JEN NIE KIMBALL'S BOYS.
.. Many Comedians that were Graduate:‘.'
from Her Juvenile Company.
The death of Jennie Kimball recall:
the fact that the burlesque stage of to
day owes her some of its brightest stars
as well as the infant prima donna Cor
inne. It was from Miss Kimball’s first
juvenile company, the Corinne Merry?
makers, that the Daly brothers, Bol‘
and Dan, took their start. Dan is now
leading comedian at the New York Ca?
sine. .
“The Great Crowley,” who has been
successful in London, was also one 0
her early juveniles. Harry Conor, who
made a hit as Welland Strong in Hoyt':
“A Trip to Chinatown.” and Charles A.
Bigelow, the O’Hooligan. of “Little
Christopher,” are others of Miss Kim.
ball’s boys.
Miss Kimball’s school was one of the
best for would-be burlesque artists, and
it was a misfortune. for that branch of
the profession when she decided three
years after Corinne began, to surround
the baby star with adult support. Miss
Kimball was well fitted for her task of
making burlesque artists, having been
a burlesque actress for many years at
the old Howard Athenaeum in Boston,
along in the 70’s.
She took to the profession of manag
ing after her meeting with Corinne, who
has been often spoken of as Kimball’s
child. She is, in fact, the daughter of
poor Italians, and attracted the atten-
tion of the burlesque actress by her
plaintive singing in the streets. Miss
Kimball ofiered to teach the 5 year old
child, and found her not only apt and
bright, but also a natural actress. She
soon adopted her, and in “Pinafore”
the tot made her first bow to the public
at the Boston Museum in 1870. ‘
Juvenile opera companies were then
just starting, Haverley’s and Mile's ju
venile opera companies being the first.
Miss Kimball gathered all the child
singers she could in the city, getting
many from music teachers, and when,
two years later, after a couple of weeks'
run at the old Gaiety Theatre, she start-
ed the Merrymakers on the road with
"Cinderella,” the little company num-
bered 35, ranging in age from the prima
donna‘s 7 years to some 15 year old chor-
us girls.
Miss Kimball was very strict with her
youthful company, and not only watch
ed over their stage business, but also
looked after their habits, and the bud-
ding choristers and comedians frequent-
ly led their guardian a pretty chase, as
each mother had given her the strictest
orders. A salutary lesson to‘ one boy
made a great impression on the rest of
the boys.
It was in St. Louis. The curtain was
about to ring up when Buttoni was re
ported missihg. Scurrying about town
Hayden finally bl‘Cllght the small low
comedian in a sad condition into the
presence of the head cf the company.
and held her knitting while she settled
with him. She first demanded where
‘ Buttoni's savings were. There could
be no doubt Charley had spent them
all. He was penniless and very tipsy.
So Miss Kimball, who was rather ath-
letic, and had got the disgraced Buttoni
into a corner, boxed his ears soundly
(to be entirely frank, cat-o’-nine tailed
him), berating him the while. Being
quite irresponsible the boy stood on his
dignity, and refused to promise reform,
whereupon he was at once discharged,
and started on his homeward journey in
the hour.
A week or so later, while the com-
pany awaited a train in the M inneapolis
station, Miss Kimball espied a small-
sized tramp sitting shivering back of
the stove. The sympathy natural to
one dealing with so many children
welled up in her bosom. Stalking up
to the stove she dragged the tramp out
into the light, and disclosed to the as-
tonished gaze of the assembled company
the luckless Buttoni, with trousers that
scarce held together, the mere remnant
of a shirt, and no hat.
“Is this you?” she. thundered, holding
the shivering morsel with two fingers.
“Ye-es,” sobbcd the penitent tramp,
submitting patiently to be soundly
shaken. He knew that the shake meant
forgiveness and a new suit of clothes.
for there were tears in Miss Kimball’s
eyes.‘ But he was compelled to vow
that he would never get tipsy, nor neg
lect his part, nor squander his earnings
again, before he tasted the full sweets
of the prodigal son. He kept his word
while he was with Miss Kimball, and
his friends wish he had always stayed
with her. .
SCOTT’S HEROllVE AN AMERICAN.
The Original Rebecca Was a Native of the
Quaker City. ,
A few weeks ag was the anniver-
sary of the birth of one Rebecoa Gratz
—she was born on March“. 4, 1781—who,
it is said, stood in some respects as the
original heroine of the same Christian
name in Scott‘s "Ivanhoe.” Among
the intimate friends of Mlss Gratz was
Matilda Hoffman, with whom Wash—
ington Irving was 1.. love. In 1817. Irv
mg visited Sir Waiter at Abbotsford.
where he spent several days. During
one of their rambles among the hi1.-
the author of the “Sketch Book” de
scribed Miss Gratz to his host, who w-c.
so impressed with what he heard the
be resolved to make her a character ll.
one of his works. “Ivanhoe” was fin
ished in 1819, and in a letter accom
panying a presentation copy to Irving.
Scott inquired, “How do you like your -
.Rebecca? Does the Rebecca I have pic
tured compare well with the pattern
given?" Aplain marble slab on ,a dis
used burying ground at Philadelphia
marks the last resting place of “the
beautiful daughter of Zion.”
Avoiding Possibilities,
“Somebody,” she faltered,
come between us.”
His breast heaved.
“Whoever would do such a thing," .
fiercely exclaimed, “would be cm.
temptibly small.”
, And with that he moved even ye.
nearer to her. -—Woonsocket Reporter.
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" A ROMANTIC BRIDAL TOUR-
“ is in Alaska Over Barren Ice Fields and
Frozen Lakes.
In a recent issue, the San Francisco
Examiner describes a dangerous and ro-
mantic bridal tour, then in progress, as
follows:
A plucky little woman is Mrs. Clar- .
ence Berry. She is now making a trip
that is most perilous, and one which the
most hardy of men would not care to
venture. It is over the barren fields of
ice, frozen lakes, and the treacherous
Yukon of Alaska. She is traveling
from Juneau to Circle City, a distance
of 898 miles, but the young woman
cares nothing for the hardship. . Her
husband is with her, and it is their wed-
ding tour. It is a peculiar one, but then
at Circle City, a prosperous mining
camp on the Yukon, lies their fortune.
George Ecker of the State Harbor
Police, has just returned from Juneau.
He tells an interesting story about the
preparations of young Mrs. Berry for
her dangerous journey.
“I became acquainted with the party
when they were fitting out in J uneau,”
said Ecker last evening. “Mrs. Berry
is a dashing young lady about 21 years
of age. She is handsome, very well ed-
ucated, and refined. She has never
known hardships, and never experi-
enced weather that sent the mercury to
60° below zero. She does not care,
though, for she is as brave a little
woman as ever walked, and would go
to the end of the world with her hus-
band. She just revelled in Juneau’s
snow and sleet, and never for an instant
displayed any lack of confidence in her
ability to climb the summit of Chilcoot
Pass on snowshoes, to sleep on the snow
and ice, to sleigh across Lake Linder-
man, Lake Bennett, Taggish Lake, or to
the passing of the White Horse, the
Five Fingers, and the Pink Rapids be-
fire Circle City—the city of gold and
cold—is reached.
“Mrs. Berry secured the clothing for
her trip in Juneau. You know they do
not wear tea gowns and dresses cut de-
collete in Circle City. The atmosphere
does not permit of such costumes at so-
cial functions. Mrs. Berry’s head was
adorned with a fur cap, such as the men
wear, and of course it had the necessary
ear protectors attached. Her dress and
clothing were of the heaviest woolen
material, and her skirt was cut short so
as tooffer no impediment to her long
tramp.
Her feet were covered with the regu-
lation Arctic shoes; A long fur cloak
covered her and made her look capable
of bafiiing all the cold that Alaska is
capable of turning loose. Of course the
little woman had her big fur gloves,
and then she had her sleeping bag and
snowshoes.
“The sleeping bag is a great thing.
It is most useful and necessary on such
a. trip as Mrs. Berry is undertaking.
When you become tired and sleepy, you
just pick out some comfortable spot,
get into the bag, pull the string to close
it up, and pray that your own breathing-
will keep you warm.
“Alter Mrs. Berry and her husband
and the rest of the party shall have left
Dyea the hard work will begin. It was
Mr. Berry’s intention to keep his wife
ahead of him all the time in the trip
over the summit of Chilcoot Pass. The
men are each trying to transport about
1,000 pounds of merchandise. To do
this they must make many trips back-
ward and forward on the summit. It is
his intention to prepare a place for Mrs.
Berry to sleep, forming a sort of camp,
and then work on the summit until
the baggage and provisions are carried
to the camp. Then they will form an-
other camp five miles or so further up,
and move their effects to that place.
“After getting over the summit they
will proceed on sleighs, drawn by dogs,
over the frozen lakes. When they get
to the open portion of the Yukon they
will build flat bottomed boats and
drift down the river. It is a trip of
several weeks to Circle City, and Mrs.
Berry will be a very tired little woman
when she arrives in that city of 500 peo-
ple. There she will meet several wom-
en who journeyed there with their hus-
bands in steamers during the summer
months, when the river was open. Her
husband has had a house built for her
in Circle City.
“It is a romantic trip all the way
through,” continued Mr. Ecker. “Clar-
ence Berry left Selma, Fresno County,
a year ago for Circle City. He went to
the diggings fifty miles away, and com-
menced to work an abandoned claim.
It proved a bonanza, and although he
would not tell exactly how much money
. he got out of it in the several months he
was working, $10,000 is said to be the
amour t.
“Berry, who resided in Selma for
years, was in love with Miss Eva Bush,
the sister of E. E. Bush, ‘the Deputy
County Clerk of that city. He decided
to leave the Alaska gold fields, go back
to Selma, and ask her hand in marriage.
When he arrived at Selma she con-
sented, and they were married. On the
day the nuptials were celebrated they
started for Circle City, Alaska. Berry’s
brother and two other relatives accom-
pany them.”
WAYSIDE NOTES.
—New York Herald,
He who is most charitabxe in his judg ‘
ment is generallyathe least unjust.—
Southey. was“ ’
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Tun EVENING ”A'znrrn
CROWNING A CZAR.
There is None so Mighty as to Do It, so He
Does It Himself. ’
Upon the imposing ceremonial con-
nected with the crowning of a Czar of
Russia, the wealth of a people famed
among the nations of the earth for the
vast extent of their possessions and
riches was poured out with barbaric
lavishness. More than 20,000,000 ru-
bles was apprOpriated by the State to
defray the expenses of the coronation
fetes of Alexander 111.. and this vast
sum represented only a small part of
the money actually spent. And yet, by
general consent, the ceremonial of May,
1883, was, in point of elegance, immeas-
urably inferior to preceding corona-
tions.
History supplies no parallel with
which to compare the splendor of
the last coronation. The imagination
is dazzled, stunned by. the brilliant
prospect. Moscow looms before the
wondering eye like some fairy city. The
more catalogue of feas.s throws the
luxurious tales of banquets set forth in
the “Arabian Nights” into pale and
ignominious shadow.
In nearly every detail the ceremony
of coronation was precisely the same as
the crowning of the present Czar’s fa-
ther, Alexander III.
Slowly the imperial cortege filed into
the Cathedral. The priests, robed in
the gorgeous, almost barbaric vest-
ments of the Eastern church, were at
the main door awaiting the arrival of
the Czar and Czarina.
Then, as the great bell in the dome
. love me?” and when I wave frantically--
- ly dreaded as dangerous and expensive
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Emily—Why are you waving your?
handkerchief? , -
Angelina—Since papa has forbidden
Tom the house, we have arranged a,
code of signals.
Emily—What is it?
Angelina—When he waves his hand-
kerchief five times that means "Do you
in replyit means “Yes, darling.”
Emily—And how do you ask other
questions? ‘
Angelina—We don’t. That is the
whole code—Buflalo Times.
A Lucky Cave-in.
Cave ins in the coal region are usual. _,
accidents, but there was one near Lew~
iston, Pa., recently, which was a hap-
py accident. It was found that the
cave-in opened a hole into an old mine,
which was supposed to be filled with
water, and which had been abandoned
and the shaft closed on that account.
The water had evidently drained off to
a lower level, and the women of the
mine believe they will be able to re-
move from it sixty acres of coal.
Not in the Iliad.
The wooden. horse having entered
within the citidel, the perfidious Greeks
leaped from its interior.
“April fool,” they cried, exultingly.
Among the followers of Agamemnon
there was much merriment, but the
Trojans were as sore as if somebody
had given them chocolate drops filled
above, the Big Ben of the Kremlin, the
bell called Ivan Beliki, booms forth its l
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mellow note of welcome, the Czar en-
ters with the Empress. Making his
way to the coronation stage, the Auto—
crat stands facing the altar. A mom-
ent later the Czar and Czarina are con-
fronted by the officiating Metropolitan,
who begs him to make his confession of
the orthodox faith. This having been
done; the Metropolitan pronounces the
Czar’s titles, of which there are some
forty in all. After a fitting pause the
Czar demands the imperial mantle, and
when he has clasped the costly gar-
ment, composed of cloth of gold or er-
mine, above his shoulders, he bows and
receives the benediction. Having re-
sumed his position, the Czar next de-
mands the crown. _
The Metropolitan brings the'high in-
signia on a cushion from one of the two
tables, and, seizing it firmly in his
hands, the Czar places it upon his own
head. This done, he calls for the scep-
tre and the globe, which being brought
him he takes the sceptre in his right
hand and the globe in his left, and sits
for the first time upon the throne. And
at this very instant every bell in the
city peals forth exultantly, and a royal
salute of 101 guns is fired from the fort-
ress. Nor is Moscow alone in being
thus infermed of this impressive mom-
ent. Guns thunder and bells ring in
every corner of the empire. The white
flags in the towers of St. Petersburg are
replaced by squares of fluttering red
bunting. The Czar is crowned.
LADY BURTON’S DEVOTION.
The Romance of Sir Richard and His Atl-
mirable Wife. .
Can any country show a more remark-
able instance of wifely devotion than
that of Lady Burton, the recently de-
ceased wife of the famous linguist and
explorer, the story of whose courtship
and married life reads like a veritable
romance? Lady Burton was a daugh-
ter of the ancient house of the Arun-
dolls, and Burton, when he met her,
though a man of great promise, had yet
to make his position. The two met ac-
cidentally at Bulogne, and both seemed
to have recognized from the first that
they were made for one another. When
afterwards Captain Burton proposed to
Miss Isabel Aruudell, the lady’s reply
was prompt enough. “I would rather,”
she said; "have a crust and a tent with
you than be Queen of all the world.”
Many girls have, no doubt, on similar
occasions expressed some what similar
sentiments, only to forget all about
them when the trials of life really com-
menced. But Lady Burton’s devotion
to her husband was lifelong, and never,
even under the most trying circumstan-
ces, showed the slightest signs of waver-
ing. The sharing of a crust and a tent
must often enough have literally ex-
with soap—Detroit Tribune.
He Could' Guess.
Willie (with a wry face)-—Mamma,
did the Lord make quinine? .
Mamma—I presume he did.
Willie—Well, it wasn’t the Lord that
put that awful taste in it, and I’ll bet I
know who it wast—Chica go Tribune.
CANON’S EXTREME RANFE.
Fifteen Miles the Greatest Distance si:
Far Attained.
The longest distance th it a shot he:
been fired is a few yards over flit,.—:en
miles, which was the range of Ila-u :p‘s
well-known “monster” 13?) ton steel
gun, firing a shot weighing 2. 600 pounds.
The 111-ton Armstrong gun has an ex
zreme range of fourteen miles, firing a '
shot weighing 1,800 pounds, and re
quiring 960 pounds of powder. These
guns, however, proved too expensive.
oeing unable to stand firing a hundred
times, and their manufacture has prac
tically been abandoned. The 23 ton
Armstrong gun hurls a solid shot for a
distance of twelve miles, and the dis
charge of the gun cannot be heard at
the place where the ball strikes. From
twelve to thirteen miles is the computed
range of the most powerful guns new
node, and to obtain that range an ele
ration of nearly forty-five degrees is
round to be necessary. Quick-firing
guns are more ‘depended upon at the,
present day than extreme length of
range, and in this respect what is con—
sidered the most wonderful of guns,
perhaps, is one of the Maxims, which
can fire as many as 600 shots a minute,
and yet is so light thatasoldier can
carry it strapped to his back. Financ—
ially regarded, the immense sum of
$195,000 was expended in constructing
the monster Krupp gun, and each pro-
jectile cost 84,750.
THE ODDEST STORE.
It is Conducted by the Salvation Army
and is Crossroads Style.
The quai‘ntest store in New York is in
the Salvation Army barracn, on West
14th street, where may be purchased al-
most everything f1 om a hymn book to a
pair of suspenders.
its interior presents a strange appear-
ance. Suspended from the wall are
tape measures, twine and a miscellane-
ous collection of suspenders, hosiery, ,
gloves and ribbons. The tables and
counters groan under a collection of
every kind of article in the category,
including War Crys, books on sacred
subjects, knick knack: and odds and
ends in endless varieties and profusion.
Although the prices are made as low as
possible, they are still high enough to
insure a neat profit. ,
Notwithstanding the fact that com-
paratively few persons are aware of its
existence, the store does a rushing bus.
mess, being patronized by many shop
,iers who give it the preference on ac.
:ount of the worthiness of its cause.—
Vaw York Journal.
The Poet’s'OuIy hope.
Bozzin-—Jabkins will be appreciated
as a poetafter he’s dead; see if he
doesn’t!
Rozzin——That’s not unlikely; he won’t
write any poetry then.-——Roxbury Ga-
zette.
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pressed their situation during their
wanderings together—sometimes under I
the most trying circumstances—in the
East, but their faith in each other re-
mained unshaken whether the times
were troubled or calm. .
Women in British Politics.
There is apparently no isign as yet
that the vast and important organiza- l
tion known as the Primrose League has
declined in favor with the people of
England. Yesterday, at the thirteenth
annual meeting held in Covent Garden
Theatre. it was announced that 60,000
new members had been enrolled, and
that thirty new habitations had been
formed during the last twelve months.
Why He Flagged the Express. -
Engineer (to native, who has flagged
the Alabama)——What are you waving
your shirt for? Is there a Washout
ahead? ,
Native—No, boss; no washout, t’ank
de Lawdl I only wanted toe borrer a
Tired Feeling
Makes you seem “all broken up,” with-
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It is often the forerunner of serious ill-
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troubles. It is a positive proof of thin,
weak, impure blood; for, if the blood is
rich, red, vitalized and vigoro’us, it im-
parts life and energy to every nerve,
organ and tissue of the body. The
necessity of taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla
for that tired feeling is therefore apparent
to every one, and the good it will do you
is equally beyond question. Remember
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