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OUR BRUISER ABROAD.--Mr. John L. Sul-lican is adding lustre to the American name in England. Monday night at the Aquarium, in London, he knocked out an Englishmen to presence of admiring thousands. After that performance he held a levee, which was attended by numbers of the nobility. They pronounced him an Adonis. Buffalo Bill's laurels are already fading.
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Working for European Appreciation.
Mr. Blaine of Maine, as everybody knows, is spending some time in Europe. Much to his surprise, if not ohugrin, he has discovered that a leading Republican politician and candidate for the presidency of the Unites States fails to attract anything like the attention bestowed on such eminent Americans as Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan , and he has therefore, as it is reported, gone into regular athletic training as the only means of commanding the foreign regard he so well deserves. It appears that he has actually fitted up a private gmnasium in his apartments at the Hotel Binds Paris, and exercises with the horizontal bar and the Indian Clubs under the direction of a popular professor of athletis. A great but unappreciated statesman like Mr. Blaine appears determined to leave no stone unturned to commend himslef to the European public.
Now that the real superiourity of muscle over brains has been established, and all the colleges and universities have indurrued into thier curricula instructions in athletics and maintain their rowing clubs and baseball mines, the young men of America will be able to imitate, if not to equal, that grand monument of Boston culture, John L. Sullivan, or they may even hope to emulate the glory of Hou. Michael Kelly, the baseball king. Thus alone is honor to be won and unlimited popularity gained.
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PARAGRAPHIC NEWS.
Illinois Central will reach Sioux Falls Jan. 1
The Spanish cortes was opened in the presence of the infant king.
Chicago & Central Illinois company have mortgaged the road for $8,000,000.
Southwestern extension of the Milwaukee road is ready for Kansas City business.
Efforts are neing made to secure the reopening of the Inter Ocean at Mandan, D. T.
At Fergus Falls fifty applications on 2.500 acres of indemnity lands have been filed.
The Canadian Pacific will build 4,000 freight cars and 200 locomotives for next season.
Oscar S. Gifford, delegate from Dakota, wife and child, are in Washington at the National.
The St. Joe Kid is en route for Minneapolis, where he hopes to make a match with Killen.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will spend the Christmas holidays at the White House.
The Duluth Land and Warehouse company, with $500,000, have filed articles of incorporation.
It is rumored that the Pacific railway commission will present a majority and minority report.
Mr. W. H. Keyser, of Toledo, Ohio, has purchased the Benson County bank at Sauk Rapids, Minn.
Arguments for a change of venue in the case of Warden Stordock were heard at Stillwater Thursday.
Transcontinental roads have succeeded in forming an association to go into effect Jan. 1. Headquarters will be in Denver.
A New York Hereald special says that since the elcetion at Atlanta the negroes therer are acting in a very lawless manner.
John H. Clark and Harry Gilmore have signed articles to spar six rounds Dec. 23 for 75 and 25 per cent. of the receipts and stake of $50.
Governer Church has pardoned John Lacey. The petition for pardon was signed by several governors and prominent statesmen
Col. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," will winter at Manchester, England. He says that he is worth $800,000, most of which is in Western real estate.
The treasury department has received a large quantity of paper money which had been burned almost to cinders ina railroad smashup and conflagration.
Twenty five thousand dollards and suitable grounds have been offered to secure the location of the Methodist Episcopal preparatory school in Watertown, D. T.
The Cheyenne & Burlington branch of the Burlington & Missouri road, which leaves the main line at Holdredge, was completed to Cheyenne, Wyo, Thursday
It is said in New York that Senator Fair will turn over the Nevada bank to a syndicate of Scottish capitalists, who will run it as a legitimate banking institution
The commissioner of agriculture wants congressional action on the scheme of reservoirs among the Rocky Mountains for the storage of vast volumes of water now wasted.
The fishing season has closed at Dulnth. The catch has been particularly good, over 2,000,000 pounds having been marketed. The industry has employed over 200 men.
Benjamin F. Butler Post NO142, G. A. R., of Lowell, held the largest meeting in its history Thursday night to take action with regard to the case of Thomas Callan, arrested in London on suspicion of a dynamite conspiracy.
A large amount of wheat still continues to be marketed by Dakota farmers, leading one to believe the supply almost unlimited The demand for cars is far in excess of the supply, with very slight prospects of any change for the better.
Word was brought to Sioux City that a valuable find of coal has been discovered east of Homer, Dakota county, Nebraska near Sioux City. The vein is said to be four feet thick, and the coal equals Fort Dodge coal. Active operations to mine are to commence.
Indian Inspector Banister, of Washington, visited the agency at Sisseton last week and found things in bad shape, particularly the school. He had some words with the superintendent, Gordon, and was ordered from the building. Serious charges were made against Gordon.
The stocks of oil and whalebone in first hands in this country, as compared with a year ago, are as follows. Dec. 1, 1886, sperm oil, 21,105 barrels: whale, 11,500 barrels; whalebone, 33,600 pounds. Dec. 1, 1887, sperm oil, 17,545 barrels; whale. 33,750 barrels; whalebone, 521,300 pounds.
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STAGE GOSSIP.
It is romored that Sophie Eyre is to secure a London theater.
Mrs. John Wood denies the report of her intended marriage.
Mme. Janauschek has resumed her tour in "Meg Merrilles."
Buffalo Bill is to winter at Manchester, Eng. He has gone on a tour of the continent.
Isabelle Coa will leave the Tin Soldier Company shortly, her place being taken by Elvia Crox.
Evans and Hoey, the comedians, are going to play through the Australian Colonies from June next to the following January.
Charles Bowser leaves the Rudolph Company on Saturday night to create the new comedy part written by William Gillette in "She."
The receipts for the Booth Barrett performance have averaged $25,000 per week, an amount never before realized by any combination.
David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille are drawing a royalty which averages $100 jointly a week during the run of "The Wife," at the Lyceum Theater.
Mrs. Crabtree is credited with the announcement that her daughter Charlotte (Lotta) has concluded to bid farewell to the stage at the close of next season.
Mr. Mansfield is having a season of unbroken success. His Baltimore engagement was notably brilliant, despite the formidable opposition of the National Opera Company.
Loie Fuller has been added to the cast of "She." Miss Fuller resigned from the Arabian Nights Company. In "She" she will be given an opportunity for pathetic and sentimental lines, entirely without comedy.
"The Stroller," in which Grace Hawthorne lately appeared in London, is said to be an adaptation by Oliva Logan, who was called before the curtain on the opening night and made a fifteen-minute speech.
Sidney Rosenfeld has just finished an original three-act comedy, entitled "A Possible Case." He states that Daniel Frohman, of the Lyceum Theater, is anxious to secure it, but they can not agree on terms.
A classical drama is being written for Mr. Mansfield, in which he will personate one of the most famous characters in Roman history. It is his intention to produce it with great spiendor and entirely original effects.
Mrs. Chanfrau and her son, Henry Chanfrau, will during the season of 1889 star jointly under the management of A.B. Anderson, in a new and romantic drama entitled, "The Oath," which will permit a field for both stars.
David Henderson, of the Chicago Opera House, arrived in New York on Friday from Washington, where he had been looking after his interests in "Arabian Nights." He reported that the company played to 6,200 at the National Theater last week; that Dick Golden had made a tremendous hit, and that Loie Fuller is doing exceedingly well. He is much pleased with Emil Wolf, his new musical director. He further stated that he has already booked all the time at his theater for next season.
It is reported that after this season Lotta will put into effect her long cherished plan of founding a children's home.
Unless Ellen Terry. Sarah Bernhardt and Modjeska brace up and get some better clothes they will be left way behind by Mrs. Potter.--Life.
"If I were asked," writes Kate Venning, "to express in a word the difference between the English and the French methods of acting, I would say that English actresses play chastity and that the French play passion. This is the difference, for instance, between the style of Ellen Terry and that of Sarah Bernhardt."
Mr. A.M. Palmer will soon bring out in New York "Heart of Hearts," the new society drama by Henry A. Jones, author of "Saints and Sinners," which is a gerat success at the Vaudeville, London, and of which Mr. Palmer holds the American rights. "Heart of Hears" was writeen with a view to its presentation at the Madison Square, and the characters are to a certain extent fitted to the peculiar talents of the company that house. It is described as a play in which strong dramatic scenes are deftly mingled with bits of light comedy. Mr. Jones has signified his intention of coming over to witness the first production of his piece.
Probably few person who have seen Miss Connie Jackson play Tillie Slowboy are aware that she is the sister of Mr. Joseph Jefferson, who plays Caleb Plummer in the same piece. Such is the fact, however and, although she doesn't appear to be more than fifteen years old, she is nearer forty-eight. This clever actress is almost totally deaf, and relies wholly upon her eyes while on the stage, witnessing the movements of the different actor's lips. She has played Tillie so often that she can castly tell when it is her turn to speak without watching very closely what is being said. Miss Jackson was one of the first Topsies in thie country and made a great success of the part.
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AMERICA REPRESENTED. - Husband - This country seem to be well represented abroud, jus now. Wife- In what way. John? Husband- Well, there is Buffalo Bill and Dirty Dog, who represent the wild and wools West. while Sir. Lowell and Mr. Sullivan personify the culture and refinement of te enlightened East - The Epoch.