Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-06
out in the present Mather engagement
and is quite aprcpos Of what ! have
been saying. Miss Mather saw fit to-
rurchase ef Frank Russell Graen a

and is quite aprcpos of what / have
been saying. Miss Mather saw fit to
purchase of Frank Russell Green. a
young Chicago artist, his picture,
Francesca di Rimini.'' on which he
was engae ed for a year or more. The
price pad was $4,000. Hill does not
let such an opportunity slip, but places
the picture on free exhibition in the
rooms on the second floor of the thea
tire, formerly used by the Owl Club of
not over fragrant memory. Here, skill
fully displayed under the proper tone
of gas-light, and the proper distance
preserved by RELOCATING the curiosity
seekers to another room. this acquisi-
ton does its share in the scheme of ad-
vertising, evolved, from Hills fertile
brain, and how well it works is shown
by the estimate that.over five thousand
people visit it daily.
Of the picture itself / have seen bet
ter and many worse. 1t is very large
painting, about eight feet by five, and
illustrates the danger of loving another
fellows wife in the palmy days of old,
under Italian skies. The story as told,
is that very ill-conditioned Italian, a
sort of southern Richard ILL. in shape,
married lovely girl of noble family.
To ease the shock the bridegroom, Lam
ciotto di Rimini, sends his brother Paolo
to get his bride, who, womanlike. falls
into the mistake of supposing that he is
her destined husband. She soon learns
the difference, but carries out her part
of the contract, when her ill-favored
husband kindly goes off 10 the war,
leaving his pretty wife at home in
charge of his brother. A servant APP
prises him of the love-making that is
going on, and be comes home suddenly
and finds them exchanging lip service.
With true Italian courtesy he asks what
their punishment should be and they
faccomodatingly reply death. Where
/ upon tHC Huophuu LIS
toad-sticker and inmolates them on the
altar of his aroused ire and then goes
off somewhere else and Stays himself
The scene seized by Green is where the
lovely bride and Paolo lie cold in death
The former lies in a reclining posture
on a low couch, the lower portion of her
body resting on the floor, while beside
her on the floor lies her lover The
draperies and other accessories are ex-
quisite in drawing, and handling but
the figures are not so good However,
the artist received $4,000, therefore
there is nothing more to be said
| This week will be an interesting one
for theatre goers, as Tom Keene opens
at Hayerly's in the legitimate. Mod
jeska at the Grand, while Mather APP
pears at McVicker's in Julia ard Marie
Stuart, Hooley's will hold Nat Goodwin
in his immitable specialities.
| In the different lines of trade the
wholesale merchants express themselves
confident of good fall business, based
on the general prosperity of the country,
and the approximation of prices to
wages which will bring about much
wider range of purchasers, than has
been the case of late years, when prices
and wages were two extremes of the
pole. The Times recently published
series of interviews with different mer-
chants, all of which went to bolster up
the opinion expressed above. And,
speaking of newspapers calls to mind,
that the newsy little Herald, which has
made its mark, and a broad one at that,
| in its two years existence, has UNDER
gone change of proprietorship. The
greater part of the stock has passed
into the hands of John II. Walsh, the
well-kn0wn newsman and statesman,
and it is now on the independent line.
1t is limited that the change means
plunger of the newspaper bark into the
stream of Democracy, when the proper
time comes. | suggested this to
gentleman well acquainted with the in
ternal economy of the concern, and he
assured me that on that very day he
had been told by the proprietors that it
would grieve them very much to know
that it was supposed that the Herald
would ever be anything but what it
was, strictly independent. Not caring
to grieve of such amiable gentlemen,
you may consider the above unsaid and
forget tiff you will. However they
have absorbed two good men and re-
markably able writers from the Times,
Seymour and Russell, whose work is al
ready beginning to tell. But few of the
old crowd of bright young journalists,
who placed the Herald on its feet two
years ago remain; but in the meantime
the Herald is creeping up in circulation
and Importance.
There are rumors in the air of new
literary weekly, under able manage
ment, which will possess all the literary
ability of a first-class magazine. while
still clinging to the world around and its
doings. This also is on the quiet. mind
you, and for fear that | may betray
any other secrets | will take a round
turn on this narrative right here. M.
Congressman Blackburn, of Ken
lucky, has withdrawn from the speaker
ship contest, and in doing SO is prompt
the success of the Democratic party in
congress, and in order to defeat the
Vaccinations of the protectionists and
secure the election of Speaker who
will reflect the true Democratic theory
of tariff for revenue only. BY so doing