The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-03
ARTE1Us WARD.
His Ten-stFlko as a lecturer in Lon

| lted by the very yCircumscribed ACCOM-
modation of the Egyptian Hall. We
do not remember any entertainment
within the past few years which has at
the very outset proved so decided a
mt; and we can only hope that Mr..
Wards voice-which, last evening.
seemed at times painfully weak-WiIi
allow hlm to transfer his lecture and
panorama to a hall capable of admit
ting the much larger assem- mblages which
| viii, beyond shadow of a doubt. he
glad to hear him. The "lecture" is n
sketch descriptive of life in the Mormon
states, and traced with panorama
which, as Mr.. Wards programme truth,
| iully asserts, "is rather worse than nan
Dramas usual y are" and accommodated
by selection of piano-forte music
performed by an invisible PLAYER. who
according to his employer, receives
''GlO night and his washing" We
can very well understand how the ar
tist who painted one OF these scenes was
| on certain occasion, unanimousIv
called before the curtain to receive
the chairs which the audience threw
| at his head; but, luckily, the charm
OF the eentertainmentd does not depend on
the panorama. In the lecture of last
evening, where no tricks of spelling
could shelter want of wit, Mr., Ward
| showed himself n genuine humorist
and found not little difficulty in pro.
ceedlng at all with his remarks through
the uproarious laughter of his audi
ence. Especially was this the case with
| the reduction, which was one con-
tin9ed string of dry jokes, odd sayings,
ana little bits of Mr.. Wards peculiar
humor. 1t needed only half dozen
words to "set the house in roar" and
thereafter the difficulty was to keep
them quiet. In those portions, how
ever, of his lecture specially devoted to
nf
Ward for the time being talks seriously,
ana gives us bona tide statements,
whIch are very trustworthy, and we
grleve to say it, somewhat dull. Mr..
wards efforts, however, to continue
serious, are futile; and we speedily
!t uhu MIN introducing one or other of
| thoSe remarks which, uttered with a
peculiar dryness, first tickle few peo-
pie here and there, and then awake the
laughter of the entire room. MIR.
wards manner of recital adds not a
Httle to the pungency of his jokes. He
assumes an almost Lord Dundrearyish
unconSclOusneSS of his own fun: and
| 1t is only occasionally that some par
tlcularly "good thing" provokes a
slight twinkle of his eve, The enter
talnment, as whole, is really excel
lent; but any commendation of ours
must be superfluOus when we look at
the following testimonials, which Mr..
Ward himself has published: =
"ToTNEs, Oct. 20, 1865.
"MR. ARTESIUs WARD,
MY DEAR SIB: My wife was dan
Rerously unwell for over l6 wears. She
was so weak that she couldn't lift tea
spoon to her mouth. But IN fortunate
moment she commenced reading one of
your. lectures. She got better at once.
She gained strength so rapidly that she
lifted the cottage piano quite a distance
from the floor, and then tipped it over
on to her mother-in-law, with whom
she had had some little trouble. We
like your lectures very much. Please
send me barrel of them. If you
should require any more recommends
tions you can get any number of them
in this place at two shillings each, the
price charge for this one, and trust
YOU may be ever happy. 1 am, sir,
yours truly, and so is my wife.
"R. SPRINGERs."
An American correspondent of dis
tinguished journal thus speaks of Mr..
Wards power ns an orator:
at was grand scene, Mr.. Artemus
Ward standing on the platform talking;
many of the audience sleeping tran
qutlly in their seats; others leav-
ing the room and not returning;
others crying like child Mt some of the
jokes-all, all formed most i'm pressive
scene, and showed the powers of this
remarkable orator. And when he an
nounced that he should never lecture in
that town again, the applause was abb
solutely deafening."
L.ft -~S~---
SHoTHERING iwTTH SwEETs.-Helio-
gabalus, the Roman emperor, was weary
of being but the obedient functionnry
of the. Senate; he wished to rule, and
to have that power which the Senate
claimed as its own. He kept his am
bitious desires to himself, however,
and showed the Senators a contented
and submissive face. One day he in
vited them to a splendid feast at his
villa: he placed before them the most
costly meats and choicest wines. They
We're sitting around this luxurious ta-
bic, somewhat excited by drink, when
the Emperor arose and said with a pc.
culiar smile: II must go now to pre-
pare for you an agreeable surprise and
practical joke, which you will confess
has tho merit of originality" He left
the room, and the tipsy Senators did
not observe that the doors were locked
and bolted from without. They con-
tinued to drink and sing merrily; sud-
denly glass door in the ceiling was
opened, and the voice of Heliogabalus
was heard saying: You were never
satisfied with your power and glory;
you were always aspiring after new
laurels; this noble thirst shall
now be satisfied" a torrent of
laurel wreRths and branches now
fell upon the Senators. At first
they laughed and snatched jestingly
at the flying laurels. The most exqui-
site flowers were now added, and there
seemed to be no end to the pelting
storm. They cried out, Enough,
enough" in vain; the wreaths and bOu-
quets still poured upon them in un-
ceaSing streams; the floor was literally
a bed of roses. at last terror took pos
session of them; they wished to escape,
and rushed to the doors, but they were
immovable. Through the sea of flow
ers, which already reached their knees,
they waded to the window, but they
were in the second story, and below
they saw the Roman legions with their
sharp weapons pointed in the open air.
wildly for mercy, but the inexorable
stream OF flowers continued to flow.
Higher and higher rose the walls around
them, they could no longer even plead
for pity; they were literally buried in
laurels. At last nothing was TO be seen
but vast bed of roses, of which not
even fragrant leaf was stirred by
passing breeze. Heliogabalus had not
murdered his senators; he had suffo-
Gated them with sweets, that was all
Frederick the GreUt and his Court,
~OS
The o'Donaghue, NJ. p, from Ire
land, who presided at the great Dublin
Reform demonstration, on the occa-
sion of Bright's great Speech, is thus
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