Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-05-05
ACTOR AND PHYSICIAN.
SOMETHING REGARDING BISHOP, TEE EsCVLA-
Plan WHAT THE BALDWIN COMPANY
THINK OF AIA-HIs DIoGNOSIs OF THE
COMPANY.

Troupe, had been given the degree of Doctor
of Medicine by duly authorized Faculty of
physicians. The thing was generally
looked upon as a hoax gotten up at the act er s
expense by the Bphemiaas of the city, or per-
haps an advertising dodge deity pushed OH to
the con6ding public by the willy Bishop him
self. Wishing to ascertain more of the matter
an APPEAL reporter yesterday called upon
Mr. Bishop at the Ornsby House. He was
not in.
LIGHT SHED BY j. o. BARROws-
Finding Mr. J. 0. Barrews, who is con-
sidered i'll that section as the finest "Admiral'
that ever trod the deck in Ptnafo,e, leaning
the bar communing with the inner Conscious
hess Of a cocktail, we ventured to approach HIM
Oh the subject,
''Barro"s, is Bishop really doctor q
''Blshop a doctor, well l should say not.
He just thinks he is, but he's NO more of IL
doctor than am.
Has he diploma r.
''Oh yes, some college where he studied
believe, l know in fact, gave him big piece
OF parchment about three feet square. -4mnus
secu,adus Bishoporabus non consiquentiuns
duptturattm erst {. very little lemon) and red
seals AS big a ranchers watch. When he
first got the diploma he expected to make his
fortune dectorlng the dramatic fraternity,
when by jove those are the very ones that he
can't doctor. We won't have it that way.
The day he got the document you should have
seen him strut about the theater with it,
prouder that boy with red tops to his boots
For the next week he Was at the bed side of
every sick actor and actress in the city. We
put up job one day aud about dozen of US
pretended to be terribly sick and Bishop was
nearly frantic with excitement "a little more
sugar, Mr.. Barkeep.) He rushed about ali
that day prescribing fer US, and that night
| We sent people to him with the sad intelli-
gence that all of his patients were dead 1t
broke the poor fellow all up, he believed every
word and you never saw the man really seri
Gus before. Just after he got the news of the
death Of twelve of his bosom professional
| friends he was obliged to go ON the stage in
side splitting character You never saw such
lugubrlous acting. 1t was the saddest, drear-
lest thing you ever saw, and the papers cut
him up dreadfully next morning. In the last
act hewever he begun to catch sight of some
of the people he supposed dead. They were
all there watching the fun and it was not un-
til he recognized the whole twelve in the aud |
fence that he was himself again. (Not quite
SO sweet the last.) Next day he got wind of
the joke and sent round his bills, and such |
bills. He charged dollar for every pulse
beat, and his own heart throbs thrown in.
Of course We merely chucked the bills in the |
stove ="
Mr.. o'NEILs OPINION
The reporter next found Mr. O'Neil, the
leading heavy man, lying on a sofa. He was
feeling unwell from his trans. Sierra trip. He
labored under the impression that he was
about to have the govt, and asked the report
er if he could recommend physician.
There's Doctor Bishop, your heavy com
edian, he is not disengaged. ..-.
''Bishl that's good, and O'Nei burst into
a fit of laughter. "When I'm tit to meet my
God I'll send for Bish."
The reporter mumbled something about the
LIKELIHOOD of Bishop never being called upon
to attend O'Neil, but the man took no notice
of the remark and continued
''Bish Is pretty good fellow and capital
actor, but as doctor he is an annaistakable
failure. might say in the random language
of the vulgar, the worst In the deck I con-
slider him in the light of the 'pestilence that
walketh in darkness and the sickness that
in noon day He is absolutely
devoted to his profession; he would sacrifice
any body and anything for the sake of an ex-
pertinent. He would run across some new
tangled drug, and if he got : chance heave it
into my stomach and ascertain what effect it
had If l died he would pull cut his note ,
book and record the event as follows:
'Nytre Giycerine--Causes death in three
minutes with increased palpation and coHvul
,ions' $780,.
Then he would steal my body, lug it up to
his room and dissect me- Do you know that (
| actually believe that half of the actors who a
70 mysteriously disappear are murdered by I
his nsatiate devotee Of science; that he may !
hack their corpses to pieces Then his charges I
hey are simply enormous. If he looks at q
mans tongue, down he Coca for Fifty dollars t
IN the account He keeps the dramatic pro- Il
ession nuOr nv HIS Dractice' t.