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PLAYERS PLAYWRIGHTS
MANAGERS ARE DOING
Grace Golden Writes of the Field for Lit
tle Women Interesting Dramatic Data
The Free List Suspended Autocrats
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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
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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
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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
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