Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-10-23
nosstiak,s visit 70 re Maeeum.

Doestisk's visit 70 Ne Museum.
The Detroit Advertise, has : correspon-
dent who is certainly in original. We have
laughed 50 heartily over h'ssist to Barnum's
Museum. that we must share the fun with
such rs can sit down. and enjoy themselves
10 their full over a well written article:
i Soon after my entrance, ayonng man, At
/ tired in dress coat, huge standing collar
and high hat. introduced himself as "A
Damphool, Esq = gentleman Of leisure, and
man about town. Having never before had
any experience Of class ofindividuals who
compose, l am told, large portion OF the
masculine population Of the city, eagerly
embraced the opportunity OF making ms &C,
quaintance. He also presented ms TREND
"Mr. Bull Dogge," and We three then pro,
ceeded to view the curiosities; we commenced
with the double barrelled niger baby
went on to the rhinoceros, (who is always
i proyided with a horn, Barnum's temperance
1talk to the contrary, nevertheless. )-the
HAPPY famliy--the two legged calf, (B. d.
saws Il is not the only one in the cityo a
red darkey-a green lankee--a white irish
man, (Damphool says this this latter indlyI-
dual is an impossiblity, and could only
have originated with Barnum,-)wax inquire
of a tall man in blue coat, with star on
his breast, (Damphool says il is policeman
who was found when he was wanted, but
Bull Dogge says there was never any such
I person, and that the whole story is Gay
fable,) found by the programme that it Is
supposedto represent Louis Napoleon; new
er knew that he had one eye black and one
blue, Gull Dogge asserts that the usual
custom is to have one eye both black and
blue,) wax model OF the railroad man who
swindcd the community. (now living on his
money, and President OF the Foreign Mis-
sion Society for the suppression OF pilfering
on the Foo Foo Islands,) wax figure OF the
abandoned, dissolute and totally depraved
woman, who filched half loaf Of bread to
give her hungry children, and who was very
properly sent to Blackwell's Island for it-al-
so Of the City Contractor who did clean the
treets-(Damphool states that he is resi-
ding at Utica.) Saw great multitude OF
monkeys, streaked face, white face. black
face, hairy face, bald face, Dull Dogge pre-
fers the latter,) with great assortment OF
tails, differing in length, and varying as to
tails, why tails, curly tails, tails interesting
and insulating, tails indignant and uncom-
promising, big tails. little tails, bob tails,
(Damphool suggests Robert narratives } and
no tails, (Buil Dogge says that some ei}enii-
nate descendants of this latter class now
promenade Broadway, and he swears that
they have greatly degeneratei in intelli-
gence,) pictures. paddles, pumpkins, carria-
ges, corals, lava, boats, breeches. boa con-
strictors, shells, oars, snakes, toads. butter
flies, lizards, bears, reptiles, bugs. bulls,
bells, bats, birds, petrcfactions, qualifications,
model railroads. model churns, model gridi-
rons, model artists, model babies, eockneys,
cockades, cockroaches, cocktails. scaips,
ltomahawks, Noah's Ark, Paganini's fiddle,
Old Grimes coat, autocrats, autoblographies
autographs, Otto Goldsmith, who ought-to-
be-whipped ought-to-be-shot. ought-to-be-
hanged, ought-to- be- burned in an Auto de
Fe, chickens, cheese, Goldfish Shanghais
mud-iurtles, alligators, moose, mermaids
hay-scales, scale armor, monsters, curiosi
ties from Rotterd-m, Amsterd-m. Beaver
ld-m, Chow Sing, Tchinsing, Linsing, Ian
sing, Sing Sing, cubebs, cart wheels, mum
mics, heroes, poets, idiots. maniacs, bsDe
factors, malefactors, pumps, porcnpines ana
pill machines, all mingled, mixed and con.
glomerated, like Connecticut chowder, OF
the stew soup Of the witches in Macbeth.
Up stairs at last, and into an adolesce mt
theatre christencd Lecture Room, dam
phool says it is known as the Deacon's The
atre, and that all his pious namesakes at
tend.) Saw the play, laughed, cried, sneez
ed, snorted, and felt good all over. Much
pleased with bit Of fun originating in a
jealous fireman, and terminating in free
Il fight.
Fireman Nose saw Rose, his sweetheart,
with Joe the hackman; got jealous, pitched
into him-fun-thought of Tom Hood, and
went off at half-cock-
Enter Rose with Joe--sees Mose-Mose
beaus Rose-Rose knows those beaux foes
--Joe's bellicose-so's Nose-Mose blows
Joe's nose Joe blows Nose nose--Ros
Oh's-Mose hoes Jos's rows-Joes blows
close NOSES nose-Mose shows Joe's nose
biows-Joe's nose grows rose-Mose knows
Joe's nose shows those blows-Joe goes
Nose crows.
p. S.-Joe being whipped, and moreover,
being the only innocent one in the whole
fight was arrested by the vgilant and eff
cieni police.
p. r. S.-Damphool says that Joe treat
ed the Emerald conservators of the public
quiet, and is again at large.
Let Nose beware. Yours.
@. R. PHILASDER DoEsT,cks, p. 3.
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