Show SOMETHING now new is always popular the critical now new yorkers who go night after night and find fault with the best professional actors have been very much entertained and amused by a play called in mexico written by an amateur author in an amateur town and played by an amateur company of backwoods thespians one member of tho company a mr abbott it was reported was found dead in liis his room surrounded by papers containing criticisms on his acting t the rumor was found to bo a mistake but he is doiy sick at his home in poughkeepsie it is related of mr abbott that one ni 0 lit af after ter the second act of the f he play his courage co 0 gave out another member of the company who in spite of the guying from the front of the house was still in a waggish mood remarked that a good cure for nervousness was to put the feet in cold water and keep thein hiem there for five minutes when the time came for the curtain to ims up for the third act mr abbott was i as not tobe to be found A search was dinst fated and he was discovered in his dressing diesing room with his feet in a tub of nater ater and his watch in his hand anxiously waiting for the five minutes to elapse and his nervo nerve to return to him |