Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-03-10

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friend, Bull Dogge,n and we three
then proceed to view the curiosities we
commenced with the double -barreled
niger baby, (Which Bull Dogge says is
an illegitimate devil went on 10 the
rhinoceros, (who is always provided with
n horn, Barnum's temperance talk to the
contrary nevertheess-theH Happy Fam
ily-the two legged calf, (B. D. says it
is not the only one in the City,) a rcd
darkcy-a green Yankee, white Irish
man, (Damphool says that this latter in
dividual is an impossibility, and could
only have originated with Barnum) wax
figure Of tall man in blue coat, with
a star on his breast, (Damphool says it
is a policeman who was found when he
was wanted but Bull Dogge says there
never was any such person, and that the
whole story is Gay fable, found, by
the programme, that it is supposed TO
represent Louis Napoleon never knew
before, that he had one eve black and
one eye blue, (B D. asserts that the
usual custom is, to have ole eye both
black and blue (wax model Of the rail-
road man who swindled the community,
now living on his money, and President
of the Fore gn Mission Society for the
Suppression of Pilfering, in the Foo Foo
Islands =; J wax figure of the abandoned,
dssolute, and totally dcpraved woman,
who flched half loaf of bread to give
to her hungry children, and who was
very properly sent to Blackwell's Island
for it-also of the City Contractor who
did clean the streets (Damphool states
that he is residing at Utica. Saw a
great multitude of monkeys, streaked
face, white face, black face, hairy face,
bald face, Bull Dogge prefers the lat
ter with a great assortment Of tails,
differing in length, and varying as to
color, long tails, short tails, stump tails,
ring tails, wiry tails, curly tails, tails in
teresting and insinuating, tails indignant
and uncompromising, big tails, little tails,
bob tails, (Damphool suggests Robert
narratives and no tails Bull Doggc
says that some effeminate descendants Of
this latter class now promenade Broad
way; and he swears that they have
greatly degenerated in intelligence y
pictures, paddles, pumpkins, carriages,
ooral., lava, boats, breeches, boa oon-
strictors; shells, ores, snakes, toads, but
terfies, lizards, bears, reptiles, repro
bates, bugs, bulls, bats, birds, petrifac-
lions, pulrifaetious, model railroads, mod
ell churns, model gridirons, model artists,
model babies, cockneys, cockades, cock
AIDES, oockroaches cocktails, scalps thom
ahwks, Noah's ark, Paganini's fiddle,
Old Grimes coat, autocrats, autoiiog
raphies, autographs, Otto Goldschlnidt,
who ought to be whipped, ought to be
shot, ought 10 be hanged, ought to be
burned in an Auto de Fe, chickens,
cheeses, Goldfish, Sbanghais, mud turtles,
alligators. moose, mermaids, hay-scales,
scale armor, monsters, curiosties from
Rotterd-m, Amsterdam, Beavord-m,
Chow Sing, Tchipgsing, Linsing, Lam
sing, Sing Sing, cubebs, cart-wheels,
.aummies, heroes, poets, idiots, moniacs,
bencfactors, malefactors, pumps, porcu-
pines, and piIl-machines, all mingled,
mixed, and conglomcrated, like a Con-
meet chowder, or the Jew-soup of the
Witches in Macbeth.
Up stairs, at last, and into an Adde'S
cen, theatre, christened Lecture Room,
(Damphool SAYS it is known as the Dea-
cons Theatre, and that all his pious
namesakes attend Saw the play, laugh
ed, cried, sneezed, snorted and felt good
all over. Much pleased with bit of fun
originating in a jealous fireman, and
terminating in free fight.
Fireman Nose saw Rose, his sweet
heart, with Joe, the hackman got
jealous, pitched into him-fun--thought
of Tom Hood, and went off, at half
cock---thus
Enter Rose with Joe---sees Nose
Nose beaus Rose; Rose knows those
beaux foes---Jee's bellicose-so's Nose
Nose blows Joe's nose-Joe's blows
pose Mose-Rose Oh's-Mose hoes Joe's
rows-Joe's blows chose Noses nose
Nose shows Joe's nose blows-Joe's
nose grows rose---Mose knows Joe's nose