New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-29
RINGS IN THEIR NOSES.

room, which presents little attraction to
any except the most deprayed taste Of the
exquisite epicure. Your epicure, by the
way, cultivates a fancy for the strangest
articles Of diet. He Likes game SO high
that a plain man must endure the pangs
Of hunger, and hold his nose to partake
OF II. He glories in snails, shrimp and
other '.insects," as the late Horace
Greeley called these chronological delica-
cies. The favorite cheese Of the epicure
ofends the honest nostril in the same man
ner while every item in bill is so disguised
with condiments, and SO distigured with
French, that 10 unsophisticated palate
can by any possibility know what it is all
about until an irrepressible nausea
arises to protest against further COM
plaisance.
TIE trufie, as We have been informed,
affords no external indication of which
the epicure can lay hold, nor, indeed,
could he be expected to grovel upon the
earth in pursuit of that which subor-
dinate natures can be trained to procure.
The trutfe hunter, then, avails himself
of the animal instincts of the pig. He
employs that sagacious individual to pur-
sue the spoil by the unerring indications
Of aroma, and to dislodge the truttle from
its bed by that subscil pillow, his nose.
Were, however, his natural appetite thus
employed left without restraint, the
epicure would never see truttle. The
hunter has put around the mouth or
through the nasal cartilage, a ring,
so that when the precious spoil is found
the hunter has nothing to do except to
kick eff the pig and pocket his prize.
The Democratic politician has for a
long time followed this easy mode of Sc
curing the spoil through the agency of
subordinates who it was supposed could
no more aspire to hold an Office than a
pig could have cooked trrftIe. The
ward hummer was sent into the election
to work for The election of superior
who reclined in his easy chair, and in
dulged the actual and anticipated treas
ures Of the campaign until it was assured
that the spoils had been secured. Then
the baronial Democracy assembled in
council, they assigned and assorted the
offices among themselves and their in
vised convives.
The ward bummers who lad hunted the
offices, with the ring Of incapacity to fill
them, were duly rewarded with subor-
dinate salaries as policemen and porters,
and grunted their uneducated content
with the share assigned them. Somehow
or other these Democratic spoil hunters
have found out that trufflas are good;
somehow they have discovered that these
delicacies belong to those who capture
them somehow it has been suspected
that even the preparation OF these spoils
has never been patented, and somehow or
other the subordinate hunters of political
spoils have slipped the ring which their
Democratic trainers had put through their
noses, and they are now devouring with
ravenoas appetites the Injuries which
It was once supposed could only
be appreciated by the cultivated appetite
Of the Bourbon Apicius. Really this is
q bad business, thus slipping the ring off
tie nose Of the Democratic hummer.
Really, if it shall come to this, that the
bold baron is to ask the O'Leary for
Office, society will be utterly disorganized,
you know. Yes, the Democratic ring has
been slipped or broken from the nose of
the Democratic voter, and all ''the gen.
tlemen Of Louisiana" can never hunt the
trrfie Of office with those whom they con-
sidered but created to perform that ser
vice. The Democratic pig has become a
learned pig. He has a cultivated taste
for office. He can enjoy that luxury with
the best. 1t will be difficult matter to
get the trutfle out of his jaws now that he
has no ring in his ostrils.