Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-11-04


From the well-knOwn publishing
house of J. B. Burr & Co. of Hartford, +,
Conn.,, comes the above entitled work,
fresh, piquant, and full of interest.
''The Great Snowman having retired
to private life in the shades of his
cherished 'WaldemeTe, /" Ia picture of
which accompanies his boOk,l has
been induced to give the public his
.'eXperienceN during forty active
years, in large volume of 800 pages,
adorned with over thirty excellent
engravings. His public career of over
forty busy years. has been most
eventful, and is reeited TO us herein
in spirited narrative, beguiling the
reader irresistably on to the end rs
surely as he opens the book. The
work is not only exceedingly instruc-
tive in that interesting study, human
nature" but abounds with humorous
anecdotes we'll told. Whoever likes
fun mingled with good sense, or would
learn ''men and things, - thoroughly,
and chow to get along in the world, -
and "make money - will be delighted
with Barnum's "Struggles and Tri-
umphs."
The book contains his celebrated
lecture on ''The Art of MOney-Get-
ting" which excited so much interest
and comment in England and this
country, few years ago, and which
is worth in itself many times the cost
of the book. AS traveller Barnum
exhibits as much genius as in any 9TH
er character, and il is highly amusing
to follow him on his journeys. The
Typography of the book is excellent,
of clear, bold type, easily red, and
does credit to the publishers.
Fl STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHsn is a
peculiar book in every way, aad is
one of those works fortunately adapt
ed for domestic reading, to be taken
up, if one likes, "every now and then"
and, opened at any page, furnishing
cheerful reading for the passing hour
However, whoever takes it up will be
apt TO be lured on to the end before he
stops, so full of interest is it.
We give our readers an extract from
the book:
The managers of railroads running
west from Chicago pretty rigidly en-
force a rule excluding from certain re-
served cars all gentlemen travelling
avoid the smoking cars; and as the
ladies' car was sometimes more select
and always more comfortable than
other cars, / tried various expedients
to smuggle myself in. If saw a
lady about to enter the car alone,
followed closely, hoping thus to elude
the vigilance of the brakeman, who
generally acted as door-keeper. But
the car Cerberus is pretty well up to
alIssuch lodges, and I did not always
succeed. On one occasion, seeing a
young couple, evidently Just married,
and starting on bridal tour, about to
enter the car, / followed closely, but
was stopped by the door-keeper, who
called out:
Elbow many gentlemen are with
this lady"
have always noticed that young
newly-married people are very fond
of saying ''my husband" and 'my
wife," they are new terms which
sound pleasantly to the ears of those
who utter them; so in answer to the
Deremptory inquiry of the dOor-keep-
er, the bridegroom promptly respOn-
ded:
"I am this lady's husband"
'tAnd / guess you can see by the
resemblance between the lady and
myself" said to CerbeTus', that I
am her father"
The astOnished husband and the
blushing bride were too much "taken
aback" to deny their newly-diseOver-
ed parent, but the brakeman said, as
he permitted the young couple to pass
into the car: ia
ave can't pass ali creation with
one lady, ~
"I hope you viii not deprive me Of
the company of my child during the
little time we can remain together"
/ said with a demure cOuntenance.
The brakeman evidently sympathized
with the fond 'parient' whose feel
ings were sufficiently lacerated at
losing his daughter through her find
ing husband, and I was permitted to
pass. I Immediately apOlOgiZed to
the young bride and her husband,
and told them who I was, and my
reasons for the assumed paternity,
and they enjoyed the joke so heartily
that they called me father during
our entire journey together. Indeed,
the husband privately and slyly hint
ed to me that the first boy should be
christened "P. T.. Ny friend the
Rev. DR.. Chaplin, by the by an invet-
crate punster, is never tired of ring
ing the changes on the names in my
family; he says that my wife and l
are the most sympathetic couple he
ever saw, since she is t'Charity" and
/ am s'Pity" p. Z. On one occasion
at my house in New York, he called
my attention to the monogram, p. T.
b., on the door and said, II did it."
"Did what, ~ I asked: "Why that, ("
replied the doctor, "P. T. B.,-Pull
TIE Bell, of eourse,p thus literally
ringing a new change on my initials.
At another time during my western
leeturing trip, 1 was following closely
in the wake of lady who was enter
ing the favOFite ear, when the
brakeman exclaimed: r"
s1You can't go in there, sir ~
''I rather guess can go in with a
lady nsaid I, pointing to the one who
had just entered.
: .HNot with that lady, old fellow
for happen to know her, and that is
more than you do; we are up to all
these travellers tricks out here; it's
no CO."
q 1 saw indeed that it was ''no go,D
and that must try something else
''IIook here, my dear fellow, said /,
al am travelling every day on the
railroads, on Iecturing tour through
the West, and / really hope you will
permit me to take a seat in the ladies'
car. J am Barnum, the Musuem
man from New York"
Looking sharply at me for an in
slant, the altogether too wide-awake
brakeman exclaimed s'NOt by a
d-n sight you amt! I know Bar
numi''
1 could not help laughing; and
pulling several old letters from my
pocket, and showing him the direct
ions on the envelopes, I replied:
'Well, you may know him, but the
'old fellow has changed in his ap-
pearanee, perhaps. You see by these
letters that am the 'erittur.'
The brakeman looked astOnished.
hut finally said HWpfI. that is a fact