PAULIRVINE HALLDAN EMMET AND DIXIETHE HUTCHINSONSMAZURKA HALL, MOZART HALL, ETC.

Dan Emmet had a minstrel company at this hall during the years 1857 and 1858, and an excellent company it was, too.

Dan Emmet, though a wondering minstrel, was a very superior man and was his own worst enemy.

Dan Emmet left a legacy that will be remembered by the lovers of melody for many years.

When Emmet's company left St. Paul they got stranded and many of them found engagements in other organizations.

When "Dixie" was written Emmet was connected with Bryant's Minstrels in New York city, and he sent a copy to his friend in St. Paul, the late R.C. Munger, and asked his opinion as to its merits and whether he thought it advisable to place it in the hands of a publisher.

Mr. Munger assured his friend that he thought it would make a great hit, and he financially assisted Mr. Emmet in placing it before the public.

Dan Emmet devoted his whole life to minstrelsy and he organized the first traveling minstrel troupe in the United States, starting from some point in Ohio in 1843.

The father of the Emmets was a gallant soldier of the War of 1812, and at one time lived in the old brown frame house at the intersection of Ramsey and West Seventh streets, recently demolished.

Once, when the good Prior of Emmet was dining there, the landlady set a dear little tart of stewed crabs and barley sugar upon the window sill to cool, and, seeing it there, and fearing it might be lost, I took it with me till that I could find the owner thereof.

Why, I see a thousand emmets; thou meanest a little one? CLOWN.

"Sir," said he, "you know those Emmets that you have done so much for?" I remembered.

" It was a serious misfortune, no doubt, and I had to soothe him in the best manner I could; so to lessen the calamity I made the best joke I could think of in the circumstances, and said the Emmets were small people, almost beneath notice.

The poor fellow was dumbfounded, but at last shook his head, saying, "We've had a good deal from those Emmets, sir.

Our villages are like molehills, and men as so many emmets, busy, busy still, going to and fro, in and out, and crossing one another's projects, as the lines of several sea-cards cut each other in a globe or map.

Occasionally the multitude that went in one direction met another which mingled with and passed through it, individuals of both greeting tenderly by the way, as emmets appear to do, when in passing they touch the antennæ of one another.

I once came across a young hedgehog about three-parts grown; he was running about on the grass in front of the house in broad daylight, and kept poking his little nose into the earth searching for emmets and grubs.

3.Spit, to stab, or to put upon a spit, is regular; as, "I spitted frogs, I crushed a heap of emmets.

SHERWOOD, ROBERT EMMET.

POSTGATE, R. W. Dear Robert Emmet.

SHERWOOD, ROBERT EMMET.

By Emmet John Hughes.

Emmet John Hughes (A); 14Apr75; R602882.

The Emmets and the Bothas were united by ties of friendship and intermarriage, and one of the Emmets served with Louis Botha during the war.

The Emmets and the Bothas were united by ties of friendship and intermarriage, and one of the Emmets served with Louis Botha during the war.