The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-06-29
n Comic Panorama Of the Wdr.
THE EASTERN QUESTION IN A NUT SHELL

THE EASTERN QUESTION IN A NUT SHELL
This is a street scene in Kars We don't
know who it, but we know /. was saw
Probably some Russian car it. The city
is in state of siege. The gentlemen III
the foreground, feeling over his head fer
the ground, is a private gentleman in a
Cossack regiment. He is not feeling very
we'll He is i'll. A noment ago he met a
fifteen-inch shell, and was TOO busy to get
out of the way. His stomach lungs and
swallowing things went on with the SHE'LL
and lie will never smile and never emf oy a
square meal again. His comrades wish TO
send for the doctor. He declines. He says
he does not need him. He is right. He
can die without him. The doctor will weep
when he learns the Cossack is dead He
will bend over his lifeleSs folm, and then
he will weigh it, and put it an item, to the
last ounce, as a tumor he removed from a
gentleman in Scott county. Truly, in the
midst of life we are in debt.
Here is the Russian general. See the
wide landscape stretching away in the dim
distance. Let her stretch--it doesn't cost
us anything. y ou cannot see the Russian
general for his name. but he is there ali the
same, You can smell his breath. III eats
tallow car dies. This makes him light
hearted His name comes in by the big
IcCk on TIC ltit. ltliONS ttO COllSt Oh lHe
meanderng brook in the valley, winds
slowly up the mountain side, and disap-
pears in the direction of Ulpblowitch. IG
is nine miles long, without tue titles
When his mother used to call him up 20
breakfast she started at 8 o'clock p. NJ.
took a long breath and talked it off till
morning.
This is a telegraph Office. The bright
looking young man at the table Is a " est
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steel thing ticking away on the table is the
instrument The opera or is very easily
distinguished from the instrument. He
cannoi talk so fast as the instrument, but
he can sleep great deal moie. He is 60
ing TO sleep now. The man leaning over
the counter is heartless citizen, who has
the cheek to ask the operator TO send a de.
spatCh for him. The operator takes the
message. But he does not send it. He
hasn' thine. He loses nine games of check
ers while that citizen is wondering why he
doesn' get any reply to his despa ch. Then
the citizen starts out to walk to the place
and see the man, He finds him, and soon
after they meet, the despatch comes along.
The citizen remembers and recognizes it.
He is affected to tears. The operator finds
him, and charges him 40 cents for sending
the message, A. cents for the wear and ear
of the instrument, so cents for the strain on
on message, 65 cents on general principles.
He learns afterward that the citizen yet
has some money left and he is going back
in the morning to borrow it of him.
This is Constant O'Nople. He is the
leader of the muscle All the o. No
pies are muscular-men. Constant O'Nople
isn't afraid Of ST. Petersburg. He isn't
even afraid of a bedbug. The sound of the
bubl<shpesh is heard in The distance.
The IL. n Stai IF, i'm, "a
He leans up against the awning post and
remarks there isn't any use Of Roumania-
ing around there any longer. He is a book
agent. He has been kicked down three
pair of stairs. chased through an alley, Bit
by two dogs. been hit by poker, slapped
with boot jack. had a lump raised ON him
with "a barrel stave, been punched INTO a
cistern, got lost twice in strange Streets
been arrested four times on q charge of
vagrancy and on general suspicion, been
chased out of town as a swinder, whipped
by a drayman. robbed of his watch. lost
his hat been called 7S9, 900 different kinds
Of names. and sold two books, one of which
the man took and never paid him for, and
on the other lie made gross profit Of 80
cents. He is not rich, is this book agent,
but he is good. Be kind TO the book
agent You may publish IA book of your
own which you VIII want sold some day.
The Isles of Greece. ''The Isles of
Greece where burning Sappho loved and
sung The Isles of Greece were probably
kerosene isles. The isles where SapphO
burned were undoubtedly the same kind.
Started the Kitchen fire with them. There
is the lie in The gallon tin can under the
table. That is Sappho swearing at the
stove. because it won't draw, and looking
for the kerosene. She is going to make
balloon ascension in few minutes. and.
Just ms like as not, she will forget 10 60 out
doors before she starts up through the roof
into the blue cerulean dome above. The
aiSes where she loved and sung were diff
ferent ais!es in the church probably.
She was naughty. TO degree, but rather
nice. The isles of Greece are in no man
ner connected with the eXiles of Erin.
The gentleman To the right of the pic ure
in linen tunic and classic nose, is "A
Grecian. The gentleman down the valley
is a wiper at the 3. s. VI. shops. He is
just going down to rub Old 3SS, that had
to be pulled oil the bridge by a switch
engine the other day.
This is a miliner's clerk. He is going
to enlist in the suffers department. See
his ifs hang out over his hands. He
wears a three aud half boot. Aud hat
two sizes smaller. He does not work be-
cause he has to. Salary is no OBJECT to
him. Neither is it to his employers. They
pay him S11 a month, They
are not avaI icious men. They will pay
him half as much rather than have him /
discon,en;ed. lie would make excellent /
fish bait He is going to war, but he does !
not know which side he viii fight on. He &
can't tell until he sees which uniform is
most becoming to his complexion.