Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-02-26
NUMBER 5.

lister, and he was obliged to stop in his prayers
II was Rochefoucaut who said, "there
is something in the misiorunes of our best
friends that pleases us" have seen a wife
who dearly loved her husband, scream with
laughter at his humping his head on the edge
OF the door Laughter. have seen dutifu
children laugh themselves almost into fits al
their fathers missing his chair and sitting on
the flOor-as did just now. Laughter Ton
taking his seat at the desk, Mr.. b had the
misfortune to ''let down" upon the h)or owing
to the upsettng Of the stool have seen
people at church unable to restrain their mir.h
at the sight of bit of court ploster which had
slipped from the forehead down to the extreme
end of the pastors nose. Laughterl
Tunnler than any joke, more supremely RE
diculous than misfortune, was the incident
relative to the gentleman OF color" who left
New York on a western tour, and, fndinr him
self in Buffalo without any thing to employ
bis time, thought he would send a telegreph-
ic dispath back home, inquring of his partner
as to their business. He sent this message
"ilow is things?" To this nterrogalory his
partner Immediately replied Things is fine. 81
Laughter. Resting on this, be was in no very
good temper when he returned home and
found his partner had sold out all his goods,
pocketed the money, shut up store, and run
off with his wife!
We never see ourselves as others see US
"Three cbmney-sweeps." says Hazlett, chap
penng to meet at Lincoln's Inn Fields, laugh
ed at each other till they came near dying"
In cities the sense Of the ridiculous is worn off
by constant attrlton. Let big fat man sin
upon the ice, aud you may be sure that those
by ISLANDERS who laugh at him are strangers.
because the citizen has been accustomed to
such sights
When the swine had "the freedom OF the
city," they used to be the occasion Of quite as
much fun as disgust. They were always per-
forming the most unexpected and the most
obstinate fests and exploits on Broadway. A
portly female was sailing slowly along Broad
way, in all the conscious dignity of city life
dressed out in her silks and satns. her ribbons
and laces. her white kid gloves, DO, and look
ing like representative of Coustan,inople
! Judging from her Sublime Porte) when all
OF sudden she found herself sitting upon
the back of a 6ne large porket, who came
hurrylng round the corner of street; and SO
firmly was she seated there that she was treat
ed to gratuous ride of whole block before
being thrown from her perous position
Laughter. Whether injured or not by
her fall could she be pitied by the bystanders?
No; the sense Of the ridiculous oyerruled all
feelings o! pity or compassion.
Cr@Sus Is said to have laughed to death at
seeing donkey eat thistles.
Pltlable sights, also, not unfrequenty sug-
gest the ridiculous. Thus it Is the de,th of
sadness to behold a fellow being drunk and
rolling in the gutter But how ridiculous
when, on going up to him ana ask
ing him how he got there, and
h. replies: 81 made an appointment
to meet man herer' Laughter.
friend OF mine passing a house where
there was a funeral, stepped up to an Irish
man and asked him if he could inform him
who was dead. The Ershman replied; 81 can
not exactly say, sir, but presume it is the
gentleman in the cof6nl'
Thus how absurd appear through the me-
dunn OF the ridiculous, all the numbprless lit
tleness of life Ostentation itselfis ridiculous
1t wears gold rings and satins, and brocades
and laces and diamond breastpins
(Which ars suspected to be paste } it has
box at the Ope~a, to which it goes every night
Though bored by the music J it carries a rare
bouquet, rather big. which it presents to la
dy IN The next box II has Iorgnette, which
1t levels on the already discovered stars. or
searches the house for other luminaries. 1t
always goes 10 church Sundsys, rain or shine,
and reads prayer aloud, and throws a half
guinea into the plate with loud ring. Bat,
while ostentation thus lives wrapt in the man.
tie OF its own seltishness. it is always absurb.
People laugh at it.
Much of the ridiculous may be seen in va.
rious other departments OF life Look AT some
OF the critics of our day. Look at some of the
criticisms IN the reviews. where the writer
desires to display his own talents rather than
give IN idea of the work npon which he is
wrt!ng-making the author mere hook from
which to suspend his own corruscation. That
criticisms is very absurd in which the cri;ic
Judges his author by his own standard Of
thought or style.
The lecturer also spoke of a man with
whom he was acquainted, who thought he was
a Poet because his r, ymes were pu h<hed n
the weekly papers 0easiOnly. And be also
thought himself very fashionable Enan, b.
cause he went to the o,era, dressed in the
height OF iashi n. and visited Saratoga once a
year Nevertheless, this very man was the
laughing stock of al who knew him. The
lecturer had also heard Of a young lady who
regarded herself as one Of the ready.to.bs-
died d-ior-kind--one who considered herself as
the pink of perfection, and the leader of fash.
lon' who IN reality so extremely unattraesye
as 10 be liked by her o,Oa sez TO all such
lnistaken mortals he would recommend The
lines of Burns:
80 wad some power the gitte gle them
To see the emselves as ithers see them;
'Iwad frae many blunder free them,
And foolish notion"
rESALrIEs-'fhe buying of cheap clothes,