Judge — April 11, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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ly 1, id | | ud | re | ns | it- || ad ar, nn And Cas Like Tai He Sophie, Florence, and Alv End WHAT APRIL SHOWERS BRING. Iden rain alls from the clouds aloof, The thirsty Earth doth welcome it— And my unmended roof! Like music soft By fairy hands intoned The An tic spell around me my umbrella’s le The deluge pours From heaven's prolific erui “Tis here, ‘ti In holes which are in shoes. there, ‘tis everywhere— How dense and dim, ‘The sight scarce pierces through; It makes the heart of nature And the street sprinklers’, too, So tenderly It falls The la Pie-nickers’ one broad frown, eld and town, cape's face is one broad smile: In glooms above The li And warlike thunder growls resound— Our visitors must stay 1 flashes play, Barnum in an Emergency. “On yes,” said the old ringmaster, scratching a match on the sole of his shoe, “Tarnum was always prepared for emer- gencies.” And we thought we heard a chuckle, but it might have been the pipe- stem rattling inst his teeth. 1 re. member one oceasion, in particular; when we | had pitched our tents at a large town in Connecticut. Barnum came around the first night asusual before the performance, and found the red Bull stretched on the ground.” «Dead, hey?” remarked Barnum. “Aga coffin nail, sir,” replied the keeper; cholera, I take it.” ** Send n for that bull we saw two miles back here. The ‘Great and Only’ isn’t going to fall short of sacred bulls in a cattle district like this.” At that moment a man came up and Pipes a With a flerce Now the gentle spring is wooing With ber balmy breath the bage, 1 the mellow, tuneful froglet in his mellow Comes the eager winsome dudelet, Comes he forth with hefty racket, Drawi i Wher Now no longer weak and feeble softly from th i he bibernates till May. cd is he a chry coat and hat away, y now appear athlet lor kind has stuffed his shoulders, nut his peetoralis, » ample flannels, is e i ater the eruel, wicked street boy, ing his dimensio a in great dist may now with A ina, thletic warf: Hess rounds of tennis p observed in a business like way, monk rabbits; snatched ’em re “Put them in a seperate c; them ‘ From the ruins of Pompeii.” “All right, sir,” replied the man, * but what are we to do for Drom stock’s running low and wi | that lot, big.” | Barnum tore a leaf from his diary handed him the following memo with the order, * Put a blanket on th | that went blind yesterda him in a conspicuous The following is what the man “ Notice—The hump u | it is expected out in a few days,” | Yes, Barnum had large resourc THE JUDGE. ATTENUATED TENNIS. y, The ys have pulled all the fur off the ular bald-headed.” a skunk in af nd label andum, another fellow takes her ¢ horse 1 , and tack this on read; Hy found on this Dromedary has been absorbed as nutriment: and the ringmaster solemnly contemplated the wreaths of smoke as they rose into lambient air, and with feelings of a stole silently away, loth to disturb his reverie. | ¢ CLYDE, the | ness, ele we wo A CROSS BETWEEN PLL T ain't afraid of crossing over, but | Letters to the Young. My young Friend as you possibly are run- ning short for advice this year, owing to our | recent political contest, Dhave taken upon myself the task of sending you s from my plane of observation.” ‘The first great event of your life that will ever afterwards hang over your head like ureole above the pictures of the saint, or like a judgment for costs, is your falling in love. Now, of | course, it is but natural to fall in love just as it is natural to catch the small-pox when you are exposed, and that is why both are so Uangerous. ‘The ancients said, and | think with much truth, that “ to be wise and love rests alone with the gods” and you must make up your mind to be as idiotic as the rest, or you miss the true mission love ha come to perform for you. Sir Walter Rale’ simply made a sidewalk out of his co: rose to the love of a queen, while on the other hand Petrarch, a smarter man, perhaps, wrote sonnets all his e of the gentler gender, and yet Pet.’s name was “ Dennis” so far as we can observe from the chronicles of histime. Abelard and Antony | Were a little more fortunate than W were, but not enough go to ial slur on the maxim quoted above. If you want your name to ‘* stand out like as itis vulgarly expre if you want to leave footprints on th of time that shall look as if the foot of some mountain had stepped there, you must assert yourself and accustom yourself to secing and thinking of great things. You should watch for an opportunity to do good with as much ¢ ness as you ) your best girl when the theatre to h thet blonde actress, whom you find isa brunette when you go down to the depot next day to see her off. I will close with a very pertinent quotation fromone of Walt. Whitmans dactyllic poems: **Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else and commence to-day to inure your- self to pluck, reality, self-esteem, detinit- atedness, Rest not till you rivet and publish you your own personality,” elf FRED. S. RYMAN, A COWARD AND A’ SWELL. comicbooks.com