The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-10

cuI1ar style OF Speech In vogue
With the Lecturer-Free in His
Praise of Colleagues.
The Bowery, says the New York
Press, has for the gullible stranger fake
shows" in which the simple public is
allured with glittering promises from dis
appointment to disappointment, paying
dime at each remove and arriving at moth
Ing at the end. But it has also muses.
and amusement halls of the true Bowery
flavor in which there is nothing that is
vicious and a deal that is amusing The
lecturer" is the eloquent mouth for all
the wonders that are gathered together
in one of these "curio halls"
A black little man in a rusty suit of
evening clothes. bagged and wrinkled, he
presides with a monumental smile over
hall that is filled with punching machines
TO test the blow of the Bowery's strong
right arm, blowing machines to test the
lungs. lifting machines for the back, grip
machines for the hands, electric batteries
Tor the nerves, automatic fortune tellers,
Weighing machines and mutascopes, as
we'll as score of exhibitors, entertainers,
professors and living curiosities, whom he
introduces and recommends He affects
the vertebrate word, and in speaking he
divides 1t with a sharp accent just-as it
were-at the base of the skull, wrenching
off the first joints with sudden stress
and interval, and agitating the tail of the
vocable with an equal lift and cadence of
the voice. He says "oh-casayun," for in
stance, when he means occasion"
But his great faculty is his smile. It is
smile not of the mouth alone, but of
the raised eyebrow, the puckered eye and
the risible mustache. 1t is genial and
winning without being brazen or sus-
plciously insinuatiVe. 1t is a smile which
says: Il have never betrayed the trust
ing public. I have never been suspected
by the popular eye"
Ladies and gentlemen" he says DELHI
eratively, II wish to say-for the benefit
OF those who may be in the vicinity of
this buil-ding-at 10 a. M on Monday
morning-that Prof H on that o-cca-
sion-will make a daring ascension from
the roof of this building to the extra-or-
binary altitude of some thousands Of feet
above the surface of the earth-if the
weather on that occasion is pro-pitious.
And when the daring navigator has de-
Ecent-tit again-from the clouds-to terra
frma, the machine-in which he perform
ed this entirely new and novel as-cen-
sion-will be put on ex-hibition-in this
hall-for the benefit of the American pub
lic-during a short en-gagement-before
the professor makes his sojourn to the
Paris exposition"
The announcement is received without
comment, for to the audience that hears
1t, the impossible is no longer a surprise
The professor goes on to introduce his
colleagues. There is a professor of cleo
trio tattooing," who "in a brief space Of
time will decorate you '1ndeIbly'' for "a
small and modest remuneration. There
is an Italian madame" who can tell your
past, present and future life. read your
fortune in the palm of your hand for the
small sum of one nickel, and sell you
photograph of your future husband or
wife for q dime-10 cents. The professor
bows to her gallantly from his platform.
He adopts a fatherly manner to a sci
entif1c bag puncher, who has standing
challenge to meet any bantamweight''
with a side bet of 500. and who 81 may
say without embarrassing the young man,
enjoys the reputation of being the cham
pion in his own class in his native city,
Philadelphia -
A professor of legerdemain proves con-
clusively and without a doubt that the
hand IS quicker than the eye A Punch
and Judy show furnishes entertainment
to young and old alike" These are sup
ported by q clown who smokes five
cheroots together, turns them lighted into
his mouth, and blows the smoke from his
nose; q dwarf pony from Cuba that
Is "a playful and agreeable companion;"
a rife range where you may try your
Skill on glass balls and plate pigeons; a
photograph gallery where you may have
your picture printed on a button for 10
cents; a tug-Cf-war between three
American beauties and three Cuban
bellies a paper artist who sells a water
proof shoe-dressing which he himself dis
covered in geyser in Yellowstone park,
who can fold q single sheet of paper in
some thousand different shapes, and who
presides over an Enchanted Palace" of
tinsel and tissue paper, showing seven
wonderful scenes from all parts Of the
universe" and closing with a grand
transformation scene ''in honor to our
national hero, Admiral Dewey That
scene opens with a triumphal arch that
resembles the ruins of Pompei1, with
the Philippine islands in the back
ground" And" he says, as a bouquet
of paper roses comes down to the center
of the stage on two strings, "roany beau
tiful flowers blossom in those islands,
only to fade, wither and pass away, but
the flower Of the American navy, his
glory II never fade in the hearts of his
cOuntrymen-Admiral Dewey" Where
upon the roses fall away from a chrome.
of the admiral; the piano breaks out into
THE Star-Spangled Banner" and the
American beauties" applaud bolster
ously.
The professor makes no attempt to
be vulgarly witty. He is a serious
"enunciator," learned in the language
of the circus bill and expert in the prac-
tice of that smile with which the family
doctor recommends a bitter dose to
doubling childhood.
Rodney" whose hair is fiery, finds his
strength in his sense of humor He sells
prize packages in a musee theater
Standing in the aisle he holds aloft
sample of his wares. "Alludin' to these
prize packages" he says glibly, witch
I'm gOin' to interduce to yer notice this
eVenin, want to say each an eV'ry,
package consists of the best cough drops,
lemonade drops an car'mels made or
manufactured; warranted to cure such
es coughs, colds, warts an toothaches.
If any one in this gatherin' has such as
coughs, colds, warts an toothaches, Ia
advise EN- to purchase one of these pack
ages at onst an without delay. In each
an ev'ry package the ladies who wraps
up these packages has a habit of acct
dentally droppin' in cole watches an
dimon' rings, an If any of youse gets
ouch as q COLE watch or a dimon' ring
chat yeh don't want, I am requested to
ask yeh to give 1t to the han some tick
etseller at the door. He SEE he's savin'
up all the gor watches an dfmon' rings
fer Chris mas" With each an ev'ry