Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-18

\ F1rNNY SCENE on THE GE.--Ihe Gin
cuuati Commercial of Wednesday has the ta-
lowing:
Decidedly one of the most amusing scenes
within scene foreign entirely to the bill and
part book, ever witnessed on stage IN TINS
,itv was that which conyulsed with laughter
the audience at Woods Theatre last evening,
IN the midst of the Day After the Wedding,
which preceded ''Ixion''
Lady Elizabeth Freelove Miss H. +. Bailey
was on, together with the faithful but abused
old servants, Mr. and Mrs Davis "a. w.
Church and Mrs Salisbury, who were about
to take their departure on their summary dis
charge. According to the usual presentation
of this scene, the aged people were Loaded
down with valises bandboxes, umbrellas ana
live stock. The old man led by cord olg
chunk of dog, regular brlndie, with clean
limbs, stout body, shapey head and sameness
Of appearancc that was suggestive OF death
lock and crunching of bones in pit The
nld lady had her cat in 4 cage, her tavorte tire
side comnapion evidently. Unfortunately the
Eottom of the cage fell out, and down came the
cat to the stage much frightened and confus-
ed, but nevertheless quite ready to take advan-
tage Of the new situation.
The feline 5 first impulse was to escape to
the parquet, and it made the attempt. The
man who tOrtures the Kettle drum and lets out
his bile upon the neither cymbal was too quick
for the animal, however, and handed it back to
the lady, who inverted the cage and attempted
to uuict it there All this time the dog had
been tugging at the line and collar The canine
instinct to worry that cat couldn't be suppressed.
The audience saw this and waited tor what was
to come. The uneasy back yard devotete, fright,
cned ut the glaring eyes, prOtrudlng tongue ana
frantic tuggings of the brindle ut last toOhshly
jumped out of the cage. The dog, with one
tremendous surge, broke away then and with
three bounds cornered pussy in an angle oi the
scenery. There was fierce growi, an alarmed
and vicious kissing and splitting, 1 scattering OF
fur and the cat was caught 10y the back OF inc
neck and being shaken like Il rat III the jaws OF
Il full terrier. Lady Freelove made for the wings
in alarm, Mrs. Davis backed up against the
box. Mr.. Davis blossomed into tat school
boy, consigned to corner and foolscap. and the
audience roared and applauded as the cat at
last broke away and cut bright streak through
the air in successful rush for liberty AMI life
BORAX.-Another source OF wealth has been
added to the rich deposits of California Borax
is now found in large quantities east of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains At the present
time Tuscany supplies the greater portion OF
this material, which is used i'll welding and
working iron, glazing fire pottery, Ss medicine,
and in toilet compounds lhc prlce III Europe
is about fifteen cts. per pound, and i'll the Z.
s. under high tariff twenty-five cts. Or five
hundred dollars per ton Its high cost greatly
restricts its consumption, especially in glazing
the cheaper pottery and in the toilet, and 1t 1:
imnossble to know how great the demand
wonld be if the price were reduced hfty or sixty
Der Ct. as there is reason to hope that 1t VII
be in few years, by the help of the. deposit
lately found in California, whence it IS SSnppos
ed that twenty thousand tons can be obtained
annually for many years. at an expense OF no
luore than FIVE cts per pound, or one hundred
dollars per ton-Philddelphia Age.