The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-02-27
WORLDS CENTENNIAL.
From Our Special Correspondent.

From Our Special Correspondent.
New ORLEANS, February "a, 1885.
The calm and quiet OF the week
succeeding the whir and noise oil
Mardi Gras, are unknown this year
Crowded streets, jammed theatres,
cars filed to suffOcatiOn, noise,
hustle and animation everywhere,
assert that, although Lent has been
fairly inaugurated, the gay season
is not over, nor good times yet at
an end. True, the more proper
fashionables have heightened their
faces Just Il little. and substituted
"high tears' for theatre parties
but there Is not the true spirit OF
quiet gossip and Christian like
submission in these lenten enter
tainments that pervaded them of
yore, an u~ndercurrent of unusual
and very perceptable resistance to
"rules aud regulations for the Holy
Season" asserts itself everywhere,
and carries in these professors to
disposition lunches" and other
like harmless but more exciting
designations. Our visitors, you
know, depend on Il sOcialbil-
ity, and wo must not disappOint
them.
Yesterday tho Art Hall was
thrown open to the public for the
first time, and was crowded be-
yond comfort all day. The ColOred
exhibit was also opened and at
tracted thousands to the grounds,
the cOlored population turning out
en- mdSSe to show their interest in
the event. This department is a
surprise and revelation to many,
who have taken little note of the
progress and development made by
this race in the last score years.
All branches of industry, inven.
tive, mechanical, agricultural ;
the arts and sciences; educational
results; fancy work in fact every
business and art, has a most elab-
crate and exhaustive representa-
ton. The display is an immense
one, covering 1920 square feet,
aud co uprising nearly 10000 dis
tinct exhibits.
Mrs. Carrie S. Poole, of your
State, has won fame that will reach
to all parts of this and many other
lands, by her skill as a taxiderm.
list, and her unique arrangement OF
her work. All, or nearly all, Of
the States represented ut the Ex-
position have displays of their
feathered de%nizens, some of which
are very beautifully placed, but
Mrs. Poole has taken the laurels,
by once more assembling tail the
bids of the ain" at the ''Burial of
Cock Robin" The dear, quaint
legend is charmiugly aud touching
ly repeated, by the birds of MisslS.
sippi at the bidding of this invent
i've aud skilltul lady. All the
characters woven into the sweet
old nursery rhyme are there, Jen-
ny Wren incOnsolabie, in widows
weeds, stands at the head of the
coffin; ParsOn Rock, the Dove,
''wlo mOurned tor her love = the
Beetle, the Owl, the Fly, is each in
proper place while the Sparrow,
wiSped and mepentdnt. views the
mOnrnfnl scene apparently needless
of all the "sighing and sobbug"
lie has caused. 1t is safe to say
that no other collection Of birds on
exhibition receives so much alten.
lion o + so many hattering euIogies,
as the burial of Cock Robin, nor is
there one that has brought the
name of its collector so prominent
~ before the public.
THE THEATRES
are crowded nightly. Reha is al
the st. Charles, Barlow Il Wilson's
MINISTRIES at the Academy of Mu-
sic, and Shook q Golfers Uuion
Square Company at the Grand
Opera House in the Lights o. Lon
don. We are promised u pleasant
time next week, Miss Lizzie Evans
at the St.. Charles Minnie Mad
dern at the Academy OF Music, aud
Kate ClaxtOn and Charles A. Stew.
enson, supported by Shook Il Col.
lier's Company in the Two Orphans
at the Grand Opera House.
NJ. NJ.
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