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A NOTABLE MAN.

Some Interesting Passages in the Life of W. F. Cody - Col. Prentiss Ingraham, Dramatist and Novelist - Buffalo Bill's forthcoming New Border Drama.

The eighth annual visit of Buffalo Bill (Hon. W. F. Cody) and his dramatic combination to Baltimore, thus far, has been the most successful and satisfactory that he has ever made here. The entertainment given by this remarkable man illustrates the often asserted fact that truth is stranger than fiction. The dramas in which he has appeared are simply the stringing together with skillful effect of the actual scenes in which Mr. Cody himself has been the principal actor and hero. He is really the only man on the stage who gives representations of himself.

The leading features of the well known drama "May Cody" and the still better drama "Knight of the Plains," now being performed at Ford's Opera House, are made up of actual occurences in the dangerous life led by Mr. Cody, or "Buffalo Bill," as scout, guide and hunter on the great Northwestern frontier. Mr. Cody's splendid figure, manly and gentlemanly bearing, and fine, frank open countenance, is familiar to most everybody here. He is the only true type of the frontiersman, as we have been taught to regard him by writers of travel and adventure. Born in Iowa, when it was almost the western boundry of civilization, he grew up with the rifle in his hand and thoroughly accustomed to the dangers of the border. He is said to have killed his first Indian when only ten years of age, and since that time has been a prominent figure in most of the thrilling and terrible conflicts with the Indians and blood-thirsty road agents of the Northwest.

Mr. Cody is now about thirty-six years of age. His home is at North Platte, Nebraska, where he owns a fine farm improved by an elegant mansion, and sixty miles distant on the Dismal river, he owns ranches of several thousand acres upon which he maintains 10,000 band of cattle. His home is the cen-

A NOTABLE MAN.

Some Interesting Passages in the Life of W. F. Cody - Col. Prentiss Ingraham, Dramatist and Novelist - Buffalo Bill's forthcoming New Border Drama.

The eighth annual visit of Buffalo Bill (Hon. W. F. Cody) and his dramatic combination to Baltimore, thus far, has been the most successful and satisfactory that he has ever made here. The entertainment given by this remarkable man illustrates the often asserted fact that truth is stranger than fiction. The dramas in which he has appeared are simply the stringing together with skillful effect of the actual scenes in which Mr. Cody himself has been the principal actor and hero. He is really the only man on the stage who gives representations of himself.

The leading features of the well known drama "May Cody" and the still better drama "Knight of the Plains," now being performed at Ford's Opera House, are made up of actual occurences in the dangerous life led by Mr. Cody, or "Buffalo Bill," as scout, guide and hunter on the great Northwestern frontier. Mr. Cody's splendid figure, manly and gentlemanly bearing, and fine, frank open countenance, is familiar to most everybody here. He is the only true type of the frontiersman, as we have been taught to regard him by writers of travel and adventure. Born in Iowa, when it was almost the western boundry of civilization, he grew up with the rifle in his hand and thoroughly accustomed to the dangers of the border. He is said to have killed his first Indian when only ten years of age, and since that time has been a prominent figure in most of the thrilling and terrible conflicts with the Indians and blood-thirsty road agents of the Northwest.

Mr. Cody is now about thirty-six years of age. His home is at North Platte, Nebraska, where he owns a fine farm improved by an elegant mansion, and sixty miles distant on the Dismal river, he owns ranches of several thousand acres upon which he maintains 10,000 band of cattle. His home is the cen-