Buffalo Bill's Wild West In England (Part2)

JUST now some of the English illustrated papers are teeming with pictures of life in America, suggested, no doubt, by the fact that a so-called American Exhibition is soon to open in London and that Mr. Gladstone has been to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. "Types of Western men" prove to be Africans, Indians and Mexicans in outlandish costumes. The old stage-coach of the days when Horace Greeley went West is shown, also the "bull team," which is a "prairie schooner" with six or ten pairs of oxen attached. These papers tell their readers that it is safe traveling from New York to Chicago, and that the English type of civilization is gradually spreading all over the continent! The English readers are to be congratulated upon receiving such solid chunks of wisdom. Their impressions anent America were growing dim, and needed to be touched up a little.

Pebbles.

BASS has named his dog Wellington, because of the animal's proficiency in rending a bone apart." --Boston Transcript.

....The number of women who really care to vote is about equal to the number of men who like to put the baby to sleep.--Puck..

....At the Opera.--"Why do you make that knot in your handkerchief?" "Oh! so that I sha'n't forget that charming melody." --German Paper.

....There is a dentist in a Michigan town, the sign over whose door reads: "Teeth Extracted Without Enny Pane. Laffin Gas (10) Cent a Ha Ha!" --Exchange.

....The Early Rose of the potato family is now superseded by the early roes pertaining to the shad, sometimes called the shadblow. It is not the early roes by the shad that catches the worm.

....Stout old Lady (to elevator boy): "Is this the passenger elevator, or the freight elevator, boy?" Boy (kindly): "It's the freight, ma'am. What floor d'ye want ter git off at?" --Puck

....A banker, who was inclined to be generous, thus addressed an employé: "here are 500 francs for you as a reward for good behavior the past year; or rather 487.50 francs--as I have deducted 2 1/2 percent. for cash. --French Fun.

....An elderly wit called to present his congratulations to a New York bank president on the latter's birthday. "Well, my friend," said the wit, "how old are you?" "Seventy-five." "Hum, seventy-five; well I hope you'll rise to par."

...."I have three witnesses who will swear that at the hour when this man was robbed I was at home in my own chamber, taking care of my baby." "Yes, your honor," glibly added the prisoner's counsel, "that is strictly true. We can prove a lullaby, your honor." --Journal of Education.

....An old lady went to the Episocpal church. The sexton gave her a seat not very far forward. She turned to him, and, spying the lectern--a spread eagle--said: "I am deed; I wish you would give me a seat farther front, near the faowl." --Harper's Magazine.

....Actor: "Going to leave town, old boy?" Old Gent: "Yes, I'm going on the 12:50 train." "I always try to avoid the 12:50 train." "Whydo you try to avoid the 12:50 train?" "Because it would be ten to one if I caught it, and I don't care to take any risks." --Texas Siftings.

....A preacher who used to hold forth in Sangerville was wont to be rather wandering in his remarks. One day he asked a lady what his hearers thought of his sermons. "Well, if you must know," she said, "they say that if the text had the small-pox the sermon was in no danger of catching it." --Dexter, Me., Gazette.

....Mrs. Youngbride Honeymoon (to husband, who is a railroad president): "And are you sure you will always, always love me more than you will any one else?" Mr. Honeymoon (absently): "Impossible to say. You see, it is very doubtful whether the Inter-State law will allow me to make any discrimination." --Harper's Bazar.

...."Bill!" "Bill?" "What, Bill is that you?" "Why, Bill, old fellow, shake!" They embrace. "I'm glad's to kn-ow you Bill." "Thanks awfully; you're a bully fellow, Biil, and a Bill Buffellow." --The above is the authorized report of the interview between the Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone and Buffalo Bill at the Wild West Show, in London, last week.

....We presume that the Chattanooga Times has a new editor for its society column, though it is possible that the type-setter may be responsible for the novelties in costume described in the following items, which we reproduce exactly from a recent issue of The Times: "Miss Davis wore a beautiful dress of black satin, decalette, gold embroidered flounces and morchal neal roses. "Mrs. L. S. Colyar looked lovely in a handsome costume of soppire blue velvet, entwaine, trimmed with indescent possomentries."

...."I often tell my husband," smiled Mrs. Jones to Dumley, whom Jones brought unexpectedly to dinner, " that if he will bring gentleman to dinner without letting me know a little beforehand, he must not be disappointed if everything isn't just as it should be." "Oh, I beg of you, my dear madam, not to think of apologizing," responded Dumley, with profuse politeness; "I have eaten worse dinners than this, I assure you, and," he added, "I've eaten some pretty poor dinners, too." -- Harper's Bazar.

GLADSTONE AND BUFFALO BILL. A Neat Representation of the Americna World. [San Francisco Attn.] If the Americna public never before appreciated the amiability of Mr. Gladstone, the last forty-eight hours have changed it.

One of our fellow-citizens, Hon. William F. Cody, whose attention was drawn to the circus business by his experience in the Nebraska Legislature, has organized an Indian and cowboy show, with which he visits England. His Indians dance the corn dance of their people, a terpsichorean performance of a semi religious character, originally intended to express thankfulness to the Great Spirit for bringing sqaw corn forward to the rasting ear stage. They also perform the dog dance, which in like manner, hallows the ripening of the puppy crop, when the surplus is used for soup, while some are saved for later sacrifice and consumption in the dish known to frontier whites as "pup{?}lion," for which we have the recipe, which is at the service of any epicurean friend. Mr Cody's aborgines also performed the scalp dance, and they also chase a rheumatic buffalo bull round a sawdust ring, lasso him and yank him up, all standing. In addition to this they shoot at things, and they do it all arrayed in feathers, with bear-claw necklaces, and the slough mud of thier native land.

It is a good show, a circus and Indian whoop-la, and is as near a reproduction of a parliamentary practive of the Nebraska Legislature as Mr. Cody can put on the road. It has already caused several lads in New York to pawn their school books and set out for the wild, wild West, in search of gore.

Its proprietor, finding cheap transportation imperlied by the fourth clause of the Interstate Commerce Act, and not being in possession of Senator Hearrst's concise opinion of that law, fled to Endgland with his Indians, his cowboys and his buffalo, and has opened in London. This was a good business move, for England is fond of looking at all aboriginal people. When Zenobia, the unfortunate Queen of Palmyra, graced the triumph of Aurclian, the Roman populace looked upon her with no livelier curiousity than that with which the Londoners gaze upon the The Man Who Pumps Thunder, or The Indian Who Loves Fire water, or any other Sioux, Pottowattamie or Pawnee chief who strays into England.

It was good business tact in Mr. Cody to go there wit his show and his nickname of Buffalo Bill and his long hair, but he has struck a streak of luck so fat as to break Barnum's heart and turn Adam Forepaugh green with envy, in getting Gladstone to see his show and afterwards make a long speech about it, which is cabled to every pape in America.

A good many good people in Englad think that the Americans are all descended from Pocahontas, so that what Gladstone said is perfectly natural. After looking at the show, he took bite and sup with Bill, and in his speech said that "the performers ahd done themselves more than justice. The institutions and progress of America had been to hib subjects of great interest. The performers surpassed Englishmen in feats of horsemanship. The main purpose of the exhibition was to bring American life before the English people, and there was no purpose he valued more. Nothing was more desirable than a true and accurate representation of the Americna world."

It was all just as amiable and as pleasant as it could be, and if Bill's Indians and cowboys and buffalo fall to do their best after it, they should be sent home to encounter the peril of the long and short haul controversy. It will result in arming all future immigration to this country, and the exiles who resort to our shores will hereafter look for birch canoes at Sandy Hood and expect campfires on Bergen Hill and Hoboken Heights, as they come through the Narrows. If they are not welcomed to Castle Garden with a corn dance and offered ponies for thier marriageable daughters, They will feel that they have been deceived, and that American life has not been properly put before the English public.

THE QUEEN AT THE SHOW.

VICTORIA ATTENDS BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST CIRCUS.

The Public Excluded--How "The World" Correspondent Managed to Be Present--Excitement of the Cowboys--Calm Demeanor of the Indians--The Queen and the Indians.

Special Cable Dispatch to the World. LONDON, May 11.--Queen Victoria this afternoon visited the Wild West encampment at Earl's Court, where a private performance was given for her benefit. The public was not admitted to the grounds this afternoon, because the Queen had ordered to the contrary. She sent word yesterday afternooon that she desired to have the performance begin soon after her arrival at 5 o'clock. The Queen is almost the only ruler in Europe, except the Czar of Russia, who will not attend any entertainment in company with the public. One hundred police and twenty detectives were on hand. The World's correspondent got a suit of buckskin and went in as a performer.

In the neighborhood of five o'clock at liveried messenger came running down to the line of stables and reported to Col. Cody that the Queen would be there within the next ten minutes. All the horses were now saddled. The Indians, in full dress of paint and feathers, stood at their horses' heads at the upper end of the line of stables. The lady riders with whips in their hands, nerously switching their little boots, crowded together in a compact group under the sheltering wing of the King of the Cowboys, Buck Taylor. During the five minutes of waiting there was a good deal of chaff. Taylor said that as he was the King of the Cowboys he ought to go out and meet the Queen.

THE ROYAL PARTY ARRIVES.

At length a mounted groom, in black coat and black top hat and white leather breeches and top boots, came dashing down the line as an avant-courier of the royal party. Col. Cody sprang onto his gray horse Charlie, and fell back into a position of attention. THen there came a carriage with coachman and gootman in red livery on the box, driving with great rapidity, preceded and followed by outriders. This carriage contained one of the ladies-in-waiting to the Queen. The cowboys thought that this was the Queen and saluted profoundly, and the cowboy band as this carriage passed around the corner began to play "God Save the Queen." But they had not played more than two or three bars when they were checked. This false start of the band seemed to amuse the cowboys very much. The Indians, however, were very grave, and remained standing, like so many statues. Next came the carriage containing the Queen. It was preceded by two outriders mounted on bay horses and in liveries like that worn by 'the first outrider. The Queen's carriage was drawn by four powerful bay horses ridden by postilions, who wore mourning liveries. The harnesses were very plain, with some light gold plating. On the box were two men also in black liveries and top boots, and upon the rear seat of the carriage were two Scotch gillies. Behind the carriage came two equerries and two mounted footmen, all mounted on bay horses. The carriage was a heavy, plain, open landau devoided of ornament. The Queen sat on the right of the carriage, with Princess Beatrice on the left. The Queen was at once driven to the royal box. The gates were kept closed until she had alighted.

THE ROYAL BOX.

The box was draped on purple velvet, with a canopy upon which the royal arms were embroidered in gold.

The guests whom she had invited to be present came in through the other gates and occupied seats to the right and left of the royal box. About forty people in all were invited to be present as here guests. Her box was decorated with flowers and plants in front of the box on the track. In the box, besides the Queen, were the Duchess of Athol, Prince Henry of Battenburg, Princess Beatrice and the Marquis of Lorne. It had been threatening rain up to this time, but although the clouds hung heavy and grey the rain did not fall. There was, therefore, no hitch in the performance. Among the people present was the Earl of Latham, the Lord Chamberlain, A group of detectives in high hates and black shiny clothes occupied seats well down towards the right. THe policement stiffened like stakes when the Queen entered the ampitheatre, and stood like soldiers on guard all during the performance. The gillies and servants stood with the policement in the central entrance of the ampitheatre, and did not venture once to sit down upon any of the vacant seats near them.

The Queen took her seat, and when all of her party were seated she signaled to one of her equerries. He nodded to a policeman, and the latter touched the arm of handsome Richmond, the orator of the Wild West performance. Richmond then waved a small red flag, and the scenery which had parted to admit the Queen and her attendants again opened, and the voice of Buffalo Bill was heard shouting "Go." Indians and cowboys came dashing in like the wind and formed in a parade line on the opposite side of the ampitheatre. THen each section of the seperate tribes dashed to the front and posed in picturesque line in front of the Queen. The yelling of the Indians, the shouting of the cowboys and the rush of the steeds appeared to exercise a perfect fascination on the Queen. She put up a pair of glasses and gave her entire attention to the line, going up and down, until Col. Cody came to the front at last, and, backing upon his graceful horse, bowed in front of her.

EVERYTHING DONE WITH A RUSH.

Everything was done with a rush. All the performers were very nervous, but in spite of their nervouseness they were much more successful than upon the opening day. After a grand parade there were one or two races and then the rifle shooting began. Lillian Smith who shoots at moving glass balls missed only twice in a succession of forty or fitty shots. When she had finished the Queen signaled to her to come to the box, where upon Lillian Smith advanced and bowed, and the Queen bowed in return, nothing being said. Annie Oakley who followed her was equally successful. HSe too was presented to the Queen. Both of the young women bowed, in a matter-of-fact way, and then walked off as if they were not at all overcome by the situation. The attack upon the coach greatly delighted the royal party. This and the attack upon the cabin was completed within ten minutes.

THE WAR DANCE INTERESTS THE QUEEN.

The war dance interested the Queen more than any other feature of the performance. Several of the most distinguished chiefs of the party were stripped entirely naked except their breach-clouts. When the fervor of the dance reached its height their only covering, except what has just been mentioned, consisted of a coat of paint and of a few bracelets. Richmond, the orator, in a picturesque suit of buckskin and beadwork, with his long brown curls floating in the wind, stood just at the left of the Queen, outside of the box, and called out in a clear musical voice an explanation of every item of the limited bill. Occasionally the Queen would turn to him and ask him some question.

The attack on the cabin was the closing act in the performance. This was done with great spirit and dash. The cowboys and Indians excelled themselves in most reckless and daring riding. Buck Taylor, when the cavalcade swept down near the royal box, fairly threw his horse around into twenty or thirty positions inside of a minute. He fired his revolver from under the horse and exhibited such lightning like gymnastic ability as to draw a forth a perfect yell of approval from the excitable Maj. Burke, who stood at the right of the royal box, inspiring the boys with his enthusiasm and fire.

At the close of the performance a large portion of the audience which came with the Queen went through the exhibition part of the show.

THE QUEEN TALKS TO RED SHIRT.

The Queen did not go. She directed that "Red Shirt" and the principal Indian chiefs should be brought to where he was. Red Shirt was the first presented. The Queen now advanced to the front of the box. Every one uncovered as she stood up. I was not over six feet distant from the place where Red Shirt was presented.

The Queen, a short compact, stout figure, was dressed in a suit of soft black cloth. She wore a large, square-shaped bonnet, also of black, and tied by two black ribbons under her heavy double chin. Over this dress she wore a plain black cloth coat embroidered with small designs of black beads. She has a very clear complexion and very few wrinkles in her face for a woman of sixty-eight years of age. Her hair is still thick and is only iron-gray. Her forehead is full and prominent. Her eyes are cold gray blue. Her nose is prominent and Roman in character. Her mouth is very determined in its expression. She has an air of one who is used to command but in her manner she is as plain and direct as a man. Standing slightly in her rear was Princess Beatrice, her favorite daughter and constant companion. She is tall and much more distinguished looking than her mother. She has a very clear complexion, a high forehead, the blue-gray eyes of her mother and also the same high arch nose. She wore an olive-green wrap brocaded in a darker shade over her dress of light brown cloth. Her bonnet was a dainty Parisian shape of the same shade as her coat, with light brown ribbons. Her husband, Prince Henry of Battenberg, a tall, slight ordinary-looking young man, stood just at the back of her, while the Marquis of Lorne stood upon her right.

RED SHIRT COMPLIMENTS THE QUEEN.

The Queen advanced to the opening of the box and stoof upon the floor, which is about six inches above the level of the track. "Red Shirt" advanced and stood upon the tanbark. When he was presented by the interpreter the latter was very much overcome, but "Red Shirt" remained as self-possessed as the Queen herself. He hald nodded and smiled. The Queen directed the interpreter to say to him that she was glad to see him, that she had admired his riding very much, and bade him welcome to England. "Red Shirt's" face lighted up when this was communicated to him in husky whispers by the interpreter. He responded in the gutturals of his native language, which the bashful interpreter translated in such a feeble tone of voice that the Queen could not understand. Orator Richmon, however, repeated the phrase so that the Queen heard it. It was as follows: "I have come many thousand miles to see you. Now that I have seen you, my heart is glad." The Queen nodded at this flowery sentence and "Red Shirt" stepped back.

THE SQUAWS INSIST ON SHAKING HANDS.

Then "Yellow-Striped Face," the half-breed interpreter, was presented and then came two squaws, mothers of two pappooses in the camp. The little girl pappoose was first presented. The Queen patted her cheek with her black-silk gloved hand, and then the little thing stuck out her brown paw, and the Queen shook it. After this the Queen stepped back, but the mother was not content. She walked up and stuck out her hand, and the Queen shook hands gravely and bowed. Then the other squaw came up and said: "How," and offered her hand, and finally a little brown boy pappoose camp. The little girl pappoose was first presented. The Queen patted her cheek with her black silk gloved hand, and then the little thing stuck out her brown paw, and the Queen stepped back, but the mother was not content. She walked up and stuck out her hand, and the Queen shook hands gravely and bowed. Then the other squaw came up and said: "How," and offered her hand, and finally a little brown boy pappoose came up and chook hands with them all, these being the only members of the Wild West party who were thus honored. Then Messrs. Cody and Salsbury were presented. Both of them bowed gravely, and Col. Cody smiled pleasantly at the compliment paid to him by the Queen. She told him that she had been very much interested, and that his skill was very great. A moment after this an equerry signaled for the carriage and it came dashing up. The Queen gave directions to have the top of the carriage lowered. She then turned to the Marquis of Lorne and extended to him her right hand. He bent very low and kissed it and then fell back.

THE QUEEN GETS INTO HER CARRIAGE.

Two Scotch gillies now came forward uncovered. The postilions and all of the attendants uncovered; then the carriage steps were let down and the two gillies helped the Queen carefully up every step and did not let her go until she was safely seated in the carriage. A heavier cloak was put around her and the carriage robes drawn up, and then Princess Beatrice took her seat by her mother's side. The Duchess of Atholl was next helped into the carriage, and then came Prince Henry. The Queen raised a small black sunshade, the Princss a light green one. The Queen turned and bowed one especial farewell to orator Richmond, and then the carriage started and in a moment was out of sight.

Many Items of Interest.

The newspaper Fire and Water, devoted to fire protection, water supply, etc., in cities, relates to singular accident, which came near being serious. In a dyeing establishment near this city a man was cleaning a flannel gown in a tub of benzine, fully 100 feet removed from a flame of any kind. He was simply rubbing the garment with his bare hands, when as he describes it, "suddenly the whole tubful of stuff went up in a blaze," and he escaped death of serious injury only by an instinctive and instantaneous backward leap. The friction caused by handling the flannel generated electricity, which ignited the vapors aristing from the benzine. This, the editor days is in its details the first instance of the kind which has yet to come to our knowledge, and the fire having been quickly extinguished by the employes, would probably never have been reported had not one of them casually mentioned it.

The American Architect relates the following incident of England's architect, Mr. John Ruskin. The other day some incautious Christians, who had built a cheap mission chapel in the suburbs of London, applied to this great man to help them pay for it. Instead of money they received some advice, of greater value, probably, than any pecuniary gift that, the critic could bestow. "Why," he asked them, "did they build churches that they could not pay for?" "Why did not they preach behind the hedges, rather than run into debt?" "And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built," he was kind of enough to add, "an iron church was to him the damnablest." Mr. Ruskin is said to have just joined the Roman Catholic Church, and this may account for his asperiry in talking to evangelical Protestants; but the story shows how cautious one must be in dealing with such person.

The Real Estate Record, of this city repeats what it has said before, that there are the very best reasons for believing that the New York Central Railroad has decided to build an underground railroad from the Grand Central Depot to the Brooklyn Bridge. The tunnel in which she tracks will be laid will run under Elm street which is to be widened and extended on one end to the bridge and on the other to Lafayette place and Fourth avenue. The work, the Record says, is to be undertaken at once, and will be forwarded in the most expeditious manner, so that the trains may be running in the early summer of 1888. There will be four tracks; two for through and two for way travel.

The cultivation of beets for sugar is making rapid progress in Chili. In one of the largest factories for making the sugar and diffusion process is employed with such a good results that the daily production is estimated by the Mexican Financier at 150,000 kilogrames.

On Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in California, at a level of 14,000 feet above the sea and 1,500 feet above the timber line, where there is no soil and no moisture save snow and hail and ice, there grows a little flower shaped like a bell flower, gaudy in colors of red, purple, and blue. It is called Jacob's ladder and its fragrance partakes of the white jasmine. It blooms alone, for it not only has no floral associates but there is no creature, not even bird or insect, to keep it company.

it has been discovered how the wholesale milk poisoning occurred at Long Branch last summer. It has been conclusively shown for the first time, says Health Monthly, that milk warm from the cow, when placed in tight cans under conditions which greatly retard the dispersion of its heat, will undergo change, with the devlopment in the course of five hours, of a poison called tyrotoxicon. Fortunately, it is customary among milkmen to cool down before transportation, and now it appeaars that it is dangerous to deviate from the wise custom. Boiling milk dissipates even tyrotoxicon and, as boiling also destroys the germs of acid fermentation, it is a good precaution for the summer time.

A writer in one of our medical journals says that it is considered by all physicians impossible to lay down any rules for health which may be followed safely by all persons. Health depends largely upon the diet. Some people cannot eat newly baked bread; others cannot eat it when stale. Much fresh meat with some constitutions induces fullness of the head and a feverish state of the system, becaues it makes blood too fast. It should therefore be discarded, and a little salt meat or fish, if the appetite craves it, with fresh fruit and vegetables, will be found probably to be just what the system requires. In truth, with health, as in many other things, each person must be a law unto himself.

Some months ago a number of persons went from Glasgow to Loch Fyne to see a large blasting operation, in which six and one-hald tons of gunpowder were exploded. A short time after the explosion many of the observers became faint, six of the number died almost immediately, one died shortly after, and five others were very ill, but recovered. The editor of Science says the cause of death is believed to have been the carbonic oxide generated from the gunpowder. It is estimated that the amount must have been 468 pounds, a quantity sufficient to occupy 6,333 cubic feet of air space, or to vitate for respiratory purposes a space one hundred times as great. There were also generated 3,575 pounds of carbonic anhydride; so that, in all there were 1,266,000 cubic feet of air rendered irresporable.

One who claims to have tried it, says that rubber may be fastened to iron by means of a paint composeed of podered shellac steeped in about twn times its weight of concentrated ammonia. It should be allowed to stand three or four weeks before being used.

This was the way a country blacksmith was seen removing that portion of an ax handle from the ax that remained in the eye, the break being close to the iron. The wood could not be driven out, and as nails had been driven in at the end, it could not be bored out. He drove the bit of a sharp edge into some moist eath, and then built a fire around the projecting part. The wood was soon charred so that it was easily removed. The moist earth so protected the tempered part of the ax that it sustained no injury.

Mary E. Tousey, on the study of insects in the American Teacher, concludes that every insect has its use in the world. many live very romantic lives--some are in the world. Many live very romantic lives--some are wanderers and some are social in their habits, all are wonderful. It is possible for us to discover the secrets of their lives and the mysteries of their homes, if we carefully study them.

The Sanitary Engineer, in reply to an architect's inquiry, how to obtain the ivory finish used so much for producing the colonial wood work effect, says that from five to seven coats of oil paint are applied. With the last two Japan varnish and ivory white are mixed, so as to give the polish. Each coat of paint is rubbed down before the next applied. With the last two coats, pumic stone is used for rubbing down. With cherry wood, five coats will dol with pine seven are needed to get the same finish.

The American Exhibition in London has added to its attraction Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which attracted such crowds at the Madison Square Garden, in this city during the past winter. A correspondent writes that everything in the neighborhood of the exhibition is becoming Americanized. The shops are all labeled on the signs "The American Cigar Store," "The American Photographers," "The American Grocery," etc.

The public will be greatly benefited if the scheme under consideration by the Hon. A.W. McLelan, Postmaster-General, for creating a parcel post system between Canada and the United States. At present there is no system whereby parcels can be sent direct to their destination. Ignorance of postal laws has caused much inconvenience to the department, as well as to thousands of people, who are daily being notified that their respective packages have finally reached the Custom House.