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About Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1892)
V J ft GHERRr County Independent WHAT AND VALENTINE NEB EDIT0I1S BLISHEKa WaVKES DRAMATIC DOINGS PLAYERS PLAYWRIGHTS MANAGERS ARE DOING Gruco Golden Writes or tho Field for Lit tle Women Interesting Dramatic Data Tlio Proe List Susiiendcd Autocrats ol the Elder IJooth Tvittlo Women on tlie Stage r X A - L t m ww rs j i i i - - V jfWi A t PS w fifh i s U t v u 1 VPIL7 ox Ehould not be overlooked CTHORS and th e a t r i c a 1 igers are nltiolp liifflllihlf K M S V rrites Grace Golden the Prima Donna in the New York Journal They are sometimes guilty of pay ing too little attention to the little wo men who al though small is quite an im portant per sonage and 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 under 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 but 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 quickly dressed forhispartand played it with prodigious power Booth was often perfectly sober j when indulging in some of his wild j est freaks His acquaintances dif- j fered as to the cause of them It is the courtesies of their Iiousos 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 nrivileere of hearing Lillian warble One Wednesday afternoon as Miss Bussell 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 Not 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 loner 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 ottice and which he knew the other manacrer 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 Newell anil 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 uuifprmed attache known by the nom de bote or 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 rose in his buttonhole walked up to the desK picked up a pen and before the clerk could stop him reg istered the mystic 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 saw vou in my life before- At this discuises her identity the clerk nearly fainted too pBiiutr nateiy ionm cuuueraeu Aitnougn l belong to the ranks of tleman 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 French maid the gay youth and the juonile 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 none could 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 thev are charming little women masquer ading as men The Eider Booth One night Booth did not make his appearance at the theater in time to begin the performance The man 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- ment when the clerk to make as- j Burance 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 sented to go to the theater The clerk unperreived followed him and heard him accost many persons and ask to be directed to the theater He but fortu tne nrst 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 AVillard 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 of Iveene Manager Smythe of the Hoss and Hoss Company traveled with ICeene for several seasons and this story which he tells is characteristic of the star It was on Broadway New York said Smythe and Iveene i Ariel Barney and myself were stroll i ing uptown Presently Keene stopped 1 and let us go on and when we missed i him and looiced back he was talking to one of the racrgedest and most j wretched looking tramps I have ever i seen Bill Hoeys make up in A j Parlor Match wasnt in it with that fellow and there was Iveene shaking his hand and as glad to meet him as if the tramp had been a bosom friend For Heavens sake Whom has he t j got in tow now asked Barne3r 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 of the Stage Rachels first appearance land 1841 was at the Queens in Eng Theater Edwin Booth first appeared in 1849 in a minor part of Richard III The Colleen Bawn was brought out atthe Adelimi London in 1360 360 nights The first appearance of Southern in London was in the Havmarket in notf to be doubted however that he 1 1861 496 nights did sometimes indulge his appetite Irving first appeared as Hamlet in for intoxicating liquors to an j London 1874 erate extent but not so frequently as 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 nlaviner a familiar character As soon as he came before the footliirhts and I began to speak his aspect changed and as the play progressed he re gained over all his faculties sovereign Sway and masterdom 1 le so aban 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 Cordiale KntvsiNs Strained Theatrical managers are usually in the habit of ex tend mil to onanother Salvini first appeared in England as Othello and Hamlet at Drury Lane in 1875 In the plays of Aristophanes pub lic men were caricatured by name Marlowes Faust was the best tragedv in English before the time o 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 Grc6k machinery for supernatural effects was elaborate but now little understood SOMEWHAT STRANGE ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY DAY TjIFE Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven tures W h Show That Truth is Stranger han Fiction A beak hanging by his paws from the crotch of a large oak tree in the woods on Nettle Ridge near Scranton 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 He 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 ne 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 iind out who owned the trap It belonged to Edgar a d Amasa Morehouse who set it in the crotch of the oak tree on Sunday and daubed it over with two pounds of honey 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 crave 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 With the idea of attracting some one to her assistance she screamed at the top of her voice but her daughter had gone on au errand more than a mile distant and her cries were unheard The hawks anger was apparently increased by the womans cries It aimed to get at the womans lnce which she protected with her hands and arms From her arras 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 by 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 then 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 ij and weighed thirteen pounds A tale of piracy comes from the South Seas that sounds like a romance of the middle ages Two brothers Bodiques highly educated and polished men who for some crime had been committed to the penal settlements of ISTew 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 Avith a crew of two Europeans and five natives thev loaded her with goods and sailed ostensiblj 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 rood of the crew While the unhappy victims were rolling on the deck in agony the Rodiqucs 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 ne 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 carol It was a small soap box and not veryjnenvy but you can bet that box was zealously guarded At Kansas City he canie and got the box and carried it off toil bank The banker was a friend of mine and meeting him the next day I asjed what that fellow did in the bank wilfli the rattlesnakes Rattlesnakes W1 thats a good joke on the express company he replied That box had cx actlyfe 80000 in 10 greenbacks in it If thenioney had been entered as money B 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 everysymptom 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 s d 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- CTree amusing Their gabbling quacking and antics afforded as much fun for the bovs 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 giving 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 tne tramp climbed on the back of one animal This enraged the steer and it lunged foru ard 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 b 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 formula The two are and wife by their clothes being gether by the priest The latter the cow and the calf for his part a renjnous then made man tied to- claims in the ceremony ana tne nappy 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 the battle of Mars le Tour was severely wounded in the left ankle The man was removed to the hospital at Guedinburg 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 stout Mr William Hancock is tell ing on the lecture platform in England reflects great credit upon the sagacity of the buffaloes in Sumatra where he has been traveling He says that these in telligent animals being in great fear of their mortal enemy the tiijer take refuge at night in the rivers where they rest in pence 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 of the lords of creation TflE alligator on as a possible nejrro known has never been looked article of diet but a as Jack r islierman a well- known character living on Peace Creek in Florida declares that he nearly sub sists on themflle 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 than this Ac cording to his statement the choice parts lie directly under the scaly ridge along the backbone and are as white 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 by a large gray 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 voidRicbard Jork In the 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 Xewton 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 leturning she was chased by a bull and in outrunning him impaired her health CHRISTMAS 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 he 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 luc 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 Santa 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 pcopio oonvuieol 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 rounds made the village 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 Tljereis no place like Southern Indi ana for graveyards said William of Bloomfield Ind to a Chicago Globe reporter JNow 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 mclosures 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 weeds and righted the five or six head stones that had fallen and buried even the inscribed virtues of the dead into the wormy earth These people had no country church yard no preacher except the visiting par son who came monthly on horseback They had no funeral in the present sense of the word Plain wooden boxes were used for coffin5 and often the sturdy youth of the family made the coffin for the dead parent or relative These little spots were dear to those families One can see that by the loving little inscrip tions and decorations When they were all dead no one remained to care for them and they fell into decay and ruin They are lonesome sights those little groups of white pillars In the winter when the trees are bare and the grass dead I have seen flocks of crows coming and circling about the clump of trees Jhat usually cluster about those places The bitter wind 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 Kcrm The number of eggs in the medium sized eel at the beginning of the breeding reason is stated by eminent authorities on fishes and their allied creatures to be fully nine millions 9000000 a sum so great as to almost paralyze the intellect that tries to grapple with it To the na ked eye a single one of thee 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 MARKETS OF MOSCOW Queer Features of Iilfe Anions tho Russians I visited some of the Russian markets here savs Frank G Carpenter in a letter from Moscow and they have many fea tures which could be adopted with profit bv us Fish are sold alive and the only dead ones are the dried ones They are kept in stone vats of running water and the fishwife will stand with a dozen of these marble vats about her each filled with different kinds of fish Bussia has 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 Black seas andaall the caviare in the world comes from here You see this caviare sold in cans and tubs in the markets It looks like bird shot sprinkled with salt water audit is made up of the eggs of the sturgeon which are killed for this pur pose It brings high prices even in Kussia and is best when 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 thau Mos cow The meat of the sturgeon after the caviare has been made from the eg 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 peasant The consump tion of ihh is increased by the numerous Russian fasts during which the people cannot eat meat and must confine themselves to fish The queerest markets of Russia ar those of the winter when all sorts o fish and meats are sold in a frozen statu The Russian winter is so cold that these fish are caught at the beginning ofit are placed in vats and are sold in blocks to suit the customers The dealers buy them by the tons and store them away for their retail customers of the winter Beef mutton and poultry are frozen the same way and a butcher can lay iu 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 saw 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 homelto their families There are many curious things sold in the markets here and you can buy eels ami snakes nnd chicken legs Lambs feet are sold as a great dainty and calves feet are bought for soup bones Among the oils which are used by the peasants for salads and cooking is sunflower 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 them and chew upon them as we do peanuts You can hardly find a man who has not some sun flower seeds in his pocket and everywhere you go you see women with 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 watermelon 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 frowzy headed women sell fruit vegetables 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 though the crowd was somewhat impudent name has come largely from that I should buv of them very dangerous or terrible these shops you will find the 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 which these second hand dealers sell have come to them in a legitimate way This second hand market in St Petersburg covers nearly a whole block The building which constitutes it is cut up into all sorts of angles by arcades and you go through narrow aisles out upon which look little cells packed full of second hand goods and presided over by hard looking women 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 inride with me and - rather noisv and in their requests I saw nothing In some of finest of silver plate There are bushels of watches and old rugs which are almost worth their weight in gold The dealers however thoroughly appreciate the value 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 pair c s Russia has a system of pawnbroker and the pawn shops are connected with 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 war i ants the assertion that man is not the only animal subject to dreams Horses neigh and rear upon their hind feet while fast asleep dogs bark and growl and in many other ways exhibit all their charac teristic passions It is highly probable that at such times the remembrance of the chase or of a combat is pacing through the dotrs mind RpctMpc ti above signs of fleeting pain anger and excitement these noble creatures often manifest signs of kindness playfulness and of almost every other passion Ruminant animals such as the sheep and the cow are believed to be less affected with dreams than those of higher passions which spend their waking hours in scenes of greater excitement Philosophers and investigates tell us that if we 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 analog- it is only reasonable to reckon dreaming as one of the uni versal laws almost as universal as sleep itself St Louis Republic The new Mormon temple at Salt Lake City will be opened April C 1893 It has been in course of erection for forty yeirs has cost 2500000 and will be without doubt the biggest architectural nightmare in the country - l
