Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — FOOTLIGHT FLASHES. [ARTICLE]

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

The net earnings of the Kendals in America last season were about $150,000. P. T. Barnum’s estate is announced to amount $4,279,532, $2,993,933 of which is in real estate. Francis Wilson has ordered a new comic opera from Richard Stahl, composer of “The Sea King.” Statistics show that 678 musicians, 271 artists and 169 actors came from foreign lands to America in 1890. Controversies over Beethoven's ancestry have been set at rest by the discovery of a family history covering 250 years. “Ivanboe” was the first grand opera that ever ran 100 nights in Loudon; but it is a question if “Ivanboe” was a financial success. The leading actor of the Comedie Francaise, M. Mounet Sully, has announced that he will make an American tour iu 1892-93. Tscharkowsky, the Russian composer, will bring a full Russian choir to America next season. A similar enterprise once failed in London. W. S. Gilbert, the famous writer of comic opera librettos, was once a very good lawyer. He was recently made a justice of the peace at Middlesex. Nat Goodwin has paid Augustus Thomas and Sidney Rosenfeld $5,000 in advance for a comedy they are writing for him, aud will give them a large royalty besides. Emma V. Sberidan, late leading woman at the Boston Museum, will be succeeded in that position by Marie Burress, an actress chiefly known through her work with Frank Mayo. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand lire (more than $45,000) has been paid in royalties to Pietro Mascagni, composer of “Cavalierra Rusticana,” for its performance in Italy alone. The “clipping bureaus” get many queer orders, but few queerer than the one sent recently to the New York agency by Edward Remenyi, the violinist, who wanted all the obituaries of himself which were published when be was reported drowned on bis way from India to South Africa. Remenyi wants to know all about the accident and what people esid of him.

If Major MoKinley is elected in Ohio next Tuesday it will be one of the most significant and signa victories in the history of that State.—Monticello Herald. As Ohio has for many many years been claimed by the opposition as a reliably republican state our old friend of the Hearld gives strong evidence that he has lost faiih in the grip of his party,on tl.a r state. We have strong hopes, however t T . at not only Campbell, but tho entire Democratic state and legislative ticket will be triumphant. Stocks and prioes tell the story why the loudß of goods are carried awav every day from the Chicago Bargain Store. The McKinley law haß reduced customs revenues from $3.62 to $2.59 per capita, as shown by the Bureau of Statistics— Monticello Herald. Poss.bly. But the increase of revenue per capita that Hows into the vaults of the combines o’erleaps the decrease in customs. — The people are none the better off. The money of the people has simply been diverted from the gov. eminent coffers to those of private millionaire corporations.

‘‘The foreigner pays the duty; you don’t pay it,” McKinley, Foster, Reed and Sherman are just now trying to cram down the throats of vcfcers in Ohio. It has not been long since our own brother Marshall indignantly pretested against the charge that republican ora ors and newspapers practiced thaf fraud upon their hearers and readers. Nor has it been long since post master general John Wanaraaker put in a claim running up into the thousands of dollars excessive duties paid by him on a large invoice cf ribbons he had imported. It p oved abo i anza to Jchn, as he hnd sold the goods to hiß retail customers with profit and tsx added; the custom , ers of the retailers—the people—repaid the tax to them. Consumers pay the tax.