Judge — August 11, 1883 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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THE TELEGRAPH WAR. ‘Tu electrical spark, for a bit of a lark, Inspired all the tele graph minions anil to giv werworked “light prief rest ng ve had ruled, the unhappy 4 wthority slighted, bath Warne Tt was hard to bell couldn't “receive” when welead snd 1 Oreven And the populace And the populace fretted and And they hoped that the diy When the W. U. would be hu despatel: «howled, eal © far away INTERCEPTED LETTERS. MKS. CLARENCE PROTIE TH MISS AUGUSTA ScUM, NEWwPonr New York, deny Aveusta—Oh, TL have such a you can’t think ; and may hear it from before yon get my letter. [ telegraphed it to you, only the ple are so stupid since all their people went away on strike that Lhad to go clear down to the Fifth Avenue Hotel before L could find an office open; and even then, before they would take am . they told me that very likely they would have to send Of course T didn’t leave it. I’m not quite such a 3 if T couldn't send it by mail myself just as well as they could, and save my quarter, besides being able to ive you all the delicious details ever so much. more comfortably. And that reminds me I haven't told you my news yet. Oh, I you haven't heard it from any other already—but that’s ely likely, for Deeatcest yiece of news for vou. am just dying for fear su somebody else vould hav telegraph pe it by mail. could tell you? ow for it. whi pene and its only just hap. Oh, Gus! how L would like to see you open your eyes when you read this, and purse up your mouth, and whistle—yes, I really believe you will whistle and if anything would justify whistling, my news will, Nellie Sanders has eloped with her father’s coachman! ‘There! What do you think of that? But what did I always say, Gus? You will do me the justice to remember that I always said that pride came before a fall, and that a daw was nothing but a daw, if it did wear k’s plumes. Oh, I tell you, what n’t worth noticing, and when ‘the do so me to Newport last summer | and puton such airs, what did Tsay? Tsaid, * Pork did it; but pork don’t t forever, and you see it hasn’t—not that [ believe the creatures aren't well enough ¢ Nellie’s diatnonds are undeniable, and [flatter my- self I know Worth’s toilets when I sce them; but only fancy, Gus, ! and just figure to yourself the sea Il create. What a pity it occurred before they started for Newport; but then, on the other wasn’t it providential that I happened to run down to New York for a week, so that I was on hand when it occurred? But you will want to have the particula Well, it seems Nellie ordered the carriage after breakfast, ostensibly to go over and pay some visits in Brooklyn. She went alone, of course, and no one suspected anything. Oh, pinjons "— operator in the teleg Withdrew from the keys bi And th h war pilities, [vised dl that no plan was de ng the postal facilities. folks were surpr puss can be sly enough when it suits her. Well, off she starts, with nq one, with that roachman of theirs, who, as you know, is al- together too handsome to beallowed to drive young ladies around—and that is the end of them. [t is now nearly nine in the evening and nothin, heard of them sin T have th from her father, who has just | ibly anxious, as well he may b He did not. ses suspect the real facts: or, if he did not hint them to me—but trust me ing anything out. 1 with some accident, and he said, that Nellie had stopped he iy back. Of course I sympath the man is unque: ably all. it was not his fault. There is a ring at the more developm THE MIMIC STAGE nd impo play of expressi n improbable gest And extravagant boots af Hex Long feat a istaches; cs that they frequently wipe, y dark-colored lashes— Is, and ‘tis op this plan Melodrama wed by the property man A sudden ter Of the heir fon and falling from grace And cuts the youth out of his portion; A beauteous young lady who falls in a pond And in love with the youth (who instructs her), A truculent villain, who also is fond Of the aiden, and therefore abducts her; Pursuit by the youth and escape by the m A duel—result long uncertain; in is killes,, tover puts up his blade, ts ancle, and—curtain. This is all that is needful, as authors confess, vor bell. nt Perhaps | , 80 disappoint- e from Mr. Sanders. He Je me uneasy by his man- r when he called, and writes to say that Nellie has returned. She just got home this moment. It scems she stopped to dine with | some friend in Brooklyn, and telegraphed to | her father to say she would be late, and the stupid telegraph people didn’t send her mes- just like Perhaps. it will come y mail, Well, she has had a narrow es this time, and I hope it will be a warning to —but [doubt it. Only for the providen- ceident of her having that friend in Syary Brooklyn she might be married to the - E man by this time. And, after all, we only her own word for it that she isn’t. Write soon. Your affectionate friend, LOUISA FROTH. a perfect success, Parts long and heavy and tediously dull; ing all situations; + worried and mad as a bull: pes that would try Job's own patience; ady-like temper and tears day; entlemen sulks universal vening the devil to pay, Every morning, rebearsal— ‘This is the aspect—for I've heard them say it— Melodrama assumes to the actors that play it ‘Tneeditor of the Irish paper who was sent {to the Island for libelling Mr, Belmont ponds with b urnal from that delecta- j ble retreat, His letters cannot be said to be very thrilling—moving incidents of flood and field are too much to expect from a * jug- ‘ged ” individual—but they serve to show the editor's indomitable determination to ‘ free Treland ” pn_as lapse of time or the com- pasion of the Governor shall have freed him- Baxzac says: The mistakes of women re sult almost always from her faith in the good, and her confidence in the truth, That’ fact; and the lady at Newport who believe that’ the new patent complexion was inde structible by salt water, and went in bathing accordingly, made the mistake of her life, and lost her fellow by her over-confidence. Tuene is a good deal said, pro and con., on the subject of American humor; but one of the most amusing things is to notea news- paper speaking in a supercilions tone of the American humorist, and then to find an odd corner filled with bald-headed jokes which it claims to be original. Wnat is the printing office without its paste-pot ? fire Rochester Post-Express speaks of Indications of the presence of oil in New York.” That isan odd thing to make an item about. ‘There is not a fire alarm in the tenement-house district which is not a strong indication of the presence of oil in New York. Is an idiot an absent-minded person. comicbooks.com