Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1893, Page 13

THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUN NOVEMBER 12, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGE NORTHEAST CORNER CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE 16th AND DOUGLAS. Great Special Sale of Men’s, Boys’ and Childrens’ OVRRGOCOATS o LS TRRS The entire stock of Thompson, Willis & Newgent, of Boston, is now on sale at prices which do not average over 60 cents on the dollar--No Fake--but a positive slaughter sale of this entire stock. PRICES ON MEN’S ULSTERS ual Retall Prics $28 Our prioce $l8 114 No.1- == dght tan Trish Friozo ulsters, olozantly wool trimmings $20 T., W. & N.'s price, MAIL ORDERS—wiirecelve the most careful attention and goods will be shipped with the understanding that if they are not as represented they may be returned and we will pay express charges both ways. Lot 2— Fine quality bine chinchila storm couts.. ... PRICES ON BOYS ULSTER Lot No. 16— $15 Our Price Boys' blnolk $13° Our Prioo frioze ulstor, shuwl collar, )50 50 $ BOYS ULSTERS T., W. & N.'s prloe 3“ Usual Retall Prioo Our prioe Lot Mo. 3— Extra 10 n| bluck trieze i~ ors, Wit shawl collar.. $26 $18 $20 $22 W. & N.'s price ual Retall Prios Our Price Lot No. 4— Heavy Oxtford Eiysian ulstors $i $10 T, W. & N.'s Price Usual Retail Price $16 T. W. & N.'s price al Retall Price Our Prics T., W, & N.'s Price Lut No. 6~ Heuvy black triezo ulsters, all wool.. Usual Retail Price $18 T. W. & N.'s vrice Usual Retall Price Our Prioe T, W, &N.'s Frice Usual Retall Prico Wool brown : ‘ § vkt p & e price $18 ual Rotall Price Our Price §t Usual Retall Price u.sters ......... T.W. & N/'s price sla Ususal Retal Ptice Our Price Usual Retail Prico $“0 Our Prico $15 Lot No. §— Extra long blue chinchill ters. . . $15 Usual Retall Price $l:) Our Price $i4 $10 $13 T., W. & N.'s Price Lot Ko. 13— ) Stylish black $13 T, W. & N.'s price Usual Retail Price Our Price Lot No. 0— A1l wool oxford mixed melton ulsters . On Monday, Tues- 120 $8 14 T., W. &N. Usual Retail Price Our I'rico cheviot double breasted over- couts. Ly §9 $12 T. W.& N.'s price Usual Retall Price Our Price ot No. 14— Gray mixed kersey over- conts. Lot No. 15— Riue diagonal chinchilia over coats. T., W. & N." s Price Usual Retail Price t No. 10— mixed Our Price $10 Usual Retall Price Our Prioe ng, T. W. & N.'s price $ 9 T.. W. & N.'s Price $ 7 Usual Retall Price $ Our Price NORTHEAST CORNER 15th AND DOUGLAS STS. he could not do it and the physician then ad- vised him to buy a horse and drive several hours every day. He bought the best team he could find and as he drove them he be- came interested in them and his mind went from the building of railroads to the speed- ing of horses. He studied the horse and formulated a new theory for horse breeding. In order to support it he had his famous ; photographs made of the horse in motion, the taking and publishing of which cost him over $40,000. Throughout the remainder of his life he got his best rest when he was working with his horses, and his stock farm when he died was worth millions. How Robert Bouner Secured Hemlth, It was the same with Robert Bonner, the proprietor of the New York Ledger, and the owner of Dexter, Maud S and Sunol. In 1856 Bouner, who began life as an office boy, and who up to that time had worked without cessation, began to fail in health. He could not sleep and his meals did not agree with him, One day his family physician came into his office and said, “Robert, I want them take no vacations to speak of and sel- dom go out of Not o few fads by which to g Davis i and by throwing himself into I During the past campaign he r dozen biographical and historical w he is now re-reading his Virgil. One most restful studies is Napoleon Bona Ho buys all he can find concerning him and he has more than 600 volumes about the { h great Nupoleon. He believes in hot baths | market every morning with his basket on before going to bed as a good thing for | his arm and picked out nis own meats. He sleep. He says that «the best rest foran | dicd as much from woi ad overwork as overworked brain is a change of intellectual | anything, and his last words were uttered in diet. Allen G, Thurman read Fronch novels | del rning officscokers. Goneral to rest his brain while he was in the senate | Garfield was fond of base ball and he often and he vavied this by working out mathe- | attended the games hero. George Washing- matical problems. Senator Hour rests him- in his day, and self by looking up questions of American walling up the history. Ex-Congressman S. V. White gets stopped at a plantation where his rest by studymg the stars througha umping match. As tho story telescope «and working out astronomical rize for tho best jumper was to be problems, and the late Justice Braaley got beautiful daughter of the planter. his rest in mathematics. Washington entered the mateh ana_much to e R T Ty T the disgust of the young lady he_distanced her loyer by full” ten inciics, Noting the By all odds the ablest of our presidents black looks on the girl's face and the disap- are those who have had some way of relax- | pointed appearance of every one as to the ing their minds. George Washington was result, he withdrew his claim and tho real fond of a good horse race. He got his rest er, who, up to that time had never had in horsebuck riding and hunting, and he spenta good partof every yearat Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson spent a part of avery day in riding through the woods about Wasbington while he v president. He as often taken fora private citizen, ana o in crossing Rock creek near here a who wunted to ford the creek and not get his feet wet asked him to carry bim over behind him, which he aid. He rode every afternoon while he was president from 1 o'clock until 8, and when he was swim in the Potomac, and there is a tradi- ng one of these swimming lothes were stolen and he had a hard time getting thew back in time ) 0 to the executive mansion, John Quincy Adams also liked horses, though he rode but little and he usea to walk out to the race track, two miles from here, teh tho races. President Harrison's grandfather was a good walker, and while vi the white house he trotted to Wentworth, Ross lie, tenors; K i Ric David win Isham rdo Ricei [0W STATESHEN RECREATE| mance singer in Norway. A vocal recital she gave in Christiania_ recently i tended by the royal family and a crowded audiene h Bome of the Diversions with Which Eminent Men While Away the Time, RIDING, WALKING, FISHING AND BILLIARDS 2 4 died last week in the ity hospital, on Blackwell's island, New Y 0 years ago he contracted rheumatism, ce then he has not been his former self. me from neland thirty y ling singer of the ncisco Miustrels for many years. Katherine Marco (Kate Smith) is her brother, M N. Y. The y tablished an enviable reputation in Italy, where she oeen a leading soprano in va- rious operatic companies during the last ten years, Her home is in Milan, John Russell has bought the American rights of the most successful German farce comedy produced in w York for many yeurs. It is eutitled “Ihe Corner Groce: of Avenue A.” It was put on for threo nights at the Elghth street German theater, but had a run of over three wecks, and it was determined to continue it until the end of December, This run 1s almost unprece- dented ina German theater in this country, Despite his advanced age the veteran v inist Sivori has recovered from his recent ent in Paris, and he bas left that city for his home in Genoa. Sivori, who mace his first appearance in England as far as 1827, was a pupil of Paganini, who coms six violin sonatas for him, $|2 Lot No. 17— Plain frioze ulster for boys wool lined ul- stor, sizes 14 to 10 years, Lot No. 19— T, W. & N's Price Lot No. 11— Taillor made brown kersey overcoat, satin . Sizes 8 to 14 yrs. = i Extra 11t Oxfora “mixed $ PRICES, ) , boaver over- . ‘ . ‘ . couts. $ BOYS SUITS & day and Wednes- day we will have k2 on sale BOO Boys’ the bilhard table of the white house very . and his best brain tonic came from a of this sort. Ex-Senator Palwer of higan had a bil rd room in his house, somnia, and one of his best recipes for sleep was to et physically tired. Senator Butler of South Carol plays a good game of billiards, and I am told that Reed of Maine 1 to 19 years. $l 4 PRICES ON Lot No. 100 Z T Oxford mixed sleeve tinin $ 450 all wool double breasted cheviot suits at $3.50. where his fellow senators often cawe to and Crisp of Georgia are experts with the That the charms of far votent as ever is str continued enthusiasti Hustler,” which will appear at the Boyd tonight and Monday night, withall its funny sceues, happy incidents, tuneful musie, pretty girls and talented comedians. Local theater-gocrs have a pronounced penchant for musical farce znd in the reconstructed and rojuvenated * o their tastes will undoubtedly be gratitied to the fuliest ex- tent, The play is a conglomeration of comedy, music and “high-class _specialties. That breezy, magaetic son of Erin, John Kernell, enacts the leading role—Con McFadden, the hustler. He has a proclivity for concocting schemes whereby he will make millions for himself and friends, -making de- vices are marvelous stions of the imagination, before which the wild, extrava- eant schemes of Colouei Seliers pale, wither and fade into *‘iunocuous desuetude ¥ Me- Faddews ubiquitous assistant (who is always “in it”) is o sportive and speculative German who rejoices 10 the foamy cogno- men of Anheuser Busch, and is reputed to be worth anywhere from 2,000,000 to 803, This character is portrayed to tho lifo by Emil Heusel, the note utonic comedian, Another bit of ciever character sk:tehing is that of Anna Danta, propriotress of the Cam- bridge Fiats, where Mclladden and Busch have apartments. Gus Mills—unknown to the stagi pears as the love-lorn boarding house the character has made the hit of his career. omedy are as ed by the MEN'S OVERCOATS, e CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE Statesmen Who Fish. 1 understand that Hoke Smith eaught 120 trout in two hours in the Yellowstone park this summer. This is at the rate ofa trout to the minute and makes Smith's fish story one of the biggest on record. He had threée hooks on his line and he often brought in three trout at a vime. Vice President Hendricks once told me vhat he had pulled in four fish at once on one live one time on the Atlantic coast. The big fish stories that you can hear in the cloak rooms of the cap- itol aro more wonderful than the tales of Munchausen. Senator Aldrich will tell you of the wonderful tarpon which he has caught in Florida. Senator Frye will describe his cabio in the Maine woods which he supplies_with trout from the lakes and ,and Platt of Connecticut will go into. over the delights of salmon fish- Sonator Quay isa good fisherman n branches of the piscatoriul art and Sherman has caught bass and white fish. One of the greatest sports- men who wover came to the senate was John Kenna of West Virginia. When he went away from work it was to rest his brain in the West Virginia mountains. He always took a camera with him and he illus- trated his stories with photograpbs. He had thousands of snap shots taken in all | almost crazy on account of the death of his parts of the woods ncar his home, and for | wife heroumed about for dayson horse- some time before his death he was contem- | back, He was fond of good horses and his plating the publication of a book of hunting | coach horses cost #400 apioce, Franklin Picros adventuros such as he thought would be | wus another prosident who thought that the vopular with the boys of the country. Every | pest cure for the insideof a man was the one kuows how fond President Clevelaud is | outside of & horse. He gallopod about of fishing and how hels able to get away | tho streots of Washington at mid- from himself when he bas a fishine pole in | night while he was prosident. He was his hands. It was the same with President | fond of riding after dark, and his favorite Arthur and also with Andrew Jackson. | horse was blind. James Buchanan took his Jackson used to go down to Kortress | exercise ina carriage. Graut drovea great Monroo and spend & woek at a time | deal move than he rode, und his love for on the old fort known as the-| horses is n matterof history. e had some Rip Raps #shing. He was fond of horse rac- | of the best horses that haye ever been in the ing ana cock fighting and he eased his braio | white nouse stavles, aud he was always by getting entirely away from his work. | buying new ones. President Arthur rode a Daniel Webster composed muny of his | great deal on horsevack, and I think that it speeches while out fishing and some of the | wasat the advice of his physician that he bost sentences in his spocch against Hayues | took his duily rides. Jackson kopt good were made while ne had a rod in his hunds. | horses and he bet upon the races. At one Huntlug on the Potomae, race near here his private secretury and Quito o number of the senators and big | dopted son, Andrew Jackson Donelson, cn- tered a horse, and I have heard 1t said that ) ofticiuls go down the Potomac tofish and 5 3 q Had iy of *Robin Hood," which nas been presented hunt. You remember’ the hog that £ Juckson lost 810,000 which he bet uion him. - { qackson los gk} e st | here several times by the Bostoniuns, Per- dent Hairison shot_ during onc of bis vaca. | Haon Syt Lo0 lieavy & man to vide horse | 1o S o0t axprassive thiug that can be tion jaunts.: Vest and Vance often goout to | pvasiruddled u sieed oceasfonally but his | 3414 of tho Robin Hood company is that it shoot reed birds during tne season, und one [ g SUEAGEC BEWET oceasioniily, buk bl 't hesitate to come upon tho ground al- of the best stories Lold in the clouk rooms | 14'0ves overy aftortoon s the Soidiees: | Peudy covered by the Bostoniuns in this this fall was of a hunting excursion which | ;51 0 CUPRY SUReRiOon M0 08 SEHEER | fumous work. 1t stands entirely upon ity Beuator Vance, Howell Jackson, now justice | gyvaats aloug his line O march are now | Merit and there is no offort made to of the supreme court, and the late Senator | wuiered daily. g A the public into thinkirg that the orga Beck of Keutucky took a year or Lwo ago. ot tionis the Bostoniaus. Insuch cities as It was during the Christmas holidavs, ana o, eesidontial Wulkers. Buffalo, Cincinnati, St. Louls and Kausus Beck, Vance and Jackson wanted Vest to go | President Clevelaud seldom goes on foot | City, where the Robin Hood comvany has with them to shoot ducks. Vest objected, | ©utside the white house grounds. Harrson | played, its performances have been fresly saying be didn't proposo Lo get hus foet wet | Walked miles every day. ~ In company with | compared with those of the Bostonians and to his waistband all day aud come home | 9ne of the ludies of hisi family he could be | everywhere the verdict has been one of un- without a sin, auck. “You fellows go | Seen °“*"g afternoon ol about the white | qualified endorsement. There 1s no reason i ud leave me here, and I | Lot near the Washington monument, or tak- | why it should be oLherwise, Bostonians will promise to cat at one sitting every can- | 108 & stroll through the parks. He always | donot use in their own company all the yas bacic you kill" “All right,” replied | Walked to chivrch and when: ho was worried | 1alented singers of the country and as they Vance and the others, *“we will keep you to | #bout public matiors he, would drop his | haye by far the lurgest puli in commanding your bargain.” I will stick to my word,” | Work and go off for a lofig two or three mile | the servicos of clever people it follows thut said Vest, and the trio of United Stutes sgn. | Walk into tho country. ' General Graut was | the Robin Hood company 18 on & par with tors started off. Well, the hunters had a | 0fton seenon the streets here duriug his | the senior organization. Barnabee, Karl treak of luck. Howell Jackson proved him. | 1ife 1o the white house. Hg usually had a | and McDonald have ersonally superia- self & splendid snot, Vance knows how to | Clar in his mouth and ho would talk to any | tended the staging of each opera, the dotail baodlea gun and Beck killed his share | 98¢ Who spoke to bim. President Lincoln iting helle, Insomula the Universal Complaint, Brought About by Overwork and Worry—Ex- President Marrison's Long Pedestrian Tours. ©" Wasnixaroy, Nov. Y.—[Correspondence of Tue Bee.)—The great American brain is boil- ing today as it has seldom boiled before. K- nancial troubles and business worries are Dblazingaway under the kettlo and the demon of overwork is stirring up the soup with ghoulish glee. The newspapers daily record the suicides and insanityof leading men and the nerves of rich and poor are stretched .+ to their utmost. A level hoad and a steady hand are greater necessities now than silver and gold and the questions of how our great men keep them is more intoresting to the masses than the discussions of congress. 1 am surprised to find how prominent men have to fiight for steady brains. Half of the members of congress have shattered nery- ous systoms and there area number of leading senators who are fighting the arch flend of insomnia night after night. Abe Hewitt's Fight for Slesp. Perhaps the worst sleeper who ever came to Washington was Abram S, Hewitt. He bad a suiv with a baker in the next block, ‘whose dog barked at the moon at midnight, and he went almost wild over a cock that crowed near him in the early morning. He kept house here for a time and had beds in half a dozen different rooms. He would change about from one room to the other in his efforts wo sleep, and when in New York he would go about from house to house for the same purpose. During a part of his congressional career ho boarded at Worm- ley’s, and he had at this time the entire upper floor, embracing threa bed rooms, On the morning following the first night he went to Wormley and complained of the dogs which kepthim awake. “I can fix that.” id Wormley, and the next day the dogs were takon away. On the day following Hewitt sald he was kept awake by the _powling of the cats. Mr. Wormley replio “The cats are harder to git rid of than the dogs, but I will see what I can do to get rid of them.” The third night Hewitt came down more disgusted than ever and said he had failed to get sleep because of the nol minde by sthe birds. Wormley hereupon threw up his hands in despair. I don't kunow what I can do, Mr. Hewitt,” said he “*You can poison dogs snd you can shoot vats, but the wan has to get up early who would kill all the sparrows and the larks, Howitt's insomnia continued throagh the whole of his congressional career, and I l'l‘lllxk he carried it back to New York with Vhat for?” asked Bouner. “I have got o horse for you,” replied the physician, *and I want you to drive him. You are making a lov of money, but it will be of no good to you if you can't live aud en- Joy it, ana yo nly salvation is to get into une open air for a part of every day.”” Well, Bouner gave the man the check arnd got the horse. He began to speed him and tried in his drives to pass such meun as Joha Harper of Harper Brothers and Commodore Vanderbilt, who were taking the same med- icine. He soon became interested in horse- flesh and bought a team for $2,000 which rrotved a mile in 2:58. This was considered very fast in those days, but Bonner went on buying from year to year until one day he paid $40,000 for the mare Pocabontas, which was the highest price up to that tume over paid for a horse. Pocahontas went in 2:17, and a year later Bonner gave #0,000 more for Dexter. He afterward paid the samo amount to Vanderbilt for Maud S., and it is said that the price he paid Stanford for Sunol is more than 100,000, All together he has spent in the neighborhood of $500,000 for horses and his chief pleasure in his old age is said to be driving. John Rockefeller gets much of his rest from his horses. He keeps a good stud and he used to get up at 5 a. m. and speed his team for an hour before breakfast. The late millionairo Congress- mun Scott of Pennsylvania eased his brain with horse-breeding and Don Cameron woos the god of health oy taking long horsebuck rides in the country. Rest from Card Playlog, A number of our statesmen get their rest from vards, Secretary Carlisle plays poker nearly every evening and the finuncial prob- lems of the treasury fly away before the ex- citoment which couies from & game of penny ante. Joho Sherman eases his mind with a game of whist and Garfleld, when he was tronbled with insomnia, used to get up and play solitaive in his uight shirt. Carlisle, 1 am told, plays solitaire during some of his hardest wor{‘. ‘Wolcott, Don “Cameron and Secretary Gresham lose themselves 10 poker, aud nearly all of she southern statesmen are addisied to this game. Heury Clay Is said 10 bave been the best sevea-up player in the state of Keatucky, and when he was making the treaty of Ghent he relieved his mind by winning all sorts of bets from Al- bers Gallatin. 1%owell Clayton of Arkansas is very fond of poker, and the good Deacon Swmithof the Cincinnati Commercial-G zeste is said 1o take bis rest through card: President Cleveland, duriog his stay in Buf- falo, was an expert at penuchle, and I ven- ture 1o say that he ana Postmaster General Blssel havo a quiet game after cabinet af- falis are over. Nearly all of the supreme L Brom o-Seltzer -trial bottle 10 cts. - et S = THE THEATERS, UBIALLLLIES, The first couple marricd among the Chero- keo Strip settlers wors, respectively, 6 feot inches and 6 foet 11¢ inches tall. ~This is counubiality at high ticd. The wedding of Mr. L, G. Stevenson, son ol the vice president, to Miss Helon L, Davis, will take place'at_Bloomington, IiL., the home of Miss Davis, November 21, Fond Father—~Mr. Meanitall has asked me for your hand, Do you want to accept him? He says his adoration for you is un- limited. Dutiful Daughter—Very good, papa; but how is his credit? Mrs. William P sent out cards for vl ter and Captain 1d teenth hussars, u nglish regim The aate set is Wednesday, November 15 “See here,” said tho man who had marri & widow, “hasn’t your hair turned gray rather suddenly sinco wo were wed?" +Oh,? sald she, “that's from fright. 1 was S0 scared when you proposed to me, don't you know. The last half of the present week at tho Boyd will be given up to comic opera pro- sented by Barnabos, Karl and MeDonatd's Robin Hood company, and the bills will be “Robin Hood” and “The Knickerbockers.” This orginization wmay ba called the junior member of the famous Bostonans. It is the highest class road company in Amorica and is equipped on exactly the same lines and onthe same scale as tho Bostonians them- selves. Thers ara sixty picked artists, em- bracing a doublo castof prineipal si a noble chorus of thirty-five voices and an operatic orchestra. It is furnished with special scenory for both operas, the staging of “Thoe Knickerbockers” being the identi- at scenic equipment used by the Bostoniane i New York. ‘This is an especially elaborate outfit, comprising three full art sets repre- senting scenes from colonial New Amster- dam. Lyerybody knows tho charming qualitins Anderson’s “Jolly Old Chums” open a woeelt's engagement today at the Fifteenth Street theater, This melange of music, mirth and general jollity is said to be something new and en- tively different than Las ever been soen here, and the press in the various cities are unani. mous in its praise. When such clever enter- tainers as Dun Mason, Dan Ielly, Sadie Striy Rurth Nelson, Charles Sully, y, Chavies Prinse and others equally as strong, cut them s loose, it is not to be wondered that the entertainent is most enjoyable. *Jolly Old Chums" s a musical furce, in which wit, mirth ana music predominate. It is full of singing and daneing and all sorts of business calculated to broduce laughter and drive dull care away, New York has cdding of her daugt ard Jaffray of the Th agement is announced of Miss an, daughter of J. Pierpont Mor- New Yoric banker, to William Pior- son Hamilton, Mr. Hamilton is tho groat- grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Ho is an oficer of tho Manhattan Trust compuny. Miss Adelo Grant, tho famous Americ: beauty and daughterof the lato Beach G of Now York, 15 engaged Lo the o Essex. The marriage will bo celebrated in London, at the earliest day possible after the nocessary logal papers can be drawn, certainly before Uhristmas. Tho earl Essex Is a widowoer 80 years old ceaded to the title only in September of last vear on the aeath of his grandfather, the sixth earl. MUSICAL AND D.2AMATIC, Joseph Jefferson is doing Rip Van Winklo in New York Jukobowsky, the composer of “Krminie,” will shortly bive & new opera produced in Vienns It {5 ussortod that Gounod sold the of “Faust" for $3and uever after re another cent for it. Paderewski has refused, it 1s suid, several offors to make a tour in Germany: nlso an American offer of $100,000 for this season, He Is now in Scotland. Thore is & report of & huge theatrical trust, embracing three Chicago theaters, uhreo Philagelphia theaters, three New York theaters and three California theaters The Coghlaus, who begin &n enga, in New York on December 4, have a0t to produse Oscar Wide Womun of No Importauce, ber 11, Arthur Lawrence, an English character ore ved e Why Sho 8 icago Post: “1'll never, never speak to in!" she oxclaimed. “Mever in this wide, wide world ! *Why, Clara, h: adores you!" “Perhaps he does, but he has no apprecia- tion, no judgment, no idea of the fitness of things. Why,the other uight when Lo called Iputon that new gown I have Just had e s play, “A uatil Docem- Get Sleep from Exercise. A number of prominent men get wleep from exercise. Hoke Swith keeps his sys- ?- iu order by ashorseback e overy day. oseph G. Cannon takes a gdllop into ti country three times a week and Henry Cabot Lodge spends & part of each day in the sad- dle. Some of the greatest horse lovers in the United States became interested in horee flesh through their desires to get from their work. This was b 1he late Senator Stanford. He had been working day and night on the Pacific rail- scheme when he begau to break down, lost his appetite, failed to sleep and his told him that he must throw up everything and take & rest. He replied that cours justices play whist, and Gray of Mas- sachusetls is sald 1o be the best whist player in Washington. Harrison was a good whist player and Secretary Foster cuuld pl:dy almost auy sort of cards and play them well, games for Billlards and Bralos. Billlards is one of the best bolled by John Quiney Adams found this out years ago, billlard table tha house. ‘There is e bought the first r went into the white 1rd table fn the ex- eoutive mausion g. and 1t is said that President Cleveland handles the cue for an hour at a time after he has been worried to death by ofticeseckers. President Garfleld Was also & rood biliard player, and he was also fond of croquet mud ball Arthur used They brought back 100 ducks, mostly can- vas backs, sixty snipe and two geese. They put _the canvas backs in a pile and sent for Vest. His white hair st0od on eud a8 he thought of the idea of eating 100 ducks at one meal, and his little fat round stow- ach perceptibly shrauk. He got out of the matter by setting up a chawpague supper to the crowd, and & part of Lhe supper was 8 limited number of the canvas backs which t nators killed. As to the exact num- ber of the ducks there is no eertified fact, the number above given is on she authority of one of the senators who did the shooting. Senutors with Fads. A large number of our public men find Sheirrest in & change of work. Some of walked about somewhat, but bis cabinet was afraid to have bim go out of the house and it was they who insisted upon the guard which he took with him when he went horseback riding. Lincoln got & great deal of his rest [rom the theater, A box was re- served for him at the theaters hert and he could o in and out as he pleased. Ho was sometimes in the theater, I am toid, when the curtains of the box were drawn and the spectators did not know that he was pres- ent. He often took Tad with him aud the Doy used to go behind the stawe, and once or Lwice he appeared in wminor parts, where he bad nothing to say. John Quincy Adams walked from the wuite house to the capitol wnd back over{ day. When he was over- worked he would take a long wamp or o work having beendone by their own stage manager, and as each artist was selected with especial rvefereuce to the parts to be Y‘ld,\'ud. theater goers may expect to see the ostonians' Rzrrm-nmncc duplicated in the work of the Robia Hood company. “The Knickerbockers " was given one per formance here last spriug by the Bostontans It was then in its crude state. Since theu many fmproving chauges have been made iy it and jvis now a worthy companion—as it was intended to be by its authors—to “*Robiu Hood." The engagement will be divided thus: Thursday and Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee, “Robin Hood;" Frida evaning, only time of “T'he Knickerbocke! Amoag Lhe clever people who sing the pri cipal roles are the following: Jerome Sykes, Henry W. Dodd and James Nickolds, com* actor, has been cngaged by A. M. Falmer und will mako his Awerican’ debut in sup- port of Minuie Maddern fisko in Hester Crewe." Tue entire troupe of the Imperial opera, St. Petersburg, will present a series of six- toen performances in- Paris early in the new year. Rubinstein and 'Ischaikowsky will conduct several of thelr operas in person, Mr. A. M. Palmer's stock company is play- ing now in Chicago. They goto St Louls uext weck, and then after 4 tour of the south they will go 1o San Fraucisco to play at wne Baldwin theater durine Mig-+* ter exposition, from Dees QIt is a fact of iny \ sen, the Arety g being, nex bt s (7T Y made.” *Yes; what of it1" “What of it? You know what a beautiful tistie creation it is?” indee d how perfectly it tite?” “Wall, [ asked him how 1 lookod and he said I looked like an angel. Why, T coi have cried with mortification, and my dre: maker was nearly heartoroken. She folt it keenly. Such u reflection ou her work, you know." e The No § Whoeler & Wiison with its ro- tary voment, is the lightest runuin *hine in the market, aud is unequsll sed, durability and quality of work, oy W. Lancaster & Co., 614 South Sixe il streol