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THE COURIER
Miss Kato Norman and Miss Georgie Brown, of St. Joseph, Mo.,
were in attendance at the Pleasant Hour party last evening. While
in the city they are the guests of Miss Mae Burr.
Pryor Markell, of Omaha, was in the city yesterday.
Miss Carrie Wasmer, of Grand Tsland, who is to be tho maid of
honor at tho Marshall-White wedding, is in the city.
Miss Bessie Gaban, of Grand Island, ene of the bridecmaids of
tho Marshall-White wedding, is in the city.
The F street club was entertained last evening by Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Titling at their residence 1830 F street. Those invited were
Mr. and Mrs. W. .C.Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hibner, Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Clark, Mrand Mrs. Hel wig, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sawyer, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred HutchinB, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Davis, Mr. and Mrs.
F. N. Sohus, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Brown, Mr. Martin Aitken and
Miss Aitken.
The engagement of Mr. Will Johnson to Miss Lillian Mills, of
Cincinnati, who recently visited in this city the guest of Miss
Rachel Brock, is now announced. Mr. Johnson is now visiting his
fiancee. -
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Little Gertie Cochran, aged 4 years and 7 months, who has more
facts and figures in her head than a college professor would contain
will come to Lincoln with the Hopkins Transoceanic Specialty
Company, which opens at the Lansing theater, Monday. February
llth. Little MiBS Cochran will give an exhibition from the stage of
her marvelous powers of memory. Her mental store has been ac
quired from remembering what Bhe has heard others repeat, as she
has never been to school a day, nor does she know her letters. Her
wonderful powers of readily appropriating everything that she hears
were discovered shortly after they began to develop themselves when
she was less than a year old. She began to talk at 7 months of age
and rapidly acquired a vocabulary which attracted the attention of
all who happened to come within the circle of neighbors known to
her bumble home in Mount Vernon, 111. Her parents are John
and Polly Cochran, a farmer and his wife, who are far from being
highly educated or otherwise mentally developed. Yet their little
oae is now on the stage at the age of four and a half making fame
and fortune by her marvelous mental powers. That her memory is
abnormal, but genuine, is evinced by the fact that humane officers
in different parts of the country have been attracted to her by her
youthfulness and have investigated to ascertain if she was not
being subjected to a mental strain that was harmful to one of her
tender years, but after examination before eminent physicians, some
of them specialists in mental disorders, they have all decided that
her wonderful powers are a mere gift and that her recitations of
facts and figures are no effort to her whatever. She has been trav
eling now for more than a year with her present manager, Mr.
Frank Cook, and his wife, and her health is as robust as ever. Her
skin is fair and healthy and her eyes bright and sparkling, while
her whole appearance is that of a healthy, although nervously con
stituted child. The little one can recite the facts contained in the
Bible from beginning to end, which, although a wonderful mental
feat, is only a drop in the bucket to the oceans of mathematical sta
tistics which she has al her tongue's end and which she recites as
s on as asked without a minute's hesitation. These figures she has
committed to memory by having them repeated to her, and in no
case, no matter how long the string of figures, does she require that
they be repeated more than twice before she has them fixed in her
little head, never to be forgotten for so much ss a second when
to repeat them.
" 'Her Royal Highness, Woman,' was the theme of last night's
Comedy-Lecture and the best test of the enthralment of the O'Rel
iian manner. The captivating charm of his style was to be found
in the absolute command he kept over an audience whinh was
packed to the very roof of the theater. For two hours he held ub
siellbound. and the gods were in complete subdual and eclipse."
The Star,- May 18, 1893, "M. Blouet's lectures are entirely i
the spirit of his books, most amusing and fascinating. His forte is
his faculty of putting facts before his hearers in the most telling
manner. His lectures run along like the gentler billows of the
ocoan. He holds his audiences in the palms of his hands and plays
upon their emotions as easily as a shepherd on his pipes." Boston
Gazette. Max O'Rell, under the management of J. B. Pond will be
at the New Funko opera house next Monday night.
The public should not confound the company which
appears at the Funke in "Faust" with Lewis Morrison's. Mr. Mor
rison is in New York this week. The company that comes to the
Funke is a very strong one and Lewis Morrison's charming daught
er appears as Marguerite.
Morrison's -'Faust" is by all odds tho best and most favorably
known spectacular production before the entertainment-loving
world today. . Since it last presentation hero "Faust" has undergone
a metamorphosis in many respects it is now brighter and altogether
more entertaining. Tne purpose to so revise and rehabilitate the
paoduction was not a sudden inspiration with Mr. Morrison. It has
long been entertained by him but lain aside from season to season
for the past three years for lack of leisure from other and more im
perative enterprises and duties that filled up the life of the busy
and wonderfully successful manager. When he has had or could
find or make a leisure hour he has devoted it to a "New Faust," so
that when be came some months ago to begin actual work at the
enterprise the plans were graphically outlined in his mind and he
had but to find the hands capable of realizing his really wonderful
creations; creations that seem to the observer and scholar in scenic,
spectacular and electrical effects, the tricks of some master magi
cian. The result of the thought, observation and invention that
culminated in the three months' work of the summer is now before
the public in the form of a most beautiful, fascinating and dazzling
production. Mr. Morrison is not in anything a servile imitator, al
though ho possesses none of the false pride of invention. But he is
really a creator, a leader pre-eminently and conspicuous to the front
as distinct in his works as Henry Irving is in his, and attracting as
numerous a host of imitators as the English master. Hence tho
"Faust" of the present season is a revelation of art and beauty, as
unique as it is pre-eminently excellent. During the number of years
"Morrison's Faust" has been continually before tho public in every
principal city of tho country it has been universally successful. It
is the purpose of Mr. Morrison in reconstructing it to make thr pro
duction stand out alone from all others of the class in which it so
brilliantly leads, to work an era in the progress of the stage with
fitting splendor and triumph of all the arts that appeal to tho heart
through the senses of sign and sound. This attraction will be at
the New Funke opera house, Wednesday evening, February 13.
Following in the wake of minstrel improvement U. S. Cleveland
comes marching upon the patrons of the Lansing theater, Saturday
Feb. 9th with the great advent of minstrelsy. His big double show
presenting twenty-five blacks, ten Arabs and twelve Japaneese,
which the press credit as being the master achievement ot its kind
in existence. The street parade at high noon is a novelty of rarity,
two complete bands, white and black, discoursing the latest popular
airs.
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