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    • LONDON, FEBRUARY 8, 1868.
    • " THE MOST SHAMEFUL SIGHT IN THE WOJiLD."
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      58 The Tomahawk. [February 8, 1868. " ¦ ...

      58 THE TOMAHAWK . [ February 8 , 1868 . " ¦ ¦'¦ I ' ¦ it Jjf ¦ —— —— " ¦ 'I ' ¦ — ¦

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      * Now ready , Handsomely Bound , with Gilt Edges , VOLUME ONE ( DO UBLE VOLUME ) , OF THE TOMAHAWK , Price Nine Shillings .

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      * # * Correspondents Are Informed That C...

      * * Correspondents are Informed that Contributions cannot possibly be returned by the Editor on any consideration whatever . Contributors should make copies of their articles If they attach any value to them . Letters , on purely business matters , should be addressed to ( he Publisher to insure attention .

      London, February 8, 1868.

      LONDON , FEBRUARY 8 , 1868 .

      Everyone Has Heard The Report That The M...

      Everyone has heard the report that the Marquis de Caux is going to marry Adelina Patti , but everyone does not know that the nightingale is not going to keep her notes for the family , but will soon leave Paris to fulfil her engagements at St . Petersburg . The firm will travel under the title—Patti and Caux .

      We Have Been Informed, On The Most Incre...

      We have been informed , on the most incredible authority ^ that the Russian Government is carrying out its tenacity in re the suppression of everything Polish to such an exhausting extent , that an official injunction has been issued , forbidding any Russian subjects from joining the proposed French Arctic Expedition , lest they should seem to be supporting what still presumes to be called the ^ North Pole ?

      Miss Ada Isaacs Menken Seems Likely To A...

      Miss Ada Isaacs Menken seems likely to achieve as great a success in the literary world as she did on the stage . She has alreadv mounted the wild steed Pecrasus . and we shall soon

      know something of her wonderful achievements on that restive animal . Her Poems , which will unite the physical vigour of an athlete , with the mental robustness of Alexander Dumas , will , so reoort savs . be rounded- into melodious harmonv hv the oreat

      lyric poet of our day , Mazzini ' s own Laureate . Dedicated to " my friend , Charles Dickens , " this volume ought to be a literary treasure . We hope that men of talent and genius , having allowed this aspiring tragedienne , this modern Sappho , to use their names , and to pick their brains , when they wake to the <\ v / "f tti cif a /<* m a # * ri A « r T * o ira % £ >?* r + n As ~ l T- * ir 4-1 * 4 * 0 a wai t \ c * rt 11 + * r \ 4 * Vv a

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      " The Most Shameful Sight In The Wojild."

      " THE MOST SHAMEFUL SIGHT IN THE WOJiLD . "

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      WAITING FOR THE VERDICT ! Scene vegetabl !— e A , homel &* c . B y y -looking the fire a kitchen red-cheeked table , servant covered -maid with reading meat , a cheap periodical . A Simple kitchen interior enough— — i a s scene it not ? for Nothing low comedy very or wrong high about farce , this eh . ? Wrong Something , quite funny wrong about , for J here eame you s' ' aug have htines the s first or Mary act of ' s a ro tragedy mance . before which begins you and in wonder sin and . ends " What in death is there 1 You wrong look in this at the V scene You ask , " in this or that V You peer keenly into the details of the

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      w her ith glazed her poor eyes hands fixed upon clasped the over Heaven her she still had heart defied !—Dead !—Dead , un- , forgiven , and soon to be forgotten—an outcast , and with but o place ne claim in the on tmion society par — t the of the claim Cemetery -to a pauper ! ' s shroud , and a denunciation Is she guilty —for j—Is our this scorn poor ? , ignorant Must we call girl her a fit self object -murderess for our plunged because it into wa the 9 she water who that jumped waited from so greedily the bridge to receive —she her who ? was Is there so tired no one ot her who life can , And explain so anxious why this to fling miserable it aside % woman Yes , A Ik ^ d __ # - *?— j . buiiic - * . A utic A . a & A auia a . ' vtui ***» w « tu * M M # ¦•••* AW' 4 imp . V * \ » tf « « A « < uufit BiM « 0 % 1 P wvugi ^¦ # > 1 % ^«* ^ t « ^* m _

      infamy tions wucre , but will whose be known identi wuu as ty . will infamy » be wu , hidden and sin auu until as sin * the ^ v . day Until when ques the - of day vice when , " and fools will will allow cease their to sing estimation in praise of of the the " languid " ruddy roses lilies of virtue " to have been incorrect—until that day when justice p will oor surprise , wretched , and soul the will secret remain s of Waiting all hearts for will the be Verdict known 1 —that

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 8, 1868, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_08021868/page/6/