Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1880 — A Novel Ball. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Ball.

Dr. Stephan, the chief of the German Postal and Telegraph Department, gave a novel ball in Vienna lately. All the servants were, dressed in the costume of postilions. <ln the course of the festivities a post-wagon, fully equipped, with harness and driver, was driven into the dancing saloon. The guests danced around a telegraph-pole adorned with maay-oolorsa ribbons. Envelopes containing bon-bons- were distributed among them from letterboxes exactly like those upon the Berlin street-corners. Werner Siemens, the inventor, who is called the German Edison, provided for the ocoasion a novel electrical light-house. The dancers were given keys to the door of the towers, some of whioh had the magic quality of causing the lump to send forth a brilliant flame. Tie couples possessing the right keys waltsed in the glow of the sudden illumination, but those who oould not made the tower respond were obliged to retire from the floor amid the amusement of the spectators. At one o'clock a fanfare of postilions’ horns gave the signal for supper.— N. Y. Tribune. Mb. Arthu'h Sullivan is a manysided man. In addition to his brilliant musical gifts, and the reputation he has so rapidly won as a composer, he has written a drama, “ Glenveih,” which is soon to be presented at the * Adelphi Theater, London. Mr; Sullivan possesses fine literaiy abilities, and, curiously enough, has invented a patent railway brake which is said to be very in-. genious and practical. Thk Parisian authorities estimate the