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Hon. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill.)

The Buffalo Bill combination, led by the noted government scout, guide and hunter, Hon. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), will appear on Saturday evening of this week, the 18th. He comes this season with a strong dramatic combination. his own brass band and orchestra, and a band of genuine Indian Chiefs, including Master Eddie Burgess, the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, the youngest chief of which any record is given in the entire Indian nation

Few men have gathered in their real existence enough of romance and adventure to make the theme entertaining or thrilling to others. This is one of the great charms of Buffalo Bill, for he presents incidents and accidents from his own stirring and eventful life, and presents, in his own personality, stage representations of his own escapes, triumphs and exploits beyond the bounds of civilization. He has a new play entitled "The Knight of the Plains," written by Col. Prentiss Ingraham, the noted novelist, who, by the way, will visit this city with the company.

Mr. Cody has wonderfully improved as an actor, and the author, in writing this new play introduces him in a variety of roles-or rather, three disguises-his own original character of "Buffalo Bill," as an English nobleman, as a detective and as a pony express rider. In the first act, as Buffalo Bill, he introduces his wonderful rifle shooting, and the act close with a startling tableau of a prairie on fire, with scenery painted especially for the purpose, to which is added red fires and other properties, making, it is said, the most realistic scene ever presented on any stage. The gambling scene in the third act-with the real implements of a Cheyenne gambling [hell?]-is also said to be realistic in the extreme.

The press this season compliments Mr. Cody very highly on his improvement as an actor, and the audience on this occasion, besides seeing the noted scout and guide-the very impersonation of physical manhood-will be entertained with an

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