, completed +her _Toot in cymbals_. + +ERNEST L. ROZE wore a nobby scotch cassimer soot. She carried a cane and +wore her hair parted in the middle. + +Mrs. RUBE PHENTON--MARTHY WRITE--O'LIMPING BROWN--SARY FILLEO--Mrs. +DEXTER NOLTON--LILLY DEVERS BLAKE--SARY HALLEK--FEBEE CAREY, and other +prominent Fireside agitaters and Herthstun depopulaters, were becominly +araid, and did gustise to their tailors. + +PHREDRICK DOUGLIS, a firey broonet from Rochester, looked bewitchin' in +a _more anteek_ silk dress. + +A camels hair overskirt hung grasefully over his loins. Peepin' out from +beneath his robes, was a delicate little foot, encased in a flesh +cullered pair of No. 11 buckskin mocasins. + +His hair was done up in a 2 bushel waterfall, and was frizzled all over, +_a lar Ethiope_. + +EDWIN A. STUDWELL, of Brooklyn, looked stunnin' in a granny Dean walkin' +dress and red cotton umbreller. + +His back hair was tempestously arranged. + +A couple of bolony sassiges, in a hily chawed up state, hung pendent +from the aft of his gorgeous waterfall, and dangled to his heels, _a lar +cheapee John_, + +When approached by that great captivater of susseptible hearts (?) +SOOZAN B. ANTHENY, ED blushed like a red-headed woodpecker, and hid his +modesty behind a $4.00 palm leaf fan. + +STEVE GRISWOLD, DAN KETCHAM and a few other manikins, was dressed +accordin' to the prevailin' fashions of the feminin sects. + +A good cleen shave would have completed their disgize, and folks +woulden't have had a suspicion but what they was what they was actin' to +be. + +I was shocked to hear one audacious retch remark: + +"Them chaps look like a lot of hen-peckt broken furniture." + + "Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites + And show the best of femail spites, + So teach that horrid critter, man, + We'll swaller him hul, when ere we can." 1ST WITCH. + +SOOZAN B. was elected chairman. + +On takin' her seat she said: + +"My femail friends by birth, and my femail friends by brevet;" + +"We have convenshed for the purpuss of having our rites redressed----" + +A voice: "Haden't you better go home and redress yourselves first?" + +The whole convention was onto their feet in a second, while the chairman +fell into her seet and regained her composure, by takin' a good helthy +pinch of scotch snuff. + +Quiet bein' restored, a Mrs. GAGE riz to her feet, and, removin' a chew +of tobacker from her mouth, read the follerin' resolutions: + +Whereas: 2 National Wimmen's Suffrage Circus are industrously plyin' +their vocation. + +Whereas: A effort is afoot to jine 'em together under the same tent. + +Now be it resolved: We don't perceeve it in them sunbeams. The New York +State Suffrage Circus is able to paddle her own stone bote. Bosting to +the contrary not-with-out-standin'-up. + +Resolved finally: We is the original JACOBS, and if Bosting don't like +the cut of our Jib, let her lump it. + +(Grate applaws.) + +A strange lookin' woman, who wore a swaller tail cote, red the follerin +resolutions: + +Whereas: Woman has a spear, it hain't to cook vittles--darn +stockin's--tend baby and try to make her husbin happy. + +Whereas: Man is a brute--woman an angle. Man can vote--woman can't. + +Resolved: That as long as man won't give us the ballit, that after Jan., +1871, every mail brat that comes squawkin' into the world, be smothered +the minnit he is borned. + +Resolved: That when the mail rase is extinguished, the superior critter, +woman, take peaceable possession of the ballit box. + +These resolutions was vociferously cheered, Mrs. GREEN becomin' so +exsited that she whacked me over the head with her parasol in a most +ongentlemanly manner. + +(N.B.--I would heer state that I'me a Resistanter agin femail suffrage. + +Give woman the 16th Commendment and we can cry "peece" ontil our +wind-pipes are collored, but not a darned bit of peece will we git, +except occashunly a peece is nockt off of our snoot, for refusin' to get +up early Monday mornin's to do the washin'.) + +At the above juncture of the proceedin's, the Cardiff Jiant, who is +spendin' the summer at this selebrated waterin' place, entered the room. + +The old feller had heard of this grate Fossil Convenshun. + +As the distinguished fraud entered the room, cheers filled the air. + +Members in exstasy jumped up onto the benches--stood on their +heads--threw their false teeth all about the floor, and acted like a lot +of Rocky Mountain injuns, chock full of New England rum. + +Silents was restored by tossin' a live man to the exsited Amazons, whom +they tore to peeces, partly satisfyin' their cravin' appetites. + +Old GIPSUM then _oratoricised_ as viz.: + +"Feller Fossils: This is indeed the most momentous event I've attended +since I left Onondagar. + +"When COTTON MATHER came over in the Grate Eastern, he sent out a dove to +see if the Pilgrims, would allow her to pick any flowers off of Plymouth +Rock. + +"What was the result of that experiment? + +"Why, the dove coulden't find any rest for the soul of her shoo; for +Plymouth Rocks were thicker than Cardiff Jiants. That base man, BARNUM, +had taken plaster casts of the old rock, and there wasen't a town along +the coast, but what had its 'original Plymouth Rock.' + +"The dove, not bein' a good judge of genuine stuns, made her "Shoo fly" +back to the old ark, and told her tail. Therefore, I ask as a personal +favor, seein' that BARNUM sarved me same's he did old Plymouth Rock, +that when this august assemblage of Fossilized human bein's comes down +onto the mail portion of the U. States, old P.T. be turned over to us. +I'le make him think he's got straddle his wooly hoss, and an army of +mermades was after him with red hot pitchforks. + +"Grant me this favor, and when the fite of the Amazons begins, you can +count on me to hold your bonnets." + +Amid tremenjus applaus old Fort Dodger squatted. + +Letters were then read from the Cohoes Mastodon--ARTEMAS WARD'S wax +figgers--the wooly hoss--a miselaneous lot of Egipshun Mummies, and +THEODOR TILTIN--regrettin' their inability to attend the Fossil +Convention. + +HORRIS GREELY was then anathemized, BEN BUTLER--Senator WILSON--and GEO. +FRANCIS TRAIN Ulogized. + +Resolutions were offered that Congressman MORRISEY be pulverized, by +some talented femail startin' a opposition club house, employin' none +but Tigers of the gentle sects. + +After a few more summer complaint speeches agin that Horrible! +Bloodthirsty! 2 legged Monkster, MAN!! the annual Hen convention of +Antideluvian Fossils tide up their bonnet strings--took their husbans +under their off arm--walked down to Congress Spring. + +The witches who dipp up the mineral fluid danced about the cauldron, +while the President of the company spyin' the Femails approachin' +remarked: + + "By the prickin' of my thumb + Somethin' wicked this way comes." + +The above, Friend PUNCHINELLO, was as seen by, + +Ewers faithfully, + +HIRAM GREEN, + +_Lait Gustise of the Peece_. + + * * * * * + +Birds of Passage. + +The African ostrich is sometimes trained to carry passengers on his +back, but the player of "our national game" is often seen "going out on +a Foul." + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: A VERY NECESSARY PRECAUTION.] + + * * * * * + +BLOCKS AND BLOCKHEADS. + +Mr. Punchinello: As the acknowledged redresser of American wrongs and +the enemy of public nuisances, we beg your attention to a vice which +seems to be upon the increase, and which grows in strength with what it +feeds upon. As the vice in question appears to be upon the increase, and +to fascinate its victims by the allurements of the excitement, we +consider it worthy of PUNCHINELLO'S lance, or, in other words, of being +transfixed upon PUNCHINELLO'S quill. + +We refer to the loafing which invariably takes place upon the occasion +of the relaying of the wooden pavement. I say wooden more particularly, +inasmuch as new fangled varieties of pavement, such as Concrete, +Nicholson, etc., although they have their day, cannot be said to compete +for a moment in public regard with the good old fashioned kind first +described. + +Of all the causes that arrest public attention, surely this laying of +wooden pavement is the most enduring and effectual. + +People of every grade and degree make a dead halt as they approach this +centre of interest, and at once settle down for a prolonged inspection +of the works before them. It is true that everybody has seen the same +thing one hundred and fifty times, but this description of indulgence +appears to grow by what it feeds upon, and the fascinated victim watches +the operation of the workers with a gratification which knows no +abatement. The usual formula gone through upon these occasions is as +follows: + +Citizen approaches the scene of interest, and sees crowds of spectators +upon each side; he glances at the workmen, and, after taking stock of +both them and the overseer, proceeds to read the opinion of his fellows +in their faces, after which he settles down in right earnest with his +hands in his pockets for a prolonged stare. This latter may continue for +periods varying from ten minutes to an hour and three quarters, +according to inclination or opportunity. + +If the spectator is a man of business, it is just possible that he may +content himself with measuring the size of the blocks with his eye, and +then pass on, content to know that he, as one out of many taxpayers, is +getting the value of what they are called on to pay for. But with the +mass of the onlookers, the pouring of the hot pitch into the gravelled +interstices is watched with a satisfaction ever new, like that bestowed +in the pantomime upon the application by the clown of the red-hot poker. + +There is also the pleasure of seeing others at hard work, and the +indulgence of everybody's belief (which is common to all present,) that +he or she could suggest an improvement upon the work proceeding, and the +manner of doing it. Then they look at each other once more and depart +contented. + +Upon a moderate calculation, the amount of time devoted by human beings +to this amusing study, in the City of New York, amounts to 2,450,000 +hours per annum. + + * * * * * + +ENGLAND'S QUANDARY. + +Conjecture and expectancy, O PUNCHINELLO! have been the order of the day +in this European turmoil, with regard to the position of what are called +neutral Powers. People have been looking at England with much curiosity +to see what she really does intend. With the facilities which our +_special wire_ affords, I am enabled to report a highly interesting +soliloquy delivered by the Rt. Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, to his bed-post, at +his home in Spring Gardens, London, after a hot night's debate at St. +STEPHEN'S. Our reporter concealed himself in the key-hole and took +_verbatim_ notes. As in the case of the speeches delivered by the rival +monarchs to their armies, which you published a week in advance of the +speeches themselves, the following can be relied on: + +"I'm tired of answering questions. Let me think awhile. Is war the only +alternative? They blame me for not talking out. Fools, they don't know +where they stand. At home and abroad, difficulty. Our workmen +emigrating; the Irish irreconcilable, (curse that word!) nothing +cheerful that side. + +"France can rock _her_ irreconcilables to sleep to the war lullaby of +that man we have so trusted only to betray us; _our_ irreconcilables +only wait for war to side with our enemy. Prussia, grasping bull-dog as +she is, makes capital out of it, and calls us to her side, while our +stupid people burn with a Prussian fever, which may turn to a plague +to-morrow. + +"Is the Prussian whom we have helped to humble to be our only ally? Then +must we write ourselves down asses in Constantinople. + +"If we had some other head besides weather-cock expediency. France has +an Emperor, Prussia a King to lead them; we have a Queen who takes walks +in the Isle of Wight; and her son--bah! a _roué_ about town. Their +marriage alliances are drag-chains, not bonds of love. Denmark does not +forget our treachery in '65. Holland is afraid of France. We are safe +from America yet. They are too much afraid of the German vote, thank +Heaven, to side with France, but "Alabama" is her watchword, and she +only waits to strangle us. LAFAYETTE and the Hessians are only memories, +they have no votes. Ah! it was a mistake to sympathize with the South. + +"Our statesmen--Heaven save the mark!--are our worst enemies. D'ISRAELI, +the Jew, doubles our difficulty by showing our weakness. He would play +the part of PITT without his brains or his chances. Then we led, now we +are dragged at the tail. We may sign treaties, but we cannot write them. +BRIGHT would be friendly with both; GRANVILLE with neither, and thus +each is offended. It is ridiculous, and the only course left is to +bluster about Belgium. + +"It must be the late dinner. There are all sorts of threatening shadows +around, and but one light; that is a war flame. Let me sleep. To-morrow +the gaping thousands will ask a sign. It may come, but it shall be +hoisted on the Rhine, and, helpless tide waiters, we cannot tell from +which side it shall come. Ah! 'Uneasy sits the man on the ministerial +bench,' as SHAKESPEARE would say to-day, for the crown that he spoke of +is an ornament in the tower." + +REPORTER + + * * * * * + +Magnetic + +Polish soldiers should choose the needle gun. The needle is always +true to the Pole. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: A CAPITAL HINT FOR OUR STATIONARY STREET MUSICIANS, IF +THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY. ] + + * * * * * + +THE LEAVEN OF LEAVENWORTH. + +The great West has long been famous for the loose, untrammelled freedom +with which its inhabitants treat everything and everybody. Breadth, no +less than length, is a striking feature of Western settlements, and that +this element is conspicuous in the journalism of those singular abodes, +no less than in the social life of their inhabitants, generally, is +evidenced in the following advertisement cut from "_The Times_"--a paper +published at Leavenworth, Kansas: + +"NOTICE TO DRIVERS OF FAST STOCK.--Hold your horses and do not drive so +fast. All gay and festive cusses caught driving faster than ordinary +gait in the city, will be brought before Judge Vaughan, for instance--the +fine is $20. + +H. A. ROBERTSON, City Marshal." + +The City Marshal of Leavenworth is clearly a pot-companion of the first +(whiskey and) water. He declines to address his fellow-citizens in the +commonplace terms usually recognised in more prosaic communities. To +adopt his own style of phraseology, ROBERTSON is clearly a "gay and +festive cuss." He is a specimen brick from Kansas, and doubtless always +carries one in his hat. The expression "ordinary gait," as applied to +driving in Kansas, where everybody owns "fast stock," is rather +equivocal in these quieter latitudes to be sure, but we may guess that, +at Leavenworth, a man who rides or drives at a pace of twenty miles an +hour, is liable, "for instance," to a fine of $20, or just one dollar +per mile. Kansas maybe a very nice place to live in, for some people, +but we would hardly recommend Mr. ROBERT BONNER to emigrate thither, and +so risk the probability of being advertised as a "gay and festive cuss." + + * * * * * + +SHIP AHOY! + +Of all public performers, there are none who "draw" better than the +gymnasts who risk their necks by attempting hazardous feats. The fool +who attaches himself by the heels to the car of an ascending balloon is +sure to have thousands of feeble-minded females waving handkerchiefs at +him. BLONDIN, the great French tomfool, brought more people to Niagara +Falls to see him, possibly, add a new Fall to the prospect, than ever +the Falls themselves did. And when another donkey announces that he is +going to stand upon his head on the point of a church spire, that church +is sure to be thronged--outside. These performances, and all of their +sort, should be made punishable, and will probably be so when a hundred +or two performers shall have been killed, in addition to those who have +already suffered. + +Not nearly so exciting as performances of the kind referred to, though, +perhaps, quite as rash, are the ocean voyages occasionally essayed by +tiny, toy ships. One of these--the _Red, White and Blue_--is announced +as about to start upon a "voyage round the world." We wish her our best +wishes, and hope she may get round in the roundest way and time. One of +her first stopping places, though, as we see, is Martha's Vineyard. Our +advice to the skipper of the toy ship, is to go no further than that +delightful haven of rest. MARTHA. will cherish her as a chimney +ornament, or give her to her kids to play with--and nobody will be hurt. + + * * * * * + +Two Renderings. + +_Finis coronat opus:_--The end crowns the work. + +_Finis coroner opus:_--There is plenty of work for the Coroner, but +the "end" does not always appear to be gained. + +All of which is respectfully submitted to the investigators of murder +in this city. + + * * * * * + +The Modern Monks of La Trappe. + +The Coroner, the Assistant District-Attorney, and certain other +officials who have been trying the "trap" game on the witnesses examined +in the NATHAN murder case. + + * * * * * + +Results of Silver Stock. + +1. The dream is ore. + +2. Never mined. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: PUNCHINELLO CORRESPONDENCE. ] + +ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. + +_Englishman, London._--You have lost your wager. Ohio is not the capital +of Indiana. + +_Stranger, New York City._--When you get lost in our streets and do not +know where you are, it is a good plan to seek information from a +policeman. If he does not know where you are, come directly to the +office of PUNCHINELLO. + +_Antiquary._--"The Last of the Barons" was a term applied to an +implement used by the ancient shoemakers. The pedal members of the old +English barons were of a peculiar aristocratic conformation, and lasts +were made expressly for them. This is a curious fact not generally +known. + +_Ploughboy_ finds the following remark in Mr. GREELEY'S thirtieth What, +and asks explanation. + +"So with regard to Carrots. I have never achieved success in growing +these nor Beets." + +We infer that the meaning is, With regard to carrots, sow them. "These +nor Beets" are probably a new variety. They may have come from Norfolk, +but more "presumably" they were found in Alaska. + +_Metaphysician, Cloudland._--Your article on the "Psychical Basis of +Objective Existence" is excellent. Look out for it in the "Juvenile +Department" of our Christmas number. + +_Grammarian._--The expression "We ain't got none" is manifestly +incorrect. It has two negatives. "We ain't got any" is by far more +elegant. + +_Wager_ says that A. made a bet with B. that he could cut a dime in two +at one stroke of his pen-knife, C. to hold the stakes. A. took a +ten-cent "scrip" and chopped it in two with his blade. Meantime C. +walked away with the stake money. Who won? _Answer._--The bet is off. C. +is also off, but no better, and neither A. or B. is any better off. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: NOTES ON THE FERRY. + +_Gushington, (with the pipe.)_ "SHE SMILED ON ONE OF US, I'LL SWEAR." + +_Spindle_. "PERHAPS; BUT WHAT'S A SMILE? A POSITIVE NOD FOR ME, OR +NOTHING!"] + + * * * * * + +AERATED VERBIAGE. + +An Every-day Romance. + +CHAPTER I. + +In a room in a palatial tenement house in Avenue D, stood GILBERT +FERNANDE FROU FROU SNOGGS. G.F.F.F.S. was rampant. + +"Why?" you say. + +Gentle reader, hurry me not. Let the tale wag on. She was talking to her +mamma. + +"Now," said G.F.F.F.S., "I prognosticated that my maternal relative +would become oblivions of my reiterated solicitations to perambulate the +Avenue, and make the acquisition of four yards of cerulean hued ribbon," +and she stamped her tiny number eights on the floor. + +You will notice that, even in her anger, she did not forget her English. + +"You can purchase it on the morrow," replied her mamma. + +"I will not remain acquiescent. I will promenade upon my profluence to +Sixth Avenue, and purchase the ceruleous ribbon immediately," said +G.F.F.F.S., putting on her waterproof and sun-bonnet. + +Her mother pointed to the paternal turnip, which hung over the mantel, +and showed her that old Time was "doing stunts" at 10-1/2. + +But G.F.F.F.S. was obstinate. She put on her chignon, her curls, her +breast elevator, her bustle, her high-heeled shoes, a little rouge, a +little whiting and a bit of court-plaster, and sallied forth, down the +dumb-waiter to the cellar, and thence, through the ash-hole, to the +street. + +CHAPTER II. + +The deed was done!!! The purchase was made find G.F.F.F.S. walked +towards her palatial paternal mansion. She felt slightly timid, for, as +she looked at the heavens, she saw that ARCTURUS, who had been playing +tag with CASTOR and POLLUX all the evening, had reached hunk, the Great +Bear. From the astronomical knowledge which she had acquired at the +Vavasour Female Academy, she knew that the paternal turnip now pointed +to the witching hour of 11-1/2. + +Suddenly she found herself surrounded by a party of bandits, (she +thought she was in Greece, but she was only in the 19th Ward.) + +They seized her. + +"Not a word," said the leader. "Your money or your life." + +Now G.F.F.F.S. had lots of life and very little money, so she could +hardly determine whether to give up some of her life or all of her +money. + +"Illustrious banditti," said she, "the auriferous contents of my +reticulated depository are notable for minuteness. Be conservators of my +pullulating existence." + +"I say, TOM," said the leader, "what's her little game?" + +"It sounds like Irish," said TOM. + +"Hand over your stamps," said the leader. + +G.F.F.F.S. slowly drew out her net purse, when suddenly the robbers +fled. G.F.F.F.S. felt that her hero had come, and, like all the +ARAMINTAS in the novels, she fainted and was caught in the arms of-- + +CHAPTER III. + +The author tried to persuade the editor to allow him to write "to be +continued" after the last thrilling chapter, but the editor was +inexorable, hence this chapter, "in the arms of"--a little red-headed +policeman. + +G.F.F.F.S. smiled gently, but, as soon as she had opened her eyes, and +had cast them on the red head, freckled face, pug-nose, and little eyes +of MIKE MCFLYNN, she sprang to her feet. It was better than forty +gallons of hartshorn. She had wasted a faint. + +"_Perdidi animi deliquium_," said she. + +"Mother of MOSES, but you was heavy!" said MCFLYNN. + +But she did not wait, and a pair of number eight shoes might have been +seen by an inquisitive reporter, cutting around the corners and stamping +up seven flights of stairs. + +MORAL. + +When the paternal turnip solemnly points to 10-1/2, G.F.F.F.S. puts her +number eights on the mantel, looks reflectively at a sore-eyed kitten, +and falls into polysyllables. + + * * * * * + +HOMODEIFICATION. + +Late advices from China convey the intelligence that the +American-Chinese General WARD, who died in the service of the Celestial +empire, has been postmortuarily brevetted to the rank of a "major god," +and is now regularly worshipped as such by JOHN PIGTAIL. + +Possibly the antithesis to this may turn up on the cards, here. In the +course of events the bronze idol to which our PHILLIPSES and SUMNERS +used to bend the knee, has been prostrated from his pedestal by the +Fifteenth Amendment. Coolie labor, with its possible abuses, may engage +the attention of the philanthropists, next, and we may yet behold JOHN +PIGTAIL on a pedestal, in the character of an American "major god." + + * * * * * + +"LUCUS A NON," ETC. + +In the culinary department of a newspaper we find a recipe for making +"bird's nest pudding," which would surely make the pigtail of a JOHN +Chinaman stick straight up on end. The component parts of the pudding +are apples, sugar, milk, five eggs, and vanilla. Perhaps the inventor of +the pudding once found a bird's nest with five eggs in it, and has thus +essayed to immortalize the interesting fact. + + * * * * * + +Bullet Proof. + +The fact of the young Prince Imperial having picked up a bullet on the +field of Saarbruck is significant It proves that, like a true BONAPARTE, +he is prompt to take the Lead. + + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | A. T. 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