Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1890, Page 16

LARGEST FURNITURE HOUSE IN OMAHA: 1¢ People’s Mammoth Installment House Carries as Much Stock THE ‘OMAHA DAILY BEE, .SUVDAY APRIL 27, 1800--TWENTY PAGES. as All Installment Houses of Omaha Combinec To-morrow, Monday morning, April 28th, the doors of the Pcople’'s Mammoth Installment House, 613, 615, 617, 619 North 16th street, between California and Webster, will be thrown open, presenting the finest line of Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Houschold Goods ever offered for inspection and sale in this city, The recent addition of the large adjoining building has been a boon to this well known establishment. Preparations had large additional ])Ul(]] 1ses, and these uoods have been ar riving all last week. Carloads of bright new goods w morrow, at such Imccs as will astound the closest buyer. Bll) ing goods for spot cash in ]:\I'g‘c quantities, ena Call and be convin Everybody invited. housckeeping. Chair Bedsteads worth $3......... Burcaus worth §12.50 ....... Wardrol Bookcases worth $10.00. ... worth $13.00 .... Rockers }\'orth PG aB 600000 Sideboards worth $20.00..... Cheffoniers worth $15.00..... Hanging Lamps worth $3.50. Baby Carriages worth $8.00. Baby Carr Ice Boxes worth §10.00...... ges worth $15.00. Gasoline Stoves worth §8.00 . Ladics’ Writing D worth §12.50.... ced. Our inducements are: LOW EPRICES GOEL QUALIEIES, ~KINID No trouble to show goods. Open at night for the benefit of those unable to call “erms made to suit c\(l)lmdy WE ARE THERE LEADRRS AND WILI UNELL\ A EEG N OL LTI GO C) ¢ (et s isere oo s elo steiit s s o s WEISBI|ETOTE25C I 5 wor 3 Sl e snttave SEIIHOLES T 5 wor b ol i Ve Ral IO e b Ol 5} LR ve 18el [HOTi$ 81 00! GIVEN AWAY. we sell for §5.00 Everyone pnrchasing goods from us will receive a ticket for ceveenneeeenoowe sell forgrgo each ¢10 worth of goods purchased, entitling them to a chance oels sl s wvelselHforigroi50 for the following prizes, which are to be drawn for July 5th, at 7 p. m., in the presence of those holding ticket: First Grand Prize—One beautiful plush parlor sct.......value $100 we sell for $1.90 Second Grand Prize—Oneelegant cheval oak chamber suite value $1.00 +sesane s e sell for $5.00. - Third Grand Prize—One handsome oak sideboard .......value $50 Fourth Grand Prize--One celebrated famlly universal cook stove vale $25 Fifth Grand Pri 25 Gee et ecuwelsellifor $8750 Vess —One fine oak hookcase..............value$? coveeneseeenewesell for $6.00 Sixth Grand Prize—One solid oak cight foot extension table. . value $20 ...we sell for ¢5.75 Seventh Grand Prize—One gorgeous plush oak rocker ... .value $15 Eight Grand Prize—One fine decorated stane lamp. . .....value $15 All of the above prizes are now displayed in we sell for ¢7.50 Secretaries worth $37.50. v vvvvvviu oo we sell for §25.00 our show windows. been made months ago for this improvement, in the w: ay of ere being constantly un]() aded, and will be ready for s sale to-' bles us to undersell any house in the city. \ ISR AR RS during the day. Special inducements to parties starting Zrains Worth 40C ..vovecavencnenniueennes. we sell for 206 = els Carpets worth g1.00 sseseeses—oWwe sell for 6oe Stair Carpets worth 4oc ... .. we sell for 166 Matting worth 35c .... we sell for 17¢ S{OVESIWOTENTETAV00 e/l elele i ool o e ..we scll for §9.25 S LOVESRWOL LIS 20100 el iuls o la sl e lets ol e e Icall forrerT 2,50 Kitchen Safes worth $5.00 «v.vvvvvunsnnnn. . wesell for $3.40 Billows worthez5easiis et v. e eeeeass.awve sell for goc Comforts worth $1.50........ voveenen o awe sell for 756 Parlor Suits worth ¢40.00. . seeeesaas. we sell for $22.50 Plush Rockers worth 15.00. ... «evee..we sell for §9.50 Bed Lounges worth ¢14.00..... ee-seeo.owe sell for $9.50 Wash Boilers worth g1.75 ... we sell for Soc Folding Beds worth $35.00..........v.....we sell for §22.50 e Peoples’ Mammoth Installment IHouse. ‘Popular and Reliable Rasy Payment House Furnishers. 6818, 618, 617 and 6I9 North I8th Street, Between C THE LIFE OF UNCLE JOSHUA, Genial Denman Thompson Tells How He Be- came an Actor, “THE OLD FARMER OF SWANZFY. An Audicnce Votes on the Propriety of Stage Prayer s Next Opera to Mrs, Thurber. van [Copyrighted.) A good many people think that T first came upon the regular stuge with *Joshua Whit- comb,” and that before that time I had been only a variety man, “Thiey ave entively mistalken 1 did go on the variety boards for a while, it is true, because T could make more money there, but for nearly twenty years 1 had been amember of stock companics, § My debut was made in 1852 in tho minor role of Orasman in the military drama of the “French Spy.” I was in Lowell, Mass,, then, serving as o bookkeeper in the whole- sale stove of my uncle, and it was in Lowell T made my fivst appearance. Two yearslater, when 1 had just attained my majority, John Nickerson, that veteran actor and manager, offertd me a place in his stock company at tho Royal Lyceum in Toronto, and that offer I gladly accepted. Then camo a round of characters that included the Irvishman and the negro s well as the genuine Yankee, but I ean truly say that I never stooped to vulguritics or sought to do more than picture nature In those days my fave Na Coppalecn I Salem Scudde 1t doc timo_ago, either, t cins to Stuart Robson's Bob 4 now I am the shepherd of “Swanzey farm’’ und Robsou is the “lumb of Wall strd But all this time Thaver't said a word about my debut on the stuke of life. Eyery one, of , will exclaim on first thought ©0, T know here you 3 it was Bwunsey.” Ah, but it wasn't Swanzey. It wasn't New Huampshire, though I'm proud to claim kinship nearly like to nativity with the £ood old town and state, 'm veally somewhat of a cosmopolitan, My o o natives of Swanzea but in 151 for @ brief sojourn in I was boru October 13, ) o of thivteen I eame back 1o the Granite Stato village that ever sinco has been my homestead. But with my birthplace fn Pennsylyania, my residence in New Hamjp shire, my debut in Massachusetts, my profes sional training inChicago, and iy threo years “run” in New York, 1 think T can Claim to bo a well rounded American citizen without local restraints, Why I took up the character of Joshua Whitcomb is as casy to_answer as the query why I live. 1t's all’ veality to we, all genuine 1ife) all trath to nut Every fuch of the locality whero “Ihe 014 estead” i laid is familiar to me, and haracter has been before me in ¢ There was Captain Otis Whitcomb, alof my part; good, honest, square dealing Unclo Josh is. E Whitcomb died at the aj g Cy Prime, who “could have proved it had Bill Jones been ulive,” died in Swanzey but « fow years since I .en Holbrook still lives there used tolive General Jumes Wilson, ks eran, whose character has helped ' build up one of the parts of the play. 1 played tho ola lu-m. before took up I n't tell you how many times I role, but it must have been nig thousand. A pretty good, long spell isn't it? During that time 1've tried only one other piece; 1 gave that twice and thén was co vinced it wouldn't draw. Of course hun dreds of plays have been offered but 1 couldn't see'one thut I thought would fit we. Whitcomb™ eleve n » Old Homestead ted this on to ten So George Ryer, who was my advance agent, | boards. T charge nothing, says a wri and wrote the »(‘qmllun\\‘ the New York Dramatic Mirror, for I'he Old Homstead.”” As | hint—not being in that line a theate “The Frenchn proved version ¢ i Suc Lattribute all | The playw to the simple fact that I try to beas tructo | tinue to look 1 be, lunting public s probably not lmown that T have played | have had the privileg in Bngland. 1t 15 s, however. Tn'18021 | L0 oe i tho theater every Biossod orory duy t to London, and_had a ver tifing that they can sée outside of it for ence on the ‘British stage, ¢ nothing. Jdinburgh and Gl A Professor Tells How s during the star’s tour. Johu Drew Las finally completed her company for the production of Ruckstone's famous comedy, “Marricd Life,” iu which will appear in” one of her i ehrated | MENTAL CALIBRE A cter impersonations, Mrs, it ury Dove, cton graduate, who linburgh o year or ) AL P home, and Tommy Russell T ave noin- | Titlo Tommy Russell, who been t present to let thelr old friend | qjimating with Elsio Teslie Tyde, Ray Mar. Joshua Whitgomb leave his native laud. shall and’ other children in “Little Lord :NMAN THOMPSON. P ? received notice of h nb ]'lml(\l an pub Frederick Pete cientist of New Y. on o ch is to be | titled \)Il\ i produced at one of the N season. 4 4 cent Invest A provincial manager has hitupon a paying improvement on Hu-n’ln‘ A glass slot scheme, 50 cents for an evening's use of Onela mantal hen,” he says, with delightful ne's mental an opera gluss is not veturned we | by the size and sh make 10 cents, writer iu the New York in Hln\fil-.m wplay will Heretofore this subjec man who has his fi pore; Mirenolog] al and Washington lite. He | PO'5 Thrgeoios with very patriotic ideas,but 9 alized, A “coon” politi ed. Voted on the Stage Prayer. A ballot was talen_after tho pe of Stex s play X ORD P et R L e nlnp('ll'nn the Standard theatre 10 | for the troupe all liked him, but the manager question whethier Aunt, Phillis’ prayer is | considered that he could not any longer put sacrilegious or s the New York Sun. | yp with the demands of *“Tominy’s’ Aunt Phillis (Mrs ‘eamans) father, A. P, Lamprecht, who tho "’”“"“g"”’“b“'h"?‘ " he earned moro than the $100 & ist and he he was receiving. Therefore, use there was t0o much v infiuence to overcome, Manager French was foreed to dispense with Master Tommy's servic perience of pol oes to cong s00n be tic knows At my po’ y You's o MUSIC AND THE DRAMA, ca havgheen g tention to the conformati 1o toho pi on of his t v Baltimore is to have a new theater. I, C. Mosley is engaged by L A corresponde it for th s Jumes Lord, an’ 1 sti ks my § me do all de for next sc ity and | call it hero 't In Hoyt's new chavacter | 1ioct'of its power hive bo 4ty and | = ho studies of Dr. F play, X S d of Dr, [Tans von | insanity expert and spec Preoiois Tarr uportitias ihaon ©ngagedor tho) [ ok~ SUsIE: atory Iaitold ot D, Haus vont (10T Y EXROKRATE, B Don't g hack you' reputation als Lotd, an’ 111 biess you fo'ebor an’ cher an company. phony in Vienna, and the audience didnot | tensive, dmund Kean® is to bo deferred by Mr. | haoiunde (oot tensive. Mansficld until another season. understand the symphony in a loud James A. Herno and Hamlin Garland ave | tone; “we will play it ove n. It was at work on a play dealing with wmill life. It | played again, *and there was no lack of ap is called *Fall Kiver,” plause.” Rose Coghlan has a_new modey dety | The latest of you who feel with m . | drama by Louis Ludovice and Francis Reinau ©, “that thi llmnl\l_\nll!u'mh-]i h | which she will produce n son, s servant is helpful to our common humunity My Yeamans will join Edward | has been studyi will please vote for its retention.” Hars \pany again when e opens | and is to play in cc Mr. Macka nounced that Judge John | his new theater in tho autumn, - from her husband, but R. Brady, Judge H. A, Gildersleeve and Mr, M, | put up her titled name a S Charles Delmonico would count the ballc ager’s good money she will probub) and then he concluded: “It is with entir seen this n. confldenco in the humanity and enlighten Charles Wyndham and Thomas ment which you represent Uit Llool forward both ar g rovivals of “She o the result of your voting \ L 1 Conque 0 provo ~ There was applause when Mr. Mackaye fin- | Of Prussia and Denmark have to figure, aan A ls0le llum n ;‘.:!“ TS ished, and the 3 Kate Vaughn has accepted an engagement | kindly postpone his production for awhile. al lobes of the brain, prayer which followed ‘presently was grected arris and will forsako tho | Byt this suggestion was not seen in the same cet proportior with appl comedy to renew her old triumph 8s | Jight, and the artistic duel is to be fought out Ll Nearly one thousand voteswere cast, among | & dancer, to the bitter end, b Jorehe which Wwere counted but twenty-five Jouis Aldrich has made a gonuine bitin | William J. Davis, the managor of tho Hay L ditor.” Mana Y r conclu bumps. Dr. Peterson which th prayer high moral purpose in w i o intellectual c: arcs of the sk In many below the at abnormality in hereditary criming Dion Bouci She ha and will' noxt season rcount, Mary Shaw's new play deals with a secret of high politics, in which notable personages ¥ vetreat or there yimetry and pr 1 cars are w THE SCIENCE OF lectual Powers, theaters this the Result of Som of the human head or cranjometry, as ti ederick Peterson, the Ly the audience docs not [ 4,y qeoupate measuvements g “In men noted for great attaiuments and In other words, their heads are nals the diamete: ormal ave be lavger than tal faculties are located in th 2 alifornia and Webster Streets. at all times and under all eive own emotional states to those of his putients, but rarcly to exereise the vigorous facultied with which he may have been at fivst, ens dowed. His uetions are guided by policy. sympathize with the suffercr’ when i ty and checrful when hg would have better remegd paticnt BUMPOLOGY, | e i other direetion, it i case. One can have met with persons with lu cd to enjoy considerable from the bonds of intelles ve of much of laced by mor to “Size Up" Intel- dial effect upon his ND THE SKULL. EDUCATIONAL, rincoton of Chicago a prize | s best examin ident studententering Prin brain son with \u ad may have more m, & Prominent 'k City, Giv A on n or yes s to the cubic inch of brain | 100 nest full . A L e Wor wearly completed on th Con ing of every kind, as in the case of Gambett athletic buildin 1, mnost of A igations brain was rathor small, The word | 1ockers being alveady in, The opening ddy il lient one to usepin this con- | not far distun the conditfon perfect- | An invitation b nu or glass vesscls ave ity to tuks ete,, for ship- ing’ the m vy in known as ved by Tehigh the sixth centens University do Monts Herald. t hias baen left to the ists who felta per- doft the qualitics of pelier, l mnu- The course of lectures on the caled Religion,” for which priution was made st year by the trustecs has been abandoned for'the prescut yeur ag least, ut Columbia Tsaac Pitman, the inventor of phonography, w Lioavy-hiaieed man with a scholarly stoopy and ~H!I resides over the wonetic anlllul\, Bath, Bng. He is vising 75 yet is still an add tive worker. ividences 1 appros microscop nt purpose. n Europe and bod deal of at- nd measurement ng of his left out by the hay o head; but ih tho. pac blostractures wen s workwen, aud onl tored cranium v ¥ | the thoughtle and sawdu to the shape of [ An underavaduate committeo of twelva of the people east of the e | men from each eluss s been selected to cane d to Siam are round | vass Harvard college for the purpose of vaise nglish, 1 10,000 to form a fund in memory of the 1 icorge W, Suwin, instructor in mathes matics. between (he two, The oists of the | finance ing to discove Pebn alist in ne vo been cqually ex 15 have been reached ud not by feeling id to me: ulty of the Wharton school of 4 . doy a library which, > > dimensions, g = the diamet nd v above the novmal tho past months that it has reached very making its importanc i boxes full of curion bones have vriving lately at the biological school university of 1 vania, pending o @50 many 1l dissimilarities ave the rule wmong them, even in tribes, and to some ex tent in familie: are cight or ten 10Pa pline n the work " « ofese One s species of artificial deformity which bave ‘I,m v AR Hm_mlw the other, the fore- | been practiced from time imemorial among tl ) A e may bo some o lower ruces of mankind, and ave still in vo oY S SR among certain Polyndsian and Ameri '“ nrepart Jopagtimont. ofi( 10 oportion. Often t s e o e ‘ 1 Colovado Springs, has been organe Untormd,” ALl tha | LLibeE B oo fed fnto @ distinet school nider tho namg. of ) e e Kull'to produce Cutler academy, Its course has been exe s S 4 tended to four years, in order to give pupils nd t des] a thorough preparation either for ¢ e ol n Tu New York, which is mado up of 80 | o0y colicge in the United S many nationalitiés, a study of the heads in g The uEe Il this o andicnee is curiously instructive, ¢ e Bk bt bald heads, which can be h 1 courte ¢ casily seen than th crs, Although | ust recei centers and the cen the continuance of the prayer. Sitec s Palmer has_ar- f i 3 § s ket theater Ch s now i B le above | 1 X 5 these ballots were sigued, the others L | for its production curly next month in | Tlondon, - has sceantly : Rk | Gt \\u o shapes of tho bald heads may vary in a | il v vy, auouymous, i l\)\“\}‘. A s A 111\).m~ felien 10 must have | i he undoubtedly Jocated | marke: ‘!“ 0 this | ict s to h V0 10 ro 1bo st urohlves of thojoount :Hhovoona . yley Carte has bought up an old Wes round price. Among the number are | some of the muscular faculti 1 instance, | lation to tho amount of delight manlfested by f 700 Pt Fodeionoieq “by the government A Famous d theater inLondon, and_after completo dozen Pag Jdordan, woaderful mer of musieal composi. | theit possessors, = A bald fewd i5 not o sikn Fdute diat oallsolod by tho sE¥omment, Drew Barrymore divides the hon- ms will open it in October us The al Keans, n old For hossdssed by “Blind Tom, of an overgrowth of oruln which I~|ALI! ing rofos A Bowland of Johnal |r"|w;4 uew pliy with tho star. 1t isa | Burlesque. an old Hackett and o pre wemory of cverything scen is stored | the way e e [ R A nt on A mow Ty e jlla shg thia Lila Vale,leadingjlady of the nandoah’ ammie of the perforimance for the benefit of in o postorior: lobos of the ; cllectual abilities, but, [ honor, the Draper medal presented by the or lovol’ bast to satlafy” her company, hias retired from the stago to mayry theatric 1in London 100 years ago. re peoplo of parcontivalpivasd ( Inteahvlih syl AtiouiehisBUE eg Bithi[FREHOR 8 IR AT s i s R RS AR T l"“‘“S‘ N9y A X 0 A0 Mr. Sam King of Buffalo, a young man with anny D o8 of | and who remember w .‘.H their perceptions, | T8t N 0r wman who will continue to | during the lust tw m 1 the mosh Of the multithdo with Jefferson and Floraes | & YEarly incouie of &0,000, Vistorion p-boa, fiavtil e fqund g0 bava g largo: dayol ¢ Woar i hard hat in spite of the falling out, of | meritorious progress in oviginal investigas® at the Fifth Avenue, sn o York letter | o Miss Esther Drew has "‘ foroed to rotige | Just ecelved scabiogram from, i e Atthahsad, "‘ ‘[“"[‘,"“.‘i“ T hi through the pressure of the rim on | tion o the Philadelphi o lishe o’ informing her ol n O oy bung by ibh, 04 L es and blood vessels of the scalp. ohne Jkins is coming to the front ¢ 10 Shp. LLAd A (i pile oy, of & new histor ¢ L it should bo. In contrad D ta tho a0 0 tyenty-vo tha, dovolon: | hahia® Trahesad tio ombors. of i Think of it, that, ton T L offering Ler th Jlikanaioex “Lhe T pas mentof & maw's skull depends on bis educit- | faeulty ana. it Several of the ing at tho 'Fifth Ave ¢ son John at | ctov Bill, o threeact. comedy now " lewwlmlm\ ¢ 618 1. oo of tion, and in fact, hia-cutive environment, | foruer have recently ol ahd A Daly ‘(‘Iu. P son .\\iy],.u\ ,.‘( o ) of lu..~ other ;Imnlm,, ~.u oasfu I\ .nlr |Iu; i\\’i’;‘l..({“l"m;l' and i the deal 13 con Dercepti \l ] Iq\:-"HIH} }nn‘-‘ 1m|l.l‘l :’u...l._ ovelon a great; cncomiun :w HK‘ ; vevics n ‘.,,,{40, swell theaters, and her eldest daughtor is sondon, has been purchased by Daniel Frobs | 3 SRt 4 B SNt deal, but the skull will not, ~From the « and @ number of the latter are obtaining 6! ummated Miss Davenport will L1 ) behind twenty-five the skull retains the same pro ' tions in | chools and col P R R N T man for' presentation in this country, Dest part of this singular run of t Corinne closes her pre 1, and that in the Brooklin. Her uext tou 3 p us not boen o bad actor or bad ac and she will go to California, This, it s sajd, dayenport bas also acquired the vigl ) muathor e salil 't be, very, prou is the best ‘l]“””w“‘]” star has had. “Ihcodoru, " her next se \ g ciless critic After Sarah Bernhardtappears in thiscoun- | require the services of a lavge or g whenever she has an opportunity AfigeRarah Bermhard: apnoars L this oann- | SRR, A0 A0ATIOS required to tral it. But it is no secret that she is ter part of the two con. | scenery, ntious productic I ) trong and pleturesnua drama, requ nost lavish expenditure to mount it try, and a tour of the of Mrs.” Barrymore's worlk in ¢ R 14 D3 Ty yoa —— art to fit he The new play which Wilson Barret pro. A man at Tif Russia, duced a few days ago in Philadelphia, *What | assassin $75 to | ill' an enc \ a Woman Will' Do, written by Bright and [ more when the wssin brou, Jerome, scoved an immediate and unqualified | in proof of his erime. The assa the hin ! & to the enemy and obtained $100 for re- v Tho Hanlon Brothers areamong the richest | yealing tho plot, and produced a hog mandgers in the country. They have made | aup. The ho" paid to have the the most of their money out of “Funtasma,” | 4 The man who pald to ! t part of the Over Worked Realsm. We have had a real cow, milked in the pres- 10 audience of she y enemy assassinated is now suing the o) Next seasol il 0 empt fate h anew i - 1 Al ouieke spectaclo n they aroto tempt futo With anew | Lgwinglen® to pecover tho money he al burglar kel =i Y G Why does not some enterprising dramatist, | Emile x and Josepha Crowell are [ PAid: P aided and abetted by some progressive man- | engaged ate two of the leading pi An American society has discovered McHeury in her new piece, which opens in May for a ager who knows what's what (also what [ With N isn't) show us an abattoir in full operetiont | '‘Lady P IReal pigs with real squeals, thrust into a por- | trip to California. cidal apparatus and coming forth in neat | Tothe English playwright A. W. Pinero shape, rgady for the market, would be a re- | the rave honor is being paid of tins freshing and stimula uovelty on the | tothe clossic tongue of H at Nifer, the ancient ur, in Mes tamia, a Chaldean temple of 1 sh the walls, coverad with inscrip attest that thes ( cmains el 1o 8750 B, le it may be portion and e same dimensions, and it is on | is_account that certain measurements of | | v Hopkin are now | itions in southern and lding stern \cad become useful as a means of identi fication of adults, They may change the Nt s heen sent out 1 o execus appeara in many r cts, but cannot | tive comn of the Yalo school, voluntarily alter the shupes of their head tating t) 15 of Land culling fop M. Bertiflon has incorporated, thevefore, [ it et i It is desived to certain dia dentification of | agpaplish four new scholarships and ercct § criminal em in Frav £0,000 laboratory, ‘Tho buildings now in usd [ ) | but e this ¢ need an expenditure of §,000 for repairs, from the | _ **As regards shape and siz fho Faivfield Alumni associution have A straight line to | depends on hereditary factor promised to ralse £0,000, and it is hoped thag head, is ina man 7 | ous classes of men, lawyers the New York alumni will furnish $100,009 The avers better minds than doctors, , | more. of lawyers with Sl el | one” 18 struck . i | L o oie Wittereng | Evan Adams of Plensantyille who has had 12 death of his wife, n yearsug, was driven the other day to the roof G. his house by his last housckeeper, who, wmed with an ax, demanded her wages and u letter which sho claimed he had alzang ad intorcepted. She recovered her letter, tios at ready’ command. The principal but was compelled to leave without her 1 | quirement in & doctor is an ability to conf house »out created in their craniums as apers sin ¢ physionom; strong and ag)