Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-11
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| ILUOL IUIUUULIILo.
CONDENSED NEWS or INTEREST TO ALI
OF OUR READERS.
What means this sound OF sobs and signina
That rings the Muses. dwelling through
Alas, dramatic art is dying,
| Its patrons are so sadly fewl
Legitimate is stunned, and therefore
Melpomene and ITALIA pine;
Terpschore 10 courted, wherefore
Behold the dramas sad declined
On stages where Of yore Othello
Declaimed midst thunderous applause,
Some dancer now, all pink and yellow,
Kicks high from out a cloud OF gauze.
And Shakespeare hides his head divine,
Such lofty plays the public sights,
While skits without a saving line
Have runs Of seven hundred nightA
Tragedians one and all are idle.
They've lost the ficke public ear;
Men will not list 10 Anton Seidl,
They much prefer roof garden beer.
On roofs midst pine trees green and bosky
In summer we, alasl incline
To hear the gentle song "McCloskey,"
As sweetly sung by Maggie Cline.
Where Hamlet spoke his lines dramatic
And charmed that less hereto age,
We now have actions aorobatic,
A steeplechase upon the stagel
Once men preferred to hear bravado
From bluff Don Ctesar de Bazan,
And now they go TO FL Dorado
Four hundred ballot girls 70 scan.
Oh, shades OF histrionic mastersi
From us you well may keep aloof,
With all New York one Tony Pastors,
And every theater on the roof.
Alasl Alas! NIis little wonder
Melpomene and Thalia pine,
TefpsichOre has flched their thunder.
Behold the dramas swift declined
Guy Wetmore Carryl in Truth.
Harry Spencer is In New York.
Success TO the amateur polo league.
Il. c. Benner, a former resident, is in
town on a visit.
f. w. sibley & Co. Iare distributing
some very fine calendars.
Hardly enough snow for sleighing
parties, Mr.. Weather Clerk.
Voters OF the Second Ward, do your
duty tomorrow and settle the contro-
versy.
Tomorrow evening the 18th annual ball
OF st. Mary's Temperance Society will be
held.
The young ladies' classin physical cul-
ture met last evening in room 6, Kinyon
block.
X. B. Jones, the well known night
lunch man, is dead. The cause was heart
failure.
The ball Is up at Hammond's pond,
but II you want 20 skate take a broom
with you.
Court Woodlawn, A. q. f., opened a
grand fair last evening and had a fine
street parade.
Nj. j. Curley, the champion goal tender
OF the New England Polo League, was In
town yesterday.
The Providence County Savings Bank
has declared a dividend of per cent,
payable Jan. 10.
A child of Joseph Lynch Of McCaughey
& Co.'s died yesterday OF pneumonia. 1t
was one year old.
The funeral OF John +. Farrell will take
place at 8 o'clock tomorrow from the
Sacred Heart Church.
The item, "The Interstate cars were
stalled by the snow storm last evening""
cannot be used today.
Lambert, the promising young amateur
polo player, may be a member Of the Kan
garoos within week.
The Lippitt Woolen Company OF Woon-
socket announce that the mill will shut
down Jan. 13 for an indefinite period.
There is sale OF trimmed hats In prog
ress at the millinery parlors OF Miss Nell
lie Cheetham In the Opera House Block
This evening Ernest Litterer, proprietor
Of the Slater House, will give roast pig
and sauer kraut supper to his many
friends.
Hugh }. Carroll, assignee OF Walter
Cullen OF Lonsdale, will sell tomorrow at
public auction the stock and fixtures on
the premises.
There will be private social in the
Alcazar this evening un Ter the direction
OF James l.. Wheaton, Jr., Charles NJ.
NJ Miller and Wheaton Dexter.
IL you should enjoy good health you
should get your meals at the restaurant OF
s. b. Havens 4 Co. Everything In it,
season is served and the prices are reason
able.
Tomorrow afternoon Rev. +. W. Ham.
| ilton will be at the Office OF the Asso-
slated Charities from to 8 p. m. to begir
the distribution of Gen. Olney Arnold,
| gift OF q 900 to the poor.
The members OF the police force shoult
paste the name of the street they live or
and the numbe of their house In thei
hat so that the changes of Mayor Tiepk'
will not get them twisted.
0We have received a handy calendar
from A. j. Ladd OF Central Village, Conn.
one OF the best printers in Eastern Con
necticut. II IN his ninth annual anS
eclipses all his previous efforts in tbi'
line.
Mrs. J. +. Gobbille, wife OF the well
known miliner, and Miss Thompson, heaC
trimmer OF the Providence store, sailec
yesterday for Paris. Before returning
they will look up the stylss that will b.
in vogue for next season.
Agrand sacred concert will take place
In Lothrop's Grand Opera House mex