'Twa flowers that' bloom in the spring, tra-la make no appeal to Dr. Henry Soahristein, dentist of Boston. Abandoning his drill and forceps. he is swinging the axe of the Lord High Executioner for the purpose of decap'tating Gilbert and Sullivan.
He has appealed to the Mayor of Boston to ban a forthcoming performance of "The Mikado" on the ground that tt is "filthy, lewd and obscene, and an Insidious attack on organized government."
"The Mikado," he says, "catirises all government and thus undermines the minds of growing children and robs them of all respect for discipline and 'What shocks him even more is the thought that the roles of Nanki-Poo and Yuin-Yuin involve "the bartering of an Innocent woman's body—an out rage to public morals.'
T depose that most men would rather say a clever thing than do good one.
Truth is the only thing I know that can not be improved upon.
Wise men don't expect to do away with the vicissitudes of life; they only expect to blunt the edge of them.
I would rather be the receiver of stolen goods than the keeper of men's secrets.
Slander is played on a horn of brass, but truth steals forth like the dying song of a lute.
About as good a way as any to be happy is to pity those who are below tus and forget that there is anybody above us.
Epitaph. Here es John Ferguson, Esq. who died worth half a million—less the Kingdom of Heaven.
"Avarice eats up all the good things in a man and then feeds on his vices.
It you have a good wife, keep perfecty still and thank God' every liv-{ng minute for it.
Honesty 1s the best policy. But don't take my word for tt; try it.
Fools do more harm in the world than rascals.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.