VOLUME Vili WASHINGTON CITY, D. % JUNE 2, 1878 NUMBER 14 GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP the CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 927 » Street, Washington, D
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VOLUME Vili WASHINGTON CITY, D. % JUNE 2, 1878 NUMBER 14 GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 927 » street, Washington, D. C. DONN PIATT, EDITOK, TERMS : Per year, (Including postage,) $2.00; six months, 81.50 ; three months, 75 cents—in advance Single copies, 5 cents. CLUBS : Ten copies to one address, $20 in advance •With one copy free. Twenty copies to one address,#35 in advance, with one copy free. BS™ Contributors will please remember that we do not undertake to return rejected manuscripts. And no contribution will be paid for unless on a bargain made in ad- vance. By bearing these facts in mind much •annoyance will be saved. PERSONAL. THERE was a fancy man named Potter, And the weather got hotter and hotter, But that fraud so great he would investigate, And prove himself a great spotter. And, says he, now look what a go, And hear my political blow; But the people all ran, for they didn't care a d- And they all cried no, no, no. WAKE, dearest, wake, the tuneful frog Is twittering in Boss Shepherd's pond; The street-car horse has ceased to jog • Say, dearest, wilt thou not absoond ? No cruel parent now may clog Love's vows, so deeply true and fond, Fo r by this pretty lake and bog We oare no more for stook and bohd. FALLINO I'itOJi GRACE 2 THE CAPITAL.—JUNE 2,1878. •alley where a hot-gospeler was so in the ing by each ether, right or wrong. The Democrats THB following lipes are from the " Ode for the open- horse, and after a prolonged stare at the tail ing of the Clnelnnati Music Hall," written by John EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE • habit of qtirring up his Sinners with threats have - done nothing but r quarrel, and have of the animal said, giving it up : lo&t every chance. I hear it on every sMe now, •lames Piatt, and published by Robert Clarke & Co.,. of future punishment that his chapel is ; Cincinnati, Ohie: ' MAC-A-OHEEK, May 28,1878. "I'll be d—d ef l ean see into it»" dh! the Democrats are found ertag their Ship now; known far and hear by the above name. To all that lathe and loom produce : DAVID. By the time the startled people reached they will all go to the bottom In a little while, and we To Flora's garland, Ceres' sheaf, ' the scene of disaster Linkum's old horse I was up there last Sunday night," David will be at the helm again;" all of which is true. When And every fruit of soli and sun, A tall, lank, slab-sided, sinewy, yet continued, "and the saints could be heard Lincoln was elected there were more people voted (With the blithe vineyard's temperate juice) ; slouchy, donble-fisted man of about fifty- was dead. To Sculpture's breathless-breathing charm, While looking from my den—that I must well onto three miles jist a yellin' to the Lord against him than for him; but the Republicans were And Painting's mirror soft and warm : six. He pushes the lawn mower with more to save 'em from, hell and damnation.',' , solid, while the Democrats "split" up in two or three To each fair muse and every household grace : tell you about some day, in thé intervals of parties. So with Grant's second election—one party To Use and Beauty bound in one— ease than he moves himself. Large and We dedicate the Place ! this lazy writing—out at the circle-where "It would have been a good time for you, stood solid and firm, while the Democrats quarreled. strong as David is, he seems to have more David, to have saved yeur sinful soul." - But, first, to her, the Muse of Music, her machinery than boiler. He shambles David is pushing his lawn-mower, a hawk Now they have-a chance; but what are they doing? Whose speech all spirits in earth and heaven know " Don't want to train in that company, Col- They are fighting among themselves, and will founder (The native tongue of each far-sundered nation), suddenly swooped down upon a red bird The loftiest, lowliest human minister. through life, not lazily exactly, but list- onel. As the sairitS cheat everybody in this the party if kept on. Let them so|leglslate that the lessly, and speaks so slowly, with such a thaU hangs in a cage Under a maple. T Exalting pleasure, soothing woe, dashed out to the rescue. David had called section, perhaps they can wind up in cheat- title of tho President cannot be attacked alter he Is With heart, and voioe, and organ's vast elation, drawl, that one feels as If words and ideas in his ohalr. Let my friends, the Democrats, heed a To her shall be its consecration ! his scattered faculties into consultation, and Satan ; but I aint one of that sort.'. You »•*•'*•» * were being engendered by a sleepy tele- little advice from one who Is their friend, and stand was about passing some stringent resolu- see I aint quick enough at a trade." Hark ! as if the mornlng-starri were singing phone struck with paralysis. David is a together and look after their own backers. Don't change O'er the first glad Six Dayn' Task divine— tions, when I intervened, and the hawk, " As nobody wants you in this world, your congressmen if they have proved themselves all What rapturous sounds are these native of Mac-a-cheek. His parents were Of quickening ecstacles I swinging down a curve that nearly touched Dave, I shouldn't think the devil would be right; the longer they are here the more able they are Earth from her dark-spell-bound slumber breaking,. Virginians, known to the world South as the ground, floated away. The mark of his very anxious to get your soul; and if he did to help you all. You may change and send a man To the sun's far-journeyed kiss awaking, poor white trash. How they worked their strong claws were on the wires, and the red should think you could cheat him out of with money who may buy his election, but what guar- Lo, the BlisBt'uI palpitation antee have you that be will work lor your sole benefit? Of the newly-warmed creation ! way in an old wagon, drawn by a cow and bird, now that the enemy was gone, like a dime's worth." With a myriad mingling voices horse, loaded with one skillet and seven The constituents of a man who openly avows he will All the electrio air rejoices ; | genuine W. T. Sherman, General, cockèd "Boom." All about, beneath, above. children, from the interior of the old State his crest and shrieked defiance, while poll, "What is it, David?" spend so much for his election have no safeguard Rings the tender note of love ; to this valley, no man, let him be ever so against what he may do when he bocomes a member. Everywhere, around, are heard clawing at its perch, set its wise head on " Hit me plum in the commissary, Colo- When you get a good thing stick to it is a good motto, Fountain-laughter, song of.bird, ingenious and speculative, can make out. one side and said reflectively, "A hell of a Insect-murmur, wild bee's hum, nel, and you hadn't ought to doit." and if constituents would only remember this, and Bleat of flock, and low Of klne ;— The pilgrimage of the thin man and thin- time." Why not ?" when they get a good man to represent them, give Airs of new-born Eden bringing, ner woman, with their white-headed, sleepy People do say there never was two men him a chance, and not change slmply^because another With her lilting, light-heart lay,. brood, came to end near the old mansion All properly educated parrots now use man has money. A man who openly buys his elec- Dancing, singing, that popular expression. Have you ob- so fitted for each other as you and me." May Is come!— through a casualty that happened the horse "Boom, David." tion ought not to be trusted, because he has not the Open doors and let in May ! half of their motive power. The patriarch of served the total depravity manifested in welfare of those he represents at heart, but only his Let Nature's full delight parrots, by the facility with which they " What is it, Colonel ?" own aggrandizement.. We of Washington see better Join with our banded joy, and crown our gracious rite t thetribe of Linkumshad procured,surrepti- "The hardest hit I ever received." than the farmers and others who really send the mem- tiously, of course, some corn with which to pickup profanity? This one has not only A LITTLE STRANGER. bers to Oongfess; and I don't ask them to take my DEI GOODS. feed both horse and cow. He separated the the above profane remark, but another, that to me carries in it more amazement, The warm winter and early spring have word, but let the member himself take my word for "nubbins" from the full ears, intending the developed a little black insect, about as big what I am saying. Life Is very short, and we never first for the cow and the last for the horse, disgust and at the sain© time resignation, of know when it may end; therefore it is best to hang any in the English language.