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(NOTIOR. —For want or space, many questions receive*
remain unanswered for some time. Each query, n legiti
mate, will, in its turn, receive proper attention. We mug
request our correspondents to write plainly and state tnei
wishesconcisblv, if they would receive concise answers
Many notes that are received are so nearly illegible th a
they find their wav at once to the waste-basket. ]
E. C. T.—Old Mother Shipton wai
born at Shipton, near York, England, and lived ir
the time of Henry VIII. Sue was supposed to be :
daughter of Satan and a witch. The mgat on whict
she was.born there was the most dreadful etorn
over known. She was a prophetess, and foretolc
the burning of York Minster. The third time she
said it would be burnt to the ground. It has beer
burned twice. Sho also foretold that carriages
would run without horses, that people would fly ir
the air, and that the earth would ba like unto a
iron, we suppose from the network of railroads,
Cardinal Wolsey, hearing that she had prophesied
concerning him, was very indignant, and seat three
noblemen to hear what she had to say for herself,
and to tell her that she would be burnt for witch
craft. When they arrived and knocked at the door,
she called from within, “Enter, Lords so and so,”
at which they were much astonished, lor she had
had no means of knowing their names. When they
had entered the cottage they informed her of their
mission, and that when Wolsey got to York she had
better take care what she said. Taking off a ker
chief from her neck, she put it on the red coal, say
ing, “If this burns, I burn.” She then took the
kerchief oft whole. She also said that Cardinal Wol
sey would see York, but never reach it. The king
called Wolsey back to London, and he died on his
journey; so he never was in York, though he saw it
either from a tower or a hill, making true what
Mother Shipton had said. At Clifton, one mile out
of York, there is a stone called Old Mother Ship ton’s
Stone. She was said to be a very pious and gener
ous woman, and lived to a very treat age and died
at Kuaresborough. The following remarkable proph
ecy was by her, and was first publisaed in 1448 and
republished in 1611.
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Water shall yet more wonders do.
How strange, but yet they shall be true.
The world upside down shall be,
And go.d be found at the root of a troej
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his side.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen
In white, iu black, in green.
Iron in the water sha.l float
As easy as a woodou boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In laud that is not now known.
Eire and water shall wonders do,
And England shall at last admit a Jew.
The world to an end shall come
In 1888.
Inquisitive.—On the day of the strug
gle at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862, Gen. N. B. Forrest,
who, with 3,500 cavalry, had been detached by Bra »g
to operate on the Union communications in West
Tennessee, and who had for two weeks or more
been raiding through that section, threatening Jack
son, capturing Trenton, Humboldt, Union City, etc.,
burning bridges, tearing up rails, and paroling cap
tured Federate, (over 1,000, according to his report.
700 of them at Trenton alone), was struck on his
return at Parker’s Cross Roias, between Hunting,
don and Lexington, and thoroughly routed. He first
encountered Co!. C. L. Dunham with a small brigade
of 1,600, who had, the day before, been pushed for
ward irom Huntingdon by Gen. J. C. Sullivan, and
who was getting the worst oi the light—having been
nearly surrounded, his train caotured, and he sum
moned to surrender—when Sullivan came up at dou
ble quick, with two fresh brigades of Gen. Haynie
and Col. Fuller, and rushed upon the astonished
rebels, who fled in utter rout, not attempting to
make a stood, nor hardly to fire a shot. Forrest
Limself barely escaped capture; losing four guns,
over 400 prisoners, including his adjutant, Strange,
two colonels, many horses, arms, etc., etc. He fled
eastward to Clifton, where he re-crossed the Ten
nessee, and thence made his way back to Bragg. He
lost in the fight about 50 killed and 150 wounded—
the latter being included among the prisoners. Dun -
ham reported his loss at 220: 23 killed. 139 wounded
and 58 missing.
KateN.—“l. Why are Scott’s novels
called ‘ Waverley ’?” The title of his first novel was
“Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since,” and his
oubsoqumt works, “Guy Mannoring,” “The Anti
quary,” “Rob Roy,” “Ivanhoe,” “The Abbot,”
“Kenilworth,” “The Pirate.” “The Fortunes of
Nigel,” “Peveril of the Peak,” “Quentin Durward
“St. Ronan’s Well,” “Red Gauntlet,” “The Be
trothed,” “The Talisman,” etc., etc., were an
nounced as “by the author of Waverley.” Thus
originated the appellation of “The Waverley Nov
els.” It was at a dinner given for the benefit of the
Edinburgh theatrical fund, on February 3, 1827, he
finally threw off the mantle of disguise which, he
observed to a friend, had become somewhat tatter
ed, and declared himself to be the sole author of the
Waverly Novels, a fact long before established to the
public satisfaction. 2. The first persons that en
tered into the business of Pawnbroking in London,
England, were two brethers, who came thither from
Lombardy, and, as a trade sign, they adopted that of
three balls, which was their lamiiy crest at home.
The sign has since been used by the trade generally.
This is the actual origin of ths three ba.ls, other
stories to the contrary notwithstanding. 3. There
is no restriction as to the nationality of the elected
Pope. Cardinal Manning received one vote in the
recent conclave.
A Constant Reader.—lst. “After a
measure his passed both houses of Congress and
received tae signature of the President, does it be
come the iaw oi the land, or has the Supreme Court
of the United States the power to veto it, as in the
case of the eight hour labor law in Government
ship-yards, passed some years ago, and now virtu
ally set aside by the Supreme Court?” The Su
preme Court has no power of veto, but when a case
is brought before the court, it decides on the con
stitutionality of the law. When the court decides a
law unconstitutional, it ceases to be valid, and no
one can bo punished for disobeying it. 2d. “Is
there such a committee as a cnnstitucional commit
tee (outside the House), representing each State o
the Union, and, if so, « hat power or what duty does
such a body exercise in the framing of the laws?’’
We have never heard of any such committee, and ii
such a committee did exist, it could exercise no
power over the framing of the laws, any more than
a committee from the Board o. Trade or Chamber oi
Commerce could exercise; that is, state its views to
the committee of Congress hav.ng charge of tae law
on which it wanted to be hoard.
Quid Nunc.—Olav Eola, King of Ire
land, about 90) B. C., founded schools of philoso
phy, astronomy, poetry, mahicine and history.
King Caruac subsequently enlarged the educational
establishment originated at Tara by Olav Eola, add
ed to the number ol’ military academies and law 1
schools, and renewed tae psaiter of Tarajand the
registration of individual histories. Usher and
other historians mention four holy men who bad
preached the gospel in Ireland before St. Patrick.
A fifth was sent by Pope Celestine 1., in the person
of Palladius, Arch-Deacon of the Roman Church.
Patrick was sent to Homa by Germanus, of Auserre,
and intrusted by tne Pope with the mission of con
verting the Irish people. The churches and monas
teries founded by him became so many schools. A
zeal for learning spread among clergy and laity and
the favorite monastery of St. Patrick, at Armagh,
became famous as a school all over Europe. For a
time Iro.and was so noted for the learning and piety
of Its ecclesiastics that it was called insula sancto
rum, isle of sain ts.
Peablie.—l. The use of the sulphur
soap is not injurious, though we do not think it
will have the assured effect. Trv a little ammonia
in the water you wash with. 2. Face powder shou d
not be use I at all, as it is Generally injurious. Use
glycerine occasionally to soften and smoothen the
skin. 3. The treatment for a red nose depends en
tirely on what it is occasioned by. Collodion paint
ed over the offending member has been very suc
cessful in mitigating and removing the redness,
probably by protecting the skin from the air and by
its contract!.e power coustringiug the capillary ves
sels so as to allow them to recover their tone. Ii
may bo necessary to apply the collodion several
times. 4. The writing is good, but the spelling
could easily be improved upon.
Constant Rbadeb. -1. Tha steamship
Atlantic, of the Waite S ar Line, was commanded
by Capt. Williams, formerly oi tae Guion lane at
the time of her loss. She was built at Belfast,
Ireland, and reached New York on her first trip on
June 23, 1871, having made the passage in ten days
and a few hours. She left Liverpool on March 20th.
and Queenstown on the 21st, 1373, for Now York,
and running short of coal was obliged to put into
Halifax. On April 1, 1873, about 2 A. M., she ran
ashore on Meauher’s Island, Nova Scotia, when out
of 978 passougors, S6O were lest. The Atlantic was
of 3,70) tons re deter; length 420 feet; beam 40 feet;
depth of hold 33 feet; draugut of water, 23 feet;
tonnage, 3,723.
C. 8. G.—Tho information you seek
has been courteously fur lisiied by Anna Curtis, of
the Cooper Union: To ladies with taste and ability
to make art-study a means of livelihood, the morn
ing classes are gratuitous, the term beginning each
year on October Ist. Studio: Drawing from casts,
normal or industrial drawing, photo.crayon and
photo-color, and wood engraving. For amateurs
there is an afternoon class ou Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays. The lessons are given between 2 and
-4 o'clock. Terms, sls per quarter of ten weeks—
thirty lessons. Oriiy cast drawing taugnt in the af
ternoon.
Wash. —“ I bought a number of arti
clee of furniture on instalment, receiving a bill for
the goods, the amount of which was $175 80. When
I went to settle the bid the bookkoeoer said I owed
35 more, the fact being that 1 had ordered tweuty
iive yards of carpet, but the salesman told mo I had
better take twenty-seven yards and be sure. He
Bgave me a bill for the twenty-seven yards, but on
inj going to settle said there was thirty. Now can
Ibe made pay the extra $5 ?” No. It you ordered
twenty-seven yards they uad no right either to send
you or charge you for more than you ordered.
Moonface. —“Is there any law that can
divorce a man from his wife so that he can marry
again, he having been previously married according
to the rites of the Boman Catholic Caurch?” Id
•every case where an absolute divorce is decreed, the
party to whom it is granted is legally at liberty to
marry again. It matters not by what religious rite
the first marriage was performed. The question in
your case is evidently a religious one, and the Ro
man Catholic Church doctrines do not permit of di
vorce for any cause whatever. This, however, has
nothing to do with the law.
Numbskull. —l. 'The ceremony of pre
centing distinguished people with the freedom ol
a city is, in the main, complimentary, though in
nome instances it bears with it valuable priviliges.
Those privileges vary in the different cities, and
therefore cannot be enumerated here, and their na
ture is in the way of being entitled to all the rights
of citizenship, and in soma cases to deal in priv
ileged articles. Generally, however, its meaning is
in its entirety accepted as complimentary. 2. The
W in question is living in retirement.
Painter.—“ Brown and Smith wished
sne to paint on a box their initials. I put them or
thus: ‘B. & B.* and «B. and Co.* Are the stops
correct or not t** Th® periods are correctly placet
$0 app®KC»
J. P.—The treatment for rheumatism
most generally relied on is the alkaline. Tartrate ol
potash and soda (Rochelle salt), or acetate of potash is
given in full doses short of producing purgation
until the urine is rendered alkaline. Occasionally
a purgative may be required, or an opiate may
be taiien at night to produce sleep. lodide of
potassium is also beneficial. Warm salt water baths
at use flannel and stimulating liniments
at. afford some relief.
J. G. S. —The pamphlet by Dr. Whate
ly, called “Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon
Bonaoarte,” was published in London in 1819, the
last issue of it wo can obtain being that issued by
Robert Carter & Sous, No. 285 Broadway, in 1853. It
contains, in addit on, “ Historic Doubts Relative to
ed Early Americans.” This firm is now, we believe, at
ti- No. 530 Broadway.
ist
sir Wild C. X. Hull.—The following were
7; the largest Republican majorities ever given at any
at one election iu Massachusetts: 1854—Lincoln, over
all others, 77,997; 1872-Grant, 74,212; 1856—
moat, over Buchanan, 68,950; 1868—Grant, 68,885;
IS 1866—Gov. Bullock, 65,209; 1865—Bullock, 48,506;
in 1863—Andrew, 41,276; 1830—Lincoln, 43,891.
A. —“A and B are playing cassino.
m There is on the table a queen, jack, four, and tray.
A throws little cassino on the four spot, and calls it
10 six. B taxes the tray from the table and calls it
)n nine, and takes it in. A says he cannot build from
0a the table. B says he can. Who is correct ?” A is.
• n Reader.—The English statute mile is
1,760 yards, the modern Roman mile 1,623, tho Irish
• mile 2 240, the German short mile 6,839, tho German
77 geographical mile 8,237 yds., the Swiss mile 9,153,
, the German long mile 10,126 and the Swedish mile
f- 11,700. ’
r, Ignobant.—Judge Blatchford has de-
cided that the case against Samuel J. Tilden must go
d to trial. His lawyers state that thev will carry the
>y case to the United States Supremo Court.
d O. N. A. M.—A correspondent signing
r- himself Farragut kindly informs ua that Mr. G. H.
p. Burton, No. 272 Greenwich street, is Secretary of the
ie Order of United American Meoaanics.
’’ A.G.—A patentee in this country is not
compelled to put his invention on the market with
it in any specified time. Such is the law in France,
lfc the time being two years, but not here.
it Newsboy.—The transfer you inquire
3 of was made in 1844, but the month we have not yet
L ’“ obtained. When wo do ascertain it we will acquaint
“ you.
<1 R. M. W.—Tho measure is very defect
ivo and the music of tho rhythm is spoiled by
changes iu the same line from iambic to dactylic
feet.
Theresa M. —lf there is any mechanic
lien ou tho building, it must be registered. Ascer
tain if there is any snob, at the Register’s office.
Jennie. — “How many square yards of
carpot w.ll it take for a room the size of which is 15
feet 3 inches by 14 feet 3 inches ?” 24 1-7 yards.
J. H.—You can see a Philadelphia City
Directory at any of the large hotels, and there ob
tain the address of the druggist in question.
Beginner.—A very superior work on
bookkeeping is that of Bryant & Stracton. You can
obtain it through any first class publisher.
H. H. J.—Wo do not consider our
selves at liberty to give tho private address of any
correspondent.
M. J. A.—Tn playing cards for money
the deal must ba cut for at the commencement of
- each game.
; Constant Reader.—The information
7 you desire is obtainable of any publisher.
e M. O. T.—Plenty of walking tends to
■ develops tho muscles ol the logs.
I T. H. —We hope to have a reply for you
in our next issue.
’ Thirteenth Ward.—Try a German
t ’ drug stoic.
5 W. E. M.—February 28, 1860, was a
" Tuesday.
■ CONTENTS OF INSIDE PA&ES.
> CONTINUATION OF “ FROM OUT THE GLOOM.”
fc LEADING A CALF.
’ THS DETROIT SOLOMON.
[ SOMNAMBULISM.
. A WOMAN’S GRAVE.
3 CAPTURING A GHOST.
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other Sunday Newspaper pub
’ lished in the United States.
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i “ CROCKED ” WHISKY.
>
i In looking over a recent number of tho Cin
cinnati Enquirer , we found an article headed
* “Another Chapter of Fraud.” In the article it
‘ is asserted that the Government loses $80,000,-
i 000 a year by the non-collection of the tax on
whisky. Tho way taken to prove this assertion
i is as follows: A bushel of grain furnishes three
‘ gallons of spirits, which sell at $1 01 a gallon;
, the gram costs 60 cents a bushel, and the ex
-1 cise tax .is 90 cents a gallon. Throe gallons
would sell for $3 12, while the cost for grain
- and the tax amounts to $3 30—a loss to the
manufacturer on the three gallons of eighteen
1 cents. This, tne writer says, proves that there
; was either gross ignorance on the part of those
r collecting the tax, or else connivance in fraud.
We think that the writer has nob given the
whole facts in tho case, and do not believe that
J through either the ignorance or dishonesty ot
i revenue officers is tho Government defrauded
' to any considerable extent out of the tax on
3 whisky. Under the present system of checks
■ and counterchecks used by the revenue autbori
_ ties, it is utterly impossible for crooked whisky
’ to be put on the market and escape detection.
But, aside from this, a portion of the figures
' given by the writer are incorrect. In the very
number of the Enquirer in which this article
appears, grain of the sort used in the manufac
) ture of whisky ia quoted as selling in Indian apo
-1 iis at 39 cents a bushel, and most of the year it
ranges below 35 cents. Taking 35 cents as the
i average, there would be left to the manufactu
s rer, after paying tho tax, a profit of seven cents
, on throe gallons. This profit would not pay
5 the running expenses of the manufacturers, we
t know. But there is a sourco of profit to the
distillers which has been overlooked by the
1 writer of the article to which reference has
been made. On that which is left of the grain,
alter the alcohol has bean extracted from it,
1 immense droves of cattle and hogs are fed and
y °
. fattened. Wo doubt if there are many large
1 distilleries in the country, which would pay
1 expenses at the present low price of whisky
3 were it not that the “swill” is used for feeding
i. cattle and hogs. One of the main reasons for
- the closing of the distilleries in this part of the
country is the fact that cattlo-raisers are no
longer permitted to teed their animals on the
t “swill,” while there is no such restriction m
u the West. Wo think that if the writer of “An-
other Chapter of Fraud” will reconsider his
6 subject and search for full information, he will
discover that in the Northern and Western
d States, at tho present time, the amount of
‘ “crooked” whisky manufactured is inconsider
able, and scarcely ever put upon the public
a market.
y
SENATOE HOWE’S SPEECH.
D
e Mr. Howe’s speech in tho United States Sen
ate against the President and his cabinet was
a noteworthy for nothing but its extreme bitter
ness, and his Bepublican colleagues are report
,3 ed upon good authonty not to be greatly edified
by the effects produced by tho speech. In its
course Senator Howe said a number of very
>r silly things. Wo are at a loss to under
3. stand why an American statesman should
d attack Secretary Shurz because the latter,
ts m 1849, fought for tho unification of Ger
v- many and the preservation of the Con
‘s. stitution framed by the German Parliament,
against that hypocritical despot, King Frodor
d ick William the Fourth of Prussia, who died
>u amid the execrations of his people, eleven
years later, a groveling idiot. If that cause
was not victorious at the time, it was owing to
NEW YORK DISPATCH, MARCH 31, 1878.
a the incapacity of its loaders, bat Carl Schurz
>f was not one of them. He was an humblo pri
vate in the ranks of the revolutionary army,
ly Since then the very objects for which tho revo-
J lutionists of 1849 risked their lives havo been
13 attained, and not a few of the then rcvolution
-13 ary leaders now hold influential official posi
tions in most ot the States of tho German Em
pire. Senator Howe acted very foolishly in at
.o tacking Secretary Schurz on such untenable
r grounds.
,t NATIONAL PBEJDDICK3.
Tho English people labor under the idea that
® every diplomatic question should be judged by
r' all other nations from tho very stand-point
!; from which they view it themselves. Just now,
■’ finding themselves utterly outwitted by Russia,
they wonder why tho whole civilized world out
. sido of tho Czar’s dominions does not sympa
'• thizo with them, help to extricate them from
t the humiliating predicament into which the in
i’ capacity of their statesmen has plunged them,
and coolly aid them in depriving Russia of tho
’ fruits of her hard-earned struggle. They are
i at a loss to understand why France should look
on with folded arms, and refuso to wage war
against Russia. They execrate Bismarck be
cause tho great Chancellor refuses to look at
□ tho Eastern question through British spoota
‘ cles. They are dumbfounded with astonish
ment because Austria should declare that, so
’ far as tho treaty of San Stefano was concerned,
s her interests were not identified with those of
Groat Britain. This spirit of selfishness, if we
!• may so express it, finds expression in nearly all
English journals, however divergent their opin
ions on other subjects may be.
3 The worst feature of publio opinion in France
t is tho tenacity with which the great mass of tho
1 people still stick to the belief that they are the
greatest military nation on oarth, and that mih
r tary glory is pre-eminently due to them. This
unfortunate belief warps their opinions on
many other important subjects. They still re
' fiiso to believe that Germany fairly beat them
in the war of 1870-71. True, that thoughtful
f and enlightened men such as Gambetta, and
5 most of the leaders of the Left, do not fan this
idea, but that the masses of tho people cling to
it most obstinately is evident from the large
sales ot the books that echo it, from the man
! ner m which unscrupulous but widely cirou-
L lated papers constantly nourish' this belief, and
from tho almost insane hatred entertained
• against everything that is German.
sot’s mendacious books about Germany, worth
less as they are in every respect, constantly sell
enormously, and his assurance that while in
Berlin he saw in every house he visited a clock
stolen from France, is as religiously believed as
bis assertion that every German sleeps with a
i long pipe in his mouth, and that the Emperor
William,Cßismarek and Moltke never go to bed
until they have got drunk on baer. The most
important writers on the leading Paris papers
are the “chroniqueurs”—that is to say, jour
nalists—furnishing every week several columns
of gossip, written in a spicy and attractive
style. One of tho most famous of these
“chroniqueurs” is Jules Noriat, who disgraces •
himself by penning, week-after week, the silli- |
eat slanders about Germany. In alluding tho
other day to a horrible murder, he said that
tho perpetrator of the crime was of German de
scent, which fully accounted for his infamous
character. But for the narrow-mindedness
and ignorance of the French masses, such jour
nalistic nonsense would not be tolerated for a
moment. Germany defeated them fairly, and
their discomfiture was solely due to their toler-
; ation of Louis Napoleon’s lower empire, which 1
■ enervated the nation to an astonishing degree.
That Austria has national preju
dice is duo to the fact that Austria is no nation
at all. It is, as an astute politician correctly
said of another country, nothing but a geo- '
graphical definition, an anything but homo
geneous complex of different nationalities, un
der tho sceptre of the Hapsburg dynasty, which
produced its last eminent representative in the
Emperor Joseph the Second. His successors
were Leopold the Second, a cypher; Francis
the Second, a scoundrel; Ferdinand the Second,
an idiot; and Francis Joseph, a very weak
man. What sympathies can the different na
tionalities of Austria have with one another ?
They have not a single idea, not a single preju
dice in common. The Czaoks of Bohemia hate
the German Bohemians. Tho people of Upper
and Lower Austria hate the Magyars, who, with
the Galician Poles, are hostile to Russia, while
i tho Slavs and Gorman-Anstrians are well
wishers of tho Czar. Tho war against Prussia,
in 1866, came near tearing down tho rotten ;
fabric of Austria. Another war on a large scale
might easily produce that disastrous result. I
As for the prevailing idea of the German 1
masses, it is that no hostility to the Empire 1
founded in 1871 should be tolerated. The Ger- ■
man patriot refuses sternly to mate any con
ciliatory advances toward those who resist the
swallowing up of the petty States by Prussia,
or to the Catholics, who oppose the consolida
tion of the Empire with more or lass vehemence.
The average German patriot of to-day, in re
gard to this momentous question, out-Em- 1
porors tho Emperor and out-Bismarcks Bis
marck. Ho adhsres to his views with religious 1
tenacity, and he is truly formidable because he 1
is terribly in earnest, because his education is
good, because ho is thrifty, and because be is '
thoughtful and circumspect. As a matter of
course, be has his weaknesses. He is slow, and 1
frequently vacillating ; but, whon ha has once 1
made up bis mind, and thinks that he is right, 1
it is useless to try to change his ideas. He is 1
brave, and not easily discouraged when fighting 1
for Germany, with Moltke as a military and 1
Bismarck as a political leader.
—- ;
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
The withdrawal of the Earl of Derby, the ’
British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, from tho 1
Cabinet presided over by Lord Beaconsfield, '
leaves the latter without an adversary of his •
Eastern policy in tho royal councils, but it in- !
dicates also the dissentions prevailing even in
the ranks of the so-called liberal Tories in re- '
gird to that momentous question. The liberal 1
Tories shrink from the responsibilities and dan- '
gers of active hostilities against Russia, while ’
the wing of the Tory party, headed by Lord i
, Beaconsfield, seems intent upon war with the
Czar at all hazards. What is at tho bottom of 1
. this warlike spirit of the British Premier? Is 1
■ it bis desire to recover, by drawing the sword,
, his sadly damaged prestige as a diplomatist ?
Or is it a far-sighted scheme to check tho fut
, ther advance of Russia in Asia toward India ?
Lord Beaconsfield ought to know that tho
present moment is for England a mostinoppor
, tune one to grapple with Russia, flushed as she
s is with victory, while her people are animated ,
, with the most intense hatred of her insular ad- ,
versary. Where are England’s troops? Sho ,
cannot send, oven with a tremendous effort, one
I hundred thousand troops to the Bosphorus,
, while the Czar will have there, if need be, a
, force four times as largo. True, tho finances of
. Russia are in a deplorable, condition, while En
, gland has plenty of money. But history teems
with the examples of nations waging long and
, exhaustive wars with an empty treasury, and
, beating their rich foes in tbelong run. If Lord
, Beaconsfield continues blustering as ho is doing
, now, lie will only inflame the national and re
. ligious spirit of the Russian people to tho higb
s est pitch, exactly as was the case in 1812, whon
I tho subjects of ths Czar were found ready and
, willing to submit to unprecedented sufferings
f and privations in order to discomfit tho national
_ foe. Perhaps the real motive actuating the
, British Premier in his Eastern policy is tho fact
that Queen Victoria is bent upon war with Rus
sia. Lord Beaconsfield, for years past, has
been truckling to the prejudices and whims of
Queen Victoria, who, as wo clearly perceive from
3 the just published third volume of Theodore
. Martin’s “Life of tho Prince Consort,” willmod
. die with foreign and domestic politics more than
1 people had hitherto believed. Prince Albert,
3 who was generally thought to have carefully
7 abstained from interfering with tho policy of
. bis adopted country, wo see from tho same vol
-1 ume, was a sort of busybody who tried to force
■ his peculiar opinions upon the veteran statos
_ men of Great Britain. Now Prince Albert hated
. Russia at the time of the Crimean War, because
■ of the arrogant and domineering character of
.. Czar Nicholas : and Queen Victoria naturally
a adopted her husband’s views. Times have
n greatly changed since then. Alexander the
0 Second is a man widely different from his father
0 Nicholas, and, whatever his enemies may sayi
in the struggle with Turkey he was tho stand
ard-bearer of progress and civilization. Yet
Queen Victoria, with her maudlin adherence to
the teachings of her deceased husband, is bit
terly opposed to Russia, and she does not
shrink from desiring to bring about a terrible
war, which is certain to infliot untold sufferings
upon the poorer classes of her country, and the
issue of which, to say the least, is extremely
doubtful.
On one thing Victoria and her obsequious
Prime-Minister may depend: Russia will not
permit them to trifle with her; nor will she en
able them to crawl out of the difficulty in which
they now find themselves, owing to their rash
ness and folly. We have no doubt but Turkey
will, at Russia's suggestion, demand the evacu
ation of the Sea of Marmora by the British
iron-clad fleet under Admiral Hornby. England
will roluse, Russia will at ouce occupy Constan
tinople, and the terrible fury of war will be let
loose once more. The advance of the Servians
toward the Aegean Sea at the order of Russia,
the rapid reenforcement of the vast Russian
force on both sides of the Balkan, and many
minor incidents, indicate very clearly that the
Czar does not mean to yield to England. Aus
tria will remain neutral. Nothing can be more
evident. That is the wisest policy she can
adopt under the circumstances.
FRANCE TO-DAY.
Fourteen supplementary elections for the
Chamber of Deputies will take place to-day in
France, eight Bonapartists aqd six Legitimists
having had their seats declared vacant owing to
tho frauds by which the tools of Broglie and Four
tou caused them to bo chosen. It is quite prob
able that none but Republicans will be triumph
ant at these supplementary elections; for Repub
licanism is daily making truly astonishing strides
in France, and since Marshal MacMabon’s rup
ture with the Monarchists, the latter have split
into Impotent factions, waging an internecine
warfare upon one another. The Orleanists are
divided into two camps, the Legitimists have
become tho laughing-stock of the country owing
to their obsolete notions, and the Bonapartists
are behaving so scandalously that the latter
claw of Frenchmen cannot but look with dis
gust and indignation upon them. Paul de Cas
sagnac, the bully and slanderer, has at length
been summarily squelched. He had charged M.
Gont, an elderly Republican leader of Avignon,
with having committed a crime in bis eigh
teenth year. M. Gent disproved tho charges,
and has instituted criminal proceedings against
the iibeler, whom, the Paris correspondent of
the New York Z'taes, a silly Bonapartist, strange
ly enough puff's up on every occasion. It con
victed, Cassagnac will be sent to the penitenti
ary for five years. He has begged pardon of M.
Gent, in Le Pays, in the hope of putting a stop
to tho prosecution, but M. Gent declare* that
the law shall take its course. At the same time.
Cassagnac has been informed that the members
of the Loft will no longer tolerate his imperti
nences in the Chamber, but will challenge him
on every occasion. Ninety-four judges, who
lent thomselves to the infamies at Broglie and
Fourtou, have been put on half psy, and a great
many other steps have been taken to purify the
public service. Never was the Bonapartist cause
at a lower ebb than at the present time. Tho
French people have had enough of the rapa
cious adventurers who are its leaders.
THE SAVINGS BANKS EXHIBIT.
The Savings banks exhibit that has just been
published is greeted by the State Superintend
ent of Banks with manifestations of satisfac
tion, in which we regret we are unable to join.
Few of the savings banks have a surplus suf
ficiently large to render them safe depositories
of the public's funds beyond all contingencies.
The bank buildings, in nearly every instance,
are appraised at a figure much higher than
their actual value. Too exorbitant salaries
continue to be paid to savings banks function
aries. Not a few banks doing a business ot lees
than half a million dollars still pay their presi
dents and cashiers from ton to fifteen thousand
dollars. This is a criminal and foolish policy.
Even our overpaid municipal functionaries
charged with the management of tho city’s
finances receive no such salaries. Persons de
sirous of depositing their money in savings
banks should before doing to select a bank that
can satisfactorily answer the following ques
tions ; “ How much business did you do last
year ? What salaries do yon pay to your of
ficers ? How large a surplus have you got ?
What is your bank building appraised at in
your last exhibit?” Give all savings banks
which do a comparatively email business, which
have an insignificant surplus, which overrate
tho value of their bank building, and which pay
their employees extravagant salaries, a very
wide berth.
An Edifying Spectacle. —On an after
noon last week, whilo a number of little boys
and girls wore playing on the sidewalk, halt a
dozen well-dressed young blackguards walked
slowly through a street every other (house of
which is inhabited by the most shameless and
infamous women in New York;. The air was
warm, and the painted bawds were leaning out
ot the windows, exhibiting their disgusting
charms and exchanging obscene remarks with
the above-mentioned young loafers. In front
ot the latter walked the police captain of the
precinct where the street in question is situat- i
ed. The captain did not seem to notice what
was going on. Perhaps ho thought that the
filthy talk of tho bawds and loafers would not
poison the minds of the little girls that could
not help hearing them. Now, was not this a
truly edifying spectacle? Has it come to this
in the city of New York that unblushing, bra
zen vice can exhibit itself m all its revolting in
famy in such a manner before tho very func
tionaries whose bounden duty it is to suppress
outrages of this description ? No wonder that
thoughtful people shudder at tho very idea of
what is to become of the rising generation
whon, through tho laziness or connivanco of
such functionaries, it is initiated on the public
thoroughfares into the most repulsive secrets
of ono of the worst and most dangerous of
vices ? If the polico cannot radically extirpate
that vice, lot them at least teaoh its wretched
votaries that they will not be permitted to out
rage public decency in so flagrant a manner.
Dastardly Conduct.—On last Monday
night, at about half-past eleven o’clock, a young
man and woman were passing up the east sido
of tho Bowery, in the immediate neighborhood
of Bayard street. They wore behaving them
selves, and if they wore improper characters
no one could judge so from their actions. Sud
denly a policeman stepped up to tho girl and
punched her in tho back—whether with his fist
or club our informant was not near enough to
see. Tho girl turned and said, “ What have I
done that you should abuse me ?” “Git right
along,” was the answer of the policeman, as he
flourished bis hand, “or if you don’t I’ll swat
you over the mouth.” “I haven’t done any
thing,” said the girl, “and you wouldn’t dare
strike mo.” “Now git in a hurry or I’ll club
you,” was tho policeman’s reply. Tho young
man who was in company with the girl hurried
her into a concert saloon to escape the threat
ened clubbing. We call attention to this case
because it is not an isolated ono. It is too much
the habit of policemen to abuse the unfortu
nate wretches of women who travel the streets.
When the police find thorn plying their nefari
ous vocation they should arrest them, but no
one other than a cowardly hound and brute
would use his fist or club on even a fallen wo
man. Such men are utterly unworthy to be
members of the police force. They are worse
law-brokers than those they assault.
Municipal Ordinances. —Our Alder
men amuse themselves by constantly passing
new municipal ordinances. Those ordinances
are frequently very meritorious and valuable,
but the trouble is that they are but rarely and
never properly enforced. Tho police and va
rious city departments treat these Aldermanic
ordinances with undisguised contempt, and
even our police justices fine very reluctantly
persons charged with violations of tho ordi
nances. The Aldermen have power enough to
compel a proper enforcement of the ordinances
thev pass. Why don’t they use that nnwer ?
Deadly Weapons. —The folly of met
■ of hot temper carrying deadly weapons about
1 them was never better exemplified than in the
' encounter which took place between two re
-1 spectable citizens of Eastville, Ya., on lasi
' Thursday. These gentlemen had a misunder
standing in regard to some law matters, they
1 met in the street, one called the other a liar
and damned scoundrel, and the latter drew a
Colt’s revolver. The result was. that the one
who called the other a liar was shot dead, while
his opponent was mortally wounded. Had
' these men been unarmed, it is probable that
nothing more than a knock-down, with a possi
ble black eye or bloody nose, would have taken
place. But because they wore armed there has
been a bloody butchery. Such encounters as
the one described cannot but too often occur so
long as mon carry on their persons deadly
weapons. The different states should take
some steps toward putting a stop to the prac
tice. It is no longer thought an exhibition of
chivalrio courage to fight a duel. Why should
it be thought gentlemanly to be in possession
of weapons which, in a moment of anger, may
be used for purposes of assassination?
What a Change !—During the Presi
dential campaign, of 1876, the Stoats Zet'ung de
nounced in unmeasured terms the suit which
the United States District Attorney had insti
tuted against Samuel J. Tilden in regard to the
latter’s non-payment of the income tax to the
Federal Government. Mr. Ottendorfor almost
burst with indignation at the mere idea of so
great a statesman as Mr. Tilden having been
guilty of a transaction so disreputable, and he
stigmatized it as a shabby Republican election
eering trick. But since then Mr. Ottendorfer
has changed his opinions concerning Tilden,
and now that United States Circuit Judge
Blatchford has swept away the legal quibbles
by which Tilden tried to stave off a trial of the
case on its merits, the Stoats Zeitung bitterly
denounces the “ great Democratic statesman,”
at whoso shrine it formerly worshiped, as a con
temptible trickster! Less than two years have
apparently sufficed to bring a-bout this wonder
ful change in Ottendorfer’s esteem and appreci
ation of Samuel J. Tilden.
Kelly and Tweed. — Mr. John Kelly’s
arrogant letter to Attorney-General Schoon
maker, demanding the release of Boss Tweed,
is a grossly impudent document, and we trust
that Mr. Schoonmaker will pay no attention to
it, nor to the specious arguments of the design
ing or foolish persons who think Tweed should
be set at liberty because he had suffered
enough, because he had shown sincere contri
tion, and all such maudlin rubbish. If that
line of argument were tenable, nine-tenths of
the convicts should be discharged from our
State Prisons. They are harshly treated there
. for petty thefts, while Tweed, who has robbed
our city of millions, and brought it to the verge
of bankruptcy, has never yet suffered adequate
punishment for bis most heinous crimes. Let
him remain in durance vile, or rather in his
cosy room on Ludlow street, where he lives on
the fat of the land, instead of on the coarse
State Prison fare which properly belongs to
him.
Idiotic Legislation. — Assemblyman
Erastus Brooks wants to put a stop to further
trouble in regard to the liquor traffic, and
thinks the Moffett bell-punch the way to ac
complish this desired end. The idea is simple
nonsense. What may work well in a small
town or village, would bo likely to prove a mis
erable failure in a city the size of New York.
The introduction of the Moffett bell-punch
would still further complicate the liquor traffic
here, and would lead to such universal disgust
for whimsical legislation that no attempt would
be made to obey the law. What New York
wants is a sensible excise law—one which re
spectable dealers can obey and which would
protect them against unlicensed dealers. To
attempt to run New York city as a village would
be run, is the most glaring kind of idiocy. Mr.
Erastus Brooks can take the honors as a first
class legislative donkey.
A Timely Suggestion.—Last Pall’s
election demonstrated the fact that tbo Repub
licans of the Seventh Congressional District,
embracing.the Tenth and Seventeenth Wards,
can elect a good candidate to the next National
House of Representatives. They would do well
to look about for a popular and well-qualified
candidate in time, and not to leave his selection
to Messrs?'Jake Patterson and Johnny O’Brien.
If the latter two mousing and trading politi
cians are again permitted to dictate the candi
date, the Tammany Hall man will be surely
elected. Let the Republicans of the Seventh
District do their share in the not over-difficult
task of rescuing tbo next Congress from the in
capable hands of the Democratic party.
Smyth’s Acquittal.—We cannot say
that the acquittal of State Insurance Superin
tendent Smyfh meets with our approval. In the
management of his department, as was shown
during his trial, ho has certainly been guilty of
many gross irregularities, for which the State
Senate should have unhesitatingly removed
him. There is unfortunatedly reason to believe
that a contrary result of the trial was bi ought
about by a political alliance between the friends
of Senator Conkling and the tools of John Kel
ly. There is nothing new in this kind of un
holy alliances. This time, however, if Senator
Conkling should be implicated in the deplora
ble bargain, we apprehend that ho will get the
worst of it.
Impudent Boot-Blacks. —New York
swarms with impudent boot-blacks, not a few
of whom are ruffianly lads, who only use the
“ shining ” dodge to cover their thievish ma
neuvers. We repeat the suggestion which we
mado once before, that the boot-blacks should
receive badges from the Mayor for a merely
nominal sum—that these badges bo not given
to tall, strapping fellows, and that they be
promptly taken from the boot-blacks who do not
behave themselves.
Flobioultube.—Lovers of floriculture
in New York need not send abroad for seeds,
bulbs, etc., when they can find at the extensive
seed establishment of Messrs. B. K. Bliss &
Son, No. 34 Barclay street, everything they
want at the lowest rates. The seed and flower
catalogues of this house are the most complete
and exhaustive published in the United States.
. V < W ««W V* V
AN AWFUL USE FOR THE TELEPHONE.
There was a large throng of people in the
street, and our friend Bodenbausen joined it to
see what was the matter. Two young men were
using a diminutive telephone, and when Boden
hausen saw what the crowd had gathered for,
he asked a bystander, “Votdose dings was?”
He was told-
•‘Dot’s der feller vot I bund me for dwo voeks.
Now I gife him a blue eye ouf his nose, I bade
you,” andhe sailed into the young man, mashed
his hat over his eyes, and was proceeding to
wreck him generally, when he was interfered
with by a guardian of the peace.
When he arrived at the station-house a charge
of assault and battery was made against him by
the young min whom be had assaulted. He
was asked by the captain what he bad to say on
the subject. He squared himself before the
desk, took off his hat, and began :
“Loog here, Superwisor,” and he shook his
finger at the captain, “ zwei years pebind yes
terday I go me by Cincinnadder to got me some
dings to work. Mine frau she vas wriding me
alvays ledders* bond dot delevone. I dond me
English good say, bud I make me unnerstand
dot ouf you say somedings by dot delevone
somebody else knows all abend id all der coun
dry over already. Ven I goom by mine houses
kesterday dero vas a leedle poy vot I dond see
pefore by der gradle. I asg mo Katrina vero
dot ret-het Irish schnoozor baby goom py, und
she said dot she couldn’t helb id, und dot she
got id py der delevone. Dot’s der feller vot vas
plowin’ on dot dings der sdroed uh, und dees
mon ho dold mo his name vos delevone. Ouf
you send him home mit me I make him brove
id. I’m no Dutchman it 1 vas a damfool.”
The captain endeavored to explain matters to
the exasperated German, and told him that per
haps the young man, who was very respectable,
•"ieht ba able to prove an alibi. Ho appeared
n | satisfied at this, and promised to go home. As
he left the room he said :
l 3 “ You geeb dot veller hero undil I goom pack.
3 . Maypo Katrina’s got a alipi, doo, und ouf she
,t has, dot broves id, und I makes me some drou
f. ble mit dot veller’s faces.”
y IN THE WRONG PEW.
.r A Ninth street map recently saw in the paper
a the death notice of a near and dear friend, and
,c determined to attend the funeral.
e On Thursday last hs proceeded to the resi
d deuce whore deceased had lived. Ho entered
it the parlor and took a seat among the mourn
i- ers. After the service was over he asked to be
n allowed to saj a few words in behalf of his de
,a ceased friend. He dwelt upon the many vir
1S tues of the departed one, and said that ho had
o never known a more honest, upright citizen,
y He had known him from childhood, and they
e had been schoolmates. His heart was almost
.. broken over the thought that ho would never
>f Bee him again. He closed nis remarks with a
q fervent prayer that they all might meet the
n loved one in the bright “over there.”
y Handkerchiefs were used freely during tbo
brief eulogy, but it was noticed that they got
no damper or heavier. When he had taken his
seat, the minister approached him and asked
him to stop drinking.
[j “I’ve never touched a drop in my life,” said
the man.
e “What was your friend’s name?” asked the
e clergyman,
j He gave it.
0 The minister’s eyes opened.
B “This is Mrs. Thompson’s funeral! Your
e friend’s family reside five doors above.”
He had mistaken the number, and had been
r praying for the salvation of a person ho didn’t
know.
’ SMALL CHANGE.
Ws are too sedate a people, and require
more levity. Only think of it! A man has to
y wait from St. Patrick’s day to the Fourth of
„ July before he can get his hat mashed over his
eyes and his body filled with patriotism and
0 beer. This is all wrong. Reconstruct our
almanacs. We will never be satisfied until holi
days are as thick as holes in a porous plaster.
A man can walk through our streets day after
day fo? months, without getting hit in the
s back of the head with a brick. Give us more
enthusiasm, and holidays, and bricks, or we’ll
bo compelled to get up a holiday on our own
(, hook, by falling out of the basement window.
:> The advanca guard of tha Fly Brigade
- made its appearance on Wednesday, and recon
-1 noitered. It formed into single column, with
1 right wing resting on the wash-tub and left on
- the clock. Au excellent retreat was mado
t through a hole in the window made by a dab
f with the fire-shovel. The force returned in a
r few minutes, with provisions enough to with
s stand a siege of two weeks up the chimney, and
1 .disappeared. The privates were looking hale
0 and hearty, but the officers wore an anxious
a look, and their overcoats flapped about iheir
t emaciated bodies. The Mosquito Battalion has
s not been heard from.
1 Mb. Fergus was relating a dream to a
crowd of the boys, “I dreamed that a man had
me by the head,” said he, “ and threatened to
cut my throat. Then he drew a big razor from
1 his pocket, and just as he was drawing it across
r my throat, I awoke. Terrible, to have such
1 dreams, isn’t It?” Mr. Fergus had borrowed
money of every man in the crowd, and they all
a said it was a shame, and when Mr. Tusch re
-1 marked that he’d ought to have taken some-
- thing to make him sleep sounder, Fergus won
;. dered whether it was sympathy or something
j else that made the crowd look downhearted.
0 When you carry large sums of money
1 from the bank, bo careful to have it dene up in
1 brown paper. We always do. A friend of ours,
1 while walking along Houston street the other
day, with a large parcel tied up in white paper,
3 got swatted under the ear with a sand-club, and
’ the marauders escaped with a two-pound bunk
3 of cheese. Ho was too proud to carry his Sun-
• day dinner in brown paper, and thus suffered
* for bis respectability. We carry millions of dol
lars through the streets weekly, andbavo never
been molested, because we have always followed
the rule above sot forth.
“ ‘Early to bed and early to rise’ ” is
i my motto,” said Mr. Burleigh to Mr. Farrel;
1 “I arise at four o’clock every morning.” “Is
j that so ?” said Mr. Farrell; “ that’s strange,
j Now, do you know, I haven’t been troubled
j with one this year. Is your house damp?”
“ Troubled with what ?” queried Mr. Burleigh.
. as if he’d swallowed a lemon, and Mr. Farrell
r laughed and told Mr. Beales, and Mr. Beales
roared and borrowed a dollar. Then Mr. Far
t rell looked as if he’d swallowed two lemons, and
was sorry he said it.
Personal.—Will the auburn haired
darling who is employed in tbo Canned Corn
' factory accept our thanks, and send her a<l
' dress to “Odds and Ends,” New York Dis-
3 patch. Saturday is our day off, and wo would
1 be pleased to meet her, and we will go to a mati
f nee. We received the lock of hair, but our
0 wife came very near catching us, as we yanked
it out of the corn at the dinner table on Sunday
0 last. We admire your ingenuity in devising away
4 of getting it to us. Tha corn almost spoiled the
3 golden tress. Farewell, dearest, until Satur
' day, and then .
r When you sea a respectable-looking
. man hurrying through the street with his bands
3 in his pants’ pocliets up to his ears, you can bot
all you’re worth that if ho wore found dead there
would be discovered away down in bis watch
[ pocket a little yellow ticket with tbe legend,
f “Simpson, Somers & Co.—l Ulster, $4.” Tbo
e last cold snap has made many a man wish that
. he lived in Florida, or had postponed that last
0 drunk until it got warmer.
1 Citizens, stand up for your rights.
? Remember at tbe next election that legislator
3 who oasts his vote in favor of the Moffett Reg
-0 ister. What longings and sorrows will this
1 hope-destroyer bring to our happy homes 1 It
almost drives one mad to imagine that state of
affairs which compels a man to wait until Sat
" urday night for a nip, without debasing him
’ self before a low-lived bar-tender.
3
A wab between England and Russia
sr now appears to be inevitable. Here is a chance
r for the “ skirmishers ”to get square. Let them
a go in a body, join the Russian forces, and strike
tor the freedom of their native land. We’ll sub
scribe toward a monument it they never come
back, and nine-tenths of our follow Irishmen
will do likewise. Who’s tbe first candidate for
an obituary and a marble slab ?
Pisciculture.—The best way to ascer
e tain a fish’s age is to got tbe eggs, and, after
a having obtained a bushel-basket half-filled with
b straw, lot the fish set on them until they are
- hatched out. Watch them day bv day, and
, make a chalk mark on the back of the barn for
each one. Unless they are thus watched from
infancy they are apt to lie about the matter—
. especially the females.
0 “ Fhat's the fare fur a letther to the
1 Onld Counthry?” asked a Milesian at the Rost
-3 office yesterday. He was informed. “Will yer
1 plaze ter interduce mo to der letther-carrior
fhat takes it. Mebbe Mike doant live there he’s
0 moved to, and I’d like fur him ter give it ter me
t eisther fhat lives on the nixt block.” He was
0 introduced to the janitor and went away satis
-3 fled.
Our youngest, John Mackellar,
A darling littlo feller,
3 Ho swallowed all the yoller
. Off his littlo jumping Jack.
He got the dysentery—
Gone to meet his sister Mary,
a In Greenwood Cemetery,
0 And we don't expect him back,
d A New Yobk baker advertises for a ssc
e ond-hand bread maker. We have half a mind
- to give this loafer’s address. People who are
s willing to pay for frosh bread ought to g.et it.
e Wheat rye to help everybody along, but in the
e future doughnut intend to do so, and will baker
d own bread.
8 If any man slaps you on the back to
s morrow give it to him between the eyes, for it’s
ten to one he’s got a piece of chalk in his hand,
e and is trying to build some hieroglyphics on
yourooat. It always appears to us as if the lu
natic asylums gave a holiday to the inmates on
° April Ist.
j, New Jersey has a chronic wife-beater
iff I named Suydam. Fie! fie 1 Suvdam shame 1
i “ George ” sends us a couple of quart#
of “poetry” dedicated to Eva, entitled “I Shall
• Never Wear It More.” We haven’t read it, but
> suppose it refers to a watch or a ring, and if
he’ll promise not to send us any more, wo’dleudl
him money enough to get the article out.
A conference of ministers will be heli
’ in Brooklyn next month. The clergymen usu
ally board around with members of the differ
ent congregations. TlieJSmith & Wesson make
i is considered the best, and the combination
lock is the best for a trunk.
, “ Pa,” asked Dobson’s boy, “ why wa3
. ma like a resident of Savannah ?” “ Why, my
. son?” “Because she lived and jawed yer—lived;
i in Georgia—d’yer see ?”sThen little Georgia;
, Dobson’s department that hold the chair down
• was suffaced with blushes.
■ It is said that the last thing in dresses
is the wearers head. We should say that i&
1 depended entirely upon which way they taka
’ them off. Michigan girls can’t get thorn over,
their ears, and are compelled to kick them off.j
> “ A wonderful phenomenon has just
, occurred in the City of Churches. A young ladyi
i has been transformed into a Fish.” Mer-mada
we suppose.
I Long Island is such a healthy placa
that when people get tired of living they have-
> to move away to die. Thia was told us by an.
old L. I.—or.
Ws are opposed to walking matches, I e
cause they are attended with too much fuss
for-us.
Evil associations and forty rods uro;
. exactly alike, because they both make onai
rooJ.
So every cause has an effect, has it ?
How about crows’ caws ?
i
MUSICAL.
Gband Opera-House—English Opera.',
• —The ‘'Evangeline” party has gone, and to-morrow.
f a new departure will be taken here, and a seasons
i opened by the Ruben’s English Opera Company, of*
which Mr. L. M. Rubens is the manager. A.feature ol<
this season will be the presentation in most liberal,
and complete style of famous English operas, while,
the prices of admission will be continued at their*
present astonishingly low rates. There are iour
prime donne in the company, viz : Miss Louise*
Oliver, Miss Sallie Reber, Mias Addie Randall, anct
Mme. Annie Granger Dow; two first tenors, Eugene*
Clarke and Charles Lang; the baritones are Vincong
Hogan and A. E. Stoddard, and among the others ar as
Messrs. Stanley Felch, James A. Montgomery, andt
D. Lacy, and Miss Carrie Burton. The opening
opera will bo Balfe’s ever-popular and romantic.
“Bohemian Girl,” with tha distribution of caarac*
tors as follows: Arline, Miss Sallie Rober; Gipsy Queen*
Miss Adelaide Randall; Buda, Miss Carrie Burton $
Count Arnheim, Mr. Vincent Hogan; Thaddeus, Mr.
Eugene Clarke; Florestein, Mr. J. A. Montgomeryf
Devilskoof, Mr. S. Felch; and Captain of the Guards
Mr. D. Lacy. Mr. William G. Dietrich is the musical
director, Mr. James A. Padgett the stage-manager,
and orchestra and chorus are both numerous ami
well selected. The ballot wi 1 also bo large and. per*
feet, the loading dancers bcin.; the nß.es. Augusta
Soblke and Adele Paglieri. Miss Oliver and Mr.
Stoddard will make their first appearances on Wel<
nesday. There will be afternoon perform inoesf
given, commencing at 2 P. M. on Wednesday and.
Saturday.
Booth’s Theatre—Grand Italian Or*
era. —The second week of the season of grand oporn
by tbe Strakosch troupe was certainly as varied and*
brilliant as even enthusiastic admirers of the lyrla
drama could desire, embracing as it did Ambroisen
Thomas’s ««Mignon,” on Monday evening and oat
the afternoon of yesterday; Verdi’s “Rigoletto” on;
Tuesday, the same author’s “H Trovatore” on.
Wednesday, and “Un Ballo ia Maschora” on Thurs*,
day, and Donizetti’s “Lucia di L «mmermoor” oqZ
Friday. In “Rigoletto” Miss Kellogg, as Gilda, is afr
her best, and has seldom been seen or heard to
greater advantage than on this occasion. In thoi
first act her share in the duet, “ Eil sol dill’ an<
ima,” was deliciously given; the “ Caro nomi,” in
the second act, also elicited enthusiasm, and th3«
climax was reached with the “ Tutte le festa” in thef
third act. Signor Erapolli was also in good, voiced
and astonished his audience by his superb render-- 1
ing of the Quesla o quella,” his part of the grand.;
duet und subsequent quartet, and. his rare
ing of “La donna e mobile.” Signor Verdi as Rigo*
letto was promising at the commencement, but to-<
ward the end failed to sing in time, and somewhat
marred the efforts of the others. Miss Cary was o£
course a superior Madde ina, and the chorus and or
chestra were quite commendable. On Wednesday-
Verdi’s favorite opera, “11 Trovatore,” attracted a
large audience, who wore evidently prepared to bo>
pleased, so anxious were they to applaud at every op«
portunity. MUe. Roza’s a most artistic ope«
ratio achievement, the quality and baauty of her voice
being in it shown to their fullest extent. Dramatic
ally she was also seen to great advantage, and bou«
quets were showered. u v ion her in the most lavishly
generous manner. Herr Gi\ff was the Manrico of
the occasion, and gave fair satisfaction. He indulges
at times in a peculiar nasal utterance which he woulch
do well to avoid; but in the “Di quella pira” has
suddenly warmed his audience up to exciting dem- 1
onstrations by the strength and clearness of his?
high notes. Mr. Caufmann was the Couat di Luna.{
Vocally he was very good, dramatically ho has not as
littlo yet to learn. Mile. Guidotti, a prima donna'
contralto from theTacon Theatre, Havana, made hen
New York oebnt is Azucena, and at once stepped?
into favor. Her voice is deep and clear, though*
slightly mot. 1 ic in the h geer notoi, b >t she tlr ir
much earnestness into tbe role, and fr. m her firsfa
scena was greatly applauded. As an actress, she 1®
one < f the best.
“ Un Ballo in Maschera,” on Thursday night, wa«
another fine representation, Mho. Rozo still further.,
inciting admiration by a performance as Amelia at
once sweet and powerful, and Mile. Guidotti
strengthening her already assured position by an
able performance as U iica. Signor Frapolli was
apologized for as indisposed, but yet as Ricardo*
sang beautifully and acted gracefully and well. Sig<’
nor Verdi astonished by both strong acting and)
good singing as Renato, and Miss Montague as tbo’
page Oscar, was both personally charming and art.
. istically praiseworthy. The remainder of the cast
engaged Messrs. Coaly and Barill. In “Lucia di?
Lamm rmoor,” Mi ’s Kollo jg was seen and heard in
her very greatest assumption, and. never did she,
either act or sii?g better in her i fe. S gnor Frapolli.
though far from having entirely recovered, infused
his part with an earnestness and leeling that was
unmistakable, and. sang as well as he has done at®
any time during the season. Signor Verdi, as Enri
co, was more tuneful than he hai yet been and
pleased very much, and the cast was completed by-
Miss Lancaster as Alisa, Mr. Wilkie Arthur, Signor
Barberis as Ncrrnam , and Sic. Barill as Raimondo..
One of the most beautiful features of the evening
was the exquisite harp solo playing of Mme. MareH
zek.
Thia will be tbe last week of the opera season at?
Boota’s Theatre, and the arrangements will bo as
follows: Monday, Gounod’s “Faust;” Tuesday, I
Thomas’ “Mignon;” Wednesday, Verdi’s “Aida;’*’
Thursday, Flotow’s “Martha;” Friday, benefit of;
Miss Kellogg, and Saturday afternoon other favorite
operas.
Grand Opera House—Sunday Gin
cert.—The sixteenth concert of the Sunday evening
series will be given at the Grand. Opera House to«
night, the artists being Mlle. Estelle Buzzatti, Mis a
Henrietta Markstein, Mr. AL red Wilkie, Mr. Alonzo
H. Hatch, Mr. Lewis Fink, Mr. Charles E. Pratt,
and Downing’s Ninth Regiment Bind.
Ban Francisco Minstrels.—Mr. Bobby
Newcomb, one of the neatest and most pleasing of
performers, returned oa Monday to a company
with which ho was for years associated, and of which
he was always a pronounced favorite. He intro
duced a new song and dance called “R .sa Gera*
nium,” danced the old V.rginny Breakdown, and.
in answer to unavoidable redemands gave other
clever specialties. It looks, indeed, like old times
to have Bobby Newcomb back with the San Frau*
cisco Minstrels. The funniest of sketches weren
furnished in the shape of “Our Hash House,”’)
“Laughing Gas,” and our “Alabama Home,” while,
the solo and part singing, instrumentalism, comedy?
and burlesque, were all up to the high standard of
the troupe. A new bill this week, an aftornoom
. performance of which will be given oa Saturday.
I ? r?. A IVT A r JT 30.
. Union Square Tiieatbe.—“Crowded
. nightiy” and “standing room only” are stilt
the custom here, and there is littlo chance of any
change of bill now on this sld j of the Summer seasen*-
■ It is but seldom th.it a play takes such firm hold oa
; the sympathies of all classes of the spectators aj
do6s this one, and ia excellence of moral, beauty of
t construction and genuine picturesqueness and dra«
malic interest we do not think it has ever been
equa ed even at “ the little house on the Square.**
Those who have already witnessed a representation
of it are enthusiastic in their praiso of it; those who
? have not have at least a splendid treat in afore
them. Axternoon nerformances ob fe&irtos.