The Portland daily press., 1893-04-08

But there's one thing that's still here;
IT'S the health shop ON the corner,
You can see it over yonder,
Where there's whiskey, rum or beer.
II you wish it by the quart, M
You will find it can be bought
BY getting into the line
That reaches from the street
OF those inyalids SO weak;
To get tonic they design.
They then put down the cash
And it's taken in FASH
OH their faces are SO Wry,
For they are so very dry,
Their health is very poor.
But they're in much better state
When they take their liquid freight
And hustle out the door!
In this little town of ours
We have men whose mental powers
D., Are with wisdom greatly stored;
You had better take peek in
At the Aldermanic Board.
When they're sitting there in state
They're asight that's truly great,
And twill fill your heart with pride,
And instinctively you'll feel
That in spite of woe or veal.
Their wisdom will decide
Any question great or small,
That may on their shoulders fall.
They will pass it with rush,
Midst a most impressive hush.
But the Council will say Sir!
Just trot you back and state
To the Aldermen so great
That the Council don't 'concar""
The Police Patrol.
The balcony and gallery at Portland theatre
last evening reminded an old playgoer of the
days of Deering hall, and the time when the
fishing fleet used to take refuge in port from
southeast storm Crammed is no word to ex-
press the crowd. The heads were above each
other tier on tier and it is doubtful if a fly could
have found spot on the wall on which to rest
his feet from which the stage could be SEEM
There was very large audience down stairs
also.
The Police Patrol is nothing if not sensational.
1t covers four acts filled with most striking in
cidents But it is in the third and fourth acts
especially that the audience is reused to tremen-
dous enthusiasm. In the third act the police
patrol barn is shown, with the horses in the
stable and the swinging harnesses in place.
The alarm is given the lightning hitch made,
and off goes the wagon to the rescue. In the
fourth the scene of the Haymarket riot in Chi
cago is exhibited. The anarchists are doing
their devilish work, Captain Hardy OF the police
and his men are being oyerpowered, when the
sound of the patrol wagon is heard in the dis
tancs, the alarm having been rung in by Splut-
ter, the newsboy. Ata mad gallop, drawn by
it's ioaming horses it dashes onto the ground,
discharges its load of officers, murder is pre-
vented and the scoundrels arrested.
Mr. Chappelle as Capt. Hardy, Mr.. Murray as
John Broden, II. w. Jones as Artful Joe. Ed e
Gulguerre as Splitter The newsboy, Fl. F. Adams
as Uncle Nick, andsClara Colman as Winifred,
were very good. Miss Colman gave neat song
and dance, while the warblng by Eddie Guig-
uerre, and songs by MI. Adams and the Patrol
Quartette were much liked. The curtain was
called at the end of each act.
The drama will be repeated at the matinee
and evening performance today.
Skipped By the Light of the Moon
That skipped by the Light of the Moon'' is
one of the most amusing of comedies all who
have ever seen twill surely attest. This famous
piece which will set the house laughing next
| Monday night, is a roaring vaudeville, abound
| ing in bright and fresh repartee and laughable
situations, and the company presenting it is the
| original Fowler and Warrington Co.. which Is
| famous throughout the country for the excel
ience. of its presentations.
| One might as well hope to photograph laugh
as to describe Skipped by the Light of the
Moon," for it simply aud sublimely defies analy-
sis. Its sole object is to raise breeze, and the
breeze which has been raised by it has got quite
beyond control and has grown to the magnitude
of a cyclone. The most imperturbable nature
| goes down before it without a show of resist
ance and everybody rolls and shakes and laughs
AS the bills say, it's funny; very, very funny.
The Stowaway.
The most thrilling and exciting of all modern
melodramas, 1.-THE Stowaway' returns to Port
land theatre next Tuesday. When presented
here before, attention was called to the strength
of its cast, which was on all sides conceded to
| be the strongest ever seen here in similar
| play. Messrs. Lift and Davis the managers
now announce that their company is even better
| than that of last year.
| Notes.