Telegram-herald., 1888-01-01

BACK cleads of coal saaoxs tsat ever is~sr
ossr the Ns1na cisF hs sleSsrs aesa sAs
tssa win a zee. -oaf-sli-nixhs expression
ia bis sys lazt seems s. say. 4 don knev
yoa sad don't wzat % fas ~psls air
saa *smstsnt air pAFzsss ~aiea are 80
often met via GA the editorial page Il tns
Caies<o Nesss. had thsir birth ia he saF-
prise sith shick Eg<sas Fisli discovered
thal the ztsosphsrs ~as coioFless % bis
lsa ring 81 Louis aad tsking % bis abode
Ia Chicsgo.
81. Lsuis. however. 10 not sltoSesheE ui-
interesting. If old Sol Is not acquainted
With Il young SOL Is In . walk slsh aina
about town hs pointed oat many o'd land
marks. he w2s al actor there nearly thirty
years ago, whss the town which now has
bali million soais was not as large ss
Grand Rapids.
-In that little old building my iather had
his tin-shop. How I used 10 look forward
20 przyer-rasstisg nights when vas a boy
Tas prayer msssinss we're held In hail up
this pair Of stairs"
And Sol passed musinkly before sn old
building in narrow street in the Freneh
quarter Of the civ.
Il had heard that you had studied wita
viss OF becoming "a Episcopal priest but
it is rsmsrksbls that you were 30 religious
a. boy" said I.
On, IL wasn't piety that made me long
for the prayer meeting nights TO come
around" replied Sol. "Yo0 see, father
never. used to come home to supper on
prayer meeting nights and mother would
send me down to him with lunch in tin
psil:-prsyer meeting night Was the only
evening on which l was allowed 10 godown
town; and / used to hide the dinner pail
under the steps and skip of TO the
| theatre"
Perhaps il should be stated that the Sol
above referred to is Sol Smith Russell who
| vas playing all last week at the Olympic.
T T
| Russell says many good things OF the
| stage. Col. VIM. E. Sian, the husband aud
manager Of the beautiful Cora Tame rs
storming about the otfice of the Sc srn
| Hotel in a great rage about so ring.
Russell was standing near him. Ching
uprosriously. Upon being 49, what
amused him. Sol assumed a sanctidsd all
aud said:
Nothing plesses me more than to have q
fght with sinn-"
Lillian Russell-not ths airy. fairy Lii
Ian who Was wont to be called Queen oi
| the Dudes aud who is now tt.e fat bat ravish'
ing exponent of Jimmy Morrissy's "Doro-
thy at the Standard theatre New York
not that Lillian, at all. bat a sweet. pretty
innocent Lillian Russell who is "the imag'
Of her father 10 . thousand different NAYS :
was cut to dinner at the home OF her uncle
Robert Russeli in Minneapolis the oshel
dAy and noticed the head of the house par
ticullarlv ss he bent his head low over the
Vegetable plates ir front Of him to ask th'
usual Blessing" When desert was reaches
another pile Of plates was. of course. placed
in front Of Uncle Robert. Little Lillisr
4 seemed much sstontshed that her uncl
failed to bow his head over the pie plate
and said TO him:
"Untls Rob, why don't 'ou read 'ose plate:
ike 'ou did . uvers2'
Little Lillian is to be commended. ]
among all the plates that grace the Ameri
can dinner over which a prayer should b
uttered, they are the pie plates.
Speaking of Sol Smith Russell. il Is rathe
pity that the stage isso soon to lose kim
The thsatrs-going pu5Iic is CROWNS
a-weary of the hors.-plsy comedy that
so prevalent and welcomes hearth
the refined fun and neat coined
which is expressed in such play
a. The Henrietta" and by such Ct
medsus ss Mr.. Russell. Hs has built "a
himself lovely home in Minneapolis an
invested in an extensive manufacturin
business there His home life with his n
complished wife and bis fsther-in-law. th
veteran VIM. T. Adams ("oliver Optic'')
| peculiarly pleasant, and Russell has full
made MP his mind to retire from the STAG
ss intended at the beginning OF the preser
season. Manager Fred G. Berger will n
tire from the field With him and after tl
| middle Of February will return to his hon
| In this city to take charge of his intcresl
here.
81. Louis Is remarkable for two things b
| sides its dirt snd smokes msgnifcel
| public building and . great bridg.
| They bad . little snow there Thursday an
Friday Just furry. enough to PARTIAL
whi:eu the ground. something unusual
| the aoaud City. The Mississippi IS froze
. | over With fairly thick coffee -coIored ie
and saw an announcement that 5000 me
would De at sncs furnished employment
, taking out ice for the city.
The stare heautiss that sooty old {
Louis has Turned out are too numerous |
msntioa. Merry. wilson's Minnie Ma
, dern. 5uxor. jsrzsoms Nellie McHenr
and Der sisters, Eta Morgan. yirxinia Brs
and host Of footiizht fsvoritss. al re
horn or pssssd shsir bread and butter yss
!. | in S. Louis. sslome Melbourne. tue bss
I. tifal blonde bride OF +. Berry Wall. q
King OF the Dades. rss a s. Louis girl Z
70 SIX years szo. Her father -ss Maj
: in the Confedersts Army. aud althou
. | very poor. vas alwsvs a gentleman. Fl
/. | pretty daughters, Blsnchs and Salon
!, joined comic opers eonpsuy IN New Yo'
= f.~ . fsssfa xh;s> h1t wheu their father 2
. good clerkship IN he War Dsparsms
shsv vert 20 i've with him IN Wssaiugso
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