Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-12-23

Concentrations FROM THE SrrRIr WORLD,
not ny JUICE EDwARDs.-Q. X. Philander
Doestioks, Perfect Brick, has received com,
munications from the spirit world, together
with visit from the spirits themselves. lie
says he has had glimpse at horse heaven
a fair view of the future blissful residence of
pigs and poultry, and been vouchsafed key
hole peep at the paradise Of spiritual Jack S.
dom! He learns that Esop is a reliable his
torian, and that in a future world the power
and liberty of quadrepudal speech will be re-
stored in all its pristine eurhony and elegance.
4 lie SAYS that aforetime he had bull-ter-
rier, (not Bull Dogge alluded to in other
epistlcs,) which he called Pluto! That Plu-
to disappeared, and was mourned as having
fallen into the hands of some remorseless
sausage maker as having gone to that bourn
from which bulldogs don't come back! Ha-
wing given him up as lost, Philander, while
contemplating his night cap, (hot with nut
meg in IT'D was accosted by his pet tom cat
and Informed that various spirits were pres
ent and desired to communicate with him.
After recovering from his establishment at SO
strange an announcement from so unusual a
source, he requested the spirits to fire away.
Upon tn, instant, his long lost Pluto made
his appearance, and unlike the ghost of Ham
let's father, was ready and anxious to reveal
the mysteries Of his prison house. After
giving circumstantial account Of his death
&c., the following items are given:
The Tro; Jan horse was suffering from ind-
gestion. Coleridge's ''mastif bitch" has
just become the happy mother of thirteen
lovely cherubs, AMI s.is as well as can be ex-
pected - s'the Rat that eat the malt that lay
in the house that Jack Luilt" says the Maine
law would have spared him that early indis-
cretion; Baa.am's ass had his jaw ted up
with the toothache; Rosinante was in good
racing condition; st. Georges dragon LOOKS
much more amiable than | should have sup
posed; Bucephalus AMI Old Whitley have
been ii shtinga pitched battle, and are on
short allowance Of oats for INSTRUMENTATION
the Fee Jec Mermaid said she had go- tired
Of her caudal appendage, and desired me to
ask Barnum ii her tail must be continued
,Jonah's whale, some time since, swallowed
the Nassau street four cent man, but gave
him up like a second Jonah, and he is now
on his old stamping ground again. In the
distance perceived John Gilp:n's horse, and
the bull that was unceremoniously displaced
from well known arch trctural elevation, in
a cornfield; and was informed that Ncba-
chadnezzar, who has not VT lost his fondness
for greens, sometimes shares their pastures
with them. The Black Swan, the Swan of
Avon, and the patriotic geese, whose intel
lectual cack.ing saved imperial Rome, We're
enjoying themselves in catching tadpoles in a
duck-pond. Walter SCOTS dog Mazda. Beth
! Geicrt, Launco's dog, old dog Fray, and the
other "Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart
were discussing canine politics over a beef
bone.
Pluto then concluded this wonderful reyc-
lation with the following speech:
s:Know, men Of earth, that shadowy hor-
SEES still throng your streets, harnessed to in
tangible draws, and to incorporeal express
wagons, and still tailfullv drag innumerable
three cent stages they still live in your sta
bles, Craze in your pastures, and drink at
your pumps-drvers, malignant though un-
seen, still lash their unreal sides with cutting
whips, until they become overcome With
ghostly ire, and yiciousiy kick over their
spectral traces ID funct racers still haunt
/ the scenes Of their former triumphs Skin
with feet unshod round the inside track, and
scornfully turn up their goblin noses at the
fastest earthly time on record-transparcn
donkeys wag complacently their celestial ears,
and brush off airy iiies with unsubstantial
tails. Swine, full grown. although unseen,
proud us in life, fcrociously, proudly prowl
about your streets, seeking what they may
devour, and expressing with inaudible grunts,
their Paradisiac Observation-Disclosures pigs
squcal under formless gates--dogs still fol-
low with unheard tread their dreamy masters,
wagging their placid phantom tails or scar
ching through their shaggy hides with savage
teeth for spiritual aeas. Polecats invisible
still haunt your barns. searching for airy
chickens, finding ghosty eggs in unheard of
nests-then stealing and giving odor in your
cellars; apparitions of departed cats haunt
pulseless mice, and in your parlors phantom
kittens chase their goblin tails. Henceforth,
| let every man take heed, lest in ulling of
his boots, he kick his dear departed Carlo
and let every maiden lady bestow herself in
| her favorte rocking chair, in awe and per-
turbation, lest the cushion be already occu-
pied by defunct Tabby and her spectral lit
! ter"
just Criticism.
We commend the following remarks of the