New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-27

French ct1en has very solid basis of fact, as the
following advertisements show:
Moyping Herdld March II, 1902: "0n the lllh
Of last month person sold at tlc halkGV 100, Il,
Chapel en- Ia FIRTH WE, emu. anu - % invcu
furniture as would set up beggar, Ior eieNoh
Morning Rercld, April 1G, 1902: "A butcher sold
his wife by ancilon at ne iast llalHot III - of
Hereford The lot Drodght IL Is anu " ' "
dSasa1 Eoqstr, February II, 1soG: "a IN ma u,
the market M U1 | about O'clock, but OWING 10
the crowd which 81 ch an extraordinary occurrence
had brought together he was Obliged To- IciSf en no
sale and take her away ABOUT O'Clock hoWeV e
he again brought Ter out ard she W's Soit ,V u
twenty guilcas and delivered, with a hilteI 10
person named HOuseman, who had lo"geo Win
them for four or five wears" .,ooo
Morning POST October 10, 1907: One of those tSe
disgracrIu scenes which have, OF iate' oecGnie ooJ
at Knaresbo1ough. Owing to some IeI Ell
Ousy, or other family difference man ntd bnr
his wife, equipped m the usual sty e. az" ohaccnr
at tire market cross for Cd and qnd o. o
In The J,opcaster Gazette OF March %, loO5, q Saie
is thus described "A fellow sod bis we a IA
cow in Sheffield mark tp ace few days ago, II
Iady was but into the hands OF butcher, who hela
her by halter fastened ronnd her waisl. IA
do You ask for your COW san 10y cr;cd the
other and immediately led away ms oarg'ln', w
understand that the purchaser ana ms co" 'N'
very happily togetner
Mr.. Ashton does not excel in theatrical gossip
perbaps being his detailed account OF the famous
:. q p. riots y AT Covent Garden. The disturbance
hogan when j. p. Kemblc raised the prices on the
occasion of the engagement of Madame CaraIa'i'
and fter more than yearof uproar the moo'"h
included largo proportIono! rcspectaoIe He''pIi
of society, obliged the manager to return 10 '"'
.'old prces" Music. the fine arts, n'erl'uie'
science. the condition of the army ana haVF' th'
notice the prisons, and crime, are among INC o'h't
topics to which the author pays attention VA"
baro - great deal about the ecccntrciics of cos
tune The volume is freely illustrated some VI
tbo cuts being taken from the more elaborate carl
catures of GIllray and Ansell. The hnmor OF '"eSe
satircal productions Is undenlabc; ou' taS'0
has changed so much III seveuty-fvc years thaI
their cOarseness imprcSses mOleTh W.
server much more than their Wit. Johh
Bull and his wife in these drawings are gross ana
b,deors animals hardly less rcpulslvc to view tn'ui
the mlsshapen mobility at whose vices ai'o i"'i'v9
they stare with open mouth ana Stnplu eyes -
tho satirists OF the Gillray school were to be trust
ed. the English must be marves OF Phy SlcaI u|'-
ness. As for the written texts which uSed 10 ~c-
company the drawings they are SIMPLY ore"ulu''
Here Is one. affixed to Gllirays Armed Heroes
AdJ,oc.o, IN military costume, with luec
oocIed hat and swOld bcstrdeS fine srloln OF the
Roast Beet Of Old England. and Is NaioIlaN o
little BonapaTte, who. ON the otheT siuC =" ,n-
Channel, Is drawing his sword anu I""siHS W
ing the beef. Saws he
"Ah ha ! sacr6 Dleu vat do see yonderf
DAT look 80 lnvitugly Red and de we! -,
on Inv Gar : I soc IT'S de Roast Beef of LOndTes'
Web wilt chop up at won lc,el bite =
Addington alternately busters and crlngcS,
WHO'S afraid darHme! q Ioid y LoId' Tg"
J;qrr E,II0,r h. is " hos afraid dammc OGtdr.
,rIaf ,riV become Of ne Eorsi BcCf Dammc! who's
atraid n der! DEAR Other figures are IN
troduced, bu they arc immaterlal.
it,s hard 70 realize that this is sample OF the
bumor of the same people who in the next genera
tIon were laughing at the wonderfully tcrSe and
telling legends inscribed by John Lecch under his
lunch PICTURES aud who now reyel i'll the refined
drollcry of Dn MapTler.