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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

usually expect to devote three wecRa
prior to the opening to ballet instruc-
tion and when Miss Beckett arrives in
New Haven candidates for the ballet
arc all ready to offer their services. At
the first rehearsal the corps is chosen.
Plumpncss is an essential qualification
in college corps, and the ballet mis-
trcss picks out tho latest candidates,
those whose shoulders and arms haven t
been turned into punches of muscles
and who will most become the decol-
lctc and sleeveless satin corsages.
The boys have no such preparations
to make as girls. Girls always appear
ut rehearsal provided with short
skirts, rufflcd lkniclscrs and dancing
corsets. Boys find trousers are not i'm
pedimcnts, like girls long skirts. Tho
boys appear in slippers, such us Dollic
and Minnie and Scraphine and Tottie
toe about in. They lay aside their
coats, roll up their shirt sleeves to
show plump arms and dimpled clbows
and are ready for work
Miss Beckett, In black tights, and two
long full Spanish lace skirts, dances be-
fore the swnying, bending lines OF cont
less students, who try to initiate the
grace of the ballet mistress.
Rehcarsals arc held every day, in tho
hour before dinner usually. The BOYS
hire hail for this, and it is three
weeks of hard work. Prcmieres have to
be taught alone. Every body is sup
posed to practice outside of the class.
No such paraphcrnalia is used as is
seen in an ordinary ballet class. No
bars are needed to assist the boys to
raise their toes. Every one of them
Is pretty npt TO DC timber enough to
put toe on level with his waist or
shoulder.
1T is how to do it SO rs to be picture
of grace that troubles BOYS" said
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09
Funny Definitions,

In a recent examination some boys
were asked to define certain words and
to give sentence illustrating the mean
ing Hero are few: Frantic means
wild; l picked some frantic flowers
Athletic, strong; the vinegar was too
athletic tonsc. Tandem, one behind an
other; the boys sit tandem at school.
And then some single words are funnily
explained. Dust is mud with the wet
squeezed ont; fins are fishes wings; stars
are the moons eggs; circumference 10
distance around the middle of the out
side. Education Gazette.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

dances with which fashionable women
/ entertain small and select parties have
to be taught to private pupils.
1t was through this that when ono
of the college dramatic societies came
to give q ballet Miss Beckett was Sc
cured TO train the dozen college boys
and as many society girls who were
TO dance. The performance was sue
cess, and the boys who had taken part
were so envied that the following year
enough students were anxious to dance
to have formed two ballet corps of good
size. The girls have not had chance
since.
For four years these ballots and
skirt-dancing numbers have been in
thigh favor in college dramatic circles.
AAll those ballots which hnvo made Yale
theatricals famous and drawn overflow
png audiences for whatever charity
given have been composed by Miss
iSecket, who always trains the CAV stu
Fdent dancers herself. 1t is all very we'll
nor ballet master to instruct Il femi-
nine corps, but it requires woman to
fdr1ll young men until they dance with
Egirlish grace. Not only Yale boys but
ttwo clubs from Columbia college, Phil
adelphia boys and Baltimore and Wash
hnBton students are in the amateur the
atrical business for love and charity.
lAll produce ballots or Introduce elnb-
crate dancing, and the poetry of their
motion over which the girls rave is
gained through Miss Beckett, who CON
verts them temporarily into gauzy
skrted, blond-wigged beauties and
ferphchorean successes.
The college season has just closed for
the maitrcsse de ballet.
II shouldn't mind teaching them all
the year round" said Miss Beckett. for
they are the incest pupils there are"
Miss Beckett served three years appren-
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09
BURMESE GIRLS AND BOYS.
They 1.-Two In "a Land of Sunshine and Arc
Merry All Day Long.

Ihey 1.-Two III u SUNSHINE nnu hrS
Merry All Dny Long.
You can find Burma very easily by
consulting your school geography if you
don't know exactly where it is located.
Finding tho map of India, you will no.
tice that this strange, interesting coun
try is bordered on one sido by tho Chi
nese lands and on the other by tho coun-
try of the Hindoos. The thing that will
most interest young readers is tho fact
that tho Burmese children are among
the happicst youngsters of earth.
They live in u gorgeous country, and
their mothers are held i'll great respect,
which is not always the case with the
various races of old India Some of the
little Burmese girls are very pretty and
very graceful They arc fond of many
trinkcts, and though shy in their man
ner they easily become acquainted with
strangers when tho latter are lavish
enough in their gifts of pretty things.
All Burmese boys arc educated in tho
Buddhist inconsistencies, but it has not
hitherto been thought necessary to teach
the girls moro than to read and write.
To be pretty, to be religious, to be amia-
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

college clubs, Is one of her favorite
clubs to teaoh. Their ballet OF 143 BOYS
that appeared in "Ivanhoe" last season
i'll Now York and Philadelphia was the
finest college corps of ballet that has
yet been trained. Three premiercs
danced
After all. tho Yale boys delight tho
dancing teachers heart.
when the note arrives saying IL I;
time for me to take the ballet in hand
l am always delighted. Is it funny?'
It's the only real pleasure of my years
work. Why absolutely laugh SO much
mt those boys that grow fat in the
three weeks that | am in New Haven
training them before the opening per-
Torrance. a skeleton would have to
laugh Mt them. They are 50 full of life "
do they play tricks on you?"
No, indeed; they arc gentlemen al
ways, and then make them obey me-. -
The idea of Il lot of larky SONS of Eli
obeying anybody, much less the not
over scvcrc-loolling ballet mistress, is
laughnblc
We'll, they do what say. You see
they all want good part. And they
don't want to be put in the back row.
So all / have to do when they are too
lively or don't attend rchcarsuls is To
shy that only the best dancers can go
in the quadrillcs or front row."
OF course, the most of them are green.
Sometimes they dance several years,
and then they reach the premiere
stage. The managers of the thcatricals
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

miere.
at is only at the last two or three
rohearsals that tho boys appear in their
stage costumes. Then the fun COM
mences. oh, Miss Beckett, what do
you do with this?' oh, Miss Beckett.
how do you got into these things?'
How do these corsets go on?' How.
do you fastcn this waist on?' and such II
time as l have. The most ridiculous
sight, think, have seen was one day
when n tall and robust premiere ap-
pearcd at II rehearsal with his tall hat
on, his trousers turned up at the
ankles, his ballet shoes ON, sleeves
pulled up and u full set of gauzy ballet
skirts over all. Going to get used to
my skirts he explained"
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

@Reeship at Covent Garden, for She is
an English woman. She has been in
the ballet at the royal theater which
the king maintains in Belgium, has
studied In Paris, and for five or six years
low has been training in this country,
and she declares that for quickness in
learning no set OF women or profess
sional dancers she has seen can acquire
ballet with the facility of college stu
dents. She lays it first of all to their
intelligence and also TO the perfect
shape they arc kept in by reasonable
nncunt of athletics
The Strollera. o1e Of the Columbia
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

"ithin the dewy mornings hush
There sung mellow throated thrush
And drop by drop the honeycd tons
Fell on white stars of bloom alone.
know not did the flowers below
Hear all his secret, yet aglow
WITH dawn the daisy turned ..er eye
Tc greet tho daytime in the sky.
Then camo two lovers hand in hand
On journey toward loves promised land,
And bird and blossom, light aud tone,
esrs understood by them alone.
Eugene Field
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09
"YoU'RE IT." 'zT:-'ffA
It Was Brought TO America With the
Game OF Tag by Little Oockncys.

Gamo OF Tag by Little Cockncys.
Boys and girls, do you know why you
say. You're itl' when playing tag? OF
course not. The professor didn't either
when wc asked him the other day, but
he promised to put his entire mind upon
tho subject and let us know at once.
This is what ho says, though with
some of his big words left out:
1.-THE people who live over in Eng
land do not seem to think much of the
letter h., being in the habit of drop
ping it from the words where it belongs
and putting it where it does not belong.
What fun There is in it, or why they do
1t, no ono can tell, but they have been
in the habit Of it for good many hun
bred years
For this reason when tho little Eng
Hsh boys who were grcat-grcat- grand
fathers years and years ago wero having
grand times i'll their games they, too,
kept dropping their his from tho words
they were shouting.
so, when they played tag, az boys do
now, touching each other with their
hands, whenever one boy hit another no
ut once shouted out, 'You 70 'itp for he
rould not say hit, you know.
And all tho generations of little boys
who have since then been playing the
game continued to say it, instead of
hit, even after our fathers learned i'll
America to always put their his III every
other word where they belonged.
Now, boys, let mo whisper word
of warning. Don't tell your teacher
what tho professor says If you do, she'll
never give you any peace, but will rap
on tho window at every recess and tell
sou to say hit, instead of it,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09
Doubtful.

Il have kinder had my doubts" said
Mr.. Jason as he removed his Sunday
best suit after his visit to the CITY, II
kinder have my doubts whether Brother
Bits son Tux mo around and showed
me the town, or whether no showed Tie
Town Inc. "-Indianapolis Journal.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09

throw 9th er
Hungarian o r
Austrian minis
tcrs, tho En-
pcror Francis Jo-
seph of Au.tria
remarked recent
~, but despite
this royal pro-
II IL IL C liam on to
Count Kalnoky,
tho We tcran
premier of Aus
tria, has resigned
because ho criti-
nisn,l tt,n ,,n,1,nt
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-09
COUNT kALNoKws CAREER.
The Austrian Statesman Who Rocontly Eo-
signed the Onicc OF Premier.

81 cannot allow the impression to 20
abroad that Rome has the power to over
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

-Firecrackers will be cheap on tho
Fourth Of July. The price has already
fallen so per cent below that of last year
IA prominent dealer in these explosives
said that the cost per package would
notexceed 2 cents. This big drop in
prices, he said, was due to the new tariff
law. Under the Mckinley tariff 8 cents
pound had to be paid on all firecrack-
ers brought into this country. Under
Wilson tariff there is an advalorem duty
OF so per cent A box which used to be
taxed Sc cents will now be taxed only
y cents. It was also stated by the
dealer that even at these low figures
there will be a profit all around. Nor is
the reduction confined to firecrackers.
Every class of fireworks, from the largest
set piece to the tiny paper torpedo, is
one-fourth less in price than last year,
and on imported goods the prices are cut
III two.-MilWaukee Exchange.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
IMMIGRATION.

Gov. Upham and Secretary Of Imigra-
ton Bishop have been on an extended
tour through the East, interviewing the
steamship companys and inspecting the
class of migrants most desirable for this
part of the state.
We should psepare to do our part Of
the work and be ready to receive our
share of the immigration that will come
to this section. The future welfare of this
county and it's towns depends upon the
development of the agricultural lands,
and our citizens can not get this done by
sitting idly by and hoping the State
Board of migration will do all.
A Board Of migration of this county
should be appointed-as suggested in
these columns befOre-tO lay our inter
ests before the State Board. Maps
should be got out, and sent to them,
showing the county lands and what
other lands can be offered to immigrants
at nominal figure. Let us be up and
doing and show the State Board of Uni
grafton that we are alive to their wants
and in sympathy with the movement;
and then slowly perhaps, but steadily,
immigration will flow toward us. In
this way when the vast pines are gone,
we will not feel it's loss, surrounded by a
rich agricultive country dotted with
ZONES of tillers of the soil,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
4 GRAND CELEBRATION!
Is what the Eagle River Citizens
will tender to the visitors ON the
Fourth
All arrangements nearly comp eted.

Yes we will celebrate Independence Day
in q good old fashioned style. Nearly
$4,000 has been raised by the soliciting
committee, with more to follow, which
will be expended in fire works, games
and and contests of all kinds on that
date.
James White and Max Sells were sent,
last week, to Choate, to make final ar
engagements with these people to run an
excursion. They succeed, as Eagle River
people always do on an occasion OF
this kind, and all excursion train from
Northern Michigan 500 strong will puff
into our village on that date; to help us
observe the day.
The contests mostly will take place on
Wall and Railroad streets. The speak
ing will take place in Tambling's Park.
This is also where the fire works will be
touched off,"
Dancing will be held in the Bowery all
the afternoon and evening as well as in
the Opera House.
The base ball game betweenthe Choate
nine and ours is scheduled at 3:45 p. M.
This will be an interesting and exciting
contest, as the Choate boys now have
four salaried players which makes them
as strong a team as our boys could wish
for.
The city will be dressed in national
holiday attire and the streets shaded
with evergreens.
Frank Quinn is president of .the day
while Jas Oberholtzer will be marshall.
The different committees have been and
are working for the success of the cele-
bration and thier mildest expectations
will be rewarded when they see our
streets thronged with visitors.
The excursion train will arrive at 10
O'Clock, a. M, and will be met at the
depot by the band. About 1910 the
procession will be formed in front of the
town hall, in the following order:
Eagle RIVER Cornet Band
Young Ladies in Costumes.
Fife and Drum Corps.
Firemen.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

Lawyers Barnes, OF Rhinelander, and
Reed, OF Merrill, representing two OF the
best law firms in Northern Wisconsin,
We're in the village all last week looking
over the records at the court house, We
understand they have been engaged by
some of the tax payers OF this county to
commence suit against some OF the old
officers, and county board as well. They
claim a great many illegal orders were
issued. The outcome will be watched
with interest.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

Jack Dean returned, Tuesday, from a
trip through the new towns Of Northern
Minnesota. He was looking for loca-
ton but was not captivated in the least
with the country. He reports the times
very hard at Hibbings, Virginia City and
Ely. The laboring man only getting
from $1.25 to $1.35 per day in the
mines. He meta number from this place
among them John Tooley, who is work
ing in Il barber shop at Hibbings. Mr..
Dean left here again Wednesday with the
same purpose, for Cheboygan, Mich.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

John H. Foster came down from Ash
land Thursday expecting that the iron
work for the jail would boon hand. The
iron work has been shipped and is now
enroute. He returned to Ashland Friday
The jail is now completed excepting the
putting in of the iron work which will
not take over a week at the outside.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

The public schools will close here
next Friday. Quite an extended pro
gram will be rendered by the scholars on
that day. The rooms of Prof Cross,
Misses Tracey, and Hollis, Misses Dugas,
and Slattery, and Vought and Shank,
consolidating respectively for the exercis-
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

Will Carly, the crack all around ball
player OF the New London team, liked
our style Of ball playing SO well he de
cided to stay with us. He has accepted
position with Fl. Haskins in his barber
shop. He will greatly strengthen our
team as he is an all around player.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

Robert Stewart is logging quite eX-
tensively at State Line this summer. He
has crew of about fifty men at work on
contract calling for five million feet of
logs. Guy Stewart has the supervision
of the camps. This is not Mr.. Stewards
first experience in summer logging, he
having logged two previous summers.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

Henry Ashby left, Wednesday, to at
tend the reunion OF his company, the 9Th
Wisconsin Battery, at Prairie du Chem.
Henry never misses these yearly reunions
OF his company.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
TIME TABLE.
Chicago & North Western Railway.
CHURCHES

CATHOLIC CHURCH, ST. PETERS.
Services every Sunday Except on the
End Sunday of each month):-High
Mass and Sermon at 1OA M--Catechism at
2 P. M.-Vespers, Sermon and Benediction at
1870 p. NJ. A first Mass is said at $50 A. NJ,
on the LIST Sunday of each month.-On Holy
days: High Mass, Sermon and Benediction
at 7:45 A. M.-Mass on weekdays at z
OF the cross every Friday evening during
Lent at 7:3O.-Catechism every Saturday
after Mass. REV. PROSPER GOEPFERT.
Pastor
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

COUNTY OFFICERS.
Treasurer,-Herman Finger.
SheriR-George E. O'Connor.
County Clerk-Chris Wise.
Register of Deeds-Ole Swenson.
Clerk of Court-Frank L. Schillng.
Dist. Attorney-N. A. Colman.
County JUDGE. c, Allen.
Surveyor-W. A. Bradford.
Supt of Schools-Alex Higgins.
Eoroner-W. J. DeVoe
County Commissioners-W. j. Refill, Eagle
River; II. Selleck, Minocqua; VIM Elliot,
Arbor Vitae.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Services
~ Sunday at 1870 a. M. and 1880 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings at
T:30. Sunday School Immediately after
morning service. Young Peoples Christian
EndeaVor, Sunday afternoon at $50.
REV. H. G, TODD, Pastor.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
Ball Teams.
School Cchildfen.
Citizens

The dance at the Bowery will be given
by the Firemen and should be literally
attended.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
CITY OFFICERS.

CITY OFFICERS.
Chairman j. REILLY,
SuperVlsors-.............. - a. Bangert,
JAS White.
Recorder A. Diamond.
Justices-JAMEs OBERHoLTZER, A. q. RICHIN-
SON, w. J. DEVoE, d. GRAHAM.
COnstables-A. WRIGHT, G. H. THOMPSON.
WILL RoDERIcK.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Identification System.

About four years ago the war depart
ment began the practice of system of
personal records of soldiers, with the
purpose of providing an absolute means
of Identification. The medical officers,
by the use of figure cards, took careful
note of every indelible or permanent
mark on the persons of recruits, and
these were filed away in the office of
the surgeon-general. Last August
congress passed an act to prohibit the
re-enlistment of men whose army SER
vice had not been faithful and honest,
and Immediately the data which had
been previously accumulated became of
great value in preventing enlistments
of bad characters. At the beginning of
the present calendar year some statis-
tics were gathered to show the work
ings of the system, and it was found
that, in the first three months, of every
thousand men enlisted from civil life,
thirty-one were identified through the
outline figure card records as convicts,
deserters or otherwise undesirable char
acters. The officials of the war depart
ment are now thoroughly satisfied as to
the merits of the system, and as for the
privates, they willingly pay the price
of submitting to the examination and
record in consideration of being saved
from ultimate association with notori-
GUS undrels.-Pioneer Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
The National Encampment.

Next in order, now that the depart
ment encampment and Memorial Day
observances are over, are the Gus .om-
airy preparations for the national en-
campment, which will take place this
year at Louisville, KY, in September.
Arrangements are being made, both in
New York and Brooklyn, for having
these cities represented by uniformed
bodies. The people of Louisville are
making preparations for the entertain
ment and comfort Of their northern
brethren. This will be the first encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public to take place on southern soil.
1t is expected that great many veter-
ans of the southern armies will EN-.
brace the opportunity of meeting in the
chief city of Kentucky their foes of
thlrty-four years ago, and this COM
mingling of the blue and the gray" is
likely to prove one of the most pleasant
features of the gathering of 1895. The
surviving veterans of the Empire State
intend to be there in force and to make
showing which shall not be surpassed
in any respect.-New York Tribune.