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- J K Bhebry County independent VALENTINE NEB ifehfwKE I108 Praia t DRAMATIC DOINGS WHAT AND PLAYERS PLAYWRIGHTS MANAGERS ARE DOING Grace Golden Writes of the Field for Lit tle Women Interesting Dramatic Data The Free List Suspended Autocrats of the Elder lioolh Iiittlo Women on tlie Stage - flf 7 UTHORSand i m MJ - th e a t r i c i 1 m managers are 21 tiJnnf ff lU U f 14 J tj a vi 1 1 i b 1 e Titcs Grace Golden the Prima Donna in the ISTew York Journal T h e y are sometimes guilty of pay ins too little attention to the little wo men who al though small is quite an im portant per sonage and should not be overlooked They first err in putting into her mouth lines of vastly too heroic variety the sec ond by substituting a tall woman for her The little womans province is quite distinctly defined and should mder no circumstances be usurped by her larger sisters of the stage It is in the impersonation of juven ile and masculine roles Nature has fitted actresses for the proper delineation of such parts A woman may be young still unless she is petite she should never at tempt either juvenile or masculine characters Youth and vivacity are great allies hut not of nearly so much importance as littleness An artistic make up will hide many of times ravages but all the cosmetics in the world cannot delude an audience into believing a woman small when she is not When a woman assumes masculine or juvenile attire for the purpose of deception vivacity chic and a cer tain diminutiveness are necessary else the authors idea is not carried out She must not be too mannish it is that half feminine half-masculine manner that makes the dissimu lation attractive and which in the case of a masculine role is more highly appreciated by an audience if the actress has first appeared in long skirts A woman loses much of her The Elder Booth One night Booth did not make his appearance at the theater in time to begin the performance The ager went to his room at the hotel and found it locked To his calls and knocks there was no response but as it was possible that he had fallen asleep a clerk in the house climbed upon the roof of an adjoining piazza and peered through a window The room was apparently empty Then the corridors and offices were visited without success and the manager was about to go away in disappoint- J ment when tne clerk to make as surance doubly sure again scaled the piazza entered the room through the window and looked under the bed There lay the missing tragedian calm and sober quietly meeting the gaze of the intruder He at once con 1 sensed to go to the theater The clerk unperceived followed him and heard him accost many peisons and ask to be directed to the theater He quickly dressed for his part and played it with prodigious power Booth was often perfectly sober when indulging in some of his wild est freaks His acquaintances dif fered as to the cause of them It is not to be doubted however that he did sometimes indulge his appetite for intoxicating liquors to an immod erate extent but not so frequently as t Is popularly believed One long time friend of his asserts that it is doubt ful if he ever was so completely over come by drink as to be incapable of playing a familiar character As soon as he came before the footlights and began to speak his aspect changed and as the play progressed he re gained over all his faculties sovereign ftwnv and masterdom He so doned himself to the passion of the part he acted that he produced such a degree of mental excitement as would neutralize the effects of other stimu lants Cordiule JSntenti SI rained Theatrical managers are usually in the habit of exLendmg to onanother J I the courtesies of their housos when they are on good terms and it is gen erally the custom here at least for one manager to gladly honor the re quest of another for a box for any performance Believing this to be the rule of other managers and knowing it to be in his own case a certain Chicago manager invited a party of friends to hear Miss Lillian Russell sing one night and then sent a written request for a box Greatly to his astonishment his request was refused In box office parlance he was turned down and he was mad But he had invitrd his friends and he put up fifteen good dollars for the privilege of hearing Lillian warble One Wednesday afternoon as Miss Russell did not sing she wanted to go to the matinee and she sent to this same manager a request for a box Did she get it Nofc much In a polite note he told her of his experience at her theater and said he could not consistently return a favor which had not been extended What Lillian said has not been re corded save possibly by the record ing angel The little incident cre ated quite as much of a stir as did a similar one which happened not long ago One of the leading local man agers desired his wife to see a popular attraction then playing at another house and he sent a request for two seats He received two whole seats which represented money in the box office and which he knew the other manager had paid for out of his own pocket If he could not have a pass he did not want others to pay his way so he sent the tickets back with a note the wording of which frizzled the paper upon which it was written Chicago Sunday Post Xowell and Newell A most amusing case of mistaken identity occurred in the office df Ho tel Ryan of St Paul the other day and goes to destroy one more of the old ideas that no two things are ex actly alike in this world A gentle man entered the hotel proceeded to the desk was handed a pen by the gen tlemanly clerk and registered W Newell New York The clerk called the uniformed attache known by the nom de bote or Front- and had him show the guest to a room on the parlor floor About fifteen minutes later his exact counterpart dressed exactly alike in every detail even to a xose in his buttonhole walked up to the desK picked up a pen and before the clerk could stop him reg istered the m3rstic name W Newell New York He also asked for a room The clerk looked his man over and when he could recover his speech said Why what do you want the earth9 I have just assigned you one of our best rooms The gentleman drew himself up and with a severe look replied You are mistaken 1 have just arrived in town and never snw vnn in mv life before At this hrTnwMahediscAiiseshpidentityiinie clerk nearly fainted but fortu f i Ui Although I belong to the ranks of little women I am by no means in sensible to the fact that they some times encroach upon the tall womans domain and try to impersonate roles suited only to her Their poaching efforts however are usually rewarded by the failure they deserve The little womans theatrical field it would seem should be large enough for her She has the little injured wife the Erench maid the gay youth and the iuonile are these not suffi cient characters for her She alone has made the greatest success of them as witness Miss Marie Tempest and Miss Delia Fox In The Vogle handler The Fencing Master and in Wang nonecould have kept up themasculine delusion better than they did still nobody ever forgot for a moment that either of these clever actresses were other than what they are charming little women masquer ading as men iiuuiiy Tor mi uuueerneu unu tleman came out of the elevator crossed over and addressed his broth er The consternation on the faces of the clerk bell boys and surround ing guests can better be imagined than described The men were none other than Willard and William New ell the only twin actors in the world who are starring in Newell Bros and Dinkins scenic production of The Operator They look so much alike that it is said that their own rela tions dont know them apart One of them is engaged to be married and the only fear the young lady has is that she will marry the wrong man by mistake Anecdote ot Keene Manager Smy the of the Hoss and Hoss Company traveled with Keene for several seasons and this story which he tells is characteristic of the star It was on Broadway New York said Smy the and Iveene Ariel Barney and myself were stroll- i ing uptown Presently Keene stopped and let us go on and when we missed him and looked back he was talking 1 to one of the raggedest and most man J wretched looking tramps I have ever seen Bill noeys make up in A Parlor Match wasnt in it with that fellow and there was Keene shaking his hand and as glad to meet him as if the tramp had been a bosom friend j For Heavens sake Whom has he i got in tow now asked Barney and then Keene caught up with us and an i swered the question himself That man was a good actor once he said but drink got awav with him Too bad too bad and he continued the walk as unconcernedly as if he were in the habit of publicly embracing mendicants every day in the week Annals or the Stage Rachels first appearance land was at the Queens in Eng Theater 1841 Edwin Booth first appeared in 1849 in a minor part of Richard III The Colleen Bawn was brought out atthe Adeltmi London in 1860 360 nights The first appearance of Southern in London was in the Haymarket in 1861 496 nights Irving first appeared as Hamlet in London 1874 Salvini first appeared in England as Othello and Hamlet at Drurv Lane in 1875 In the plays of Aristophanes pub lie men were caricatured by name Marlowes Faust was the best tragedy in English before the time ot Shakspeare The most prominent actor in the miracle play was the Devil Schillers Robbers was written while he was still in college Greek theaters had no roofs but porticos to which the spectators re tired when it rained Gre6k machinery for supernatural effects was elaborate but now little understood SOMEWHAT STRANGE ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS EVERY DAY IiIFE Queer OF Facts and Thrilling Adven tures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction A beak htiuging by his paws from the crotch of a large oak tree in the woods on Nettle Ridge near Scran ton Penn scared Ora Beckers spaniel Topsy half to death at sunrise on a recent Monday morning Becker was on his way to Racket Creek to hunt grouse and Topsy had run ahead of him so far in the woods that she was out of sight when she begun to yelp furiously and canter toward him lie made her stop her noise when she reached him and then he heard a bear bellowing and bawling some distance to the south Becker cocked his gun and hurried toward the place but Topsy was so badly frightened that she wouldnt accompany him The bear had both paws in the jaws of a trap twenty three feet from the ground and he was dig ging into the bark with his hind claws and doing his utmost to keep his weight from pulling down on his imprisoned paws lie yelled and snarled with pain as he climbed and twitched but the trap was fastened to a limb with a log chain and the bear stood no chance at all of yanking himself loose Becker had a charge of buckshot for wildcats in one of his barrels and he put an end to the bears suffering by shooting him in the head Then he got Topsy and started for the valley to find out who owned the trap It belonged to Edgar and Amasa Morehouse who set it in the crotch of the oak tree on Sunday and daubed it over with two pounds of hone There was a colony of wild bees in the hollow trunk and the Morehouse brothers dis covered that a bear had been clawing and biting the wood where the bees went in and out They made up their minds that the surest way to get the four footed lover of sweets was to bait the trap with honey and fasten it in the crotch of the tree but they didnt expect to capture him so soon and so they didnt go to look at the trap the next morning The bear weighed 313 pounds and the More house boys gave Becker one half of the carcass for shooting him Amasa brought the skin to Scranton and got 24 for it Mrs James Hinckley of Walnut Hollow Conn had an encounter with a hen hawk recently that nearly caused her death Mrs Hinckley is a widow and manages a farm with the assistance of her only child a 15-year-old girl While she was throwing corn to the fowls an immense hawk swooped down and caught a hen in its talons Without apprehending the danger to herself Mrs Hinckley picked up a stone and threw it at the hawk The missile struck the bird fairly and seemed to madden it for it flew at the woman Mrs Hinckley ws unable to get hold of anything with which to defend herself AVith the idea of attracting some one to her assistance she screamed at the top of her voice but her daughter had gone on an errand more than a mile distant and her cries were unheard The hawks anger was apparently increased by the womans cries It aimed to gat at the womans lace which shoprotucted with her hands and arms From her arms and shoul ders her dress was torn to shreds and the flesh was lacerated so badly that her clothing was saturated with blood For twenty minutes the bird fought the woman all over the yard until she fell in a fainting condition She would proba bly have been killed br the bird had not her daughter arrived just as she fell The girl is vigorous and fearless Tak ing in the situation promptly she secured a piece of heavy log chain that hung on the fence The hawk turned its atten tion to the girl but it soon got a blow across the back with the chain that ren dered one of its wings useless and it tlien became an easy victim for the girl The hawk was one of the largest ever killed hereabouts It measured five feet two inches across its wings from tip to tip and weighed thirteen pounds A tale of piracy comes from the South Seas that sounds like a romance of the middle ages Two brothers Rodiques highly educated and polished men who for some crime had been committed to the penal settlements of New Caledonia made their escape and working their way into the South Pacific they managed to get into the good graces of the natives and foreigners there They succeeded in getting possession of the yacht of the native Tahitiau King a very fast schoon er and manning her with a crew of two Europeans and five natives they loaded her with goods and sailed ostensibly on a trading voyage When they were one week at sea they gave the cook a bottle of strychnine and by promising to divide the spoils with him and threatening his life in case of refusal persuaded him to put the poison into the food of the crew While the unhappy victims were rolling on the deck in agony the Rodiques sat smoking and enjoying their tortures and finally threw them to the sharks that swarmed around the vessel and laughed to see them devoured The vessel was then taken to another island where a crew was engaged and they set out to dispose of the cargo Finally the cook demanded his share of the profits lie was refused and given to understand that he was their slave and must not leave the vessel Finally they put into Manila where the cook managed to get ashore and betrayed the pirates to the author ities They were speedily arrested and decapitated on the cooks evidence and he was executed at the same time as particeps criminis One of the coolest actions I ever ob served in the course of my express exper ience said an express messenger to a reporter of the Cincinnati Times Star was that of a rough fellow from New Mexico lie was poorly dressed and boarded our train at Tombstone on a second class ticket depositing at the same time a box in the care of the express agent labeled Rattlesnakes handle with carr It was a small soap box and not very heavy but you can bet that box was zealously guarded At Kansas City he came and got the box and carried it off toa bank The banker was a friend of nfinc and meeting him the next day I aFkcd what that fellow did in the bank svch the rattlesnakes Rattlesnakes Widl thats a good joke on the express coupany he replied That box had ex actly 80000 in 10 greenbacks in it If thehnoney had been entered as money we would have charged him a neat sum for its transportation but by labelling it rattlers he had it carried for a trifle and Ill venture it was more secure from robbers under that simple title than it would have been in the stoutest safe The physicians of Philadelphia are said to be wondering whether the leprosy is ever of spontaneous generation A woman was recently admitted to the hospital there who has every symptom of the leprosy Her skin is badly discolored and bears large spots of bronze color and the cuticle is dry and in some places lifeless It is said that she has always resided in the city has never been abroad and so far as known has never come into contact with any person afflicted with the leprosy Last winter D W Little one of the adobe farmers at Biggs Cal shot into a band of geese A white gander was struck and had one wing broken Mr Little took the goose home and gave him to his boys who doctored his wing and he soon became so tame as to follow the boys wherever they went eat from their hands and even poke his head into their pockets for corn or wheat A few days ago a band of wild geese flying over the premises and making their usual clatter attracted the attention of the domesti cated gander which gave an outlandish display of quacking and shrill yells in goose language that had a most startling effect with the band flying past A fine white goose was seen to leave the band and shoot down until it landed in the yard at the side of the pet and the meet ing was demonstrative to an exciting de gree Their gabbling quacking and amusing antics afforded as much fun for the boys who witnessed the meeting as they could have found at a circus The new arrival which is probably a mate of the now tame goose refuses to leave but will fly over the fence when the two are approached by the boys and then fly back to the mate when the boys step aside A tramp givinc his name as John Fair appeared at the police station in Atchi son Kansas the other night bruised from head to foot and asked permission to sleep in the cell until morning Fair said he had come to Atchison from Omaha on a through stock train and had had the most terrible experience of his life Shortly before the train pulled out of Omaha the tramp said he crawled into a car which was loaded with steers The steers soon began to step on him and seeing this would never do tnc tramp climbed on the back of one animal This enraged the steer and it lunged forw av3T exciting the other steers when there was a panic The maddened steers dashed about hooking each other and striking the tramp on all sides He put his arms about the neck of the steer which he was riding and held his grip until the train stopped at Atchison The tramps head had struck the top of the car a number of times and it was badly bruised Among certain tribes of India the fol lowing trying ordeal constitutes the marriage ceremony The man conducts his betrothed into some water they are accompanied by a priest and also take with them a cow and a calf which are driven into the water The man places his hand by the priests hand and the woman places hers next that of the bride groom and all three clutch hold of the cows tail while the officiating priest pours water upon the cow and the calf at the same time uttering a religious formula The two are then made man and wife by their clothes being tied to gether by the priest The latter claims the cow and the calf for his part in the ceremony and the happy pair deposit money presents on the various idols to propitiate them which gifts find their way into the priests exchequer so that he is handsomely rewarded for his ser vices An extraordinary case is reported from Halberstadt A soldier in a cuirassier regiment who took part in the celebrated death ride at tne battle of Mars le Tour was severely wounded in the left ankle The man was removed to the hospital at Gucdinburg where he remained for over a year The doctors after making many attempts to discover the bullet at length gave up the search and discharged the man who has been an invalid ever since The other day after twenty two years the doctors at the hospital at Halberstadt succeeded in extracting the shot which was embedded in the bone The patient is said to have experienced immediate relief after the operation was performed A story Mr William Hancock is tell ing on the lecture platform in England reflects great credit upon the sagacity of the buffaloes been traveling telligent animals their mortal em in Sumatra where he has He says that being in great these fear in of mv the tiger take refuge at night in the rivers where they rest in peace and comfort with only their horns and noses sticking above the water Possibly the traveller derived his infor mation from veracious natives like those of Central Africa who regaled Dr Jun ker with tales of monkeys who built fires and cooked their food after the manner ol tne lords ol creation The alligator has never been looked on as a possible article or diet but a negro known as Jack Fisherman a well known character living on Peace Creek in Florida declares that he nearly sub sists on theinrIe has been seen to eat their meat with great relish and he says that it is as tender as chicken but has a taste more like that of venison than any other For the last fifteen years he has never tasted meat other thau this Ac cording to his statement the choice parts a uirectiv uuaer tne scaiv ridge along e backbone and are as wnite as veal An extraordinary occurrence is re ported from Monsac France Between that village and Couze a little child of five was playing in front of its mothers cottage when it was suddenly attacked bv a large grav wolf which had emerged from the neighboring wood The beast picked up the infant and trotted back into the forest but fortunately the bur den was rather heavy and on the neigh bors attracted by the childs cries coming to the rescue the wolf dropped its prey and disappeared A German newspaper lately contained this announcement I hereby declare since the written notice of the 8th of August 1892 and notwithstanding her refusal to accept the same my betrothal with Fraulein Emma Ziegler is null and 4 void Richard Jork In tho next number of the paper the following ap peared I hereby declare that with respect to the- advertisement of the an nulment of mv betrothal written and proclaimed with Herr Jork I do not agree I am and still intend to remain Ins betrothed Emma Ziegler A Newton county Mo woman has sued the Splitlog Railroad based on the following claim She was a passenger on the road and was accidentally carried beyond her destination some distance when the train stopped and she alighted While icturning she was chased by a bull and in outrunning him impaired her health CHRIST MAS GAMES Holiday Entertainment for the Young Folks If you are to entertain a large circle of young folks of all ages at Christmas it will OQ well to provide yourself before hand with a list of amusing games Fling the Towel Let the company form a circle with one of the players in the center One member of the circle then flings a large towel aiming to hit some other member If the player in the middle is adroit enough to intercept it and catches the towel on its way across the ring he takes the place of the one who threw it who then takes his hand in the middle If it hits the one at whom it was aimed he must try to get rid of it by throwing it to another player before the one stationed m the middle can catch it The game of Santa Claus which is not unlike that called Donkey is great fun Tack upon the Avail a big white sheet Make a large paper Sanla Claus cut off his head his feet his arms legs and pack cut off his ears and nose cut out his eyes and paste his body on the sheet Blindfold each player and give him a portion of the Saints anatomy and let him place it where he thinks it should go You can have a bit of dried mucilage on the backs of these bits of paper so that they can be moistened and stuck to the body He generally turns out a most peculiar looking saint with one eye on his heel another on his thumb his head where his feet should be and nothing in the rght place You can have two simple prizes one for the person who comes nearest being right in the placing of some member and a booby prize for the one farthest out of the way We have seen a whole roomful of grown pcoplo oonvulscd merriment over this game Gossip is amusement for the older ones All sit in a circle One commu nicates a piece of gossip about some per son in the room who proceeds to tell it to the one next and so it goes on until the last one is to repeat aloud just what he hears and the starter gives the orig inal sentence They are generally just about as far apart as the gossip started at a sewing circle is from the same piece of news when it has made the village rounds Metamorphosis Let each member of the company be furnished with a sheet of paper and a pencil Let him draw at the top of the sheet the head of some bird beast fish or human being and fold down the sheet so as to leave nothing exposed except lines to show on what part of the paper the body is to be placed He then passes it to his next neighbor who draws on it a body to suit his own fancy It is then folded and passed to the next who must draw legs two or four When the papers are examined some very curious monsters unknown to natural history are dis played Apprentice is not too intellectual for the little ones One of the players begins by saying I have apprenticed my son to a butcher or dry goods mer chant or to any tradesman and gives the initial of the first thing his son sold The rest must guess what the article sold was and the one who guesses right must then prentice his son Family Graveyards There is no place like Southern Indi ana for graveyards said William Yakey of Bloomfield Ind to a Chicago Globe reporter ITow that section including Green Monroe Brown and Sullivan coun ties is a wonderland to traverse It looks as though the old settlers of fifty years ago wanted each one to have a graveyard of his own Every mile or two often far from any roadway totally inaccessible to wagons without laying waste the fences you come upon little rock walled or rail bound inclosures containing the dead of one family Father mother and several children lie there and none others These places have long been forsaken and forgotten Weeds flourish in profu sion and hide the wind and rain -stained tombstones -from view Often with a companion I have entered one of these little inclosures trampled and torn out the Aveeds and righted the five or six head stones that had fallen and buried even the inscribed virtues of the dead into the Avormy earth These people had no country church yard no preacher except the visiting par son Avho came monthly on horseback They had no funeral in the present sense ol the Avord Piain Avooden boxes Avere used for coffins and often the sturdy youth of the family made the coffin for the dead parent or relative These little spots Avere dear to those families One can see that by the loving little inscrip tions and decorations When they AAere all dead no oue remained to care for them and they fell into decay and ruin They are lonesome sights those little groups of A hite pillars In the winter when the trees are bare and the grass dead I have seen flocks of croAvs coming and circling about the clump of treesthat usually cluster about those places The bitter Avind moans through the crackling branches and those crows wheel about and caw and croak until the world seems truly a place of sorrow and death A Wonder in Eggs The number of eggs in the medium sized eel at the beginning of the breeding season is stated by eminent authorities on fishes and their allied creatures to be fully nine millions 900000Gb a sum so great as to almost paralyze the intellect that tries to grapple Avitb it To the na ked eye a single one of the e life germs is almost invisible A strong microscope however shows them firmly packed to gether standing on their tiny ends look ing not unlike the covered cells of honey comb Queer J MARKETS OF -MOSCOW Features of JAto Among tho Russians I visited some of the Russian markets here says Frank G Carpenter in a letter from Moscow and they have many fea tures Avhich could be adopted Avith profit bv us Fish are sold alive and the only dead ones are the dried onc3 They are kept in stone Aats of running water and the fishwife will stand with a dozen of these marble vats about her each tilled with different kinds of fish Russia ha some of the greatest fisheries in the world Millions upon millions of dollars worth of fish are taken every year from the Volga the Caspian and the Blaek seas andall the caviare in the Avorld comes from here You see this caviare sold in cans and tubs in the markets It locks like bird shot sprinkled with salt water and it is made up of the eggs of the sturgeon which are killed for this pur pose It brings high prices even in Russia and is best Avhen it is fresh In fact Russians say that caviare should not be more than a month old to be good and that you cannot get good caviare further away from the Volga than Mos cow The meat of the sturgeon after the caviare has been made from the eggs is salted and sold You can buy it here for about 10 cents a pound and all sorts of dried fish are eaten by the people They are shipped in great crates over the country and they form a large part of the diet of the peasanr The consump tion of fish is increased by the numerous Russian fasts during Avhich the people cannot eat meat and must confine themselves to fish The queerest markets of Russia ar those of the Avinter when all sorts o fish and meats are sold in a frozen state The Russian Avinter is so cold that these fish are caught at the beginning of it are placed in vats and are sold in blocks to sujt the customers The dealers buy them by the tons and store them aAvay for their retail customers of the Avinter Beef mutton and poultry arc frozen the same Avay and a butcher can lay in dur ing October his full supply of meats for the next six months The meats are frozen so hard that a knife cannot cut them and it is necessary to saAv them up or crop them with an ax Splinters of frozen meat fly about over the market and children and beggars collect these and take them home to their families There are many curious things sold in the markets here and you can buy eels and snakes nnd chicken legs Lambs feet are sold as a great dainty nnd calves feet are bought for soup bones Among the oils Avhich are used by the peasants for salads and cooking is sunfloAver oil and one of the great industries of this country is sunflower raising The peas ants eat sunflower seeds in large quanti ties and they nibble at thern and chew unon them as Ave do peanuts You can hardly find a man A ho has not some sun flower seeds in his pocket and cveryAvhere you go you see Avomcn Avith baskets of these black and gray seeds for sale They taste very much like pumpkin seeds and the peasants eat them at their gatherings just as the Chinese do Avatermelon seeds at the theatre A vast deal of business is done here in Russia by peddling On many of the business streets of Moscow there are long lines of open air stands and bare headed Russian men and froAvzy headed women sell fruit Acgetables and knick knacks under the blaze of the hot sun There is an immense business done in little booths and the so called thieves market is a fixed institution of every Russian city This name has come largely from the guides and there is no doubt that many of the articles sold are stolen The truth however is that these markets are second hand markets and that many of the fine articles Avhich these second hand dealers sell have come to them in a legitimate way This second hand market in St Petersburg coA ers nearly a Avhole block The building which constitutes it is cut up into all sorts of angles by arcades and you go through narroAV aisles out upon which look little cells packed full of second hand goods and presided over b hard looking Avomen and villainous men It is said that ones pocket book is not at all safe in this quarter and that a stranger ought not to go through it alone I had a guide Avith me and though the crowd Avas rather noisv and somewhat impudent in their requests that I should buy of them I snv nothing A ery dangerous or terrible In some of these shops you Avill find the finest of silver plate There are bushels of Avatchcs and old rugs Avhich are almost worth their weight in gold The dealers hoAvever thoroughly appreciate the Aalue of their goods and real bargains are scarce Much of the stuff is said to be brought to the market by servants and now and then you can pick up a piece of or plate that has been stolen from one of the pah c s Russia has a system of pawnbroknr and the pawn shops are connected Avith the govern ment The money is loaned upon pledged articles at a fixed rate and all pledges which are not redeemed are sold at auction Do Animals Dream Much research and investigation Avar rants the assertion that mantis not the only animal subject to dreams Horses neigh and rear upon their hind feet Avhile fast asleep dogs bark and growl and in many other Avays exhibit all their charac teristic passions It i3 highly probable that at such times the remembranee of the chase or of a combat is pa sing through the dogs minds Besides the above signs of fleeting pain anger and excitement these noble creatures often manifest signs of kindness phjvfulness and of almost every other pa ion Ruminant animals such as the sheep and the coav are believed to be less affected with dreams than those of higher passions Avhich spend their waking hours in scenes of greater excitement Philosophers and mA estigatois tell us that if avc trace the dream faculty still lower in the scale of animal life we shall probably find that the same phenomenon exists and judg ing from analogy it is only reasonable to reckon dreaming as one of the uni versal laws almost as universal as Ieep itself St Louis PiCpublic The new Mormon temple at Salt Lake Ciry will be opened April G 1S93 It has been in course of erection for forty yeirs has cost 2500000 and will be wjthout doubt the biggest architectural nightmare in the country 1 - i I
