The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-22


above, on the earth teneath, and In the watc's
under the earth; then the other with The rtu Ost
ROlemnity Will reply, and, evidently thinking he
is re6ntting sis friends argum9snts, taIss upon
nacity and confusion. more ridiculous carl
catlue Of debate was never imagined. M
ran away from the Asylum not long since, and
entered the army, securing no mconstderable
bountymoney. The state OF his mind was, how
ever. soon discovered, and he was sent to hs
former abode, declaiming against 'sycophancY
and conspiracy
an active figure carrying apal OF whitewash
with it's proper brushes HIS whole person,
from his hat to his shoes, rs ornamented with
the chalky fluid. His features exhibit shrewd-
ness which their owner does not possess. Cas-
sidy is Millionaire In Imagination. He lords
the whole island He lives but to amass money,
and hence we always see him IN a aworking-dress.
He superintends and repairs the Institution, de-
claring that IL he relaxed his vigilance for sin
gle day the whole place would go to ruin. He
is really worth TO the Commissioners seven or
eight hundred dollars year; being in masonry
and other mechanical pursuits valuable as
Bistaut He is miser with no real wealth; the
interest accruing from his vast possessions being
paid in no.es of one hundred dollars on the
Bank OF Bove.D One of the watohmen OFF,
ciates as his man of business, and delights him
weekly with an account OF his accumulations.
Cassidy will not, however part with twenty-five
cents in charity. His fancled treasures are with
out doubt as much enjoyed by him as the real
fortunes OF many men OF his cast OF mind. What
striking satire is his history upon the lives of
some called sane!
veil from the yard opposite us attracts our
attention. 1t proceeds from the throat of that
dismal being rapidly making the circuit OF the
inclosure. He seems to consider himself vocal
newspaper; his cries day by day being as it were,
the headings to sensation items.
ARRIVAL of the Great Eastern !-Queen Victo-
ria has set-to with the Prince of Wales! IA
Priest-Rldden Community Cholera Morbus =
Grand smash up Of the European Congress! =
HOrapp nv the Monster MlSCp-
genation,D ETC.
All OF these disiointed sentences are ierzed out
at the top OF his voice. OF vast importance, too,
he deems them, repeating them with emphasis to
every stranger he may happen to see. F'
"JoHN BROWN"
conversation with John Brown in the
same yard would give birth TO the strangest
ideas ever entertained by the fancy. He will
inform his auditor that large nest of snakes
resides in his stomach which ought to be ex-
tracted.
Now, doctor, there is only one place from
which they can be taken; under this rib. See.
Insert knife-magnetized you know-then iC
won't hurt me at all. There is boa constructor
among them. know by his twisting"
He also says he would have been President
long ago. if it we're not for, for-but his reasons
are more numerous than excellent.
'Dobler's" eccentricitles are shown by action
rather than speech; he seems unable to do any
thing without reference to mathematical rules.
Ii he sees q stone at some distance from MIN
WnlCD ne Wishes, ne Is lulpelleu 10 dpprOaCn III
by series of zigzag movements. He first gazes
at it, makes some abstruse calculations, and then
with regular PAGES marches away to the west of
it. Here, meditating moment, he proceeds at
a right angle. Having thereafter described with
his steps a series of triangles, equilateral and
Isosceles. he is perhaps within a lew feet of it.
This Is awful moment. and demands much
thought. Finally, rapid advance, sudden
putting out of his arm, and the stone is his.
Another individual not far off is either en-
gagged in the cultivation of acrobatc powers or
has inaugurated some new religious ceremony.
Ever and anon he stoops and kisses with solem.
nifty the ground between his feet.
DEATH OF PATIENT.
patient is dead. There passes us in the road
yonder rough pine coffin on a trestle, carried
by two lunatics. The first of these is John
Dunn" an inmate of the Lodge. His appear
ance is that of a savage beast; a brutal, sensual
mouth is ill concealed by his bristly beard, and
two swinish eyes illumine his swarthy counte-
nance. The conception formed of his character
is not exceeded by the reality. Cruel as he may
be, he is harmless unless provoked; and again,
Johns ferocity seems rather the work of idiocy
than aught else. l should judge him absolutely
ignorant of what would produce feeling of pain
in others. A playful blow from him, intended
to testify to his good-humor will as likely as not
be administered to part of the body that will
feel tie injury for month.
l hope to be pardoned for giving striking
illustration of his selfish instincts, his total want
Of humanity. patient in the sick-room was
given up by the doctors, and his demise being
every minute expected John was told to get q
coffin ready. He nistoOk the order tor an an
nOuncement that the man was dead, and soon
appeared by the bedside with his "red box"
TO his disgust the patient was still breathing.
He was summoned then for nothing, and his
anger burst forth in an exclamation to the suf-
ferer, intermineled with oaths, "M-mm Why
don't you die? Why don't you dle"
AS we follow the coffin on its way to the Dead
House we descry, standing in the centre of the
island, with one hand upon tree and anxiously
surveying the water upon all sides of him, an
example of heroic perseverance that deserves
better success than he has met with. Rafferty,
with some degree OF education and born in the
Middle Ages would have riyalled all brother
alchemists In perseverance in the chase after the
philosophers stone. For the past five or six
years he has stood morning and afternoon in
that same position awaiting the drying up of the
East river. HIS bosom is depressed or elated by
the rising er the falling of the tide; occasionally
the water is very low and then Rafferty, trem bles
with delighted anticipation. The spirits, how
ever, sadly interfere with his plans. Marine
mundane, and aerial, they are all opposed to
him. He fights against hope, encouraged only
by visions in his dreams. Latterly he has come
early into the Office before setting forth on his
proracted watch, and solicts pass to the city
from the attendants. He is usually told he mus
procure a beaver hat OF the latest PaT1sian ST vie
and standing collar before the document car
be granted him.
APPEARANCE OF THE ADMIRAL.
While we gaze upon him the doctors small
boat laden with officers, nears its landing
Erect in the Prov and brandIshing a boat-hook
is the famous Admiral He is adorned, az
usual, by battered old silk hat profusely or
namented with tags of fstring and colored cloths
clay pipe sho wing its bowl among them. His
ragged blue coat displays an eXtravagant amount
of buttons OF various patterns. Slightly bent by
his eighty years, the Admiral yet exhibits al