The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers - Series II

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers - Series II

Robert Henry Newell, popular 19th century American humorist (1836-1901)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- NOTING THE LAMENTABLE INCONVENIENCES OF A PRESS-CENSORSHIP

-03- ILLUSTRATING THE DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF STRATEGY UPON NATIONAL LITERATURE

-04- A QUARTER OF TWELVE

-05- SETTING FORTH A NEW VILLAINY OF THE INSIDIOUS BLACK REPUBLICANS

-06- WHEREIN ARE PRESENTED SOME FEMININE REFERENCES

-07- SUGGESTING MENTAL RELAXATION FOR A TIME

-08- SHOWING HOW THE GENERAL OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE ISSUED AN AFFECTING GENERAL ORDER

-09- INSTANCING THE BENEFICENT DEPORTMENT OF THE VENERABLE GAMMON

-10- REPORTING THE SECOND REGULAR MEETING OF THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB

-11- PORTRAYING A SOCIAL EFFECT OF THE POSTAGE-STAMP CURRENCY

-12- CONTAINING FRESH TRIBUTES OF ADMIRATION TO THE DEVOTED WOMEN OF AMERICA

-13- GIVING A FAMILIAR ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE SITUATION

-14- SHOWING HOW THE COSMOPOLITANS MET AGAIN, TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE NEUTRAL BRITISH GENTLEMAN

-15- THE CONFESSION

-16- NOTING THE REMARKABLE RETROGRADE ADVANCE OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE UPON WASHINGTON

-17- IN WHICH OUR CORRESPONDENT ASTONISHES US BY ENGAGING IN SINGLE COMBAT WITH M. MICHELET

-18- GIVING ASSURANCE OF THE UNMITIGATED SAFETY OF THE CAPITAL

-19- INTRODUCING ONCE MORE THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB

-20- DON BOBADIL BANCO

-21- ILLUSTRATING THE IMPERTURBABLE CALMNESS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITOL

-22- COMMENCING WITH HISTORICAL REFERENCE

-23- SHOWING HOW THE PRESIDENT AND THE GENERAL OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE ISSUED GREAT EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATIONS

-24- FEED STORE - OATS FOR SALE HERE

-25- REPORTING THE LATEST SMALL STORY FROM HONEST ABE

-26- MAKING MENTION OF ANOTHER MEETING OF THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB, AT WHICH THE TURKISH AND RUSSIAN MEMBERS READ THEIR STORIES.

-27- THE SULTAN'S FAVORITE

-28- THE LITTLE MAN IN GREEN

-29- CONCERNING THE SERIOUS MISTAKE OF THE VENERABLE GAMMON

-30- TREASON OF THE BLACK REPUBLICANS

-31- PICCIOLA

-32- SKETCH OF COMMODORE HEAD

-33- SETTING FORTH THE FALSE AND TRUE ASPECTS OF BEAMING OLD AGE RESPECTIVELY

-34- AGE BLUNTLY CONSIDERED

-35- REFERRING TO THE MOSQUITO AS A TEST OF HUMAN NATURE

-36- SHOWING WHAT EFFECT DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPHS HAVE UPON THE PRESIDENT

-37- IN WHICH THE STORY TOLD BY THE GERMAN MEMBER OF THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB IS DULY REPORTED

-38- HERMANN, THE DEMENTED

-39- SHOWING HOW THE NATIONAL INSANITARY COMMITTEE MADE A STRANGE BLUNDER