Judge — May 2, 1885 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Modern Casabianca. An Essay on Tar. 1 Tue good “Star” had crossed the bar to sail the ocean w With gallant crew, a ( in too, and a midshi beside This mids . be was the Who set great store by the lad on him a gun Fe, al sea gave Mm He rigged him out in a rou blue, about of regulation With shoulder strap, a navy cap and @ cutlass tried and true, His pants were wide, und at every stride flapped like the vessel's sail With infinite charm he spun a yarn, perched on the bow taffrail ut The good ship rule like the one at school, was that | none on board should But the midshipmite estec t bright to call this rule a So from his vest he drew that pest “Twas quite a lark, but bedropp ship on fire did set paper cigarette, Jaspark, and the Wv. The spark was fanned by winds from land, and wrapped the sails in flame; The boatswain blew his toot-too-too, and the tars on deck all came. The pumps were manned, escape was planned and the sm edd out to sea, TheCaptain saw at his post each tar, He Middy! ke ri THE JUDGE. where was he? v “My boy! My child!” the Cay * where can my Middy be? The boy lay hid, the spoke he “ We'll search the boat while she’s afloat, my darling to discover, Should he be lost I know the co: doting mother. ain wild cried inning never a word “twill kill his vE The fire roared, and all on board knew well the ship was lost, As flames at last consumed the mast, the vessel pitched and tossed. pke so thick, made the saile choked, and d and gasped, | They could not see; the young Middy was given up at last | The sn ick, they vir | “Tl go below,” said Captain Snow, ** "tis an even | ce with death, Should I find the boy, I'll shout Advy / though with t breath, the sailors say, he sprung while his eyes were dim way, ne a crash, an awful crash, and that was the t of him, yur | The deck fell in with frigihful din, the sparks flew high in air, Each sailor felt that he would melt by a longer | sojourn there, So boats were di pulled with | The good ship sank, a | forevermore ped and fn tl will for sh nd ne'er y hopped, and plank was beheld | 1x | | The shore was . the small boats beached, thanksgiving filled the air, Each sailor knew, ‘twixt meand you, he was lucky All eyes were turned w pod ship burned, in the cruel darksome night rs were shed for the noble bi M . the Captain and x. Mark! \chat a roar along the shore rolls on with ' at ebb, As from a bo pat jumped the cuss they thought. was dead, ~ Brave tars without his cried be, “behold in me, a sprig of the modern school Who dropped in a lark the tiny spark, that broki xd ship's rule, xt T did not know the wind would blow a spark like that Bat it did, blame. T could not stand there and be lammed by the ‘Gov: nor’ in his ire Id bide, to pass, and Tam quite to und over the side I skipped, * And be my ly It’s awful sad, to Tose one’s dad, by sparks from a cigarette, But, he's insured, cath Tat coat in yonder boat, I stowed view And bo! ‘isa right cold day’ when 1am hit in a stew twill be endured by his only RSF. | child, you bet! AkcHeoLoGists are disputing over the meaning of * Iowa,” one party interpreting it “Ilere I rest,” the other ‘A sleepy people.” Under cither signification it would be well to | change the name Philadelphia to Iowa. Bannem and The opened their shows in Brooklyn the same day: Bur- num for a week, bat The World to keep up a peren- nial circus there. Epitor Mathews, of the burned-out Buffalo paper though much overcome by the sympathy of friends and the hos vitality of his con- temporaries able by of the same that ove him, to Express himself in the most creditable manner. AN EX. gives the legisla- ture great credit for ‘‘saving Niagara.” It wasn’t the splendid water-power there has been running to waste long enough. If the power can.be stored in reservoirs during the vacation to be used to expedite legislation in the winter it will have been well saved. RANK-AND-PILE Democracy are all broke up by the discovery that the new coat-of-arms minister to England, Phelps, once credited a Latin quotation to the wrong author. Such ignorance in the representa- World LUOUS Mayday ne poet's sweet lay-day, Accharming our thoughts w i dear! With flowery bowers, soms s And Bowery flowers, You're surely the loveliest time of the year! We hail you and greet yo We like much to meet you Upon the fair threshold of beauteous May! Well g And meet th And also D. Lon} nd others aw fait 10 pie-nic wood quick tick— er I spied her at me be So much I will tell her this jolly gay O, welcome thou sunni Thou su ide her, tion of the Great Unwashed cannot beendured, As Rip Van Winkle Joe says “1 don’t want nobody in my family that can’t read and write.” Ir is claimed that college raduutes are long-lived. It has been known that mental activity exhausts vitality. ADJUTANT- NERAL Drum of the U. S. army says the English soldier is the best in the world, a better fighter than the American, As Gen. Drum ne saw either, except on dress pa- rade, he had better be muf- fled. The head of that Drum once belonged to a sheep, we fear, “Don’t understand these irothermal lines. The’ claim the season is a month earlier in Manitoba than it is here, and it’s a good deal further north.” “Well,” said Old Know- all, ‘Riel and his Indians have been making things hot up there you know. if you was there now things would remind you of Indian som’eres,”” comicbooks.com