Show I £Q t THE PEEP 0’ DAY— A LITERARY MAGAZINE 23t Rees in the hail for ed him COMIC READINGS 1— TlIACKEItAY AND TROLLOPK We liave often heard Mr Trol- lope compared with “What is the matter with Mrs Jcnks doctor ?” asked Thackery— but never without resenting the Thackeray is a moralcomparison ist a satirist he tells his story for its lesson : whereas Mr Trollope tells his story wholly for his own sake Thackeray is almost as much ‘a preacher as lie is a novelist while Mr Trollope is the latter simply Both writers are humourists which seems to be the inevitable mood of all shrewd observers and both incline to what is called But we knew that quiet Jiumour ’there are many kinds of laughter rTliink of the different kinds of humorists we find in Shakspoar's Mr Trollope’s merricomedies ment is evoked wholly by the actual presence of an oddity and Thackary’s although it be by the way abundantly sympathetic with superficial comedy by its existence by its history by some shadow' it casts Of course all humorists have and tq to discuss his avoids a epuar?-rcju$£ marriage piece’s with his sister about the propriety of parly fires we acknowledge that as it stands the trifit elQngs to Trollope alone Dickens would have eschewed it and Jhe Small House best-endow- in Eloquence— Strength sense is the foundation of Good all otper Eloquence as it is of OfqffO nr th:it vatiaWo— things n candid the admission ! entrAr screamed a young lady of power- ful lungs and fingers to match aa she exercised both at the piano “ Your afloat eh !” groAvlcd an old sea dog I should judge you were afloat by the squall you raise”- ' Why is a man in difficulty like an ostrich in Avet weather ? ’ Oob he can’t find the dust to cove? his bill - ‘ — — — wm THE PEED O’ DAY PUBLISHED E BY ' T Harrison & E W Tullidge 20th Ward Salt Lake City L st hoot-blac- Paper -' best-ljearte- Tar-tingto- heard it and the broad stair that led to the chamber heard it and Ike heard jt as lie sat in the kitchen daubing on the old lady’s Pembrokp table with flour and paste in an attempt to make a kite out of a choicely saved copy of the Puritan Recorder “We are no better than avc ought to be’ — generally A lady occupying room letter B at one of our hotels wrote on the slate the folloAving : “ Wake letter B at seven and if letter B says let us be’ don’t let us he nor let letter B he because if you let letter B he letter B will be unable to let her hoiise to Mr B avIio is to seven” he on hand at half-pak The porter a better than orthograpliist after studying the above all night did not knew at seATen whether to Avake “ letter B” or “let her be” — New York f !Thackeray would have expanded to jt The same remark applies ve With Trollope jtheir pathos Svecp if it so happen we can fora iven shapie or wrong Our symua pathy in the work before (“ The ftmall House at Arlington”) is for tiie jilted Lily Dale our indignation for- her false lover But our compassion for Amelia Osborne md Colonel Newcqme goes tp the — AtSyhole race of the oppressed lantic Monthly One great objection to intoxica-- ' ruting drink is that it frequently ins the kindest and best disposed If it ruined none but of our race the selfish' tle dishonest’ the unsocial the cruel we might almost tolerate it but it bewitches and and destroys corrupts and beggary d some of the and most aiceahlo cica turcs that ever gladdened the hearts or excited the hopes of the father or mother liOAV The little front un immense common fund When jOradell talks about Mrs Lujicx’s fine torso ’we are reminded both But jof Thackeray aqd Dickens when the Squire joining down Mrs as Dr Bolus passed her house She had been watching for him half an hour through a chink iii the door and people who detected the end of a nose thrust out of the chink aforesaid stopped an instant to look at it strongly inclined to touch it and see what it was “ She is troubled with varicose veins mem” replied the doctor “ Do tell” cried the old blandly lady “ well that accounts for her very coarse behaviour then and it isn’t any fault o’ lier’n after all poor woman ’cause what is to be will be and if one lias very coarse veins what can one expect ? Ah we arc none of us better than avc ought to be” “ Good morning mem” said Dr Bolus as he turned away and the old lady shut the door “No Letter than avc ought to he !” What an original remark the mimic onco appeared Court of King’s Bench as a friend Gurrow examinand said “You arc I believe an imitator are you not V9 “ So they tell me” replied Rees “ Tell you sir ! you knoAv it Aro iii the habit of taking peonot you “O ple off?” said the judge “ the and Avas shall I reply yes” take myself off the moment you have done witli me” A LADY avIio superintends a Sunday School liaA'ing occasion to interrogate one of her pupils as to the cause of her father’s at church received the folloAving innocent reply prefaced of course by a sweet little drop of courtsey : “ Please mem my father says he isn’t coming to church any more t’parson hollers out so he can’t get a bit of sleep” A gentleman being rather hotly pressed to sing a song pettishly obserA'ed that they Avishcd to make “ By no means my a butt of him good felloAV rejoined one of his tormentor “ avc only Avant to get a stave out of you” “ I ’m afloat ! I afloat !” Old Tate Wilkinson “ the Wandering Patentee” yielded to the solicitation of friends and permitted a young lady to make her de butt avIio had the mortification to hissed be off The manager rushed beforo the curtain addressing the audience Avith this brief question : “ Ladies and gentlemen don’t you like her V- “ No” was the reply from all parts of the house “ Neither do I” added the eccentric manager and disappeared amidst roars of laughter Surely some people must know themselves — they iicA'er think about anything else -- - 25 Single Copies Per Quarter Per Year (13 numbers) $2 00 700 in advance Subscriptions will be received by Mr J D Boss our Agent or by Mu P Tavey hU Invariably Assistant Th e following gentlemen have kindly con? nted to receive subscriptions for the papf while the agents are getting rounds Mesm AA'aliceu Daps Mu Sharkey and Mu S J Legs Payments ‘can be made to them and the Agents will deliver the paper at tlie residence of he subscriber' THE PEEP O’ DAY SPLENDID ADVERTISING MEDIUM AVe intend shortly to Issue without any extra cost to the subscribers a weekly wrapper with this paper three pagcs of which will be devoted to Avcrtisements Merchants Professional G extlkmex an Tradesmen will see the immense advantage As this Magaof advertising on this wrapper zine will be read everywhere and' preserved fpjr the cover will keep every advertise: binding ment for nt least six months before the publljj eye AVe circulate throughout this and adjoining Territories and States For terms apply immediately to our Agent Any amount of space can he had from a wrbol to a ngtotpij??o Apply In tfm |