Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1884 — Page 5

NEW YORK CRAYONS. J New Branch of Industry—Brijnoli’s Van-ity-Stage Girls and Their “Mashes." Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. New York, Nov. 7.— ls this man has not been a religious exhorter, then hisappearane.es are deceitful, for there is a cadence in his voice, and a sanctimoniousness in his style which belong to the revivalist. But he i3 not now engaged in urging persons to the altar. Ho appeals to those who have failed of gaining happiness by going there. He is canvassing the town for marital infelicity. Ho works during those hours when men are away from home, at business. His aim is to find wives alone. ‘ ; I have called, madam,” he suavely says, on getting into the presence of the mistress of the house, “in search of women who are unfortunately married to bad husbands.” Here he sailes with his heavy lips and big teeth, and lifts his hands in a deprecatory gesture, tor he is certain that the woman will be angry in a flash, no matter whether she is in wedded bliss or misery. *'o. I know that you are yourself most happy in that regard, but I thought possibly you might inow.of some case among your acquaintances. I represent a famous lawyer —one whose name, should I mention it, would be instantly recognized as belonging to a great man; and I am seeking divorce clients for him. While he is not willing to take up such cases openly, in consequence of tho disfavor with which that branch of practice is regarded, he at the same time believes it to be his duty to do all ho can to help ill-mated pairs to disorganize, it is purely a work of pliilanthrophy. His fees sim ply cover his actual expenses, for he donates his time and talent, provided he is convinced that the causo is just. lam employed by him to seek out just such instances, to gather the facts, and report them to him. for his decision as to whether he will extend his aid. Now, if you knew of a case that would appeal to his feelings, pray let me know* of it.” The canvasser goes on to explain how readily, privately and for slight reasons,divorces may be obtained; and he departs saying that he will take the liberty of calling again in a week. Os course, he is an agent for some rascally divorce lawyer; mnd it is almost as sure that he drums up consid erable business. Discontented wives, either with or without good cause for divorce, thus have the means brought to them: and when it is added that pay is taken on the installment plan, the attractiveness of the scheme must be acknowledged. On the whole, after the first astonishment is past, you will see that there is nothing infeasible about, and you possibly may wonder tlmt there are not auy club rates included in the offer. SRIGNOLI AND HIS CONQUESTS.

As to matrimony, odd views were held by Brignoli, the tenor, who had just died. He was 6 very long time what, in the slang of his profession, may be described as a back number. His date was a quarter of a century ago. No hero of opera in America, however, has since equaled him as a deep impressionist with the women. All handMome actors receive numerous amatory letters from unacquainted, heart-stricken admirers, but it is remembered by Brignoli's friends that his mails were freighted more heavily than those of any other stage beauty, wheth;or male or female. His own recollection could scarcely be trusted on that point, or any other which involved his vanity, for he was a monomaniac. on the subject of his powers as a fascinai or. I knew him well. During the last five years of his life he sang in opera seldom, for only a remnant of his voice was left His fortune was sufficient to maintain him in moderate luxury at a Broad way hotel, ana he used a considerable part of his leisure in braggine of his sentimental conquests. I once asked him why he remained a widower. “Ah! my friend,” he replied, in English with a curious Italian accent, “if I could marry a thousand women at once it might do very well indeed; but a man like me could not expect to find in less than that number the qualities which would fit a single girl to bo my wife. No doubt I could secure the thousand darlings, but the cursed laws wouldn't let me wed them.” He was scarcely jocose. His inordinate vanity made him deem the proposition almost reasonable. In his own esteem he had never ceased to be the handsome young tenor whom giggling girls worshiped. He was a dandy to the death, a Broadway promenader until disease waylaid him. a strange mixture of ridiculous conceit and jolly good-fellowship. What killed him was gluttony. He customarily ate four meals a day, and often five, the last and heaviest just before going late to bed. Seeing a copy of “The Sentimental Journey.” of the gorgeous edition recently illustrated in water colors by French I wondered why he had paid the high price, $l5O. which the volume commanded. “Look here,” he said, turning to a page on which appeared a picturesque head resembling him as closely as a careful portrait, “that is why I bought it.” “How did the artist happen to put you into itr I enquired. “O, unconsciously,* was the calmly sincere reply, “he meant t<* draw an ideal of manly beauty. He did not have either mo or my photograph to copy. The result, is merely a con soquence of his excellent imitation of what the picture ought to be. and quite unknowingly he made my portrait.” STAGE GIRLS AND THRIR FOOL ADMIRERS. What is the reason that footlights throw resplendence round persons who in any other posl tion would be considered dull? The chorus girls in our theaters are, to a majority, from the ranks of decent poverty and indecent affluence. In either case, they were not in their previous Btatecouited by the fellows who now chase them. One night this week a young man asked an usher at the Casino to carry a bouquet to the Stage for a chorus singer. The employe declined, because the demonstration would have broken into the performance inopportunely. Thereupon, the adorer carried the flowers himself down an aisle, stretched across the orchestra rail, and handed them to the object of his wild regard. “Until two months ago,” said a person of whom I inquired, “that girl ran a sewing machine in a shirt factory, and this masher wouldn’t have wasted a second glance at her.” At the Bijou Opera house actor Dixey and pianager Donnelly had blows over the question whether privileged chaps should be afforded special facilities for admiring the burlesquers; the stage door-keeper at Niblo’s has bem as satilted because he shut out a ballet girl's escort; and all around the theaters in which fig urantes are employed are evidences of the curious fascination which develops imaginary butterflies from actual grubs. At the same time, the proof is easily within sight that these girls, as a rule, care nothing for the fools beyond the good suppers and jewelry to be ob tained from them. I am assured by an expert that the merest scene shifter is likelier to get at the heart of the ballet-girl than is the dangler in a swallow-tail coat. Hero is an illustra tion of the same principle higher in dramatic life. You may have seen Annie Russell, the slimmest, youngest and sweetest of the Hazel Kirkes. It has possibly impressed you that the breath of old Daddy Dunstan's curses might blow her clear off the stage, so ethereal is she. The idea that she eats anything more wholesome than rose leaves seems preposterous. A story came to me that she was pining away for hopeless love of an artist—that in her own experience she was duplicating the sorrows of the parentally oppressed Hazel—that I could, if 1 wished, see the sweetheart for whom she languished. I embraced the opportunity. Ro mance is all too scarce in this work a-day world of ours. The artist with a beauteous actress for his chosen but forbidden wife is not to be neg lected. for he is a rare object My conductor led me through the empty auditorium, and pointed up to the dim rear of the stage. “'That's the young man,” he said. A figure sat astride a suspended board. His garments were smeared. On his head, where long hair ought to have been, was a closecropped surface and a paper cap. This artist was at work. He was swabbing the ground

color on a canvas scene with a whitewash brush. He was a scene-paintei’s apprentice. A LITTLE OK ALL SORTS. One of the brides of next week, by the way, will literally ride into matrimony on horseback. Her name is Stevens, and she belongs to a wealthy family, who have a country home on the south side of Long Island, in a neighborhood of imitation English fox hunting and other imported customs. Ladenburg. the bridegroom, is a member of a club of huntsmen, who will attend the wedding in their scarlet coats and white knee-breeches. Immediately after the conventional ceremony of wedlock there will be a steeple-chase, in ■which the bride will mount her somewhat noted horse and undertake to clear as many obstacles as happen to lie in the course. Spooks are among the thing which have come into high favor with New Yorkers who have the time to cultivate strange hobbies. The subject is made to bear the same burlesque relation t,o science that crazy-quilt patchwork does to art. Telepathy is the word used to designate it. and its devotees discuss, in a manner which they think is profound, the question whether impressions can pass between persons widely separated under some heretofore unsuspected law of nature A Society for Psychical Research has been formed, and in its meetings the members tell one another of their presentiments which have been verified. Most of these mild and yet wild scientists attribute the phenomena to the intermediation of disembodied spirits, and thus get fairly within the limits of modern spiritualism; but they do not acknowledge that they are at all in svinpathy <Hth that generally despised religion. and* would not think of affiliating with iti people. Probably they would also resent ihe suggestion of any likeness between an afternoon tea, given to a party of their women, and a swapping of ghost stories by old crones over ’baccy pipes in the olden times. Countenance is accorded to this movement, how ever, by genuinely scientific minds, and 1 could name several college professors who are apparently returning in belief to the superstitions of former centuries. Here is an illustration of the craze: S. L. M. Barlow, a lawyer of local renown and a taste for antiquities, owns a lot of Mexican curiosities, which he has loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A girl apostle of telepathy picked up one of the objects, an embroidered cap. and put it on her head. “O,” she instantly exclaimed, “I’d be shot in an hour if I wore this.” She declared that she knew of no reason for the impression, but that it was vivid and startling. That cap was one which Maximillian wore within an hour of his execution. You may take her word for it, if you havo a mind to, that she did not know' or guess at the cap's history before the thought flashed into her head with its contact. The talk of society at present is largely about such occurrences, as proof of the new phase of philosophy. Now that the political campaign is over, it may be set down among the results that an immense quantity of egotism has been generated. The fling is often made at actors that the applause of audiences makes coxcombs of them, and that on a small amount of real public regard they build great air-castles of fame and fortune. The effect is bound to be similar in the cases of stump orators. Not only were the presidential candidates surrounded with enthusiasm enough to reasonably convince each that he was sweepingly popular, but every speaker with a good gift of gab caused applause so readily that he is excusable if he has come to the conclusion that he is a truly big man. The point which they overlook is that ready-made, enthusiastic audiences were before them, eager t.o indorse all sentiments uttered in accordance with their partisanism. Pond, the lecture bu reau man, tells me that he lias already had many offers of services by stumpers who believe they could find lyceum assemblages as easy as political crowds to entertain. He has one answer for all ‘ Hire a hall and make an experiment for yourself.”

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, ISB 4.

HISTORICAL REMINISCENCE Connecting Indianapolis and Naples, Italy— Old and New Times. Correspondence of t\ e India nanolis Journal. Naples, Italy, Oct. 28.—At the first election held in Indianapolis, April 1, 1822, Gen. Thomas A. Morris, then a boy, got into a fight with another boy as to the right name of a small Spanish coin then in vogue. Young Tom Morris contended that “sip" was the right term, tho other boy said it was “fo’pence,” so they fought it out on that line. Nap. Taylor, Berry Sulgrove, John Coburn, William and Lew Wallace (I put down these Old Seminary Boys in the order of age, although William W. may be older than John Coburn) can remember when we went to school to Holliday, and afterward to Kemper, that American quarters, dimes and half dimes wjre scarce articles. In their stead we had any quantity of Spanish quarters, “levys,” or “hits,” “ftps,” and these last were otherwise called “fippenny bits,” “half bits,” “fo’ pence" or “picayunes.” Spanish half dollars were not so plenty as the quarters, and the old Spanish “mill dollar” was the rarest of all these coins. Now, if these and other old Indianapolis boys will recall this coinage they will remember that while tho pillars peculiar to Spanish coinage were on one side, there was on the other the portrait of an old gentleman, whose headdress was, in our youthful imagination, like that of George Washington, but whose head was anything but like George’s. Indeed, the sloping forehead and the tremendous nasal organ that appeared on most of the quarters, “levys” and “ftps” indicated a man of a most homoeopathic dose of brains, and of a most allopathic amount of nose. If one were to examine a little closer it would be found that all these coins were not tho same—that there were two coinages, containing two portraits, which at first sight had a certain resemblance, and hence many people thought they were one and the same. They were not portraits of the same individual. One set of coins contained the image and superscrition of “Carolus 111, Rex Hispan,” and the other set (that which had the brainless, big-nosed head) contained the image aud superscription of “Carolus IV, aud who was the son of Carolus III.” The titles, after leaving out the Roman figures were exactly the same, and being translated would read thus: “Charles by the grace of God, king of Spain and the Indies.’ The earlier coins of both kings contained “Indies” because “America,” up to a late date in the first quarter of this century, did not appear in Spanish official documents as “America,” but was only one of the “Indies.” Those old coins, especially the small ones to which I have referred, constituted the greater part of the coinage which we saw in Indianapolis in our boyhood, for cents or “coppers” as we called them, were so rare up to 1834-5, that a boy who got hold of one kept it as a pocket piece, and although all our State banks were provided with them when they began financial operations, it was not until a much later date that cents entered into general circulation, and into the petty commerce of the markethouse, the grocery, the butcher-shop, and the store.

“Who, when living,” it may be asked, “were the owners of these big nosed heads, represented in medallion on the Spanish coins in circulation forty-five years ago, not only in Hoosierland, but all through the United States?” I will answer that the owners of these heads were both born in Naples, and that the first, Charles 111, was a man with a great deal of go about him in war and in peace—in palace and road-building, canaldigging, and in many other things in the civil and political line. He was in some respects a man of enlarged views, and opposed to the narrow, illiberal and meddling tendencies of the Jesuits, and he readily combined with the Marquis of Pombal, the great minister of Portugal, in driving out the Jesuits from the possessions of Spain and Portugal in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This same Charles 111 was king of Spain when our present Florida was taken from him by the English, but, in 1781, under him the British wore whipped in Florida, and it remained Spanish possession until 1820, when we bought that almost tropical State from Charles the Ill’s grandson, Ferdinand VII, the grandfathor of the present king, Alfonso, of Spain. Charles 111 was, as I said, born in Naples, and was the king of Naples and Sicily. But it will be said, “How, then, did he become king of Spain?” By legitimate succession. He was a Spanish Bourbon, and it was his father Philip, Duke of Anjou, the grandson of Louis XIV, who, first by the will of Charles II of Spain, and second by the abritrament of the sword, became, after the “wars for the Spanish succession,” the King of Spain, under the title of Philip V, and he was the ruler over the large possessions of Spain in Italy, for a part of hi& tirfe w;u, “King of Spain. Naples and Sicily.” his 2£s9nd wife Philip married Elizabeth Farnese, tho niece of the last Duke of Farnese. Through her uncle,at his death,she inherited that magnificent collection of classic antiquities which had been collected iu Rome and elsewhere by the Farnese Pope (Paul III) in the sixteenth century. That is the reason that the famous Naples Museum has in addition to the immense treasures from Herculaneum. Pompeii, Stabim: Paestum, Puteo li, Bairn and Curaa, tho vast and precious collection of objects to which the name of Farnese is appended, as the “Farnese Bull,” tho “Farnese Hercules.” the Farnese “Flora.” Elizabeth Farnese. or rather Philip V, had them brought from Rome in the last century. Now, Charles 111, as ho is called, was the younger son of Philip V (the first Spanish Bourbon) and Elizabeth Farnese. He inherited the Duchy of Parma from his mother, and thence ruled as “Don Carlos.” But he was ambitious, and was not to be confined to little Parma—the home of Parmesan violets and Parmesan cheese—so lie kicked up such a shindy that his father had to yield him that which is today known as the old “Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.” In 1734. when he was but eighteen, he was crowned at Palermo as Charles VII of Naples and Sicily, and four years afterward his title was acknowledged at Vienna (for Austria still had great claims in Italy), but Austria could not think of yielding all that Charles wanted. .So in 1744 he went boldly after tho Austrians, defeated them at Velletri, and compelled them to leave the kingdom. The result was that his ti tie was acknowledged and confirmed in 1748 by the celebrated treaty at Aix-la Ohapelle, which terminated the war of tho Austrian succession. Eleven years aft< i r this his elder brother. Ferdinand VI, who was the King of Spain, died, and ho succeeded to the throne of Spain, in 1759. under the title of Charles 111. The Neapolitans and Sicilians always call him by this title instead of Charles VII, which was his Italian title. Ho was the greatest King of Spain in the eighteenth century, and a portion of the Quarters, “lips" and “levies’ that wo saw in our boyhood bore his image and superscription. I cannot visit various public buildings, aqueducts,etc..in and around Naples without seeing, by the in scriptions, that they were built by Charles 111. 1 shall never forget a beautiful April day which 1 spent at C'aserta. some twenty miles from Naples. in company with JohnC. Wright and wife and daughter, from Indianapolis. At Caserta are the magnificent palace and the equally magnificent park, built and laid out by Charles ill. The palace is of fine architecture; it is rectangular. and has a front of nearly 800 feet, the height is 125 feet, and each of the four stories contains thirty seven large windows. An English writer has truly said that “from whatever side tho palace is approached wo cannot fail to bo struck with the singular elegance and harmony of the design.” its grand staircase is the finest in tho world. Hero it was that King “Bomba” loved to come, because ho had tho artil lory of Capua on ono side, and tho cavalry

and infantry of Caserta on the side, and he felt secure from the indignation of his ground-down subjects. Here “Bomba” (King Ferdinand II) entertained Pius IX when the latter ran away from Rome, in 1848 19; and hero, in 1859, “Bomba” died, detested by his people, execrated by tho civilized world, and blessed by the head of the Church at Rome. It is to Ferdinand II (“Bomba”) whom Whittier so scathingly refers in his grand though short poem entitled “In Memory of Joseph .Sturge.'’ Sturge was an eminent Quaker philanthropist of Birmingham, England, who died in his simple homo in that city on the same day, in 1859, that “Bomba” died amid tho splendid surroundings of the palace at Caserta. It is the custom for all the courts of Europe to appoint so many days for mourning a departed brother monarch, hut it was thought that England would not go through such a mockery for the “monster so abhorred while living.” or who had been shown by Gladstone and other English statesmen visiting Italy to have been the most narrow and Nero like king that had reigned in modern times. Nevertheless, the usual mourning was decreed. Whittier makes the good Sturge stand out in boldest relief by the vileness of the man who died amidst the glorious scenery of Naples and its surroundings. Very happy is tho contrast of tho grandiose and beautiful nature of tho Neapolitan hay, arid that of the little river Edgebaston, which trickles through Birmingham, where unfeigued sorrow is poured out for the good man gone. I cannot refrain from quoting the first verses of that poem: “In the fair land o’erwatchcd by Ischia’s mountains, Across t.be charmed bay, Whose blue waves keep with Capri's silver fountains Perpetual holiday, “A king lies dead, his wafer duly eaten, His gold-bought masses given; And Rome's great altar smokes with gums to sweeten Her foulest gift to heaven. “And while all Naples thrills with mute thanksgiving The court of England’s Queen For the dead monster so abhorred while living In mourning garb is seen. “With a true sorrow God rebukes that foigning; By lone Edgelmston's side Stands a great city in the sky’s sad reigning, Bareheaded and wet eyed. ’ As Whittier wrote the second verse originnlly it was much stronger. When it first appeared in print the last two lines of that verse ran thus: "And Rome's great altar stnoke3 with gums to ewoeteu Her gift that stinks to heaven.” But the Boston Courier (at that time controlled by George Lunt, the late President Felton, of Harvard, and Hillard, the gifted writer, of Boston,) in criticising the poem, aud while giving it the highest praise, thought that the word “stinks” was not elegant enough, and suggested “smells” instead Sam Bowles was then at tho head of the Springfield Republican, and. in a most witty paragraph, quoting the comment ot the Boston Courier, added this line, viz.: “In Boston it doesn't ‘stink;’ it only ‘smells.’” Someone wiil ask me, especially if he, or she, is a young reader, “Why did Ferdinand 11, the great grandson of Charles 111, get the sobriquet Bomba?” I answer that after sixteen years of the most cruel and reactionary reign, oppressing his people, stifling by arms every aspiration of liberty and constitutional government on the part of his most intelligent subjects, and governed by priests and jesuits, pandering to the lowest, most ignorant and superstitious of his people, there at last came a gleam of hope to tho lovers of liberty; for the revolution of 1848 in France and elsewhere made Ferdinand 11, for the first time, heed the prayers of his best people. He gave a constitution, called in the Liberals to his government, and it seemed as if he were about to turn over anew leaf. But he was alow, wily, cunning, untruthful, aud in tho end. a perjured man. In less than a twelvemonth lie had, through his tools, planned that they should get up an apparently outrageously radical revolution; his own spies were dressed as peasauts, and the lower city orders, and they led the rabble to excesses. On the strength of this, he broke his oath, imprisoned or banished his own Liberal ministers, bombarded the people from tho fortress of St. Elmo, and assumed his old, wonted and true role of petty despot. St. Elmo is the huge, picturesque fort, which is on the highest point of the city of Naples. The bombardment was most wanton, for there was scarcely any one in the streets at the time except innocent people, and the whole movement was uncalled for and cruel in the extreme. His name is “Bomba” from that act. only one of many cruelties in the life of a detested king. In 1859 he died. In 1890 his heir, whom they call “Bombalina,” was unceremoniously ousted Garibaldi and the people. Charles 111 was tho only true gentleman amongst tho Bourbon kings, whether they were French, Spanish or Italian Bourbons. His son Charles IV, of Spain, was the big-nosey, brainless fellow on the Spanish coins. He was driven out of Spain by Napoleon, and ended his days in Rome. He was a hen-pecked husband, and his minuter, Godoy, “the Prince of Peace,” as he was called, controlled the hen-pecking wife. They all had a nice time of it. It may be asked, what became of the Spanish coins that were in such plenty in the United States? When quarters, levies and tips became so “sweated” by sharpers, and worn out by use that they did not weigh the worth of 20 cents, 8 cents ami 4 cents, it was too bad to tako them for 25, 12 j and cents. Banks began to refuse to tako them except by weight. Then came an order of tho government that after such a time they would not be received at all for custom, postoffice or other dues; and then, too, tho United States mints turned out any amount ot' quarters, dimes and half dimes, bright, new and well milled. Then it was that the old tractions of the Spanish dollar traveled towards tho West Indies and Mexico, or were thrust into the refiner’s pot and came forth in the shape of spoons and other silverware. Such was the end of their career. J. C. Fletcher.

Mlchipicaton Outlaws Arrested. Toronto. Nov. B. Inspector Ward reeeivf-d a dispatch to-day from Sault Ste Marie, stating that the Michipicaton desperadoes. Wallace and McGilliveray, who were in hiding while the Toronto police were there, and after they had left committed several lawless deeds, had been arrested by United States detectives and handed over to the authorities at the Sault Wallace was foreman of a gang of Italians who lived here, and was implicated in a stabbing affray last winter. Shot While Resisting Arrest. New Orleans, Nov. 3. —Sam Johnson, colored. was shot, and killed last night on the corner of Sister and Royal streets, bv t.'uas. Hyle, who was in company with special Officer Dupre. Johnson resisted being arrested by Dupre, and the officer, striking him in the forehead, when Hyle fired at Johnson, killing him. Hyle surrendered. Boys’ underwear at 25 and 50 cents, excellent qualities, at the Model Clothing Company. immT riTiM ir i iirrr ——— ISOLD WITH THEE Iguapanteel iOF BEiMGTHE BEST£ 1 THAT CAN BE MADEr the-michigan-stove-company2[ 5 - DCTRO:T'CH!CAGO-BUFFALO‘P - S JOHN A. T.YTOJN S.

DICKSON'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. ffIKK I NOV. 13,14 AND 15, MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2 P. M. TI-IE MAX>isoisr SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY, 'Presenting the Great New York and London Success, CALLED BACK! Adapted from the Popular Novel of that name by the author, Air. Hugh Conway and Mr. Cornym Carr, with the * Original New York Cast! Original New York Scenery! Original Mechanical Effects! Original Music! fSTREAI) THE NOVEL! SEE THE PLAY! Popular prices. Side of seats begins (next) Tuesday at the box-oftico. GIIivIOKES Theatre Monday, November 10. and double Matinees Tuesday, Ttiursday and Saturday. II ENGAGEMENT Hilllffi! MR. SIDC.FRANCE In his Realistic Picture of Western Life, THE JAMES BOYS! A New and Powerful Melodrama. A Talented Coterie of Stars—Vernon and Gilmore, Clark and Edwards, Miss Lillian Markham, Miss Lulu Wentworth, Allen aud West, Johnson and Lulu. Usual Concert after performance in Buffet.

MERIDIAN RINK, 114 North Pennsylvania Streot. Opening of the Regular Season MONDAY Evening, NOVEMBER 10. Engagement for the week of MISS CARRIE GILLMORE, of Boston, the Finest Lady Skater in tho country, who will give exhibitions every eveniug and Saturday afternoon. A NEW WOOD FLOOR Has boen put down, and the prices have been changed, making it one of the best appointed Rinks iu the country. SESSIONS. Morning 10:00 to 12:00 Afternoon..... 2:30 to 4:30 Evening 7:00 to 10:00 PRICES. Morning—Admittance, 10c, with use of skates or surface. , Afternoon—Admittance, 15c; ten tickets, sl. Evening—Admittance. 25c: six ticket*, SL. Season admittance tickets, $lO. Use of skates or surface, afternoon and evening, 10c. Music every evening and Saturday afternoon by the When Baud. The management reserves the right to refuse admission or use of skates. WIGWAM RINK! West Maryland Street. Open every Day and Evening. Last Winter's Prices. The management reserves tho right to refuse admission and use of skates to objectionable persons. VAJEN & NEW, Hardware, Cutlery, Tools, Builders’ Hardware. 64 EAST WASHINGTON ST I F A Advertising iii the conn i L JIJXA- L L trv is among the Wants, For Sales, etc., of the INDIAN AI*OLIS DAILY JOURNAL, at only FIVE CENTS PER LINE each insertion. li you have any farms or property to dispose of this will afford you a very easy and cheap agency. Try it

■nun i '-"■■■Twiim —mr-m in 'lumrrr 11 r.^^r.rnrg>MMinmwwi * Bicycles, Tricycles and Sundries A A THE INDIANA WHEEL COMPANY, j I 59 South Hiinois sti’oet, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., f- ~ i Atrents for the COT.UMTSTA. RTOR BRITISH, OH.VT.T.KXOK, ’ ' _JIB 5 STB AORIMXABY OHAM.BNGE and FACHiE. 01. l Wheels for *', V; J^gpl 1 ; and taken in part pay for new. Bicycles sold on weekly anil monthly V’s 1 ffil fj J ,i uaymeuts in the city. Repairing and Nickeling a specialty. ' C. F. SMITH, Mflnaoftp. OSTRICH FEATHERS CLEANED RLED J. J. IRWIN’S, No. 22 South Illinois Street. work (JUAKANTEEIX PRICES I.OWKR t Irm those of any other oeiotu shnoont 'in tho West.

yDIGKSONS£ ORMDQPEHAHPCK The Handsomest. Best Located and Most Popular Theater in tho City. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdy Evenings, Nov. 10, 11 and 12. THE COMEDIANS, Robson & Cranel And their Excellent Comedy Company. Monday Night.—The Very Funny Comedy. “OUR BACHELORS.” Robson as ’Bangle, the Bald," Crana as ‘Jowler, the Jolly.” Tuesday evening—Dion Boueicault’s “FORBIDDEN FRUIT.” Robson as “Cato Dove, ’ Crane as ‘*Bergeant Buster.” Wednesday Evening—Their New Comedy, "TTTR CHERUBS." “Phidias," “Vandyke” (twin brothers), Mr. Stuart Robson, Mr. Wm. 11. Crune. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Saturday Mati> nee, Nov. 33, 14 and 15, THE GREAT NEW YORK SUCCESS, ycmmcKX ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE. Will E. English, Proprietor and Manager. Largest, Best and Most Popular Theater iu Indiana r.Hol A reserved seat f O > on the lowkk FLOOR for \ KJ Engagement for Three Nights and a Matinee, commencing MONDAY, NoV. 10, of HELEN BLYTHE, —AS—CORA, THE CREOLE, From Belot’s Famous Novel, “ARTICLE 47,” Dramatized by David Belasco. of tho Madison Square Theater, Now York. Throe Nights, commencing Thursday, Nov. 13, engagement of the AUSTRALIAN—WHAT? NOVELTY COMPANY. Prices—lsc, 25c, 500 and 75c. — <m gCHOOL OF ELOCUTION. liana Intel School of Elocution And EXPRESSION, of INDIANAPOLIS. Mrs. Hattie A. Prunk, PrincipaL (Graduate of tho Boston University School of Oratory under the late Louis B. Monroe.) Opens seventh year Sept. 17. Special courses foe those desiriug to become Teachers or Students of the Dramatic Art and Readers. For farther information call on or address Mrs. H. A. FKIINIQ 308 West New York street. Blake and Noble street cars pass tho school.

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