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The Circus of To-day. He was picking his teeth in the hotel corridor as he made the remark: “The circus season is about over.” He was a tall, lank, hatchet-faced and lantern-jawed individual with a vest pattern like an ingrain carpet and a "1 watch chain so heavy and cumbrous that it looked like a section of a house mover’s cable. A battered white beaver tilted gracefully over his left eye gave him an Alfred Jingle air of leisurely mnonchalance, which was heightened by the languid grace with which he wove a quill toothpick between the interstices of his front teeth. Nobody challenging his remarks rela- fave to the impending close of the out- door amusement season, he crossed h legs, struck an attitude of ease and pro- ceeded to leak out information as follow: “T have traveled with eight shows, managed four, and kunow every pr prietor of a one-tent show in the coun- try. Itisa great business. Once geta name and your fortune’s made. But it takes sand, shrowdness and newspapers to get the name. fter that the people follow. The newspapers made Barnum, They made Cole and Sells Bros., and they make or unmake overy circus proprictor. Of course the street rade and posters help some, but he press notices and the space adver- tisements catch a hundred where the bill boards do one. Barnum is the great drawing cs cause he has been the groat adv But he never knew how to manage a show. He busted every time he tried it alone. In 1878 ho went broke at St. Louis. Bailey & Hutchinson, with the rd be- tiser. Great London show, had just returned from Australin, where they had coined money. Bailey made a proposition to Barnum to buy his stuff, pay off his debts, and give him 10 per cent of the fits for a year for the use of hisname. @ went to New York, borrowed the money, and started in. The next sea- son they cleared £300,000 under Bailey’s management, Then W. W. Cole, who ' was running his show and clearing % 150,000 a year, bought out Hutchinson $100,000, and became a partner, Bar- pum forcing the other two to increase his interest to a third, Later Barnum Cole out, and Bailey bought his The show now makes more nterest, ey than any other two on the road. & t year it netted over 815,000 a da; . for the entire season of 240 days, an Barnum’s share was $250,000, It doos ~ big busiuess on Barnum’s name where ~ mo other show will lmy expenses, Yet you wont believe me when I tell that it has the cheapest menagerie the smallest salary list of any of the ree big shows, None of its perform- draw over 75 a week while Sells riders who draw from 8250 to draw the most salaries in a cir- ? The bareback riders and people :fl do neri! acts, Dockery Robinson and Sells in Sells Brothers show are the highest paid riders in the country. They wont ride for less than $7,000 for the season and Jim Robinson has pulled a salary of 81,400 in his best days. The cheapest paid are the athletes. They can be hired by the bushel for from $15 to $20 a week and may get only $40 a month and board. The menagerie part of the show varies in cost. ‘‘Hippopots” and “Rhinos” come the highest. Sells twin “hips” are worth to-day $100,000. He declined $82,000 for them last summer. Next come giraffes, Bengal tigers and prime lions. Elephants run all prices from $10,000 down. They breed when tame and that makes them cheaper. The rest of the animals come from £300 for a goo lrhi\ur down to $10 for a “*happy fam- ake. The best all around show in its day was Cole’s. It has never been beat. He ring acts, the best riders, rial performers and the most expensivo menagerie. He paid the highest wages and had the best trained uur{)s around him. Half of Barnum’s and Sells’ stafls used to work for Cole. Cole now livesin Chicago, where he has real estate worth between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000. 1 remember ten years ago standing opposite the Grand P ic in Chicago talking with Cole and with Lehman, who is now of the Fair in Chi- cago. Lehman was then following around shows, ns u jewelry fakir, i think. Cole said at the time that when he got $500,000 he was going to quit and Lehman said his ambition was $50,000. Both are now worth ten times that amount. Does it cost to run a show? T should gurgle right out. Barnum spent $251,000 ear on *paper’—show. bills, post- ersand flyers, you know. But it «\un't cost 50 much for transportation as some think. From $300 to $600 a day is out- side figuves for a run of from forty to sixty miles, which is the average. The intcrstate commerce act hasn't hurt. Most the shows had contracts the bill passed, and when they expired the railronds bid against each other just as they did before. Salary lists run up and hotel bills for the high price per- formers eount for a good deal. But ¢ penses ave light compared to receipts in a good season. Let me open your eyes. In figuring up the receipts of a show calculate as much money outside the tentsas in. That staggers you doesn’tit. Well, this is how it runs. Concerts, reserved scats, side show privileges, fakirs stands, lemonade and pie stand rights, photographs of curiosities, song books, ete., run the list up to the sum named. That is the way managers figure on it. No circus manager who was thrifty or lost money. Old Unche John Rob- nson died the other day in Cincinnat with over half a million after giving away more than twice thatamount. Cole, as I told you, has retired on his mone The Sells Brothers began bus- iness Yl.‘(h'lling tinware and following around a show. They can clean up $2,- 000,000 to-day and retire from business. In the ten years since Barnum got some one to attend to the businessof his show he has laid up nearly as much. John B. Doris has made money, and so have half a dozen small showmen I could name. The children’s patronage is what makes surve profits or circuses. It bringsthe parents with it. 1f it wasn't for the children, the old folks’ patronage wouldn't amount to much. Since the preachers have quit abusing the shows we have made more They never had occasion to. cus performers as a class are no worse, and probably no better than the average professional men and women outside of the canvass, What do shows do in winter? - Why most of the big shows go into Sells Brothers have fine quar lumbus, O. Barnum puts up port, Conn. The smaller south along the gulf, and pay expenses among the niggers. are great show goers. Many vassmen and some of the hi sides the staff have all the ye: ) quarters. rters at Co- in Bridge- ones go down more than They of the can- ostlers be- ar salaries in order to keep the orgamization in readiness for the next se: son. The leading performers rest during the win- ter and make new engageme spring. — MUSICAL AND A Detroit factory is building a the queen of Portugal. nts in the DRAMATIOC. a organ for Mary Anderson will sail from Queenstown for New York on the 25th of nex Madam Modjeska will play weeks this season, Pacific coast. Miss Viola Allen has t month. oniy eight She will be seen on the made an excellent impression as the leading lady of the Boston Musem company. Steele Mackaye has written Stuart Robson. It will bhe dissolution of the firm of R * Louis James and away up in the northwest, 501 and Marie Wainwright ave a play for cd after the n & Crane, Mr, Jumes has never played to such enthusiastic sudi- ences. The receipts of the twenty-six Paris theatres last year were about 83.500,000, which was the previous year. a decrease of §350,000 from Pauline L' Allemand, the soprano, formerly of the National Opera’ company, Europe to join the Boston their tour October 12, in Troy, sailed from Ideals, who open William Warren, the veteran comedian, and Muscum company, is again_ se Boston. He is sevent, Mr. Charles Wynd visit to this countr; sent “*David Garri in January " in New York, Phi for years connected with the Boston riously ill in six years old. 1 is anxious to pay a and to pi delphia, Boston, Washington and Chicago. It is stated that the Norw M an pianist, . Backer-Grondalil, will give pisnoforte recitals in London during the coming season. This lady is also a composer of great talent. The English rights to the p Mr. Gillette's play, A Legal W been secured by Mr,Hare, the E dian, who was for 0 many yea with the Kendals in London, b roduction of k," have ) rs connected but who will have a theater of his own next season, The name of the new opera house wh to be opened in a few days in Paris been chosen, posed repertory will comprise s 2. Operas unknown to P produced in the province This season the Edwin Booth rence Barrett company will travel entirely ch is under "he pro- 1. Inedited aris, though 3 or abroad ; 8. Operas of the classical repertory. and Law- by special trains, the distinguished traged- iuns occupying Hooth.” their own car, It will the *“Junius take three or four special cars to carry the elaborate scenery and accessories to be used in the representations of **Othello,” *The Merchant of Veni M. Coquelin and Mme. Jane arrive in New York the first w *Hamlet” and “Julius Cwsar.” Hading eek in Oc¢ ber, and on the Sth of that month Coguelin will appear at Palmer’s theater “Les Precieuses Ridicules” Fait Pour,” and in & monologue, and in Molier “Le Joie Jane Had- ing will appear the following evening in **Le Maiter do Forges,” and on the third evening both M. Coquelin'and Mme. Hading will ap- pear. Lester Wallack had a double capacity. knew how to fill the seatsof & He theater and how to contribute to the enjoyment of his audience after the seats had been filled. He was 50 gay and so full of life in his acting that it is hard to think of him as an old fel- low who had nearly lived out his three score and ten years. He has gone to his rest greatly regretted by allwho knew him either us player or as friend. Anton Dyorak, the composer, is the son of a Bohemian who gained his daily bread by the pursuit of two vocations, being @ butcher and atavern keeper in the town of Mul- hausen, near Kralup. During the forty-seven years Dvorak has p assed through al kinds of vicissitudes, for a long time living on the verge of starvation and maintainin % himself L Harrigan four 1ddy Googan, scenes [ will impersonate in the later in the play b with his ¢ ) der, The drama is ent much so, indeed, that at first Proposed to call it * A New York g cars p: Moute that she has been en for the concert-haus thes ger, who has much in quite you is exc ing. phenomen: ng, is of German lingly bright, ta Pauline Lucca is reported to have closed an engagement for a tournee States in 1380-90, wher fifty nights at a honora beside passage out and hotel expenses paid for herself, her bus- She will be accompan- Mme. Essipoft, the pianist, and the band and her maid, ied by Swedish tenor, M. tion, on her returs and to establish at Lucca theatre singers pr u I awing for the ope cca’s own fair puj in concerts and operatic performances. The Germun opera scason will begin on | more this season. Baldwin says November There will be produced | that his condition was such that at twenty-fi operas. Mr. Stanton has de- they cided to shely and substitute the works of other compos- ors "The list of overas to b “Huguenots,"” 8 *11 Trovato! ida," Ein, “Don Juan,” “La Juive,” * “Queen of Sheba “Massanicllo,” *Loheng ‘annhauser, theingold,” “Die ' Gotte Roi d' Ys,” aud ilo’s “Le Cold Heart EDUCATIO Women have been barred out dical college af cra Pennsylvania N burg. The school question being enrolicd as vote Bishop K tions in Chicag university at V s over the country yers, rlior scenes, though shift his_dialogue A irely Harr "he Metropolis. 1 in the persor of Miss ger has recently come to much s been singing in Germany for st under the name of Sofia A cablegram from Berlin announces cd as leading the style of Di Mursia's, cwish e: nted and engag: she ium of at_which only t. a number of Wagner operas * GL Africaiue,” is now ag: much in Boston that hundreds of wowen are z liberal contribu- id for the Catholic the Horse. 1 local; so n had GREAT CALIFORNIA RANCHES. McLaughlin's Salary—Volante Used Up—The Dwyers' Stables —A Possibility—Coming Favor- ites — Horse Talk. high voice, still McLaughlin’s Salary. MeLaughlin® the Chicago stable next season is to be £12,000, which is the same as he re- from the Dwyers, and the same son receives from Mr. Haggin. Lorillard made 2,000, but he wanted $15,000. This Mr, Lorillard re- fused to give, but he told us afterward as Gar A few years ago Mr. McLaughlin an offer of in the Un is to sin 0 each, ome, and all that regretted that he had not, TN er ntens | “for,” said” he, “MeLanghlin would from the stage | have won me his sala back in the Gmunden, Austria, a [ betting in two or three races. They alented male [ can’t beat him riding two-year olds.” ic stage, and are to appear Volante Used Up. Saratoga him up, and have done little th him prasonted o s | since. The fact is Volunte is pretty W CWilliam | well used up. He has run_eighty-six wes since he began in 1854, and has raveled over #3,000 miles by rail com- ing and going each season from Cali- fornia and 1 and frequently mak- : ing journeys from the east to Chicago i | and” back again during the racing wmmerang, | season, as he did in 1885 and the past Brull's The Dwyers' Stable, rlings brought from Kentucky : . Rogers for the Dwyers av of the West- | follows: Bay filly i Colossa Pitts- | (sister to Bellc Great Tom—Moselle | ¢ by mother to Tyrant tated so ¢ colt, by Bramble—Bobinet; bay coit, by Luke Blackbarn—Tombo; (brother to Minnie Palu y fil by Luke Blackbur t0 Youny Luke Semper Vive (brother Fordham); to A normal schoo! with over 1,000 young Fulsetto—Vigor (dam of lady pupils is an institution of which no city colt, by Falsetto— of the land save Philadelphia can boast. Tatia Graslt he . by King Alfonso Princeton university has begun its fall [ —Lilly Duke (sister to Lizzie Dwyer); term. Ixercises appropriate to the ion | chestiut colt, King Alfonso— were held in rquand chapel at 3 p. m, to the practical work taken. - President Patton, of Princeton university, degreo of Doctor of Po. as an honor to be confe ¥ upon politieal philosophers whose merits, as viewed by the faculty, may desires to create th litical Philosoph, by the unvers; entitle them to it. A few ye g strang Bowdoi look over the fessor courteously showed him institution, and when called on name Henry Winkley ward the college the college receives B Many of the new basques and bodices are lengthened to cover the hips more deeply. The vests buttoned on each side to the cor- sage, the plastron, the separate waistcoat, the pleated shoulder-pieces, the demure nuns' corsage with soft folds lapping each other over the chest, the surplice front crossing from right to left, the round waist with its charuiug belt addrnings, the po with revers of all shapes an all, are among the new or repeated fancies of the season, ¥ President Patton made an address in re; rs ago, a well dressed, fine look- Prof. Pack and asked permission’ to ollege buildings. the stranger went away he left his card, on which was the A short time after- ived Mr. Winkley's check for $40,000 with which to found a pro- fessorship of Latin, and now, upon his death, 000 more, Speed, by War Dane 1 brown colt, by Lt s LG Longfellow Tdem (brother to Longstreet ', by Hop (sister to Kirkman); biack uld. ' Tk ster to Miss Ford) by eft in Ten d | (full & quiter— us sho A Possibility. Sportsman: Many of the 10,000 spec- tators who saw Spofford win the Char- ter Onk stake believe that Kit Curry could have reversed the decision if she had had a man behind her that could drive a finish and not start lifting her avthe head of the stretch. She can trot almost as fast with o dummy in the sulky as with Kyger, for she will never let o horse pass her’ without making a fight for it. No one ever drove a finish like Kyger. When the mare needed steadying he would go down her back a few times with the whip,let go her head, snatch her and then return to the whalebone. A series of instantanecous photographs would be the ouly possibie way to place before the public the man- ner in which the little old man finishes, and, to my way. of thinking, impedes the progress of lis mare between the d, of The pro- all about the unted corsage uds, each and | SAVORING OF THE STABLE. Hints on the Breeding and Care of ary for riding for Tt is likely that Volante will run no were compelled to let distance stand and the v There is nothing original in those finishes. He t to learn the intricate winding ith which Wagner roused his great Phylis ical moment when the money was in danger. He knows nothing of that erect scat and resolu- tion which make Turner's finishes so marked, while the light hands of Mur- phy and Doble are a scaled book, so far he is concerned. rast Time. The average time made by the trot- ters at Hartford was 2:21 38, and the av over n second faster than last yer showing. Coming Favorites, Wilk s afavorite for the 5| of the light tw is good as he Sulyator ther asn0 is more 1d order. He is ver will be, while with u great deal “to go on with,” as trainers would put it. He is abig, lengthy fellow, with the blaze legs of the Blair Athol S or’s only defect is that he dips slightly in the back—a peculiar Glencoo chardcteristic—and from this some will infer he caunot put up high weights. That objection does not have the s weight it did ten years ago. s the distances are so short and four whi family. 5 mous, and he holds his head low like a staye A Great Horse, Joo Cotton was o badly injured in his race at Boston, that he had to be destroyed, break his shoulder and sustaining internal injuries. Cotton wis one of the most beautiful, blood- like, and probably at his best was one R of the fastest horses that ha wed on the turf in som He was foaled in 1882, and us a two y old he s not a success. At three he was at, for he won the Tenuessee derby, 3 v, Coney Island derby, divided the Tidal stakes with Pardee, and won nearly all his stakes. At four he was heav ked for the Subur- ban, but was beaten by Troubadour, Mr. Williams, his owner, then sold him to Dwyer Brothers for $10,000, but he developed a tendency to break blood vessels, and has never been a sound horse in that respeet si although when just right his speed was gre he showed inthe autumn of 188 Coney island, when he won the Aver- age stakes, ono mile and thr teenths, breaking the record in with 1093 pounds. Some time sinc Dwyers sold him Mr. Taylor for § As @ stallion Cotton would hav, great success, been a In Hard Luek. The trotting string at Palo Alto has been in very bad luck this year. The fire in the spring, which burned the stable of the leading horses, killing some and injuring others, was a sad set- back and upset the plans of the cam- naign completely. A unew lot of horses l‘md to be taken up, a too hurried pre- paration went against their legs, and several of them had to be laid up for the season. Still, putting California and the east together, nine new representa- tives of Electioneer have ente the 2:80 list this year. Electioneer is now twenty-one years old Gov. Stanford's California Ranches. “Hark Comstock” paid Governor Stanford’s Pola Alto and Vina ranches in California a visit in August, and in writing of them he says: The dry season being far advanced the fields are brown and dusty, except from the appearance of the ground that they would starve. The dry season kills the'g each year and cures it into hay as it siands,but the seed having fallen a new crop starts up with the first rains in the fall, and grows luxuriantly all winter and late into the spring. The most abundant of the natural grasses is a kind of wild oats, of which the chief portion of the hay crop is made. The wild oats are also used for sceding down lands after cultivation, producing, when cut green, a better guahity of hay in_this soil and climate than can be oh= tained from the tame grasses used in the east, which can only be maintained i \ Most of the wais in high flesh, but many think that alfalfa, fed exclusively, does not raise as good a_growing animal as the dry grasses, which possess more sub= stance. Stock that has been kept any length of time on alfalfn run cagerly to any stack of dr forage within reach,and eat 1t as ravenously as theugh it were grain. Hence dry fodder is sups plied to the horses kept on alfalfn pase tu at Pala Alto and Vina, and the animals are in superb condition. e The si of the yearlings is marvelous. They possess the stature and make-up of the matured horses,und some of them seem to have the natural speed of a2:50 horse when turned loose on the miniature tracks. These teacks are quite an institution, and 1 belicve are an important aid in the develops ment of speed in young horses. And who can successfully deny to de= velope speed younir, provided it can be done without overtaxing the strength ana injuring the ligaments, adds to the ultimate capacity of the horse? The miniature track is about one-tenth of a mile in circumterence, is about eight fect wide, surrounded by a high fence, aud thrownup high on the outside at the turns. Along the inside of the track is a rail about four feet from the ground, supported by vosts which slant from the bot= tom toward the track., Tlence if the colt incline in he will hit the rail which is made smooth to prevent 1 dents, and cannot strike his against the posts. By thus keeping the colt in his place upon the track he is soon taught to make the cireuit, and it is surprising how quickly they settlo down toa steady trot after working off a little surplus vitality at play when first brought out. A irack of this kind under cover would enable trainer: those wintering young stoc East to sufficiently exercise a large nums ber of horses every du when the weather or roads were too bad to drive them. Unbroken stock particularly could be fed higher without surfeiting and developed faster through the winter egs than when wintered in a straw yard or confined to box and paddoc In these days the great point is getting to be carly development of the trotter as with the running horse. ¥ - The Buil and Locomotive. The old tragedy of the bull and loco= motive was enacted near St. John, N, B., the other day. A huge bull strayed on the Grand Southern railway just as the locomotive drawing a picnic train appe: in sight. Ho lowered his hend, pawed the ties, switched his taily y 1, and paid no attention to tha rantic toots of the engine. When the locoomotive drew near the bull charged furiously., There was a bellow, a cloud of dust and steam, and then silence, When the smoke, dust and steam rolled away, the locomotive and the bull la; in the ditch, the horns of the latte locked in the bars of the. cowcatcher, The noble animal’s neck was brokeme Noonc on the train was hurt, I e ettt el e Bt~