DR. LIVINGSTONE AND HIS SHOWMAN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 178, 2 August 1872, Page 5

DR. LIVINGSTONE AND HIS SHOWMAN.

It is encouraging to the hope tba£ the'reported rescue of Dr. Livingstone id authentic to observe't!-at in India, where they are better, able tbari elsewhere to estimate the. probabilities of the matter, the nmvs seems to have obtained general credence. The ' Madras Times' .writes in the following lively strain on the receipt of the tth - gram :- —" Dr. Livingstone 'is alive ; and that-noble British, lion is in charge"' of a Yankee siiowman of the first water ' The indeiatigaoie special correspondent of the.' New York Herald ' grandiloquently sty led the Commisio'ner has sought out, found, and seized-hold of. the great traveller. Never did ■a ' journalist perform such a feat. ' It" licks all creation! ' We dimly remember having read of the special, corres-'' pondent some time ago.- .' We have an : indistinct recollection oftbis American swearing he' intended to'cross -oceans,' leap over mountains pierce the undiscovered wilds of Central Africa,:..and bear away the rrirtsing. doctor from the lair of the gorilla to"the land-of the ■ Mlmighty stars and stripes. But' the:' Yankee, with all his .brag, has" actually . performed the feat—at .least it ';looks very much like "it." The,doctor the despatch), is safe with . him. E.r-. haps the telegram ought lo read, that the special is safe.with the doctor !." •?., . . A. scene-dimly jibe's before our imagination. The : great explorer \;_iscalmly. sitting on the peak of the ,tal- : lest ' mountain of : the moon.' lie, is-' clothed in .the sublimely simple ' garmerits of primeval man, and is thought-, ■ tuily .engaged in,trying to- masticate " his on ly 1 uggage —his note-book. .where- •-' in are jotted do.wn the invaluable notes of his long-wanderings. A little spring-;. trickles .' from * under his/feet, arid the„runnel therefrom broadens as inrushes down to flow into a mighty Nyariza... which spreads blue" to 'the northernhorizon The doctor has cliuibed to this lonely, elevation that he may .diethere. It is the source of the Nile !..-. His only desire is to leave his bleached bones and his pocket-book just at;-thafc place which will attest to those may discover them that, ere dying, the. doctor accomplished the mission of his life. But the pangs of hunger are too severe. The pocket-.Up'ok-is an irresistible luxury. Its' brass clasp only remains, .and the-doctor is about to • surrender himself to the; ICirig of Terrors, when lc! a being approaches ! ~ The doctor scarcedeigns to throw even a cursory glance upon this being. He supposes the creature to be one of his well-known friends, - the. gorillas. But to his amazement he notices this-being, though extremly l'ke .a gorilla, is tailless. The next moment the being rushes up to . thedoctor, exclaiming, * Wall, and howair yew, ole boss !' The being is the special correspondent of" the ' New ' York Herald'—who at once telegraphs , (by the-cahle he has, during his journey, laid behind him as he went on) tuat-tue doctor is safe-with him!"— ' Australasian'.' - '

Haw to Open Oysters.—" Talk of opening oysters !'said'old Hurricane, "why, nothings easier, if you only ,- know bow." "And how's how?" inquired Starlight. '* Scotch snuff," answered old Hurricane, " Scotch snuff. Bring it ever so near their nose.'and they'll sneeze their.lids - off."—" I "know a genius," observed Meister Karl, " who has a better plan He spreads the, bivalves in & circle seats hiniseif in the centre, and begins spinning a-yarn ; sometimes % an adventure in Mexico,sometimes a'marvellous stock operation in Waik-Vjcreet.' As he proceeds; the''natives','get interested, one r by-one they . gape with astonishment at the tremendous arid direful whoppers' which are, poured ' forth, and as'" they gape my. friend. 1 whips 'em out peppers 'em, and Wal-lows'em"—'-'That'll do," said Starlight with a lond sigh,- " I wish we haHa bushel of. them here now—they'd'/ 1 open.easy." .....,'