Judge — February 9, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Mr. Capre h readings in New throuzhout by lar; The interest in the readin and Mr. € lated upon his mark dificult undertakin tention of his h sentation of th After the tarmoil tion and find it tom, in the ©: merable k dalized beauti sium light, stimulate the and manay: is not wantin completed his cour: York, and sponsiveat c increased from is to be e was gr namely, in holding the rers by the simple pre- pations of his delicate art. f business, w listrac- | in the beating of the tom- ring and kicking of innu- in advertised shows of in burnt cork and ma We crave sauce piquante to sthetic side of our natures, very properly see to it that it on the bill of fare. Intel- lectual entertainments in a metropolis re- sive their patronage from ladies of intellec tual tastes or aspirations, who have a suffi- abnormal grip upon their husbands nil consorts to force them, through the po- tent inflt sof love or fear, to endure an | hour of boredom in the lecture ro music hall. Bat Mr, Cable’s andien been really interested and closely attentive; and since the reputation of the author reader has on of the sort tod crowd from mere curiosity to sce him, he may be said to have scored a genuine and ual sie This result is due to the fresh and original quality of his literary work and to his read- ing, which is executed in the substantial re- spect of bringing out clearly and effectively | the poetic and dramatic in the written word. | The creole dialect, too, he renders delight- | fully. To readers not familiar with French, this dialect is iment in the text. Mr. Cable is not an elocutionist (the Lord raised!) nor is he a trained singer. His | voice is a high tenor, and the semi-barbaric | are rendered pleasantly. ‘To us, | sant feature of the reading was the falsetto, which it is the fashion to when impersonating the fem: nine voice pipes, but it pipes sweetly, 4 the n tor approximates no nearer to n to a lute, At the final reading, Mr. Cable rendered neatly a love seene from the * Grandis- 1 several dialogues from advance | Dr. Sevier,” and sang a number songs, inost of which n be found in printed collections of negro melodies The Narcisse. promises to be an original and charmin er, as the story of | “Dr. Sevier progresses. ‘The reader was | called out by hearty applause at the conclu: | sion of the entertainment, and responded with a creole love song. In person, Mr. Cable would not rival Mr. Sullivan, the Boston wsthete and slugger, in his peculiar line of physique, bat he has a refined and intelligent face and not ungrace- | ful manner on the platform. At the theatres, a few changes have taken Mr. Stetson has finally succeeded in | placing on the stas | cardinal characteristi 1. THe Axnesi. Fifth Avenue the play ca * Confusion.” ‘This piece carr with it a considerable amount of live stock, including a png dog and a baby, allot which Li he led for the privik ation” has also been placed on the of the Union Square, and m Beaten” has gone upon the roud, and Collier have lost considerable on this piece, and in time will doubt- ‘nto believe that London failu apt to prove profitable investments for York and vicinity. ‘There is no opera in the city at present, but stories about running over messenger boys and the adopting of strange dogs by the prima donna serve to keep alive a quasi interest in the subject. Mr. Mapleson’ song birds occasionally take an eccentri course by way of varit and some of them have been known to make mistakes and flit Northward instead of toward the South, on the approach of a cold wave, Shook Lectures on Popular Subjects. ‘Tits evening's study, gentlemen, is the feline species, We will observe the peculiari- ul idiosyneracies of the domestic animal. Besides being a quadruped the cat has four distinct. crural appendages, i. ¢., legs; as everything in nature is symbolical of some- thing else, so are these four appurtenances of the feline anatomy symbolical of the animal's four distinctive and predominating . viz: courtship, sere- nade, woodshed, bootja These legs pos- sess an almost inconceivable amount of vital animation, for, when in active operation, the paces taken rival the Strides of Tim After careful study and observation, it been finally settled that the head is empty a recapitulation of all the different experi- ments and tests would be tedious, therefore suffice it to give the main and most plausible reason for this remarkable phenomena: how could it be possible to produce so much noi the square inch fl it were not empty his is conclusive. It has but one mouth- a Providential mi: ! the exernciating in- tensity of the musical tones emana that orifice is just sufficient to shatter the tympanum of the unfortunate bootjack-hurl- er, while more than one of these organs would produce atmospheric vibrations di astrous to the auditory membrane of the vocalist himself. It “has two eyes, for, A PROME Tue Attack. having an enviable reputation as a vig committee, one sleeps while the other guards, nd the other guards while the one sleeps. ‘Two ears adorn the sides of the cranium, nd these seem to have been expressly pro- vided for small boys to stick straws into; the usual consequences of this performance afford the boy HY ¢ same excruciatingly pleasur- able sensation, as follows the gentle fondling the posterior extremity of the mellifluous inhabitant of the apiary. The caudal extremity of its anatomy is useful as a nose warmer, while it is not un- frequently used in the dairy as a scumming- ladh Thave also noticed that this useful spendage is sometimes used in the : ity as the index-finger of the human One day I was watching a masculine specimen of this zoological species _ma- nouvering beside my residence, and when- ever he came under the water-spout, he raised his tail to a perpendicular attitude, pointing with significant and mathematical ision to the region whence the ack Party had soared! It is covered from stem to stern with a cinercous epidermis; the fur has a marvel- ous affinity for doeskin pants; when in a normal condition it is usually smooth and velvety; but during nocturnal peregrinations and wood-shed serenades its touch reminds Jone of a wire hair-brush, and it sometim | even becomes electric. In this condition it has been recommended for rh only difficulty in obtaining fecinal application without undergoing tial vivisection, That it has claws is an disputable fact, in spite of the d several so-called zoologists. / have a them myself! It was in this wise:—I was, not long ago, carelessly stroking a ‘Thomas’ spinal column in a southerly direction— this produced a sort o” Coney Island cbb and flow in the motion of said vertebral column, and afforded the cat such rapturous titillation that in order to display his gratitude he very deliberately and liberaily spread his winter ttire over my nether garments—my iegs looked as if they’d been tarred and feathered! But for a change (I like most change: pecially Uncle Sam’s) I stroked him in an opposite direction, and lo! and behold I made the discovery! Look at my hands and be convinced. This, gentlemen, concludes our study this evening. 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