Judge — January 21, 1882 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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AN IRISH ANTHEM. fi Mike country, ‘tis of thee, Swate land of leaguery Of thee I sing! Land of O'Connell's pride, Land where Rob Emmet died, To ivery Briton, snide, Thy curses cling. n. "tT lay the sod Where moighty Brian trod Wid kingly gracet How I wad loike a whack At any Sassenach, Who'd sphit beboind thy bael Ta sphoil his facet m Shure, and yet ye know it’s thrue, All this hullabatloo, And Gladsthone fidget, Moight have been sphared the Isle Where Saint Pat preached the whi hard-earned pile Is sint by Bridget. And where At Bunnell's Museum | Ir used to be Barnum’s, but the old man has gone into the circus business, and a new showman of the museum come upon us. tis isn’t an advertisement. Bunnell’s Muscuin is a great place. It is almost equal to the old Barnum’s, Tue Jupce called there the other day and took in the show, being fond of curiosities. There were several remarkable novelties on exhibition there, but, after all, there was noth- ing that could compare with Prof. Hutchings, the “lightning calculator,” who explains th marvels to the gaping crowd. Dr. Lynn is, without doubt, the great illusionist in the world, and his trick of cutting up aman in full and close view of the audi- ence, without the slightest apparatus, so far as can be seen, is so realistic that it would be painful and sickening to a degree, did not the genial doctor preface his great trick with sev- cral smaller ones, equally as marvelous and perplexing, during which he manages to es- tablish iaimeelf as a joker, and thus prepare his auditors for what is coming. Yes, Dr. Lynn is great, and so are the siants there. ‘Tom Thumb is a giant along. side of the mite of humanity on exhibition, but put them together and ‘ Hutch” downs them all. “Now, ladies and gen-tle-men, follow me to the next room, and there I will astonish you beyond measure, even as you never were as- tonished before and in all probability never will be again on this revolving globe,” he calls, and instantly there isa crowd following at his heela, He leads them into the presence of the “snake charmer,” who stands before a large glass-front case, in which the nearly torpid snakes lie coiled up. They have most likely been to a dentist to have their fangs ex- tracted, but that docs not detract from the in- terest the ‘charmer’ creates, a3 she poses there to let people sce that she is really flesh and blood. “ Ladies and gen-tle-men, I have the pleas- THE JUDGE. charmer from India, She is an Indian prin. | cess herself, ladies and gen-tle-men, but from infane: that wonderful and re- markable power over the reptile world which | enables her to handle with impunity, and no gloves, the terrible boa-constrictor, the cobra, | the rattle, or the deadly copperhead snake. She will now enter the den of serpents behind her and show you her marvelous power.” 1 armer” then bows and enters theden in full view of the gaping crowd. But the “Iecture” is not finished yet, and in his own inimitable voice the profess has posses r resumes “Ladies and gen-tle-men, 1 will caution | you not to get panicstricken while this won- derful performance is going on, for although the bite of either of those dreaded monsters would be instant death to the girl, right be- | fore your eyes, I assure you there is little or no danger, for the won-derful princess pos- sesses absolute power over them. ‘They be- come harmless and almost powerless under netic flashes that dart from her eye; | they hush their horrible hisses and clasp their poisoned and forked tongues within their loathsome jaws. the m Meanwhile the “charmer” has been at h the snakes, coiling them about her ming person and doing with them appar- ently what she pleased, as a sailor might han- dle acoil of cable, they being probably about as harmless as a big rope. w | eb | | ‘This part of the entertainment ended in a laugh, not intended, but nevertheless effectual, it being occasioned by a gawk in the crowd | saying, aloud, “Wal, by gosh, them’s the | biggest worms ever I seen. | “Right this way, ladies and gen-tlemen, and I will still farther astonish and interest you with a view of one of the marvels and mysteries | of creation,” and the erowd again sur after the voluble Professor, and in a few | moments the cage containing a curious speci- men of the animal kingdom, par: monkey and | part something else, is reached. “Ladies and gen-tle-men, I have the plea ure of introducing to your notice this most wonderful specimen of the missing link, the Cy-no-ciphilus, the only specimen ever taken from the jungles of Southern A and engaged by Mr. Bunnell at great expense. Look at that dwarfed and hairsuit body, that elongated but half human face! Naturalists tell us that these creatures herd into com- munities, and live entirely by themselves, and | are moreover very jealous, and refuse to mingle with other animals, such as the monkey, chimpanzee, the ourang-outang, the v native African, while scientists like Darwin and Tyndall assure us that it forms one of the many connecting links that exist between the | lowest organizations and nature's perfected work—man, Observe him well! but here in his iron-bound cage he mopes, a martyr to the cause of science and human curiosity, ilere we cannot sce him in his glory, leaping from crag to crag, from tree to tree, either in | search of pleasure or game, wanting only the organs of specch and a little less hair to make him almost a man, Ladies and gen-tle- men, it sometimes pains me to sce this curi- osity weep, and a sympathetic heart cannot | ld ure of introducing to you the wonderful snake but fancy those almost human tears flow as | atmost human memory reverts to his native home and the friends of its youth! Ladies and gen-tle-men, we will turn from this int esting but painful subjec bound into the realms Roma, or the speaking Ih he is again followed up-stairs to anothe where , and once more f human ¢ yt ad,” and. of course room, 1 interesting optical illusion is to be riosi Iv is simply an optical illusion, good in its way, but easily produced. This, however, matters not to the swift-tongued lecturer. He can tell cnough about it to startle a gaping world and strang! conscientious Christian. and gen-tle-men, I have scen many won-derful things in my life, but this is the greatest wonder of them all! Roma, the talk- ing head! It was lately exhumed at Pompeii, and js supposed to have been an oracle used in the Pompeian temple, where warriors and lovers went to learn their fate from its lips. Behold! has it not. theappearance of a living female head? Nothing to be seen but the head and shoulders,” and to show that this was so, a man walked behind, and every portion of his body was seen save that direct- ly behind the mysterious head. ** Wonder-ful, ladies and gen-tle-men | wonderful! the great- est that been handed down to u: nthe buried past. Hush! Let us see if it will speak fo us. Oracle of the olden time, who art thou?” Lad “Lam Roma! Ask me no more!” spake the head, and the scene closed upon it, leaving many mouths open and many hearts s tionalized. nga This, of course, is only a tithe of what he de- | scribes and lectures upon in his inimitable for he is the showman par excellence of the plishment. Multum in parvo, he should be called, for he isa little man. THe JvpGe hates an ordinary liar; but there are heights in the art which in the hands of a master become sublime and eminently poctic, and for this reason he thinks that the profes- sor must be regarded by every right-think- ing man and lover of art as the greatest, sub- limest curiosity that Mr. Bunnell possesses. Ete oe SS Stayeiter’ [er oa meus Wastes SS If the elerated roads keep on as they have begun, may tee not soon be entertained us abore while going and coming from business comicbooks.com