The Wasp A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art . eir protector, may be aided and providedfor.—5. F. Evening Post, August 12. We have much to say upon this subject,but regret to be compelled from lack ofspace, to leave it for our next issue—buthave opened a fund and will be glad to re-ceive contributions for the persecuted poorabove named. Ed. Wasp. A MisT.\KEN notion, long since prevailing,that the Russian royal appendageof Czar, is a deriviation of the Roman more absurd. There were bravemen before A
The Wasp A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art . eir protector, may be aided and providedfor.—5. F. Evening Post, August 12. We have much to say upon this subject,but regret to be compelled from lack ofspace, to leave it for our next issue—buthave opened a fund and will be glad to re-ceive contributions for the persecuted poorabove named. Ed. Wasp. A MisT.\KEN notion, long since prevailing,that the Russian royal appendageof Czar, is a deriviation of the Roman more absurd. There were bravemen before Agamemnon lived. Russia wasan oriental nation before Peter the Great,took it in hand to occidentize it (?) and Baby-lonia had its Czars before Caesar was thoughtof; rid. Nebuchadnezsa/-. It is questionablewhetlier ;r/xes has not an affinity to «?- is a combination of Baal and Czar,God and Emperor. <Srt/-danapalus has theCzar at the beginning and Is6YT?-verden in themiddle. There are many Persian mon-archs in history, and very few without theCzar attachment somewhere, as A(;-xes andAriaxerxes, Louis XIV of France was born with teethand destroyed the nipples of three nurses,but the fourth, who had the courage to spankhim for it, broke him of the vice. In later years, when his proclivity forwar made him a terror in the world, a simi-lar operation, vigorously applied, might havebeen the means of saving much blood, use-lessly spilled. We suggest the policy of investigating thenatal enormities of some of our political agi-tators—deal with them after the exampleof the nurse of Louis XIV, and thus enforcegood behavior. The Pacific Presn and Mirror are side byside on our desk. Considering they areboth published in the same village, why notclub together, and bestow on the Mirror theartistic get up of the Pi-cx>i, and leave alonegarbling quotations? Madame la Cha-pelle is exclusively ours. THE ROYAL HOTTENTOTS. An Extravagant BurlesqueIN ONE ACT. (Not
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