Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — A Mean Trick. [ARTICLE]

A Mean Trick.

The subject of actors’ vanity might yield endless stories. Everybody knows that it is a failing that runs down from the highest in the profession to the lowest “supe.” Pardon me for an illustration from the lowest round. It was in one of Lawrence Barrett’s Boston engagements, and the hero was the useful actor whose duty it is to come on and say to Barrett, “Forgive me, master, I slew your horse,” whereupon Barrett strikes him down. The heroic Lucullus was one day chiding a friend for not coming to see his performance. “Why, me boy, it’s the great hit of me life,” said he. “My fall last night took the house right off it’s feet; it was simply immense. They was bound to have me before the curtain, but just as I was going on Barrett shoved me out of the way and took the call himself. It was a d—d mean trick.” — Cor. Minneapolis Tribune. It is claimed that E. W. Dexter, of the town of Liberty, near New London, is the soldier mentioned in Grant’s memoirs who surrounded and captured a half-dozen Mexicans on a roof at Chapultepec, at the storming and capture of that place during the Mexican war. Grant did not know the name of the soldier, but Mr. Dexter, while applying for a pension in 1880, told Mr. Patchen the incident. The wound on which he based his application was received on the roof, after the capture, while waving the flag he had taken. Nevada is the paradise of the school teacher, where the average salary is $l4O per month for males and $96 for VOflMfe. . _ . ... .V -