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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net + + +Title: Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 + +Author: Various + +Posting Date: October 29, 2011 [EBook #9960] +Release Date: February, 2006 +First Posted: November 5, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCHINELLO, MAY 7, 1870 *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Steve +Schulze\and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + + + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | NEARLY READY. | + | | + | ALASKA and its RESOURCES. | + | | + | By W. H. 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And so, ye Yonge Manne, he is done entirely BROWN.] + + * * * * * + + THE BACHELOR'S MOVING-DAY. + AHA! + A mere half-hour's bother! + Suppose I were a father-- + A luckless wight, called "Pa"! + + I'd say, + "Now curse the restless rover + That first (despising clover!) + Invented Moving-day!" + + O yes! + Especially, if moving + Was likely to be proving + (As usual) a mess! + + Why, look! + You've got no end of articles. + Sure to be smashed to particles, + Or "snaked off" with a "hook"! + + You've got + Chairs, bedsteads, tables, crockery-- + (Recital seems a mockery!) + You've got--what have you not? + + What's worse, + Your things won't fit new places, + Your wife won't like new faces-- + Your very maid will curse! + + Your hat + And other things _do_ fall so! + And children they _do_ bawl so! + Good heavens! think of that, + + And think + Of possible colds and fevers-- + Cartmen that prove deceivers-- + Nothing to eat or drink! + + Small bliss + For bachelors so lonely--. + Tired of one thing only: + But they escape all this! + + And pray, + What man with sons and daughters + Don't sigh for bachelor quarters + About the First of May? + + * * * * * + +Printed, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by the +PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District +Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. + + * * * * * + +THE DELIGHTS OF DOUGHERTY. + +At the Banquet of the Army of the Potomac in Philadelphia, Mr. DANIEL +DOUGHERTY made one of the most extraordinary speeches on record, if we +except certain forensic efforts of Mr. PUNCHINELLO delivered during the +earlier stages of his career from his box. Mr. DOUGHERTY is a Soarer, +and a Spreader, and a Screamer. Speaking metaphorically, be goes higher, +measures more from the tip of one wing to the other, and is more +suggestive of the warbling of a locomotive in his speech than any other +Eagle in Philadelphia, which is saying a great deal. DANIEL is a Giant +of Rhetoric, and would remind us of the Big Gentleman from Cardiff, only +that mysterious personage is too heavy to Soar; for which reason he +usually occupies the ground floor, which Mr. DOUGHERTY does not do by +any manner of means. + +It was this extraordinary capacity of Mr. DOUGHERTY for Soaring which +caused him to be called upon by the Army of the Potomac for a speech. +The great D. begins by declaring that he would rather speak for his +country than for Pennsylvania, which, considering that he also declared +that he came "as a modest spectator," does not strike us as the depth of +humility. However, "my bosom," said Mr. D., "is not confined to any +locality;" and we believe that Mr. PECKSNIFF said something like this of +his own frontal linen. Yet, we should like to know what Mr. DOUGHERTY +does for a chest when his own has gone upon its extensive journeys; +something temporary is done, we suppose, with a pad. But the Bosom was +at the Banquet, and the proprietor was there to thump it, until it must +have sounded and reverberated; and if Mr. DOUGHERTY had also thumped his +head, there would have been equal evidence of hollowness within. "May my +tongue never prove a traitor!" cried the orator. Mr. PUNCHINELLO hastens +to reassure him. The tongue is well enough, and is likely to be. It's +something a little higher up that is likely to give out. + +If the applause of the brave men before him was what Mr. DOUGHERTY +wanted, (besides his dinner,) then of applause he got the Stomach under +his Bosom full. The speech was received, according to the reporters, +with a roaring which has not been equalled since the Lions in the Den +roared at the other DANIEL, until they found that the good man was +neither to be roared or sneezed at with impunity. The cheering was +"tremendous." The cheering was "terrific." The cheering was "prolonged." +And there stood "the Bosom not confined to any locality," but just then +swelling, and expanding, and dilating--shall we for once be fine, and +say like an Ocean Billow? Voices which shouted at Gettysburg now hailed +Mr. DANIEL DOUGHERTY as a Conquering Hero--the conqueror of their cars! +Once in a while there was "great laughter" when Mr. D.D. hadn't said any +thing specially funny--that is, if Mr. PUNCHINELLO is a judge of fun; +and if he isn't, who in all the world is? There are two kinds of +laughter--the laughing at and the laughing with; and we have known +"tremendous" and even "vociferous" applause to be very suspicious. + +It must be a source of calm satisfaction to General GRANT to know that +he is considered the "great and glorious GRANT" by Mr. DANIEL DOUGHERTY; +although DANIEL once considered Mr. BUCHANAN, poor man! to be equally +"great and glorious." So DANIEL also considers SHERMAN to be "immortal," +and SHERIDAN "unconquerable," and MEADE "glorious." Adjectives are +cheap, you know; and D.D., Esq., has evidently a great stock of them in +his Wandering Bosom. Only, great soldiers, who know the precise value of +Mr. DOUGHERTY'S military opinions, might not care to have them laid on +too thickly. + +Mr. PUNCHINELLO has written to Mr. DOUGHERTY'S Family Doctor to inquire +into the state of Mr. D's health after this tremendous effort, and he +sends us a bulletin that Mr. D. is "as well as could be expected." We do +not know what he means by this; it seems to us to lack scientific +precision. The point upon which we wished to be informed was, whether +Mr. D. did or did not break any thing--not the tumblers on the table, +for that we should expect; but any thing in the way of blood-vessels. +Not to put too fine a point upon it, How's the Bosom? + + * * * * * + +AMERICAN CUTLERY IN FRANCE. + +The great pride, the _dulce decus_ of Americans, has long been in their +pocket hardware, and the skill with which they use it. But we must +henceforth look to our laurels. France is competing alarmingly with us +in the use of the revolver. They were always a revolutionary people, +were the French, and revolving seems, therefore, to suit their temper to +a T, (Gunpowder T, of course.) Since the slaying of NOIR by BONAPARTE, +the affectation of readiness with the pistol has become quite the thing +in Paris. New-York and Paris will soon be exactly alike in the bullet +business--especially Paris. PAUL DE CASSAGNAC, it seems, has been +invited by some anonymous person to meet him at a certain hour in front +of the _mairie_ of the Seventeenth _arrondissement_, for the purpose of +having his brains removed with a revolver. PAUL declined to go, however. +The _Mairie_ mentioned in the cartel was not the one for PAUL. Probably +he would have gone to VIRGINIA, had he been invited to do so; but never +a MAIRIE for the faithful PAUL. And might have come by way of New-York, +where he would soon have grown so used to having his brains removed with +a revolver that the process would have become a pleasure to him. + + * * * * * + +PHILADELVINGS. + +PUNCHINELLO cannot help liking Philadelphia, and always feels a pang of +sympathy whenever any thing happens to that plain old city. One reason +for this is, (and he is not ashamed of the weakness,) that Philadelphia +likes PUNCHINELLO and takes, weekly, he would not be vain enough to say +how many hundred copies of his journal. And now Philamaclink, as her +natives love to call her, is afflicted with a terrible disease--a +fearful attack of chronic Legislature. Even when the active symptoms of +this dread malady have subsided, the effects linger, and the consequent +suffering is excruciating. One of the direst of the effects of the last +attack is a dreadful bill--not a bile--which has caused a utilization +sewage company to appear upon her body corporate. It is almost +impossible for sister cities to understand the torments of such an +affliction. Nobody can now clear away their own dirt--Councils, Board of +Health, or any body else. If rooms are swept, the sewage company must +take up the dust; if a pig-pen or a stable needs cleaning, the company +must do it; if the lady of a house throws the slops out of her breakfast +cups, the company must carry them away; if a man knocks the ashes from +his cigar, he must save them for the company; if, anywhere in the city, +a foul word is spoken, the company must have the benefit of it. Even the +birds in the squares must not cleanse their nests without a printed +permit from the company. If a bedstead is cleaned, the company must have +the bugs. Only one dirty thing is safe from this all-powerful +corporation, and that is the legisiative delegation from the city. If +the refuse matter were taken from that, there would be nothing left. It +has been proposed that the Legislature itself should be purified; but +this idea is Utopian, PUNCHINELLO fears. If Niagara were squirted +through its halls, the water would be dirtied, but the halls would not +be cleansed. Alas, poor city! Trampled under the heels of the +aristocratic HONG and PENNY BUNN, what is there to hope for it? + +But all has not been told. There are about eight hundred thousand +inhabitants in the place. Some twenty thousand of these owe small sums +for unpaid taxes, averaging about nine and a quarter cents to a man. To +collect these sums, an army of seventy-two thousand able-bodied men, at +salaries of one thousand dollars per annum, has been commissioned by the +PENNY BUNN Legislature. + +Alas, poor city! But all has not been told. A private firm has prevailed +upon the imbecile old farmers from the western and interior counties to +give them the right to build a private freight railroad through many of +the principal streets of the Quaker City. This road will run through +several school-house yards, and the time-tables are to be so arranged +that trains shall always be due at those points at recess time. Every +fiftieth private house along the lines is to have a road-station and +freight-depot in its front-parlor, and all male residents on said routes +are to serve in turn, without pay, as brakesmen and switch-tenders. The +owners of all vehicles injured by the trains are to be heavily fined, +and the families of individuals allowing themselves to be killed are to +be mulcted in heavy damages. + +Alas, poor city! But all has not yet been told. A counterfeit tax-bill +has been passed by the Legislature. All the sums handed in to the State +Treasury by the tax collectors have been found to be "bogus" money. This +action has been indorsed by the Legislature, and the action of that body +is hereafter to be of the same character as the funds paid in by its +creatures. + +Alas, poor city! But all has not yet been told. Colonel FORNEY intends +resuming his "Occasional" letters in the _Press!_ + +Enough! Humanity can bear no more. + + * * * * * + +Query by a Constitutional Student. + +When the Governor or President V-toes a bill, is he supposed to put +his foot on it? + + * * * * * + +THE PLAYS AND SHOWS. + +SPECTACLES are proverbially fit for old eyes. Probably that is the +reason why the spectacle of the _Twelve Temptations_ is so dear to the +aged eyes of the gray-haired old gentlemen who occupy the front seats at +the Grand Opera House. It is certainly a brilliant spectacle, though, +like the ideal scene to which Mrs. NICKLEBY's eccentric and vegetarian +lover once referred, it consists principally of "gas and gaiters." Not +that it is exclusively an Old Folks' entertainment; for, as the critics +say of portentously dull juvenile books, "it will be found as +interesting to the young as to the old." Though the dullest of dramas, +it is so brightened by brilliant legs that it dazzles every beholder. +Why, then, should the stern advocate of the legitimate drama refuse to +acknowledge that the _Twelve Temptations_ has its redeeming legs? How +runs the ancient proverb, "Singed milk is better than it looks;" or that +equally ancient philosophical maxim, "There is no use in crying over +spilt cats"? The stupid story of ULRIC'S folly is made more attractive +than one would suppose that it could be, and we need not weep over the +fact that it is a spectacle, and not a SHAKESPEAREAN tragedy. + +The bold explorers who have reached the remote Opera House, +fought their way past the misanthropic door-keeper, and gained their +seats, are first reduced to a state of mental chaos by the performance +of a maddening overture, and are then fitted to appreciate the play, +which proceeds after the following pattern: + +_Act 1. Curtain rises upon a score of Unintelligible Demons_, who sing +this impressive chorus: + + "Oh! um um um um + For um um um um + And um um um um + To um um um um." + +_Exeunt Demons. Enter_ RUDOLPH THE TEMPTER. _He remarks to the +surrounding scenery_--"ULLERIC'S soul must be mine, or else the dark +abodes of torment await me. I will tempt him. Great Master, appear." + +_The Great Master--a major-general of fiends--appears, and, approving +of_ RUDOLPH'S _virtuous resolve, they descend to--well, they descend +below the Erie Building, to drink to his success. Scene changes to_ +ULRIC'S _home. Enter_ ULRIC _and family, including Aged Mother, Virtuous +Heroine, Hated Rival, and Demoniac Servant._ + +ULRIC. "Motherr, this slife is intollerrabble; I will do any thing to +escape frrrom it." + +_Enter_ RUDOLPH _and Unintelligible Demons (disguised.) They sing as +before._ + + "Oh! um um um um," etc. + +ULRIC. "The song says terruly. I will go with you, though you were the +fiend himself." + +_Consternation on the part of every one. Demoniac Servant remarks, "Ha! +ha!"_ ULRIC _and the Demons sink through the floor. Scene changes to the +Studio of Eblis._ + +RUDOLPH. "Take this collar. Behold these stripes painted upon it. +Whatever you wish you shall have at the price of five years of your +life. A stripe will vanish each time your wish is gratified. (_Aside._) +The stripes are only cloth, you know, and you can pull 'em off when your +back is turned to the audience. Is it a bargain?" + +ULRIC. "It 'er is." (_Malignant crash from the orchestra._) + +RUDOLPH. "ULLERIC, 'tis well. Now thou shall behold our sports." + +_Enter ballet girls, dressed in red gaiters and torches. They dance the +Demon Cancan, waving their torches and scattering the flames. Old +Gentleman, in the front row hears such charming little asides as, "Drat +you,_ MARY SMITH, _you've burnt my hand." "I'll slap your face, Miss, if +you step on my foot again." "O_ NELLY! _my hair's a-coming down."_ + +Curtain finally falls upon a blaze of light and a bewildering wealth of +legs. + +_Old Gentleman, in front row._ "Well, he! he! that's pretty good; he! he! +Devilish pretty girls some of 'em; he! he!" + +_Virtuous Matron._ "My dear, isn't it shameful. I never saw any thing so +disgusting." + +_Sceptical Husband._ "Then perhaps we'd better go at once." + +_Virtuous Matron._ "N--no. I'll sit through one more act, and see if it +gets any worse." + +_Fast Young Man._ "They're all padded, you know. You can't feel sure +about one of 'em. There were gals in the _Crook_ who used to pad their's +from here to here"--(_adds explanatory pantomime._) + +_Travelled Man, who has been to Paris._ "These girls can't dance, I +assure you. Now, at the Châtelet they do these things differently." + +_Admiring Friend to Travelled Man._ "What spectacles did you see at the +Châtelet?" + +_Travelled Man,_ (who was in Paris only two days, and never saw even the +outside of the theatre.) "It was--let me see--Oh! _Moses in Egypt_ was +the name of the piece. It was gorgeous; full of Egyptian scenery, and +Egyptian dancing girls and things." + +_Admiring Friend, (with aggravating persistence.)_ "Do you mean +Rossini's _Moses_?" + +_Travelled Man, (quite desperate.)_ "Of course! He's the rival of +OFFENBACH, you know. But come, let's go and take something." + +(_They go, the faith of the Admiring Friend in the Travelled Man's +veracity being, however, perceptibly shaken._) + +Three more acts follow. ULRIC makes a dozen wishes, all of which are +gratified, and all of which have the inevitable effect of transporting +him into scenes pervaded by the female leg to an extent that easily +reconciles him to the successive loss of five years of his life. He +finally becomes King of Egypt, and, after having fought against the +Crusaders in defence of those well-known Mohammedan gods, ISIS and +OSIRIS, is carried down a trap by exulting demons. An Intolerable Comic +Man opens up hitherto unknown wastes of dreariness, and sings a comic +song that is positively more tedious than an article from the _Nation_. +The Demoniac Servant is continually shot up through spring traps, in +order to remark, "Ha! ha!" and to immediately disappear again. The Aged +Mother travels from Flanders to Egypt without changing her dress or +combing her back hair, for the vain purpose of begging "ULLERIC" to +repent. Consumptive Knights fight terrific broad-sword duels with a +thirst for combat that beer alone is subsequently able to allay. The +Virtuous HEROINE displays a very neat pair of ankles, but without +winning "ULLERIC" from the devil of his ways. Half a dozen ballets are +successively introduced, in which the skirts of the dancers are seen to +decrease as rapidly and steadily as the stripes on ULRIC'S magic collar. +Finally, a grand Transformation Scene, which has nothing whatever to do +with the play, exhibits the best legs of the company in the most +favorable attitudes, and the green baize curtain falls upon the great +spectacle of the day. + +_Virtuous Matron._ "Well, I never! It's positively indecent. I'd like to +take a whip to those shameless hussies." + +_Sceptical Husband._ "PAGE offered me a proscenium box the other day. +Suppose we take it to-morrow night?" + +_Virtuous Matron._ "I'll go to please you, my dear. And really the +scenery is pretty." + +_Wretched Man, who is shameless enough to admit that he likes it._ "I +like it. The ballet's good, the scenery is splendid, and the music might +be worse. Why don't these ladies, who come here and sit it through, have +the honesty to admit that they come because they like it? But no; they +go away, and at the next party, where they wear dresses lower in the +neck than any I've seen on the stage to night, they'll abuse the poor +girls who have danced here for their amusement. Their malignant modesty +does not deserve the respect of an intelligent _figurante_. If they are +sincere, why do they come here?" + +Which question still puzzles the perturbed mind of + +MATADOR. + + * * * * * + +Give 'em Rope. + +We clip the following from the _Express_: + +"There seem to be more legal loopholes for convicted murderers to escape +through than for any other class of criminals." + +That is too true, by a great deal. There should be but one "legal +loophole" for a convicted murderer, and the authorities should not let +him escape through the loop of it--they should Knot. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: A MOVING INCIDENT. + +_Pat, (to Bridget.)_ "TAKE YOUR MASTHER'S TRUNK TO THE RAILROAD, IS IT? +OCH! BOTHER--DON'T YOU SEE I'M MOVIN' A FAMILY?"] + + * * * * * + +THE "TOBACCO PARLIAMENT" OF OHIO. + +For genial law-making in America commend us to the Ohio House of +Representatives. While we haven't learned that the legislation of this +august body has been particularly hazy of late, we think it must have +been wholesome, for we are assured that much of it has been thoroughly +"fumigated" through the exertions of the majority of its members, who +perform their functions with pipes in their mouths, while drawn up in +semi-circle around a couple of fire-places built expressly for their +accommodation--"one on each side of the speaker's desk," Who _wouldn't_ +legislate, (and early, too,) if he could do it with his feet on the +fender, his well-flavored Havana or best Virginia leaf in his mouth, and +the privilege of cracking jokes and telling naughty stories _ad +interim?_ Go it, ye Buckeye lawmakers! Shall we hear of any sympathy for +Cuba in that quarter? + + * * * * * + +A "Woman's Physic." + +(MRS. C--N TO MRS. MCF--D.) + +"My Darling, I have found a panacea for all woes, In Man: + + _When one man will not suit or stay, + Then get another, right away."_ + + * * * * * + +CABLE NEWS. + +[EXCLUSIVELY FOR PUNCHINELLO.] + +GREAT BRITAIN. + +The Great PUNCHINELLO dinner has come off! JENKINS was there, and was to +have telegraphed an account. But he was not so well as usual the next +day, the Thames water having got into his head. JENKINS never _could_ +take much water. So your correspondent is obliged to trust to his +memory--unaffected by the water, which he did not take. + +Old London Tavern was the scene of this banquet, given by the _literati_ +of England in honor of the long-wished-for coming of PUNCHINELLO. The +dining-hall was decorated for the occasion with appropriate portraits. +There were HOGARTH, CERVANTES, ADDISON, MOLIÈRE, SWIFT, STERNE, +GOLDSMITH, TOM HOOD, IRVING, THACKERAY, DICKENS, and ARTEMUS WARD. A +number of the waiters were costumed in character. From my seat, I +recognized SAM WELLER, (right behind me;) the Fat Boy of _Pickwick;_ +SANCHO PANZA, and JEAMES YELLOWPLUSH. + +Mr. PUNCH was represented at the head of the table so well that you +could know him at once from his weekly frontispiece. On one side of him +sat CHARLES DICKENS; on the other, your humble ambassador. It would be +rather invidious to name the other hundred guests; not to be there was +to be nowhere in literature. Near me there sat Lord LYTTON, TOM HUGHES, +PRÉVOST PARADOL, EDMOND ABOUT, CHARLES KINGSLEY, PAUL FÉVAL, and the +Rev. JOHN CUMMING. + +Asking, in a whisper, of Mr. PUNCH how the latter very staid individual +came to be there, I understood that, of all the absurd men of this +century, he was selected as the most representatively preposterous. The +PRINCE OF WALES was not asked, lest his morals might be hurt by +something that was said. And it is so important, you know, for the +British nation--(for the rest, see the _Saturday Review_.) And then +Madame GEORGE SAND was to be there, who sometimes wears trowsers. + +MATTHEW ARNOLD was spoken to about it; but he replied gruffly, + +"PUNCHINELLO is Goliath of the Philistines!" and declined. + +JOHN STUART MILL was too busy over his next book, which is to be "On the +Subjection of Horses." But every body else was there, so we did not miss +these grave and reverend seigniors. + +How the twenty-five courses came on and went off, from the ox-tail soup +and salmon to the dessert, it would need the tongue or pen of SOYER or +PIERRE BLOT to narrate; as it needed the capacity of a FALSTAFF to do +justice to them. And then, when the cover was removed, came the time of +trial to your correspondent. "The Queen" and "the President" were drunk +with all the honors. Then Mr. PUNCH called out, through his magnificent +old nose, so that you might have heard him across the Channel, "Health +and long life to PUNCHINELLO!" + +Now, your correspondent had remembered Mr. HAWTHORNE'S experience at a +Lord Mayor's dinner, and had begged Mr. PUNCH by all means to let him +off without a speech. But, more worldly-wise than HAWTHORNE, he didn't +believe that Mr. PUNCH would keep his promise; so he had prepared a +speech, beginning, "Not anticipating any occasion to open my lips in +this illustrious company, you must allow me to speak altogether on the +impulse of the moment." (Hear, hear.) So this had to be delivered; but +for the rest of it, and of the dinner, you must wait for my next +telegram. Mr. PUNCH is going to have the speech published in pamphlet +form, for distribution among his numerous constituents. So, now for the +rest of my _news_. + +FRANCE. + +The PRINCE OF MONACO has declared war against France. OLLIVIER proposes +to send the PRINCE IMPERIAL to extinguish him with a corps of infantry, +armed with popguns; no one to be admitted to the corps who is more than +four years old. MONACO aspires to be a sort of LOPEZ. + +TURKEY. + +Sultan ABDUL AZIZ has just had a visit from a friend of JOHN BRIGHT'S. +To the surprise of every body, even his most intimate friends, the +Sultan immediately made up his mind to turn Quaker! He came down stairs, +and went into mosque, the other day, with a broad-brimmed hat, straight +coat, and drab trowsers; and insisted on all the ladies of his _hareem_ +putting on plain bonnets, and holding a "silent meeting" in the +Seraglio! How it bothered them to do that last thing you may well +suppose! More anon, from PRIME. + + * * * * * + +A Bit of Fish. + +SECRETARY FISH is said to preserve a decidedly spruce appearance +at the State Dinners. Fish is nothing if not Fin-ical. + + * * * * * + +FISH SAUCE. + +The sight of a thick, four-pound steak, just cut from a halibut that +must have weighed, (the idea of a fish wading!) some two hundred pounds, +reminds us that trout-fishing is just now in full operation. What a +strange, weird mystery there is about mental associations! Long, long +ago, we possessed a favorite trout-rod fitted with a Hollow Butt, and so +it is that whenever we see a Halibut, trouting comes to our mind. + +Yesterday, frogs were croaking, and insects all in green livery, with +gilt buttons, contributed to Nature's Great Boston Jubilee of music with +their hum. How ridiculous it seems that insects should have a hum!--and +yet the Bee has its Hum in its hive. + +It is at this season that enthusiastic anglers always get water on the +brain. Their dreams are of gurgling brooks. They have visions of +mill-ponds, with beautiful little cascades sluicing into them over dams. +They stand, in imagination, on bridges, in the eddies beneath which they +discern the wagging of silvery tails and rosy fins; and a very common +form of nightmare with them is to fancy that the reel of the fishing-rod +won't work, just as they are going to wind up a four-pound trout. + +Now, also, is the time when friend gives much advice to friend on the +subject of the "gentle art." (A trout's opinion on this branch of art, +by the by, would be worth having. Perhaps he might not consider it so +gentle.) + +One student of the angle will say to another, "Always fish up the +stream. Fish lie with their heads to the current and their tails in the +opposite direction: therefore, by casting up-stream, you run the less +chance of being seen by them." + +Another says, "Be sure you make your casts down-stream; your bob-flies +like it better, as you can see by the way they dance on the ripples." + +Quoth another, "Always soak your casting-lines with water before you +start for the river-side;" while a fourth instructs you never to +straighten your lines with water, but by passing them through a piece of +India rubber doubled between the finger and thumb. + +_Our_ advice is, Never cast against the wind. In fact, you can't do it; +and if you try it, you run the risk of getting _strabismus_--that is, +the Cast in your eye. Artificial flies, like artificial flowers, never +should follow nature. Manufacturers of both articles perfectly +understand this; and hence the superiority of their productions to the +mere realities that flutter and bloom for their brief hour, and then +die. There is nothing in entomology so beautiful as a well-busked trout +or salmon fly. And then it is comparatively indestructible. Take a +natural May Fly and squeeze it in your hand. It is reduced to a pulp. +Try the same experiment with an artificial one, and its plumage remains +unruffled--which is more than you do, since the chance is that you will +have to employ a surgeon to extract the hook from the ball of your +thumb. + +[Illustration: "SHOO! FLY."] + +We are assured by a broker, who, in Spring-time, always becomes a +brooker, that by far the surest lure for a large trout is the Greenback +Fly. He is acquainted with a man who, whenever he goes a-fishing, always +has a four-pound trout to pack in ice and send up to a friend in the +city. By post, a letter is dispatched to the same quarter, containing a +warm description of the playing and landing of that noble fish. The +sender usually states that he captured it with the famous fly known to +anglers as the Green Drake. Facts are against him, though; and it is +well understood by his friends that the fish was first taken by some +poaching rascal with a scoop-net, and subsequently hooked by the angler +with a five-dollar Greenback Fly. + +Nothing in life is more beautiful than a five-dollar Greenback +Fly--except, of course, a ten-dollar one, or one of indefinitely larger +denomination. + +Provided with this most charming and effective of lures, the angler is +always sure to fill his creel. He incurs no fatigue in doing so, +either, for all the boys of the village become his humble servants to +command; and if there be a four-pound trout in the miller's pond, he is +sure to hook it with the Greenback Fly, while the boys generally "hook +it" also, lest the miller should catch them at their tricks. + +_How to make the Greenback Fly_--Give it to your wife. Much has been +said concerning the efficacy of the Water Fly as a lure. For our own +part, we have not tried it. We know rather less about it than we do +about the Water Cure; but we cheerfully print the following directions +on the subject, taken from the fly-leaf of an old book. + +_How to make the Water Fly_: Fall into it. + + * * * * * + +HALL AND HAYES. + +The friends of Dr. HAYKS and those of Captain HALL are engaged in a +heated discussion as to which of the two ought to be sent by Congress in +search of the North Pole. As the public does not know who is right and +who is wrong, we present our readers with the arguments of each party; +so that they can decide which explorer is the man for the post--we +should say, pole. + +WHAT THE HAYES PARTY SAYS. + +1. The Pole being surrounded by water, must be reached by boats. HAYES +is a sailor and HALL is not. Therefore HAYES is the man to sail to the +Pole. + +2. HAYES is a Bostonian; HALL is a Western man. Bostonians are famed for +their skill in prying into every thing; while Western men stupidly mind +their own business. Therefore HAYES is naturally fitted to become an +explorer. + +3. HALL spent his time while in the Arctic Region in the society of +Esquimaux. HAYES attended to his ship, and lived on pork and beef +like a Christian. Therefore HAYES is the better man. + +4. HAYES understands the use of instruments, and can take observations +of the temperature of hot springs, if any are found. HALL knows nothing +about instruments, and could not tell the time by a barometer if his +life depended upon it. Therefore HAYES should be the Congressional +favorite. + +5. HALL is hot-tempered and once killed one of his crew. HAYES is a cool +man and never killed any body, except as a medical practitioner. Cool +men are at home in the Arctic Region. Therefore send HAYES. + +WHAT THE HALL PARTY SAYS. + +1. If the Pole is surrounded by water, it must be a visible point of +land. HALL is a landsman, and therefore the proper man to send in search +of land. To send a sailor like HAYES in quest of land would be absurd. +Therefore HALL is the right man. + +2. HALL is a steady, hardworking, energetic Western man. HAYES is a +meddling Yankee. Of course HALL is the better man for carrying out a +difficult enterprise. + +3. HALL has lived in the Arctic land as the Arctic people do; while +HAYES knows nothing of the people of that region. Therefore HALL is by +far the best man to send. + +4. HAYES can have no use for his instruments in a place where there is +nothing but ice. HAYES would, therefore, only add to the cost of the +expedition. HALL can take all necessary observations with his eyes, which +cost Congress nothing and are easily carried. Therefore HALL is by all +odds the man for the expedition. + +5. If HALL is hot-tempered, so much the better. He will keep warm with +less consumption of fuel. That he killed a mutineer is proof of his +resolute adherence to discipline. HAYES would never enforce discipline +if he dared to inflict no more punishment for mutiny than a draught of +Epsom salts. Therefore HALL is plainly the man to command an exploring +party. + +Here we have the arguments which both sides advance, and our readers can +easily make up their minds. As for ourselves, the true course for +Congress to pursue seems so plainly evident that if we were asked which +is the best man, the Doctor or the Captain, we should unhesitatingly +answer in the negative. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: CINCINNATUS SWEENY.] + + +CINCINNATUS SWEENY + +(Adapted from AUTHOR'S Classical Dictionary, p. 351.) + +"CINCINNATUS had retired to his patrimony, aloof from popular tumults. +The successes of the Equi, (young Democracy,) however, rendered the +appointment of a Dictator necessary, and CINCINNATUS was chosen to that +high office. He laid aside his rural habiliments, assumed the ensigns of +absolute power, levied a new army, marched all night to bring the +necessary succor to the Consul MINCIUS, (W. M. TWEED,) who was +surrounded by the enemy and blockaded in his camp, (Albany,) and before +morning surrounded the enemy's army, and reduced it to a condition +exactly similar to that in which the Romans had been placed. The baffled +Equi were glad to submit to the victor's terms, and CINCINNATUS, +returning in, triumph to Rome, (New-York,) laid down his dictatorial +power after having held it only fourteen days, and returned to his farm" +(Central Park.) + + * * * * * + +SPRING FEVER, + + In such a joyous way? + If it were as you say, + Wouldn't _I_ know it, who know every thing! + + "Ethereal mildness!" Pshaw! what nonsense, man! + Pooh! "Gentle spring," indeed! + It makes my liver bleed + To hear you talk as only idiots can. + + But you're no idiot, THOMSON; _that_ I'll say! + I'll yield another bit: + I'm ready to admit + The Seasons may have altered since your day. + + At any rate, JAMES, in the windy West + (Which wasn't in your eye-- + At least, not frequently) + Your boasted Spring is _not_ a gentle guest. + + My patience, no! She's the reverse of that! + Ah! hear her savage roar; + (So often heard before!) + And there (confound it!) goes my new Spring hat. + + Alas! what means this stupid somnolence? + Why do my pulses go + So "melancholy slow"? + Why can't I think? why always "on the fence"? + + O dews and fogs! O rain and snow and slush! + O various other things! + My soul! what need of wings: + Yes, "Spring's delights" are coming with a rush! + + But stay, friend THOMSON--what you say is true: + Here _is_ a nice warm day! + The breezes softly play-- + Then why, oh! _why_ then, do I feel so blue? + + One "would not die in Spring-time," certainly-- + Nor any other season, + For the same reason-- + But if one can't eat dinner, why _not_ die? + + Is there no panacea for such ills? + Oh! yes, a jolly one: + I find it in the dun! + In landlords', butchers', grocers', tailors' bills! + + * * * * * + +The Difference. + +GOLDEN calves were worshipped by men of old. Modern men prefer to +worship saw-dust calves. + + * * * * * + +Dramatic Query. + +Is Canada to be the Theatre of a Fenian War? It seems that the Canadian +Volunteers think so; and, to do justice to the performance, they have +taken possession of the whole Front-tier. + + * * * * * + +The Original Bow. + +The EL-bow. + + * * * * * + +Not the Chimney for a Studio. + +ONE that won't Draw. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: THE SICK EAGLE. + +COLUMBIA. "DO LET THE POOR BIRD OUT, MR. B.; HE DROOPS SADLY." + +Mr. BOOTWELL. "REALLY I DON'T SEE ANY THING THE MATTER WITH HIM, MA'AM. +HIS CAGE IS ALL GOLD, AND HE SURELY OUGHT TO BE CONTENTED."] + + * * * * * + +AN EXCELLENT OLD SONG MADE NEW. + +BY A DEFAULTER. + + Is there for his dishonesty + Who hangs his head, and a' that? + The coward slave, we pass him by, + And dare to steal for a' that. + For a' that and a' that, + Our grabs and games, and a' that, + Our business is to make a pile + And swindle SAM, and a' that. + + What though the people curse and swear + At losing gold, and a' that? + Their fiercest wrath we'll proudly bear, + And cash is cash for a' that. + For a' that and a' that, + Their lawyers, courts, and a' that. + The lucky rogue who wins his pile + Is king of men for a' that. + + The President knows how to beat + In battle, siege, and a' that; + But we're the lads for swift retreat, + Although he growl, and a' that. + For a' that and a' that, + Our bonds and oaths and a' that, + A bouncing swag's the better thing + For gentlemen, and a' that. + + Then let us pray that come it may, + As come it shall for a' that, + That plundering gents may keep the sway, + And help themselves, and a' that. + For a' that and a' that. + Leg bail's the thing, and a' that; + For travelling improves the mind, + The body saves, and a' that. + + * * * * * + +THE THIRTEENTH MAN IN THE OMNIBUS. + +The New-York omnibus was constructed to seat and carry twelve persons; +certainly not more. Indeed, when twelve men, of nominal size, sit +squarely on the seats and do not clownishly cross their legs, one may +ride in an omnibus with comfort. Nay, with these conditions, he _may_ +generally escape having his toes crushed, his shins kicked, his shoes +soiled, or his trowsers daubed with mud by his neighbor. But alas! how +often is this paradisiacal state disturbed by the intrusion of "the +thirteenth man in the omnibus." + +Shall I attempt to portray the creature? He is pretty well known, and +perhaps the picture will be recognized. Sometimes he may be seen +standing at the corner of the street lying in wait for the "bus." He is +never known to walk toward its starting-place, lest he might be +confounded with the "twelve" by getting inside before the seats are +filled. No; he is "nothing if not" odd. His very hat never sits squarely +upon his head like the hat of a gentleman. It is either elevated in +front like a sophomore's, or depressed on one side, as if he had just +come from a cheap spree in the Bowery, or was troubled with some +obtrusive "bump" that kept his hat awry. If by chance he gets a seat +inside the omnibus, (as "accidents will happen," etc.,) he must cross +his legs and wipe the mud from his ill-shod feet upon your trowsers or +your wife's dress. + +Indeed, methinks it was he who invented sitting cross-legged in a public +vehicle. Do savages ever sit thus when in close company? I have never +been able to imagine what special human sin this ingenious mode of +annoyance was meant to punish. It has been suggested that it might be +the man's pantomimic protest against sitting at all. But the saddest +commentary upon this vice of our hero is, that by some mysterious +magnetism of awkwardness and ill-breeding, he has betrayed into +imitation of it men whose early education has been less neglected than +his own. + +Sometimes, as he gets into the "'bus," he carries in his hand or mouth +the stump of a half-burned, extinct cigar, which fills the atmosphere +with a rank and sickening odor. More frequently he is dressed in +well-worn black, and his clothes reek with noisome exhalations of stale +tobacco-smoke. Shall I finish his picture? I verily believe he is the +original Loafer. + +Methinks I see him in my mind's eye. I am riding in a Broadway ominibus. +I have just handed up my fare, and, taking my seat, have surrendered +myself to a sweet half-hour of reverie. I disdain to spoil my eyes or +waste my time by newspaper-reading. I dream, and save my time for better +things, as I conceive. + +The stage is full. "Twelve inside." The driver does not seem to get +along. He is constantly stopping or turning his horses to the sidewalk, +right or left. You wonder what is the matter. You begin to think the +whole town is striving to get a ride down with you in that particular +"'bus." At every street-corner we linger or stop. Suddenly the door is +pulled open with a jerk and our enemy leaps in. He sees the seats are +filled, but he does not hesitate. There is always room for him. Indeed, +his "spirit rises with the occasion." He becomes pertinacious as he is +offensive. He tramples upon more than one pair of feet in his struggle +to reach the middle of the omnibus. The passengers patiently submit to +the intrusion with that quiet good nature with which Americans usually +suffer imposition invasive of good manners, or petty social rights. They +seem to feel they can "stand it" if he can. + +His mode of paying his fare evolves a climax of unconscious +impertinence. In order to have free use of one hand to pass up his +money, he grasps cane or umbrella with the other hand, by which he holds +the pendent strap. By this means he loses control of the lower end of +his stick, which thereby becomes an automatic instrument of torture, +menacing your face and eyes in quite a savage way. Indeed, his apparent +unconsciousness that he is a nuisance, and ought to be kicked out, +really approaches the sublime. + +He is a pet of the driver, of course. Some innocent people wonder that +the drivers of omnibuses or cars should feel so very charitably disposed +toward the human family in general, as to take up extra passengers when +all seats are filled. Short-sighted mortals! Do you not see it! The more +passengers, beyond the complement of the "'bus," the more perquisites +for an ill-requited profession. + +To return to our black sheep. Look where he stands. As he grows weary, +he grasps the straps on either side to steady him. His attitude is a +cunningly devised mode of tormenting his fellow-passengers. Either elbow +of our nondescript just reaches the hat of your opposite neighbor or +yourself. With each jolt of the stage, by a little dexterity of +movement, or want of it, he can knock the hats over the eyes of two +persons at a time, and by a little shifting of his position he can +frequently bring down four by a single spasmodic lunge. When he is +fresher, as in the morning, and can hold his own weight, he falls in his +more natural posture. Would you know what that may be? Did you ever +observe one of the descendants of the Lost Tribes who inhabit Chatham +street dreamily waiting for a passing rustic? He is apparently in a +comatose state. His abdomen is drawn in; his body is bent like a section +of a hoop; his eyes are cast down; while both his hands are thrust +deeply into his trowser's pockets. + +But I grow weary of the subject, and stop by commending the Thirteenth +Man in the Omnibus to curiosity-hunters as a fungus growth of humanity +nursed by over-virtuous forbearance. + + * * * * * + +Hyperborean. + +The hyperbole of bores it is, to bore Congress for a hundred thousand +dollars to go to the Pole! If Captain HALL wants adventure, let him +travel to the Halls of the MONTEZUMAS. If he wishes only to be left out +in the cold, let him go to Chili; or else up in a balloon; or let him +make himself Republican candidate for something in New York. We believe +the North Pole would rather be let alone. The whole subject is, at all +events, too HAYES-y just now to be comprehended. There is a sort of +KANE-ine madness, which shows itself not in fear of water but in an +insane disposition to do big things on ice. Haul off, Captain HALL! + + * * * * * + +Meteorological Query. + +Is a temperance lecture synonymous with a Water Spout? + + * * * * * + +THE SPIRIT OF THE NAVY. + +ITS PORTER. ITS SAILS. + +_Impressions of an Outsider_. + +MR. PUNCHINELLO: According to your instructions, your correspondent +proceeded to Washington, and there interviewed our present efficient +Secretary of the Navy, Admiral PORTER. I found him in his office, +surrounded by bills-of-sale of main-tops, carronades, iron-clads, +bo'sen's whistles, navy-yards, and other naval articles, the proceeds of +which were needed for the future experiments of the Department. These +papers were being bound up into bundles and stowed away by his +assistant, ROBESON. + +After the ordinary greetings had passed between the admiral and your +correspondent, the following conversation ensued: + +_Cor_. Admiral, what do you think of the Fifteenth Amendment? + +_Ad_. All right. When Americans want votes, I say, give 'em to 'em. + +_Cor_, (_A little apprehensively._) Votes are different from boats, then, +admiral? + +_Ad_. Certainly. What do the negroes want with boats? + +_Cor_. How are you satisfied, Mr. Secretary, with the plan of always +providing you with a civilian as an assistant? + +_Ad_. I don't like it. Can't help it, though. This one, however, +(_pointing his thumb over his shoulder at_ ROBESON,) don't give me much +trouble. Quiet man. + +_Cor_. What do you think of the condition of Cuba, + +_Ad_. Very nice indeed! Got Admiral POOR out there, cruising around. +Just like a picnic, you know. + +_Cor_. Are you in favor of the recognition of Cuban Independence? + +_Ad_. No, sir! What's the good? POOR might have to come home, then. + +_Cor_. You think, then, that recognition would not be a Poor policy? + +_Ad_. Yes--no! No--yes! Doormat! You know what I mean. + +_Cor_.(_quickly_.) Oh! yes. Certainly, sir! But what is your opinion upon +the woman question? + +_Ad_. Don't care a snap. Let 'em vote. Won't make a difference 'board +ship. + +_Cor_. You think, then that women will never be sailors, Admiral? + +_Ad_. Nothing they could do. Except to trim the boats; look out for the +mizen sheets or somethg o' that kind. Couldn't expect 'em, even in a +calm, to be brisk in manning the yards, much less martingales. + +_Cor_. What is your opinion, Admiral, of SHERIDAN'S work among the +Piegans? + +_Ad_. (_laughing_). Neat job. How was that for Lo? + +_Cor_. Good. Do you believe the Pope's infallible, Admiral? + +_Ad_. The Pope's what? + +_Cor_. Do you think that there is no such word as fail with PIO Nono? + +_Ad_. No, no! + +_Cor_. The Empress EUGENIE, Admiral, and Queen VICTORIA--which do you +think is the prettiest of these women? + +_Ad_. Never saw 'em swimmin'. Can't say. + +_Cor_. What is your opinion about McFARLAND? Was he justifiable, think +you? + +_Ad_. No! Poor shot. + +_Cor_. Have you seen _Frou Frou_, Admiral? + +_Ad_. Yes. In New-York. + +Cor. How did you like it, sir? + +_Ad_. Not much. Do for folks whose taste for that sort of thing is DAILY +bred. + +_Cor_. What do you think of oar new City Charter? + +_Ad_. Is it a ship? + +_Cor_. Yes, sir. It is a sort of hardship for New-York. + +_Ad_. Well, the city must be used to that. Will take in its ale pretty +much as usual, I reckon. + +_Cor_. What, sir, do you think of Chicago? + +_Ad_. Ah! go way. + +_Cor_. (_oblivious of hint_.) Where do you buy your pantaloon stuff, Mr. +Secretary? + +_Ad_. (_sharply_.) Where the woodbine twineth. + +_Cor_. Admiral, have you any children? + +_Ad_. (_loudly_.) ROBESON! + +_Cor_. My dear sir, you surprise me! Is he your son? + +_Ad_. (_to assistant_.) ROBESON! Did you see MIKE HAINES? + +_Cor_. One moment. Admiral! Let me ask of you, in which, if any, of our +New-York companies is your life insured; and do you wear the patent +perforated buckskin?-- + +Here the interview terminated. Your correspondent suddenly discovered +that he would have barely time to catch the N. Y. Express, and he took +leave with a renewed respect for the spirit of our Navy and its head. + +SNIQUE. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: COME, GENTLE SPRING. + +SPRING has come. Now is the time to ask your friends for seed and roots, +and to tell somebody they ought to see about the garden. Turn your +chickens into your neighbors' grounds, and the cow too, if you think she +would like to go there. Now also is the time for house-cleaning, as well +as for settling up one's affairs generally; so, after you have called in +all the money due you, and paid out as little as possible, perhaps you +had better go out West for a week or so.] + + * * * * * + +The sort of Liquor most apt to Tell upon a Man. + +PEACH Brandy. + + * * * * * + +Opinions of the Press. + +The _Sun_ thinks that the World's end would be a god-send. + +It also thinks that the Tribune is a try weakly and unique daily, +besides being a four centenary. + +It thinks that the fact of the _Times_ being out of Joint is the reason +it is getting the cold Shoulder from its subscribers. + +It thinks that the _Herald_ is not the leading paper, though it may have +Ben-it. + +It thinks that the _Sun_ is awful shiny. + + * * * * * + +The Politician's Half-and-Half. + +DEMAGOGUE and Demijohn. + + * * * * * + +CONDENSED CONGRESS. + +SENATE. + +LOFTY Mr. SUMNER wished to know what Mr. CARPENTER meant by pursuing +him. He was used to being blackguarded by the enemies of his country, +but now he was hounded in the house of his friends. He had looked +through the whole Congressional Library and failed to find a precedent +for the course of the carping CARPENTER, except in the case of the +classic chap who had warmed a viper which had turned again and rent him. +He did not mean to say that Mr. CARPENTER was a viper, but he thought +nobody but an Adder would put this and that together as Mr. CARPENTER +had done. + +Mr. CARPENTER said that the passion of his friend from Boston for +maundering about himself amounted to a mild mania. All he had done was +to suggest that SUMNER had upheld States Rights twenty years ago, and +now pretended that he was never any such person. + +Mr. SUMNER said that twenty years ago the States Rights boot was upon +the other leg. ÆNEAS SILVIUS had well observed that it made a heap of +difference whose ox was gored, and HORACE had pointed out the difference +between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. Unless his reading of the +Cyclopedia had failed to inform him, he believed that there was a game +known as "Heads I win, tails you lose." That was his little game. When +Massachusetts States Rights were invoked to aid the colored man, States +Rights were good. When Southern States Rights were invoked to crush the +colored man, States Rights were bad. As for him, give him liberty or +give him rats. + +Mr. HARLAN wished to know why the Pacific Railway grant should be +passed. No officer of that railway had been to see him about it. He did +not believe in legislation of this kind. If a thing were worth having, +it was certainly worth asking for. He had no objection to breaking old +"ties," but he was averse to paying for new ones, unless he had some +personal reason for it. He wished he were altogether in the same +position as some of his colleagues, including these "bonds." + +WILSON, and CASSERLY, and THURMAN, and THAYER said that HARLAN was of no +account, and that was the reason why he had not been "seen." As long as +a majority was prepared, it was wasting money to conciliate any body +else. + +Mr. DRAKE said he had a better thing than the Pacific Railway. It was a +bill to provide that the Army and Navy of the United States might be put +on a war-footing on the application of any three colored persons. This +did not seem to be profitable, but it was. The profit in it was a JOB, +but much subtler than in the Pacific Railway. He hoped Senators would +see the illimitable vistas of patronage opened by the bill. + +HOUSE. + +Mr. BUTLER insisted upon his bill to annex Dominica. Somebody had said +that we had plenty of Dominicans already in the Southern States. This +was net so. He wanted to be Governor-General of Dominica. It was true +that silverware was not rife in that island, but there was an infinitude +of potential voters, who could be converted into coin. The House refused +to see it, however, and proceeded to discuss the case of SYPHER. Mr. +BROOKS said SYPHER was nothing. He did not see how SYPHER, who was a +nullity, could be figured out to be a member of Congress. Besides, +SYPHER lived in Pennsylvania. + +Mr. KELLEY said that was the very reason why SYPHER should be admitted. +Every body knew, who knew any thing of arithmetic, that a SYPHER in the +proper place amounted to a great deal. He would like to know what +objection there was to Pennsylvanians representing Louisiana? A +Pennsylvanian was sure to be right on the tariff, and a Louisianian was +sure to be wrong. Therefore a Pennsylvanian was a much better +representative than a Louisianian. Besides, SYPHER's hands were not red +with loyal blood, neither had he waded knee-deep in patriotic gore. + +Mr. BUTLER wanted to annex Dominica. + +Mr. Cox said he did not object to SYPHER'S coming in because he was a +Pennsylvanian. He was an Ohio man, and represented a New-York district. +But be thought there were too many SYPHERS here now. An integer or two +would be more useful to maintain the integrity of the House. + +Mr. BUTLER said he would like to introduce a bill to annex Dominica. + +Mr. FARNSWORTH said he didn't care any thing about the merits of the +case. He knew the committee was all right. It was a martter of comity to +go with the committee. If the House added a SYPHER, it would increase +their strength ten fold. + +Mr. STOKES said he would not weep for SYPHER if he were rejected. But he +would sigh for SYPHER, if he could cipher SYPHER in. + +Mr. BUTLER moved a bill to annex Dominica. + +SYPHER tried to swear himself in, but he had been so much irritated by +the previous proceedings that he found that he had sworn himself out. + +The House adjourned, except Mr. BUTLER, who was preparing a bill to +annex Dominica. + + * * * * * + +A REMONSTRANCE. + +MR. PUNCHINELLO: In the _Express_ of Saturday, April 17th, I read the +following announcement, printed at the foot of the regular weather +table, furnished for that journal by Professor THATCHER: + +"Prediction.--It will not rain within 3¾ days from 8 P.M. + +"A. E. THATCHER." + +The positive character of this prediction made it very, welcome. My wife +and myself had been invited by friends in Westchester County to go to +their house on Saturday evening, stay all night, and pass the following +day--Easter-Sunday--with them. We had nearly made up our minds to do it. +They are very pleasant folks to visit, especially about Easter time; for +the man of the house has a mania for hens, and, being a dyer by trade, +his poultry, using the refuse of the drugs instead of gravel to aid +their digestion, lay natural painted eggs of the most varied and +delicate tints. If I am strict in any matter of religion, it is with +regard to having a blow-out of eggs at Easter. My wife is as fond of +eggs as myself, (the yolk sits lightly, she says, which is a joke upon +yoke,) and she required no egging on to persuade her to accept the +invitation. We were doubtful about the weather, though; but the +"Professor's" prediction decided us, and we went. + +I thought it felt mighty like rain as we walked the short distance from +the railway station to our host's. I had rain-pains in my back, and my +wife said her corns were shooting. Nor did our punctual aches deceive +us. Between that Saturday night and Easter-Sunday morning it began to +rain. Easter-Sunday was the wettest day I remember ever to have +experienced. There was no "let up" of the deluge throughout that day +and Easter-Monday. We--my wife and I--are suffering dreadfully from the +effects of Easter-eggs, which we were obliged to devour by the stack +merely to kill time, as we could not walk out. Should we die, I will let +you know; but really it was too bad of "Professor" THATCHER. + +WEATHERBOUND. + +P.S.--Who is "Professor" THATCHER? + + * * * * * + +THE BIRD OF WISDOM IN IOWA. + +Civilization, it seems, is making some headway in Iowa. Boys are no +longer allowed to shoot small birds there, especially song-birds. And so +the little warblers can pipe it all day, if they like, and when they +grow tired and hungry, they are welcome to refresh their small systems +at the strawberry beds. There is one feature of the regulation in +question, however, that does pain us. While vocal and fly-gobbling +talents are tenderly fostered, dignified Wisdom is not only neglected, +but persecuted. Our old friend the Owl is reputed by the people of Iowa +to be rather particular in his diet, (as all wise creatures are,) and to +prefer a nice young spring chicken to almost any other "delicacy of the +season"--a proof of wisdom and refinement that proved too much for the +people of Iowa. And so they have left the poor old Owl out of the +protective enactment; and it is not only legal to shoot him, but +meritorious. The legislators could have stood the wisdom, perhaps by +itself; and possibly they might have respected the taste; but the +combination troubled them, and could not, of course, be tolerated. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: "THE MERRY FIRST OF MAY." + +_First Young Wife_. "OH! THIS HORRID HOUSE-MOVING--AN'T YOU DISTRACTED +ABOUT IT, DEAR?" + +_Second Ditto_. "O DEAR! NO. WE HAVE ARRANGED IT NICELY. CHARLES WILL +SEE TO THE FURNITURE AND THINGS, AND I WILL SUPERINTEND THE REMOVAL OF +FIDO MYSELF."] + + * * * * * + +HOW A DISCIPLE OF FOX BECAME A LOVER OF BULL. + +PHILADELPHIA, 4th Month, 13th, 1870. + +FRIEND PUNCHINELLO: I know thee treats our good city with more +consideration than thy brother journalists, and so it is that I address +the on this occasion. Last night I listened to the fiddle of OLE BULL. I +had long known of this man, even from the time when I first attired +myself in a coat, (called by the world after the name of the abdomen of +a fish,) as one who + + --"skinned a cat + And put the fur around his hat." + +But having recently been made aware of the fact that this fiddler only +availed himself, in his vain exhibitions, of a part of the _felis_ which +was not necessary to its felicity after death, I determined to give a +portion of my worldly goods toward the building of a light-house on the +Norway coast, for which purpose, I heard it averred, this man's +performances were given; and I went to the building where the fiddling +was to be, to see if it were done with fidelity for this end. + +As I sat in the upper seats of the house, serenely elevated above the +vain throng, the man BULL appeared before me. His mien was humble and +his hair was of a gray tinge, which I attributed to the ceaseless +gratings of the instrument which he held on his arm, as carefully as if +it had been an immortal child. + +At first, though I labored conscientiously toward that end, I could +discover nothing in the sounds he made which reminded me in the least +degree of a Norwegian light-house. But suddenly I forgot that useful +monument. Against my will, I seemed to be wafted aloft, even to where +the seats were cheaper; and anon, I felt as though I disported among the +shameless figures on the ceiling of the house. I now forgot all things +earthly, even that suspicious bill which friend HOPKINS paid in to my +cashier on Second-day. Yea, my whole being became, as it were, strung +upon the entrails of a cat and tickled with the tail of horse. I felt as +if I were wafted aloft on a blanket of shivering scrapes while quivering +angels gently swung me among the stickery stars! And there I heard a +melody as though the edges of glass skies were softly rubbed together. +Then all was stiller, stiller, until methought I heard nothing but one +consumptive angel breathing in his sleep. But even that sound dribbled +away, until the last drop seemed to me about to be sucked down into a +hole at the bottom of the airy void, when suddenly there came a rush as +though a vast light-house of brass had fallen into a sea of tinkling +cymbals, and I jumped so violently that my spectacles slipped from off +my nose and fell among the vain ones below. + +A second time now came the fiddler forth, and soon methought I stood +within a surgeon's operating hall. The player drew his bow as though it +were a knife, gliding over the limb of a subject in a sleep. + +So keen the blade, so soft the touch, the sleeper did not wake! I +clutched my knees--my breath did cease! + +The skin divides! + +And still he sleeps. + +The muscles and the tendons fall apart! + +He moves not. + +Oh! That glittering blade + +It deeper goes! + +A--Ah! + +He wakes! + +He yells! + +Horror! And now, through flesh and bones that vengeful weapon grinds! + +'Mid screams and oaths! + +Down falls the leg... + +I staggered forward. My hat, which much clamor in the rear had not made +me remove, fell over the iron rail and plunged, resounding ike a sinful +drum, upon the head of a painted Jersey belle below. + +I heeded not, but groped me to the door. + +And now I write to thee, friend PUNCHINELLO. Can thee buy me such a +fiddle in New-York? Thy friend, + +VENTER CLUPLE. + + * * * * * + +A Puzzler. + +The Belgians, it is said, are anxious to have the letter _h_ dropped +from the French alphabet. As that contains no _w_, how, in the event of +a new elision, will the Parisians, who are so fond of English words, +manage to spell _wheelwright_? + + * * * * * + +A Blow that Hurteth not. + +The Blow of a flower. + + * * * * * + +A Pleasant Prospect. + +If the new Superintendent of the New-York Police Force is to be as +severely tried as was his predecessor, then, surely, JOURDAN will have +"a hard road to travel." + + * * * * * + + +"OUT OF THE STREETS." + + GEORGE W. MCLEAN am I, + And potent was my name, + Till TWEED and SWEENEY crossed my path + And spoiled my little game. + + Our city roads I supervised, + Long time, with pious care, + The people's Ways I strictly watched-- + Street, Avenue, and Square + + But now, from office rudely swept + By Legislative BILL, + The crossing-sweeper's broom I ply, + My empty pouch, to fill. + + * * * * * + +Honeymoons in the Air + +The rage for passing the honeymoon in a balloon appears to be on the +wane in this country. 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