Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-02
MISCELLANY.
Artemus Ward Sees the New Play Of
1srrah IA POgue."
IFrom the New York Saturday Press


Sum l6 wears ago, while I was amoosin'
and instructin' the intellectual people
of Cape Cod with my justly poplar
Show. I saw your grandfather. He was
then between 96 years of age, but his
mind was very clear He sed had q
massiv intellect Your grandfather was
ahighIy intelligent man, and 1 made up
nv mind then that If / could ever help
his famIlyin any way, I'd do SO. Your
grandfather gave me sum CLAIMS and a
Testament. He charged me for the
CLAIMS, but threw In the Testament. He
was very fine man.
I therefore write for yOu, which in
srres your responsibility at once. 1t
gives Won moral tone at the word go.
I found myself the other night at
NibIo's Gardin, which is now, by the
way, Wheatley's Gardin. IL don't know
what's becum of Nib L couldn't see
much of gardin, however. and it struck
me if MIR. Wheatley depended on it as
regards raisin' things he'd run short of
gnrdin sass. q. b. These remarks is
yoomerous. The older gro the more
I want to COAX.
1 walked down the lie in my usual
dignified stile, politely tellin' the peo-
pie as parsed along to keep their seats.
''Don't git up for me," 1 sed. One of
the prettiest young men ever saw in
my life showed me into a seat, and l
proceeded to while away the spare time
by readin' Thompson's Bank Note Re-
porter and the comic papers.
The ordinance was large.
/ thO't, from cursiry view, that the
Finnigan Brotherhood was well repre-
sented.
There was no end of boothiful wimin
and a heap of good clothes. There was
good deal of hair present that belong
ed on the heds of peple who didn't cum
with it-but this is a ticklish subieck
for me. / larfed at my wife's waterfall,
which indOOsed the superior woman to
take it off ard heave it at me rather
vilently, and as there was about a half
bushil of it, it Knocked me over. and Civ
me pains in my body which hain't got
over yit.
The OkistrY struck up toon. & ask
ed the Usher to nudge me when Mr.
Pogue cum out on the stage TO act.
wanted to see Pogue, but strange to
say, he didn't act durin' the entire eve
MIN. / reckin he has left Niblo's, and
gone over to Barnum's.
Very industrious people are the actors
at Barnum's. They play all day and in
the evenin' likewise. I meet 'em every
mornin', at 5 o'clock, going to their
work with their dinner-pails. It's a
sublime site. Many of 'em sleep on the
premises.
-Arrah Ma POgue was writ by Dion
O'BOurcicOlt & Edward McHouse. They
writ it well. O'BOurcy has writ a cart
load of plays himself, the most OF which
is fusirate.
L understand there is a large number
OF Ogenlmen of this city who can rite
better plays than O'Bourcy does, but
somehow they don't seem to do it
When they do, I'll take a Box of them.
As l remarked to the Boy who squirt
ed pepper-sass through tin dinner
horn at my trained Bear, (which it
caused that ferOshus animal to kick up
his legs and howl dismal, which fond
mothers fell into swoons, and children
cried to go home because feaTin' the
Bear would leave his jungle and tear
them limb to limb, and then excoOsed
himself this Boy did by sayin' he had
done so while laborin' under an attack
of Moral 1nsanity-as L sed to that
thrifty youth, s. allus incurridg geen-
yus, whenever 1 see it.
It's the same with Dan. Bryant /
am informed there are better Irish ac-
tors than he Is, but somehow I'm allus
out of town when they act; & so is 9TH
er folks, which is what's the matter.
ACK. THE 1. Glendale by munelite.
Irishmen with clubs. This is 1898. the
year of your birth, MIR. Editor. 1t ap-
pears patriotic person named McCoOl
has been raisin a instruction in the
mountin districks, and is now goin' to
leave the land of his nativity for tower
IN France. Previously to doing so, he
picks the pockit of Mr. Michael Feeny,
a Gov ment detective, which pleaSes
the gallery very much indeed, and they
Joyfully remark, ''hi, hi" He meets,
also, ut this time, young woman who
loves him dearer than life, and who Is,
of course, related to the COMMENT; and
JUS rs the Gov ment goes agin him, she
goes for him. This is natl, but not
grateful She SEE, ssAnd can it be so?
Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this
thusness would'st seem !" or words to
that effeck. He SEE it isn't any other
ways anu Iuey 20 Oh. lfAoii flhOOSlC DJ
the Band. Mr.. McCool goes and gives
the money to his foster-sister, Miss Ar
rah Meelish, who is to shortly marry
Shaun, the Lamp Post. Mac then al
tiers his mind about goin' over to France,
and thinks he'll go up stairs and lie
down In the straw. This is in Arrah's
cabin. Arrah says it's all right, me dar-
lint, och hone, and sure, and other pop
lar remarks, and Mac goes to his straw.
The weddin' of Shaun and Arrah
comes off. Great excitement. I'M
mense demonstration on the part of the
peasantry. Barn-door jigs and rebelyus
song by MoHouse, called "The Drink
In of the Gin" Ha, what is this P
Soldiers cum in. MOosic by the band i:
"Arrah," SEE the Major, ''you have
those money" She SEE, "Oh, no, /
guess not" He SEE, "Oh, yes, guess
you have" ct is my own" seq she,
and exhibits it. Tt is mine," says Mr..
Feeny, and identifies it. Great confu-
sion. Coat is prodoosed from up stairs.
Whose coat is this % SEE the Major
Is 1t the coat of a young man secreted
IN fhic hare cabin Now &bsu Sc