Puck — May 1877 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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‘THERE was a serious panic in a St.Louis the- | T' atre last week. While the audience was engaged in undergoing the third act of a tragedy, the building was suddenly shaken as if by the con- cussion of an earthquake. ‘The audience rushed out of it in the greatest confusion, several seri- ous accidents taking place, and were joined in the streets by many of the neighbors, who had also experienced and been terrified by the shock. Much excitement prevailed and curiosity as to its cause was manifested; some asserting that it was an earthquake, and others that the nitro- | glycerine factory had blown up. On investi- gation, however, it proved that a newly-married couple, the bride being one of the most beauti- ful girls of St. Louis, though somewhat impulsive of disposition, living in the next block, had had a little tiff, and that the lady had put her foot down.-— Chicago Tribune. One of last week's illustrated newspapers had a startling picture of Miss Kate Claxton in the | act of sliding head-foremost down the stairs of the St. Louis Hotel. The sketch was taken by a special artist who happened to be on the spot at the time. Never having been an observer of Miss Kate in her specialty of sliding down stairs, we are unprepared to state as to the cor- rectness of the scene. ever, that if Miss Claxton sees that picture, she will prefer, the next time her life is in danger to slide down the railing, or else put out the | lights and the artists, —Avmira Gazette. ‘Tuat joke about catching Sitting Bull-dozing is supposed to have originated somewhere about Indian-nap-olis.—V. Y. Commercial Advertiser. We are confident, how- | PUCK. : Pulaski Democrat advises people to carefully scan cach 1877 twenty-five cent sil- ver-piece before they take it, for it is likely to be counterfeit. Inasmuch as the average hu- man is unable to tell a good piece from a bad one, and if he could is likely to take it for the sake of passing it on some one who has kicked | his dog, the Democrat man’s advice; though good, is destined to be fruitless.— Fu/ton Times. One would suppose that, down in Louisiana, with plenty of Nicholls and Pack-cards, they might at least play a game of draw.— Puck. Yes—provided they retire to the ‘“ante”- room.— Commercial Advertiser, Our forefathers were contented to spread their frugal repast upon the bare bark that they stripped from the forest trees; but the aristo- cracy of to-day not only insists upon having a $16.00 extension table, but stick up their noses if poverty compels them to use a sheet for a table-cloth.—Fu/ton Times. St. Louts claims a population of over half-a- million. Now, Chicago!—Boston Fost. Well, almost everybody knows that two-thirds of the half-million are Chicago men who have gone down there to negotiate the purchase of St. Louis for a cranberry patch.— Chicago Tribune. TueRE once was a little upstart, O, Said ‘tomayto” instead of Bat it made his pa grieve, ‘And he said «I'd as lieve Hear you call a potato + potarto.” —Boston Advertiser. BS Katser WILHELM is upwards of eighty, but the Crown Prince, Unser Fritz, has to be mighty spry to get in the first kick at a book-agent or lightning-rod man, when the old gentleman is ‘about the premises.— Galveston News. WueN you see the very same. red-nosed man who button-holed you to sign the pledge at a temperance meeting coming out of a beer saloon about nine A. M., with a smiling expression and wiping his mouth, it isn't proof positive of anything wrong, to be sure; but it’s what you'd call a clear case of circumstantial evidence against him.—. Y. Commercial. Kaiser WILHELM owns so many honorary medals and marks of decoration, that when he wants to wear them all at one time he has to put some of them on another man, his own coat not having acreage enough to contain them all, and he won't stick them on his trousers, for fear they will get under him when he goes to sit down. ‘This news comes over by cable, and if it is not true it is not our fault.—Norristown Herald. Sucu is the force of habit. It is said Mr. Tilden, on arising, even now goes to the open window to hear if his country calls, and then, with a smothered sigh, begins to pull his shirt on over his head.— Buffalo Express. ‘Tue drug-clerk has to be on duty seventeen hours a day, and if he now and then happens to sell somebody strychnine for magnesia, the Recording Angel puts it down “ magnesia. Exchange. Comicbooks.c 5 om