Show THE RELIGIOUS SHOWMAN dr talmage is meditating an advertising ver echeme now that ought to fill hia galvanic aspirations to detec eions having exhausted all the ex resources in america his plan now is to anaka a hippodrome curiosity of nations under the name of a great peace congress in the year of the great american centennial be is going to warp into a mighty combination chow the ministerial acrobats of all ilia nations and all the churches of the old there is no doubt eliat he will succeed lie has the genius of progression he does not trouble his brain very exhaustively with christ and him crucified but he knows as much about man and him as any one living or that ever did lire he baa kept the united astonished and humbugger humbugged hum bugged ft ith hia gyrations mental and physical for thirty years more or lees and he has without any doubt a resource of fantastic antics sufficient to keep the rest of the world startled through the balance of liia natural life seizing upon the ascendant craze for spectacles in the line of the drama the dance the political arena etc he will doubtless in his great combination ring on a spectacular religion he might alien draw to his exhibition a congregation so large he would be under the necessity of projecting himself in his most thrilling attitudes onto a ecremen a half acre square in arder that all might behold him no one will hereafter deny that talmage is the greatest exhibitor of bis line and therefore tho greatest preacher As for the christianity of the that will have to be decided hereafter by one who knows much more about it alian either ourselves or sir talmage WK ABB afraid that col jacob kilrain is nothing but an impudent imitator of lie hon jno L sullivan without the lattera successes not content with following him twice to aej baik with doubtful results to big own prestige lie now assumes to do boston and give it a real crating ot red next thing nc know hen ill be run ning for congress TUB CHICAGO abc applauds senator dawes a day when in the late city recently to the of the judicial farce known as the cronin anso it thinks a inac rubt on the part of other nasonal Na tonal legislators would result in benefit why not select a jury of C to try the case f A dozen could easily be found who would po bees all the qualifications A organ rejoicing in abo fact that its co partisans in the empire sate were again united canie can ie out with a glaring headline declaring new york democrats all untied ought 0 o make haste and deliver the funeral oration of the man who proposes to publish the fonn erB after dinner speeches |