Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1889 — Page 8

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Iln guard's AYeinl Story as It lias Been Prepared for the Stage by Gillette. At the Graal Folly and Burlesque Will Be Presented, While Attractive Specialties Can e Seea at the Park Theatrical Gossip. Mr. William Gillette's beautiful and elaborate production of Rider Haggard's weird romance, "She,7 the woman who lived a queen, for years, and vrhoe fanciful history has been read by millions, will bo given for the first time in this city, at English, to-morrow night and during the rr.&t of the week, with matineescn AVcdnesday and Satnrdav. 'She' has been ariveu with great success at the Fourteenth-street Theater, New York; Hoilis-ttreet Theater, Boston, and Walnut-street Theater, Philadelphia, ami the Xational Theater, Washington, D. C. Tho dramatic characters will be portrayed by Laura Clement as She, Tellnla Evans as Ustane, Rose Snyder as Dillyesha, William S. Harkins as Leo, Matt Snyder as Holly, Maurice Pike as Job. II. W. Frillman as Billali, 3L E. Heisy as the chief of the Ainahagger, W. B. Barnes as Mohammed, while Charles Bowser will represent the American drummer. A corps of lifty rlayers is required to idve this play its fullest elaboration. An enlarged orchestra and a chorus of forty-eight singers largely recruited from the National' Opera Company will render Furts weird and stirring music. .All of Phil Goatchers new and jrorgeoris scenic equipment, togethcrwith Belaseo's amazing mechanical eflects, will b employed in the production here. Among tho notable "etago sets' are the illustrations of the wreck of the Arab dhow, the dance of the Amahagper Hot-Potters, the underground palace of fche, and the cave of the "Fire of Life." where the beautiful She is transformed into a shriveled-np hag 2,000 years old. The scenery is said to be on a scale of unlimited magnificence, and the cast fnlly equal to the exacting requirements of the play. The Grand will be open only one night this week, Friday evening, when Mr. M. B. Leavett's Folly and Burlesque Company will give a performance. This organization is composed almost exclusively of English specialty and novelty artists, among? whom afe Connie Leslie, W. W. Walton, a comedian of fine reputation, Enily Lynnah. a very clever singer and darner. Ruby Stuart, James Connors, Sam Colling George Murphy and Katie Wells, the Chester sisters, and a host of others. Tha performance begins with a picturesque extravaganza, El Mexicano," and conMonte 0 iiristo, jr.," in which the company has made s decided hit wherever it has appeared.. T.Ms is said to be the largest and motst talen.Vd company Mr. Leavitt has ever gotten iVget her, and to be especially strong in ct medians and vocalists. The advance sale tf seats will begin at the boxofltee on Wednesday morning, and thero will be- no incioaso in prices. A specialty company that is as well known aait is well liked here, the Australian Novelty Compamy, will play at thePark all thif week, opening with a matinee tomorrow. Last seascm when it played here the theatre was not largo enough to accommodate all who curie to see it, and this experience (very ple.tsant to managers) will doubtless be duplicated this week. At the head of the company are the famous Austin sisters, who da tb most wonderful and daring aeriel act eve.? seen in a theater, including somersaults nirouettes and exciting leaps from a flyjig trapeze, one catching the other. In addition to this, Miss Amie, one of the siste rs does her remarkable performance of talking on the ceiling, over the audience, Itead downward, traversing a distance of tw entv-fonr feet, turning and walking back. She uses no apparatus and wear shoes of only the ordinary size. The other members of the company areFred Mills, the humorist and vantriloqnist. the Garnellas, .grotesque acrobatic performers, Webber and Fields, German comedians, Hughes and Farren, Charles A-Schelling. the musical phenomenon. Harrigan. a clever equilibrist. Miss Minnie Lee, a talented singer, Albert Ward, the crayon artist and others. The chief attraction at the E flen Mnsee this week will be a cranks tonv ention, and tha delegates, who have been gathered up m various parts of the country, include a temperance crak, a musical crank, a baseball crank, an operatic crank, a fijinz-machine crank, a woman'sright crank, a dude crank, and various others, all appropriately dressed, and Insisting upon their particular "crankwra." They have made much fun ii all tho big cities, and doubtless will heve. Any Indianapolis crank, who thinks he may become a prize-winner, is welcome to enter. Another attraction will be Professor Mohn, who does a very remarkable at of dislodging knives, suspended by strings above him. by pistol shots, and letting them fall all around him eo as to pen him in. Goslp of th Stag. Lydia Thompson is dangerously ill at Los Angeles, CaL . John A. Mackay is convalescing, and will soon be out again. Kyrlo Bellew is said to consider his version of "Antony and Cleopatra better than fchakspeare's. That sweet singer, Tellnla Evans, who plays the part of the Amhaggan maiden, Ustane. in Gillette's "She," will be pleasantly recalled as one of the prime donne of the Carleton Opera Company. At the funeral of manager and ex-minstrel Charles White, in Detroit, a floral design was contributed in the form of a theatrical ticket, with a coupon attached bearing the words. "Ticket to Heaven.' The New York Graphic describes Mrs. James Brown Potters "Cleopatra" as "a flittering intoxicant of voluptuous splendor. ami says that "the wav she uncovered oeraelf in an exploit of realism was remarkable, even in these days of dramatic actuality." Mrs. Helen Dauvray Ward distinctly announces that she will not travel with Joseph Jefferson's company next seasou, as has been stateih It is by no means impossible that the lady may return to the fttage. but if she does, it will be to resume her place as a star. Janes Brown Potter, the husband of the society actress, is described as a stout, handsome young lnaj, who strolls about the lobby of the theater listening to all that is tald about his wife. It is presumed he never hears anything derogatory. He gets thst from the morning papers. Mr. Charles H. Hoy ts play, MA Midnight Bell." which is to have its Lrst production in No York, at the Bijou Theater, a fewweeks hence, is of a more ambitious charao ter thin A Brass Monkey" or "A Tin Soldie." Although the farcical, romping comedies have earned a great deal of money for Mr. Hoyt, he has never lost his eari v ambition to write a pure comedy. "A Midnight

Bell" is a sketch of :?ew England lite, and isanearprapnroac.il to pure comedy than "A Ra? Ba by" or a ny of its fellows. It was produced in San Francisco a few monius ago, and tho venture was success! uL Maud Miller, daughter of Joaquin Miller, and London McConnack, both stars of the "40" compauy. were nearly destitute at Cherokee. Kan., nntil Mr. McCormack tmnished the hotel landlord for insulting him. This inspired public svmpathy, the citizens gave him a ron?ing benefit at Kie operaouse and he left town with a full pnrse. Miss Julia Marlowe has impressed tu? Philadelphians that the stage has louud another light to illuminate its boards, and that she isa great actress, equipped with the rich natural gif ts that are rare in these days of histrionic mediocrity and fine clothes. Her Juliet, the critics all say. was as enectivo in force, pathos and feeling as that of any actress who has assumed the part in recent years. William E. Hines, the well-known son and danco man. is the divorced husband of Earle Remington, and at present is with Peta Baker. For a nnraber of years he has not seen his wife. The other day a new lady was added to the east, and, to Hines'e surprise, when he attended rehearsal he ran face ta face with his wife. Before rehearsal

was over they were talking, and now it is whispered that they will marry again. Booth &. Barrett have by no means given up their project of securing Mme. Modleska to act with Mr. Booth next seasou. They have sunnouuted tho difficulty raised by Modjeska herself, by agreeing to present her a3 a joint star with Mr. Booth, instead of simply as a leading lady. This concession, coupled with a certain salary of 1,500 a week, has made the lady look with great favor on the proposition to abandon her own starring tour and act with Mr. Booth. "Signor Blitz." a prestidigitateur, who was famous a quarter of a century ago, and whose real name is David Batchis. is an inmate of the New York Flatbush Hospital, awaiting commitment to the Kings County insane asylum. He has btn an inmate of the State asylum, at Harruimrg, for three or four years, and is a heljvlesa imbecile. He has had nine strokes of paralysis 6ince He has brief periods oS. sanity, in which he recognizes his wife Nobody knows haw old Signor Blitz reaAlyi. Ho was born in England previous tt 1825. but the exact date is not known. He is one of the grandfathers of Marie Van Zandt. Although but a bare mention wa made in the papers last Sunday of Mary Anderson's coming engagement here. Managers Dickson fc Talbott have received hundreds of inquiries, written and oral, abo.it it since then, with manv applications fo.r reserved seats. The rule of showing no preferences will be rigidly adhered to. however, and when the sale opens, on the morning of Feb. y, those who come first will hare the first choice. Miss Anderson is to play at English's Feb. 18 and 19, presenting: "The Winter's Tale" the opening night, and a double bill. "Pygmalion and Galatea" and "Comedy and Tragedy" the second night, he brings her English company, special scenery, etc, here. A writer in the New York Tress says: "Funny careers some actresses have, don't theyf Here is Julia Marlowe, for instance, the sensational actress of the present season, everywhere pronounced to be the coming great tragedienne. Eight years has she been on tho stage, and yet nobody heard of her until she came forth at tho Bijoa Theater last season with a great flourish of trumpets, and she was worthy of the tlourish. She jumped instanter into popular favor, and is now sweeping everything before her. Her real name is Fanny Brougli. She was born in Illinois, but spent most of her girlhood days with her mother in Cincinnati. Her mother was divorced while Miss Marlow was yet an infant, married again, and is now the proprietress of a hostelry which has lately come into unpleasant notoriety at Porkonolis. Miss M:irlowea first appearance on the stage was with Josephine Riley in Chicago. She played a soubrette part. Then she becamo a chorus girl and then a hurlesquer, when she pranced, capered and gyrated about the stage in tights in companies with such burlesquers as Ida Mulle and Ella Weston. And now, 'preeto change'. she is the great emotional actress of the day." SIGFITS IN VALXEY. Some of the Strange and Terrible Features of a Southern California Mirage. San Francisco Examiner. "In the secluded JiLl-Jam valley of the San Bernardino mountains," remarked Joe Joachinsou, the pioneer of San Beruadino, to a reporter at the Pal.v?e Hotel, "there are tho most marvelous nirasres known in the world. The wonderful mirages of the Mojave desert have been talked about a great deal, and they are entitled to all tlu prominence they have had. But those of the Jim-Jam valley are far move wonderful than these. "It is called JinvJam valley beeauso of tho strange things seen there, and J defy any man, however sound of mind her may be, to go in there and not think he ha got 'em befci 3 he gets out. This valley is about twenty-uve miles lone bv lifteon miles wide. It is uninhabited. It is boro'ered by the main San Bernardino rango on t he east and by a spur of the Sierra Ma-gdaleims on the west. There is no well deiinea vrsil through the heart of it. The valley U a desert. The surrounding mountains are terribly serrated and cut up. The pral 's are jagged. Altogether the surrounding s are weird and forbidding. "Leaving Fisk's ranch on the trail at tins foot of the Sierra Magdalenas. j-ouclmb .an easy grade to Dead Man's Pass, the entrance to the valley. Go in and pretty sooi you see lakes and running rivers, and green borders, aud flying water fowl. Willows spring up here and there, and m the distance yon see water-lilies. What you behold contrasts finely with the ruggedmouutains, and you are charmed witli it. and go on thinking yon have struck an earthly paradise. Indian camps appear in view, and littlo oarsmen propel la ntastie crafts upon the waters. Advancing still further you see dimly outlined tonus, things whose outlines yon can hardly express in words. Sombre countenanees gleam at you from the air above. The hikes, and rivers, and the pallid faces shjf t and change before your eyes. Sometimes a dozen of tho more or less dimlr outlined forms may be seen, and the pantomime reminds you of a strange hobgoblin dance. Sometimes a storm brews in the valiry, and then the scene is all tho moro terribfe. Forked lightning blazes about, and strange, uncouth animals, dillering from any you have ever read about, are to be seen there. "These phenomena are seen for a stretch of about fifteen miles up and down the middle of the valley principally, and they have been viewed by a great many people. They cannot understand why the forms of tho mirage, if such it may be called, are so much more strange there than on the Mojave desert. Every body, is in awe of the valley, aud there are raightv few men, however nervy they may be ordinarily, who care to go there much. Carious If True. Montreal WltneM. Mr. A. D. King, a well-known la.wvcr of Orillia, lost his life on the Grand Trunk railway a few days since. He had been away on bnsiness, and on returning got off the train while it was in motion, instead of getting oft" at the station side, he took the wrong side of the train, and had hardly touched tho ground when he slipped and fell so that his two legs were run over by the Pullman car. He died in twenty-three hours. The accident took place at 2 o'clock iu the morning, and at daylight a brother of the dying man drove a lew miles out from the station to tell his father of the sad business. To his surprise he found his father up and dressed awaiting him. "Where's Daniel!" eagerly asked the old gentleman. "I saw him about 2 o'clock or a little after. He came to my window and rapped at it. I saw him three times and spoke to him!" Tho grief the father on learning of the sad affair was very great. DUgu$tng Skin Distant. What spectacle is more disgusting than that of a man or woman with a skin disease which 6hows itself in pimples or blotches on hands, arms, face and neck! It is simply impure blood. See what Brandreth'a Pills did for a chronic case: George Chapman, Pincening, Mich., says: "For four years I was in the mounted infantry in the United States arrav, residing during that time principally in Texas. Almout aXl of that time I had a chronic skin disease, characterized by an eruption over the entire surface of my legs and thighs, arms and chest. The doctor termed it eczema. I had given up all hopes of ever being cured, when Brandreth's Pills were Tecommended to me. I concluded to trv them, aud did so, and I have thauked God daily since then that I did so. I think 1 used them altogether for about three months, and. by that time, was completely enred and nave never had any trouble since. My skin is as clear as any one's."

nUMOU OF THE DAY.

Brightness and Gloom. Tbe Epoch. "Ah, George," slm said, "when one is happy how quick time flies." 'Ves, dear,' he responded, "and how. quickly time stops flying at the end of the. thirty days." AVlmt It Come To. reoria Transcript. Speaker Carlisle Is Congressman Weaver, of Iowa, present! , Mr. Weaver He is. speaker Carlisle -Then there is nothing to further delay business. A quorum is. present. '' Fopular Women. Js'ew York. Week! jr. Miss Longpurse Why, of course, Helen of Troy was beantifuu Do yon suppose there would have been a twenty-year war over her if she hadn't been beautiful? Mr. Shortcash (forgetting himself) Oh, I don't know. Maybe she was rich. ' Brought to Terms. New York Weekly. Housekeeper 1 6ee you hnvo a very good reference. Applicant Yis, mum. Tho lady was so mane she didn't want to give me no reference at first, but I tould her I'd get me brother Mike's siven bovs to foller 'er on the strate an' yell "white horso" ivery toim ehe wint out wid her red hair. Your Trouble for Your Pains. The T!poco. First Bunco-steerer Who is that old gentleman coming out of the hotel? Second Bunco-steerer He's a professor of some kind. I don't know his name. First Bunco-steerer Shall we work him! Second Bunco-steerer Work him! Did youever know a professor to bo worth working? ' He Was Still a Man. 3?nek. Howell Gibbon (to Nedy Individual who has asked for relief) I cawn't give yon any money, me good fellah: but if yon call at me side door, to-night, you can have some old clothes. Needy Individual What d' yer take me for, mister? I've fallen pretty low, I know; but I ain't no second-hand dude! lessons of Experience. rbilaflelphia Record. Jinks "I made a bet with Miss De Pink last night" Blinks "Gloves against a necktie, I suppose?" "Y-e-s. now did yoit know?" "Oh, women always bet that way. If they win, they insist that it was a box of gloves thev were to haw; but if they lose, you get a i5-cent necktwe." A Bad N: amr. St. Tsui Glofce. A lawyer of Temple Court was looking over some papers his German client had brought, ana every signature had a menace in it, as it stood: "A. Schwindler." "Mr. Schwindlec why don't you write jpur name some otiier other way: write out yaur first name, pr something? I don't want people to think you are a swindler." 'Yell, my Got, sir-how much better you dime that looks?" and he wrote: "Adam Schwindler," lie Found It Sympathetic. Merchant Traveler. There is at least one thing that I can say in your favor," said his wife s mother, "and that is you'ro a great deal more attentive to the Scriptures than you osed to be. But I suppose that really I deserve most of tho credit for that; I knew that yon never paid mnch attention to tho good book till after you married my daughter." "Yes, I nay more attention to such matters now." "What portion are you rcading?" " 'Lamentations. 1 confinx; myself exclusively to that book." A Western Prospectus. Cordnroy Center (Neh.1 I'laindcaVer. The Plaindealer i the only paper in the cit3" which pays its cwnipositor every week. It is the only paper in the city 'which prints a page at home. The Plaindealer sajictum is the only newspaper oflice in the city in which pokerplaying and excessive .drinking are strictly prohibited. The Plaindealer is the. only paper runnine a temperance column and a puzzle department. k It is the only paper which is not the tool of a graspiug monopoly. Now is the time to subscribe. Call and see us. The latch string is always out. An Astnte Chlcaoan. Washington Post. Congressman Maeon, of Chicago, was doing the honors: yesterday, for several of his constituents from the W indy City. One of his main "heelers," when Major Martin, of Texas, was pointed out to him, sail; "O yes, I mind a lot of stuff printed about him. What was it he done made him so conspicuous!" "V hy," said Mr. Ma&on, "it was reported that when he first came here he blew out the gas just before going to bed in his room at a Washington hotel." "Well, what of it; why was such a fuss made about it!" asked the Chicago constituent from Blue Island. "Why, on account of his blowing out tho gas-light," said Mr. Mason. "Well," said another constituent from tho Black Koad, "you don't think a man of anv sense is a-going to sleep in the room with ,the light burning, do yon? I dont see .where the laugh comes in, I don't." Discipline for the Old Man. 1 ett olt Free Pnss. , About midnight the other night a patrolm.tii on Champlain street washalted by a Non.an living around the corner, who infortr d him that a burglar was trying to effect an entrance by the back door. The offices summoned help and proceeded to tho spot. Sure enough, a man was at work at the re r the house, and while he was pryingu'Vt window tho officers made a dash and cL 'ared him. "I ai v no burglar,'' he vigorously protested ft he was dragged along. "Don' t let him get away!" shouted the woman i om a chamber window, and the officers tt good care that he didn't. Next mi "ning the woman appeared at police hea l quarters and said "I guev Danny has been punished enough, and Ton may let him go." Vvho's DvX ,ny asked the sergeant. "Myhusbatt d.-r I warned him to be home by 10 o'clock, i He did not come till midnight Then v. "ad tne door, locked, and while'he was 1 1, ving to get in I had the officers nab him." Danny was'al U wed to go. but that jokefnlwifogotaplV'Vf aJlvlce hich kept her hair on end i W two days. Didn't Ta nt Elephant. Philadelphia North Ai a"I will sell you a ' elephant cheap," -aid a little black-whisl usred man as ihe stepped up to a tall genth V1 standing in the Continental Hotel c vrjdor vesterday who was talking to Scl teor Quay s friend, Charles Fmory Smitl U the editor of the "An elephant!" shri e tel tho tall man: 'why, what would I dc Vth au clePh,ant!'' "Yes I'll almost give unito you," continued the black-whiskVred "How, who did not seem at all abash e . "My dear boy," returned the tall man. "I have one elephant o-. my l mas no,w. and I am threatened with anothw r, and what I would do with a third I do 9 know Perhaps my friend Smith will t ke an he sling ink?" . , "Isn't this Adam Forepau, A V tIie pll0vr man?" queried the elephant sl 'fj "No, Pin Chauncey Depew," the big man almost shouted - , . , "Ah! I see," retorted the black "whiskered man. "Mistake. Pardon. Hae jou. the chestnut bag with yon?" , . Mr. Depew drew himself up toi the. full height of his manhood and said tl Hi f he had not heard from Indianapolis di Vt IQg the past houn Introduction of Knee-Breeches. New York Special to Baltimore American. Strenuous efforts are being made by;, oung men who are in the swim to introduce .k. breeches into society as a reqniremem evening dress. At a Fifth-avenue p;t ty this week no lesa than seven of those shov -trousered suits may have been seen on th floor, and are said to have been regarded with much favor by those who wer not bold enough to join at once in the innovation against the old style. The advantages are those of convenience and beauty. The shapely calf, around which the baggy trousers would flutter like a sail during a storm, show off to much advantage in dark stockings, and the free mowemeut of the legs in dancing is made more easy of tccomjdishment by the absence of Ihe lower part

of the tronsers. Those society men who are endowed by nature with robust caU'es will take quickly to tho proposed change m uio conventionalsty le.aud we may look t o.r tneir general appearance in New York ball -thorns v the opening of tho next season, lit tho meantime the Cowes coat the ski n less dress-coat seems to have disappear ?cl as suddenly as it came into style, and TV.uii less fuss about it FASHION NOTES. It is said that Bilk will be largely used ioS summer cloaks. Sleeves are worn in almost infinite variety, but all of them somehow attain a high-shouldered effectWorth is sending out now gowns of two brocades that contrast sharply in color, but are woven in the same pattern. Hl'storic dresses are now copied to the minutest detail for costume balls. Ihe Pomnadour, Marie Antoinette and Madame Recainier are very favorite models just nc w. The rVcket, to be fastened with a knot of ribbon i3 the jacket, the panel, the gown skirt at convenience, is said to be among the good .things Paris will send over to us in the spring. Greek dra peries on many elegant French toilets are artistically disposed oyer a "sheath" foundation skirt that is furnished at the hack with a very email cushionbustle, and twn' Btecl springs but 6hghtly arched. Long gloves fat evening do not wrinkle quite so much .npon tho arm as they have done for several treasons past. In colors, black, pearl-gray il tan are still used, but the various sha des and styles give considerable liberty of choice. Dircctoire coats of velvet, either low or half high in the nock, are much m worn for full dress over very f&'ll tu ie skirts. The coat-tails are loug aid slender and the tullo is fullv draped between the wide revers in front. AhigbV'utf of tnlle llke wise does dutv as sleev e. There are sixteen sh.idcs of green now fashionable, but only tho dark ones-Kus-sian, bottle, moss, absiutho. myrtle, swamp and olive-are appropriate for street wear. Tea green. Nilo green and lnignonette are properlv worn of afternoons, and apple aud poplar ior full-dress occasion Anew trimming for the foot of empire evening gowns is composet? o f seven very narrow full-pinked ruches tW one above the other. The lowest in very d.irk green, the next garnet, above which ccTt'Cs i shades of pink, and at the top a light shade of green. At a little distance the eft ect is that of a rose wreath set in its own leaves. New York Post: It is stated, and the assertion is to be confirmed intht? forthcoming early spring fashions, that Vtuttons are likely to be very much en evidfneeou handsome bodices, going straight iIooti i the front from the neck to the belt or bodice-, point. The new buttons, samples of wai-h have already appeared, are . worthy of a place in a jewel casket. Dog-collars in novel artistic devices ar imported, with girders and bangle brace

lets to match, and very beautiful necklaces aro also exhibited, made of fine gold or silver, very delicate in device and workmanship, and adorned with a number of pendants reaching nearly half way around the front portion of the necklace, these of enamel aud gold or silver set with diamonds, emeralds, pearls, opals, or garnets. New York Post: Kedingote tea gowns are enjoying great popularity, and their simplicity of 6tvlo is at present perfect. There are pretty Directoire effects in the dress, which, however, are likely to deteriorate later on and become vague and complex; but the style as it now appears is clear, graceful, aud artistically carried out. It is that of a warm, finely fitting, open-front long coat or redingote put on over a cool, delicate undergown, this of lace, china silk, accordion pleated foulard, crepe, or embroidered net. The redingote may be in velvet, pompadour brocade, moire or corded silk of a rich hue, or of the finest India cloth elegantly braided or embroidered. FROM A PEDDLER TO A PEER. An Ex-Hotel Walter Heir Apparent to an English Lord. Portland (Me.) Special. A veritable case of "Lord Fauntleroy" has occurred here, only the hero has arrived at man's estate. Some eight years ago a young man, aged about eighteen, came to Portland from the provinces to seek employment. He was a bright, intelligent fellow and made friends quickly. He had hard work getting employment, being at first a waiter in a hotel and then a cook upon a fishing schooner. In these employments he saved a little money and started out finally as a peddler throughout the country of tin and woodenware. He gave has name as Joseph Wilson. As a peddler he did quite a business, and while making purchases at a wholesale store here about two years ago he was waited on by Jessie Seymour, a very bright and pretty young country girl. Wilson fell in love with her, declared his passion, proposed and was accepted. The couple have resided here very happily ever since. A year ago a son was born, which, by request of the father, was given the rather English Christian name of Albert Edward. Wilson occasionally received letters from England, and one day came home very much excited, with a copy of the Illustrated London News in his hand. He showed his wifo a picture in it of a dead nobleman and said he knew him, and that it was a distant relative. His wife plagued him for claiming to be of noble blood, but he took it in good heart, and at once wrote a long letter to a firm of attorneys in London. A reply a few weeks later took him abroad, where he remained several months. Returning suddenly a few weeks since ho took a hasty good-bye of his aquaintances and took his wife and baby back to England. The Evening Express states this afternoon that Wilson was of good family, his father being the younger son of a peer. The picture in the paper was that of Wilson's uncle, the heir of his grandfather, whose death makes Wilson's father a lord, and Wilson, as only son, an heir apparent. Tho Express gets its facts from the attorney employed in settling up Wilson's affairs here, but keeps the name of the family secret because the latter don't want it known that their future head had been living such a lowly life. Just Fooling Him. New York Truth. A story is going the rounds of Philadelhia at the expense of a member of the iachelors' Club. At the box party given he other night to the debutantes he paid he most devoted attention to one of the )uds Avhoso dowry will run into the liundreds of thousand, and even ventured to propose to her. To his ; oyous astonishment he was promptly accepted, and ho jubilantly announced tho fact to a few chosen cronies by an early post on the following morning. In the afternoon he met his fiancee at a tea, and "to his intense mortification received a most chilling reception. He called her by her Christian name, and was promptly reproved for his familiarity. "But are we not engaged?" he asked. "I have written to vour mother that" "Oh, I have told her all about it," was the cool reply. "She knew I was only fooling you. I just wanted to hear What a proposal of marriage was like, and that's why I led you on, but of course I could not dream of being engaged this seagon.' The badly left bachelor has already received seven pairs of mittens from hfs sympathetic friends. As for the "bud," she bids fair to blossom into a dais v. The Very Latent. Philadelphia Press. Another new wedding custom is the carrying by the maid of honor, in the place of a bouquet or basket of flowers, one of the bride's satin slippers slung to her arm by ribbons and filled with flowers. . This slipper is of a shade to match the gown of the maid of honor, and has broad ribbons sewed on either side, which aro tied over the arm in a bow of long loops and ends. Flowers to match or contrast prettily with the own aro used to fill tho slipper, small owcrs being preferred such as violets, pausies. primroses or lilies of the valley. This shoe is thrown after the departing bride in the traditional fashion. Why He Wanted the Presidency. Washington Post. We know now why General Harrison songht the presidency. Somebody had given him an inkling that the Indianapolis a&e-ball club was sunn to wink ont. and he wanted to move to a city that would k mpport a first-class team. There's a front mt awaiting you. General. 3 rowx's Expectorant never fails to cor coughs, colds, etc. Price 50 cents. Sold .byai'ldntMlsts.

AMUSEMENTS.

ENGLISH'S

ONE WEEK ONLY. COMMENCING

Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. First appearanco here, after a series of surpassingly splendid successes in Kerf York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington,

GILLETTE'S YOU HAVE READ THE STORY. YOU MUST SEE THE TLAY SHE" COMES TIIIS week: SEE THE BIO EVENT WHILE YOU CAN. NOW OR NEVER!

"A woman on whom, clothed in the maicsty of her almost endless years, the shadow of Eternity itself lay like the Dark Wing of Night." Haggard.

CAST OF DRAMATIC CHARACTERS: Horace Holly Mr. M. B. SnTfifr Lo Vincejr Mr. Wm. S. Ilarklns Martin Brown (an American Drummer) Mr. Charles Boirwr Job Mr. MauricPike AlxUIlah Mr. M. E. neley Mohammed. Mr. W. B. Barnes BUIall Mr.JLW. rrillman Xomalli Mr. E. Water First fntlncl .....f Mr. F. Schuster Second Sentinel Mr. J. Bucklaml Ajeha, -frhe" Mi Laora Clement l-Ptane Miss Teliula Evans DillyeMha Mi Uom Snyder At Umlaut MiM Alice, Maitiaad Aral Sailor. Male, and Female Amhaesjar, Choristers, Guards, Mutes, Attendants.

PRICES Orchestra and Orchestra Circle, $1; Dress Circle, 73 cts.; Family Circle, 53 etc.; Gallery, 23 cts. Secure Seat in. Advance at the Box-OfBoe.

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M. B. LEAVITT'S ENGLISH FOLLY AND BURLESQUE COMPANY In a great bill of specialties and the beautiful burlesque, MONTE CEISTO, JR.

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Kegular prices. Seats on sale Wednesday morning.

PAKE

THE GREATEST SPECIALTY SHOW ON EARTH THE FAMOUS

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INCLUDING THE WONDERFUL AUSTIN SISTEBS, Daring Aerial Artists. MILE. AIMEE, The Human Fly.

FRED W. MILLS, Humorist and Ventriloquist. THE GARNELLAS, The Marvelous Gymnasts. WEBBER AND FIELDS, The German Comiques. MINNIE LEE, Tho Song Bird.

EVERYTHING NEW, BRIGHT AJTD ORIGINAL Night Prices 10, 20, SO cents. Matinees 10 and 20 cents.

EDEN All this week. Open

HERE THEYAREATLAST. KONGRESS OF KRANKS. A Kurious Konvention of Komical Kranks of all Kinds. The Woman's Rights Krank, The Operatic Krank, The Flying Machine Krank, Tho Dude Krank, The Temperance Krank, And lots of other Kranks.

PROFESSOR MOHN AND HIS lO Cents.

Admission Only

Will Win! ment twenty - SCOOT, 1 1n 1866 he r -

fWf Jdlans west or tno itocKies; m lbu ho tinea ana v' r?; illfcl captured all of the hostile Modocs, accomplishing ' illnit W$W more effectual service for the Government than any wWMmi'J man. livinir or dead. He introduced Ka-ton-kn to

n...M m..w the white peomo in lbi6. ana this simple inuwn

medicine has accomplished moro cures than any timilar medicine known to civilization. The OREGON INDI All S first used it to eradicate tho Poisonous Blood Taints contracted from the white adventurers. It cures DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COMPLAINT AND DISEASED KIDIIEYS. All druggists keep it. It has been Imitated and counterfeited. The genuine has thi name blown in the bottle and a cut of the greatest Indian Scout, Donald McKay, on White Wrapper, Red Letters. -

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE IMAM STATE JOMAL . ONLY SI PER YEAR,

The Sensation of

the Century. MOHDAY, JAN. 28 Weird, Soul-Stirring and Ultra-Gorgeous Spectacular production of Ilacirard's Remarkable Komancc, Dramatization T WILLIAM GILLETTE, author ot "H rM fry tie tcemy." MUSIC BY W. W. FURST. Scenery br PHIL OOATCH EE, ct ralmr Tnai, . New YorJtMechanical Effects r-r ETifl Efiace. 3 T'cfler !iretiya of AU HAYMAN. 3 100 Dramatic and Lyric Artists 100 All the Great Choruses! All the Thrilling Combats! All the Barbaric Splendor! All the Gorpreons Costumes! All the Stirring Marches! All the Amazing Effects! All h tee and Marreks kmrt The Big Hit of the New York Season! Infinitely Greater and Grander Than Ever! a OXE KIGHT ONLY, FRIDAY. FEB. 1.

ALL THIS WEEK. AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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CHAS. SCHILLING. The Musical Artist, HUGHES AND FARREN, The Original Comedians. HARRIGAN, The World's Greatest Equilibritt. ALBERT WARD. Tho Crayon Artist. MUSEE daily from noon ir 11 p. m. WONDERFUL IMPALEMENT ACT. lO Cents. HflAKI?

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He is tho man with the greatest and best record of any man in his class. Ho served the U. 6. Govern

two and a half year?, as GUIDE AUD INTERPRETER. conquered the largest savage tribe of In-