Puck — April 10, 1878 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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PUCK. Opera mantles of raw silk bourette, in deli- cate shades of color, are threaded with lines of apoid and silver, and trimmed with chenille and gold and silver fringe to match.—Xansas City Times. In case England drafts men to fill up her army, the Prince of Wales will indignantly ex- claim, “Here, you can’t take ine. I’m the only support of a widowed mother.”—Fihiladelphia Kronikie-Herald, Joszrx Coox thinks the greatest danger that threatens this country is the Southern war claims. This shows as much sapiency as does his discovery that three women constitute a “triumvirate.” —Boston Post, New ORLEANS owes Mrs. Gaines $4,000,000; and she says when she gets her money she is going to publish a newspaper. It is strange that she should want to spend in six months the money she was nearly a whole life-time in securing.— Norristown Herald. Now is the time for spring cleaning. If you have not got a spring, clean out your well.— Mercantile men do not always punctuate cor- rectly, although they are posted in commas.— Is Bob Burdette the author of that little song commencing, “ Hawkeye, hear an angel sing?” —Bost. Com. Bulletin. A Mountain gave out that it was in an In- teresting Condition, had the Valleys strewn with Tan-Bark, and authorized its Friends to announce that this was to be the Greatest Effort of its Life. It then brought forth a Customouse. Moral: The Moral to this Fable can be found "most any day in the Washington dispatches.— World. 'Tis strange; 'tis passing strange! An Amer- ican artist could not be found by the Director of the Mint to furnish an acceptable design for the new dollar. And yet, no sooner does the new dollar make its appearance than American counterfeiters produce a bogus coin which is pronounced much superior in artistic execution to the English design. Here is food for reflec- tion.— Norristown Herald, ‘Tue Manchester Afirror maintains that there is no reason whatever why a young man who has a moderate amount of soul in him may not go to Paris this summer, stay there a month, and get back here at an expense of from $150 to $175. This may be so, but we would advise any young man from Manchester who contem- plates making the trip, to take along an extra half-dollar in case of an accident.— Boston Post. In the breast of this giant-limbed, mammoth- boned continent of ours, penetrated through and through by the warmly-pulsating arteries of civilization, there throbs a heart large enough to embrace even so large an idea as that of the universal brotherhood of nations.—Remark, not meant to be humorous, by the Cornell Review, in a Macaulay frame of mind. Mr. CaTLin, president of the Paragraphers’ Association, is going to Europe. It is generally the treasurer who indulges in these foreign trips until the affair ‘ blows over,” but the partial failure of the cranberry crop in New Jersey last year prevented the members of the associa- tion from providing him with sufficient funds. —WNorristown Herald. SPEAKING for the honest farmer who is toil- ing to lift a mortgage from his farm, the college student of the Williamsport Gaszefte and Bulletin says: ‘On will I toil though the day lengthens with the summer’s heat.) Hear him whistle in the furrow as he inspires the fagging team.” Whistling in the furrow won't do it, young man, it won’t do it. Nothing on earth will in- spire a faeging plow team but a nest of yellow- jackets.— Oil City Derrick. At 20 a woman searches for the trailing ar- butus. At 25 she is after horse-radish. At 30 she digs roots for her blood. Such is gentle Spring in the various stages of the feminine life.—Danbury News. ‘Tue first literary effort of Flavius Josephus Cook has been made public by his old teacher. It takes up the subject of “The Cow” and dis- cusses it as follows: “The cow is a good animal. She has two horns, and two eyes, and gives milk which is good to eat. She has four legs and eats grass and hay. Some of them are red, and they have long tails.”” me There is very little to be said by way of criti- cism of the production, except that it bears evidence of the writer’s immaturity. His in- formation is correct, but his way of putting it betrays the fact that it was written before he had become erudite and competent to address a Boston audience acceptably. Doubtless he meant to say that the female of the bovine ge- nus is a beneficient mammal; that this rumi- nant quadruped is possessed of corneous protu- berances, projecting from the occiput, that her vision is binocular and that she yields an edible and nutritious lacteal exudation; that she is quadrupedal and herbivorous, assimila- ting her food in both the succulent -and exsic- cated state; that some of them chromatically correspond to the seventh color of the spect- rum, and that they are endowed with caudal appendages of exaggerated longitudinality.— Worcester Press. ‘Tue playful college student purchases a ticket to Count Joannes’s Richard Third and goes in pursuit of a defunct rat. This he secretes about his person until he has opportunity to cast it at the feet of Richmond. The Count gathers up his shekels and hies himself to a distant city, leaving the student engaged in a vain attempt to deodorize his garments. And yet the stu- dent affects to regard Joannes as the bigger ass of the two.— Worcester Press. Dafne MPRESSED igiacitei ee Road CZgpeurpsicoranra cos GENOINE ARTICLR In Memoriam Brigham Young. To supply the demand for the above-named illustration, depicting the ‘‘ Mormon’s Empty Pillow,” and owing to the fact that the edition of “Puck” containing it has been entirely ex- hansted, the cartoon has been published as a single sheet, and can be obtained from any newsdealer in the country. “PUCK” PUBLISHING CO., 13 N. William Street, New York. NOTICE, No. 26 (issue of September sth, 1877) of Puck” will be bought at this office, No. 13 North William Strech, at full price. PUCK’S Pictorial Department SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Havine completed all necessary arrangements, and in compliance with numerous requests, the publishers and proprietors of Puck take pleasure in announcing that they have opened a GENERAL DESIGNING OFFICE, where the services of the best artists in America, inéluding those of the dis: tinguished cartoonist, Mr. JOSEPH KEPPLER, are employed in furnishing all kinds of Illustrations, in the most perfect style, on short notice, and at reason- able rates, The i Theatrical Profession will find it to their especial advantage, in arranging for LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, to apply at this office, where Mr. Josep Keprzer is in personal charge of the department. Address, Puck Publishing Company, 13 N. WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. comicbooks. com