Puck — January 15, 1879 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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HE THEATRES. g ALLACK'S Ours?” is reviving pleasant’ prescileces and bracing up the ‘lientelage of the theatre’ to stand the shock of impending American dramas, Mr. Wallack as Hugh Chai- cate, and Mr. GC as Angus McAlister, revel in Robertson for a brief houPbefore the na- tive playwright gets them in his ravenous clutch, Tt is needless to say that Mr. Wallack pulls on his boots with all the old-time effectiveness, and that Mr. Coghlan turns his gallic art fullstream on to Angus McA. “Ours” holds the stage and the public for another week, and then— Mackaye and Campbell. The STANpARD is to give us “ H. M. S, Pin- afore" while Mr. Henderson’s company makes glad the waste places of the provinces. “ H, M.S, P.” is not—we want this distinctly under- stood—the regulation British burlesque, awful in ancient puns and attenuated legs, It isa wine opéta bouffe; really clever, judged | by ¢ Frenchistandard, and yet it wouldn’t bring a blush an} ere, under any circumstances. Tom Whiffen'is the Caffain, and the managers could never—ho, never!—what, never /—well; hardly ever—hope to find a better man for the: Mr. Hermann Linde read “‘ Macbeth” at Seley Hall on Wednesday and Saturday of last week, ‘He has a fine English accent, and a remarkable memory, and when he says “Hence, ‘horrible shadow—unreal mockery, hence!’* he sits down! inhis, banqueting chair with such artistic force’ = 19st to’ break the platform, «*, “None bat, the bree Deserve the fair?" ‘and we su this accounts for the large attend- ance of fair women and brave men at the St. joseph’s School fair, héld» at Masonic Hall, East 86th street, near Third Avenue. Jt was a grand success; and a handsome silk banner was awarded to George Ehret, by:a majority of 2,150 votes, as the most popular brewer. “Four thousand dollars. altogether ° were. realized, which will be used towards erecting a well-ven- tilated school-house, PUCK’S ESSENTIAL OIL OF CONGRESS. Wasuincron, Jan. 7th, 1879. SENATE. 3: The most potent, grave and reverend, having got over the holidays, settled down to worl once niore and commenced talking about sy Tee Trape Dottar. ATOR: “Vooruexs said the trade dollar a dollar that one}could. trade comfort. e and) its cifculation in our midst and. violation ‘Of. [,soup- *P'So'far as. we know, yes. PUCK. | able ice-boxes, otherwise known as the New York Elevated Railroad, wouldn't take them, and at some lager beer saloons one could only buy eighteen glasses with a trade dollar, In short, this coin was very like what the New York Sun thought of. President Hayes. But ‘we ought to be tender with it and make it a le- gal one; then blessings would be showered on our heads, and tramps would not refuse’ the trade dollar as they had been known to do on several ‘occasions, Secretary Sherman was a financial demon‘ of the deepest dye, and his natural predilection for conspiracy had induced him to lend his sacred office for the purpose of encouraging conspirators in general in their nefarious practices. The trade dollar must be a dollar, and hang the expense. The working classes, and epecially those who didn’t work, wanted all the silver and gold—and _grreen- backs too, for.-that matter—they could lay their hands on. Everything was on the way, at light- ning express speed, to blue and red ruin. And why? Because the Republican party had everything in their own hands. ‘The Senate here showed signs of having had “| enough of Senator Voorhees for the present, who promptly sat down, House or RepReseNTATIVEs. ‘Mr. ACKLEN, as a Democrat and a Louisian- ian, felt compelled to air his oratory in the matter of privilege. He had really been very badly treated, so badly, indeed, that he would like several members of the House, a steno- gtapher,,a sergeant-at-arms, and several other employees of the government, and other luxu- ties, to, be placed at his, disposal to clear his character. Unfortunately the people connected with the cruel calumnies were dead. PUCK’'S ESSENTIAL OIL OF ALBANY. Atsany, Jan. 7, 1879. Our noble Legislature commenced business in a new ten-million dollar Capital. Lieutenant- Governor Dorsheimer made an address, which was followed up by Governor Robinson's mes- sage on sundry topics of more or less interest. A large portion of it was appropriately devoted to Asylums for the Insane, State Prisons, County Jails and Poorhouses, and the Inebriate Asylum especially also received a very considerable share of attention. A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind. January 8. Thomas G, Alvord was nominated Speaker and ‘subsequently elected. This brief notice will save Puck’s readers a deal of trouble in wading through speeches. Answeys for for the Mites ISK wil give you the rest of iin a Is Carboline harmless for the hair ??, It is harmless for the hair, but not for the individual using it, We saw a really charm- ni Young eee peat just about your age—lynched, He put it on and phen sal Bear the ore, set upon’ bim. apere Ato" Jue. A BUNCH OF DEAD VIOLETS. ‘Mas. ALEXANDER FRASER IN TINSLEY’S MAGAZINE. PART I. ««Greenway's Rovat. Hipropromr, The largest and most wonderful Circus in the World! Jumbo, the eccentric Elephant, and the extraordinary Peacock. Mules, Donkeys, Dogs. Banco the Clown, and his inimitable jokes. Startling and unparalleled feats of Equestrianism. Mademoiselle Lucille, the Wonder of the West, on her trained horse Spitfire. Doors open at seven o'clock. Entrance, sixpence; reserved seats, one shilling.” by was a very exciting bill of fare for a dull cathedral town, in which mundane amuse- ment was believed to pave the road to per- dition. And so thought Charlie Wilmot, a captain in the K. D. G., whose regiment had been quartered five weary months in York. He glanced at his watch. “Five o'clock!” he said to himself, half aloud. “ Just time enough to dine comforta- bly, and drop in about the middle of the mum- mery. I'll go! Anything is better than the routine of this horrible place.” “The largest and most wonderful circus in the world,” to be viewed for the moderate ex- penditure of one shilling by the upper current, and for sixpence by the so-called “caterpillars of creation,” was a temptation of Beelzebub that the rigid Yorkites could not resist. Even before the utterance of Sesame!” the entrance was besieged by a mass of impatient counter-jumpers, milliner girls, grocers and bakers, soldiers, tinkers, tailors, with an occa- sional plowboy and thief. It was a commor medley enough—unre- deemed by a single creme de /a creme, with his spotless shirt-front and his fragrant gardenia. Nevertheless the orchestra, composed of some shrill fifes and wheezy flutes, a cracked violin or 80, a loud-sounding drum, and a couple of jingling triangles, struck up with enormous en- ergy «When the band begins to play;”” and Jumbo, the eccentric elephant, a huge beast with cropped ears and lengthy trunk, floundered into the middle of the sawdust. Poor much-abused brute! if he had possessed a reflective soul, how unflatteringly he would have contrasted “the Christians, who ruthlessly: stuck sharp skewers into his rusty hide, with the heathens of his native clime! Jumbo having waded and plunged through his performance, the extraordinary peacock, the mules, donkeys and dogs were put through their tricks and paces; while Banco, the clown uttered his imbecile jokes, and evoked roars of laughter from the rough and highly-appreciative audience. After that a man, habited half Turk and half harlequin, ambled, on a “ milk-white palfrey,” six times round the arena in six grotesque atti- tudes. This accomplished, Banco the clown temained again in possession of the field. After turning sundry somersaults he perched himself on a barrel. “Friends, countrymen, lovers, look here!” he cried. “ If there was an island with a stack of hay upon it, and a donkey on the mainland, how would that donkey reach that hay without wetting his feet?” A dead silence. Grocers, bakers, soldiers, sailors, down to the plowboy and the thief, considerably im- pressed by the enigma, regarded each other in- quiringly, while Banco, with a twinkle in his eye, regarded them en masse. “Give it up?” he asked of a rosy-faced comicbooks.com