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ENTERTAINMENTS.
Hyperion Theater.
WHEN LONDON SLEEPS !.

w AAi1AN ISO4NboIS SLEEPS.
 When London Sleeps will occupy the stage of the Hyperion theater to- night and tomorrow night at popular prices. The reputation of this play has preceded it and there is already a. live ly interest manifested in the coming. It was one of last seasons big money makers. James H. Wallick, under whose direction it is staged, has engag- ed the strongest cast possible to pro- cure, and it will be presented here with the same superb scenery which electri fled the patrons of the Fourteenth street theater, New York. Sale of seats now open. Prices 15c, 25c, 35c and soc.
 SHENANDOAH"
 In Jacob Litt's great revival of "Shen- andoah" the company carries fifty horses and as many cavalrymen troopers), and it requires two big bag gage cars to transport the scenery and properties. The brass 12-pounder used in the lobby of the theater represents an outlay of $1,000 and this is but one o fthe many expenses of this produc- tion. Chicago was unanimous in it's opinion that this was the most maenifi cent stage war spectacle ever seen there. and not since the days of the Worlds fair has any play equalled the business that it did at McVicker's theater. Shenandoah comes to the Hyperion as the New Years attraction on Monday and Tuesday evenings, with a special New Years matinee Monday at 2:30 p. m., with one of the best and strongest companies ever seen in the play. The cast will be headed by Mau- rice Barrymore and Mary Hampton. Sale of seats is now open Prices soc, 75c and S1.
 RED, WHITE AND BLUE"
 The stage mechanism employed in the terrific battle scene which finished the climax of the Red, White and Blue" a timely patriotic play which will be presented at the Hyperion Thursday, January 5, is described as ingenious in device and thrillingly realistic in eff feet. It enlists the services of 150 su- pernumeraries.
 RIP VAN WINKLE.'
 The appearance of the Jefferson Con- edy company at the Hyperion on Fri day evening, January 6. will be one of the events of the season and introduces here Thomas Jefferson as Rip in that delightful play, Rip Van Wrinkle" as- sisted by Joseph Jefferson, jr., William
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crisis dangerous. A conjuncture in so many respects favorable, we can scarcely hope to meet again in the near future. It's utilization would, therefore, seem to be commended by every con- sideration of prudence and good judg- ment.
 Without doubt, there are still con- siderable obstacles in the way of re- form. It is easy however, to eXagger- ate the seriousness of those obstacles. Your committee wish particularly to remark this in respect to the much noted diVergencies of opinion among friends of reform. The not uncommon opinion that these divergencies are so serious as to render hopeless the pros poets of reform, we consider quite un- warranted As a matter of fact, barring differences due to the circumstance or some being more, others less, radical, the various projects of reform have 8 surprising similarity. Doubtless there are differences of method so fundamen- tai that the choice of one plan involves the rejection of it's rivals; but cases of this sort are comparatively few. An analysis of large number of plans of
  rious expedients proposed in them for accomplishing the several objects sought, a large proportion appear in nearly every one of the plans. In the light of these facts, your com- mittee are of the opinion that what is most needed at this juncture, is a dis position on the part of the friends of re- form to sink individual preferences as to details, and to insist that congress shall enact such legislation as it shall be possible to agree upon. Undoubtedly, there is room in this matter of currency reform, for honest differences of opin- ion, but such degree of persistence in ones opinion as makes a working com promise impossible has no justification in monetary principles or in the con- ditions prevailing in the United States. It is safe to say that, of the five or six currency bills that, during the last twelve months, have been in any seri- ous sense before the country, the pas sage of any one would have resulted in great improvement and would have measureably satisfied the demands of reformers.
 F. M. Taylor, University Of Michigan.
 F. w. Taussig, Harvard University.
 J. W. Jenks, Cornell University
 Sidney Sherwood, Johns Hopkins University
 David Kinley, University of Illinois.
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OF LOCAL INTEREST.

MT and Mrs. Charles D. Hooghkirk fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home on January 2. They were mar ried at New York on New Years day in 1S4S. MT Hooghkirk who for years has kept a harness shop on Orange street, is the oldest living past master of Hiram lodge. He has taken every degree but one in Masonry and is one of the most prominent Masons in New Haven. The celebration of his golden wedding anniversary will be perfectly informal Mr. and Mrs. Hooghkirk will receive all their friends on Monday night from until 12, who may care to call on them. No invitations will be is- sued.
 Redmond, Kerr & Go. of New York offer to investors at 10S and interest $4,- 000, 900 of terminal and improvement mortgage 4 per cent. bonds of the New York, Lackawanna and Western Rail- way company, principal and interest guaranteed by endorsement on each bond by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad company. The total issue is $500o,000 and the bonds are se- cured by mortgage upon the terminal of the company in Buffalo and upon the main line from Binghamton to Buffalo The bonds have only twenty-five years to run. The company is earning large surplus over all it's charges and divi- dends upon it's stock. Subscriptions will be received on January and the bonds will be ready for delivery on January 5. Subscriptions will be re- ceived in New Haven by The Chas. w. Scranton Co.,
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poli,s Wonderland Theater.

Holly Tree Inn'' is a gem of dram atic art with clean story of child love that is prettily told by a company of five people, the stars being Katie Me- Ardle and Beatrice Morrison. In the olio are the Anglo-American quartet, Post and Clinton, the Imperial Four, Harry Howard, tenor ballardist the Morello troupe and their clown dogs, Forrest and Floyd, and Maddox and Beach. Next week a fine feature bill will be presented, with a special double show on Monday, beginning at il a. m. and playing continuously until ii p. m. Prices 10c and 20c: ladies in the af- ternoon, 1Oc.
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Pike's Toothaehe Drops cure in one minute.
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THE STOWAWAY."

"The Stowaway," that popular melo- drama, is to be presented next Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday. The play, which is to have an extended tour, is made famous by the celebrated Kid Mccoy and Spike" Hennessey. It is rumored in the vicinity of Mulberry street that the three years absence of Mccoy and Hennessey is partly ac- counted for by the fact that they spent the larger portion of that perior as guests of German institution for the suppression of kleptomaniacs at Ham, burg. At the Grand Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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A SUGGESTION FOR YULE-TIDE.
 Inspect our stock of
 Cameras, Albums. etc.
 Come in and talk it
 over with us. The Arthur H. Barnes Go. Dras n''s.s,t Store. 159 Church St.

Jefferson, Charles B. Jefferson and Miss Edna Carey, and strong company. HYPERION MATINEES NOW AT
 2:30 P. M. The curtain will be rung up at 2:30 p. m. at the matinee performances at the Hyperion.
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The Grand,

Karina, the Partisan chanteuse, with Rose Sydell's London Belle burlesque troupe, made a hit at the Grand yes- terday afternoon in her act in the olio. The performance given by the Belles is by a burlesoue company in this city. Prices Ice, 20c, BOG and soc. Daily mat inaes
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In conclusion, your committee cannot refrain from expressing the conviction that it will be a genuine misfortune if the very notable movement toward monetary reform which has filled so large a place in the history of the last few years, shall pass away without having left any results in legislation. Never bfore have there existed among all classes so great an interest in this subject, so near an approach to unan- unity of opinion, and so strong pur- pose to see something accomplished. To this very promising attitude of the pub lie mind. are added external conditions of an extremely favorable character. We allude to the exceptionally large stock of gold both in the treasury and in the country at large, to the unpre- cedented trade balance, to the generally solid condition of business, to the ab- sence of any necessity for that haste which always makes legislation in a
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A Naval Row. 1zO2.

At 6 this evening Captain Norris
coming on board this ship the f1agship),
my Lord Hamilton, Captain Ley, Cap
tain Wishart and Captain Trevor were
standing on the quarter deck, and as
Captain Norris came up Lord Hamilton
asked him if he had taken any more
wine or brandy. The other answered
no, upon which Captain Trevor asked
the price of his claret, whether he
might have any at ii. hogshead.
Norris said he would have Ii. or salt
water, and then Captain Ley said he
would rather the prizes were ashore
than he would give Ii. the hogshead; !;
upon which Captain Norris said he was
rascal that wished his prizes ashore.
The other replied he was rascal, if he
called him SO, and then Captain Norris
struck Captain Ley and threw him over
the gun, which Mr.. Hopson hearing,
as he and were>in my cabin, ran out
and upon inquiry found he ( Norris) had
hurt Captain Ley, and by the admiral's
directions ordered him to be confined,
upon which Captain Norris drew his
sword and offered to stab Captain Ley,
but Admiral Hopson, holding his hand,
ordered him to be disarmed and con-
fined in Mr.. Rayney's cabin. Jour-
nal Of Sir John Rookie. +"
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DEcAPITATIoN.
Life Said to Remain Long After the
Head Is Severed.


Life Said to Remain Long After the
Head Is Severed.
"The executions in Paris during re.
cent years have revived the old question
whether death instantaneously follows
upon the severance of the head from
the body" says the Massachusetts Med
ical Journal CDR. Cinel asserts that
deoapitation does not Immediately affect
the brain. He says that the blood which
flows after decapitation comes from the
large vessels Of the neck, and there is
hardly any call upon the circulation of
the Uranium. The brain remains intact,
nourishing itself with the blood retained
by the pressure Of the air.
"When the blood remaining in the
head at the moment of separation is ex-
hausted, there commences a state, not
of death, but of inertia, which lasts up
to the moment when the organ, no
longer fed, ceases to exist. DR.. Cinel
estimates that the brain finds nourish-
ment in the residuary blood for about
an hour after deoapitation. The period
of inertia would last for about two
hours, he thinks, and absolute death
would not ensue till after the space of
three hours altogether
'If, he adds, bodiless head indicates
by no movement the horrors of its stu
alton, it is because it is physically i'm
possible that it should do so, all the
nerves-which serve for the transmits
sion of orders from the brain to the trunk
being severed; but there remains the
nerves of hearing, of smell and sight,
and he concludes that the guillotine does
not cause instant DEATH If this be true,
could any other form of death be more
marcilass?,1
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Farming In oIden Times.

The Remains were the first people tc
practice plowing between the rows OF
wheat as we do between corn. The idea
was suggested in a singular manner. A
warlike tribe, having raYished section
of land at the base of the Alps under
took to destroy the growing crops by
plowing them up, but instead it was
found that the rows accidentally hilled
were twice as large as those that were
not. The harrow or hoe used by the
Chinese farmer is of the rudest con-
struction. The plow is usually drawn
by women of the lowest classes.
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
when the corn stolen from the Indians
by our Puritan ancestors was planted in
the sand Of Cape Cod, the only instru-
ment used was ponderous and i'll
shaped Dutch hoe, which required a
heavy man to. handle at all Our first
processes were not much in advance Of
those Of the barbarians of central Eu-
rope. Today we number several hun
dred tools, from the most delicate to
the splendid specimen of the combined
reaper and .thrasher, which cuts,
thrashes, winnows and bags grain at
the rate of hundreds of bushels per day.
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FAKE "FENCES."
a Little Trick That Is Worked In
Baxter Street.

a Little Trick That Is Worked In
Baxter Street.
''There was time and that not SO
very long ago. remarked an old time
puller in, "when almost every other
store in Baxter street was fence, or
pretended to be, in order to give custom
ers the idea that they were getting good
bargains. The clerk who took hesitat.
ing customer aside and whispered
fence was generally cure of a sale.
There are no genuine fences in Baxter
street now, because clothing, shoes and
hats are SO cheap but some of the stores
still pretend to sell stolen goods.
"When customer in one of these
stores has looked everything over in the
shop and hasn't made purchase, the
salesman tells him that he has a little
fence down stairs and urges upon him
the necessity of keeping it quiet on ao-
count of the police. Of course the Gus
toner won't say word. So down stairs
they 60 to the alleged fence, which gen.
orally proves to be big trunk packed
with goods.
While showing the contents of the
trunk the salesman keeps up running
yarn about the famous criminals who
brought the goods to the store.
FINALLY, after showing lot Of stuff
of the same quality and pattern the
customer refused to buy up stairs, the
salesman gets him to try on something,
and as quality, workmanship and per-
feet fit always 60 with fence goods,
there is a sale made. This fake fence
answers sale purposes as we'll as the
genuine, concluded the pullerin "and
there is no risk attached to it. New
York Sun.
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borrowing a Horse.

In his interesting book, 1.-THE Law.
yers of Maine," Willis relates an anec-
dote of Judge George Thatcher, who
was noted for bis humor.
Solicitor Davis and Judge Thatcher,
when boys. were neighbors in Barnsta-
BILE and Yarmouth, Mass. The day after
the battle of Bunker Hill the militia
of these towns set off for Boston The
boys accompanied the soldiers, Davis
acting as fifer. A few miles out from
Barnstable an order came directing the
military to return home.
In their retreat Thatcher and Davis,
tired of their march, mounted an old
horse they met on the road, without
saddle or bride After riding some
miles they dismounted and abandoned
their steed in the highway
Many years after Davis, as solicitor
general, was prosecuting horse thief
before Judge Thatcher in the county Of
Kennebeo, Me. In the course of the
trial the judge leaned over the bench
and said in an undertone to the solic-
itor:
"Davy, this reminds me of the horse
you and / stole in Barnstable."
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THE SIX HUNDRED.
Some Incidents of That Mad Ride to
Death at BaIaklava.

Some Incidents of That Mad Ride to
Death at BaIaklava.
OF that mad but heroic charge hun.
dred incidents are preserved-thrilling,
humorous, shocking. The Cornhill
Magazine tells of man of the Seven
teenth lancers who was heard to shout,
just as they raced in upon the guns, q
quotation from Shakespeare, "Who is
there here would ask more men from
England?"
The regimental butcher of the Seven
teenth lancers was engaged in killing a
sheep when he heard the trumpets sound
for the charge. He leaped on horse
In shirt sleeves, with bare arms and
pipe in mouth, he rode through the whole
charge, slew, it is said, six men with
his own hand, and came back again,
pipe still in mouth
A private of the Eleventh was under
arrest for drunkenness when the charge
began, but he broke out, followed his
troop on spare horse, picked up a
sword as he rode, and shared in the
rapture and perils Of the charge. The
charge lasted 20 minutes, and was ever
before such daring or such suffering
packed into space SO brief? The squad.
rons rode into the fight numbering 673
horsemen; their mounted strength when
the fight was over was exactly 1876.
1t was all a blunder, but it evoked
heroism which made the blunder itself
magnificent. And as long as brave deeds
can thrill the imagination of men the
story will be remembered of how
Stormed at with shot and she'll
Boldly they rode and well
Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth of hell
Noble six hundredI
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BERLIN APPETITEs.

Restaurant Men Who Cater to Them
Soon Become Rich.
That the restaurant business in Berlin
is paying one, if the location chosen
be good one, the restaurant of the ZOO
logical gardens here shows For num-
Der of years it was leased by man who
understood about as much of the bust
ness as the man in the moon Yet be
became wealthy within few years and
retired for good to live on the interest
Of his money There were days in sum-
mer when be sold 1000 kegs of beer,
besides some 10000 cups of coffee and
$4,000 sandwiches, and as prices are
high there be must have made thousands
Of dollars in a single day
Fortunately for the public, another
caterer now supplies the hungry and
thirsty sightseers at the geological gar
dens, man with good reputation, and
he pays twice the rent for the restau-
rant buildings, too-viz. 100, 600 marks
per annum, besides spending by the
terms of his contract matter of almost
oOO, WV AAGl no AoA Improvements. ILL Cb ~
is probable that he, teo, will retire at
the end of his term with fortune.
There are many Instances of this kind
in Berlin One of the finest and most
highly priced restaurants on Unter den
Linden recently sold its good will for a
matter of 1000, 900 marks. The owner
of a cafe on Fricdrichstrasse who start
ed the place but couple of years ago is
reputed already to have cleared about
2,00O, 600 marks His head waiter is
himself rapidly growing rich from the
"trinkgeld" received from the guests
and is said to be in receipt of monthly
stipends amounting to some So, 900 in
American money Berlin Letter in
Chicago Record
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An EliEabethnn Letter.

| have sent the letle provision agen
this time, but cold wish it were much
better. Their is a goose pye, a netes
tounge pye, and mutton pastie for
ISLANDERS for thy table this Crismas, for
a nede, I knowe they will last tell
twelftide, for they are now newe baked.
! have sent the goose and il capens
alive for feare they void not last tell
ye holy daies if they had bin killed,
but ] wish the to kill them on Saterday
at ye furdest lest they grove worse.
- I prethe doe SO much as bestoe
for me vjd or Wild in sumo oringes or
lemons or il pouns siterns and sende
them downe nowe by Hale and
SO with my best wishes to the and Kilt
I rest, Thy MOTHER, S. D.
-"Antiquities and Curiosities of the
Exchequer.
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TONS AND TONS OF GOLD.
Twelve Hundred Miles of Enormous
Iy Rich Territory.


If pin be placed at Denver on the
map, and another at Stockton, Cal,
and a string be drawn from one to the
other, an air line will be marked pass
ing through the heart Of a wonderful
gold territory. Slightly to the north Of
Denver in Central City, and southwest
of that city is Cripple Greek. About 30
miles to the north of the string Lead
vile will be found. In the southwest
corner of Colorado will appear Tellu-
ride, Rico and other points where gold
is mined. Marysvale, in Utah, almost
due south Of Salt Lake City, will ap-
pear to the south of the string. Fifty
miles to the north of it, near the line
between Utah and Nevada, will appear
Osceola. Deep Creek lies north of Osce-
ola and on the southern edge of the
great desert west Of Salt lake. Detroit
and several other rich gold camps are
almost due east of Osceola. Phoebe lies
100 miles south of the string, and the
wonderfully rich gold territory of the
Monkey Wrench district lies southwest
of Phoebe.
Now, north and south Of the string
will appear dotted on the map of Neva-
da the gold camps of Grant, Freiburg,
Reveille, Kawich Valley, San Antonio,
Gold Peak, Hot Springs, BelleYille,
Candelara and numerous others. AL
most under the string, in Californa, we
find Bodie, and to the north of it Mar
kleville and other points-all on the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada
mountains. On the western slope Of the
great sierras the string will be almost
on the Utica mine, which is located be-
tween San Andreas and Sonora. North
and south of the Utica mine are hun
dreds Of rich gold mines in profitable
operation.
The distance from Denver to Stock
ton is about /, 200 miles. On no portion
of the habitable globe is there region
SO continuously and enormously rich in
gold as the territory described, and yet,
this fact. the progress
i've Yankee has scarcely made start in
opening and developing these riches,
which have been entombed for millions
of years, and which will remain so
until we awaken to an ap-
probation of the fact that the states Of
Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California
bear within their bosoms more wealth
than ever was dreamed of by Cresus.
Forrr1
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WAeNER's METHOD.
when Possessed with a Poetic idea,
He Wrote 1t In Music.

When Possessed With a Poetic idea,
He Wrote 1t In Music.
"In one Of his writings Wagner tells
us that he never felt any musical in
spiration unless a dramatic idea had
taken complete possession Of him, !"
writes Houston Stewart Chamberlain
on "How Richard Wagner Wrote His
Operas" in The Ladies' Home Journal.
when this was the case, the different
personages would, one after another,
obtrude upon his fancy, gaining grad
ually in bodily consistency. Then, all
Of sudden. in the dusk of evening, one
Of these creatures of his fancy would
rise up before him, gazing at him with
eyes wide open. Fascinated and almost
trembling, Wagner would remain with
eyes fixed on those of his guest from
dreamland. But, TO- the shadows lips
tremble and openl What issues from.
them is neither words nor song. It is a
superhuman language, but the poet un-
derstands it, and it remains ringing in
his ears when the apparition has van
ished. This is the precise moment of in
spiration. All that follows is more or
less mechanical, more or less fortuitous.
Whether work be written out and
completed sooner or later will depend
upon all sorts of time,
health, etc.
"This. then, is the essential thing to
remember-that Wagner nsver could
compose unless driven to do so by
poetical idea peremptorily demanding
the language of music for its full and
adequate expression, and that. once this
poetical and dramatic idea clearly and
permanently ingrafted in his mind, it
'included'-if ! may SO say-the music,
which came Of itself whenever the au-
thor could find time for the business Of
writing out the score. I"
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Remarkable Rescna.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld, Ill.
makes the statement that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated for a month by her
family physician, but grew worse. He
told her she was hopeless victim of con-
sumption and that no medicine could cure
her. Her druggist suggested DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption; she bought
bottle and to her delight found hersel,
benefited from first dose. She continued
its use and after taking six bottles. found
herself sound and well; now does her own
housework. and is as well as she ever was.
Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery
at DR.. H. Vaughan's Drug Store. Large