Amusements

The maskers of the X. Y. Z. Club ball will meet at Gibson's photograph gallery instead of the Frankliu House, on Thursday next. Of Sergius Stepniak, who lectures in University hall, on Saturday evening Feb. 28th, the Boston Daily Globe says : "Mr. Stepnaik, the Russian revolutionist, sometimes called the "Foe of the Czar," made his first appearance before an American audience as a lecturer last evening in Chickering Hall. It was a representative audience of the cultured, refined and best educated citizens of the city, and one of which the distinguished visitor might well be proud. The close attention paid, and the evident reluctance to leave the hall at the close of the lecture, spoke eloquently of the good and favorable impression made by the almost tragic story related by the lecturer. Mr. F. Rentschler, the photographer, has kindly offered to take flash light pictures of the maskers of the X. Y. Z. Club ball on Thursday evening, at the rink. The Ladies' Home Mission Society Will give a Mexican evening in the S. S. room of the Baptist ehureh, at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening Feb. 19. An enjoyable program is provided. There will be good musie and short talks on the religión, musie, art, history and amusements of the country. There will also be many Mexican curiosities and especially samples of beautiful drawn work done by native Mexiean women. Tliere will also be a speaker in Mexican costume. Everybody come. Admissian ten cents. The most recent successi'ul spectacular play, "The Bottom of the Sea," will be presented at the tí rand Opera House, Friday night, Feb. 20th. The piece is a decided novelty, and its produetion in other cities has attracted erowds. It is said to be one of the most marvelous 8cenic plays of this generation, and to savor of the weird imaginativeness of Jules Verne. The scènes are said to be artistic and mechanica] triumphs in their way, presented with surprising elabora:ion of detail. An ocean steamer, the laying of a sub-marine cable, the wreek of a vessel, and the rescue of the passsngers are all vividly pictured. The height of this sensational realism is shown in the descent of divers to the "dark, unfathomed caves of ocean," the repairing of a broken cable, and an attack apon the divers by an enormous octopus. The company presenting the piece is said to be good, and a fine prohiction throughout is promised. The successful marine spectacle entitled "The Bottom of the ea," will be produced at the Grand Opera House lext Friday night. The piece abounds in scenic and mechanical efiects of unusual brilliancy. It has enjoyed long runs in Boston and New York. One scène of special beauty is that from yhich the piece derives its title, showing the bottom of the sea with divers at work on the wreek of a sunken ship, in which the resources of scenic and mehanical ingenuity have been exhausted. The play is an adaptation from the French by Win. A. Brady. The scenery was painted for this production by John A. Young of the Broadway Theatre, New York, and includes the'exterior of an ocean steamship, a full-rigged vacht it sea, the deck of a French man-of-war aying the West India cable, ten transbrmation scènes and other interesting eatures.