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"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE,"

A Big Week at the Amusement Halls,

ENTERTAINMENTS EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK AT EITHER THE OPERA HOUSE OR ACADEMY-SOME FIRST-CLASS ATTRACTIONS.

BUFFALO BILL TO-NIGHT-BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS HISTORY.

Buffalo Bill, the beau ideal of all that is brave in the eyes of dime novel readers, and many others besides. appears at the Academy this evening, in "The Prairie Waif." It is a foregone conclusion that the house will be filled to overflowing, as is always the case in every city where Bill appears. So much has been said and written of this redoubtable hero of the plains that the following brief sketch of his career will doubtless be read with considerable interest. This noted scout and guide, whose handsome personal appearance and genial bearing are well known to many of our citizens, and whose many strange and romantic incidents make a life which is more fit to adorn the pages of romantic reality than any fancy of the brain which could suggest any of the heroes of the "Leatherstocking" tales, was born upon the Western prairies, and reared amid wild scenes of tumult.

His father was murdered in their early days when Kansas with the struggle of a young giant was shaking off the yoke of African slavery. Bill was a trained Indian fighter, taking his first scalp at the age of twelve, and having served his young state in earliest manhood as a trusted and honored member of the legislature, it is probable that William F. Cody is as well acquainted with all taht pertains to the west as any other living man.

His acquaintance and fame as a great western scout and actor is as broad as the nation. There are but few better genuine and typical western men than Mr. Cody.

"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE,"