Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-12-05

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In this Thanksgiving time-this time of
home gatherings, of festal boards, of hear.
warnings and of good cheer and comfort. and
just, too, when We are approaching the glad
ana gisesome Christmas time, when ell the
world laughs, suppose We take Just few
minutes to spend with the laugh m.ker,
treating ourselves to some piokines from tho
corps of American Humorists, whose n.n. !,
Legion.
The modern American Fl umoris. the laugh
maker of to-day, is of no mushroom growth.
He has s'evoluted" by degrees, slow degrees.
from the imperfect humorist of :.ye olden
time" aud if he has gathered into the "make
up" OF his face and into his '.motley gaIb"
some of the qusntness of the past-some of
the light of other days-if he has stolen from
fools aud court TESTERS, and even pitched from
the veteran Joe Miller himself, still is he JUS.
titled in his piIferings as he has adder 10 and
adorned it ell, until to- day he gathers in his
hands fine trump cards of all the Humorists
of the past, and his voice has the echoes of
all the laughter of all time, and in his ewes
is the twinklipg sunlight of all the siokers
When Hamlet stands amid the yawnine
graves and touching Yoriek's skull asks.
'stWhere are now his jokes 2" We are readylto
answer, Hsre they are" The American
Humorist has ell the jokes that Yorick ever
perpetrated, we'll preserved but revamped and
disguised so we'll that if into that grinpipp
skull you could put life and feeling. and into
those eye sockets restore the fosters eve. he
would fail to recognize his own offspring, the
children of his brain
OF course 10 brief article. as this is 70 be
We cannot do the American Rumorist Justice
We can only sample his goods aud give few
specimens of tho very latest of his sspsr-
agraphs"
Puck, the American PancA, has outgrown
Its sire, even ss America has progressed more
rapidly than Mother England, for while Punch
in losing its Lemon lost much of its rare
flavor, Puck has added, year by year, to it's
airy flights, and to>day is the very best Comic
Newspaper in the world Its cartoons are
perhaps trifs ooarse sometimes, its hunor a
little broad, but taken for all aud all it is most
excellent. Just now ono of the beat of its
cartoons We remember, was the one that filed
its front page when Hayes issued his frs.
Thanksgiving Proclamation The scene WAS
laid in the White House grounds. Looking
into The dining room We discovered Mr. HAYES
aud his cabinet around the festal board. all
was warmth and good cheer, all spoke of
perfect content and thankfuluess outside,
where the winds whistled and cut. where the
binding snow beat upon him, stood the thin.
emacsted, hungry looking Tilden, reprosch
IN his eyes and we'll gnawed ham>bone in
his hands, and he remarks, "And you tie II me
to te thaukful!''
Mark Twain, weeping over She tomb of
Adam. or puzzliug the guido as he stands
before the Bust of Columbus and quietly asks.
''W hich is the Bust 2" or epquiriny whether
the Egyptian Mummy is desd or nor, may not
perhaps strike the springs Of laughter in some
people, but lives there man who can read
without tears-of laughter-his "Lecture on
Babies" or 'tTbe Interviewer" or tina. con.
Versstion on the railroad train when Twain
didn't want to talk and his Yankee questioner
did want to talk. and finally, when Twain Ind
answered that "ae had never heard of them"
referring to George Washington and Gen
Grant and Napoleon Bonapart-the tor,uror.
in despair, asks, "Did' you ever hear Of
Adam z" Twain, turning on him perfectly
serious face, asks, "Whas was his other
name ?'
The Funny Man of the Burlington Rapk.
eye has won for himself g name and fam. bv
such squibs as these:
Every time that David Davis buttons bis
vest he feels that about half his life is wastsd.v
The ssthe!es are very light feeders They
dare not get too full for utterly utterarce
Knott d Sweet, editors of Texas .Sittinos,
published IN Austin, Texas, have opened nm
a new vein, and their editorial brevities arc
something after this fashion,:
In divorce suit lately, several theatrical
managers sHore that Charles R. Thorne. Jr
the actor, can command salary of $3.50
week, and is therefore star of the first mao
niiude. 1t Thorne ia star because he pets
S250 week, We presume John McCulInueb
might be considered comet, and Mrs Lang
try milky way, at least"
This on the late election: -,~s.ass-y. =.
Hhy he. was Defeated -.The reason Won
were not. elected, dear, was becsuss YOU did
NOT look at the new moon over your left Shout,
der, said the superstitious wife of defeated i
Austin candidate to her husband.
That's all you know about American pol,
tics. might have got down on all-fours.
and looked backwards between nv legs at III.
moon for two solid hours, and it would not
have done NE any good ought 10 have
another saloon, and hired man to
stuff the ballot box"
Pec&'s Sun. published in Milwautes. is
almost as well knswn as Milwaukee bscr.-l
Hero are ono or two Sunbeams. This will
come IN we'll as you arc about to have tel,
ephones in your town:
"An experiment WAS made with the tel>
ephore at Evansville the other dsy, which
shows that by connecting half dozen men
By their taking hold Of hands, q message can |
be sent through their bodies. Il was neces.