, 1890-06-22

strangers. 1t has done hun much injury
among temperance societies and weakened
his influence with them where otherwise
be could have done them much good. A
mining nabob of San Francisco, tor whom
Nisscher had done q great favor, as be is
mighty apt to do for most anybody, once
gave him a pointer by which he was able
to make several thousand dollars. MI.
Visscher had long desired to astonish
southern California with a meritorious
drama and thoroughly great company. So
he bought a fine team or two, and getting
some nice new scenery painted he started
due south from San Francisco as the crow
flies. In seeking to elevate the stage Of
southern California, however. the pry
seemed to slip out and catch the enter.
prlsing elevator by the fingers. So, grad
uslly he sold one diamond stud after an
other, and instead Of driving them tandem
he drove them single, and finally had
nothing left hut his other team.
First he sold his scenery,
Then his thunder and lightning machinery.
And 80. finally. as autumn stole down
from her great laboratory and paint shop
shop and began to decorate the woods
with her beautiful dyes, Mr.. Visscher's
leading man secured a job in a barber
shop. his leading lady began to wait on
the table at the Hem house in Southern
California; the low comedian got a job
of bearing in a brick yard and Mr..
Visscher thoughtfullY felt his way back
to Philadelphia as a phrenologist.
EVERYBODY who knows anything
about western life. and even those who
do not, rave admired and praised the
spiritual pictures of the plains by Fred
erick Remington. Naturally you would
expect to find the talented artist q man
about so years of are, but he is apparent
ly under 30, witt a round jolly face and a
general boyish look. de is the first COW
boy and bronco and Texas steer artist who
has put vitality into those wild denizens
of the plains and eliminated that paste
board, Noah's ark style OF animal which.
as Emerson used TO so tersely put II,
tends toward giving one a pain. Rem
ington lives at New Rochelle, where the
Rochelle salts are made. and regards
himself as one of the Rochelle salts OF
the earth. no doubt, For brain flag he
comes down to New York and fishes of
the dock.
Walter Hoboken McDouRall. who has
earned a world wide reputation by draw
ing a terse but grossly libelous caricature
Of the writer. is a slight blonde with a
white flannel suit. He has the air of a
man about town, and though openly abus-
ing the English toady, he frequently rolls
up his flannel panties at the bottom as he
reads the London weather reports. He
dresses very beautifully and may be seen
tripping gayly to his work at half past 6
10 the morning. trudglng up 10 the World
Office with an armful of choice sketches
and a bright new dinner pail containing
HON smade bread and molasses. dough-
nuts with apertures in them and u small
flask OF milk. He attributes much of
his success to his wise choice OF good
subjects for illustration, industry. pa
thence and the use of fine cut tobacco as a
gentle tonic.
Frederick B~urliugame Upper. the bril-
liant and versatile artist of Puck. is a
young man, and also a small blonde who
parts his pleasant hair in the middle and
pokes fun at the people in n profitable
manner. He also writes a funny letter
he tries. On a pleasant day when
the toll Of the morning is over, one may
occasionally meet the evangelical Bunner,
and Taylor at n drug store up near
Houston and Broadway, where they are
drinking favored wind and oonversing
with the tradespeople who pass in
md out, giving them a pleasant nod OF
ever and anon
Kemble, who makes the characteristic
avs and coons of the Century, IS young
and good looking. with a dark mustache
and a bright Pan American look of keen
observation and an air OF one who isn't
going to let any point get away.