The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-26
OUR KING!
HIS REIGN YESTERDAY.
A Comic History of the WOrld.--
The Pageant.
The Throng ON Our Streets
During the Parade.
THE KINGS BAIL AT EXPO
SITION PALACE.
THE D. 0. M. MAKE A GREAT HIT.

THE D. 0. M. MAKE A GREAT HIT.
Bathurst had made contract with Old
for Ole ef the finest days in the
stock on hand, and as the contract was strict
ly carried out a day in every respect just
such a one as could be desired was furnished.
At an early hour the city began to turn out
into the streets, and In a short time they were
thronged with a happy, bustling. anxious
and curious crowd, made up Of old people and
young people of both sexes and the various
shades Of color between white and black,
jostling and pushing each other, hurrying
this way and that In the most excitedly
withal the best natured manner in the world.
Public and private buildings along the line
OF march were decorated with the royal
cOlors, and the verandas and windows of
these same buildings were filled with people
hardly less excited than those on the streets
just about the time that everybody had got
comfortably fixed it became generally known
that the pageant had moved, and in a short
time afterwards 1t appeared on Carondelet
street
THE PROCESSION,
was headed by two English knights clad In
armOr and bearing shields and lances In their
hands. Then came bishop, the spiritual adj
wiser Of his Majesty, clad in the robes of his holy
Office He was accompanied by two Knights
Templar. They carried shields ornamented
with the red cross Of the order.
They were followed by heralds and the
Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Constable
OF the Empire, acting as an escort to the
banner Of England. Then came
THE KING
In the character of Richard Coeur de Lion.
He wore chain armor made of FURNISHED gold
with priceless crown on his head studded
with precious gems. He rode powerful and
spirited animal, who was richly caparlsoned
In velvet The saddle was covered with cloth
OF fine texture, and the bride and trappings
were studded with diamonds and other stones
OF prioe.
Then came body Of the household officers
OF the King attired in manner befitting
their exalted station. 1t was
COMIC history OF TIE WORLD,
made up Of living and moving forms and
figures, grotesque and mlrth-provoking, and
withaI capital caricatures Of the persons and
the scenes represented.
The first OF the pictures was the
The Garden of Eden.
sheltered spot in Paradise. In the FORE
ground, seated beneath a tree around whose
waving branches was coiled the tempter SER
pent, was Adam, and standing near was his
well-beloved wife, Eve, the first couple OF the
world, and the root from which the very old
est family tree sprung, and all sin and trouble
Of this world came. Adam did not appear to
be we'll; he looked as If he had gotten through
with his share Of the apple and 1t had dlsa-
greed with him. He had the general appear
anee OF wanting to go somewhere and die and
be done with 1t. Eve, on the contrary, was
serene and happy, for had she not succeeded
In bulldozing Adam into eating his shareof
the Jersey pipin, and was not she disposing>
OF what remained, thereby securing to her
self new dress and an introduction into out
side society. for both Of which she had yearn-
| ed since the honeymoon began to wane, and
Adam had gone back to business and his spec
ulations In Premium Bonds and State Con-
soils and got to be prosy? This being turned
out of the Garden of Eden for violation OF
the terms OF the lease was not much punish
ment to Eve, for though she exchanged to
less elegant quarters they were in a more
populous and fashionable neighborhood.
In the back ground was the good boy Able,
looking as good boys always do, very mild
and weak and pale; and the bad boy, Cain'
robust and healthy, as the average bad boy
always Is. The two first hopefuls OF the nrse
pair Of doting parents mentioned IN sacrel
history were nice pair, very piayiui anu
sportive, and full OF Old Nick, with just aS
much reverence for age, and the respeceaoiiity
which accompanies it, as their de8eheia.o
young brothers of the present day. Aoie
was sIyIy blowing one OF those teh-ceno
trumpets which Santa Claus when ne Wants
revenge on an entire nelghborhood, presents
| To the widest boy with the strongest pair Oh
lunas In It: and Cain was munchlng tuf-
min which his thoughtful mother had put up
NTH bis lunch. when, al 30 a. M, she had
threatened to tell his father IL he did not fol-
low in the footsteps OF his good little brother
and hasten to school. At the same time both
we're making pretense OF paying the deepest
attention to the venerable Methuselah, who,
notwithstanding the weight Of his nine hum
dred and ninety odd years, had taken con-
tract to teach them the alphabet, and was
faithfully endeavoring to carry out his part
Of it. The happy family passed on and were
followed by picture OF
The Deluge.
OF course the Ark was there as the central
figure, for who ever saw picture OF the
Deluge without the Ark?
The rain-storm, which had been a rather
heavy and continuous one, flooding the
streets, making good many thoroughfares
impossible, and drowning quite large num-
Der Of people and a considerable quantity
OF live stock, was over, and the bright sun
| and bracinp breeze had euticed from their