Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 Quotes

“By ORPHEUS C. KERR, Continued in this Number. See 15th Page for Extra Premiums. +--------------------------------------------------------------+”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“Leaping forward, the Reverend OCTAVIUS wrung both the black worsted gloves of Mr. BENTHAM, and introduced the latter to the old lawyer and his ward.”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“The poet, when he wrote "Thou wilt come no more, gentle ANNIE," was clearly laboring under a mistake. If he had written "Thou wilt be sure to come again next season, gentle ANNIE," he would have hit it. Lecture committees know this. Miss DICKINSON earns her living by lecturing. Occasionally she takes a turn at scrubbing pavements, or going to hear WENDELL PHILLIPS on "The Lost Arts," or other violent exertion, but her best hold is lecturing. She has followed the business ever since she was a girl, and twenty-four (24) years of steady application have made her no longer a Timid Young Thing. She is not afraid of audiences any more. It is a favorite recreation of the moral boot-blacks and pious”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“One bright October morning in the year 1828, a lone lorn woman by the name of GUMMIDGE might have been seen standing at the corner of a wheat-field where two cross-roads met and embraced. She was weeping violently. Ever and anon she would raise her head and gaze mysteriously in the direction of a cloud of dust which moved slowly over the hill toward the town. Her name was FATIMA. FATIMA GUMMIDGE. "Sister ANNIE," she cried, "what do you see?" But sister ANNIE was far away. She was not there. She was attending an agricultural fair in the beautiful young state of Kansas. Thus gracefully do we introduce our heroine upon the scene. The reader will be able to judge, from this, whether we are familiar with the literature of our day, or not. He will be able to form a complimentary opinion of our culture. He will perceive that we are acquainted with the writings of Messrs. JAMES, and DICKENS, and BLUEBEARD. There is nothing like impressing your reader with an adequate sense of your ability for laborious research, when you are doing biography for a high-toned journal.”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“country—especially”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“European travellers”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“hung on the rack, besides numerous other small portable articles of vertu that”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“card, and asked if "WASH." was in. He eyed me strangely. (Most people when they first”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“STRASBOURG, October 14—Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was a full set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all presentation copies from the author, with autograph inscriptions. The regret expressed at their destruction is deep-felt and universal.”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“Shan't I take that anshient circus tent?" said he, pintin' to my umbreller, "and lock it up in the safe?”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“quite as heavily upon his noble steed. His friends and the above-mentioned fraternity chuckled and winked behind his back, but although Mr. P. heard them chuckle and knew that they were winking, his belief”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“dressed”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“umbreller in one hand, and an acksminister carpet bag in t'other. He”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman, dressed”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“Liberty. "HALT!" HIRAM GREEN IN GOTHAM. The venerable "Lait Gustise”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“smoking to-day with GRANT, I asked him what he thought of the European complication, and he answered with a most expressive silence.”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties. The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman,”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“here,”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“was”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“peace until the Schleswig-Holstein question was definitely settled. STRASBOURG, October 14—Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“WILLIAM, yesterday, he said that he relied upon the growing taste in Hoboken for Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“sporting”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“interfere with others of less importance, and therefore Mr. P. will not deny that, after having exhibited to his friends and the sporting fraternity in general, his little investment in fancy horseflesh, he made up a very satisfactory betting-book. Now Mr. P. believed,—and events proved him to be correct,—that when his friends and the sporting”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“told”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“TRAIN as”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“DUBLIN, Oct. 16.—The Irish Republic was to-day proclaimed at Cork, with GEORGE”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“interfere with others of less importance, and therefore Mr. P. will not deny that, after having exhibited to his friends and the sporting fraternity in general, his little investment in fancy horseflesh, he made”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“peace until the Schleswig-Holstein question was definitely”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States with the French Republic. METZ, October 12.—While examining”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870

“examining the fortifications to-day with BISMARCK, I lent”
― Various, Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870