The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-12
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 Denver Opinion.
 Las, week VIC went 10 the Coliseum a, Minneapolis 10 hear Theodore Thomas orchestra, the Wagner trio and Christine Nilsson. The Coliseum Is large rink Jus, ou, Of Minneapolis on the road be- tween thA, ei,y and St. Paul. l, can sea, ooo people comfortably. bu, the man. agemen, like to sedge s.Soo people m there on warm day. and then watch the perspifation uickle out through the clap. boards on the outside On the closing afternoon, during the matinee perform. ance. the building was struck by hsh,. ming and hole knocked out of the Cor in,hian duplex tha, susmounts the oh- hqne portcullis on the off s.de. The reader will see at once the location of the bolt The lightning struck the flag staf. ran down the leg oi man who was repairing the electric light, took chew of his tobacco, turned his boo, wrong side out and induced him to change his sock, toyed with ohillblAin. wfenohed out soft corn and tosuishly pu, II Tn his ear, then ran down the electric tight wire, a par, of |, filling an engagement m the Coliseum and the bAlaaee following the sire 10 the depot, where 1t made double pointed too,hpicks of a pole fifty ice: high. All this was done very briefly Those who have seen lightning toy with a cottonwood tree, knew that this fluid makes speciality of It at once and m a brief manner. The lightning in ,his ease broke the glass Tn the sky ligh, and depos- ited the broken fragments on half do sen parquette eha:ss that were empty because she specuiatofs ~ho owned them couldn't gel but S,o apiece, and were waiting fer a man to mortgage his residence and sell team. He couldn't make the transfer in tune for the matinee, 90 the seats were vacant when the lightning struck. The immediate and previous fluid then shot athwart the auditorium in the direction of the platform. where |, nearly frightened to death large chorus of children Women fainted, ticket speculaiors fell ], on desirable seats, and strong men coughed up ciove. Tbe scene beg gared description intended to have said tha, before, but foTgo. II. The odose Thomas drew in full breath, and Christine Nilsson drew her salary. T~o thousand strong men thought of their wasted lives, and two thousand women felt for their back hair to see fl i, was still there ] say, therefore. without su, cess ful contradiction, that the scene beggared description. Chestnuis.
 In the evening several people sang :" The Creation" Nilsson va. Gabnei. Gabriel had beautiful voice cut low m the neck, and sings like joyous bobo. link n the dew-sztursted mead. How's that. Nilsson is proud and naughty in her demeAnor, and had a good notion to send note up to her stating that she needn't feel 70 lofty, and if she could ,, up in the peanut gallery where was and look al herself with her dress kind ol sawed of at the top, she would not be SO vain. She wore diamond necklace and silk skirt. The skirt was cut pfincesse. 1 think, to harmonizs with her salary. As an old neighbor of mine said when he painted the top board of his fence green, he wanted it to kind of cofroborAte with his blinds" He's the same man who went 10 Washington about the time of the Cuiteau trial and said he was present al the post mostise examination. But the funniest thing of all, he said, was to see Dr. Mary Walker riding one of these Philosophers !" around on the streets.
 Bat am wandering. We were speak ing of the festival. Theodore Thomas is certainly great leader. What pity he is out of pohtics. He pounded the air all up fine there Thursday. 1 think he had 5 small-sise fiddles, 10 medium sire, and 5 of those big, fat ores that a bald heaoed man generally annoys. Then there were a lot of wind instruments, drums, q cefeTa. There were 6oo per fofmers on the stage, counting the eho- rus, with 4, 800 people in the house and 900 outside yelling at the ticket office also at the top of their voices-and swear ing because they couldn't mortgage their immortal souls and hear Nilsson coin sii yer notes. It vas frighfful. The build ing settled twelve inches is those two hours and half tke electric lights vent out nine times for relreshnenis, and on the vhsie the entertainment vas grand suc.ess. The hrst time the liehis zd- Iourned an usher came in oa the stage through side entrance with a sesosene lamp. gness he would have ssood there and held # fog Nilsson to sing by if {, 800 people hadn't with one voice fasghsd him ouf into the stasiess night You might as wen have tried to light banighted A. rica with white bean shall never lor- get how proud and bosyass he looked as he sailed in with thaf kesoseue lamp vish . soiIed chimney O Il, aad how hun and gFiesed he seemed when he took is and esoped his vay ont, vhile the Coliseum tyemh3ed vish ll-conceaIod merrisuene. l use the term ill-concealed mesrimenf5 .ith permission of the psopsietoss, for this season oniy.
 
 Man vas made to mourn, but somc mourn more'n oshers.-Ntsv Orlssas Piesysa<.