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nothing noteworthy in the movement which
has continued moderate.
Oats May oats have been run up and
down within a range of about 1 cent. There
has been a good many damage reports re
ceived in Chicago, but the area far enough
advanced to be susceptible to damage must
be small.
Provisions have now had a good bulge
and wc are inclined to think that lard and
ribs are about high enough to sell again.
The same probably applies to pork but that
is more liable to manipulation as the quan
tity on hand is large and no more regular
pork can be made now and the amount of
short pork is an unknown quantity.
MUSICAL,.
One of the local musical events of the
season will be the concert by the Mendel
ssohn musical society at the Lansing thea
ter on Wednesday evening April 18th. The
chorus will number about 150 voices, sup
ported by an orchestra of thirty-two pieces.
The chorus numbers will be from the stan
dard operas and oratorios and the orches
tra, besides accompanying the chorus will
appear in five numbers. Having been pres
ent a number of times during the rehear
sals at the Conservatory of Music, wo can
assure the citizens of Lincoln a rare musi
cal treat. We understand the concert will
be given as a compliment to the friends of
the society and musicians of the city.
It is seldom that any of the great artists
come to Lincoln, as our people do not suffi
ciently patronize concerts to make it an ob
ject'' for therm to come; but a few such au
diences as greeted the Remenyi company
on Tuesday evening will change all this
Xo finer or larger audience has ever as
sembled in the city to listen to a concert.
We promise to begin next week the an
nounced series of articles on the church
choirs of the city,
Chicago is in danger of loosing Thomas
and the Chicago Orchestra. The contraet
with Mr. Thomas was for a period of three
years, fifty gentlemen binding themselves
to pay the sum of 81.000 each per year to
make up whatever deficit might ensue from
ticket receipts of concerts, while Mr. Thom
as agreed to organize a symphony orchestra-equal
to any in the world, in which he
has faithfully succeeded. The entire guar
antee fund has been exhausted every year
together with about 810,000 besides. There
is some talk of the orchestra being dis
banded or taken in a body to New .York.
Chicago does not patronize the concerts as
they deserve.
An invitation from Director and Mrs.
Howell was given nitisical people and stu
dents to an informal reception at the Con
servatory of Music Tuesday from 3 to 5,
tendered to Remenyi, Sig. de Reva Berni
and Miss Minnie Methat. Between two
and three hundred people responded.
Among those present were most of the
leading musicians of the city. The parlors
were crowded during the afternoon so that
it became necessary to adjourn to the con
cert hall, when Remenyi very kindly con
sented to play for the guests. Of course,
one number only whetted the desire for
more, and another was cheerfully given.
One seldom if ever gets enough of Remenyi's
playing, and tears were glistening in many
eyes while his violin sang, sighed and all
but talked to them.
Lincoln musicians have been fortunate in
being able to listen to two delightful enter
tainments this week. Mr. Oliver Pierce
gave a piano recital on Monday evening at
the Congregational church. The entertain
ment was worthy of a much larger audi
ence, and should have been patronized by
every piano pupil in the city. The criti
cism in the daily papers revealed the fact
that we are blest with better critics than
artists,-for Mr. Pierce's playing was artistic
in a high degree. It did not suffer in com
parison with Sig. Berni the following even
ing. Sig. Berni has evidently been before
the public for some time and has acquired
the ease and composure that comes of long
practice.
Mr. Pierce is a youug man and will un
doubtedly acquire in time many things he
now lacks, but he gives promise of a bril
liant future and will gain distinction in his
chosen profession. The entertainment on
Tuesday evening was an artistic success.
Remenyi has lost none of his brilliancy and
his playing charms and delights as of yore.
His company was unusually good, and the
Conservatory is doing a good thing for
musical Lincoln in bringing such opportun
ities to them. The audience, which was
large, was delighted and insisted upon en
cores to e'very number. It is seldom we
have two entertainments of such unusual
merit in one week.
MARK TWAIN'S PHILOSOPHY.
Nothing so needs reforming as other peo
ple's habits.
Behold the fool saith, "Put not all thine
eggs in the one basket' which is but a
manner of saying, "Scatter your money and
your attention;" but the wise man saith,
"Put all your eggs in the one basket and
WATCH THAT BASKET.
If you pick up a starving dog and :uako
him prosperous, he will not bite you. This
is the principal difference between a dog
and a man.
We know all about the habits of the ant,
we know all about the habits of the bee,
but we know nothing at all about the
habits of the oyster. It seems almost cer
tain that wo have been choosing the wrong
time for studying the oyster.
Even popularity can be overdone. In
Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets
ihat Michelangelo died; but by and by you
only regret that you didn't seem him do it.
July 4. Statistics show that we lose
more fools on this day than in all the other
days.of the year put together. This proves
by the number left in stock, that one
Fourth of July per year, is inadequate, the
country has grown so.
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