Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-20

like 70 think he was an lrishman; | had
so tully made up my mind that he was
"a knave and a fool ] don't deny that
an freshman may not be the first, but
he is very seldom the last.
CLEVER AND GENIAL RACE.
| But, dear me. / have gotten off of
my stump speech. | think | asked who
were the doctors and lawyers and good
looking women, and ! was able to
answer that they were all Irish. Now |
wish to know who are the best book
makers? The Irishmen. Who are our
best actors? The Irishmen. Who are
our best writcrs2 The lrishmen tell
you, it is pretty difficult thing to find
best in anything, that hasn't drop of
Irish blood in it, Sometimes it is cross;
but when you can combine German
stolidity and Irish vivacity, You get
| future President of the United States.
| Perhaps am a little warm on the sub
ject, but then you see | know them as
they are, and love every one of them
in this country or over home. know
how they can curse the man who says
rude word about woman, and know
how they can shower blessings upon me
| when l take cup of tea with them or
drink glass Of milk in the cabin.
| love the perfect gentllty Of the Irish
| woman, who, if the Queen of England
and Empress of India visited her, could,
with innate grace, ask her to have a bite
and sup, feel perfectly at case and
| conscious that she was doing the right
| thing. The Irish peasants and the Nir-
| gina darkeys have the grace of hospi-
tallty at its finest, and either of them
could give lessons in the artslYhich they
never studied to the snobs in New York
city. An lrishman can fight, and like
i; longer and better than a bull dog; and
he can make love, and like it longer and
better than lady novelist. Thank
| Heaven, there are so many Of him. If
ever he ceases to multiply rs he does
now, there will be weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth
FUN AT THE CIRCUS.
By-the.hy, isn't it time that the circus
was coming TO your town? If it is,
hope you are going 10 let all the boys
| go and really enjoy themselves. once
heard of boy who had never been to
thc circus, and ii did seem to me as if
he had lost some of his childhood. The
average boy feels that he is seeing life
when he starts to the circus with %
cents in his pocket, and the opportunity
before him of separating himself in the
crowd at the door from his family and
friends. The money is Immediately
spent in peanuts and apples, and if that
boy is let alone he will have blissful
time. He will worry the monkeys, he
| will pander TO the taste of the elephant
by letting him gulp down apples whole,
he Will hang over the ring watching the
/ IL 4 .t,,..
| year younger than he is all about it.
lie never thinks much of the women
who ride in chariOts; he tilts up his
nose, and says: "Oh they are only
| girls y But for the young lady who
rides the bareback stecd he has an i'm
! mense admiration, and he bushes as he
thinks how lovely it would be to have
| her for his very own, and to cavort
through life on two steeds, jumping
through paper hoops for a rest, and re-
ceiving the applause of delighted
| multitude. That the young lady might
object to his size, his years and his
freckles, and that she could be married
to the clown, is something quite beyond
| his belief He sees everything there is
to see, and when some detachment of
his disconsoate family RECEIVERS him,
and asks him why he was such bad
boy as to make them think he was lost,
he says: "Oh, get out! A fellow of my
| size can look after himself" And he
haughtily refuses TO tell where he has
been.
YOUNG PEOPLE IN WONDERLAND.
There is no doubt about the circus; it
is the only absolute joy forever 1t
makes the old young, and 1t gives the
| young Il foretaste Of such happiness as is
seldom gotten. Personally, / think any
mother or father who keeps child
away from the circus deserves to be put
in the penitentiary. | don't say any-
| thing about the theatre or anybody
objecting to that, for there is such lot
of bad acting. But the circus-well-
things come and go, but the circus is
always the same. The lemonade may DO
weaker, but the lions are just as strong.
| The peanuts may be browner, but the
elephants tail never grows The apples
may be just as small, but the monkeys
look as old as they did at the beginning
of the world. The politics OF the Pres-
dent of the United States may have
changed, but the dignity of the ring
master is MS fine as ever. would much
sooner my boy knew nothing about
Adam and Eve than have him ignorant
OF the elephants. | would not care
whether he knew the alphabet if he
could teach tricks to dogs. Learning
doesn't amount to much; one gets ii
eventually, and there is a joy that comes
in going TO the circus that makes YOU
feel, especially if you are boy, that
you know everything.
WHAT YOU CAN TELL.
You can tell the German butcher the
history of st. Patrick, or the origin of
the elephant.
You can tell the Swiss baker about
home rule, or what the mosquito wore
when he went into the ark
You can tell the French confectioner
about the Barney Stone, or how they
catch lions.
You can tell the Italian organ grinder
about the shamrock, or how they i'm
port the giraffe.
You can tell the Chinese laundry.
man about Irish whisky, or the habits
of the monkey,
And you can tell the American ice
man-but no, you can tell him nothing
he knows it ALL for way back some.
where he has got a drop of Irish blood
and he was once Il boy himself. At
least, that is what think, and while in
favor Of the Irish and the circus, am
ar American citizen named BAB.
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A SHOCKING DEiTH.
| Young Woman HurIs Herself in Front
OF 10 Moving Elevated Train,