The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-05-07
BUZZ or THE FUNNY MAKERS
a Delighted Audience Friday Night

dies and gentlemen were present 10
enjoy the fun. The first two sets
Of tnightly spoilers entered tho or
biographical tournament noder the
leadership Of respectively, Captain
Chas. Allen and Capt. w, Penn Me
Clatchey. Prof. Charles Lane gave
OUT the words, aud Rev. |. Il. Bran
ham and Rev. " f. Glenn wee
referees,
The following regulations were
read
LIST. The spoilers will be allowed
only one trial.
"a. Webster and Worcester shall
be regarded as standard authorities.
I'd. A spcller can appeal to the
referees in regard to the pronuncia>
| ton and definition of word,
I 4th Words Of different meanings,
! but Of tho same sound, mast be de-
fined.
oh, The classes headed by their
ca ytains will first spell agains; each
other, then the entire class will spell
! for the frs. aod second prizes. The
/ Ounce class, consisting, Of the first
| ten who miss, will be called back at
ter all are down, and spell Cor the
blue spelling book, the first one
missing obtaining it.
9th. ANY speller not understands
ing word may call for repetition.
9Th. A speller upon missing a
word will retire amid the applause
Of the audience.
The spelling commenced and as
each one misspelled 4 word, j. Paul
Leake sounded the bugle, which
blasted the hopes of the unfortu,
mates.
Mr.. A, d. Rucdc had his "briIlian
cy" dimmed by leaving out an es>
scntisi ID"
James Dobbs failed to fortify him
self against "buINa,k" and fell &
victim by putting it "Ja'yarh,'
Walter Atkinson has had many
''lussio" with his schoolmates, but
he was throwed when he put i; "hts
tie" and was bIowed out of position.
Armstead Bozeman is no doubt Il
patriotic hater of tyranny" no
matter whether it be in rulers, gov
ernments or Webster's Dictionary,
from the fac; that he tried 10
straagle that word by hurting
"tvmy' at Prof Lane. Boze. was
F., hastily carried ont on a bugle blast.
lie SAYS he wouldn't mind spelling
for a prize, if they would use Josh
Billings as standard authority.
There is nobody that loves good
"victnals" better than Richard Bran,
ham, bu. he "chawed" that word
terribly when he belched il ''rietieS'
and then retired to the jury room to
in1.ct Prof. Lane for not giving him
q more palatabie word.
. TO Willy" Is not in tha compost
ion O! MoLoa Nichols, consequently
he put it riiyae,
Willie Lanier tour printer boy) is
SO accustomed to handliog station
cry, that when they wanted him to
be fixed and firm, he left ont the Il
and inserted an c. 1t dy,near his
. tongue, but was too "statiQnaFy' 10
! get out.
DE-. I'd. Csson, dentist, differed
with Webster in polling "schismaJ-
ioal," and plugged the wrong tooth
when he epi, oat 'chYSH4ticGl' He
left "loQking down 10 the mouth.'
Ed. Simpson put it ''cintiIate' and
then his scintillations went out in
darkness
George Wbitlock had his cncum-
Der picked when he put ''gherkia"
in the novel way '9erkin.'
"Catechelicai' is 9 hard vopd to
spell by telegraph. aud when it was
nut to A. ". York, operator, his
key wouldn't work. he fingered it,
bat evidently the wires were down.
He could get out 'cat-cotch cochi
ket-ical, and then he stepped down
and out to wait for another call
He laughed heartily and enjoyed The
inn.
At last Capt. NIcCIatchey failed to
"marruvre" his letters right and
crawled through Paul Leake's bugIe,
pulling the mangied remains Of
'D,anurfr' after him.
Willie Haynes. spells we'll, bnt he
hasn't had his "pictVr tax for some
! time and he slipped 'da9HTT0fAPe' IL
TO Prof. Lanes ear and wiIled.-
Daguerreotype is a mouthful any
how, end deals more in shadows
than substance.
Our friead K. II, Barn well doubt
less thinking he was riding with the
Misses in Chpck'a "phaton,' IN
thnuobtcdlv misspeIled that elegant