Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-07

HIGH ART.
The Wonderful Accomplishment OF .
Frisco Paint Singer.

The Wonderful Accomplishments OF .
Frisco Paint Singer.
''Do you-ahem!-do you ever
print any items in your raper?'
asked a rather seedy looking man
with long hair, a slouch hat and paint
on his fingers, softly edging into the
Posts inner sanctum the other day. |
The managing editor glanced saw
agely up from his MONDAY sandwich,
and after evidently repressing de-
sire to add the long haired party to
viands, replied in the affirmative.
"Because," continued the young
man, scowling critically at a cheap
chrome on the wall, ''because I
thought if you cared to record the
progress of real esthetic art culture
on this coast, you might send your
art critic around to my studio to take
some notes."
"Might, eh?" said the editor be-
tween chews.
eyes, sir. For instance, there's a
| mammoth winter storm landscape
I've just finished for Mr.. Mudd, the
bonanza king. 1t is called "A Hail
Storm in the Adirondacks,' and g.
visitor who sat down near it the other
day caught sore throat in less than
fifteen minutes. The illusion is 80
perfect, you understand. Why, l
had to put in the finishing touches
with my ulster and Artic overshoes
on"
"Don't say?''
"Fact, SIT and then there's little
animal gem did for Governor Clerk
ings the other day-portrait of his
Scotch terrier Snap. The morning it
was done cat got in the studio, and
the minute it saw that picture it went
through the window sash like q ten
inch she'll"
"Did, eh?"
"Yes and the oldest thing about
it was that when I next looked at the
canvas the dogs hair was standing
up all along his back like porcu-
pine. Now, how do you account for
that?'
'Dunno.
s'It tust beats me. When the gov
ernor examined the work he insisted
on my painting on post with the
dog chained to it. Said he didn't
know what might happen
i "Good scheme" growled the pres
ident maker.
j 81 don't do much 10 the animal
!, line, though" continued the artist
thoughtfully; ''that is, not since last
summer. I painted . California
polecat for an English tourist from
the skin of one he killed by mistake
for q grizzly mp in the foothills. And
: if you'll take my word for it, the day
| finished its business end the health
officials came down, fumigated the
place and arrested me for maintaining
. q nuisance"
"Did, eh?''
"Absurd, wasn't it? Ibid a setter
dog for the same man, and shipped it
/ to him at Liverpool. But it seems the
feas got into the box and bit so many
f holes in the canvas, that he threw it
, back on my hands,"
3 ''Too bad"
e "Wasn't it, though. My best
hold, however, is water views. You
know George Bromley, and how ab-
4 stracted he is sometimes. Well,
e George dropped in one morning and
= brought up before an eight by twelve
| ,,;,x,, >f The Con- Tooon;r r;,or NTH .
boat to the bank in the foreground
i I'm blessed if George didn't absen,
4 mindedly take off his coat and ster
d clear through the canvas trying tt
jump into that boat-thought he d g
}. out rowing, you know"
j. ''No, don't know"
y "Speaklng about that picture re
minds me Of mean trick that wa
,. played on me by Dobber, who's,
= studio is right next to mine. H,
d was so envious of my large ORDER
v that the night before that paintin,
!, was to be delivered he climbed owe
T. the transom and smeared out tn
a rope that anchored the boat 1 spok'
/. of, to the shore. The next mornin,
It the skif was gone-fioated off dow
q the stream, you see."
}, 81 do-do I?''
a ssIt took me four days to paint i
in again-dead loss you see although
10 I believe the purchaser did agree t
|e pay me twenty-five dollars extra il
+ case it came back on the next tide
N Pretty square Of him, now, wasn'
M it,"
,t "Have they carried out that jour
neyman with the smallpox" sal
h the editor, winking at the foreman
l. who had come in just then to swea
it for copy.
ID "Smalt-pox? That reminds me &
n a realistic historical subject I'm en-
n gagged on now, entitled, The Plagu
IA in Egypt l had only complete
er four Of the principal figures whe
last Tuesday the janitor, who sleep
IN in the next room, was taken out I
ck the hospital with the most pronounce
n case OF leprosy you ever saw, an
a. this morning the boy who mixes th
ne paints began to scale off like sla,
I'd roof. don't really know whethe
in to keep on with the work or no
Ii. How does it strike you?"
st strikes me that you'd betts
re Slide" SAID the unesthetic molder {
NJ public opinion, gruf1y.
"a "Don't care to send a report
he round, then?'
he 'sNo, SIR
no '.Would't like to give an offer f
he life sized 'Gattenberg discoverir
ed the printing press eh?''
,e, MARY order"
nd "Don't want a seven by nine grot
of the staff done in oil or crayen
"No," said the editor, as he aga
lowered himself into the depths OF
leader on the Roumanian Imbrogli
by but if you care to touch up two wi
90, dow frames, some desk legs and Z
full fighting editors black eye for 70
bits and . lot of comic exchange
md you can sail in." --s...,.,.....
Ia. "It's . whack!" promptly ejae
red lated the disciple Of esthetic cultur
m and borrowing cigarette from