Cantata Of Queen Esther

The dramatic cantata of " Esther, th beautifal Queen," will be given in th opera hou-e Friday and Saturday evenings March 8 and 9, by a select chorus of one bundred voicee, under the direcHon o Pror. W. N. Skinner, recemly of Boston Mass. The musie of this popular work is re markable for its sweetnesa. The costume. are rich and true to the Ufe and times rep resented. In addition to direeting the play, Mr Skinner persona'es the cbaraoter of' Haman in a raanner calcu'ated to excite sympathy for hia untimely end. The chorus, being (he one organized in the Baptisi chur.-h over a year ago, is far superior to the miscellaneous choruses usually organized (or the production of this work. The O'eona orchestra of 16 pieces has been secured for the occasion. The neip professor ef anatomy at the medical college, Dr. G. A. Hendricks, is giving satisfaction to the students in inverse ratio, as it were, to the dissatisfnetion which existed before he carne. Naturally, the first few days he lectured he was regarded with a critical, yea, a hypercritical eye But he went on with his labors apparsntly unconscious of anything outside his dnties. Tnen he made friends, both steadily and quickly. The result is that he ie probably the' best-liked man who has ever filled that chair of anatomy. His ordinanly dry work he renders decidedly inrereting. As one of the students pointedly said the other day, he ' makes anatomy talk." Prof. Hendricks, in person, ia a little man with a large, finely developed head, and wears his whiskers on the Bnrnside plan. He is a bachelor, and keeps eelibate quarters out on Vine pluce. One trait which early won him the affection of hia studente was hs wiliingoess to aid thera, and for some time after he carne he gratuitonsly gave two hours of icstruction each evening to the juniors for the purpose of helpins therc along in their work.- St. Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer Press.