The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-23

title of "Zundnsdeln" take more ambitious
fight and show better drawing English
and Belgian neutrality is handled in
one sketch which shows England giving
rifles to the French with one hand and taking
money with the other, while Belgium is
making pets of the French soldiers In
another Bismarck is rejecting the overtures
of motley crowd of Representatives of neu-
tral powers, among whom John Bull figures
in an imposing court suit and chancellors
wig. He tells them he can make no use of
their proposals, and that they had better write
back to their houses to say that his firm has
already, Nte6erldgei5 in Frankreich gemacht,
that its Alsace and Lorraine branches are
firmly established, and that for the future
the House of Germania means to do business
on its own account. If this is to be taken as
an indication of the popular feeling, it does
not look well for the chances of Intervention.
Another subject dealt with by the German
caricaturists is the attention lavished on the
captive Turcos by the German ladies. They
appear to feel strongly in this matter In one
picture the officer in command of the escort
addresses a bevy of ladies who are
dallying with some very hideous Africans on
a railway platform-''Now, then, ladies, if
you want to kiss those black pets of yours
make haste, for the trains going to start.
Another is a view of an imaginary ''Heiraths-
Bureau fur Turkos, in which Turcos, drawn
as like monkeys as possible, are being made
fierce love TO by a number of German dam
sells. One lady is showing her affection after
the fashion prevalent in monkey society by
relieving her beloved of what we may de-
scribe, by a convenient phrase borrowed
from Lothian, his ''social parasites" There
is considerable drollery about the wood-cuts
to a comic history of the war in several
sheets, in which all the incidents are
given in due order, from the fight
of the Queen of Spain and the offer
of the crown to Prince Leopold
down to the capitulation of Sedan. These
will in time be great boon to the youthful
student of history, for every scene has its
illustration-from the garden interview at
Elms to Bismarck in bed receiving the news
of the Emperor's surrender. Even the his
torical two chairs have their portraits. The
venerable Kl0dderdd0tSch, of course, has in
grave way his illustrated Jokes about the
war. The unlucky complimentary speech of
! the Bavarian to the Grown Prince about beat
| ing those confounded Prussians in 1866 fur
nishes one. Another is a scene in Nancy
where a landwehr-man asks across counter
for a groschen's worth of their "famous
! French elan" to which the shopkeeper re-
plies that they have been long out of the
article; but the most connical are the
illustrations to askit upon the geography and
/ imagination of the French war correspond
ents. There is grotesque view of
the bombardmens of Potsdam by the
French iren-clad fleet, and another
still more spirited of the storming by
Zouaves of the fortress of Buckow, which,
by the way, is described as a mountain strong
hold on the Swiss frontier, and the key of
Pomerania and Bavaria. Two of the Puncl
cartoons, especially the duel scene, seem to
rival the native article in popularity, and
another adaptation from abroad is the
famous comic French map of Exrope,
which came out at the beginning oi
the war, and which has been modified
to suit German views; the bloated landwehr
man grasping Holland and South Germany
being changed into comely but determined
young Prussian, wholly intent upon driving
his antagonist the Zouave into a corner
This, perhaps, may be kind of pictoria
manifesto in answer to certain Belgian carl
catures attributing sinister designs to Prussia
such as the ''Gateau Beige" where a Prus
sian and Frenchman are represented cutting
into mighty cake, out os which steps Bel
gian rifeman with fixed bayonet, while
British soldier and sailor back him up, tn
latter showing that formidable ropes ent
which appears to have now become the recog
nized symbol of naval force. .IrE