FECHTER
in an English play is a spectacle so hopelessly and earnestly absurd, as
to call for commiseration rather than for the laughter which it would
deserve were it professedly a burlesque entertainment.
MATADOR.
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EXCELSIOR.
The _Gold Hill Daily News_, of Nevada, has found a big sapphire--a
regular _Koh-i-noor_ of gems. It says:
"While at San Francisco, a few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of seeing
the SANGALLI ballet troupe at MAGUIRE'S Opera House, and the artistic,
glowing beauties of the Sapphire dance yet pleasurably linger in our
memory."
The dance in question, which the Gold Hill editor describes as "a higher
order of the famous 'Can-can,'" is new to us. It makes us feel "blue" to
think that we have never seen the Sapphire dance. "Higher" than the
Can-can! Good gracious! if heels go higher in the Sapphire than in the
Can-can, may we not be pardoned for inquiring, "What next?"
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Nought for Nought.
Alas! that poor SYPHER should Cipher to gala
A seat he must evermore Sigh for in vain;
But why should we Sigh for poor SYPHER'S defeat,
When his friends couldn't Cipher him into his seat.
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