Daily Kennebec Journal

A citizen who attended the Black Crook exhibition was greatly perplexed. Having reserved seat, he found in his front a woman secured what he had considered a first class. Awaiting one of those fashionable hats that is such a miracle of the milliner's and such a combination of the animal and vegetable worlds. The base of the structure appeared to be a wheat field, in which the sheaves were plants. A pot of house plants surmounted these, in which a rooster stood on his head, his tail feathers falling gracefully down either side. As the actors in the play went from one side to the other of the stage, that head gear was correspondingly shifted, until the unfortunate man in the rear swore that during the whole evening he saw "nothing but a kitchen garden with a rooster in it." - [Belfast Journal.