| Show chevalier anil and lola oil their travels Tiac ls our amiable transatlantic cousins are enjoying a rich treat or rather two treats art ata they sent to us some time ago the fascinato fascinating fas cinat i ng lola montes monies I 1 ex cx count ess ex politician ex c danseuse exact ex e act ress in in fat fait she had all the es but none of the excellences of her sex wo IVO had a good deal of lola rather too much indeed for a little of that sort of chilli thing goes a great way nay there were vere no special regrets ihen achen the dear one tool took advantage of the gaev ay line and left our shores she carried with her on the same principle of Esqui maux importations by arctic voyages v 03 ages a specimen of american manufactures manufacture in in the shape of a tammany y hall politician redolent of the it h e pewter P exvie r slug mug g and dusty with the debris of the coal hole the happy youth 3 auth and still happier maid are on their travels through the united kingdom lola is la giving to the curious britons some information information such as it is is upon the social and political peculiarities of our glorious republic the 1 he agricultural agri population ot of great Brit britain aill is is notoriously gullible but if they can take in in all that lola v who ho is is a crinoline munchausen chaus ch ausen cn tells them mr lir bright may as v well ell shut up his reform shop at t once of jf course we could not tale take such a treasure as lola without giving living something in in return so we vv e baie hav e loaned to the eng english 11 1 ish the chevalier chev alier barnum ex cx ex proprietor of the mermaid the woolly horse joice heth and tom thumb ex clock speculator ex lire fire annihilator lator and ex jenny lind engineer although differing from lola in in style and manner the chevalier barnum pursues essentially the same line of the country dickens tells of a dv arf who sat on the top of a barrel and as the music came out felt his roney money coming in lola has the tammany exile to see that her money comes in in and no doubt the chevalier barnum would like a similar contribution from the same source we can spare them in any quantity and it is their natural vocation location to keep a sharp eye for the spoils I 1 we have agn given en an instalment installment of lolas lecture upon the united states and aid we hai have e before us the london journals abich w aich chronicle the debut of the checial ier ler barnum at st james hall lie he told the british people how to get money adopting for the basis of his oration the theory that the aggregation of wealth balth was the entire sum and substance of hunan human happiness ile he compared himself with the grent greit poets painters and sculptors sculptor sand and claimed that instead of being a humbug he like they only heightened nature natu re a little both lola and the chevalier occasionally let out 0 ut some confessions of their queer operations but with a degree of sublime audacity rarely paralleled in in any age age they the set themselves es up as guides and teachers 0 of f the public mind they are really v very e ry vulgar common place persons who wh 0 have m e managed to acquila a certain degree of notoriety by unblushing impudence and unbending pertinacity the ahe british public has a penchant for odd things and we wish them joy of barnum and lola montez we can do without them and we e only hope that mr bull will mil come down so liberally with his bis shillings that the luminaries will never neier be b e tempted to revisit re visit our shores we have hae been bored with them quite long enough and it is is only fair that the broad sh shouldered 0 ul ered britons should bear their portion of the burden V Y herald |
