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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “IN LUCK AT LAST.”
A LONELY DEATH.
THE LOVE LETTER.
A NIGHT ATTACK.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
“OLD AMAZIN’ GRACE.”
A RUNAWAY TRAIN.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Our Library; Scottish Rite Notes;
Commandcry News ; Americus Chapter; Charity
Lodge; Holiday Bunting; Carthage Fire; Such Is
Fame; Flying Visit; Personal; A Sad Loss; Gander
Green; Questions and Answers; Lodge Elections; La
bor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE :
LONG AGO.
C/RCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.
THOSE CHRISTMAS VOICES.
TALKS WITH BOYS.
HARNEY’S RACE FOR LIFE.
A MOUNTAIN MYSTERY.
A REAL HOME.
CHARMING SNAKES.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE :
HOW LONG WILL IT LAST!
A SKETCH IN COLOR.
HIS SON'S WIFE.
OUR TELEPHONE GIRL.
’WITH THE OLD YEAR.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
STORY OF A CAT.
Uote# and
Sparks.—The privileges of negroes
under the Civil Rights bill are not clearly defined,
and, indeed, portions of the bill have been declared
unconstitutional. The right to travel and the
fright to food and lodging are guaranteed by the
common law to negroes as well as whites, who can
yay fbr the accommodation. These are neccessities.
JJut admission to any portion of a theatre is not a
necessity of life, consequently we think the mana
ger of a theatre would have the right to exclude no
groes from any or all portions of his theatre should
he so desire. We do not believe that a negro could
buy a ticket for the balcony or orchestra of either
the Grand Opera House or Wallack’s Theatre. The
managers do not refuse to sell tickets to negroes
through prejudice against the race, but because
they know that if negroes were admitted to ewery
part of the house the business of the theatre would
be injured. The fault does not lie with the man
agora, but with the public.
Felix F. McD.—“What is the mean
of the word * snide,’ which I hear so often ?” The
word “ snido ’’ means more than the nearest En
glish words in its moaning. There is the word
“snod,” from the provincial English, which means
sly, cunning, and is derived from the word “snood,”
used in fishing tackle, and the way artful young
misses tie up their hair so as to tie the young man’s
heart within. The word “schnide,” from Penn
sylvania Dutch, means the cut, as applied to atailor,
whois called “Schneider,” and probably cuts the
cloth too short. “Snide” is now applied to almost
everything manufactured which is under quality. 1
A “snide” buggy is one loosely constructed and
painted up to look well, but out of which the spokes
will fly driving around the sharp turns. A “snide”
piano is one which has a well varnished case and
brass fixings, but with a harp like that in Tara’s
halls, and which will soon be mute. The word
“ snide ” is commonly applied to cheap, “ washed ”
Jewelry.
J. D. McMann.—lst. We have no
record, nor can wo remember, that Miss Minnie
Hauck ever sung in opera at the Winter Garden.
She may, however, have done so. 2d. Metropolitan
Hall (also at one time called Tripier Hall), which
stood on the site of the Winter Garden Theatre, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Jan. 8, 1854.
The Winter Garden Theatre was burned down about ,
nine o’clock on the morning of March 23, 1867. It
was not rebuilt as a.theatre. In Mr. Hagan’s “ Rec
ords of the New York Stage” he says: “Winter
Garden Theatre inherited its fate, for twice before ■
had the buildings on its site been destroyed by
fire.” He does not state what was the character of
the building destroyed by fire which occupied the
site previous to Metropolitan Hall. It was not, we
think, a place of amusement.
Ten Years’ Reader.—“ Where can I
find th© words, ‘I am monarch of all I survey ’
The well-known poem, commencing:
“I am monarch of all I survey.
My right there is none to dispute. J
From the centre all round to the sea t
I am lord of the fowl and the brute,” (
Was written by the celebrated William Cowper, and
Is in every edition of his works. The title is, “Verses
supposed to bo written by Alexander Selkirk during {
bis abode in the island of Juan Fernandez.” It was 1
on the original story of Alexander Selkirk that 1
Daniel Defoe based his immortal creation of “Robin- t
son Crusoe.” I
J. T. R.—The following is the process 1
by which gold ink is made : Grind gold leaf with
white honoy on a slab of porphyry or glass, with a
muller, until it is reduced to an impalpable powder 1
In a pasty condition; this golden honey paste is j
then diffused in water, which dissolves the honey,
and the gold falls to the bottom in the form of a *
very fino powder. When the honey is all washed ]
away mix the gold powder with gum arabic mucil
age. After using it, allow it to dry on the paper,
and then it may be made brilliant by burnishing it f
with an agate burnisher. Silver ink is prepared in i
the same way by using silver leaf, ■*
f> J. Jf. N.—“ln reading reports in the *
papers of the seizure of the implements of faro play- 1
ing. I often meet the phrase • the lay-out.’ Please i
explain what it means.” The lay-out, in faro, is ,
composed of all the cards in a suit, commencing at 1
the aco and ending at the king. These cards are e
pasted upon a piece of oil-cloth or baize, which can :
be spread upon the table whenever the dealer
chooses to open the game. ‘When play has com- t
moncod, each player places his stake upon any card ,
ho may choose, and as the cards are drawn from the
box his bet is determined—in the majority of in
stances against him.
A. P.— “A and B are playing auction
pitch. Each has two to go to be out. A deals and
B offers him two, which he accepts and claims out. f
D claims that he is not out, that A cannot take the r
two given, but must play himself out. Please de
cide.” A is out. In auction pitch it is the rule *
that the points accepted by the seller shall be scored e
immediately. When he received the two points
what had be to play for? B made a foolish offer, c
which was accepted, and he must abide the conse- J
quendes.
Maggie.—Because your husband pur- c
chased property under an assumed name—a name k
by which he was known to the general public—that t
would not deprive him of the right to hold and will f
the property. We would suggest, however, that to
avoid complications it would be wise for him to £
have him change his name from the real to the as- j
sumed one. This any lawyer can do for him at a
cost of about $25. 8
James Fitzpatrick.—John C. Colt
killed Samuel Adams on the afternoon of Friday, 1
Sept. 17, 1811. The two had disagreement about <
money matters, which probably led to a quarrel in
Colt’s room, where the murder took place. Colt <
was not hanged. He committed suicide in his cell <
on the 18th of November, 1841, the day on which he ,
had been sentenced to be hanged.
Female Orphans.—lst. The lawyer J
having had charge of your claim, you should put 1
the matter in the hands of another agent. 2d. <
There will be no need of your making out new pa
pers, the present ones having been declared satis- J
factory by the Commissioner of Pensions. 3d. Your j
being married does not deprive you of the back
pension of your father. 1
Reader. — The opposition had the ‘
right to call upon the player to play any of the ex
posed cards at any stage of the game, but they bad ’
no right to deprive him and his partner of the
points to which their bands were justly entitled.
In euchre the exposure of a card does not carry i
with it as severe a penalty as in the game of whist. .
John Reynolds.—This correspondent ,
desires to know the initiation fee for membership
of John H. Starin Council, No. 80, American Legion 1
of Honor. He also desires the name, with that of ;
the Secretary, of some good lodge of the Knights of
Honor. Will some reader kindly supply the in
formation ?
Jerry.—We cannot advise you what
to do. We know nothing of your capabilities or of
your adaptability. If you go West you must ex
pect to rough it, to live hard and work hard, and by
being frugal as well as industrious, you are likely
to eventually achieve a competency.
E. N.— The main portions of the pres
©nt Excise Law were enacted by a Republican Leg
islature, but some oi its sections are of ancient date.
Tho Democrats have promised time and again to
modify its most objectionable features, but have
not succeeded in doing so.
Constant Reader.—lt would be im
possible for us to publish the tariff rates on im
ported goods. We have not the space. You will
find books containing the tariff laws at any store
Which deals in law books.
C. R. B.—ln 1847 the candidates for
Mayor wore William V. Brady (Whig) and Sherman
Brownell (Democrat). The following was the vote:
Brady, 21,310; Brownell, 19,867. Brady’s majority,
1,443.
C. Wagner.—“ Tn the graine of crib
bage the cards are played in the following rotation
—4, 4,1, 3, 6. 2 and 5. What is the count for runs ?”
The party that played the 5 spot counts a run of six.
Spritz.—Any first-class physician and
Burgeon of this city will undertake to insure you a
cure of squinting eyes. At the present time this
euro is not considered a difficult operation.
Proprietory Club. —“In the game of
faro there are two bets of S2OO each on ace, and it
comes up a split. How much is the game entitled
to get?” Ono half of tach bet.
Hugh McGovern.—We have no record
Of Mary Anderson over having played tho part ef
Lady Macbeth, and feel quite certain she never es
sayed tho character.
Author.—Address the Librarian of
Congress, giving the name of your play, and en
closing a dollar, and be will send you a certificate
of copyright.
Sufferer. —Dr. Frank Hamilton has
tho reputation of being one of our most skilled phy
sicians in the treatment of nervous afflictions.
V. F. F.—Before undertaking a suit
at law wo adwise you to take tho advice of a good
lawyer. Do not rush hastily into litigation.
Phonography. -Bishop Whateley’s
•• Elements of Logic ” and “ Elements of Rhetoric ”
would be excellent works for you to study.
W. Salter.—The Providence baseball
club held the championship in 1879. At that time
'Georgo Wright was captain.
Old Reader.—The name pf Bertuccio,
tho principal character in “Tho Fool’s Revenge,”
Is pronounced Bertootcio.
T. H. S.—Your best course would be
to apply to the Secretary of the Cooper Union.
Anxious. —It is not against the law of
this State for cousins to marry.
. John Oabbox.—Saw answer to “ Suf
(aw."
■ fltto guilt Ipispatcb.
NEW YORK, JANUARY 11, 1885.
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lished in the United States.
THE CHOICE OF THE RANK AND FILE!
Ths Senatorial contest in this Stats has nar
rowed down to two candidates—William M.
Evarts and Levi P. Morton. While acknowledg
ing that Mr. Morton is a man of ability, and
that his public life is an honorable one, would
it be just were we to declare him the peer of
Mr. Evarts? Wears not saying aught against
Mr. Morton when we assert that we consider
that Mr. Evarts is vastly his superior in all the
qualities which go to form the ideal Senator.
Mr. Morton is a man of ability—Mr. Evarts a
man of genius. Mr. Morton is an excellent com
mercial and business man, but Mr. Evarts com
prehends tho things which tend to promote
commerce, industry and business. Mr. Morton
has considerable experience in public affairs,
but Mr. Evarts has vaster experience than any
man in public life in this country to-day.
Mr. Evarts has been sneeringly called a “ sen
timental statesman ” by the shallow-pated gen
tlemen who manage “ deestricks.” In the early
days of the Republican party Lincoln, Seward,
Chase, Greeley and the other brave souls who
fought against the extension of slavery, wore
reviled as “ sentimental statesmen,” yet through
them the greatest party which this—or any other
country, for that matter—ever knew, was led to
victory. These “ sentimental statesmen ” pre
served tho Union against a determined, brave
and enterprising foe, and they freed four mil
lion human beings from slavery. No Republi
can should think it dishonor to be classed with
Lincoln, Seward, Chase and Greoley, the “ sen
timental statesmen.”
But if Mr. Evarts is merely a “ sentimental
ist” in politics, why have candidates for tho
highest offices, during the past quarter of a
century, eagerly sought his advice, his support
and the potency of his eloquence ? Why have
they treated his opinions with respect and been
guided by his counsel when in office ? We as
sert, without fear of contradiction, that for
twenty-five yeare no other man has done more
or better work for the Republican party than
William M. Evarts. He has always been found
in the thickest of the fray in every contest. He
has never villified his opponents—that was be
neath him—but he has undauntedly defended
the principles of his party and laid bare the
weaknesses of those against whom he was pit
ted. In nearly every Presidential campaign
for twenty-four years he has made the opening
speech on the Republican side, and his speech
has been the key-note of the campaign, tho
source whence smaller men gathered ideas to
deliver in many different forms.
Mr. Evarts is known to every man of intelli
gence in the land, and against tho purity of his
life no one can honestly whisper one word. Is
there one man in all this (great Republic who
thinks that any one would dare approach Wil
liam M. Evarts with an improper proposal ? We
venture to say, not one, be he Republican or be
he Democrat. A man of his genius, of his va
ried knowledge, of his vast experience, and Of
his spotless life, is the fit man to represent the
Empire State in the Senate of tho United States.
Other candidates have their admirers, their
friends and their supporters, but the name of
Evarts is the only one which has aroused en
thusiasm among the rank and file. The “com
mon people,” as Lincoln called them, know the
man, admire him for his genius, respect him
for all his good qualities, and they demand his
election to the United States Senate. The Leg
islature will exhibit wisdom if they give heed to
the wishes of the great mass of Republican
voters of the State of Now York.
THE LOCAL MULDLE.
Tho local political sea is still lashing itself
furiously, and the municipal ship continues to
ride unsteadily upon the troubled waves of bit
ter factional strife. There were some doubts
entertained at one time as to whether the re
cently-appointed Commissioner of Public Works,
Mr. Squire, was a County Democracy or Tam
many Hall adherent. His appointment of Mr.
Smith, a pronounced County Democrat, as Depu
ty Commissioner, has settled the question effec
tually, and the; County Democracy has again
secured a lease of a department that has the
disbursement of about four millions of dollars
annually.
That Mayor Edson and the Tammany Aider
men were hoodwinked when they made Mr.
Squire Commissioner of Public Works, no one
doubts. Various stories are told as to how the
deal was made, but the correct version is as
follows : A prominent County Democrat visited
Mayor Edgon a few days before his term ex
pired, and after admitting the uselessness of
ever succeeding in having Mr. Thompson re
appointed, suggested that his Honor name
some else beside Fitz-John Porter. Mr. Squire’s
name was mentioned, and the Mayor willingly
consented to send in that gentleman’s name.
In the meanwhile an understanding was had
with Mr. Squire, and he pledged himself to the
County Democracy. When his name was an
nounced the Tammany Aldermen were told
that he was the Mayor’s choice, and was a
strong Tammany man. The job was a bold,
clever one, and adroitly managed, and Mr.
Squire was made Commissioner, and Tammany
was euchred. It is true an injunction was
pending at the time, which enjoined the Mayor
from making any nomination and the Board of
Aidermen from confirming. Though those
gentlemen were guilty of contempt, Mr. Squire
was legally made Commissioner, and no power
can remove him.
When Mayor Edson went out of office there
was an interregnum of twelve hours between
his exit and the advent of Mayor Grace. Presi
dent Kirk, of the Board of Aidermen, legally
became Mayor Edson’s successor, and accord
ing to some of the best authority in this coun
try, had a right to make appointments. If
this be so, then his appointment of Col. E. T.
Wood as Corporation Counsel will hold good.
Mr. Lacombe, the present incumbent, refuses
to surrender his office, and the matter is in
statu quo pending the decision of tho Attorney
General.
Of tho appointments made by Mayor Grace
recently, that of Mr. Wm. Pitt Shearman as one
of the Commissioners of Accounts, does not
seem to meet with general approbation. Mr.
Shearman was a protege of Andrew H. Green,
and was in office as Commissioner of Accounts,
being appointed to the position by Mayor Coop
er, when the fraudulent coupons were being
manipulated, and not only failed to detect
and expose the fraud but failed after their dis
covery todrace them or throw any light upon
them. Mr. Shearman was at one time employed
as treasurer of the Erie Railway Company.
Just before his removal from office last year by
Mayor Edson, Mr. Shearman furnished an im
portant official document to a paper in this city,
contrary to the orders of Mayor Edson, and this
act in consequence came near causing the dis
missal of a number of worthy journalists from
their respective papers. This action alone was
enough to damn Mr. Shearman in tho opinion
of any honest man, and it is but fair to presume
that if he would be guilty of committing one
dirty official act, he would be capable of doing
many more.
As will readily be seen the chaotio condition
of municipal affairs is in no lair way as yet of
being properly adjusted, and though Mayor
Grace has the best interests oi the city at heart,
1 he is handicapped by ,a multiplioity of things in
. doing what he honestly desires to do, and until
the clouds of political mistakes and personal
spleen have rolled by, we may expect uo change
whatever.
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JANUARY 11, 1885.
UNDER FALSE COLORS.
A fellow was arrested recently in Brooklyn
for soliciting money for a religious institution
with which ho had no connection. While being
brought to tho station-house tlia fraud pro
tested his innocence and threatened to be
avenged for the indignity ho was placed under.
He was subsequently proven, however, to be a
fraud.
Humanity becomes enraged when reminded
of its hypocrisy, and more particularly is this
true of that portion of mankind which makes a
specialty of sailing under false colors. The lat
ter portion will fairly boil with what has been
termed satirically, moral fervor, and when they
have unwittingly assumed a snug-fitting gar
ment that the world well knows the texture of,
how spotless is the cloak with which they osten
tatiously cover tho meaner fabric.
If occasionally a satirist or a philosopher shall
stoop to expose hypocrisy, why should the
cleanly and tho virtuous rail at him? How
many people in this flippant ago, when little
that does not bear the stamp of flippancy is no
ticed, ever read between the lines? Must a
people that boasts its culture wait for critics
and reviewers to taste their mental pabulum
and put a stamp upon it, as is done upon their
medicines, before they are ready to speak above
their breath concerning that which echoes their
convictions ? Bold writers of the past have had
the admiration of their contemporaries, and it
has deepened into the loving respect of after
ages, but when their ideas are clothed in the
language and illustrated with the follies of this
decade, society and the preachers are outraged.
WHO CAN ANSWER?
A “ Reader” sends us the following clipping
from the Philadelphia Inquirer, with a request
to give it answer. We are unable to do so, but
present Mr. Tevis’s' letter, so that any reader
aware of the facts cau answer his questions:
No. 6 Avbxue Fbiedland, Paris, )
December 23d, 1884. ji
7b the Editor of the Inquirer:
Siu—Can you or any of your readers help me
to elucidate a mystery?
It has been stated to me by au officer who
was there present—
First. That at the battle of'Gaines Mills, Juno
27,1862, a regiment—tho Fourth New Jersey,
Colonel Simpson—was taken from tho command
of Brigadier-General George W. Taylor, First
Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps, by an A.
D. C. of the commander-m-chief, led into tho
woods, and there captured in toto, the A. D. C.
who directed the march of the column alone
escaping.
Second. That tho A. D. C. in question was tho
Count de Paris, then on the staff of General
McClellan, and that said Count de Paris,.hav
ing been requested by said officer to explain
how ho did it, has never deiguod to reply.
Third. That the incident, but without men
tion of tho name of the A. D. C., is related in
Brigadier-General Georgo W. Taylor’s report of
the battle, dated Ith of July, 1832, aud address
ed to Captain H. C. Rogers, chief of staff to
General Slocum, who commanded the division.
This incident, told me in a private letter writ
ten last year to a friend, was published by him
recently, and has created a mighty sensation
among the Orleanists, who have produced let
ters from Generals McClellan and Keyes, and
from one Whittier, certifying to tho courage of
their prince, but evading the question. Who
was the man who took the order iu executing
which Colonel Simpson's regiment was cap
tured ?
Probably some survivor of the Fourth New
Jersey, or some one who was connected with
the brigade or the division staff may know some
thing about the affair, and, if so, will he kindly
give me some information, either directly, or
with your permission through the columns of
the Inquirer, Faithfully yours,
Cabboll Tevis.
STILL THEY COME.
The cry goes up everywhere that Chinese and
Mormons, despite treaties, laws, and public
sentiment adverse thereto, are flooding the
land, and will iu time become the ruling ele
ment. Somebody has said that tho United
States is apparently the only country in the un
iverse which is unable to regulate its own laws,
and protect its own social system. If the Ha
waiian Kingdom adopted a broad line of policy
it would enforce it; but the United States, being
the experimental field of cranks, fanatics, labor
exploiters, monopolists and land-grabbers, is
without any broad policy, and is treated with
derision by all communities under the sun. It
is about time Americans called a halt, and re
flected calmly upon the inevitable tendency of
the loose-jointed system of administration at
present in vogue. Tho permanence of our insti
tutions may not be in absolnted anger, but their
working is being seriously impeded, and their
partial derangement is a great evil.
Ab to the practices in this country we have
already said considerable. We propose, how-'
ever, to say more. As to the Chinese, their
riotous actions in some sections of the country
are simply disgraceful. Such outbreaks would
be common in New York but for the strength of
the police force. The Chinese are rapidly be
coming perfectly regardless of our laws, and all
that keeps them in check is fear of the police
man’s club. As it is, they manage to violote
many of the laws with impunity. They fortify
their houses for the carrying on of unlawful
occupations, and in a measure defy tho authori
ses. Those of them engaged in the nefarious
business in this city, when arrested, generally
find some convenient lawyers, who immediately
sue out writs of habeas corpus, on the ground
that opium joints are a concomitant of the Chi
nese belief. In the meantime, these people
with their more obnoxious neighbors are pour
ing in upon us, and, “ what are we going to do
about it ?” is the important question.
Altogether too Absubd.—Tho Brit
ish Medical Journal recently entered into an
elaborate discussion of the question: Are sui
cides lunatics ? It finally concludes that it is
one of those questions no fellow can possibly
find out. In a strictly legal sense it requires a
sound mind to commit self murder, but as the
term is commonly used it includes the sane
and insane. Referring to American suicides,
tho writer remarks that “.the reflection that by
persistently remaining alive a large capital
sum, which would become available when a
life policy closed, remains in the hands of alien
proprietors, appears to be peculiarly aggravat
ing to the mind of many a Yankee speculator.”
This is mistaking a joke for dead earnest. No
doubt a man on suicide intent sometimes tries
to make it appear that he was the victim of a
fatal accident, lest his family should lose the
insurance on his life, but that Americans kill
themselves on speculation is too absurd to talk
about.
Honor which Belongs to the Cow.—
The facetious paragraphs which we find from
time to time in the daily press about the hy
drant and pump in connection with the milk of
cows, are all very well, but really the honor for
the vast dairy business in this country belongs
to the cow. When we consider that there are
over two thousand million dollars invested in
this business in this country, our estimate tot
the cow rapidly ascends. Millions are con
sumed annually in sustaining these dairies, and
700,000 men and 1,000,000 horses are required
in their management. But the value of their
annual product, in sales of milk alone, exceeds
$810,000,000, which gives tho dairy business a
much higher position among the industries of
our country than has usually been awarded it.
A Victory fob Oleomargarine.—
There wore a number of cases on the calender of
the Special Sessions Thursday of men charged
with selling oleomargarine, alias rendered fat,
for butter. It seems on a conviction in a triai
held in this court, an appeal was taken,
aud because of the appeal there are to be no
more trials for this fraud. Is it sense, that be
cause one man thinks that he was not legally
convicted, all others should have privilege to
carry on a fraudulent business ? It seems com
mon sense that every tub (of oleomargarine)
' should stand on its own bottom.
“ My love, what magic spell is thrown
Upon your face ? Its charm I own.
Whence camo thy pure aud pearly teeth ?
Thy rosy lips ? Thy perfumed breath 1"
She said, in accents sweet and clear,
••’Tis only Sozodont, my dear,"
The atmosphere of love is a pure, sweet
breath. This desideratum is one of the results
of using Sozodont, which not only invigorates
and preserves the teeth, but renders tho mouth
! as fragrant as a rose.
Pure Firn lustiness.— The diabolical
, fiondishness with which some natures are pos
, sessod seems in many instances to be incredi
ble. There is no mistake, however, about the
nature of Jos Sheldon, of Chicago, a lad of fif
teen years. A thirteen-year-old son of a Mrs.
Umbrecht was returning from school on Wed
nesday last, when he was overtaken by Sheldon
and another boy, and while the latter seized
and held him, Sheldon applied a. liquid to the
face of the struggling boy, which burned into
liis face, and is said by the physicians attend
ing him to have been vitriol. When young
Umbrecht returned home the skin on the entire
right side of his face peeled off, and left ex
posed the unprotected flesh beneath. The face
of the child remains a blistered and discolored
mass. Investigation shows that the fiend Shel
don and his confederate have attempted tho
same thing on several other school-boys during
the past two weeks.
Sending Them Off in Good Style.—
The flamboyant style in which the press of this
and other cities were accustomed soma time
ago to refer to the demise of any prominent
person has gradually died out. Nowadays
reference is made simply in good old plain En
glish. In South Carolina the case is different.
When a man of any note dies there, the re
porter remarks that “as tho cortege that bore
his remains to his homo took its slow way along
the streets, the western sky was lit up with the
grandest and most gorgeous sunset I ever saw.
It seemed as if the heavens were lighted to
honor his coming. It seemed that the skies
were illuminated to guide his pure soul to its
eternal resting iplace in the mansions of the
blest. The very firmament did him honor.” In
the name of tho Prophet, bosh I
Somewhat Appropriate.— Aiderman
De Lacy is somewhat of a wag among his fel
lows in the Board of Aidermen. Tho latest
perpetration ot the Aiderman seems to be
somewhat appropriate in these days of noisy
prohibition. He was writing in tho Aidermen’s
room tho other day, when he was disturbed by
a noisy procession accompanied by a brass
band. “Whatf’s all that?” inquired the City
Father, impatiently. “A temperance proces
sion,” answered one ol his friends. “ What in
fernal rot!” exclaimed De Lacy. “ I don’t
make such a row as that when I get sober.” It
was not long before the point of the joke was
seen, and it is unnecessary to say it was heart
ily appreciated.
aud (Bu&k
A VAPOR BATH.
Two newsboys sat in front of the Dispatch
office a few days ago. Their clothes were as
full of holes as a post-office.
“Say, Jim ! where yer goin’ tor dine ter day?
Delmonickors or der Hotel Bumswiok ?”
“ Oh, I dunno ! Think I’ll take a run up ter
Wanderbilt’s. Where you goin* ?”
“ Dunno. Mebbe I’ll take my company, an’
drop in at the Astors.”
Wo followed them, and finally found them
seated com'ortably over the street grating of a
neighboring coffee and cake saloon.”
“You look hungry,” wc said, why don’t
you go down stairs and fill in.”
“ Cashier runned away. Banks busted, and
der receiver's only got nuff left fur himself.”
“ But it won’t do you any good to sit there.”
“ Say, Bill I D’yer hoar die galoot ? Says it
won’t do us enny good ter set here 1”
“ Guess he’s off his roller. Come hear an’ git
a snifter ov this !”
We walked over and smelled the aroma of
ham, eggs, coffee and other commodities as it
floated upward through tho grating.
“D’yer ketch on?” asked Bill. “Dat’s as
good as wo kin do when wo's busted. Dat’s wot
we calls a corn - beef-an’-beans-wapor-bath.
Stick ter dat an’ it’ll make yer so fat dat yer
can’t see der bac'k ov yer nock.”
Verily, contentment gathers no beggars on
whatsthis!
A FEW ROLLER RINKLES.
Passaic, Jan. 9.
There was a young lady named Bella,
She went to the rink with her fella,
Their skates slipped from undah,
And ho yelled, “Oh, thundah I”
When she made a divan of his smellah.
When a man and his wife have an executive
session now-a-days, as soon as he is able to ap
pear in public he tells his friends that he’s
“ Bin takin’ a hack at the rollers.”
Local druggists report a boom in the arnica
and court-plasters since tho rinks rolled into
town.
He was loaded up to the muzzle with benzine,
and was endeavoring to crawl home when he
fell into a cellar-way.
“ Fevins sake !” ho yelled. “ Here, boy,
takem off ! I zoughter known better’n ter pur
rem on wizout nailin’ ’er rollers fas’.”
First Man (on crutches) —“ ’Lo I ’Smatter ?
You look all broke up. Been joining a college
foot-ball club ?”
Second Man (on crutches) —“No’p.”
First Man—“ Umpire ?”
Second Man—“ No’p.”
First Man—“ Bin gittin’ married ?”
Second Man—“ No’p.”
First Man—“ What in thunder’s tho matter
then?”
Second Man—“ Been opening a skating-rink.
What’s smatter with you ?”
“So’m I.”
It is said that bustles will be much larger
this season. Hope so. Some of those skinny
girls nearly cut a fellow in two when they come
down on him unawares.
The “ latest craze ” has caused more bald
headed men and women than tho world wots of.
When you want to prove, conclusively, whether
a man or woman is a “ rinker,” observe tho
backs of their heads. If their hair is all there,
they’re not linkers. If not, they are. Close
observation is necessary, for many paste ear
muffs and sections of sofa stuffing over the bald
places.
A bald-beaded man. filled with care,
When asked if he’d been on a tear.
Said: “ I never drink,
But sometimes I rink,
And that’s where I scraped off my hair.”
If the Land Leaguers want to get rid of
Queen Victoria they should introduce skating
rinks on the other side.
SMALL CHANGE.
She had just finished knitting the
fifth flannel shirt. “Ah,” she sighed, “I’m
through at last I” “ Why don’t you make
more ?” he asked, over his paper. “No ; I may
never he able to wear them. “Why?” “I
may die before next Winter, and then I’ll have
no use for them.” “ That’s so,” ho said. “ You
wouldn’t have any use for flannel shirts then.
Why not make thin ones?” And then there
was a silence that made the cat leave the room.
“What does I. O. O. F. mean ?” asks
a “Constant Reader.” As wo haven’t the time
to communicate with “ Uncle John ” Simons,
“Constant Reader” must take our personal
construction of it. It means I’m Olways Off—
probably to tho Lodge. Don’t you see that the
Offers are always referred to as “111. Broth
ers ?”
We see by the'“ads” that “French
Balls” are becoming quite prevalent. We
should, after having viewed the display at the
Charity Ball, think that this was rather cold
weather for stripping in a ball-room, if the
French women are as much worse than Ameri
can woman as they are claimed to be.
David Davis now appears to be sorry
that he didn’t take a little longer time in get
ting off the fence. He might have delayed a
month or so, and the world would have attrib
uted it to the idea that he was spitting on his
hands before taking another lift.
Two young men were fined twenty-five
dollars each for shooting a duck out of season,
somewhere up the Hudson, on Tuesday. We
suppose they protested. They should have
done so, for they were probably aiming in an
entirely different direction.
Mrs. Julia Wabd Howe, in charge of
the Woman’s Department of the New Orleans
Fizzle, has announced her determination “ to
throw up everything connected with it.” If the
affair doesn’t collaps when she “ throws up”
Mrs. Howe probably will.
Andrew Jackson’s granddaughter is
Buffering from poverty. The backwoods YOUra
»twud to W
So the new Commissioner of Public
Works is a medium, and can lift pianos and
things with his hands tied behind him! Well,
so long as he lifted Cubeb O’Thompson out of
office, wo don’t know as wo’ll say anything
against him.
A New York widow is suing an eighty
five-year-old Boston widower lor SIOO,OOO for
breach of promise. Old rascals should marry
when they promise to. It isn’t hard to got rid
of their brides afterward.
The Faculty of the University of
Pennsylvania have decided to build a hospital on
the grounds of the institution “for the treat
ment ot domestic animals.” This probably in
cludes the athletic mob.
Gbovbb Cleveland’s letter of resigna
tion contained but ten words. If he continues
this brevity in his messages, every space-writer
in the country will greet him with three cheers
and a hosannah.
Let us have free trade without delay.
It’s blamed near time that some of the starch
was taken out of these tailors who insist upon
dunning a fellow for payment for a worn out
suit of clothes.
The World, of Wednesday, published
undress pictures of the society belles who at
tended the Charity Ball. Quite a bare-back
show. They all looked as if they wore getting
ready for bod.
The days are gradually lengthening
and the nights are becoming slowly but surely
shorter, and tho young man stretches his call
at the morning end in order to keep up with the
procession.
Oh, Gilderoy Punk
Ho got very drunk,
And he didn’t know how to act.
He should know Jersey lightning
Is extremely tight’ning—
We’ve tried it ourself, for a fact.
A correspondent wants a “ good
character for a masquerade ball.” Got down on
your hands and knees, spread out your ears,
aud appear as au ice boat.
A religious paper hints that Bob In
gersoll is gradually inching around toward reli
gion. Editor probably thinks that a h’inch is
as good as a h’ell.
Coroner Messemer says that a recent
“ subject ” died of “ capillary bronchitis.” Had
tubercle down and comb his hair, we presume,
and caught cold.
There are, it is said, two thousand
armed Socialists in Chicago, awaiting an (up
rising. Somebody’d ought to uprise them for
ten years apiece.
A “ chin-holder ” has been recently
invented by a musician for the use of his fellow
violin players. How would it do to try ’em on
tho Aiderman?
The Sun cat ate up the Cleveland let
ter and thus prevented its publication. Noth
ing but an animal with nine lives could swallow
it and live.
We never took much stock in Spirit
ualism but we hear so much talk about how
the Dead March in Saul that we are almost
converted.
Mayor Grace has been busy, ever
since he took the chair, in marrying intrepid
couples. Timo for tho ministers to get up a
strike.
They’ve had another Orange outbreak
in New Foundland. They'd ought to be com
pelled to chuck ’om in the middle of the street.
A female thief was recently arrested
while escaping with a clock in her bustle.
Backward, turn backward, O time in thy flight!
Wun Lung and Sing Foo ore now in
training in San Francisco for a slugging match.
Wun Lung probably wants to reduce his .quota.
A New Haven ex-bootblack is now re
ceiving a salary of $5,000 as a jockey. He’s
bound to shine in his new capacity.
Thb Newark Board of Aidermen are
suing a local paper for libel. Must be getting
ready for the Spring elections.
New Jersey has a new style of pump
kin called “ Beecher,” because tho vines crawl
ed into the servant girl’s room.
“ Hired girls ” are so called because
so many of them get hired when lighting the
kerosene contaminated fire.
The newspapers are so lambasting the
new Governor that he’ll probably find it up-
Hill work.
There’s a reason why a roller skater is
like Balaam but we aren’t going to tell, so now
there!
New York City had five-Mayors in
one day. And yet she stud it.
Zola gets a franc a line for every
story he writes. Dirt cheap.
After the New Year’s call comes the
New Year’s crawl.
The New Orleans Exposition is said to
be N O good.
Marshal Wright appears to be Mar
shall wrong.
Pro boneo publico—a museum of
anatomy.
The whisky ring—the rainbow on the
nose.
Wold
GOSSIP ON “ THE SQUARE.”
The complete pbogramme arranged for the first
two weeks of the engagement of Edwin Booth, at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, beginning January 19th,
comprise seven plays and presents the tragedian in
eight characters. The first week will be given up
to “ Othello,” “ The Iron Chest,” “ Macbeth,” and
“ Ruy Blas,” and the second to “Hamlet,” “The
Apostate,” and “Don Caesar de Bazan.” Mr.
Montgomery Field, and Mr. Chas. H. Thayer, his
business representative, are doing all in their power
to make this engagement a most brilliant success.
The Dramatic company of the Boston Museum
that will cooperate with Edwin Booth at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, includes Miss Annie Clarke, Mr.
Charles Barron, Mr. Frederick Hudson, Mr. George
Watson, and a very pretty and pleasing actress,
Miss Blanche Thompson, formerly of the Strand
Theatre, London.
“ The Iron Chest,” which Edwih Booth will bring
forward on January 21st, is a remarkably strong
tragedy, which has kept the stage since 1769, when
it was first done at Covent Garden Theatre, Lon
don, by John Philip Kemble. Sir Edward Morti
mer, the central figure in the play, is a type of
honor, profoundly covetous of reputation, burden
ed with remorse of conscience. He has under ter
rible provocation committed a murder. Appre
hensive of discovery, he betrays his own secret, in
his endeavor to ruin an innocent man to whom
that secret had become known.
Many tragic actors in time past played Sir Ed
ward Mortimer, but the most famous performer of
the part was the elder Booth. The piece was based
on a novel entitled “ Caleb Williams,” written by
Godwin, the Philosopher (whose daughter became
the wife of the poet, Shelley). “ The Apostate,” in
which Mr. Booth plays Pescara, will occupy the
Fifth Avenue stage for two performances, January
30 and 31st.
Miss Annie Russell, of the Madison Square Thea
tre, is again around after a somewhat severe and
protracted illness.
Her next appearance in public will take place
some time during the present month, when Mr.
Thornton will produce a play called “Broken
Hearts,” at a special matinee at the Madison Square
Theatre. On this occasion Miss Russell will create
the part of Varie, the heroine and ingenue of the
pi»y.
Minnie Palmer is now making a sort of triumphal
tour through the West, and will lay siege to Cincin
nati to-morrow night. The residents of thia city
will have one more chance to see “ My Sweetheart,”
as Miss Palmer begins a limited engagement at the
Union Square Theatre, April 27.
Harry Mann’s “Parlor Match” Company is re
ported as doing a paying business in the Wo«t. They
appear in this city in April.
•♦May Blossom” with Miss Cay van, Mr. Maginley,
Mr. Wheelock and others of the Madison Square
Theatre Company, will be presented at Niblo’s in a
fortnight. The success of the play everywhere has
equaled the first year of “ Hazel Kirke.”
That clever comedian, Jacques Kruger, will be
seen in the Mount Morris Theatre this week as John
Antonio Binks, an impecunious photographer in
“ Preamßf or Fun in a Photograph Gallery.”
We Didn’t Do It.—lt wasn’t us. It was tho other
fellow. If it had been us we would own up and
bend the rheumatic hinges of our knees that for
giveness might follow abject apology. But as wo
didn’t do it wo will explain. When the eminent
tragedian, Mr. Dan Harkins, was announced to ap
pear in his favorite character of Macbeth in sup
port of Madame Ristori, we secured the-sorvices of
a representative to criticise the performance. We
supposed he was an expert in theatrical matters.
Alas ! too late—when the little cherubs who sit up
aloft in the composition room had, in the lucid in
tervals between their fits of profanity, “set up"
the copy.we discovered that our representative had
formerly been a Herald critic.
True to the traditions of the Herald he had mis
taken a bar.room for the theatre and therefore wrote
up a critcism of an actor who didn’t play Macbeth
on that or any other evening during the week.
Since this characteristic exploit he has been re
engaged on the Herald and Potter will have to take
a back seat.
And Mr. Harkins is after him with a double bar
relled shot gun loaded to the muzzle with heavier
“slugs ” than ever entered the unlucky represen
tative's digestive region.
Mr. and Mrs. MoKee Rankin have been ten
dered a complimentary benefit by the managers of
this city. It will take place at Wallack’s Theatre
next Thursday afternoon, the 15th, when the fol.
lowing programme will be given : The Union Square
Theatre Company in “One Touch of Nature;"
Henry S. Dixoy in songs, and his imitations of Hen
ry Irving; Mr. Wallack’s company in a comedy;
Mr.’E. C. James in songs; the Madison Square Com
pany in an act of the “Private Secretary;’’Miss
Alma Stuart Stanley in songs and male impersona
tions; Frank Lincoln in numerous sketches; Har
rigan and Hart in a sketch; Mr. and Mrs. McKee
Rankin, and Mr. and Mrs. George S. Knight in a
scene from “ Over the Garden Wall."
Genee's successful opera comique, “Nana," is to
be the first production at the Casino, under Rudolph
Aronson's management, early in the Spring. Hein
rich Conried, who has been engaged as stage man
ager, is at present in Vienna, whore the costumes
are being designed.
New Park Theatre.—Out of the ashes
into the new life. Beyond the reach of the ghost of
Stewart and the contracts of Hilton, Harrigan and
Hart resume their season’s work—the brief inter
val of their enforced disappearance from the stage
having been devoted to the enjoyment of such in
spiriting refreshments as searching for a now loca
tion and daily and nightly rehearsals of their latest
addition to the long series of successes of the past—
“ McAllister’s Legacy."
“Can we take what remains to us out of the ru
ins?" was the query of Ned Harrigan, propounded
to the generous owner of their late theatre.
“Yes, take out your truck," was the consolitary
answer. He did remove it.
On Monday evening last once again the company
of the Theatre Comique camo to the front, and
“McAllister's Legacy" was given its initial repre
sentation.
Everybody who is anybody, or claims to be a
somebody of more or less political, legal, social, art
istic, literary or dramatic value, was there. The
auditorium of this storage house of the wooden
Shakespeare has never, since its conversion from a
live fish market and den of devil fish, had such a
packing of humanity.
There wasn’t room enough left after eight o’clock
in the balcony for an usher to tread on his own
corns. Down stairs the chief usher wrung himself
out as if ho were a wet dish rag, and young Gould
looked like a demoralized clothes pin that had lost
its head.
A largo detachment of the Seventh Regiment, in
full undress uniform of expansive shirt fronts,
swallow-tail coats, white neckties and india-rubber
lungs, occupied divers seats in the orchestra, and
made things lively with their vocal demonstra
tions, in greeting the various members of the com.
pany as they successively appeared.
Mr. Ed Harrigan spoke a little piece full of
thankfulness; Tony Hart followed suit, and Johnny
Wild trumped in with a full hand. Mrs. Teamans
also responded with a series of happy smiles, whi h
sent the Seventh Regiment fellows into a delirium
of ecstacy.
Dave Braham mado no speech, but the quivering
of his violin bow, as ho raised it to commence the
overture, expressed the condition of his mind and
the overflow of thankfulness which choked his ut
terance.
At the close of the first act a very largo violin case
camo on the stage and led Mr. Abe Hummel vis-a
vis with Braham. Mr. Hummel made a few re
marks in which George Washington and Tiny Tim
were specially remembered. Then Mr. H. presented
Dave with the violin, which is something less than
six thousand years old, to replace the one lost in the
late firo by the parent of “ The Babies on Our
Block."
“McAllister’s Legacy" is—with the revision and
pruning given it since the first performance—
one of the brightest of Mr. Harrigan’s productions.
Of course it retains all the adherance to the phases
of local life which have formed the staple and en
sured the success of its predecessors; there are the
same wild hilarity, rapidity of action ; the same
portraitures of character, distinctive in their indi
viduality and in their humorous peculiarities ; the
same adroit construction, which, out of a small
thread of plot, elaborates a wonderful deal of inci
dent and illustrations of familiar personalities into
the compact dialogue and business of a three act
farce.
There is enough material in it out of which to
create three or four farces.
Each one of the leading members of the company
seems to have been provided with his part as closely
fitting as a coat made to order upon the rule of “no
fit—no pay—satisfaction guaranteed."
On the first night the curtain went down on the
last act—which is an admirable and hilariously up
roarious, and cleverly realistic travestie of the busi
ness of the stock exchange—at nearly twelve o’clock.
Since then the close is at elevon.
The scenic settings by Mr. Witham are effective
and appropriate.
Mr. Dave Braham’s new songs of “Pat and his
Little Brown Mare," “Blow, the Bellows Blow,"
“Mister Dooley’s Geese," “ Molly," and “Oh my,
How we Pose," were encored again and again.
Take it for all in all, “ McAllister’s Legacy ” may
be regarded as a success. There has been scarcely
standing room at any performance during the week.
Madison Square Theatre. —“ Can I
see Mr. Palmer ?’*
Boy in bcx-offlce—lXo, sir; he’s out."
Querist— Can I see Mr. Frohman ?"
Boy (as aforesaid) —“ No, sir; he’s just come in."
Querist— “Can I see Mr. Mallory ?"
Boy —No, sir; he’s off."
Querist— “Can I see the treasurer ?"
Boy— “ He’s never in. sir."
Querist (desperately)—“ Can I see the ‘ Private
Secretary ?’"
Boy— “ You can—for two dollars, a dollar,’n’’af
era dollar. ‘Private Sec’s ’ always in—for business
purposes—here’s your pasteboard."
And the “Private Secretary" will be in—“for
business " —with st anding room privileges, until the
robins nest again, or later. Matinees on Saturday.
Fifth Avenue Theatre.—Mestayer’s
musical absurdity has during the past two weeks
attracted the largest audiences ever seen in this
theatre during the present season, and furnished
more than the usual quantity of laughter for its
audiences. “We, Us & Co." with the ponderous
Mestayer and the eccentric and grotesque Kendall,
have, from a managerial standpoint, “ caught the
town," and the amount of shekels taken at the box
office nightly has astonished Mr. Russell, the mana
ger of the company. Miss Theresa Vaughn also
comes in for a fair share of praise lor her singing
and attractive dressing. “ We, Us & Co." can only
be seen during the present week and must be with
drawn in the midst of its success owing to previous
contracts made for the appearance of Mr. Booth
and others at this house.
Fourteenth Street Theatre.—Mr.
Colville will to morrow evening reopen his theatre,
and Messrs. Mauberry and Overton’s company will
be seen in the sensational drama of “ The Wages of
Sin," with Mrs. Agnes Booth—the best general
actress dow upon the American stage—in the lead
ing female role.
This drama was presented here last season, and
attracted large audiences. It will be illustrated
with new scenic settings, and all the effects which
attended its former production. Matinees will be
given on Wednesday and Saturday.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre—“ The curfew
tolls the knell of parting day," and then the Knight
begins to play; or in other phrase, and to come down
from Gray and his little churchyard line of war
bling to plainer facts at less than cost price, Mr. and
Mrs. George Knight will enter upon the joys of
their second week’s engagement here to-morrow
evening, and will get “ Over the Garden Wall"
every night and at the Tuesday and Friday
matinees.
On January 19th Mr. Billy Birch, aided and abet
ted by A. C. Moreland, will revive some of the old
time specialties of the San Francisco minstrels.
Wallack’s Theatre.—To the Victor
belong the spoils. Therefore it is that “ Victor Du
rand" is bringing in unto itself, with a fair divvy
for the house and its author, a nightly showing of
profit, and to the audiences a reasonable amount of
gratification—mental and otherwise.
And Charley Moss smiles sweetly at thq Saturday
matinee,
Grand House.—“ There, th ere,”
said the mild-eyc Tillottson yesterday afternoon as
the curtain went u,' 3 on matinee performance.
“Look at that—its’ bu it means money—and
that's what we’ve been r. n 8 in—piles of it all the
week. It’s Jaques Krugei,”* the Photographer of
"Dreams," and he’s madam? lo shekels and more
people happy this week than Sarony and all the
rest of our photographers of have in th®
last month. And don't you elimina. from your
memory.
“If Kruger can’t make fun in a 'PhotogWh Gal
lery,’ nobody can."
And then Tilly, after interviewing a deadbeat?/ad
crushing him with the majesty of his frown, turned
and—with a smile so ravishingly sweet that it caused
a couple of young ladies to take a back fall out of a
faint—pointed to the bottom of the programme.
“And there—there’s business for this week—gaze
upon it. ‘Lotta—Little Lotta—our Lotta’—as De
nise do Flavigny in * Mamzello Nitouohe.’ And her
company. New scenery, dresses—all the original
music—and extra large orchestra. Matinees as
usual. Eh, what’s that?" This query was ad
dressed to th® door-keeper. “No, sir, we do not
admit preachers at half price—no seats on the half
shell here."
And further deponenbsayeth not.
National Theatre.—lt ia not at all
improbable that within a few seasons Manager
Heumann, if ho adheres to the policy which has
guided him in the past, will make the National one
of the most notable of the popular-price regular
theatres of the metropolis. It is now one of the
few east side houses which have, through careful
management, become family resorts. It yet in
cludes in its programme a variety olio, but it can be
readily soon that Mr. Heumann will—proceeding
slowly but surely—guide his host of patrons to the
desire for a performance which will be purely
dramatic. He is already negotiating engagements
with several stars of eminence, who will make their
first appearance upon an east side stage.
This week, commencing to-morrow evening, Mr.
D. H. Harkins will appear in the title role of “Jack
Cade," a play written by the late. Hon. R. T. Con
rad, of Philadelphia, especially for A. A. Addams,
the tragedian. Owing to certain vagaries of Ad
dams at the time, which incapacitated him from
playing anything, the author tendered the work to
Mr. Edwin Forrest, who made the character of the
Kentish bondman and the play famous. It was not
written for Mr. Forrest.
Mr. Harkins will be supported by the entire Na
tional company.
The variety olio preceding the dramatic perform
ance will include the Big Four; Miss St. George
Hussey; the sketch specialists, tho Maxwells, and
the original palace car porters, Messrs. Clarke and
Williams.
Special concerts will be given this afternoon and
evening. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day.
Theatre. —‘< The Devil**
Auction " closed its week’s series of representations
last evening. It attracted numerous audiences and
was received with demonstrations of approbation
by the patrons of this house.
To-morrow evening Mr. Gas Williams, the Gor
man dialect comedian, will commence a week's en
gagement. He will bo seen in the role of the good
natured old police captain, John Mishler, in his
last play, “ Captain Mishler."
This drama has achieved success since its pro
duction in this city, being amended by Mr. Williams
until it is almost new. His performance of Mishler
is the most commendable work he has yet done.
The new songs and specialties introduced by him
are very taking. Tho supporting company is un
usually good. Matinees on Wednesday and’ Satup’-
day.
Union Square Theatre.—Shook anil
Collier are fellow-citizens regarded as paragons of
modesty, and A1 eopper-toed, bevil-edged honor and
morality, and yet they make a public boast and’
persistent advertisement of the fact that they; col
lectively and individually, are running “Threo
Wives."
And the “Three Wives," with “one touch of
Nature" —you see Nature always gets in, or gets
left—are a source ot great comfort and profit to S.
& C-, and there is no likelihood of a separation' for
some time to come.
Matinees as usual.
Niblo’s Garden.—“ Fedora ” no more;
Last evening Miss Davenport closed her very suc
cessful engagement in the presence of a large
audience.
To-morrow evening and for the week Messrs. Har
rison and Gourlay will be seen with their
in their familiar and hilarious “farcical rush " of
“Skipped by the Light of the Moon."
“On Monday, January 19th, there will bo “some
more fun," which is known as a “Bunch of Keys."
Matiness Wednesday and Saturday.
The Casino.—Last evening the final,
performance of the revived “ Prince Methusalem "
was given. The audience was not as uncomforta
bly large as it was discouragingly small.
To-morrow evening the comic opera, in three
acts, of “Apajune, the Water Sprite "—music by.
Millocker—the libretto adapted very freely by the
ever blooming Sydney Rosenfeld, will bo given its
first representation. The cast will include Mathilde •
Cottrelly, Belle Archer, Lilly Post, and Messrs.
Francis Wilson, Will. S. Rising, Herbert Archer, Jay
Taylor, and ethers. The scenic sets by Messrs.
Hoyt and Maeder. The costumes will be new and
appropriate.
For this evening’s concert Mr. Aronson announces
the first appearance id New York of the pianist,Mas
ter Leopold Godowsk’,. who has but recently arrived
irom Warsaw. Godowskl is but fourteen years of
age. He has several letters from Rubinstein, iu
which the great pianist speaks of the youth in tho
highest terms.
Miss Belle Cole and the Casino orchestra will as
sist.
New York Museum.—Ths manager,
Louis Hickman, has arranged a very pleasing show
for the coming week. In the curiosity, hail will be
seen the German giant. Captain Vreck, who stands
eight feet two inches in hight. It is the captain’s
first appearance in America, and he appears at each
stage performance in a lightning musket drill,
using a musket that weighs 155 pounds. The forty
pound beaty and living (skeleton, Miss Ida Gray,
will be seen for the last week, as also the tiny
midgets. Major Littlefinger and wife. Beside,
these mentioned a large number of other curi
osities are on exhibition, and a stage performance
is given hourly. The usual sacred concerts will be
given to-day.
Daly’s Theatre.—“Love on Crutches”
—and but little diminution, if any, in the size of.
the audiences. This sort of work—so excellently
constructed by Mr. Daly from the German original
—came in the right time, for its frivolity, hilarity
and effervescent action are in accord with the popu
lar taste.
The usual matinees on Wednesday and Saturday*.
Koster & Bial’s Concert Hall.—An;
unusually fine musical programme will be produced;
at this popular resort this evening. The popular
favorite, Marie Vanoni, will sing her very successful'
song, “Down went tho Captain," and other choice
selections, including Judic’s latest favorite,. “La.
Cosaque." Miss Alice Raymond will render, a re*
pertoiro of choice cornet solos, and tho funny favor
ites, Leon and Cushman, will amuse the audienca
with their grotesque delineations.
Jesse Williams’ famous orchestra will, give their
usual Sunday concert. Tho greatest novelty of the
age, the Bedouin Arabs, the sons of the Soudan,
fresh from tho desert, will open on Monday, evening
in an astonishing performance of tho East.
Cromwell’s Art Entertainment—Pro
fessor Cromwell will give this evening another of tha
series of his magnificent illustrations.of the cities of
the Old World, the subject being “ Paris—its Past
and Present." This is an entertainment which de
serves the largest favor and the most ample recog
nition of its artistic merit from the public. Wera
it to receive the encouragement which would war
rant Professor Cromwell in making it a permanent
institution, it would be greatly to the credit and
benefit of the public.
Eden Muses.—There was the usual
children's matinee at the Eden Musee yesterday
afternoon. Miss Linda de Costa and Master Juliua
Wilmark sang delightfully in the presence of a very
large audience and were heartily applauded. Th®-,
next matinee will occur next Saturday afternoon.
The artistic attractions of the place are as popu
lar as ever. The latest additions, the “ Story oX a*.
Crime" and “Garfield’s Deathbed," aro viewed,
daily by great numbers of people. So are the cham<
ber of horrors, the group of crowned heads and th®,
other features of the place.
It should be remembered that on Sunday's th®
Musee is thrown open to the public for tha low
price of 25 cents, half the regular rate of admission'
This is done for the benefit of those who are em<
ployed during the week and have but little time fol
recreation.
Theiss’s Alhambra. —Mlle. Rosa Mar
liana; tha "Twilight Quartette." and "Vienna,
Nightingales," will be heard at each performance,
during the present week. Added to these tiieor
chestra will repeat an attractive series of selection®
from tho works of the most popular composers, uni
all the instrumental soloists will contribute their
share to tho entertainment of tho hosts of patron*
of this notable resort. Special COHSKtd UtiU lie &i»ea
this ftiteruooa sad