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Grace Golden Writes of the Field for Lit-tle

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Golden thePrima Donnain the ISTew

York JournalT h e y aresometimesguilty of payins too littleattention tothe little wo ¬

men who al ¬

though smallis quite an im¬

portant per ¬

sonage andshould not be overlooked They firsterr in putting into her mouth linesof vastly too heroic variety the sec-

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by substituting a tall woman forher The little womans province isquite distinctly defined and shouldmder no circumstances be usurped by

her larger sisters of the stageIt is in the impersonation of juven ¬

ile and masculine rolesNature has fitted actresses for the

proper delineation of such parts Awoman may be young still unlessshe is petite she should never at¬

tempt either juvenile or masculinecharacters

Youth and vivacity are great allieshut not of nearly so much importanceas littleness An artistic make upwill hide many of times ravages butall the cosmetics in the world cannotdelude an audience into believing awoman small when she is not

When a woman assumes masculineor juvenile attire for the purpose ofdeception vivacity chic and a cer-

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diminutiveness are necessaryelse the authors idea is not carriedout She must not be too mannishit is that half feminine half-masculi- ne

manner that makes the dissimu-lation

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attractive and which in thecase of a masculine role is morehighly appreciated by an audience ifthe actress has first appeared in longskirts A woman loses much of herhrTnwMahediscAiiseshpidentityiinie nearly

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Although I belong to the ranks oflittle women I am by no means in-

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to the fact that they some-times

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encroach upon the tall womansdomain and try to impersonate rolessuited only to her

Their poaching efforts however areusually rewarded by the failure theydeserve

The little womans theatrical fieldit would seem should be large enoughfor her She has the little injuredwife the Erench maid the gay youthand the iuonile are these not suff-icient

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characters for her She alonehas made the greatest success ofthem as witness Miss Marie Tempestand Miss Delia Fox In The Voglehandler The Fencing Master andin Wang nonecould have kept upthemasculine delusion better thanthey did still nobody ever forgot fora moment that either of these cleveractresses were other than what theyare charming little women masquer ¬

ading as menThe Elder Booth

One night Booth did not make hisappearance at the theater in time tobegin the performance Theager went to his room at the hotel andfound it locked To his calls andknocks there was no response but asit was possible that he fallenasleep a clerk in the house climbedupon the roof of an adjoining piazzaand peered through a window Theroom was apparently empty Thenthe corridors offices were visitedwithout success and the managerwas about to go away in disappoint- - J

ment when tne clerk to make as-

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doubly sure again scaled thepiazza entered the room through thewindow and looked under the bedThere lay the missing tragedian calmand sober quietly meeting the gazeof the intruder He at once con 1

sensed to go to the theater Theclerk unperceived followed him andheard him accost many peisons andask to be directed to the theater Hequickly dressed for his part and playedit with prodigious power

Booth was often perfectly soberwhen indulging in some of his wild¬

est freaks acquaintances dif-fered

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as to the cause of them It isnot to be doubted however that he

f did sometimes indulge his appetitefor intoxicating liquors to an immoderate extent but not so frequently as t

Is popularly believed One long timefriend of his asserts that it is doubt¬

ful if he ever was so completely over-come

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by drink as to be incapable ofplaying a familiar character As soonas he came before the footlights andbegan to speak his aspect changedand as the play progressed he re¬

gained over all his faculties sovereignftwnv and masterdom He so aban--

doned himself to the passion of thepart he acted that he produced such adegree of mental excitement as wouldneutralize the effects of other stimu-lants

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Cordiule JSntenti SI rainedTheatrical managers are usually in

the habit of exLendmg to onanother

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the courtesies of their housos whenthey are on good terms and it is gen-erally

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the custom here at least forone manager to gladly honor the re-

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of another for a box for anyperformance Believing this to bethe rule of other managers andknowing it to be in his own case acertain Chicago manager invited aparty of friends to hear Miss LillianRussell sing one night and then senta written request for a box Greatlyto his astonishment his request wasrefused In box office parlance hewas turned down and he was madBut he had invitrd his friends and heput up fifteen good dollars for theprivilege of hearing Lillian warbleOne Wednesday afternoon as MissRussell did not sing she wanted togo to the matinee and she sent tothis same manager a request for abox Did she get it Nofc muchIn a polite note he told her of hisexperience at her theater and saidhe could not consistently return afavor which had not been extendedWhat Lillian said has not been re-

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save possibly by the record ¬

ing angel The little incident cre-

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quite as much of a stir as did asimilar one which happened not longago One of the leading local man-agers

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desired his wife to see a popularattraction then playing at anotherhouse and he sent a request for twoseats He received two whole seatswhich represented money in the boxoffice and which he knew the othermanager had paid for out of his ownpocket If he could not have a passhe did not want others to pay hisway so he sent the tickets back witha note the wording of which frizzledthe paper upon which it was writtenChicago Sunday Post

Xowell and Newell

A most amusing case of mistakenidentity occurred in the office df Ho-

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Ryan of St Paul the other dayand goes to destroy one more of theold ideas that no two things are ex-

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alike in this world A gentle-man

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entered the hotel proceeded tothe desk was handed a pen by the gen ¬

tlemanly clerk and registered WNewell New York The clerk calledthe uniformed attache known by thenom de bote or Front- - and hadhim show the guest to a room on theparlor floor About fifteen minuteslater his exact counterpart dressedexactly alike in every detail even toa xose in his buttonhole walked upto the desK picked up a pen andbefore the clerk could stop him reg-

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the m3rstic name W NewellNew York He also asked for a roomThe clerk looked his man over andwhen he could recover his speechsaid Why what do you want theearth9 I have just assigned you oneof our best rooms The gentlemandrew himself up and with a severelook replied You are mistaken 1have just arrived in town and neversnw vnn in mv life before At this

clerk fainted but fortu

had

and

His

iiuuiiy Tormi uuueerneu unutleman came out of the elevatorcrossed over and addressed his broth-er

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The consternation on the facesof the clerk bell boys and surround-ing

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guests can better be imaginedthan described The men were noneother than Willard and William New ¬

ell the only twin actors in the worldwho are starring in Newell Bros andDinkins scenic production of TheOperator They look so much alikethat it is said that their own rela-tions

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dont know them apart One ofthem is engaged to be married andthe only fear the young lady has isthat she will marry the wrong manby mistake

Anecdote ot KeeneManager Smy the of the Hoss and

Hoss Company traveled with Keenefor several seasons and this storywhich he tells is characteristic of thestar It was on Broadway NewYork said Smy the and IveeneAriel Barney and myself were stroll- -

i ing uptown Presently Keene stoppedand let us go on and when we missedhim and looked back he was talkingto one of the raggedest and most

manJ wretched looking tramps I have everseen Bill noeys make up in AParlor Match wasnt in it with thatfellow and there was Keene shakinghis hand and as glad to meet him asif the tramp had been a bosom friend

j For Heavens sake Whom has hei got in tow now asked Barney andthen Keene caught up with us and an

i swered the question himself Thatman was a good actor once he saidbut drink got awav with him Too

bad too bad and he continued thewalk as unconcernedly as if he werein the habit of publicly embracingmendicants every day in the week

Annals or the StageRachels first appearance

land was at the Queensin EngTheater

1841

Edwin Booth first appeared in 1849in a minor part of Richard III

The Colleen Bawn was brought outatthe Adeltmi London in 1860 360nights

The first appearance of Southernin London was in the Haymarket in1861 496 nights

Irving first appeared as Hamlet inLondon 1874

Salvini first appeared in England asOthello and Hamlet at Drurv Lanein 1875

In the plays of Aristophanes publie men were caricatured by name

Marlowes Faust was the besttragedy in English before the time otShakspeare

The most prominent actor in themiracle play was the Devil

Schillers Robbers was writtenwhile he was still in college

Greek theaters had no roofs butporticos to which the spectators retired when it rained

Gre6k machinery for supernaturaleffects was elaborate but now littleunderstood

SOMEWHAT STRANGE

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTSEVERY DAY IiIFE

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Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show That Truth isStranger Than Fiction

A beak htiuging by his paws from thecrotch of a large oak tree in the woodson Nettle Ridge near Scranton Pennscared Ora Beckers spaniel Topsy halfto death at sunrise on a recent Mondaymorning Becker was on his way toRacket Creek to hunt grouse and Topsyhad run ahead of him so far in the woodsthat she was out of sight when she begunto yelp furiously and canter toward himlie made her stop her noise when shereached him and then he heard a bearbellowing and bawling some distance tothe south Becker cocked his gun andhurried toward the place but Topsy wasso badly frightened that she wouldntaccompany him The bear had bothpaws in the jaws of a trap twenty threefeet from the ground and he was dig ¬

ging into the bark with his hind clawsand doing his utmost to keep his weightfrom pulling down on his imprisonedpaws lie yelled and snarled with painas he climbed and twitched but the trapwas fastened to a limb with a log chainand the bear stood no chance at all ofyanking himself loose Becker had acharge of buckshot for wildcats in oneof his barrels and he put an end to thebears suffering by shooting him in thehead Then he got Topsy and startedfor the valley to find out who owned thetrap It belonged to Edgar and AmasaMorehouse who set it in the crotch ofthe oak tree on Sunday and daubed itover with two pounds of hone Therewas a colony of wild bees in the hollowtrunk and the Morehouse brothers dis-

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that a bear had been clawing andbiting the wood where the bees went inand out They made up their mindsthat the surest way to get the four footedlover of sweets was to bait the trap withhoney and fasten it in the crotch of thetree but they didnt expect to capturehim so soon and so they didnt go tolook at the trap the next morning Thebear weighed 313 pounds and the More-house

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boys gave Becker one half of thecarcass for shooting him Amasa broughtthe skin to Scranton and got 24 for it

Mrs James Hinckley of WalnutHollow Conn had an encounter with ahen hawk recently that nearly causedher death Mrs Hinckley is a widowand manages a farm with the assistanceof her only child a girlWhile she was throwing corn to thefowls an immense hawk swooped downand caught a hen in its talons Withoutapprehending the danger to herself MrsHinckley picked up a stone and threw itat the hawk The missile struck thebird fairly and seemed to madden it forit flew at the woman Mrs Hinckleyws unable to get hold of anything withwhich to defend herself AVith the ideaof attracting some one to her assistanceshe screamed at the top of her voice buther daughter had gone on an errandmore than a mile distant and her crieswere unheard The hawks anger wasapparently increased by the womanscries It aimed to gat at the womanslace which shoprotucted with her handsand arms From her arms and shoul-ders

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her dress was torn to shreds andthe flesh was lacerated so badly that herclothing was saturated with blood Fortwenty minutes the bird fought thewoman all over the yard until she fell ina fainting condition She would proba-bly

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have been killed br the bird had nother daughter arrived just as she fellThe girl is vigorous and fearless Tak ¬

ing in the situation promptly she secureda piece of heavy log chain that hung onthe fence The hawk turned its atten-tion

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to the girl but it soon got a blowacross the back with the chain that ren ¬

dered one of its wings useless and ittlien became an easy victim for the girlThe hawk was one of the largest everkilled hereabouts It measured five feettwo inches across its wings from tip totip and weighed thirteen pounds

A tale of piracy comes from the SouthSeas that sounds like a romance of themiddle ages Two brothers Rodiqueshighly educated and polished men whofor some crime had been committed tothe penal settlements of New Caledoniamade their escape and working theirway into the South Pacific they managedto get into the good graces of the nativesand foreigners there They succeededin getting possession of the yacht of thenative Tahitiau King a very fast schoon-er

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and manning her with a crew of twoEuropeans and five natives they loadedher with goods and sailed ostensibly ona trading voyage When they were oneweek at sea they gave the cook a bottleof strychnine and by promising to dividethe spoils with him and threatening hislife in case of refusal persuaded him toput the poison into the food of the crewWhile the unhappy victims were rollingon the deck in agony the Rodiques satsmoking and enjoying their tortures andfinally threw them to the sharks thatswarmed around the vessel and laughedto see them devoured The vessel wasthen taken to another island where acrew was engaged and they set out todispose of the cargo Finally the cookdemanded his share of the profits liewas refused and given to understand thathe was their slave and must not leave thevessel Finally they put into Manilawhere the cook managed to get ashoreand betrayed the pirates to the author-ities

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They were speedily arrested anddecapitated on the cooks evidence andhe was executed at the same time asparticeps criminis

One of the coolest actions I ever ob-

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in the course of my express exper-ience

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said an express messenger to areporter of the Cincinnati Times Star

was that of a rough fellow from NewMexico lie was poorly dressed andboarded our train at Tombstone on asecond class ticket depositing at thesame time a box in the care of the expressagent labeled Rattlesnakes handlewith carr It was a small soap box andnot very heavy but you can bet that boxwas zealously guarded At Kansas Cityhe came and got the box and carried itoff toa bank The banker was a friendof nfinc and meeting him the next dayI aFkcd what that fellow did in the banksvch the rattlesnakes RattlesnakesWidl thats a good joke on the expresscoupany he replied That box had ex¬

actly 80000 in 10 greenbacks in itIf thehnoney had been entered as money

we would have charged him a neat sumfor its transportation but by labellingit rattlers he had it carried for a trifleand Ill venture it was more secure fromrobbers under that simple title than itwould have been in the stoutest safe

The physicians of Philadelphia aresaid to be wondering whether the leprosyis ever of spontaneous generation Awoman was recently admitted to thehospital there who has every symptom ofthe leprosy Her skin is badly discoloredand bears large spots of bronze colorand the cuticle is dry and in some placeslifeless It is said that she has alwaysresided in the city has never been abroadand so far as known has never comeinto contact with any person afflictedwith the leprosy

Last winter D W Little one of theadobe farmers at Biggs Cal shot intoa band of geese A white gander wasstruck and had one wing broken MrLittle took the goose home and gave himto his boys who doctored his wing andhe soon became so tame as to follow theboys wherever they went eat from theirhands and even poke his head into theirpockets for corn or wheat A few daysago a band of wild geese flying over thepremises and making their usual clatterattracted the attention of the domesti-cated

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gander which gave an outlandishdisplay of quacking and shrill yells ingoose language that had a most startlingeffect with the band flying past A finewhite goose was seen to leave the bandand shoot down until it landed in theyard at the side of the pet and the meet-

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was demonstrative to an exciting de-

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Their gabbling quacking andamusing antics afforded as much fun forthe boys who witnessed the meeting asthey could have found at a circus Thenew arrival which is probably a mate ofthe now tame goose refuses to leavebut will fly over the fence when the twoare approached by the boys and then flyback to the mate when the boys stepaside

A tramp givinc his name as John Fairappeared at the police station in Atchi-son

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Kansas the other night bruisedfrom head to foot and asked permissionto sleep in the cell until morning Fairsaid he had come to Atchison fromOmaha on a through stock train and hadhad the most terrible experience of hislife Shortly before the train pulled outof Omaha the tramp said he crawledinto a car which was loaded with steersThe steers soon began to step on himand seeing this would never do tnctramp climbed on the back of one animalThis enraged the steer and it lungedforw av3T exciting the other steers whenthere was a panic The maddened steersdashed about hooking each other andstriking the tramp on all sides He puthis arms about the neck of the steerwhich he was riding and held his gripuntil the train stopped at Atchison Thetramps head had struck the top of thecar a number of times and it was badlybruised

Among certain tribes of India the fol-

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trying ordeal constitutes themarriage ceremony The man conductshis betrothed into some water they areaccompanied by a priest and also takewith them a cow and a calf which aredriven into the water The man placeshis hand by the priests hand and thewoman places hers next that of the bride-groom

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and all three clutch hold of thecows tail while the officiating priestpours water upon the cow and the calfat the same time uttering a religiousformula The two are then made manand wife by their clothes being tied to-

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by the priest The latter claimsthe cow and the calf for his part in theceremony and the happy pair depositmoney presents on the various idols topropitiate them which gifts find theirway into the priests exchequer so thathe is handsomely rewarded for his ser-vices

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An extraordinary case is reported fromHalberstadt A soldier in a cuirassierregiment who took part in the celebrateddeath ride at tne battle of Mars le Tourwas severely wounded in the left ankleThe man was removed to the hospital atGucdinburg where he remained for overa year The doctors after making manyattempts to discover the bullet at lengthgave up the search and discharged theman who has been an invalid ever sinceThe other day after twenty two yearsthe doctors at the hospital at Halberstadtsucceeded in extracting the shot whichwas embedded in the bone The patientis said to have experienced immediaterelief after the operation was performed

A story Mr William Hancock is tell ¬

ing on the lecture platform in Englandreflects great credit upon the sagacity ofthe buffaloesbeen travelingtelligent animalstheir mortal em

in Sumatra where he hasHe says thatbeing in great

thesefear

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mv the tiger takerefuge at night in the rivers where theyrest in peace and comfort with only theirhorns and noses sticking above the waterPossibly the traveller derived his infor-mation

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from veracious natives like thoseof Central Africa who regaled Dr Jun-ker

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with tales of monkeys who builtfires and cooked their food after themanner ol tne lords ol creation

The alligator has never been lookedon as a possible article or diet but anegro known as Jack Fisherman a wellknown character living on Peace Creekin Florida declares that he nearly sub-sists

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on theinrIe has been seen to eattheir meat with great relish and he saysthat it is as tender as chicken but has ataste more like that of venison than anyother For the last fifteen years he hasnever tasted meat other thau this According to his statement the choice parts

a uirectiv uuaer tne scaiv ridge alonge backbone and are as wnite as veal

An extraordinary occurrence is re-

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from Monsac France Betweenthat village and Couze a little child offive was playing in front of its motherscottage when it was suddenly attackedbv a large grav wolf which had emergedfrom the neighboring wood The beastpicked up the infant and trotted backinto the forest but fortunately the bur¬

den was rather heavy and on the neigh-bors

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attracted by the childs criescoming to the rescue the wolf droppedits prey and disappeared

A German newspaper lately containedthis announcement I hereby declaresince the written notice of the 8th ofAugust 1892 and notwithstanding herrefusal to accept the same my betrothalwith Fraulein Emma Ziegler is null and

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void Richard Jork In tho nextnumber of the paper the following ap-

peared

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I hereby declare that withrespect to the-- advertisement of the an-

nulment

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of mv betrothal written andproclaimed with Herr Jork I do notagree I am and still intend to remainIns betrothed Emma Ziegler

A Newton county Mo woman hassued the Splitlog Railroad based on thefollowing claim She was a passengeron the road and was accidentally carriedbeyond her destination some distancewhen the train stopped and she alightedWhile icturning she was chased by a

bull and in outrunning him impairedher health

CHRISTMAS GAMES

Holiday Entertainment for the YoungFolks

If you are to entertain a large circle ofyoung folks of all ages at Christmas itwill OQ well to provide yourself before-hand

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with a list of amusing gamesFling the Towel Let the company

form a circle with one of the players inthe center One member of the circlethen flings a large towel aiming to hitsome other member If the player in themiddle is adroit enough to intercept itand catches the towel on its way acrossthe ring he takes the place of the onewho threw it who then takes his handin the middle If it hits the one at whomit was aimed he must try to get rid of itby throwing it to another player beforethe one stationed m the middle can catchit

The game of Santa Claus which isnot unlike that called Donkey is greatfun Tack upon the Avail a big whitesheet Make a large paper Sanla Clauscut off his head his feet his arms legsand pack cut off his ears and nose cutout his eyes and paste his body on thesheet Blindfold each player and givehim a portion of the Saints anatomyand let him place it where he thinks itshould go You can have a bit of driedmucilage on the backs of these bits ofpaper so that they can be moistened andstuck to the body He generally turnsout a most peculiar looking saint withone eye on his heel another on histhumb his head where his feet shouldbe and nothing in the rght place Youcan have two simple prizes one for theperson who comes nearest being right inthe placing of some member and a boobyprize for the one farthest out of the wayWe have seen a whole roomful of grownpcoplo oonvulscd --rrith merriment overthis game

Gossip is amusement for the olderones All sit in a circle One commu-nicates

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a piece of gossip about some per-son

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in the room who proceeds to tell itto the one next and so it goes on untilthe last one is to repeat aloud just whathe hears and the starter gives the orig-inal

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sentence They are generally justabout as far apart as the gossip startedat a sewing circle is from the same pieceof news when it has made the villagerounds

Metamorphosis Let each memberof the company be furnished with a sheetof paper and a pencil Let him draw atthe top of the sheet the head of somebird beast fish or human being andfold down the sheet so as to leave nothingexposed except lines to show on whatpart of the paper the body is to beplaced He then passes it to his nextneighbor who draws on it a body tosuit his own fancy It is then foldedand passed to the next who must drawlegs two or four When the papers areexamined some very curious monstersunknown to natural history are dis ¬

playedApprentice is not too intellectual

for the little ones One of the playersbegins by saying I have apprenticedmy son to a butcher or dry goods mer ¬

chant or to any tradesman and givesthe initial of the first thing his son soldThe rest must guess what the articlesold was and the one who guesses rightmust then prentice his son

Family Graveyards

There is no place like Southern Indi ¬

ana for graveyards said William Yakeyof Bloomfield Ind to a Chicago Globereporter ITow that section includingGreen Monroe Brown and Sullivan coun-ties

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is a wonderland to traverse It looksas though the old settlers of fifty yearsago wanted each one to have a graveyardof his own Every mile or two often farfrom any roadway totally inaccessible towagons without laying waste the fencesyou come upon little rock walled or railbound inclosures containing the dead ofone family Father mother and severalchildren lie there and none others

These places have long been forsakenand forgotten Weeds flourish in profu-sion

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and hide the wind and rain --stainedtombstones -- from view Often with acompanion I have entered one of theselittle inclosures trampled and torn outthe Aveeds and righted the five or six head-stones

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that had fallen and buried eventhe inscribed virtues of the dead into theAvormy earth

These people had no country church ¬

yard no preacher except the visiting par-son

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Avho came monthly on horsebackThey had no funeral in the present senseol the Avord Piain Avooden boxes Avereused for coffins and often the sturdyyouth of the family made the coffin forthe dead parent or relative These littlespots Avere dear to those families Onecan see that by the loving little inscrip-tions

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and decorations When they AAereall dead no oue remained to care for themand they fell into decay and ruin

They are lonesome sights those littlegroups of A hite pillars In the winterwhen the trees are bare and the grassdead I have seen flocks of croAvs comingand circling about the clump of treesthatusually cluster about those places Thebitter Avind moans through the cracklingbranches and those crows wheel aboutand caw and croak until the world seemstruly a place of sorrow and death

A Wonder in Eggs

The number of eggs in the mediumsized eel at the beginning of the breedingseason is stated by eminent authorities onfishes and their allied creatures to befully nine millions 900000Gb a sum sogreat as to almost paralyze the intellectthat tries to grapple Avitb it To the na-

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eye a single one of the e life germsis almost invisible A strong microscopehowever shows them firmly packed to-

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standing on their tiny ends look-ing

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not unlike the covered cells of honeycomb

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MARKETS OF --MOSCOW

Features of JAto Among thoRussians

I visited some of the Russian marketshere says Frank G Carpenter in a letterfrom Moscow and they have many fea¬

tures Avhich could be adopted Avith profitbv us Fish are sold alive and the onlydead ones are the dried onc3 They arekept in stone Aats of running water andthe fishwife will stand with a dozen ofthese marble vats about her each tilledwith different kinds of fish Russia hasome of the greatest fisheries in the worldMillions upon millions of dollars worthof fish are taken every year from theVolga the Caspian and the Blaek seasandall the caviare in the Avorld comesfrom here You see this caviare sold incans and tubs in the markets It lockslike bird shot sprinkled with salt waterand it is made up of the eggs of thesturgeon which are killed for this pur-

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It brings high prices even inRussia and is best Avhen it is fresh Infact Russians say that caviare shouldnot be more than a month old to be goodand that you cannot get good caviarefurther away from the Volga than Mos-

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The meat of the sturgeon afterthe caviare has been made from the eggsis salted and sold You can buy it herefor about 10 cents a pound and all sortsof dried fish are eaten by the peopleThey are shipped in great crates over thecountry and they form a large part ofthe diet of the peasanr The consump ¬

tion of fish is increased by the numerousRussian fasts during Avhich thepeople cannot eat meat and must confinethemselves to fish

The queerest markets of Russia arthose of the Avinter when all sorts ofish and meats are sold in a frozen stateThe Russian Avinter is so cold that thesefish are caught at the beginning of itare placed in vats and are sold in blocksto sujt the customers The dealers buythem by the tons and store them aAvayfor their retail customers of the AvinterBeef mutton and poultry arc frozen thesame Avay and a butcher can lay in dur¬

ing October his full supply of meats forthe next six months The meats arefrozen so hard that a knife cannot cutthem and it is necessary to saAv them upor crop them with an ax Splinters offrozen meat fly about over the marketand children and beggars collect theseand take them home to their familiesThere are many curious things sold inthe markets here and you can buy eelsand snakes nnd chicken legs Lambsfeet are sold as a great dainty nnd calvesfeet are bought for soup bones Amongthe oils Avhich are used by the peasantsfor salads and cooking is sunfloAver oiland one of the great industries of thiscountry is sunflower raising The peas ¬

ants eat sunflower seeds in large quanti ¬

ties and they nibble at thern and chewunon them as Ave do peanuts You canhardly find a man A ho has not some sun ¬

flower seeds in his pocket and cveryAvhereyou go you see Avomcn Avith baskets ofthese black and gray seeds for sale Theytaste very much like pumpkin seeds andthe peasants eat them at their gatheringsjust as the Chinese do Avatermelon seedsat the theatre

A vast deal of business is done here inRussia by peddling On many of thebusiness streets of Moscow there are longlines of open air stands and bare headedRussian men and froAvzy headed womensell fruit Acgetables and knick knacksunder the blaze of the hot sun There isan immense business done in little boothsand the so called thieves market is afixed institution of every Russian cityThis name has come largely from theguides and there is no doubt that many ofthe articles sold are stolen The truthhowever is that these markets are second ¬

hand markets and that many of the finearticles Avhich these second hand dealerssell have come to them in a legitimateway This second hand market in StPetersburg coA ers nearly a Avhole blockThe building which constitutes it is cutup into all sorts of angles by arcadesand you go through narroAV aisles outupon which look little cells packed fullof second hand goods and presided overb hard looking Avomen and villainousmen It is said that ones pocket bookis not at all safe in this quarter and thata stranger ought not to go through italone I had a guide Avith me andthough the crowd Avas rather noisv andsomewhat impudent in their requeststhat I should buy of them I snv nothingA ery dangerous or terrible In some ofthese shops you Avill find the finest ofsilver plate There are bushels ofAvatchcs and old rugs Avhich are almostworth their weight in gold The dealershoAvever thoroughly appreciate the Aalueof their goods and real bargains arescarce Much of the stuff is said to bebrought to the market by servants andnow and then you can pick up a piece ofbric-a-bra- c or plate that has been stolenfrom one of the pah c s Russia has asystem of pawnbroknr and the pawnshops are connected Avith the govern ¬

ment The money is loaned uponpledged articles at a fixed rate and allpledges which are not redeemed are soldat auction

Do Animals Dream

Much research and investigation Avarrants the assertion that mantis not theonly animal subject to dreams Horsesneigh and rear upon their hind feet Avhilefast asleep dogs bark and growl and inmany other Avays exhibit all their charac-teristic

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passions It i3 highly probablethat at such times the remembranee ofthe chase or of a combat is pa singthrough the dogs minds Besides theabove signs of fleeting pain anger andexcitement these noble creatures oftenmanifest signs of kindness phjvfulnessand of almost every other pa ionRuminant animals such as the sheep andthe coav are believed to be less affectedwith dreams than those of higher passionsAvhich spend their waking hours in scenesof greater excitement Philosophers andmA estigatois tell us that if avc trace thedream faculty still lower in the scale ofanimal life we shall probably find thatthe same phenomenon exists and judg ¬

ing from analogy it is only reasonableto reckon dreaming as one of the uni¬

versal laws almost as universal as Ieepitself St Louis PiCpublic

The new Mormon temple at Salt LakeCiry will be opened April G 1S93 Ithas been in course of erection for fortyyeirs has cost 2500000 and will bewjthout doubt the biggest architecturalnightmare in the country

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