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    • THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES.
    • VAMENDE HONORABLE.
    • l tNOS BONS VILLA GEOIS" AND THE ENGLISH CRITICS.
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      May 28, 1870.] The Tomaha Wk. 213

      May 28 , 1870 . ] THE TOMAHA WK . 213

      The Roundabout Rambles.

      THE ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES .

      [Continued By Our Special Correspondent....

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      • w - . •»* - »• ir it t * we H have ave been not a there moment . They to lose hav . e The instructed Chief counsel is to p . lead It guilty seems , and the defence will be " permanent insanity . " Spagmore has knew been communicated the Chief in Pok with , ' in order eak that as some to his of the state tribe of mind who . One of our principal witness yar may , / need sp scarcely say , tvill be Lord Bolchester . # -K # * * * * *

      quite You beside must myself excuse . this You break will of of course three days have ; seen but the I have progress been to of the be held trial in by the six newspap powerful ers gaolers , and read the how whole the time Chief , and has how had All Loid I . can Bolchester do is to was ive visibl short y affected -hand notes in giving of the his evidence evidence of . the last witness , a g relative you of the Chiefs , taken through Spagprogress more as interpreter the Chief . several It is one times strong burst point into , thoug loud h during peals its of h the ysterical jury . laughter However , , which here it I is am . afraid will tell against him with Spagmore A native as gentleman Old Pothooks , whose , was name the next was witness handed . After in by being Mr . sworn , after the fashion of his countrymen , over a pack of he card was s and nine a . saucepan In Pok , yar he said he went : —Have by the known name the of Chief Chumijow since which do funny means things , " the . Yes Practical I can Joke name Devil some . " . Have He once known eat him his , grandmother less than two without quarts of mustard , rum . , I and think would these not acts sell may his be god taken for man to indicate would madness sell his . god I think for a so much because smaller rum quantity is so good . , a I sane sold mine and my father-in-law for a tablespoonful . { Sensation . ) which Cross a - man examined in full . — possession Yes , I have of his known senses the mi Chief ght have do things done , laug lie asked hter fro a m missionary the Chief which to tea - , it and was p impossib ickled him le to . suppress { Prolonged ?) The counsel for the defence here objected to questions of

      t t h hi s character were allowable , but after and some the examination discussion , proceeded the Judge . ruled that boots Have in never Pok seen r . Yes him , take off le p wear eople ' somethin s boots . T on here their are feet no . It is a sort of ya summer shoe ; peop . Yes ; I can say what g these shoes troublesome are made of . relat They ions are . made The of Chief skin had torn two from hundred the scal pairs ps of . ( Immetise The trial sensation was proceeding . ) when our reporter left .

      Vamende Honorable.

      VAMENDE HONORABLE .

      We The Are Story Lad To Of Mr Turn . Sot...

      we The are story lad to of Mr turn . Sothern s out to and be the a mess hoax . of It the seems 17 th that Lancers the story was g contradicted say by the Edinburgh journal which first told the tal it , e itself the have London been papers more sparing which pretty of their generall space y with inserted regard and si to m the lrel retraction on the . For od our faith part of , we ur contem are not oraries a newspa for p er , facts which py are y referred go to in our columnsbut p we hasten to offer aears the gallant made an 17 u th nwarrantable our best apolog reference ies for to , havi them ng , . Scandal it now - m pp ongers , possess neither common conscience nor common sense , or the high character the 17 th has always borne , to say nothin caval g o ffic f the ers in fac t he that service it is should commanded have b r y ot one ected of the the best iment from being pounced upon , as their prey p . reg

      L Tnos Bons Villa Geois" And The English Critics.

      l tNOS BONS VILLA GEOIS" AND THE ENGLISH CRITICS .

      Eng It Lis Has H Theatre Been - A Going ...

      Eng It lis has h theatre been - a going custom public , now with long a estab super lished -scrupulosity , to charge on th the e t he bje ct w sp f morals per critics , the howling result of which French charge piece has s , and been making to set unjust own so and -called invidious domestic comparisons drama , and between the pruriency the purity of Parisian of our t comed his question y . It . is All not we our wish province to do here is to to point enter out into that the apparentl merits of y critics a great and chan all ge has c that ome w ov he e ther r the spirit the worse of amuse or for ment the se better ekers , we are fast drifting , from , the region of these old ideas into that , pe of rfect entirel cr y itica new l ovation ones . w In hic proof h has of just what be we en say accord , we ed refe and r to very the j Boris ustly , Villageois to M . Victorien , This very Sardou same ' s most piece wa m irab prod le uc wor e , k , Nos the the Haymarket exception in of 1867 the , Athenceum and , on th and e score one of or morality two of the , was more , w dis ith - tinctively literary journals , roundly abused by all the critics . local that The the and circumstance comic English interest version , too , almost is was the , o identical mi more tting remarkable som with e the scen French fro es m of the . purel The fact y taste , however , of the British , public , so said the critics of 186 7 quence would not withdraw stand n the by the strong management meat , and . the Three piece short was years in conse have - , made a great change in the judgment of these gentlemen . Here , in with 1 S 70 marked , it is produced success , and , as it it is was now last discovered year at , that the St perhaps . James ' of s , objectionable all the pieces . M , Sardou has penned , it is , in morale the least

      we Whence must leave this the tremendous question set in the round hands of critical of moral opinion anatomists ? Well , and morale refer of the the less same philosop piece hical , appearing reader in to the the Times two notices respectivel of the y , in 1867 were and extremel 1870 . Either nice , then according or else to the we critic have , become we theatre ex - - goers y , our tremel morals y nasty in this now . direction However we , whatever most cordiall change welcome has come it . over We could not have been worse , than we have been y , again , according will to the stand crit English ics , for burlescjue some time and faint past . at a The French generation comedy that , is an M . unsatisfactory Lafont , admirable generation comedian , and , could needs fill a reformer that post , and for we us wish the whole season .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 28, 1870, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_28051870/page/11/