The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-18
SENTINEL SPECIALS.
Royal Reception to Felix at the
Mobile Mardi Gras Carnival.
Doings OF the City Council OF Rich
mond, Indiana-A Batch OF In
terestiBg News From
Madison.
MARDI GRAs IN MOBILE.
The Mystic societies Reception to Felix

special to the Sentinel.
MoBIIE. Ala. Feb. 17.-Mobiles Mardi
Grss Carnival, her ffty-6fth anniversary OF
of Secret Mystic Societies, was celebrated to-
day with more brilliancs and lavish display
than ever before.
-Four separsts societies, Numbering hun
dreds OF men with nftY.fve deliberately
decorated "hoas" platforms for moving
tablssux) comprised the psgeants with
thousands OF groups aud individual maskers
and mummers. on foot and horseback and
in all SORTS Of vehicles
Many thousand strangers crowded trains
ar d boats for two days; and to night not
lees than 40, 900 persons witnessed the bril-
liant night pageant
TIE ceremonies begin with the arr ival Of
the Emperor Felix, Sublime Sovereign OF
the Empire Of Joy, on Monday evening; and
his reception by his Household staff
and body guard; with escort OF the First
Regime ut of state troops, the Alabama First
aie Artillery Company and the Fire Ds
partr0e1t. The city is already decorated
wllh Il kinds CT devices, sndcolored lamps
at ocn ebay the knights OF ReYelry,
Body Guard of the Emperor, escorted him
& rough TIE city streets; followed by the
komic Kee Boys and large procession OF
Varied ma kers.
The kuiehis OF Revelry male beautiful
parade. Man and Material was illus
trated on seventeen handsome hoats, seem
ing 10 move By themselves ho horses being
sen ia the Ierade The magnificent mystic
device Of Crown, Bowl, Crossed-sW0rds aud
MASKS OF Tragedy and Comedy came first;
then fif ats richly representing IN statusry Of
gold. iron, silver, marble, bronze aud
faisnoe, Progress in the following sub.
ecIs: Agriculture, manufactures, mechan-
ics, commerce, travel, discovery, astronomy,
mining, Horticulture, art fashion, music.
war sport literature; and finally the grand
rbrone car Of Felix. the Emperor. This
time bis Sublime Majesty mssqusraded as
Krg Cole, surrounded his Fiddlers Three,
ipe and bowl bearers, etc.
THE KoMIc KEow BOYS
REPRESENTED a travelling circus with fifteen
hoets for ansmal cages aad side shows. riders
On pads, snake charmers, etc. 1t was an ex
tremely clever parody on the circus craze,
from the band wagon to the calliope scream
u st the ear. Shouts OF laughter greeted
the 'KeoW Boys all along the line, and
their procession was voted superior to the
clever parody last year OF "Dr. Caryer's
Widest Westsst Show"
To-NIGHT's MYsTIcs
were the most beautiful ever seea here, and
old experts declared them by far the finest
ever yet seen IN the South. The elder soci-
ETY., the
ORDER or MYTHS,
celebrated its eighteenth anniversary with :
gTandly beautiful pageant o. "Chimeras;
The fourteen richly colored floats. glitteriDs
with foil and gold and jewels, showing
scenes IN tn erratic life OF Don Qaixote snc
~ oh Sail
has the art of decoration been put to more
severe test; but it stood it we'll and the gilt
Ter a. i been of light and color was taste
iu'iy c0ntriyed as not to deTsc' from th'
clever unity OF the idea. The scenes chosen
Fesys ring rome eighty characfers We're: Er
salic Fauoiss, Wind Mills, Nsh0msi
If Gold, the Gown Of rrebiz0nie
Tfes OF. lbcanfation, Rem0rse, A
True knight Euchantment, Appetie,
Gfandtuls, Mythlaud Postscript. The beau
siiui emblem Of the society (F5lly cha,ng
Death erCuf q broken marble Pillar pre-.
cecsd the Iarade, followed By rich and
gittsring fl az depicting the Design OF the
Pageant
To night, also, paraded for the fifteenth
anniversary
THE INFANT MYSTIC,
your gest of the Night Clubs, but eIcellec
BY nor Q in taste and elegsnoe OF tRsir SD
eeksive pageants. This time the Infants
Fall Of Jericho" illustl ated l. by eigh
huge aId traiy magnI5cent BATS
inierperssd by brillis<t bands o
armed and srmOrsd riders o
the ancient waTs- Tor years Int
Infant Nysiics have been known Is facil'
Yrincsps OF Mysti c.Mummery 5ut TO nigh
esat the record Shd scored such triumph
as never knoVa for them bslore. TIT
subjects ckostn from their theme for Illus
tfatsou 81 their grand moving pictursS we're
Council Of the Kings, Joshua and the An
81 Rahab AID the Spies, the Ark OF tn
Covenant, ths Seven frumpets. Jericb
Fallen. Go Letting tbs Spells, and Joshul
caves Rabsb.
And % moving into LentsD fast throUgE
light and color and beauty, the fifty atth az
niversary Of Mobile Mystics passed into
record only. TO be awakened 10 more uatIl
the Marc Gfas of 1856.
Richmond items
Special to the sentiDss