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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22

When an opera singer makes a fuss say to my
self: Make allowances for him; this is one Of
his fifty crazy days"
Gene Elrod, Of Maeauley 3 Theatre. louisville,
had his benefit on the 18th inst Gene is the
most popular fellow in the town, and is we'll
known to several citizens here.
.Do you like Shakspeareln murmured
Katrina. fresh from the seminary, as she threw
2 soft languishing glance of her blue eyes into
Hans Schweitzers rudy face. "Yaw, fraulein,
like Shakes peer or any oder peer better den
never vos."
Walter Damrosch will be the assistant must
cal director Of the Metropolitan Opera house
next season. He viii go to Europe with T. Q.
stanton to engage artists. Hans Richter, the
conductor Of the Hoffstadt Theatre has been Sc
cured as director He superintendent and con-
Quoted the production of all of Wagner's operas
at Bayreuth.
Mother to son, who has been at the theatsr-sI
there in high feathera"
Yes, mother she sat opposite to me-"
We'll, Jack. what did she wearF
'im sure don't know"
Don't know-hew could that beW
I didn't look under the table"
The marriage of Mrs. General Tom Thumb to
Count Magri, the midget. will take place on
Easter Monday, in the Church of the Holy
Trinity, Philadelphia and cards of invitation will
De limited to the mutual friends of the con-
tracing parties, the Italian and French consuls
and the mayor, and none but those to whom in
vitatons are sent will be permitted to witness
the ceremony. Miss Lucy Adams will be brides
maid, and Major Newell, the husband Of the
late Minnie Warren, will be the Counts best
man.
San Francisco Chronicle: 'sPatti is not only a
great artist. She has wonderful head. She
possesses a rare accomplishment She can talk
French, English and italian like native That
is not what allude to. She can speak Scotch
Perhaps you don't see the advantage of being
able to sing Scotch ballad-and Patti can sing
one better than anybody ever heard. There is
a simply enormous advantage She might find
herself anywhere in the world-in Thibet, or
Tartary, or india or the Cannibal islands.
There il fair chance that she might not find
III Barbiere' or 'Semiramide' intelligible in
these lands She might not appeal to the au-
dience with 90 much effect But If she sings a
Scotch ballad. ii is betting Ave to one that in
Mongolia. or Tahiti. or anywhere else man
will jump out Of the orchestra seats and dance a
Highland fling in the center aisle, and raise the
rafters with applause. He'll be Scotchman.
You can't go anywhere where you won't find
One.s
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
Forbidden Numbers.

DR.. Goldziher, an eminent student of Semitic
lore, remarked upon the peculiar dread that
some Mohammedan communities exhibit in re-
spect to particular numbers. In Morocco Eve is
an object of terror and 1t Is not permissible
Hoft, to speak OF Eve in the presence of the
king, but he must always say four and one. four
teen and one. twenty-four and one, etc The
supposition may have originated in the fact that
the hand, which may be laid upon the king, or
which Is raised to forefend the evii-eye and
which is supposed in northern Africa to have
great magic power, has Ave fingers. According
to the traveller Ibn Batuta, the people at Sar-
MIN, near Aleppo. will not speak of ten, but al
ways OF nine and one, and mosque at that
place has only niue cupolas. The Shiites of In
four, some of them going 80 far as to use six
legged instead of four-legged bedsteads and if
one OF them inadvertently pfononnces the num-
Der he will immediately clear his throat as II to
spit 1t out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
The Latest IN Hugs.
New York correspondence.

New York correspondence.
Portals sole dramatic duty, as the play is
commonly presented is to beg her husband,
Brutus, to reveal to her the plot of Caesars
assassination There is nothing in the text to
indicate that she hugs him or is Rugged, but
that is the kind of pantomine with which the
scene in this instance was imbued with
human interest. Louis James was the Brutus.
He is tall and broad. There was room in his
broad breast in plenty for Maria Vain
wright to lay herself in great variety
of postures, and she did it at the rate
OF one to about every line Of the
blank verse. Then his Roman right arm was
bare and round it, as we'll as his stout neck, she
wound her thin ones, like ivy embracing oak
But it was when he EMBODIED her form, which he
fairly squeezed into impalpabilty amid his toga
sliding her slowly up from the ground. where
she had knelt to embrace his knees to her full
height. so that her lips reached his in kiss of
connubial vigor-that the breathing of two girl
critics seemed to stop.
"Do you think that's quite properg" said
one who had previously found some fault with
the play
ooh, they are husband and wife in private
life" was the reply.
"Weil, then," the other naively remarked, sit
isn't half SO interesting"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
Plays and Players.


Louise Sylvester has been quite ILL
Margaret Mather is in the wilds of Maine.
frankie Kemble will star next season in new
play.
Joseph Haworth will be Salvinis leading sup
port.
There are 900 opera-houses in the United
States.
j. K. Emmett has traced up and La playing in
Detroit.
verdrs "Don Carlos. has been q failure at
| Leipzig.
Oliver Doud Byron Is coming East from San
Francisco.
Marion Elmore will play leading role in ''Tho
Tin Soldier"
Fred Marsden's play for Minnie Palmer is en-
titled pert"
The Malloays have returned from the Madison
square Theater
Barnum opened his circus In Madison square
Garden last week.
Henry Lee intends to bring libel suit against
q New York paper.
The Texas Siftings man has written play for
| w. j. Ferguson is undecided as to what he
shall do next season.
Janisch has closed her season, alleging as the
pleadings say, bad health.
Diplomacy" has been revived with great sue.
cess at Wallack's Theater.
Mrs. Fannie Bernard. Of this city, has left the
"Crimes of London" company.
Gerald Eyre has been discharged by the man
agement of the Baldwin Theater.
Strauss opera comique, 'The Bat" has been
revived at the Casino, New York.
Bob Miles has new star for 49, r. e. j,
will not divulge the name, however
ttrv.. m. GA " rr-
produced last week at New Bedford.
The new play which will open the Lyceum
Theater, New York, will be rechristened
King Kalakau, of the Sandwich Islands, is pro-
posing to open roller skating rink in Honolulu
Annie Pixley and her husband, Robert Full
ford, are in England, having made a continental
tour.
Walter Bently produced Love of Money" az
the Walnut street Theatre, Philadelphia, last
week.
Forrest Robinson and Georgia Cayvan are re-
engaged at the Madison-squaro Theater for next
season.
! Nat Goodwin is practcing on roller skates,
| preparatory to the work In his satire, sThe
| Skating Rink"
| After the termination of the run of ga Pris-
| oner for Life" the Union square Theater will
cease to be stock theater.
| Captain H. s. Riddell, of London, will come to
America in week TO superiatend the production
Of Polly, the new opera
| Leon. a tlghtrope walker, fell from his wire
| in the streets OF Stockton. Cal, . distance of
| sixty feet, and broke his neck.
| e. Fl. Sothern win return to New York this
week for the production of "Favette.S He goes
with Effle Ellsler after that
| Jessie Miiward, the Pauline Of the "Called
Back" company, viii appear in the new play ut
the Madison square Theater.
| Patti, cried recently, La St Louis whiiA singing
| Home Sweet Home The audience was small
and 1t was whispered that the town made her
homesick.
!. singer is crazy al least ffty days In tho year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22

Mrs. Hannah Apple, an old lady aged sixty
years, living at Belmont came in from Oakland
yesterday afternoon to visit her daughter. She
took the street-cars to the south limits of the
city. and walked across the commons, where she
fell dead. Death Is supposed to have been caused
by heart disease
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
"Treasure for Trying"

Away with thy fear,
Hope on ard hope everi
Though winter be here,
Away with thy feari
Soon the spring shall appear
With new life and endeavof.
Away with thy fear.
Hope on and hope even
Seek something to dol
There is treasure for trying,
Aye, even for you'll
Seek something to dol
The toilers are few,
And the minutes are flying
Seek something to do!
There is treasure for trying.
IS. s. McOurry. In April @ uiver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
The woods Are Fun Of EN-.

Fully twenty applicants for the appointment
Of trustee OF the Knightstown Soldiers Orphans
Home and Asylum Cor Feeble minded Children
presented themselves to Governor Gray yester-
day. Several more are said to be lying In wait.
hoping to receive the favor of the appointment
The bill authorizing the appointment has not
yet reached the Governor for his signature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
Rhineholrs Mandate Dismissed.

The mandate proceedings brought by Rhine
holt constable. against Superintendent Lang
for not serving writ on Flossie Ballard and
others. was dismissed at defendants costs, in
Room g. Yesterday
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-23
Monday, February 23, 1883.
DOES NOT PROHIRIT.

The other day we gave some facts showing
that prohibition is a failure in Iowa A cor
respondent of the New York Evening Post
who has been investigating the matter in
Maine shows that prohibition is not q strik-
ing success there. theoretically Maine has
no place where liquor is sold, except the city
and State agencies, which are provided for
under the statutes. But last year the United
States sold ,046 stamps to retail liquor deal
ers, so that, not counting many others, there
were at least ,046 places where liquor was
openly sold Of the sixteen counties in
Maine, if we select the four containing the
divided as follows: Cumberland county, in
which is Portland, bought 258; Penobscot,
in which Bangor is located, comes next, and
her dealers purchased 169, Kennebec, which
includes Augusta, took 80, and Androscog-
gin, the county which includes Lewiston,
paid for 90 of the stamps. All the other
counties are credited with having liquor
dealers who bought some of the stamps, even
agricultural Aroostook having 10. This by
no means includes all the number of liquor
dealers, as Bangor alone, in Penobscot coun-
ty, has some 200 places where liquor is sold.
The number of committals to jails for
drunkenness in the State in 1884 was 1875.
OF these Cumberland county made 3s6, Pen
obscot 167, Kennebec $50, Androscoggin 107
and Waldo 234. Looking over the commit
tails to jails for drunkenness, and using the
census Of 1880 as a basis of population, Wal
do county had to every 1873 of the populs-
ton; Kennebec to every 189; Cumberland,
in which is Portland, the home of Neal Dow,
l to 2s3; Androscoggin 1 to 420, and Penob-
scot to 422. OF the four counties before
mentioned, containing the four largest cities,
Penobscot made the fewest committals in
proportion to its population, and Kennebec
the most.
There were 819 prosecutions for violations
of the iquor-laws in 1884 in the whole State.
The prison inspectors say in their report that
intemperance is not the cause of a majority
of State prison crimes, although it is the cause
of about three-fourths of the sentences to
jails. Intemperance, they say, is not the
great cause Of crime in the State, but a. lack
of good homes and education. The lack of
these often cause intemperance well as
other vices and crimes. One of these prison
inspectors, man who has travelled all over
the State for years, says that he does not be-
lieve there is village or town in the State
where liquor cannot be obtained, although
outside the larger towns and cities it might
be difficult for a stranger to find any. One
must understand 'tthe ropes" in the back
towns.
And there is more of the same sort It is
evident that prohibition does not prohibit in
Maine. 1t is also pretty certain that it never
will. If the temperance men in Maine would
turn their attention to high license they
might do good thing for the State.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-23
HAPPIER.

An Oakland notice referred to deceased
citizen as having ''gone to a happier home"
The widow is about bringing libel suit
San Francisco Post.
Olive Logan says she knowsa there are
swans in the river Thames over $50 years
old We don't doubt it, but did not suppose
Olive could remember so far back.-Boston
Post.
The Pennsylvania doctors and undertakers
hold their conventions on the same day. AS
there is nobody to bury when the doctors
are away from their patients, the undertake
ers thus arrange things so as to lose no time.
Louisville CourierJournal.
A little girl was asked by her mother on
her return from church how she liked the
preacher. ''Didn't like him at all, was the
reply. 'Why?s '"Cause he preached till
he made me sleepy, and then hollered SO loud
that he wouldn't let me go to sleep"
Thirteen is an unlucky number. It is for
this reason that when shopkeeper halves a
twenty-five cent piece he invariably gives you
twelve cents. The shopkeeper is unselfsh,
and as somebody must run the risk of bad
lnck, he freely takes it himself.-Boston
Transcript.
A young Pittsbu1ger who recently went
into the mountains 10 shoot wrote home that
he had shot magnificent buck. His elated
friends were somewhat astonished in reading
the concluding portions of his letter to learn
that ne also came near the saw
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
People who go to hear opera don't expect
anything grand in the way of scenery, but
they do expect peaceful mountain and val
ley scene to stand still, and that is what the
background for the first act didn't do last
night. It wobbled from the start as if it
was very tired of the female portion of the
chorus.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Canadian Episcopal bishop, of Scotch
birth, was the guest some time ago of a GER
tain rector in Buffalo Speaking of his visit
were all good people and most kind, am
sure, but do you know, my dear, they gave
me water to drink at the table and upon 60
ing to bed, as if had been a horse. "-Ex-
change.
In box at the opera two ladies are bring
ing their opera-glasses to bear on third
a brunei of mature years made beautiful with
superb diamonds. ''Look, )" said one, cit is
the Countess x. Her hair is jet black, and
[ am sure it was gray last year" VERY
true my dear. But you forget that she is
mourning She lost her brother some months
Paris Figaro.
$50 you think your meter doesn't register
properly!" ''I am sure it does not, sir"
''Well, we are so busy now we can't attend
to it. We will send up man about the mid
die of next month" II wish you would. I
am sure it does not register more than half
the gas burn" ssEh. Just wait minute
I'll send man right up with you now to
test it.''-Chicago News.
Wife-John, what is the ''faith cure" I
read of so much? Husband-Marriage, my
dear. Marriage. Wife, don't understand
how marriage can have anything to do with
it. Please explain yourself. Husband
Well, before married you my faith led me
to believe that you were perfect angel;
since 1 married you 1 have been entirely
cured of that faith That is what is called
t'faith cure. e.'-Philadelphia Call.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-23
Tights.
TErorn ChombarS' .FOurual.

Let me draw the attention of readers to
less known items regarding particular details
of costume, not the least interesting among
which might instance stage hosiery. This
manufacture is but little praoticed in London.
AS a general rule, the looms of the Midlands
meet all the demands of the metropolitan and
provincial stage. Still there are one or two
establishments within stones throw of Dru-
ry Lane which keep few machines work
ing in order that hurried orders may be more
rapidly met than they could possibly be 1t
the supply had to be brought from its provin-
cial birthplace One of these establishments
I had the opportunity of visiting some twelve
months ago and from the results of the visit,
which were published at the time IN theat-
rical journal, Gull the following description
of the manufacture of what in stage parlance
are termed s'tights:" The machines were sit=
mated in a small low-ceilinged room, and the
constant whir ensuing, as row after row of
thread was added, set ones teeth on edge in
anything but pleasant manner. The ma
chine had not the click -clack of an ordinary
loom; it was whir whir, whir, as if a tuning
fork was being drawn across some comb-like
substance; while the shivery feeling the noise
produced was icily suggestive of cold water
trickling down ones back. There was no
shuttle; no warp versus weft. The opera
tors fingers. taking the place of the shuttle,
draws the thread across the row of horizontal
J-shaped needles; by another movement the
loop of each little elongated presses the
thread down, when q knot is formed by a
further thread being passed over the loop;
and so, after the manner of ordinary hand
knitting the process of manufacture goes on.
Both feet and hands are brought into requi-
sition in the work, which is, to all appear
ance, both monotonous and tedious. About
the most interesting feature of the machine
is the fact that the garment woven literally
! 'shangs by a thread" and should the opera
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-23
The sleep of Death.

From 1.-THE Painless Extinction of Life, - by
DIR. B. W. Richardson in Popular Science Month
ly for March.
The mode of death to which the animals
are subject is that by anRsthesia, not by suf-
location or asphyxia. Physiologically, there
is a distinctive difference between these
modes of death. Death by an@sthesia is
typically represented in death by depriva-
tion of air. Death by anesthesia Is typical
ly represented in death bychloroform; death
by asphyxia is typically represented in
drowning, or in immersion in carbonic acid
gas. When properly carried out, death by
anesthesia is by far the most certain and
least violent of the two processes, although
both are probably painless. 1t is worthy of
record, however, that all animals are not
equally susceptible to the action of narcotic
vapors. Cats, for instance, lie asleep much
longer than dogs before they cease to breathe
They fall into sleep as rapidly as dogs, but
do not pass so quickly into the final sleep.
There is difference between different ami
mails of the same kind. Some dogs die al
most instantly-in fact, as they fall asleep
others fall asleep and continue to sleep fol
several minutes before they cease to live. In
the first observations, before I had rendered
thenarcotic atmosphere overpoweringly active
for all cases, there were few instances, nine
in tie first seven hundred, i'll which the ami
mails slept from half hour until an
hour after all their comrads had died. Find
ing out this strange peculiarity, I increased
the amount of narcotic vapor until all sue
eumbed very nearly at the same minute,
and in the last six thousand there has been
no recurrence of the prolonged insensibility.
The animals are now commonly all asleep in
from two to three minutes, and have ceased
to exist in further period of the same du-
ration
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-23
THE EFFECTS OF ART.
How a Stout Lady Was Affected by
Isistori's ssMary STUART,
From the RrOoklvn FapIe1


A billowy and balloon-like lady sniffied
early when 'Mary STUART was produced in
New York by Nine. Ristori the other night.
1t is mournful play, and the gloom grows
denser and denser as it progresses, until it
arrives at stage of profound and sepulchral
darkness in the last act. AS the climax ap-
preached the grief of the we'll developed au-
ditor became more and more pronounced un-
til it reached vast proportions when Nine.
Ristori gave up the ghost The stout woman
arrived early and settled down in the chair
with an air of wabbling and breathless salts
faction. On her right was her husband
small, open eyes, erect, neat, attentive and
happy. He first pulled the opera glasses out
of his pocket, took them from the case, and
after arranging the focus placed them in his
wife's hands Then he drew fan ont of his
pocket and box of bonbons out of another,
aud placed them upon her lap. Then he fell
to staring briskly about the house, while his
wife munched the bonbons aud read the ad-
vertisements in the programme.
When the play was thoroughly under way
she began to enjoy herself, but it was not
until the heavy act came, with all its NOR
bid, morose and solemn elements, that she
really had sensations. At the very begin
ming of the act bit of pathetic work by
Nine. Ristori started a large and nimble tear
down the nose of the billowy one. 1.-THE
tear-traveled rapidly till it came to the end
of the nose, when it was wiped out of exis-
tence forever. Another followed. In fact,
they came with the regularity of the little
wooden old man who carries bag of alleged
meal into the toy mill often you turn
the crank. There she sat, first wiping tear
from her nose, then absently but firmly car
rying bonbon to her mouth and finally rails
ing her opera-glasses to her eyes, taking care
to elevate her little finger straight in the air
as she did it.
At intervals she would turn to her hus-
band-who never laid a hair-and murmur
earnestly: "Ain't it luvly!" ''Elegint, ele-
gint,' was the invariable answer, "nothin
better in the land' The gloom increases
The billowy lady sighed heavily. There was
sobbing all round. Their. was a moan; the
queen died and the billowy one gulped heav-
lily and bolted caramel. A bald-headed
man with a wart on his ear sneezed twice.
There was silence. Two tears ran frater-
nally down the stout woman's nose. Cur
tain ssWell, I DECLARE" chirped the billowy
one briskly, edo you know I'm just dying
for sweet breads and mushroomsa Let's 60
to supper" This is one of the effects of
art.