Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-26
BROMLEY'S LECTURE.

Bromley, and for that reason we hope that
Mahomet may be induced to come here and
deliver his lecture. The last serious attempt
to which our people were witnesses III the way
of an illustrated lecture was made by that
lamentably interesting son of Assyrla, Adolph
Sutro In this instance we had good pictures,
hard struggling, strangulated English, all
instructive narration, stump speech and
cute advertising dodge These were blended
in a most remarkable manner and kept the
audience for as much as three awful hours in
a state of mingled amusement and apprehen-
sion, very curious to contemplate. 1t was
like a hanging, almost Some of Adoph
salhes at "Beel Shaywon" were amazing sharp.
They were too rasping to be funny; but they
made the people laugh one laughs at the
blare of an unexpected bassoon or the sudden
and untimely outburstng of an ASS plaintive
bray. The pictures which were thrown upon
IA white surface by calcium light were excel
lent As we have also intimated, the dis
course relative to the theory of the formation
of the Comstock was admirable. The voice.
though, was as the voice of an inspired coffee
mill afflicted with the diphtheria. On We'd
nesday evening Mr. Bromley lectmed in Sac
ramento, and the Record Union of Thursday
reports him as follows:
He was greeted by large and very superior
audience. He began by saying that the
pleasantest recollections of his life were assoc
ciated with Sacramento, his old, his early
California home. He had not anticipated
becoming lecturer, but still he remembered
he was even then-when a resident here-a
lecturer and much known. He lectured to
hundreds of congregations i'll Sacramento,
but his lectures We're then brief and positive,
about the only words being AL aboard. He
doubted If any speaker moved his audience
more ehfectually than he used to do his III
those days. No, he had not thought then Of
taking the stage, but he recognized the wisdom |
of the immortal bard who had declared all |
the worlds stage, and all the men and !
women in it merely players for outside /
seats, next the driver, as the lecturer had |
often noticed. He enlarged upon staging. |
and said Hank Monk had gained about as
much celebrity by running Horace Greeley |
over the mountains as Greeley had won by |
running for the Presidency All lecturers |
referred to their early youth, and he supposed |
he must also. He was a native of New Lon
don, Connecticut, renowned for two things
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the speaker to the world He describes his .
youthful aspirations, his early ambition, his
poetic boyish longings, all crushed, alas, by !
stern parent, who kept him at home to
turn the wheel in a rOpewalk. He knew of /
nothing utterly demoralizing to youthful
aspirations as-turning wheel in a ropeWalk.
Rebelling against the slavery of the wheel, he
went to sea III a tOpsail schooner bound for
Africa, and the voyage was the subject of his
lecture. The theater was then darkened and
i stereoptican disc thrown up against 4 white
screen, on which some good and many OF the
most ludicrOus pictures were exhibited. His
description of these composed the lecture
which was an ola podrida of nonsense, with
now and then bit of useful fact, and here
and there touch of fine sentiment. The
stereOpticon did not work we'll being in new
hands, and this annoyed the lecturer great
deal, and embarrassed him not a little, but
he made the best of it, and dropped III,
some as humorous things con
corning the apparatus anything he uttered
in the prepared lecture. He frequently
broke the thread Of his discourse with the
most lrrevelant matters and pictures Thus
he gives views of Sacramento i'll the flood,
and the old beach at Saucelito, with the story
of an enterprise i'll which he and Captain Bob
Parker engaged-a hide and horn enterprise, l
which failed because the firm and employers ,
put too many horns inside their hides. 1t is :
difficult to define Mr.. Bromley's humor or
describe his wit. Neither are of an aggressive '
kind; he is mildly sarcastic and modestIy c
satirical. He is humorous i'll the absurdity T
Of his SMILES and the originality of his man
ner. His hearers must expect the veriest
which i'll all its absurdity, is calcu- /
lated to affect the disabilities without leaving v
any very deep impressions as he himself put t.
t, if his auditors do not realize their expec- /
ations, it is because they have expected what =,
hey will not realize. As a whole, Mr.. BrOm-
ey's ludicrous pictures; quaint puns and dry n
lumor pleased the audience and kept it III D
ippes of laughter the whole evening Fl
THE POETRY OF THE Roach FAMILY.-In y
he left-hand corner of the first page of the q
San Francisco Examiner of Thursday is a d
'oem by I. A Roach We suppose this is "
'hil's father, from whom, doubtless, Phil in u
erits his own poetic genius. Says the first
erse of the old gentleman's song: IL
Evening shades fall round us, Mother Of
And seem to you there,
As you sat, in years vanished. re
In your lOwly rocking chair;
In the days when |, your frst-bOrn Ill
Used to listen you'd tell 90
WOndrouS stories of the glOres "
OF the land where fairies dwell. de
We think we hear Phil himself singing with ar
is mellow voice tb
Look Mother at m AnpOra fleece