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Fishing season opened today for all hook and line fish except black bass, the season for which opens on June 15, and with the opening of the season comes information from Game Warden John Cline regarding the regulations governing fishing and the limit number for a catch.
The packet sloop Empress, Capt. Mason, of Providence, on her passage to New-York, about 70 miles this side of that port, on Tuesday night last, about 12 o’clk, took fire and was totally lost.
Herrmann, the greatest of all prestidigitateurs, will be the attraction to morrow evening. He has for several years been giving an exhibition of necromancy that is as fascinating as it is baffling. He announces this season a most wonderful exhibition, including a number of startling illusions and sensations. One of these is his latest and greatest effort called “Yako-yo,” the great Chinese immigration mystery. Sale of seats now open.
Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis Gives Terpischorean Illustration and Convinces Judge.
Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, assistant city attorney, danced the “grizzly bear” in Municipal court here to show Judge C. L. Smith just how it was done. With his arm over the shoulders of a bystander, he swayed rhythmically, from side to side to the strains of the San Francisco tune, and, according to police witnesses, gave a fair imitation of how it was being done in a local dance hall when two girls were arrested for dancing the “grizzly bear.” The judge decided that the dance was disorderly and ordered the two girls to promise to remain away from dance halls in the future and report regularly to the police matron.