The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-07-19
BILL NYE
Attends a Wagner Oper-
attic Entertainment and Graphically
Describes The Elects of an IN
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Bill Nye in Denver Tribune.


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Bill Nye in Denver Tribune.
Last week we went up to the Col
liseum at Minneapolis to hear Theodor
Thomas orchestra, the Wagner trio
and Christine Nilsson. The coliseum
is large rink just out of Minneapoh
on the road between that city and st
Paul. IL can seat 1000 people comfort
ably, but the management ike t.
wedge 1850 people in there on a warn
day, and then watch the perspiratiol
trickle out through the clapboards OF
the outside. On the closing afternoon
during the matinee performance, the
building was ssrrck by lightning and 6
hole knoked out of the Corinthian du
pick that surmountJ the oblique port
cuilis on the off side. The reader viii
see at once the location of the bolt
The lightning struck The flagstaff, ran
down the leg of man who was repair
ing the electric light, took chew OF
his tobacco, turr ed his boot right side
out and induced him to change his sock,
toyed with chilblain, wrenched out a
soft corn and roguishly put itin his ear,
then ran down the electric light wire, a
coliseum and the balance following the
double pointed toothpicks of a pole fifty
feet high. All this was done very
briefly. Those who have seen light
ming toy with cottonwood tree know
that this fluid makes a specially Of it at
once and in a brief manner. The light
ming in this case broke the glass in the
skylight and deposited the broken
fragments on half dozen parquet
chairs that were empty because the
spectators who owned them couldn't
get but $50 apiece, and were waiting
for man to mortgage his residence
and sell q team. He couldn'tmake the
transfer in time for the matinee, so 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
it nearly frightened to death a large
chorus of children. Women tainted,
ticket spectators fell $2 on desirable
seats, and strong men coughed up
Glove. The scene beggared description.
intended to have SAID that before, but |
forgot. Theodore Thomas drew in a |
full breath, and Christine Nilsson ew |
her salary. Two thousand strong men
thought of their wasted lives, and two
thousand women felt for their back
hair to see if it was still there. l say,
therefore, without successful csntradic-
ton, that the scene beggared descrip-
ton.
In the evening several people sang
"The Creation" Nilsson was Gabriel
Gabriel has beautiful voice, cut low
in the neck, and sings like a joyous
bobolink in the dew saturated mead.
How is thatP Nilsson is proud and
naughty in her demeanor, and 1 had
good notion to send note up to he
and if she could sit up in the pear IT
gallery where l was and look at hers
with her dress kind of sawed off at the
top, she would be not so vain. She
wore a diamond necklace and sil.
skirt. The skirt was cut princess,
think, to harmonic with her salary.
AS an old neighbor of mine said when
he painted the top board of his fence
green, he wanted it to corroborate with
his blinds. He's the same man
who went to Washington about
the time of the Guiteau trial and said
he was present at the "post-mortise"
But the funniest thing t
Of all, he said, was to see DIR. Mary ]
Walker riding one of these "Philoso- c
piers" around on the streets. a
But l am wandering. We were -,
speaking of the festival. Theodore
Thomas is certainly great leader.
What a pity he is out of politics. He
pounded the air all up fine there Thurs v
lay. l think he had 20 small sized fid- e
lies, 10 medium size, and five of those L
zig fat ones that a baldheaded man e
annoys. Then there was a b
OF of wind instruments, drums, ct 81
etra. There were 600 performers on r.
he stage, counting the chorus, with h
900 people in the house, and 5000 d
utside yelling at the ticket office-also n
t the top of their voices and swearing :
ecause they couldn't mortgage their !.
souls and hear Nils>on's com =
liver notes. 1t was frightful. The
uilding settled twelves inches IN those
wo hours and a half, the electric lights II
vent out nine times for refreshments, Il
nd on the whole the entertainment was NJ
grand success. The first time the nj
ghts adjourned an usher came in on b'
ne stage through a side entrance with Sc
Kerosene lamp. l guess he would
ave stood there and held it for Nilsson
} sing by if 4,5O0 people hadn't with n,
ne voice laughed him out into the star of
ss night. You might as well have Sc
led to light benighted Africa with a,
hite bean. shall never forget how 90
roud and buoyant he looked as he 80
Tiled in with that kerosene lamp with SC
soiled chimney on it, and how hurt 81
I'd grieved he seemed when he took it ne
nd CROPPED his way out, while the m
oliseum trembled with ill-concealed di
erriment. use the term ''ill-con- pc
aled merriment" with.permission of tn
70 proprietors, for this season only.
NJ
That Husband of Mine. III