Billboard advertising (July 1895)

A REMARKABLE BILLBOARD. ThrongH the ciurfeiy nf Mr R. C. Campbell of lhe|A' „ in all 357 sheets It is cegirded by e*p:rls apparent in its display are " 1 i hiving be;a the best exiinp'.e of bill pas jagemtnt in the windy city, and a haT sheets high, and EATING ON THE STAGE. When I wo 3 young and a habitue of behind the scenes, rarely anything genuine in tbe way of eating and The various retainers who wererap- posed to qoafl beakers of red nine in the baronial hall only pnt their lips to their goblets, or. rather, paste- j board goblets endued with tin foil, colored half way up with crimson paint If a pot of porter was one of the "properties" in a scene, as it is In the old farce of "Tho Turnpike Gate," it wan merely a. pewter Tea- sel with some wool at llio top to sim- ulate the froth of the Barclay and \ and if a sirloin of n the orifices of which 1 slaked lime were evolved to imitate the smoke from a hot joint. The only exception to this Barmecide sys- tem of entertainment was in the oomio opera of "No Song, No Sup- per." in which a realMxriled leg of mutton, tturnips urnl caper sanoe were always placed on the table. Bntof late years a_ great change has taken place in ' this respect. Some authorities are of opinion that the reform in stage play gastronomy dates from the time of the jKn-tana- ancea of Mr. Charles Kean and his company at Windsor castle in the presence of her majesty and the prince consort, and when in a piny by Douglas Jerrold where a dejeuner a la fourcTiette was represented, the partakers thereof were agreeably surprised to find on tbe table real cutlets, real potatoes, ronl bread and real claret. Gradually the unreal faded away from the stage of the London theaters. In "The Second Mrs. Tanqneray" real eggs and ba- con were served at breakfast, while at tbe supper in the first net vera- cious fruit and wine, with equally It Is dul quite certain as to wTTen - - — — the practice of smoking real cigars This story is told of a master of and cigarettes began to prevail on Trinity college in days long gone by the stage. Many low comedians of who had a partiality for figs. Be the lost century when they played held that there was one supreme "Moll Flagon" used to smoke a pipe, moment in the existence of a flu but there is no absolute evidence as when it should be eaten, not a min- to whether real tobacco was smoked nte before or after, and he watched by Tony Lumpkin and his oompan- over his fig tree with tenderness and Ions in the tavern scene in "She devotion. It was a mild year, and Stoops to Conquer," while as regards the sun had done his best in t.heper- the stage cigar one of the earliest ap- touting process, and hoping to enjoy (.daranees of the genuine weed were bis favorite frait on the morrow the (hose smoked by the late Alfred master wrapped u piece of silver pa- Wigam and George Vining In "Brill per round it, leaving it labeled, "The Waters Ran Deep." Some actors master's fig." What a very fool. ish thing to do with a few hundred " undergrade" about! Tho anspi- scenes where the Oions day dawned, and tbe master, of the stage compels him to looking st bis watch for the last use a pipe takes a few whiffs from a time, walked confidently across the bowl containing dry camomile. quad. But imagine bis dismay on At present it la difficult to find a finding bis precious tidbit gone, and drama of modern life without sev- on the now empty packet the label, era*cigarettes in it—the ofgar takes 'JA Hg for the ager wonld be accounted a very stin- gy individual if he expected the la- dies and gentlemen of his oompauy to pretend to drink 5 Words. bread and butter, thins, however—tbe harmless boiled potato and the raw turnip by Audrey in "Aa Ton Like It' In 1793 the vineyard belonged to M. de Pivbard, president of the Gnienne parliament, and tbe repnb- " iders did a good stroke of i by guillotining him and ap- ' ig his property. It was, soon sold by tbs state, and by Audrey in "As You Like It"— ■~™ -'~ "j ■->■ — vegetablJhave not come down to 'V^T^^^T^ aZ taoalbM. Knt «,„ nmam f ia - « naaer at nn average price of about the footlights, but the progressiva ago, and ore longit may he that red turtle soup and a real haunch of venison will be placed on the hospitable boards of our temples of tbe drama.—G. A. Sola in London ran won't tire of each other? Daughter—Well, if we do, we can i society, and I can join all en's clubs, and ho can join all tho social and athletic clubs, and then we'll never see each other, yoa average price of about £10,000 it was bought some 25 years ago by Baron James de Rothschild for £180,000 and still remains in his family. About £8,000 ft year is spent on its cultivation. There is perhaps no wine that gains more by keeping, and some seven or eight years ago a bin of the vintage of 1804 fetched no less than GO francs a bottle at Bor- deaux itself.—Black wood's Maga> Rural Magistrate—Konrad, yoa are oharged with committing an as- sault on tbo night watchman.! Konrad—1 only throw his jacket behind the stove. Night Watchman—Yes, your wor- After sleeping a few hours I stole quietly out of the camp and climbed the mountain that stands guard be- tween the two glaciers. The ground was frozen, making tho climbing difficult in the steepest places, but the views over the icy bay sparkling beneath tbe glorious effulgence of tbe sky were enchanting. It seemed then a sad thing that any part of so precious a night had been lost in sleep. Tbo starlight was so full that I distinctly saw not only tho hay. with its multitude of glittering bergs, but. most of the lower por- tions of the glaciers, lying pale and apirftlike amid the huge silent moun- tains. The nearest glaoier in partic- ular was bo distinct that it seemed tube glowing with light that came from within itself. Not even in dark nights have I ever found any diffi- culty in seeing large glaciers, but on this mountain top, amid so much ioe. in tbe heart of so clear nnd frosty a night, everything waalumi- nous, and I seemed to be poised in a vast hollow between two sides of equal brightness. How strong I folt after my exhilarating scramble, and how glad I was that my good angel had callod me boforo the glorious night succeeding so glorious a morn- ing had been spent!—John Muirin Century. Mr. Hudson Maxim, the chemist, a brother of the inventor of tho Maxim gun, has discovered an inter- esting fact In regard to smokeless powder. He flnds that where tbe powder contains 50 per cent or more of nitroglycerin the heat developed is such that some of the carbon con- tained in the steel gun barrel com- bines with tho carbon dioxide of the burning powder, with the result that the inner surface of tbe barrel is changed to wrought iron. It is thus greatly softened and qntokly destroyed, ~~ In 1689