goes with it, but if she will
carefully search the pockets she will find that Fanny retains her
talent, and has probably hid it under a bushel, or an umbrella; or
something, before this time. Anna cannot wear Fanny's wardrobe to play
on the stage, because she is not bigger than a banana, while Fanny is
nearly six feet long, from tip to tip. If Anna should come out on a
stage with the Davenport wardrobe, the boys would throw rolls of cotton
batting at her.

Fanny's dress, accustomed to so much talent, would have to be stuffed
full of stuff. There would be room in Fanny's dress, if Anna had it on,
as we remember the two, to put in a feather bed, eleven rolls of cotton
batting, twelve pounds of bird seed, four rubber air cushions, two dozen
towels, two brass bird cages, a bundle of old papers, a sack of bran and
a bale of hay. That is, in different places. Of course all this truck
wouldn't go in the dress in any one given locality. If Anna should put
on Fanny's dress, and have it filled up so it would look any way decent,
and attempt to go to Canada, she would be arrested for smuggling.

Why, if Dickinson should put on a pair of Davenport's stockings, now for
instance, it would be necessary to get out a search warrant to find
her. She could pin the tops of them at her throat with a brooch, and her
whole frame would not fill one stocking half as well as they have been
filled before being attached, and Anna would look like a Santa Claus
present of a crying doll, hung on to a mantel piece.

Fanny Davenport is one of the handsomest and splendidest formed women on
the American stage, and a perfect lady, while Dickinson, who succeeds
to her old clothes through the law, is small, not handsome, and a
quarrelsome female who thinks she has a mission. The people of this
country had rather see Fanny Davenport without any wardrobe to speak of
than to see Dickinson with clothes enough to start a second hand store.

DON'T LEAVE YOUR GUM AROUND.

A woman at Wyocena, who chews gum, laid her "quid" on a green paper
box, and when she came to chew it again was poisoned and it was with
difficulty her life was saved. This reminds us of an accident that
happened to Mary Anderson when she was here last. Mary will remember
that in the second scene of "Ingomar," just when Parthenia was winding
herself around the heart of the barbarian, she looked pale, and whenever
she would try to say sweet words to him, she acted as though she was on