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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-19

so poor Polly was borne away into the
dirty village of Bagdad, and gazed with
establishment upon the little black brood
that gathered around the cage TO admire
her, as Irving removed the shawls. $50
dc law sake how did 70 ever come to git
her down bereY CIRCULATED the pleased
mother, and then Irving told of kind little
Dams help in procuring this treat for the
children. Dinner was spread upon the
table in the ricKety old shsnty, and all
the little Denniers were hungry, so said
Irving. spinner first and the circus
afterwards" AT that every child crowed
around the board and speculated as to the
part Of the little lame hen that would fall
to his share. Had there been ten chick
ems like IL there would have been none
too many, for, as Irving said, It was very
small, and all the little darkies had large
appetltes.
at Jest makes me hungry TO- mo- -
announced Abe, licking the gravy from
his fingers and looking wistfully at the
empty dish. "Eat some hoe cake. chile,
dats the stun what sticks TO de ribs" said
Mrs. Dennier, handing forth solid thick
slab OF the baked meal. SO each hungry
child turned In this direction to satisfy bis
craving appetite, and as IL was porta bl q
substance Polly soon beheld circle OF
black faces around her cage, every indi-
vidusl owner OF which was industriously
munching hoe cake. "Hi, Polly" shouted
Tony, "now yo's gwine to talk, isn't yer'
"Pitty Polly" lisped baby Dinsh, stand
| ing OH tIptoe and blinking Mt the bird
with her sore eyes. "Good-bye. Polly"
screached Eben, waving his red handker-
chief toward the cage. "GOod-bYe, good
! bye, goodbye" said Polly, and then she
shut herself up like an oyster and would
say no more. The TACT 10 2 oil cherished
! great dislike for eolored people. and
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-19
Who may minister to thee?
Summer herself should minister
To thee, with fruitage golden rinded
On golden salyers.

Ou ROluon edlNcrs.
1t may as we'll be confessed that this
entire tableau was made up for the
purpose of introducing a certain hand
some young matron OF our party, whose
golden hair. hazel eyes and commanding
figure, added to gown she owned of vel.
low Paul Veronese brocade and neck
lace OF pearls and emeralds, marked her
for our prey. Much against her will she.
was made, so attired, to stand in the atti-
| tude Of "Titian's daughter" holding on
| high gilt salver OF grapes, oranges and
tawny pears. AS at the last moment, 1t
| had occurred TO the stage manager to
hang behind her curtain OF old blue satin
damask, the result In color and compo-
sition was most fellcitous.
1t will be understood that the ladies
concerned in these tableauX had stood In
| line, awaiting the signal TO step one after
| the other in place behind the frame. There
was no confusion. no delay. The eye O f
the spectator was continually held. ex-
cept for the brief intervals OF rest when
! the curtain closed. The music, always
low and sweet, was like an accOmpani-
ment to the readers voice behind the
scenes.
And now our hostess, who had no idea
OF allowing time TO hang heavy in her
house, caused to be passed around among
the rows Of guests sherbet in glasses, and.
for those who dared TO risk it, old.fashion-
ed egg-nog.
By the time talk and laughter had
quoted down little, the second part OF
the entertainment was ready TO be ad-
mired. The familiar prelude OF "The
MistletOe Bough' was heard from the
piano. A woman's voice sang the first
stanza of the sweet old ballad ending at
"goOdly company" Then the piano took
up ''Come, Haste to the Wedding" and
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old-time country dance. On either side
were ranged bellies and beaax In powder.
trains and periwigs, like scene on
Vatican fan. Half way down the cen
tire, their figures well detached from the
rest, were Lowell and his fairy bride in
white. Perhaps l should have said be-
fore that in this scene the full width of
the stage appeared, the walls hung with
tapestries, and a large bunch Of mistletOe
was seen directly above the dancers.
In scene 2 the dancers mad changed
their positions to those of mlnuet. The
music changed to the minuet from "DOn
Giovanni" Lowell and his bride occupied
| the centre OF the stage. A pink shade,
run across reflection lantern, was so di.
rooted from the side as to shed rosy
light on the white figures oil bride and
groom.
Scene 3-Voice behind scenes sang
| from "Pm weary Of dancing, now, she
said" to "'The clue to my secret hiding
! place" Here Ginevra stood near the
door 10 one side, holding up her finger
archly, as II lOrbldding them to follow.
In centre, Lowell held out Que hand,
Gliding her mischief. Ladies and gentle
men grouped in various attitudes around
them.
The effect OF Ginevrs's scene looking
from the chest was really quite tragic,
ana when at the close of the refrain the
chest was shown again for a moment,
with ray Of moonlight striking on it,
handkerchief came into play IN every di-
! rectiOn.
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In the last scene, which when given as
pantomimic pageant on large and cost
~ scale. we have set upon the terrace OF a
baronlal castle, with May-pole dances
and a number of beautiful effects in
lights and decorations, we contented our
selves with resetting the little stage as 1t
was from the ball room. excepting That
more furniture was added. Lowell, an
old man, leaning on his stick, stands
apart from the guests, who are watching
him with respectful consideration and
whispering apart. His attitude is that of
one who is looking and listening. At
the knee of one of the ladies present are
two little children, who look wOnderingly
at the strange and solitary figure OF the
bent old man. Here the voice sings the
four lines, beginning Gas years flew by,
and their grief at last" at the end OF 1t
the same scene is shown, but the groups
are broken up and everything Is 10 con-
fused excitement. All gather round an
old housekeeper, who holds in her hand a
faded orange wreath and yellow bridal
veil. Lowell, in the centre, kisses the veil
and holds up his hand to heaven.
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A prettier proscenium was never seen
than thatl All the resources OF the estab-
lishment, in the way OF greenery, were
assembled in lovely fragrant arch over
the doors, No stiff wreaths would we ad-
init, but loose boughs of pine and spruce
and cedar, garlends OF crows foot and
sprays of holly and bitterswee stuck into
woven trellis work OF Irvine, tucked in
place here and there upon the side of the
door frame. To give brilliancy were ap-
piled, last OF all, a magnificent collection
OF pressed autumn leaves, and from
the centre were lOoped back two lengths
OF scarlet and of amber brOcade picked
up in Venice the year before, with no
notion what 10 do with them, supplying
IN this case just the needed note OF color
For fO0tlights we used six or eight barn
lanterns with renectors focused, by ex-
pertinent, upon the faces OF the actors
The glass frames made them perfectly
safe, and the dark sides, turned toward
the audience, were furthermore yelled
from sight by strip OF black material, all
OF which could be easily removed after
the performance. The first series of
tableaus was confined TO single figures, a
method have several times adopted with
success, to avoid the tedious waits, in
which j truly sympaihize with any audi
eDce. The carpenter made for us a large
IS'N"N hohiS VI udb piuo DOdIu5s ndu
there been time he might have gIlded it,
but we wore satisfied with couple
OF coats OF gold.tinted paint. over this
was stretched black tarlatan. and IL las
liked in place a little back upon the
stage, in the centre, the Intervening
spaces at the sides and that across the
TOP screened In dull maroon drapery, af.
Yer the fashion Of the art galleries where
tney nave masterpiece tOexhibit. When
the night came aud We assembled In the
kieen room at the hour appointed to OUT
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Tampa and way
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Returning leave KssImmee. 1870 I'M
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DAILY.
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AR Barlow ....... 1906, $40 and S:l5 p m
$40 m II 80 and $50 p m
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Also, with the elegant mail steamships
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Through tickets sold at all regular STATIONS
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credit be it said the large drawing room
was hlled with guests, most OF the house
party being impressed into service be-
hind the scenes. our curtains were
parted i've minutes after the fifteen min
utes' grace allowed TO diners-ouJ and to
producers of tableaux. A low, sweet
strain came from the piano, hidden be-
hind plants from the conservatory in a
corner near the stage. Somebody, also
hidden, read a stanZa of Tennyson's lines
on ''Airy, Fairy Lilian:''
Fitting Fairy Lillian,
When | ask her If she loves me
Clasps her tiny hands above me
Laughing all she can.
Our Lillian, who was the daIntiest little
blonde in a GaInsborough hat and kerr
chief, did not, | am happy to say, laugh
all she could. as the result would have
been disastrous. She simply stood and
looked bewitching, and hardly had the
applause consequent upon her second
encore died away before the curtains
again opened to reveal her successor,
mariana in the MoaGed Grange":
She only said, My life is dreary.
He cometh not, :" she said.
She SAID, ~ am aweary, aweary,
would that | were dead"
The picture was charming one,
Mariana, in a robe of black gauZy stuff,
kneeling in heart-broken kind of way
before a high-backed chair of black
carved oak. This Mariana's speciality
was her superb brown hair that flowed
quite to the ground as she knelt. just as
the audience sighed with rapt pleasure 3,
before asHing to have the scene repeated,
a whisper was heard proceeding from
our heroine to the stage manager, then
occupied in manGuVring a reflector lamp
across her cOuntenance:
"For goodness sake, take the leg of tn is
chair off my hair. You'd wish you were
dead too, if you knew how much it hurt"
Next came the Gardeners Daughter"
She stood.
A sight to make an old man young,
in the simplest white frock, roses in her
hands, roses caught in her stream OF hair,
and such roses in her cheeks that the
slight dab OF theatrical rouge applied be-
fore she went on" was quite super6uous.
Cophetus's "Beggar Maid" succeeded,
her torn frock of russell brown, her bare
arms and clasped hands, her meek bowed
head, proving as pretty as those preced-
ing her. Next. CLEOPATRA" without
whom, | suppose, no we'll regulated tab
leaus would be complete. She wore
Greek dress and her black hair was
''brow-bOund with burning gold" and
since she had just had a
mild tiff with Princess Ida
as to whose place it was upon the
programme, looked scornfully radiant, as
should a conquering Queen. After the
star-eyed Egyptian we had the 'Miller's
Daughter" a peasant maid, demure and
winsome, and then came Lady Clara
We're de Vere," whe, having on a Worth
gown of great magniticence, and borrow
ing all the jewels from those OF her CO
workers ordained to be village maidens,
succeeding in dazzling her audience as
much as she could have wished.
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Princess Ida now had her turn. In
students cap and gown, with eyes down
cast upon her book, she won plaudits,
loud and long. Next, kate, who cannot
find fitting mate" a pretty, audacious
black-eyed girl, who set herself in an at
tiJude of defiance, arms akimbo, and lips
apart. And last OF our TeunysonIan pic
lures was seen one so lovely that it dwelt
in memory long after. The lines it was
assigned to illustrate were taken from the
poem called "Eleanore," and ran as fol-
lows:
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shall end my hints on home amuse-
ments in the country by brief descrip-
ton OF a game intended for the bows OF a
family, which may be rendered sufficient
ly dlyerting, when well rehearssd, to war
rant the performers IN inviting not only
sisters and cousins aud aunts, but out
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In the last scene of all the stage Is
dark. The company has scattered. At
the door where she held her position on
taking leave OF her friends, Gnevra's
figure is seen in exactly the same atti-
tude, as at that moment as strong light
as can be thrown across her Is desirable.
To the lett OF the stage is the high-backed
chair in which the old man is supposed
to habitually sit. On the floor beside it
kneels Lowell, stretching out his arms
inploringly to the vision of his bride.
During this scene we used some of the
music from "lraviata," played pIanis-
simO. with fine effect. The curtains meet
to part for the last time-vanished is the
vision of Ginevra. The old man lies dead
upon the floor. Once more the refrain Is
heard OF 20! the Mistletoe Boughr' and
our Christmas tableauX are at an end.
And now, lest there should be some de-
sirOus OF using my sketch of this enter
tainment who may be unable to lay hands
upon the old ballad it illustrates, give
1t here entire:
, 1886-02-10


The women have always said that for
neglecting to take up their share of so
ciety's burdens the bachelors, as n rule,
got their full punishment even in this
world. But the single-blessedness fell
lows have shrugged their shoulders and
concluded that they could stand it;
women were creatures of impulse and
their prejudices were apt to be all wrong.
But it is said that figures do not lie, and
even these appear TO be against the
bachelor.
An esteemed London contemporary has
just published statistics showing that of a
given 10000 o bachelors between 90 and
90 there are annually about 1000
deaths, whereas out of 100, 900 married
men of similar age the annual deaths
are only about 900. Again. between the
ages of 30 and 80, 1900 bachelors die and
only 0 married men to the 100, 900. SO,
If self-preservation is the first law Of ma
ture, the bachelors had better proceed to
make hay while the sun shines.
There is, too, in these statistics a beau
tiful, if undeserved, compliment to the
angel ministries of married women. 1t
is to be feared that thousands Of married
men go along through their lives only
half knowing or admitting that their
wives are keeping them out Of untimely
graves at the rate of 500 to 1,200. And
with these figures to go on at this dawn
ing Of a new year, there is no telling how
many bachelors and married men, too,
may be happier by the LIST of january
1SS7.-Philadelphia Times.
, 1886-02-10

~Why do the boys leave the FARM
walls a writer in an agricultural journal.
Well, lear brother, there are several
reasons. One is because the boy is not
65 years old at his birth. Then, is there
is n hoe on the farm weighing fourteen
ounces, bright as nickle plate and sharp
as a rasor, and another hoe weighing
somewhat less than a breaking pillow,
with an edge on it like a hammer and a
sapling with the bark on for a handle.
the hired man takes one and the boy
gets the other, and every man in America
knows which is the other.
Did you ever stand with such a hoe in
your hand away down in a corn row on
some airless still, hot summer day,
twenty acres of corn blades and tassels
whiting about you, standing fourteen
inches higher than your head. shutting
out every last trace of breathable air,
and then hear a locust down in the edge
of the timber strike up his long strident,
monotonous call TO make il ten times
hotter And all this time a cool creek,
not a mile away, lettering in deep, silent
pools in shady places in the woods, OF
breaking into merry dancing ripples over
the pebblesS And in the big deep holes,
the fish just lying around, lonesome for
a boy? Well, then, you know why some
boys leave the farn.-Burdett in Brookln
Eagle.
, 1886-02-10

In New Mexico an agent OF the ranch
MAJ paid his ~semi-annual visit TO n
distant grazing ground only to find the
pastora or sheep herder dead and the
sheep quietly feeding in n fertile canyon
near by. jealously guarded by his dog.
In the rear of the corral, into which the
sheep were driven every night, lay the
bleaching skeletons of q dozen or more
sheep.
Astonished at the sagacity OF the dog.
the ranchman secreted himself and
waited until night. AS the sun began to
aink the sheep came trooping in, with
the dog in the rear. They crowded into
tho corral through a narrow opening. and
AZ the last M pushed forward the dog
oeizcd and killed him, and dragged the
hfoless body to the rear Of the corral,
whero he made a comfortable supper off
q portion Of the carcass, leaving the
balance for future meals. lie had been
doing thin Eve since the death of his
master. and would probably have con-
tinued his guardianship over the flock
until he ied.-Chieago Herald.
, 1886-02-10

Proposals Fer ntsck and wsrk Cattle
Lumber. Stoves. Harness, wagons
Agricultural Implements. Hardware
Etc. for h Indian Service.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Jan. %. 1886.
Sealed proposals, indorsed Proposals
for Stock Cattle. Work Cattle, Lumber,
Wagons. etc. (as the case may be), and
directed to the commissioner of Indian
affairs, Nos. 65 and 81 Wooster street,
New York. will be received until D. m.
Of Thursday, February 25, 1886, for fur
nlshing for the Indian service about $3.50
yoke work cattle, 2,475 head stock cattle,
1000 sheep. Ala, 600 feet lumber, 100
stoves, AIS sets harness, l96 wagons, also
agricultural implements, hardware, etc.
Regular Blanks for Bids Are Not Re
CURED
Schedules showing the number of stock
and work cattle. and lumber. required at
various agencies, and the kinds and
quantities, in gross, OF all other
goods, conditions to be observed
by bidders, time and place of delivery,
terms of contract and payment, and all
other necessary instructions will be fur
nished upon application to the Indian
office in Washington, or Nos. 65 and 81
Wooster street, Neio York; VIM. ii. Lyon,
No. 4S3 Broadway, New York; the com
missaries of subsistence, u. s. A, Chi
cago, st. Louis and St Paul; and to the
postmasters at Kansas City, Mo, Sioux
City, Ia, Yankton, d. IT,, and Tucson.
A. T.
Bids will be opened at the hour and
day above stated, and bidders are invited
to be present at the opening.
The right is reserved TO reject any or
all bids, or any part OF any bid, if deemed
for the best interests Of the government;
in making the awards, to increase or
diminish TO any extent the quantities
called for in schedule and to require de-
livery of twenty-five per cent more or less
than the amount specified in any contract.
Certified Checks.
All bids must be accompanied by GER
titled checks upon some United States
depository, payable to the order of the
commissioner of Indian affairs, for at
least fire per cent of the amount of the
proposal.
j. D. c. ATKINS,
Commissioner.
, 1886-02-10


The making OF mermaids is pnrely an
American achievement, although the
first inventor was an Englishman nov
living in this city. They were first made
in this country thirty-three years ago, to
fill an order OF n noted Snowman. Hun
dreds since have been manufactured and
have been exhibited all over the country
as genuine. They are of all sizes and
shapes. The bodies and heads are made
Of paper, rags and wire. The tails are of
Goldfish. The teeth are fishes. The arms
and legs are turkey bones. Dried eyes
OF the turkey are used when available.
They are presumed 10 be more hideous
and fossil-like than those of glass or
paste.
The success of every mermaid depends
upon her historian. There are men who
sit up nights to think Of something new
to say about them. Some of the exhibit
ors are very happy and clever in the
descriptions. One Of these said the other
day: 1--WE been n side-shower all my
life, and have travelled the whole coun-
try over. The best route for mermaids
il through Ohio. The men there are wild
10 see en-. I've known half a dozen en-
gagements Of marriage broken off be-
cause the lovers would go TO the tent.
Kinda queer things is mermaids New
York Herald
, 1886-02-10

Paper slippers are the latest form in
which payer is introduced in new inven-
tions. A patent has been taken out for a
system Of manufacturing slippers, sandals
and other covering for the feet out Of
paper, Paper pulp, or papier-mache, is
employed for the upper, which is moulded
TO the desired form and size, and a sole
is provided made Of paper OF pasteboard,
leather-board. or other suitable paper
material, which is united to the upper by
means Of cement. glue, or other adhesive
material. The upper is creased, em-
bossed, or perforated at the instep and
sides. which renders them somewhat
pliable and prevents their cracking while
in use.-Demorest's Monthly.