AN ODOROUS BOHEMIAN.
A Bohemian on the train last night had some cheese in his vest pocket that
was too ripe, and the conductor had to disinfect the car, and order the
Bohemian to be quarantined before the train would be allowed to enter the
city. Cheese is all right in its place, but it don't want to be allowed to
lay above ground too long after it has departed this life. If farmers will
pay a little attention to cheese in its different stages, much trouble can
be avoided. In union there is strength. So there is in a smoking car.
TRAGEDY ON THE STAGE.
The tendency of the stage is to present practical, everyday affairs in
plays, and those are the most successful which are the most natural. The
shoeing of a horse on the stage in a play attracts the attention of the
audience wonderfully, and draws well. The inner workings of a brewery, or
a mill, is a big card, but there is hardly enough tragedy about it. If
they could run a man or two through the wheel, and have them cut up into
hash, or have them drowned in a beer vat, audiences could applaud as they
do when eight or nine persons are stabbed, poisoned or beheaded in the
Hamlets and Three Richards, where corpses are piled up on top of each
other.
What the people want is a compromise between old tragedy and new comedy.
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