The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-03
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Doomed, doubtless for our sins, to read all
,Ihs speeches made by the President and his
followers, not less than those made 10 the
President and his followers, our weary eyes
have often run down the closely printed
eolumn in search of that cheerful Interpolation
by which the reporters (sly dogsD point out
the jokes, just as painter wrote, "This is a
horse, {" under his problematical Chef d'esvre;
: and we have come to the agreeable conclusion
that the American people are the easiest to
tickle in the world, and beat the gods all
hollow in ready and resonant laughter. Nor
Ia fsi;e svsrv nation which can boast Of SO many
statasmen who are also wags' Of first-rate
water: and we do not see why our Secretary Of
90 State should not follow the great example Of
Lord Bacon, and leave Jest book for the re-
creation Of future ages. 1t is wonderful how
little fun will set whole company to growing.
Thus, in the grave and academic groves Of
e Yale when the Secretary was introduced TO
the students as an LII, D. Of that College, Mr..
Seward, bowling, said "Ad eundem." (Laugh-
ter.) For six long hours we have studied this
joke, analysed it, translated it, transported it,
nut it in the form Of conundrum, para
gphrased IL into an epigram, rendered 1t into
Greek, read it backwards sought for its ESQ
teric and exOteric meaning, expecting every
moment TO burst into involuntary convulsions of
mirth, but baffled, weary, and disappointed,
we have come to the conclusion that its deli
cate essence was incapable Of transportation,
or that its distinguished anthor at that mo-
lnent of delivery must have aided the compre-
: hension of his auditors by some gesture or ply
siognomical expression at the precise moment
Of his delivery. Nothing is tiatter than fiat
champagne and this, doubtless, was.an excel
3 lent Dquirk at the instant Of its primal pop.
We can only regret that we were not on the
spot to enjoy it. ..el e. j.
But the humors of P. M. G. Randall, upon
the same occasion, were equally recondite, and
quite as enthusiastically sniokered at 'iHe
had conceived very unfavorable opinion of
Yale College, because it always turns out the
best of men," daughter and cheers.) The
Joke, evidently, here is on the words 'turns
g out that is, expels or rusticates. The stu
dents must be incorrigibly sad set of boys if
2 they found anything to laugh at in this
melancholy suggestion. If the P. M. G.. had
d ever been rusticated himself, he would know
that there is no fun in it whatever. What the
q Dons of the College thought of this flippant
allusion to this most fearful penalty which it
is in their power to infiict, we do not pretend
to know; they may, for politeness sake, have
joined in the laughter in hollow kind Of
way, but their private indignation must have
wrenched the very Hebrew and Greek roots
aOut vi eucAu d1lu Wo- 5LOulu AOS No oui PrlSou
TO learn that they determined on the spot
never to make the P. M. G.. either an A, B.,
. or an A. NJ, or an LID, or a Phi. D., or an
y $. 7. D., even speciaH gratia.f o. .i.5l
sul We have q large collection of jokes, made
at different points of the Presidential pro
gress, but they are too numerous for com
mentary in our crowded columns, and we NEAR
- to keep them for private discipline and self
modification at those moments when tht
exuberance of our spirits may be inconsistent
with just views of the melancholy nature Of
:. human life There are several quips of the
4 m Presidents making which might have sci
#, DemoOritus himself to blubbering; but we have
compassion on our readers, and forbear to quote
. them.