The record-union., 1896-08-23

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[ Among other delightful people met at
Shasta Springs are some of our own
| townspeople. Mr.. and Mrs. William j.
| Davis, who have taken a cottage for
| a season of pleasure. Mrs. Davis has
| become quite a mountaineer and climbs
about IN short skirt and leggings, like
| a native.
| You missed the event of your life if
you failed to see the Big Show" given
last week by some of the small fry
OF our city. 1t was simply immense.
The clown, who also acted as ringmaster,
introduced the performers. There were
handsprings, trapeZe performances,
turning on the horizontal bar, songs,
dances, ETC., and some really fine walk
ing and dancing on the tight rope by
OF the Big Show" After the general
performance there was a side show,
said by the clown to be Indispensable
to every well regulated circus" when
Masters Hulburd and John Miller did
some very neat sleight of hand tricks
with cards, rings, etc. Two small boys
gave popular songs of the day IN voices
that certainly give great promise of
future requirements. 1t was the best
| boys circus 1 ever saw, and one old
gentleman remarked that 'it beat the
grown-up circuses all hollow" 1t was
certainly lots more fun. 1 tell you we
have plenty of unsuspected talent hid
ing its light under a bushel in this
| town of ours
| Madame Marie Bishop, who at one
| time came up from San Francisco to
/ teach a large vocal class in this city,
/ passed through Sacramento on the 18th
! inst. en- route to her old home in the
4 East, where she has a brother living in
/ Boston. She has sold all her property
! in San Francisco, thus severing all old
/ California ties, and friends who met
I her at the Sacramento depot said she
was perfectly and radiantly happy at
/ the prospect of meeting old friends in
her former home.
What a pleasurable accomplishment
/ is elocution. If you can "elocute" you
have the means within your power of
making many an evening pass pleas
antly which might otherwise prove
I tedious, giving your friends as we'll as
yourself much enjoyment. The voice is
an instrument easy to carry about with
/ you also, which is often a great con-
! sideration. 1t is decided talent that
can truly interpret the hidden meaning
underlying a frame work of verse MAX
i ing others see the picture as he himself
/ sees it. There lives in our town man,
one of natures noblemen, whose con-
i stant intercourse with the dear old dame
/ has given him a certain degree of native
/ eloquence He memories yards and
/ yards of poetry with perfect ease, and is
often called upon to entertain friends
/ and strangers as well in social gather
] ings with his gift. He tells an amusing
story of himself, consequent upon an in
vitation to recite for an entertainment
/ in a, country schoolhouse. He had but
/ recently moved into the neighborhood
and it was compliment not to be dis
/ regarded that he, a stranger to all the
country for miles around should be
thus made as it were. one of them at
! the very outset of his residence among
! them. He gave the honor full value
/ and resolved to do himself proud on the
! occasion. A day or two beforehand ac-
cordingly he began to brush up his
memory a little on the piece" he was
to speak. There was plowing to do in
] the orchard, and as his hired man start
| ed one side and he on the other he busted
! himself with declaiming at the hight
/ of inspiration the lines already COM
mitted to memory. He is man who
/ feels very deeply all that he strives to
1 interpret, and his eloquence waxed
warm as the plow turned UP the brown
! soil in long, regular rows across the
! orchard, beneath the lines of fruit trees
which he supposed to be his whole audi
ence. But there We're a pair Of anxious
/ ears taking 1t all in, though too far dis
4 tant to catch the words, and two anxi-
/ Gus eyes followed his movements all un-
! conscious to himself. AS the noon hour
/ called to the refreshing of the inner
man, and hired help and employer went
I in to the monday meal, pausing for a
/ space outside the kitchen to wash up,
the hired man, laying a OBTAINING hand
/ on the others arm, said in a strained
and anxious undertone: Say, look here
( Smith, you've got a habit growing on
you that you ought to be told of. Did
/ you know that you was in the habit OF
/ talking to yourself?"
Il? No, Of course not" answered
/ Smith promptly.
But you do" replied the hired man.
/ solicitously. I've been watching of ye
all morning. l didn't believe ye knowd
it, but you've been a-going on wavin
yours hands and shoutin' most awful to
witness. Sure l thought you was goin
/ crazy for a spell. Why, gosh hang it.
man, never see anyone go on SOL"
His only reply was a shout of hearty
unaffected laughter that fairly made
the tin dipper hanging against the side
of the house dance a jig. When he
had gotten his breath he said in explain
alton to the worried husbandman, =
was just learning my piece for the en-
| tertainment at the schoolhouse, and
was going over it to see If had it by
heart
"Oh! is that all?'' answered the cha
grined audience. We'll, anyone else tc
see you would although you was crazy
same as did; that's all I've got to say :
The entertainment came off and
Smith awakened echoes in that school
! house that had never been disturbed
before; but such was the Jealousy
caused by his performance that. in spite
of the storms of applause that greeted
him at its close, he was never invited
by that community to recite for them
again.
Miss Eva Reeves has been enjoying
the past week with friends at the Bay