Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-10-11

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| New York, Der. S.--If your New
York correspondent had nothing to dc
but write letters for brutes of men, the
letter of this week might have re.
manned unwritten. forever; but | fee
that something is due to the dear Great
ures who fed US pap in our helpless
infancy; who spanked us as we crawled
on toward interesting childhood; VIII.
destroyed our peace of mind in adde's
cence: and who, when we reached the
proud estate of manhood and set up in
business for ourselves, gave u:
the sweet privilege of furnishing then
with long-trailed dresses, sealskir
sacques, and camels-hair shawls
Something is due to them, and the APP,
pearance of Mrs. M. Miss R,
Mademoiselle de W, at the great
fashionable events of the season, must
certainly be matter of paramount in.
| terest to thai portion of our fellow
citizens to whom we are under such
deep and lasting obligations.
Accounts of the Arion, Liederkran2
and the Martha Washington Reception
have appeared in all the great metro
/ politan dailies, with more or less sue
cess. Jenkins, of the Times, tried his
hand at 1.-THE nice young man who
/ parts his hair in the middle, who wears
a sixteen dancing-pump and a nine-and-
a-half Jouvin; but the result was a
miserable failure, owing partially to a
cold in the head. Simkins, of the Her.
aid. sailed in; but he fell early in the
action, and the cause of his literary de-
falcation is now undergoing the inves-
LEGATION of his Hibernian superiors
Lillywbite, of the Tribune, did his best;
but, as Hamlet sagely remarks,
Yet that's not much,n
and the feeble effort was buried still
born, without the aid of the coroner.
Lavender Sweet, of the World, Jared
no better than the rest; and even the
Sun, which usually shines for all,
beamed forth with feeble ray, about
the power of tallow dip.
For five years we have had no Leder-
kranz. Moral reform associations and
the stringency of excise laws have had
very demoralizing effect ON the dis
ciples of Gambrinus A Dutchman
soaked with cold water is very much
like Hottentot in a new paper collar
and a swallow-tail coat. He don't feel
happy; he is not in his natural element,
and without lager we should have no
Arion Society, and without the Arion
Society, no feast of song and flowers;
the birds might sing but they would grow
frightfully hoarse without something
to wet their whistles, and for that the
most reliable German authorities assure
ms there is nothing like the foaming
mug. The old toast of woman and
Wine" is relegated to dime novels and
Ledger stories, ~ emales nit Lager
being now the standard challenge of
the Liederkranz.
/ 1t is impossible to imagine two things
more entirely opposite to their bearing,
/ oh n nd infant +ba,, tLo +,., -.
brations, the names of which head this
letters they are the great social events
of the season and represent every class
of society from the millionaire of the
| Fifth Avenue to the poor German
tailor, who in the seventh story of a
tenement-house ekes out a miserable
existence at three dollars and half a
week. How did he ever raise money,
you ask, to 90 to the Masquerade?
that's his business went, and he
paid his way, and had jolly good
time, and went back to his garnet con-
tent to lay up his little savings for the
next two months, when he will sally
out again to the Mayfest or some San
gerbund, satisfied TO snatch one day
from misery and one hour from de-
spair.
A wretched maniac attempted to get
up carnival in New York about a
year ago, and barely escaped coat of
tar and feathers for his pains. This
however was under the patronage of
the staunchest German society in New
York, every man of which felt per-
sonal interest in its success. Gilmore's
Garden. the largest building in New
York, was selected. All the great
brewers and bakers and candlestick
makers, gigantic sausage firms, eminent
pork butchers, in short talented and
conspicuous people in every grade Of
life were there in regiments, brigades,
and battalions. Art was not unrepre.
sented; fourteen white-washers and q
number of distinguished housed painters
lent the aid and sanction of their pres
ence. The honorable errence Doc
ley from the Sixth Ward had been hon
ored with a complimentary pasteboard
and he and his wife and all the it'll,
Dooleys were out in full feather, ex
peeting to propitiate the German ele
, ment in the next election when Dooley
expects to run for Alderman.
On the evening of the 21st all New
, York seemed astir. The shadows O
, night had scarcely begun to fall wher
carriages might be seen in every quar-
, ter of the town driving hither and
| thither like mad. 1t was evident tina
! the loads they bore were of no ordinar,
character, for the wheels groaned anG
the springs snapped and cracked, seem
: ing to threaten instant dissolution 1,
) the bolts and bars and braces. felloes
| hubs and spokes. Shouts and song.
burst from the merry jewellers inside
whose expectation. wrought to tn,
; highest point, had become so intens,
! that they could scarcely contain them
: selves. My first anxiety was Tor
, costume. / went to a fashionable es
. Enlistment TO select / thought
: would 60 as a wolf; but the man
wolf-shin were all engaged. Then h,
! mildly suggested q sheep. | did no