The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-26

animals, with figure OF Juggernaut in the
distance, was an elephant, and on the back Of
this elephant, gazing intently at nothing In
particular, was an idiotic-looking English
service officer, whose servant a native, was
making pretense Of shading the noble brow
, Of his employer from the fierce rays Of the
tropical sun with a bamboo umbrella. The
picture was a striking one, but 1t would have
been more impressive If the service officer
had had less the appearance of typical
bulldozer, and his servant had looked less
like gin-burning, pig-stealing colored Re-
publican leader.
! Next came
/ S0IOmOn's court.
! On throne was seated Solomon, the wise
King, who ordered the clerk OF the court to
cut In two o baby which had been brought to
him on writ Of hnbeds corpus TO settle the
disputed question Of ownership, which he
was unable to decide owing to the fact that
the witnesses on both sides had eontradlcted
each other and themselves. 1t will be re-
membered that one of the parties to the suit
refused TO accept half Of the infant, and that
Solomon very justly reverted his previous
decision and gave her the whole Of 1t.
Gathered around Solomon's throne were
many famous persons. In an attitude of ad-
miration was the celebrated Queen of Sheba,
who paid him the noted VISIT made him a
number Of presents and returned to the bosom
Of her family. Samuel, the Prophet, was
there, looking decidedly like a modern states
man predicting the consequences which
would result from resumption. David was
seated on the steps of the throne, harping on
the same old string with which he had
soothed Saul.
| There was also the Wandering Jew, the
man who has been. like John Browns soul,
marching on for number Of years 1t Is
said OF this individual that he began bis career
| OF wckedness by running away from his
father, O poor but respectable gentleman,
either q carpenter or cobbler by trade just
| at the age when he would have been able to
| give the old man q lift. He journeyed to the
East, and 1t Is stated that it was his report Of
| the homage paid to the infant Saviour by the
Eastern kings which brought on the slaugh-
ter of the innocents. He concluded his
wicked deeds. SO far as they have been re-
| corded, by building the cross on which the
| Saviour was crucified and refusing Him a
moments rest In his miserable little shop.
For this refusal he was punished by being
| ordered to move on until the second coming
He made his first and very probably his
last appearance In this city yesterday under
| q special arrangement with one Of the chief
| officers Of Rex's household. An enterprising
! jewelry firm had engaged him to dispose Of a
casf-off stock of jewelry, and when seen yes
terday he was endeavoring to induce Sam
son to purchase for Delilah, who was with
| him, pair of rich bracelets, guaranteed to
wear as long and look as well 95 gold.
A company OF
TyrO.Phwnicians
on one OF their vessels bound on one of their
famous voyages to distant lands. The PhD-
nicians. as everybody knows, or should know
were an enterprising people, and were a ma
ton Of peddlers, the greatest the world eyer
saw You might get rid OF lightning rod
man or a book agent but when Ph@nician
tackled you you had to buy or make up your
mind to be talked to death, and the Phnni-
clan didn't care which you did. In time they
became great commercial people. The crowd
on the boat yesterday made an attractive dis
play Of some of the products OF their labor,
including pair of machine-made pants,
prize shirt, and the famous purple dye, which
last was in the shape Of bottle of blue ink
Disguised with the want of appreciation
manifested by our citizens, the PhGnicians
drifted by, and there succeeded scene in
A big fat mandarin, In figure not unlike
baby elephant, reclined heavily In an easy
chair beneath a canopy of silk, and while an
olive-eyed maiden famed him, he gazed when
ever he was awake) Iistlessly down on two,
gentlemen Of his staff, who were doing their
level best to kill each other for his amuse-
ment and qualification as Is the habit OF
gentlemen of that country. Inspired by the
music of steamboat dinner gong which a
maniacal Chinaman was wildly beating the
pugnacious individuals fought furiously and
were still at 1t as they passed on, and bets
were even as to who would be the winner.
Following came
MahOmet and His Family,
on horseback, and leading was Mahomet
himself, the founder Of one Of the most
widely spread religions Of the world and the
creator Of a heaven peculiarly attractive to
even the modern mana heaven peopled
with beautiful women, and made up Of shady
groves and sparkling waters. In addition to
being famous as the founder of a creed, Ma
hommet is specially noted for going to the
mountain, because the mountain, not being
accustomed to moving around much,
wouldn't come to him. 1t is very probable
that If 1t had not been for this circumstance
that good many people, who feel familiar
enough with the old gentleman to make a
frequent and unwarranted use of his name,
never would have heard Of him. That noun
tain knew what was good for Mahommet
when it respectfully replied to his invitation
TO visit him that it really couldn't, but would
be pleased to have the Prophet himself call
round in friendly way. The Prophet was
followed by circus wagon, drawn by
richly capari5oned horses, one Of which was
ridden by eunuch. The wagon was loaded
with n select dplpuatiOn of the ladies' of