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Show THE INTERNATIONAL JUBILEE. , Preparations for the grand interna-! tional musical letivai, to Urholdi-n it Boston, in June, are exciting a, great deal of interest throughout the country, and Mr. Gilmore, the projector, projec-tor, is acquiring a remarkable notoriety. Even Europe has cauiiht enthusiasm from the representative at Boston, and is moving in the manner of selecting delegates. In England, in Belgium, at Berlin, Vienna and St. Teten-burg, societies are becoming enthusiastic over the proposed jubilee. Enough is already evident to show that it will far surpass the glories of the festival held three years ago. The orchestra and the chorus will be doubled, and two continents, instead of one, will combine to givo effect to the music presented. An exchange says that Gilmore has been insured for $200,000 in fifteen different offices, by the guarantors guar-antors of the Boston Jubilee fund, the policies to run for six months. This is the handsomest testimonial that Mr. Gilmore has ever received all the gold-headed canes and pieces of plate in the world would be nothing to it, for it is a simple admission of the fact that without him the monster etc could not go on at all. No Gilmore, no jubilee 1 Under such, circumstances, circumstan-ces, the least that he can do for half a year to come is to look well to the soles of his boot?, to be careful how he changes his flannel in the spring, and to suffer no considerations of expense to limit him in tho purchase of umbrellas. umbrel-las. The Handel and lladyn society of San Francisco has finally caught the fever and has projected an excursion to Boston in Juno next, for the purpose pur-pose of sending delegates to the jubilee. jubi-lee. Ex. |