The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-07-21
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Thangs Generality w
The stoodent and conuyssesr must have
noticed and admired in varis parts Of the
United States Of America large yaller
handbills, which not only Air gems Of art
in themselves. but they troOthfully sit
forth the attractions Of my Shows show,
let me here observe, that contains many
livin Wild animals; every one has got a
Beautiful Moral.
Them handbill is sculpt in New
York.
b annoolly repair here to git some
more on 'um.
4 bein' here, / tho't I'd issoo Address
to the public on matters and things.
Since last l meyandered these streets 1
bave bin al over the Pacific Slopes and
Utah. l come back now. with my virtoo
unimpaired. but I've got TO git some new
| clothes.
Many changes has taken place even
dunn my short absence, & Sum on um is
Sollum 70 contemplate. The house in
Varveck street, where used to Board.
is bein torn down. That house, which
vas rendered memorable by livin into it,
is "parsin' away parsin' away" But
some Of the timbers viii be made into
canes, which will be sold to my admirers
at the low price Of one dollar each. Thus
Is changes goin' on continerly. In the
New World it is warm the Old World
Empires is totterin' & Dysentaries is
crumblin'. These canes is cheap at q
dollar.
sammy Booth, Duane street, sculps nv
handbilis, d he's sn artist. He studied
In Rome-S,ate Of New York.
/ I'm here 70 read the proof f-sheets of my
handbils as fast as they're sculps. You
have to watch these printers pretty elose
for they're jest as apt to spell wurd
rong as anyhow.
But have time to look around sum
how do | hnd things? / return to tn,
Atlantic States after . absence Of tel
months, and what State do / find th,
country in? Why. don't know wha
State l 6nd it in. Suffice it to say that
do not 6nd it in the State of Nev
jersey.
j ! find some things that is cheerin, par
ticlArly the resolve on the part of tn
wimin of America to stop wearin' furril
goods.
NJ never meddle with my wife's things
She may wear muslin from Greenland
Ii ICY mountains, ana bombazsen from Inly
coral strands, if she wants to; but IL
glad to state that superior woman ha
peeled of all her furrin clothes and jump
a into fabrics of domestic manufacture.
=! But, says come folks, if you stop in
Il poriin' thiBgs, you stop the Resenoo.-
That's all right. We can stand it, if II
J. Reyenoo Gao. On the same princip
!. young men should continer to get drun
sr on French brandy and to make their liz
ers Is dry as corn cob with Csby ciga
q. because 4 sooth if they don't it will hu
q the Revenoo. This talk bout the Rev
q. moo is Of the bosh, boshy. One thing
Of toI bly, certain-if We don't send gold O
d. OF the country We shall have the consol
d. ton of knowing that it is in the countr
So say great credit 10 doc the wimin
this patriotic move-and to tell the troot
tie The vimin generally know what they
q. bout. Of all the biessens they're I
les soothinest. II there'd never bin .
nd wim;n, where would my children be
an day?
we But hope this move will lead to 9th
sss moves that ar jest as much needed, o
of which is . genral and therrer curta
ment of expenses all round. The fact
. We air gettin' terribly extrasagant, a
onless We paws in our mad career. in |
at than two years the goddess Of liberty '
'all be seen dodgin' into Pawn Broke
om shop with the other gown done up il
ar bundle, even if she don't have to Sp
vas the stars in her head band. Let Us
,pi. take hold jintly, and live and dress ce
sed sibly; like our forefathers, who kno'
zig uoren We do. if they want quite SO b
the est (Suttle goaketh.l
pil- There are other cheerin' signs.
- don't, for instuns, lack great Gen rails,
. OF We sertinly don't lack brave soljers--
there's one thing wish We did lack,
thst 10 our present Congress.
zen ventur to say that if you sarch g
the dlemty's footstool oil over with ten-l
pro power mikriscope, you wont be able
ame 6nd such another set Of poppycock s
N olers as the present Congress Of the
ona' ted States of America.
en- Gentlemen Of the Senit & OF the Ho
ere' you've sot there and draw'J your pay
'els, made summer complaint speeches
enuf. The country at large, incloo
the undersined, is disgusted with yo
Axei Why don't you show US = statesm'
nara sumbody Who can make . speech that
ascn hit the poplar hart right under the G
ven' Public weskitY Why don's you sho
'seii 4 statesman who can rise up the E
care gency, and cave in the Ewergel
0'ou headl
pen. Congress. Jon wont do. GO home
can miserable eevils-go home !
or. At special Congressional 'lectio
-, my district the other day. ! dehb'
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