SUE WANTED COMEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1636, 30 December 1882, Page 4

SUE WANTED COMEDY.

Three months ago, when a new servant gul uunc to a ]>rush Street fatmU, the im&Lress said she ilcsircil to post the gul m advance on one certain little point bhe and her husband belonged to .in amateur theatiic.il company, and in the case .Line heard any racket around the lioumj she must not imagine that they \vete quau cling. They would simply be rehearing their paits. Tlic "play" began on the thitd evening ot the cnla engagement. The husband taunted his wife with extravagance, and she said he played poker for money, and thie.its wcie made of going home to mother. Next morning the inibtress said to the girl :— ''Did you hear us playing our pints in the "Wronged Wife' last night ?" "Yes'm.' "It was simply a rehears.il, you know, and you musu't think strange of my throwing a vase at my husband and calling him a vile -\vietch." Three or four nights after that the curtain went up on a play called "The Jealous Husband," and Jane hcaul sobs, sighs, protestations, threats and exclamations. , Tne next play was entitled "Coming Home Tight,'' and was mostly played in the front hall. Then followed "The Depths of Despair," "Threats of Divorce," : and "Such a Wretch," until. Jane was at I last tired of having a private box and , being the only audience. The other , morning she appeared in the sitting room ; with her hat on and her bundle under . her arm and said. "Please, ma'am, but I'm going thi-j morning." "What, < going away '!" "Yes'm." "For what reason ?" "Please, ma'am, but I'm tired ' of tragedy. I'm a girl as naturally likeb <to spc hugging and kissing love-making on the stage, and when Marks, the ") lawyer, comes, in on the what-do-you-call-it I'm sure to be tickled to death. I - think I'll try some iainily where they ', rehearse comedy and have a deal of kissing, and perhaps I may come hi as a supe '• and get a small share of it for myself." —

A Tkriudlk Calamity. — The City and Provincial Alinshousfc, near the City of ' Halifax, Fova Scotia, was burned on the morning of Nov. 9, and from thirty to fifty inmates perished in the flames. The storey just under the eves of the building was used as a hospital, and at the time of the fire there wore in i , the wards boine seventy patients, mostly '. bedridden. The flames were swept through the elevator from below to .the .upper part of the edifice, and soon were burning h'ercely in the hospital, from .which escape was cut off. It was impossible to extend aid to the helpless victims in the jaws of a fiery death. The fire soon burned the roof, and the scene "was one never to be forgotten ; for above, the roar of the flames and the crack of bursting planks, were heard the cries of the wretched patients, roasting to death. Most of them, not „. being able to leave their beds, were stilled by the smoko before the names reached them ; but others were , "seen to dash themselves against the' ' Myi/idows, and to cling to the saShes, till, stlieir screams 'silenced, 'autU (their, hands MbWe/i off., they fell backjjntp the t seething caldron of flames. %"womhx\ rtlmw seen to drag heMeltto.the^ner ota.' lsHdow, and forcing,' Her bo,(ly ' half 'Oftt M^fl^she, cou}d< breathe cooler air,. She, - tilt' Her j>eM.