Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-02-18

I
J ture Associations have this winter had
decidedly ap-hIn business. But few
Of the lectures have paid expenses,
none have been largely profitable,
while the majority have resulted in
finaneiaI loss The Associations have
done Their BEST and have made great
efforts tl please the Puh1es We pre-
sumo she ealne may bs Md of the lee
turerss sNho have for tie most part
been such s. usually. draw crowded
housess Pos bIvs others might have
done better. But tElat S e1ojeeture.
We think the thihneas Of he au-
dieneea has been das iri 4 great meas
ure to an increasi mdhe nee to
this class cf IN They
appear to begfovging b astaIe, and
the time seems to have passed by when
a lecture by anybody can be regarded
as much of a sensation. The truth is,
the world Is leetured, as Haall HssgVv-
erned, too much. = II has becoUne, as it
fwere, lecture hardened. If we could
have two or three winters respite.
our Associations would no doubt be
tgladdened again by crowded houses.
SomefhiBg Of the old novelty would
return, and good literary digestion
would tread the heels Of appetite. But
tjust now there seems to be q prevail
ting surfelt, and It wouIdn't be bad
idea for Messieurs and AFesdames, tn e
/ lecturers. to relieves it by. 4 few Brilliant
flashes of silence. 20 s4l lt.-s ully s.f5
The time has been when the mere
announeement of Du ChaIIlu w0tId
have filled every seat in Williams
Hall On Monday night there were
hardly as many seats filled as it re-
quired half dollars. to pay expenses.
The lecturer did not arrive until the
eight O'Clock evening train, giving.
ample time 70 the latest com nsrs TO get
seated, and the earliest ones to getsin1-
patient. The audience bore this delay
good uaturedly, the more SO because
some excellent music by the Univer-
sity Orchestra gaEe-wingsl to the lag
gard moments. 7slfo
Monsieur Du Chaillu having at
length arrived, and being introduced
by Mr.. s. K. Denavin, soon made mp
fors 'lost time. /" His first sentences
caught the attention Of the, 1isteners
and All that followed held it. The
speaker was racy in aty lie, and decidedly
lively IN manner He speaks not with
tongue only,1 but with every joint
and muscle. His language, though
broken, was well articulated, and mot
very difficult to follow. rs
His. hearers soon found themselves
with him on the. ocean, voyaging to
Africa, that mysterious continent,
about which SO little comparatively is
known, and in. many respects the1
most remarkab1e country ihthesW orld.
Soon we are on the coast, and then in /
the wild African village. in the jungle,
sWeltering under an equatorial san.
The lecturer painted the strange
scenes of the wilderness with remark
able yiTidness, and the nntnd readily,
became fascinated with. his novel; gex-t
periences and wild adventnres. we |
have noB room TO follow him through !
the sHacital Of the. two years'I wan
deriAss which comprised The eetuFe.-
Flrequent saIlies of wit and5an aoeea-
'sionaI good story gave zest to sr-
ration. His description of thee bel
haRior of the CannibaI King, when hesh
first bebeId himself ia a leokingsglass,
was quite as funny as his account of
the horrid evideneesof atthropopA 4gg
in the Canniba1 village was. ,fearfulss L
Al little matrimonial adventure with !
which the public issOmewhat familiar
v as related well enough TO make y ast
good as new .Dus sChailIu having
formed the Afrscan king whose gnest3
heEvas,g that he must leave the tribeltO
continue his Journey into the lnteEieT,1 y
was surprised soon after blythe sudden
disappearance Of. ahis royal hosteafAE +
few days afterward he was equaH y
surprised te behold a great crOsyJi5ao
human beings approaching his hhlltS
from the jungle, and suspecting Inis-
chief, began to feel alarmed, but using
his glass, discovered thagathe crowd
was composed entirely of Wemen5 and
was relieved from fsrther al xi ETY.
Directly the assembly formed q grand
array in front Of Du ChaiIlu's hut s'and +
the king, who. was al. the head of the
band. addressed his host in a speech Of
two hours duration, concluding with
an CLE6E 7OLEaAA4U nEA9O1
wife from the s5S.Women before him, if
he would remain with the tribe. The.
traveller. embarrassed by the presence
of, so much beauty, replied that such i
thing would not do, beeanse ifvhe
were to select one, the S5Z not selected i,
would be Jealous. This puzzled the I
king, and he Withdrew for eOHguita-
ton. After easWhile he returned and
made another speech to Du Chaillu,
and proposed that instead of choosing
one of the women, he should take them
al! The speaker thought it strange3
that while he could have got s5S wives
when he wanted none, now that cir
cumstauees were different, he could |
not get one. |
The accounts of gorilla bunting weret
of course very interesting. Thet
speaker, at the conclusion of the lee-
ture, exhibited the skull Of a ten-year-
old gorilla, which we understood him
TO say he had killed. (
This lecture was procured by the
Young Mems Christian Association,
which deserves therefor the thanks of
the public.