Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1875-04-29
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CEREDo, w. VA, Aprll Zith 10
The second Literary entertainment
of the Congregational Church was
given on last Friday night. The
exercises were opened with piece of
music which was followed by lee
ture, by Mr.. Mexican. His descrip-
ton of castles, abbey's, villas and
towers, situated in the immediate
vicinity OF his former home, in the
northern part of England, was very
interesting and while he talked, his
audience WAS breathless with interest.
The lecture was followed ny short
intcrmiSsion, after which a man came
in and put up large placards, an
nouncins that "Jarley's wax work
had arrived. Mrs. farley soon en-
tered aud instructed Little Nell' as
to how she must exhibit it. But
perhaps it would be well, before pro-
ceeding any farther, to describe Mrs.
Jarley's and Nell's costume, Tor, OF
course the lady readers will be most
interested in that. Mrs. Jarleyis
costume was slightly Puritanic, She
wore heavy dark brown silk dress,
made entirely without trimming, the
skirt quite full, and tie sleeves close
and with large pulled piece at the
top. On her head she wore Il large
bonnet, similar to those worn fifty
years ago. In fact. Mrs. VS. alias,
Mrs. Jsrley'S, was theatrical in the
extreme Little Nell was dress
ed with simplicity and taste, and her
sweet charming face reminded one of
the veritsble little Nell, with whom
all readers Of Charles Dickens are
familiar.
The first figure brought in, was
that of the celebrated Chinese giant;
he was born, 50 the story goes, in the
two provinces OF Oolong and, Shang-
hal, one of them not being large
enough to hold him. 1t w0s a very
good representation Ots Chinaman,
cue and almond shaped eyes, being
almost perfect. The next figure VS.
Welsh dwarf. This extraordinary
parsonage Was thirty years old when
he was born, and lived to the green
old age" of-well, nine hundred and
fifty. That'll do
After this came the poor maniac,
Martha Bangs. She went crazy
about the newspaper articles from
Ceredo. She tried in vain to find
out who they were from and became
50 deranged, short time after, that
she came to the conclusion that De
facto must be one of the Overseers of
this new factory. Then every one
knew she was crazy. Next came the
children'> friend, Mrs. 5. 4 WinslOw,
YES, there she was bottle and baby in
hand.
Then came a more historical per-
sonage. The boy that stood on the
burning deck" or in other words,
"Casabianca." Thi. strange boy is
said to have turned his head, in that
memorable hour of peril and was
never afterwards able TO get it right
side to agsin. Next Was the Siam
csc Twins, which were quite life like.
Lord Byron was next seen, with quill
in hand. After him came the leg
endarv monster, Blue Beard, There
he stood, KEY in hand and sent a
chill over all who gazed on him
Captain Kidd and his victim were
next on tie programme
After this little Nell wound the
figures up.
The chinsmsn famed the dwarf,
ate bread and milk ont of a bowl.
Martha Bangs trantically tore her
raven locks. Casablsnca endeavored
to turn his head and couldn't; the
twins quarreled; Lord Byron was
imbued with poetic fire and dashed
of line after line of poetry; Blue
Beard raised the KEY in an ominous
manner; Capt. Kidd started to muir
der his victim, and she raised her
hands in supplication. Then strange
to relate, those inaDimste figures, fled
out of the room in quite life like
manner.
There was only one peculiarly
which we noticed about them and
that was that some of them slightly
resembled some of our young folks,
but Mrs. j assured us that they were
made Of wood and were "block heads,
every one of en-"
Here is the end of our paper, and
methinks, | hear the editor say, is
he never going to fnish.' so | think
| shall have t. b,d my readers adieu,
until next Friday.
Your; in haste, TIE SANE.