Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-17
VOL. LXXIN.
THE FUTURE CAR.

THE FUTURE CZAR.
The real Shah, of Persia, has just goac from
England, and only'a mock Shah remained TO
keep the Londouers in sensation. La other
words when even the most invcuerate ufslght-
seerS aud gossips were beginning to weary Ut
running after the Persian sovereign, and read
ipg about him, three clever people, namely, a
brilliant ccmlc writer, smart manager, and
capital CONT dian of the opera ooutfe school, put
their heads together and supplied i fresh scnsa-
lion from the seemingly exhausted materials
They put on the stage OF our Opera Comique Il
ski!l!ui adaptation from The Frcuch with
burlc~que figure OF the Shah of Persia for its
principal parsonage The actor was really
!. good deal like the Shah in the out-iiues Of
his face, aud he made up 50 we'll that he stood
upon the stage as like tue Shah as the Shah
himself Still, this might have been nothing
after all but for the happy Inspiration which
drove our Lord Chamberlain to cndcavor TO
stop the performance: Our Lord Chamberlain
has among his many important duties, the ot
lice Of regulating the propllctieS and morals
OF the metropolitan theatres, Now, 10
place Ike London, where people will have
apy,hiug played which pleases them, such
function necessarily is ridiculous. ii you
mad Patio or Bacon for Lord Chamberlain,
he must >cmetimes make fool of himself. =
The Lord Cumberland, believing hc ought TO
be dong something, condemned the impeESnn-
afi.u Of hc Shah. The actor conceded 81 lar
IS 10 make the tint Of his tace half SHADE les
dark, aud played on as before. The Whole at
lair made u noise, OF course, and the natural
result was that all London was crpwding To
laugh at the Shah Of tie Opcra Conlquc. One
night, when happened to b: there, 0c had
visitor whose feelings with regard TO the bur
lc>quc Shah aud tue real Shah W. should all
have been rather curious to know. Ibe roSa.
box was duly prepared for his reception. I'll
sautic bouquets aud satin ray bills were con
spicuously set forth. The visitor came at last,
only Just IN time to see the hurlcSque Shah,
and evidently indifferent to the oper"tta which
had preceded this vauy ccnSurcd representa-
ZION. The late conner, to whom as he entered
the box all eyes We're turned away from the
stage Is not a handsome man Ills face is de-
cidediy Calmuck in its type. He is u good deal
like one Of the Russians whom Punch used to
draw during the Crimean war, aud when it was
an article of faith in England ,ha. every Rus
sian was fat-nosed, drunkcu, and addicted TO
the stabbing of wounded prisoners. The visi-
tor, I need hardly say, was the Grand Duke
Alexander. eldest son of the Car and heir to
the Russian thrope. = Gotnay TOR December.
THE ASGLo-SAxoN CHEER-What ser.
7iceable cry and word ot.all-work is provided
Tor US by our familiar hurrah Probably no
other tongue, ancient or modcru, ever posses
sed cheer so varouSly useful. Certainly the
Greek and Roman had no cry OF wider appllca-
tl0n and we may surmlSe that the "hosanDah,
whence, as philologists say, huzza may have
come, as we'll as the Gothic word of hurry and
agitation whence our "hurrah'' aud the Swed-
sh hurra are derived, were also far more llml-
ted 10 employment. We discharge our cheers
in volleys of three or voeys of nlue, or VIC load
and FIRE them at will; we hurrah at an Grafton,
procession. an after dinner toast, an extra
holiday at school. show Of fireworks, yacht
race, the announcement of election returns, the
ing of a redoubt. Compared with this the ex
ullaut cries of the modern Latin race are very
contracted in application. They must be dl
rectcd at some specific person or thing-Flv"
el rey, Eivc Garibaldi, Eive le President or
else Elve / Empire. or live Assemblce-
and they are net pure expressions OF i genera |
Joyous excitement Let Us concedc that our
.hurrah" is rather ii barbarous shout, well
worthy of its barbarous origin. 1t certainly
has not the refinement Of wye, viva vivo; and
as it lacks their delcacy Of sound, so does it
also lack their defnlteness OF Specification.
Nevertheless, the piping sound Of Wye can
hardly give the iull-lungcd satisfaction Of the
yell "hurrah' and hence Datives OF other
countries who come to our own, take kindly to
our popular shout, and inquire no more than
We Americans do what the word really means.
-Galary.
INTOXICATING MEAT-"Ninon de l'Encos
used to declare that beefsteak intoxicated her,
and perhaps it did; but it would not be fair on
that account to charge drunkenness on every
wouan who cherished q partiality tor slrlolns
and porter houses.
There isa slight mistake here: 1t having been
her soup | believe, which Miss L0nec|othes
found SO exhlarating. That, however, Is oi no
Importance. But would it not be fair to charge
at least au inclination to druukenness upon
WOMAN who exhibited partlahty tor porter
hou>es?' On the face of it vino could say no!
II Is only those who know that in New ork u
certain cut Of beef is called porter house
steak, who would be able to unrayel the con-
fusion that follows the taking OF the compound
adjective and usiug it absolutely in the plural :
porter houses meaning something to eat Ihlnk
item Generally this use of adjcctlves IS; the
result of mere shifllessness and sIoth, except
when II is truly poetic. And the exception does
hot touch the poiot in question:; tor the drag
s!ns down of poetlcal expressions into the ser
Vice of prosaic, work. a-day needs is less ex-
el>ahe than laziucSs, and is one Of the worst
manifestations of vulgarity in speech. = Gatary
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