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Show LOCAL L.(JIUR13, During the present season many lectures are being delivered in the meeting houees and school rooms of tho city, and it is a gratifying (act worthy of remark that they are generally gen-erally well attended. Tho halls are usually filled, and in some instances the seating capacity of the rooms has uot been sufficient to accommodate the audienceB. Tbo improvement in lecture attendance has Uen so great as to occasion not a little comment com-ment upon the favorable indication. It is alao noticeable that tho audi-encej audi-encej are made up largely of youog people, who conduct themselves not as if they were there fur a frolic, but to obtain information and acquiro knowledge. A few years ago it was next to impossible for anyone but a specially interesting lecturer to attract at-tract a fair-sized audience in thia city. The idta of paying to befc a lecture seemed preposterous. Mio-atrel Mio-atrel showa and cheap burlesques weie patronized generously, wbilo the lecturer would declai.n lo empty benches. This appeara to havo been reversed thia winter, when the lec turer has full housaa and the burlesque bur-lesque ia unprofitable. Now, what the literary societies and lecture couimitteea must do to maintain aud devolop this tendency ten-dency on the part of tbo people, aud especially of the young, is to secure the services of eutertainine and iu-istructive iu-istructive speakers. Tbey must not tbink that the halla will be filled who-over who-over may occupy the plalforma. It ia the easiest thing iu the world to get rid of an audience, but it is usually moat difficult to oblain one, Two or three proay, tedious lonturora will close a hall for a season. The commit com-mit tees mUBt exercise a wioe discretion dis-cretion as to the subjects and abilities of their speakers, having in view the entertainment of the people peo-ple aa well as their instruction. |