Connecticut western news., 1886-08-04
4 Kings Private Circus.

4 Kings Private Circus.
 Among the follies of Bavaria's late king not generally known was the erec- tion of circus on the first floor of the royal palace at Munich. The ceiling was made to initiate the skies at night time, with the moon and stars, lit up from be- hind by electric lights. On the walls were series of colored frescoes, repre- senting various country scenes, including an Italian capanns, a French aubergc and Swiss chalet. The monarch and his guests, twenty in number, first went to the theatre; they then returned to the palace and suppcd. About 9 in the morning the king ordered his favorite charger, and mounting, invited his friends to follow him. Their horses were brought up, and as soon as they were all in the saddle, his majesty rode off into the circus. The royal party gal loped round the ring several times; the king stopped, descended, and tapped at the door of the capanna. Suddenly the door opened as if by magic, and crowd of persons emerged from it. They were dressed in the different country costumes of Italy, and bore baskets of fruit, cake and wine, of which the guests partook. During the repast an invisible choir sang Italian airs, accompanied by a brass 1 hou6 Hic maj cfu tod hic charger, and followed by his friends, rode round the circus once more. He now knocked at the door of the aubergc, and French peasants came out with more wine and eatables, which the poor guests, already surfeited, were bound to con- sume rather than offend their eccentric host. The musicians here executed ia. vorite French songs. The same perform ance was gone through at the chalet, and then the king, at 4.30 Tn the morning, abruptly withdrew, leaving his compan- ions more dead than alive.-PaW Mal1 Budget.
 Rather an Odd Gamc for Fast Riders. "We don't have much time for play out on the road," said a railway mail clerk, 'but we are little stuck on base ball, and we manage to carry whole nine with us. There's the catcher there the iron thing that catches the bags from the crane as we go by at the rate of | fifty miles an hour-and it has to stop some hot ones, too. The man that throws the bags off we call the pitcher, and he is up on all of the curves, drops and twists. The mail carriers who pick up the bags on the fly and hustle them to the postoffice are our felders. The man who takes care of the bags and gets them ready for the local station is called the short stop in every railway mail car in this country. Our letter case clerks are called the basemen, because they are continually passing letters from ono to the other. Whenever one helps another decipher bad address he is given credit for an assist and if man fails to handle one of the tough ones and some- body else can do it for him we give the second man credit for put out Our basemen are deadly throwers, let me tell you. On our line are nine important postoffices, and we call each one an in- ming. We are always in dread of our 'error' column, for all of our 'errors' are carefully scored against us in the super intendent's office. If we make too many errors we go into the captains office some fine day and find that our names have been struck out from the pay roll. That's part of the game that isn't fun. ny."-C Chicago Herald.