Disguised as the Devil.
A gambling saloon on one of the main streets of Leadville.
Getting into the Cars at 4th Avenue and 27th Street, New York.
The Sensation They Made in Leadville Streets.
In a Cheyenne gambling Saloon.
Astounding Revelations of a Low Cunning and Vile Curiosity in One of the Proprietors of the Grand Opera House.
Interior of a Pulman Parlor Car on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
A Remarkable Casualty which Overtook a Hoosier While Asleep in His Bed.
On the St. Lawrence River.
Uncle Sam: Come, ye gas-bags, both blue and gray, - Start yourselves on you homeward way.
Two female athletes at Virginia city Nevada, indulge in a wrestling match for the championship.
The Smoking Saloon.
They call it the "retreat" because of its charming privacy and apparent obscurity.
Raid on the Broadway concert saloons, New York.
Bound to be in style - The expedient of a carriage painter's daughter at Vallejo, Cal., to obtain striped stockings.
Two female athletes at Virginia City, Nevada, indulge in a wrestling match for the championship.
A Man in a Black Mask, Disguised as the Devil.
A man's head blown to atoms by the explosion of a beer barrel on Long Island.
Young gentlemen of Boston submitting their arms to a charming female vaccinator.
Desperate Duel between Ladies of Rank, at Santa Cruz.
Commencement of the Heated Term—Swells and Belles at the Mountains and on the Sea Shore.
The Demon Work of the Chinese Poppy Poison.
Idiotic freak of some young men at Los Angeles.
Vacationers leaving Lake George, New York, 1879.
A Cincinnati woman gets up a lively street sensation by vigorously thrashing a man on the sidewalk, and explains to the crowd that he was her runaway husband, whom she had industriously sought for that sole purpose.
Many a one, who otherwise would not contribute a dime, will take a chance in a lottery.
Pawn tickets make bad collateral.
Of The Palace Steamer Drew.
Anthony Comstock was on a personal mission to protect America from vice.
The Eye that Never Sleeps.
The athletic diversions of an association of dashing damsels in their club rooms in Chicago.
Cardiff, New York, October 16, 1869.
The Audacity of a Professional Thief.
A remarkable story of a drunken variety actor's desperation in gambling has obtained currency within a few days because of the prominence which the miscreant's wife has of late been given in the pictorial and daily newspaper press. There is no necessity of going into the unpleasant details further than is necessary to illustrate the depravity which an appetite for liquor and a passion for gambling can inspire. The actor in question, a member of the variety profession, in a game in New York had "played in" all his money and available resources, and, under the influence of liquor, proposed to put it his wife, a noted variety stage beauty, against $60 in money. His five-year-old child was added to the stake to make the amount at issue $85 a side. The facts are given with entire accuracy. A father whom many members of the theatrical profession can readily call by name played his wife and child against $85 and lost, The wife went Into the custody of a new lord and master, and she could not, though she shed tears at the time, have greatly regretted to escape from a brute who could tragic her like a dog or a piece of furniture or clothing which he might take to a pawnbroker's. She has made a success in life on her account, and she may well, in the experience of the adulation and financial ease which she now enjoys, look back with a shudder on the night when she and her child were part of the stakes in a gambling house, made so by her own husband, the father of her child,
Illustrated Police News, April 30, 1881.