The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-22
PUNCH ON AMERICAN BEEF.

Y PUNCH ON AMERICAN BEEF.
Bos Americanus Vanquishes the Grasping
British Butcher
t3i II [London Cor. New York Herald I ~
American beef has been honored this
week with cartoon In Punch entitled
" Bos Amercanus; or, Yankee Beef and
English Butcher" The picture is ex-
ceedingly clever in conception. It por-
trays well-fed OK, the various Joints of
which are marked in true cookery-book
fashion, at prices ranging from 5 to 81
pence per pound. The head is spotted
with stars, like the field of the American
flag, and the .creases of the neck are
formed into stripes. The bull losses in
the air a British butcher, in whose hands
are scrolls marked Beef, I'D, :" Mutt
ton, I'D" A is poem entitled "The Brit
ish Butchers Dream, in which the poor
slaughterer of beeves sees the vision of
the bull as pictured. The rhyme runs
as follows
MEAT AND METRES.
" Who the dickens are you 2" snarled the butcher
With preposterous prices to puzzle and pain us %
Said the bull, with wink, g Wall, I'm known when
AS Bos Americanus.'"
"oho |" yelled the butcher, that much talked-of
Yankee
That's coming to cut down our profits? No,
thankee;
I'm boss of this business, and mean if I can,
TO keep to traditional prices"
Quoth the bull through his nose, T don't doubt
But you're hardly awake to this crisis of crises
Smart trick of those cannie Scotch feshers. Dare
say
You'd pot in that pile but the games had it's
My advent is fast getting known to the town;
Like the coon to our Colonel, you'll have to come
down."
'Come down ~ yelled the butcher: " Jolly, fine
I'll come down on you hot, as youll presently feel"
And he went for' that Dos with his knife and his
= But, hoist like football awoke
And found he had dropped all his bills in his
fright
An omen which spoiled his repose for the night.
Business Prospects in New England.
The symptoms of reviving business are
not being studied SO much as they have
been, but robuster and surer-footed
confidence appears instead. The March
winds are not more effectually brushing
the clouds of winter off the blue floor of
heaven than is this stifening breeze of
universal confidence hurrying all doubts
and hesitation out of sight In short,
the business sky is rapidly clearing, and
hope and trust are coming out to the
view. Every one realizes that the past
three and half years are not to be re-
traced, but that the costly experience of
that term has prepared the way
for the resumption of operations on
a foundation that promises to be perma-
nent. The observations of the best gen.
eral business authorities all unite in
prophecies of speedy improvement in
trade affairs.
Manufacturers feel the incoming infu-
ence equally with the merchants, as the
full renewal of work in mill after mill
explains. An inspection of the
markets of the country shows that
Over-production no longer obstructs COM
mercial movements. In the products of
the fields and the mills there has been
thorough working-up process going on,
till at the present time the call is forpro-
duction to take hold again. And this
implies the loading of cars, canal-boats
and lake vessels, the frelghtlng OF ocean
steamers, and busy distribution every
where by the enterprise and energy of
the great mercantile class. The machine
ry is all in order and we'll oiled, and it
is already beginning to move. When
the long-obstructed channels are free
again, the life will be the most cheering
we have had since the few years imme-
diately preceding the war, which all hope
is at last ended.-BOstOn Post.