The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-08-05

Inc wen oi nfOLeh AIR
Near Dayton. Or. there Is a we'll To-
cally known as the "well Of frozen air."
In drilling it a stratum Of frozen clay
and gravel was encountered at depth of
30 fest After passing through five feet
Of this numerous cavities were encoun-
tered from which cold air came with
sharp gusts. The escape Of the air from
the we'll may be heard q distance of
nearly 200 yards, and ID Is 80 frigid that
1t is not possible for any one 10 hold his
band over the opening for more than a
few minutes without having it frozen
stiff. A bucketful of water set near the
mouth Of the well will freeze through
during one nights time. It is needless
to add that work on the we'll was aban-
doned as soon as these frigid blasts found
vent through the opening made By the
drill. Philadelphia Press
The elliott Sale.
The epoch making sale was that of the
elliott collection in 1972-Gi1lott with
two "l's' and two "ts", "all others are
fraudulent counterfeits," as one used 10
read 90 the steel pen boxes Of other days.
4 good, homely creature was the levla-
than steel pen mskeg, who captivated
the great Turner In the cranldest of his
moods and tanned him by the music Of
crisp thousand pound notes.
Nv hat will you take for the lotT' was
traditionally the penmans question as
| he glanced Ia real owe around the great
artists studin. where paintings were
stacked as If In brokers' shop.
Thirty thousand pounds" growled
the artist who might have been the
brokers' man as far as appearance went.
Gillott sat down 10 count out the notes
without another word But Turner
stopped him. II was no deal, said the
artist, yet the man with the notes might
heve q few. And the penmakeT carried
of some Of the best pictures IN triumph.
And now these priceless Turner's were
exhibited at ChTistiss, whare all the
world hOcked to ses them, with other
fine pictures OF the modern school II
was Just then high tide Of commercial
prosperity, end Paotolus seemed TO have
been turned into the British isles, and
everybody, with the exception Of an un-
important 90, 900, 900 OF 80, had plenty Of
money, and instructed by the high prices
that ruled at the elliott sale made
haste TO invest it In pictures.-All the
Year Round.
Dramatic Taste In San Francisco
A San Francisco audience viii be
much more amused by tho manner In
which the professor breaks down Mrs
Brooklyn Bridges ceiling than It will
over the splendid merriment Of Sir Toby
Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and NAL
volfo. 1t is like the French audience,
which is infinitely more amused by wit
than by humor.
But comedy Is not held IN great favor
here, The San Franciscans being the
most pleasure loving of people, prefer
tragedy. A good. old fashioned, blood
splling tragedy, whsre every one Is
killed In the last act, Is highly approved
Of. II Edwin Forrest were alive today,
he would count his most frantic admir-
ers in he city by the Golden Gate.
Tragedy as he must have understood
it-tragedy played with all the force Of
the lungs-tTagedy where the murdered
victim and the despairipg suicide took
half an hour TO die and died acrobat
ically from the foot,ights to the door al
the back Of the stage-would meet with
the heartiest approval here. The ele-
ment in the theaters which loved and
worshiped Forrest and his energetic
methods is larger IN San Francisco thar
IN most cities Of its size. II is not that
tho audiences here do not contain 10.
dividual spectators Of the highest artis
tic insight and cultivation, 1t is that the
majority of the audience Is formed oi
spectators whose taste in the drama q
, very much on the same lines as the tasts
, IN the drama Of the gods In the gallery
The spectators Of insignificant education
t and uncultivated taste are more numer
ons than the spectators Of cultured minC
} and trained powers OF appreciation, ant
{ the majority rules.--San Francisco Ar
gonaut