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Amusements.

Last night Buffalo Bill and his company came before the foot lights of the Opera House stage, and saw more than a four hundred dollar audience there to greet them. That's the kind of an audience a manager likes to see. "Small, but select," or "medium, but appreciative," or "not large but composed of the elite," etc., may all look well in print, but a house full of ducats is always preferable to a manger. The drama, "May Cody, or Lost and Won," is one drawn - perhaps a little overdrawn - from frontier life upon the plains and mountains, and is a production of considerable interest to the ordinary theatre goer; the play was well mounted and the principal characters sustained very well throughout.

The principal attraction was the Hon. W. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, himself, who is a handsome specimen of physical manhood, and a fair actor. There have been many to say that he is not the original Buffalo Bill, but only a more ordinary individual, paying the original a royalty for the use of his name; that is without foundation. He is the original Buffalo Bill, scout, editor and proprietor of a newspaper, ex-representative from Merrick county, in the Nebraska Legislature, and finally an actor. Of this there is no reasonable cause for doubt, and people who were fearing they had been gulled, may take assurance and rest easy.