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that if most men should try .to break such an animal to such uses they would make a bull of it. (Jharley Simmon’s heart was grieved by a suggestion that a certain cartload of the sorriest looking creatures, that , *ever flitted in the moonshine were denizens of Riverside, the aristocracy of the place where no paupers are allowed. That supposition is u clear slander. The minute a man goes down there and invests In ground enough to bury him in, he is on the high toad to fortune. If ho appreciates his good luck it is simply human vnature, and the effect is duo to the surpassing excellence and satromimiigs of the situation, Unolo Noel Jones was travested by a load of bipeds that resembled nothing earthly, except each other. The horrible sounds whichcame in agonized strains from that coop of misery, least of ail resomblcd the clear tones and deep myffiod music of life and drum, which Uncle Noel and his patriot band so freely dispensed throughout the day. The Continental Band w'as, in fact,one of the chief attractions of the day, andt •if Noel fools hurt at the irreverent way in which the boys treated his venerable Institution, he may console himself with the assertion that virtuo always causes imitations, many of which are as. hideous as tho onc inflicted on him. Some lawless and profane cub conceived the idea of blaspheming against tho omni;otcnt fashion, by ejrtiibit-ing somo of its latest vagaries on his own 7 foot form. So far as qur hum bio judgment goes, the thing wasn’t a burlesque at all. Wo haven’t seen a better dressed lady in six months. Perhaps certain portions of tho regalia needed adjusting a trifle too often. These might have been a Uttlo more politeness exhibited than the ladles of-this burgh ordinarily waste on such a godless crowd as ^ero amused by the exhibition, but the thing eus a whole waa compiiinent-aryto the lhinj||t wsa intended to travesty. We are inclined to think that some milliner anddreasmijd^settbsthing afoot, as a v Qt her ownV;
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Wellsville Times
Wellsville, New York, US
Thu, Jul 10, 1873
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