Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — A Famous Dancing-Master. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Dancing-Master.

In 1825 and 1826 he was my dancingmaster, and the statement then was that he had been chief dancer at the Opera* and having broken the tendon achillis, was obliged to leave the stage. He was in England at that time, and, so far as I know, long after, aud previous to 1850. Before 1850 and before Charles Keane he had been a ballot-master, and so far as I remember, at the Opera. It is possible 1795, tho year of the reputed birth, is near tjre time. In 1825 he was a handsome map of, say, 35. He was then maried, sto that the wife named in the article was a second wife." Oscar Byrne kept his class of boyish clubs in order in a special way. He promised them that if they were orderly and obeyed his instructions he would dance to them, and, like Orpheus, his brutes surrendered to his enchantment. Hia hancing delighted even rough boys, and they "would say, “Mr. Byrne do give us another dance!”— Botes and Queries. V ' 1 . A clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply interested audience the alarming increase.-.of intemperance, when he Astonished his hearers by Saying, “A young woman in my neighborhood died very suddenly last Sabbath, while I was preaching in a beastly tftate of intoxication. ” ■