Judge — July 12, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Actors nning to think no more of a jump across the Atlantic than do the English bag-men and American drummers. Numerous members of the profession have gone to Europe for pleasure, and to buy new clothes, while others are preparing to return home, either to show themselves and their L. S. D.’s to an admiring public, or to visit their friends and the girls they left be- hind them a few short months ago. wrence Barrett will not bring t enou English money to sink the Servi on which he was to month. Ife makes in Denver, 28th. His London engagement has been any- thing but a success, Daly and his troupe will, soon the sea, and Mr. Terriss’ experiment of playing an American company to British audiences will soon be put to the test. ‘A dramatic paper extemporizes at length on the advantages of South Africa as a pro- fitable field for an enterprising manager, and if some of the companies that start off every fall fora tour in the boundless west could be induced to try their blandishments on the Hottentots and Zulus around Cape Town, it would bea relief to the prairie wolves and coyotes of the plains. With the help of a few friendly Assegais and Caffir arrows, Union Square might in due time be- come depleted of some of the loafers that infest the place, and a lady might walk from Broadway to Fourth avenue without fear of having her clothes set on fire by a lighted cigar or by having her best dress ruined by tobacco juici If the managers of the ‘ Actor’s Fund” would fit out a ship, load it with actors, and send it out to introduce art in Africa, they would confer an inestimable boon on the community, and at the same time rid themselves of a few of those who are always erying for help. The actors would have nothing to com- plain of, for they would probably meet with no worse a fate than do the missionaries that the churches send out; and the church and the stage might get on together more amicably south of the equator than they do north of that purely imaginary line. Bat to return to our native heath, The Casino is by far the most popular place of amusement in New York for the summer months, but great changes are ex- pected to take place here soon. It is said that McCanll and Mr. Aronson will part company on the Ist of May, and that Mr. McCaull will take a new company to some other house. Mr. Carleton has already left the present McCaull Company, and bas himself organ- ized a troupe for English Opera. Miss Lily Post will be the soprano, a Miss Davis the contralto, Carlton, himself, of course will be the principal star, and he big jump and expects to land Colorado, and open there the skip across il the Sth of the | THE JUDGE. also engaged Adolphi and Mr. Jay C. Tay- lor. ‘They open in St. Paul the T4th, with “The Merry War,” and if the venture is a success, Mr. Carleton will after a while pro- duce the standard English Operas, that the Emma Abbott Troupe are in the habit of favoring us with. — he Eden Musee has s sacred (7) Sunday concerts, figures of Nilsson, Patti, and some of the composers ure actually transfixed with rap- ture at the bare mention of the fact. The dulcet tones that penetrate the cham- ber of horrors do not seem to soothe the savage breasts there, to any great extent, and Queen Victoria does not allow herself to be disturbed by tootings of the cornet or the scraping of the violins. We would mildly suggest that on next | Sunday, the band should strike up “John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave, which might arouse her majesty from her apathetic condition, and relieve the monot- ony of her position. ‘Another company has gone to pieces out in Minnesota This time it was * Brigg’s” Minstre heir baggage was attached b hotel proprietors to whom they owed money, and they were left without a cent in a town called ‘Stillwater. Some of the troupe joined the local band there, and others have become performers in Sells C We should call the whole busines ‘All Aboard. ted a series of and the wax The Democratic boat is going— All aboard ! Flower’s blooming, Butler’s blowing, Cleveland all his charms is showing, arlisle’s looking for his passes, Randall's staring through his glasses; McDonald’s squeezing Hendricks badly Bayard’s there and musing sadly Over resurrected speeches— Hurry up!the whistle screeches!— Is Field and * Horizontal ” Morrison here, And “Standard” Payne and [oadly sere? Allright! Then loose the moorings, bang the gun, All aboard for the Convention! Hold a minute! Are you crazy? Here comes Sammy—iwhat a daisy Who called him sick? He’s just as hearty As any man within the part, Declined the nomination, has he? What of it! ‘That was just a quasi Blind to rope the suckers in— He or his candidate ’Il win . 8 8 . The Democratic boat is going— All aboard? Then let her go. She’s going, going— What a horde! 'T. AppIson. Ile confessed and said, ‘‘I merely bor- rowed it from the safe and intended to put it buck and more to it. My intentions were good, and ’ A hoarse voice from the un- briny deep: ‘Send ’e:n down here; always in good demand—our pavements wearing out faster every day.” “T near that Lawyer Brown devotes himself now to collecting bills. I always did think he wasa kind of half-baked fellow.” “Oh, you're mistaken—he can’t be only half-bak: “Why not?” “ Because he is dun Brown. Tue door of fashionable society cannot be entered until it is pride open. “reputation Monographs. “SUMMER BOARDERS TAKEN IN.” Good air, fine fishin Croquet, lawn tenn . milk and fruit, boating, riding Mosquitoes none, no flies, rooms single or in suit "— All this the honest farmer's advertising— jummer boarders taken in,” Alas, th when city folks confiding, Peruse this legend and the tale believ To soon they'll ascertain the truth in b ‘That they, like m “Sumn et boarders taken A plumber’s little Bill—his baby boy. “Great things are not alw: zood,”” says Demosthenes. Wonder if David Davis has ever pondered upon this Somebody wants to get a grind on me— as the dull scissors said when they refused to cut. —In Moroceo, when they cateh a hoi thief they cut off his hands, “Out west, the: simply cut off his wind. Stiggs—There goes another case of sudden arrest, Biggs—W here? Stiggs—Why, thi side of the street. ment, you kno How? it hunckback on the other Case of arrested develop- rhe king of Holland has betrothed his three-years-old daughter to the Count of Flanders. he’s not very mature, tis true, but, on account of slinders now-a-days, there’s nothing like training up achild in the way it should go. —A man in Nebraska is around trying to sell his body to the doctors before taking “a leap in the dar He is probably a delegate to the Democratic Convention, and as the devil bas already bargained for the poor {col’s soul, his body ought to come dirt cheap. ——A _ woman arrested in Vienna, Aus- tria, confessed that she had ended the lives of four husbands with poison. She was the champion housewife—she knew how to make four ends meet, which we consider superior to making both’ ends meet. My, son, when the burning eloquence of love is rolling off your tongue like rain from a newly-shingled roof, don’t be dis- couraged if your girl begins to parley with you. Remember, that in love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. —Togys—I see they’ve found a $10,000 diamond, in Eagle, Wis., and the natives think they’ve struck a diamond field. I’ve a mind to go out there and try my luck. Boggs—Pooh! don’t bea f Some for- gotten hotel clerk was probably murdered there years ago, and this diamond is all of his remains that has so far been discovered. Unless there was a perfect holacaust of hotel clerks at the time, no diamond field will be found. he bank clerks played a draw game of ball, the other afternoon, and Chinr, who is accounted a sad wag, was present. aid Chinn: “ This is what I cull estab- lishing the warmest relations between capi- tal and labor.” Said ony [who is envious of Chinn’s : “1 fail to see the force of that remark, Each side is striking against the other, and neither seems to be avy better off for ii Pipes is now a stranger to Chinn. comicbooks.com