Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
FANNY AS A WRESTLER.
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Or the Great Catch as Catch-Can Encounter
to Be Seen Nightly In the Play or.
Fedora.

=" 10 'SSSA N1Sitks Ii Lie Tlal OF
Fedora.
The Witch of Wall Street Subsidies Into a
Bowery Fortune Teller at Fifty
Cents q Head.
NEW YORK, Special Correspondence, Oct 70,
-Mantell is a six-foot man, rather slim.
but very supple and active, and weighs about
175 pounds. He is twenty-seyen years old,
and in excellent physical condition. Fanny
Davenport is five feet ten, of a powerful and
shapely build, weighs a 100 pounds, and her
age is--not q point worth deciding in 80 beauti-
full woman She has riaded herself OF So
much fat that she, too, may be put down as in
6rstrate physical order. You have no doubt
seen this actress for yourself, and I describe
her appearance thus particularly, only because
wish to show her as she is just now Physique
tells in wrestling match, such as that which !
witnessed between Miss Davenport and Mantell
1t Was catch-as- catcll-can encounter, in the
presence of a thousand spectators. They first
grabbed each other round the shoulders, and
Rugged for few seconds like bears. Then
they struggled across the stage, bending and
Wfirhlng with all their might, as though each
was trying to bend the other to the floor The
next phase OF the contest was an effort on the
part OF Mantell to break AWAY, but i!e did rot
free himself from the enveloping arms (they
were taperlngly covered with Suede gloves
reaching to tho shou1der) without a persis ,eut
use of all his strength. Aud his freedom waa
brief. Miss Davenport caught him, from
behind, lifted him nearly off his feet, and
threw him down. First fall for the ac1ress
Boh were a good deal winded by the work
TINT ft1fr.n hn1f 80
next round, and they came up smiling. This
bout was brief, and scarcely lair, for the man
used some violent language that took the pluck
out OF the woman, After five minutes of pull
ing aud hauling over sofas and chairs, she
went suddenly into hoap at his feet, clinging
wildly to his legs. One al for Mantell. The
wresllers were short Of breath on facing each
other for the third and final round. They
C asped round necks aud waists with mauifes,
feebleness, aud seemed to mutually lack tile
strength necessary for decisive effort; but
| at length the man showed wonderful access
OF visor. He seized the woman by the throat,
wrenched and flung her head this way and
that, bent her form backward until it
looked like a coutortionist in diff
hcult feat, and then, quickly pulling her
forward, s ahmed her on the floor She lay
| there an instant, as though stunned 4 WIN
Mug fail for MantelL But his antagonist went
at him again, with fury thai was ainlless and
impotent. Then catching up a glass, she has
| lily drank the contents. 1t was drugged with
! a deadly poison. Her hold Oh Mantell relaxed
and she fell on q sofa, tumbled then to the
floor, and died. But her demise does not pre-
Vent repetition Of the wrestling every even
! ing, for the match is incidental to the ORA
| matte part OF Fedora, which she is now PLAYING.
Of course, there is dialogue between the char
acters persoaated by her and Mantell, but the
physical portion OF their performance has ex-
aclly the aspects of wrestling that have de-
RnrjbAS Snnh IF hoo4o
al that have ever seen on the stage. If that
athletic sort Of love- making should be adopted
in country villages, the front gates would in
evltabiy be torn from their hinges, as though
by cyclones.
ARTHUn's DOUBLE.
We have q New Yorker who resembles Pres
ldent Arthur so closely as to be commonly
! mistaken for him. The ikeness has existed
for twenty years Or more, and was a subject of
! comment among tho acduan;ances of the two
mon when there Was less social difference be-
tween them than there is now. Bill Nathans
was shoemaker with shop of his own near
| the custom house, during the years that Ar
thur, before appointment as collector, held
subordinate positions. They got shaved in
the same barber shop, SO Nathans tells me. A
change of proprletorship save the opportunity
for joke on the new ownor. Nathans went il
order to identify his private cup, and, as it was
broken, talked about ordering another Just
outside of the door, he met Ar
thur: They consulted briefly Az:
and took lis place in chair. The barber
looked surprised st the customer who, appar-
en- ". was the Same man who had minute be-
fore been under his hands: bu5 he had no time
! 10 make any comment before Arthur said
I've got Il CUP here-marked 'Natlsns' Don
! you remember? You were speaking to HE about
! new one. yesterday
| Yesterday, s'r?" exclaimed the puzzled barber.
"Di,;n't I shave you right row?"
Z haven't been in here since yesterday" was the
| cool reply.
The barber was not total abstainer anc
| had 40 good reason to trust his own mind i'm
| plici ly. A barely finished spree made him
| more than usually doubtful of his memory
| but he WAS thoroughly alarmed by q menta
condition that seemed to deprive him of the
| power to discriminate between two in MN.
| ute and day He shaved Arthur very thought
! fully, and that evening; went to a temperance
meeting to slga the plrdge Tie resemblance
di] Nateaus no good, though it enabled him tc
crafty ais vanity by posing in public places
! and receiving mods and occasional hand shakes
under false pretenses. This form of amuse.
| ment, however, proved c0stllcr than 1t might
seem at first thought. 1t was easy enough tc
| fool casual acquautances of the collector but
| the sport took time that he could not spare
! from his small business, and so sank from en-.
ployer to employo. The elevation of Arthur te
/ VIC FACD p1OaIuOuAy CLtGll5u aUuli1UUdl IS6pUu-
,slblllty upon his counterpart, who thereupo1
undertook to keep up proper shadow of dig
nifty. This he did by dressing as nearly like
Arthur az the obtainable information on tina
subject would permit The expenses of hi
wardrobe were thus augmented far beyond
what he could afford; but he kept at it resolute
| ", and showed himself in guises that satisfied
his notion Of what vice president Of tn
! United States ought to be. Then came tn,
further exaitat!on of Arthur, and still Nathan
manfuliy, proudly bore the burden o
slmilitude. He has informed himsel
of the presidents styles of dress
of all the real or fAncied changes in his de.
! meanor in the direction Of increased dignity
and especially in the alterations Of the cut o
| his beard. Arthur's rather long side whiskerI
| had not been trimmed closely many days be-
fore Nathans learned Of it, and had his OWL
! shortened in as nearly the same way as coulc
be accomplished without actual measurements
| H may be seen on afternoons sauntering 0,
Broadway and lounging in places of weight,
mems resort, getting a compensation for hi
bankruptcy in the stares which his Likeness!
causes. He misses the mistaken greeting.
that he used to receive for the improb ablit,
of the president going about in the city so un
| cereu1oniously prevents anybody from goins
| further in their attentions than to remark the
| great resemblance; but on the other hand
/ there is moro glory in merely looking like
president than in beng taken for collector
that Arthur may let his whiskers grow withou
his finding it out in time to do likewise until it
| is too late to catch up.
THE WITCH OF WALL STREET.
| ''seances by Grace CORTLAND, the Witch OF
| Wall Street-Price so Cents.'' That was the
new thing placarded on the front OF q Bowory
museum. Knowing that the roseate and pic
tured promise OF double-headed babies usually
are no more fully realized than bv shrivelee
objects in alcohol, that the disool.ing mer
| maids OF the painted canvas turn out to be
| jointures OF stuffed monkey and fish skins,
and that Barnum himself proudly takes the
| title of prince of humbuss, wss prepared tc
| find clumsy impersonation of the noted Wal
! street character. Grace Courtland has figured
among the stock spectators in Der own queer
wav She coutrlved at the outset to mix her