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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- RATIOS. Y K. V. HTDKt lablUhas. UTAH LOO AN, Dreyfus lias iiuanvic'd with his What was the fee? It m TOPICS mi THEATRICAL1 good to lx loved by dne's fellow-mawhen there is not too many of " ' him. its n . " ..tjfe NnvrtltloniL "Stage 'superstitions ?" said Julia Peace on earth, as a general rale, Marlowe 'when questioned, on that rromlneiit exceptions, South Africa theme a tew evenings ago. "Well, I haven't any, though I confess I never and the Philippines. V like to say that tny health is excep1 haven't hud a Petroleum! has been, discovered In tionally good or that sick day in months. Or if I do I want, Egypt, and light of other kinds Is as the children say, to have my fingers gradually breaking through. ;Vrliaps this , Is superstition, or perhaps .nothing more mysterious than a wholes jjue realizations of the fact thatprldr goeth liefore fall.' A great part of my life is passed among people who are weirdly superstitious. Only, a few evenings, ago a gentleman connecteU:.with n'iy forces manifested genuine .ditfress when someone raised an umbrella over me just Inside the stage door. Such instances of fantastic superstition are common in stage Crossed. Beaumont oil may have greased the path along which so many settlers are now making a quick slide into Texas, Encouraged fav the nlispnee of Oon Funston from the scene of conflict, the rlllplno insurgents are again becom ing active. Now that the German crown prince broken down with hard work the time is ripo for princes to agitate for an eight-hou-r day. 18 Being unable to settle its own war satisfactorily to all concerned. Great Britain will try what it can do In the dispute, . . Chilian-Argenti- ne Every day another halo, pales and vanishes, another cherished illusion goes bump. It is now discovered that disease creates literary genius. Mr. II. II. Rogers Mass., has given to library, of. Fairhaven that town a hall drainage sys .town waterworks, schools, a church aud a tem. . of theater-goerin Ronu got into a fight over a new play and many were wounded. Therefore it In admitted that the play is a big sucA crowd s -- cess. - ' r" The grand Jury in Manhattan r liorts iu effect that the Brooklyn bridge Is all right, lint tli;:t It needs to lie rebuilt to keep it fium i'allin : down. The manufacture of whisky from watermelons is to be tried at Haiti more, and the idea sounds about us exhilarating os extracting sunbeams .from cucumbers. Telephones are to be reconstructed so as to provide for sight us well as hearing. This will have a tendency,. to still further Increase the annoyance rcultjngJrom crosst wires. i rompany,witti which lie remained anil 1859. when he became connected with the Winter Garden. From 1861 to 18G(I he acted at the Olympic, firit under Laura Keene and afterwards under thf management of Mrs. John Wood. Hi returned to Wallack's in 1867 and remained there until. 1873. when, hi starred as Moneypenny, in "The Long Strike.".. At the' end pf his first starring Beason he 'became a member of A. M. Palmer's stock company at the Union Square theater, and continued with Mr. Palmer at that house and at the Madison Square theater for more than twenty years, with the exception of two years when Mr. Palmer was in Europe,, and then Mr. Stoddart played under the management of Shook and Collier. He has a strong Individuality, and, although he finds it impossible to sink his identity fn a part, he Is one of the' most impressive actors upon our stage. From the beginning of his adult career he has always chosen to play ' "' " old men's roles. SI House That Cost $9.12 St. Paul was a tentmaker, and, on one occasion at least, during hard times, when the faithful did not raise, enough salary to support him, he earned his own living for three years putting up habitations for other people to live in. The west boasts of one bishop .who,, although he may not be a tentmaker or a carpenter by trade, has actually built his own hoii'. This is Rt. Rev. A. I Will!ar.:s of Omcba. formerly a raifrond man end lp.ter a priest of the Episcopal . hurdi in Co!o:a l). For seven years a littl.- cUcrie of Chicago clergymen of th Kp.'sci pa! faith and persuasion t. s len j.;isj!.rg the hot month of the year at a northern resort. Five yeavz a.:o thoy rori::OJ themselves Into a clul. and "srju.u-ted- " upon an unoccupied iaiani in tl.c nonhern p::rt of laks Sure ior. which they U;;vv s::ivJ, iho Hhhop of Airaita, wo aim ca:r., from - , nu'-'c- Henry Irving' Career. little more than forty-fiv- e years ago Henry Irving made his first- appearance on the Btage at Sunderland, A - fr i' Cbica'o. Ct.-';- r rs t.f th cub wo have te !:;:ar;:p.,l piiip'e'are I'.i.sh-o- ;i lae-i- h'f An-.'rcw- s Keur Ktory of Lincoln. Two nun wrre lopklug over some .n:;r.iv!.igs in a:i liptiv.vn shiip tV ot'.nf ;!: with a view to purchase. A j "r'.rrt':t pf Lincoln suggouM! o' theni l! is storv of Honest Abe, 'vVU-ltl:e narraior r.iys he h:id fiom ft'.c.-- : Linc.vil.i ar.'l n. cabinet were in lr.it s he had anticipated no nf i.nportance. the president kit. wc;l thnt he would receive cards. lie supposed, the meeting was whol- .'! . -t Tt-nr- s Hun an tt;.is specific ,ig:iin.-- t aie not mobilized as a iu any but Persia, and there, imfy lhi.se tears wl;i;h have b.:en shed at a funeral are Misused to have curative iiualitics. In the country named the twtcm of boitKn;; tears is an important feature of funeral cereriony. To each of the mourners present the master of reicmonles presents a piece of cotton, wool or, sponge, with which to wipe away thV tears. The contents of the wool or sponge are afterward squeezed into a bottle, and these tears-arpreserved as a powerful and certain restorative when all other medicines have proved useless. V''eVtv i:Vrtv lry e awarded fvr gm-era- V' was married on Wednesday at .OrangeviUe, to Mrt. Fleming, his fifth wife. And the rising generations hang off from matrimony as if it was something inteiusciy. ' unpleasant. Clegg-age- d . ll' ve. g mil 8S. Buffalo. F.xpress: Virginia is taking steps to. hold an. exposition in llmT coniincfeiorate the 4lH'th. anniversary of the founding or Jani- stov. n, the fire: permanent English settlement within the present 'limits of the Fi.it. s Stales. sfTOt.w: ' ' 'vi'ji t- - - sands were expended passes into theat rical history as u failure. The inci dent which started the rout may have been so trivial that nobody can trace the way hack to it. Hence the whole defeat is charged up to one nf the thou- sand superstitions which flourish so luxuriantly on the paints, powik-- and canvas of stagehand." The city or I'l:i;ii.i)liin 20 "f tin1 money pu! Into n'j!.oii.iiii weighing uv.el.lnes iu the p:.M.'c pail:.-- . Since ivi.'i II."cm person:: have the luuchineF. an the profit, to the Mr. .). II. Slmliliirl. n SiMI.sr,. 15m Franklin, city has J. II. todd:in. who is now winning vlio used .) live in I'liiiHd'-Jp.iufa:iie in the n,e nf Lachl.in mii'-to say: "l.ouk a r i Iu: pennies, ;us! Can phell, iu "The Buiinie Brier ii." the dollars will look a!'t-thev.i. born in lSi'7, at Hninshy. in V(.rk- ws Sell ." shire, Knclund. His fiil'ner wan a pro- - jts r u-- il 1 !.- , 1 u:-c- d 1 t r I Hatliisui-- American: The join? 1 Vftluii'rer utlicer mude famous a hJm:i while ago thnn.gti liii love affairs has heeji refused a cumin'.-siu-n in t!: . regular army because hi jilted hi:i swcetlitvrt. "Fmle 'Sam is tn-- ga!l;u;t s. Mi fello- w-count r New. Marie .lau.M-i- will shortly return to vaudeville. She will present a sketch with Carl Stowe. It is in the air that Virginia Harned is to appear presently in an play which Charles Frohman has nceiHly secured. In the live years diiring which "Way Down East'' has been before the public only thru changes have been made In its presenting cast. ; . Frederic tie Belleville is to act one of the chief masculine roles in the play Hall Caine has made for Viola Allen from his' latest novel, "The Eternal City." Mrs. Fiske is credited with an ambition to play Lady Macbeth, and may put on a revival of the famous tragedy before her New York season comes to a close. Clyde Fitch will be paid over 140,000 this year in royalties for "Lovers' Lane" by Wm. A. Brady, who has three companies presenting this successful play i The decision to cunon.zp .Uvra i f Arc will be regarded' by iln Frcm n as a delicate compliment to t)ici.-selveIn spite of the nunicroii:. changes of political system 1h.it have taken place in their country, the ryiiien of th" future saint cherish everything that make.--; t'i'-ihiMory picturi'siiue. So a stern points with pride to the figures of moiianclilal or imperial times. It was only during the great Revolution that' the "French had a tendency to destroy the record:! of a great past. The cult of Joan of Arc is not professed only by those who regret the old monarchy. .U 'true Frenchmen can adhere to It. no matter what their political ideas may ; Mow IHik to America. Time was when American managers look-'to the foreign stage largely for Play matfri.'il. But the tables have o!Terini..-- i are nuiial. so few on ih cither side th.it instead of In Ing able to supply America, Loudon niiia.igrrs are keeping a tharp lookout in Nhw York for material suitable to Loudon. "Tho mills of the gods grind Wow." but. a a flippant person oine "they do grind." Thealrlf-u- to allow such .things with impiiuiiy. I'erhaps. tun. he is shrewd' enough to diijt rust' .the bravery cif 'a man who doesn't deserve the fair. be. The full strength of the Manfaattat. company is seen in support of Mrs. Fiske In this play. Mrs. Fiske will begin a brit-- tour in February, during which she will visit Boston, Chicago. Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Pittsburg. r j ' ' ' ' it ?&:-- TTTrTTrrTTTTTTTT fessional actor, aud young Stoddart and his five brothers took naturally to the stage, th" subject of this sketch beginning to act while yet a mere lad. After a varied career in his native land he came to this country in 18S4, and began his career here as a member of Wallack's company, at Broadway and Broome street. Two he joiuuil Laur Keene's yaars U'r l , ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. vr of Mnke When 1801 .Slrans mi our the s'juirc rose In a fury and swore he would see him d d I'.rit. "On Frhuiy a co-i- l porter exhibited his wife in Rinithlield. with a halter round her neck, for sale. He demanded a guinea for her. but she hung on hand for some time, until a man of good tref-p.iMs,- KcudliiR The Lomlon Times reprints from Its issue of November 2'.',, 1801. the following curious- items: "A milliner advertises that she will not be visited on foot, and assures her customers that her father kept ills own coach. This Is very true No. 303, and drove it also. "A great change Is announce In the sporting world. Powder is utterly out of fashion, aud a gentleman would scorn to knock down a partridge with anything but an air gun. always exr ccptlng the long bow. with which so many of our best shots kill their gainet "Among the lay sportsmen the contest lies, who shall kill the most head of game, but your sporting parsons, e think nothing of one another till had a shot at the squire. "An odd circumstance occurred the other day in church. In Ietces- tershlre. The lord of the manor has brought an action against the parson for shooting upon his lands and imagining himself to be addressed from the desk in the words, 'O Lord, forgive they-hav- j j appearance, made the purchase, and, packing her. halter and all. into .a hae'ency coach, drove for BlackTriars bridge amid.st the huzzas of the. mob." Tn ISoonf Alcohol Trails. " In order to.'favor the consumption of alcohol by automobiles M. Jean the French minister of agriculture, intendii, so it .Ik sail,. to inaugurate an international race in . May . .. ... win oi! nsecii in all iicai.l Aicouio uniy ...Ill the ears. Vassar also intends estabmid return lishing a record in- an automobile driven by Du-pu- y, ft T ' - to the fhoip. A chili house' thtir dreams of the fu- is alro one of ed J&X$?&m' achievements of the greatest benefit to humanity. This looks 1ik a slap at the theory that our trusts aid the l public. VHllfcm cov.ie i:p updc-rslz?d- America is not conspicuous In the Nobel prizes npw behng , While they were gathered about the table a servant brought in two cards, ami Lincoln commanded thn.t the call: rs be admitted. When they appeared he found one to be a tall, spare man. the other one much After a -- '.o'.mnt's chat they retired. "There is a remarkable instance of the providence of the Creator," Lincoln, Impressively, as he turned a??.in to his ministers. "There are two men., flod has given on man extraordinary-lonlegs' and the jnthe'r short hps, yet Heri'iadc txti thn'legs of eadi of those nvn so that they Ju.- exhcMy reach the ground!" New York Times. epi.s-ooipa- : u;. ly social. - i nec-essr- .s ' . ttwi it.-Th- ses-r'x- - rn-e-'rC-V- pre-empti- claim, and then alone and unaidThe house ed, put up his dwelling. J. fine as be Fierpont Morad may not but the bishsummer residence, gan's op takes a gi eat ileal of comfort in total corf Whit ft.lif whic h amount was;expended for sails and'otler iro i in the construction. Rowe island is about three miles rrom one of the Booth fishing 'stations add .steamers slop at it twi-- e a week.' the clergy have been Heretofore obliged to rcw out to them in order to aec.we t'h.ir mail an:"i provisions; but i;ct J;i:mfT they piopc c. to erect'- : ijr. Pftpiii down to the beaca. snaie.i and diagged the various timbers up to hl to-on- donned t Eng. The first character he played Tayi: : c:f C'.;!::ry, tri'ioii was Orleans in "Richelieu," and it is life. somewhat that the first "Some of the sanest and most bril- words he significant . were "Success to our spoke liant players arc devout believers in the same year Ellen In enterprise." signs a'ud omens. Possibly it is due Terry first appeared in London, playto the unnatural "and highly charged the child Mamilius in "The Wining atmosphere in whlfh they live, or It ter's Tale." ' may be accounted 'for by the fact that in our profession so many successes . . Hrm. Flak. .... and failures seem explicable only on the theory of supernatural interferMrs. Fiske is in the fourth month of ence. A trivial incident on the first her' engagement j at the Manhattan night of a production may act upon theater and in the fourth' week of the people's nerves to such an extent that second production pf the season at that a highly important part in a play is house. "The Unwekftme Sirs.' Hatch," Tlie Iluaito That CoNt tyi8. ' lost or misinterpreted. Thereupon Mrs. Burton Harrison "drama of the of Chicjgd and Bishc p Wt.liams of .Nepanic spreads throughout the cobpany, day." This is one of the most notable braska. the whoie scene goes to pieces and per- plays of New .York life yet put forUp there, far from civilization and haps a production upon which thou- - ward and is pleasing large audiences. the pomp and dignity of clerical ofii fice, they enjoyed theniKPlves lik" boys on an outing. Bishop William- is a manly man, who carried into the a great fund of common sense and also is not afraid to take hold of anything that seems necessary to be done. Still, it was somewhat of a surprise to his diocese to find that during his summer vacatioin he had followed so closely in the footsteps of the chief apostle as to build him a house. While enjoying himself on Rowe island on his last vacation, with his own hands he erected a substantial log house from the wreckage of boats which drifted I on the shores of the Island. vj'-'V'. ': ' The right revei-enbishop went ' ! -- 1 Paris-Bordeau- x ICeHlilenrn nf the I'rlm-of Wnlew. The prince and princess of Wales nre to have a residence on Deeslde. and have selected Craigowan, near Balmoral, which has hitherto been the tesldence of the kind's commissioner. e |