Item - The Dime Funny Speaker

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers — no. 21
Alternate Title:	The Dime Funny Speaker: The Funniest Things of the Funniest Speakers and Writers, and Numerous Original and Adapted Pieces Expressly Prepared for this Work
Subjects / Tags:	American wit and humor Humorous recitations Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American Wit and humor
Contents:	Colonel Sellers Elucidates (Work, pages 9-0) Clory Mit Ter Sthars Und Sthripes (Work, pages 10-11) Terrence O'Dowd's Patriotism (Work, pages 11-12) The Lime-Kiln Club Oration (Work, pages 12-13) Farmer Thornbush on Fools (Work, pages 13-14) The Fiddler (Work, pages 14-15) The Regular Season (Work, page 16) Schoolboy's Lament (Work, pages 17-18) Dot Baby Off Mine (Work, pages 18-19) Bluggs (Work, pages 19-22) Views on Agriculture (Work, pages 22-25) One Hundred Years Ago (Work, pages 25-29) De 'Sperience ob de Reb'rend (Work, pages 29-31) A Dollar or Two (Work, pages 31-32) On Some More Hash (Work, pages 32-34) Where Money Is King (Work, pages 34-35) Professor Dinkelspeigelmann on the Origin of Life (Work, page 36) Konsentrated Wisdum (Work, pages 37-42) Joseph Brown and the Mince-Pie (Work, pages 42-44) John Jenkins's Sermon (Work, pages 44-45) A Foggy Day (Work, pages 46-47) A Parody (Work, pages 47-48) The New Mythology (Work, pages 48-55) I Kin Nod Trink To-Nighd (Work, pages 55-56) The New Church Doctrine (Work, pages 56-58) Wilyum's Watermillion (Work, pages 59-60) Josiah Axtell's Oration (Work, pages 60-61) Pastor Barebones's Anathema (Work, pages 61-62) Caesar Squash on Heat (Work, pages 63-64) Fritz Valdher is Made a Mason (Work, pages 64-67) Joan of Arc (Work, pages 67-69) The Blessings of Farm Life (Work, pages 70-71) The People (Work, pages 71-73) The Thermopylae (Work, pages 73-75) Cats (Work, pages 75-77) Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle (Work, pages 77-78) A Catastrophic Ditty (Work, pages 79-80) The Maniac's Defense (Work, pages 80-82) Woman: God Bless Her (Work, pages 82-85) Be Miserable (Work, pages 85-86) Dodds versus Daubs (Work, pages 86-88) The Cadi's Judgment (Work, pages 89-90) That Calf (Work, pages 90-91)
Date:	1878
Publisher:	Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States
OCLC Number:	02128093
Edition Description:	Also includes: publisher's advertisements.
Length:	91 pages
Notes:	"Copyrighted in 1878, and listed among publications, January 4, 1879.(12) It probably appeared late in 1878."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels