Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 13968, 28 November 1887 — AMUSEMENTS. [ARTICLE]

AMUSEMENTS.

Asxazar Theatue. — " Tue Phienix." lIL-SH-FTREET TBXITUK.— " Widow Bedott." Baidwtx Theatue. — "Adonis." Caixpokma Theatue. — "Tho Main Line." Trvou Opera House.— " The Black jfantles." Panorama Buildbo, Masox aid Eddt.— " JJattle of Yicksburg." Paxouajsa, Habket and Textil— " Battles ot Chattanooga."

Louisville wants the Democratic National Convention. Next !

Some of Zola's 6torics were found in a Sunday school library iv New York.

Is the game of war it is believed that Russia has looked at her hand and is ready to play.

TnE* receipts of the Brooklyn bridge for October were $SO,OOO. The bridge is undoubtedly paying.

The Ramona school for Indian girls, at Sante Fe, is nearly ready. The building cost $30,000 and will accommodate 150 little maids at school.

St. Louis is having a hot fight over making German compulsory in its schools. The Miseouriaus 6wear that United States is good enough for them.

Some one says that Lord Lytton has the appearance of an Italian organ grinder. Nothing bad in that, but he adds. " and the morals of the organ grinder's monkey."

Mbs. Laxgtry has saved $500,000 out ofher earnings on the stage in this country. Now let Americans see to it that our lovely country woman, Mrs. Potter, saves $1,000,000.

Some workmen in Toledo, Ohio, grew weary of listening to Anarchist sentiments from one of their number, and headed him up in a barrel and rolled him down a very long hill. It cured him.

" Vote for Luukhammcr " was the frequent election head-line in a Nebraska newspaper. We hope Lunkhammer hit the naiL A man needs a good ofiice to sustain him under that name.

TnE governor of the Invalides, the French Soldiers' Home in Paris, is General Sampff. He lost both arms in battle, but has artificial eubstitutca which can hardly be told trom the originals.

One roads with a certain satisfaction of Bismarck's hearty abuse of the Czar to his face. Not that we like abuse, but it does one autocrat good to get a piece of the mind of an autocrsttcr autocrat.

Ik the aftermath of anarchy are come queer growths. A brother of one of the hanged bomb-throwers has started in Chicago an organization in favor of converting this country into a monarchy.

Since the Anarchist Engel was hung a surplus wife appears on the scene. She says he married and deserted her and married another woman in Chicago. She will not visit a milliner to leave the diagram of a mourning suit.

Prohibition is in the field fighting after the other combatants have retired for refreshments. There is to be soon an election in Georgia on constitutional prohibition, and the debate over it is hot as a dish of chili ct carni.

Mb. Clai's Spbeckels' efforts in this state in behalf of sugar beet culture are firing the whole country. The Eastern press is alive wit h it, and Mr. Sp<eckels is the means of getting more advertising for California thua anybody else. -7_- '■:..' ' ' \ .".'-,' l*' :y.

Miss Yak Zakdt explains that she desired to marry Spies in order to claim his body after he was hung and have it cremated. From this we infer that this remarkable young woman owns stock in a crematory, and wants to give the business a start.

B akxum says that Jenny LiuJ had a temper. When 6he came here under his management

she stopped at Jones', then the leading hotel in Philadelphia. The old showman had everything about her rooms fitted up with especial care for her coming, and for her table in the dining-room a valuable new cloth and new napkins had been procured at considerable expense. Jones told Barnum afterward that, being out of sorts when she came to the very first meal, she found fault with the starch in the napkins, grabbed them up and threw them at the beads of the waiters, jerked the tablecloth from the table, smashing the dishes in doing 60, and actually tore the cloth half in two before she could be stopped. She was eorry for it afterward, and was made to pay roundly for the damage done.