The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-11
A DILL SHOW.

We nre sorry to be compelled tt
admit that our good old friends OF the
Show BILL Menagerio have certainly
lost their spirits and farcical humol
with tho little common sense with which
they may have been once endowed
Under these distressing circumstances
what are the poor witless creatures to
do? It Is plain that tho remuneratinp
pennies once bestowed on their stilted
performances and bombastic jokes by
deluded customers entrapped by their
gorgeous advertising placards, have
ceased to afford sufficient revenue to
keep them from want. What then shall
the suffering creatures do?
We have reason to believe, too, that
tho beggars are ungrateful, which, for.
tunately for our own feelings. tempcrs
our anxious pity with Indignation. Not
withstanding the refusal Of the Show
Bill Menagorie, happening to be one OF
the parties in the enjoyment Of the mo-
nopoly Of the Associated Press dis
patches, to allow the DEMOCRAT, by the
payment of It's share Of the expense, to
lay the telographic news thus derived
before It's daily increasing readers
notwithstanding the Menagerie made
swift and pondcrous assault upon
what IL called the infant" DEMOCRAT.
predicting, at the same time, Its speedy
demise; Notwithstanding coarse, vul-
gar attack on u subsequent occasion
when We were innocent of tho most dis
tant thought or concern regarding the
Show Bill Clown and Acrobats; never
thelcss It Is well known to the public
chat the DEMOCRAT has contributed In
several instances charitable notices Of
the unfortunate performances OF the
Show Bill gang. What shall be thought
of their ingratitude, caused by selfish
and hardened hearts. and their loss of
ordinary Intelligence and inventive Gu
pacity. produced, we are told, by O
singular opidemical softening Of the
brain among tho debilitated crew, when
taking offense at q few playful sentences,
indicating our good-natured feelings to-
ward them, they allude to the DEMOCRAT
with the whole strength OF the COM
pany In the original, portentous, de-
structive name of Whdngdo0dle.
They are, in truth, as ungrateful and
idiotie In their conduct Us Is that marvel
of Illuminated type, the New Orleans
Times, which announces its leading arti-
Gle on Wednesday morning rs "Twee-
dlcdum and Tweedledee," one Of its
subjects being "Tweedledum," and the
other "Tweedledee," and on the next
morning Neutrality-suspicious." Great
Heavens What wreck our good old
friends of the Show Bill Menagerie
have become, since the New Orleans
Times Is supposed to be their advertiser
and organl
Nevertheless the DEMOCRAT is philan-
thropical by nature and is delighted to
have furnished to the feeble and weak
ening brains of the Show Bill type artists
an opportunity to prove that they have
not printed SO many circus bills with
out understanding, In small way, the
rules Of grammatical construction. The
DEMOCRAT, or the WhdngdO0dle, must
really explain repeat Wha,4jtlo0dtc,
because in the category of humor and
inventive genius it is to tho Menagerie
what that "last rose of summer left
blooming alone" was to the inspired
poet, and we wish the reading public to
do homage to the point and refinement,
past accomplishments, which once out
shone the painted hose on their agile
legs, and tho tiusel on their jackets. At
any rate the DEMOCRAT said o morning
or two ago, rather irritably we admit,
that it had no time nor inclination to
waste on the Show Bill Menagerie.
The word words ito waste words
happened to be dropped by our pen or
the printer, and 1t has furnished u theme
for one lengthy essay already, and 1t
may, perhaps, supply the Show Bill
organ with intellectual food for the
next year. or course we like to do
kind things, and since the New Orleans
Times evidently regards this accident
Of the non-use OF a word in a sentence
in the DEMOCRAT, though the sense, as
ID ODNiOuo CuOuSH CNCu W I'LL
beetles, as q sort Of precious theme for
editorial dissertation, wo are glad tho
occurred. We trust the Men
agerio will not let our exposure of the
farce disturb its equanimity. Go on
frecly-the Show Bill organ, depend on
it, will do quite as we'll on that subject
as on any other.
The most extraordinary and unmis-
taxable evidence OF approaching In
sanity, by softening Of the brain, or
is, that the Show Bill actually
that the Whdngdoodle will
not discuss. public questions seriously
with it. What plain indication OF pre-
destined madness! We are told that
they are not mad-oh, no, not at all
but simply cantankerous (sic) with
the Whangdoodle, and that the differ
ence between the House bill and the
amendment" Of the Senate bill is only
the Tweedledum and Tweedledee Of the
Returning Board" The DEMooRAT
does not wish to be deemed impolite,
but leaves it to all rational people to
say whether it would not be preposter-
Gus to attempt such discussion.
In the meantime, since we are little !
curious in the matter as to what answer
can or ought to be made in the case. we |