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Henby T.—Mariana Charlotte de Cor
flay d’Armans, was born at St. Saturnin des
Lignerets (France), July 28, 1768, and was guillo
tined in Paris July 17, 1793. She achieved fame
during the Reign of Terror by stabbing to death
Marat, one of the most blood-thirsty of the wretches
who then ruled France. On the morning of July
13, 1793, having purchased a knits in the Palais
Royal, she called upon Marat, who then resided in a
gloomy house in the Rue des Cordelieres. She was
refused admittance. She called again at half-past 7
o'clock the same evening, when with some aim
eulty she gained admittance to Marat, who was
faking a bath. Ho listened to a report which she
gave him of the doings of the G . l . r I ® ndl ®J? 1 ’
down their names remarked with b smile, Within
a week they wiil all go to the guillotine. Drawing
the knife, which she had concealed in her bosom,
«he plunged it to the hilt in Marat s heart He gave
a loud cry and sank back dead. She was immedi
ately arrested and taken to the nearest prison, the
Abbaye. Her trial took place on July 17; she was
sentenced to death, and was guillotined on the
evening of the same day. She gave as her reason
for thq assassination, that ehe killed one man to
save a hundred thousand.
A. S. B.—The claims against France,
known as the “French Spoliation Claims,’’were
made by citizens of the United States for unlawful
seizures, captures, sequestrations, confiscations, or
destruction of their vessels, cargoes and other prop
erty. These claims were settled by treaty between
the two countries in 18&2. France agreed to pay
the United States government, to be distributed
among the claimants, 25,000,000 francs. The P a y*
ment was to be made in six yearly instalments of
4.136,666 francs and sixty-six centimes. The first in
stalment was paid in one year from the date of the
ratification of the treaty. The treaty was ratified Jeb
ruary 2, 1832, and proclaimed July 13» 1832.
C. C.—This is one of the amalgams
used by dentists for filling teeth. A little pure grain
gold is heated in a bright iron ladle (or capsule),
and enough pure mercury is added to render it of a
doughy consistenceat the temperature of hot water.
. When it has become cold the excess of mercury, if
any, is removed by pressure in a piece of chamois
’leather. In using it a little of the amalgam, as hot
as can be borne, is kneaded in the hand and at once
pressed into the cavity of the tooth, where it grad
ually hardens.
Tootsie. — Ist. This correspondent
Bays: “In your answer to Hugh McGovern I thought
you were mistaken. Mary Anderson played Lady
Macbeth Saturday evening, Nov. 2d, 1878.” We
thank “Tootsie” for tho correction. We are always
pleased to have an error pointed out in these
“Notes and Queries.” We do our utmost to be correct,
but cannot always avoid making a mistake. 2d.
'Cannot some one of our Scotch friends give us the
Colors which compose the Victoria and Cameron
plaids ?
Dan L. H. and Others.—The question
ia one of those senseless mathematical fantasies
•which afflict the heads of those who are not pos
sessed of any considerable amount of brains. Our
explanation was as clear as any one which could be
given. It is the hight of nonsense to say that ten
eggs, each sold at the same price as each of fifty
eggs, will result in the same total sum. Please do
mot send us questions of this kind. We have neither
•pace nor time to deal with mathematical conun
drums.
Quebo. —Ist. We have not at present
the report of the Secretary of the Treasury in our
consequently cannot tell you what it
(costs to run the Federal Government. 2d. It would
be impossible to make an approximation of the reg
ular outlay of the cities and towns of the United
We can say, however, that they cost a vast
■.amount more than the Government of the United
Btates. Were it not for the local taxes, the debt of
|our country would not oppress the people.
? G. C. G.—lf the gentlemen to whom
we referred you have issued no catalogue of the
Masonic Lodges of this city and Brooklyn, we do
‘not know where you can get one. Mr. Isaac Simon
son informs us that he will shortly publish a “ Ma
sonic Directory of the World.” We do not think
that the publishers to whom we referred you treat
ed either the Dispatch or you with the courtesy
'Common among gentlemen. We will refer no other
inquirers to them for information.
' G. Warren.—lst. The Bulwer-Clayton
treaty was entered into by Great Britain and the
States in 1850. It was made with regard to
• ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Cd. The Monroe doctrine merely means opposition
to interference by European nations in the affairs oi
the new world. 3d. The name “ Yseuit” is pro
nounced thus: "E-se-ult.” 4th. There is no im
prisonment, under (he law, for debt in this State.
'A E. P. M.—There are larger diamonds
'than the Koh-i-noor in existence. One that for a
long time was in the possession of the Sultan of
Matan weighs 367 carats, while the Koh-i-noor, be
fore being re-cut weighed but 186 carats. There it
in the possession of the King of Portugal, a diamond
which weighs 1,680 grains. If genuine, of which
there is some doubt, its value, according to the rule
. Of computation, should be $28,000,000.
Fireman.—lst The testimony of an
infidel, atheist, or any other sort of non-religlonist,
is accepted in the courts of this State. 2d. No oath
or affirmation can compel a witness to acknowledge
the existence of a Supreme Being in which he does
not believe. The laws of this State seem to agree
With Tennyson's assertion, that
“There is more truth in honest unbelief
Than half your creeds.”
C. W. S. —It is possible that if yon
have strong political influence you could be ap
pointed an engineer in the United States navy.
Without the influence, we are of the opinion your
"Chances of an appointment would be very poor.
At the present time the United States has more en
fjineers than it can find vessels for. Seek a position
in the mercantile marine, where you will be better
paid and as much respected.
J. T. W.—lt has been decided time
•nd again, by our courts, that a ticket purchased
from a railroad company is good at any time the
purchaser desires to use it Of course, the railroad
companies try to impose upon the ignorant by
printing on the ticket “good for this day only.”
Hut the law holds that there must bo two parties to
•ny bargain, and that a railroad company is only
one of the two parties.
S. H. W.—The 7 per cent, interest ran
until January, 1880, after that it was 6 per cent, in- ,
terest. We are of the opinion that you cannot
claim compound interest. You should make up
your claim against the firm from the time you be- <
gan leaving your money withit, with the interest ‘
attached week by week, until the time of dissolu- '
tion of partnership. ]
Old Reader.—lst. Fessler Lodge, No. i
676, F. A. M., meets on the first and third Tuesdays
of each month in Masonic Temple. 2d. Trans-
Atlantic steamers use from 120 to 180 tons of coal a
day. 2d. We do not know the sum it costs to run
an ocean steamship one trip. The amount would
depend on the size of the vessel. 1
Nabgile,—The stem of a Turkish ‘
pipe, or any other pipe, can be cleaned by filling it J
with alcohol. The alcohol mixes with the nicotine, j
•nd when it is poured out, the nicotine, which is
the poisonous principle of tobacco, is carried off. It 1
would be well then to let water run through the ]
•tern for a few seconds.
Charles Wise.—"A and B are play- !
Ing double binocle. Clubs are trumps. A melds 80 1
kings, and then he melds 20 spades, 20 hearts, 20 «
diamonds, and 40 for trumps. He, also, claims 60 j
for queens after taking another trick. Is his claim
just?” The claim is correct. The entire meld 1
counts for him 240 points. (
Floor Polish.—There are a dozen, if <
not more, floor polishes. Which of them is the best ,
we are too inexperienced to say. A man engaged in
the business would give you more correct informa- £
tion than we can furnish irom books. Do not
imagine that the one which costs you least is the
cheapest polish. £
r . JVJqdSsty.—Hotels can refuse to re- £
cfeive guests. If the proprietor were to say that he 1
refused a man and woman lodging because they j
were improper parties, he would be liable for
damages for defamation of character. But his right ’
to deny them entertainment cannot be disputed. j
O. B. A. —The fact that a man has 1
been a convict is not a reason for his discharge ,
from the United States army. If he commits a
-theft while in the army he will, if found guilty, be <
probably drummed out of his regiment. But he is j
.-•till liable to receive other punishment. 1
Geo. Kahl.—John T. Hoffman was .
elected Gov. of New York. He was first elected
3n 1868, and again in 1870. Ho was a candidate three ’
times. The first time he was a candidate, in 186$, he .
yan against Reuben E. Fenton, who defeated him.
John M. —The following is an excellent
chilblain liniment: Mix together one fluid ounce
rectified oil of turpentine, fifteen drops sulphuric <
acid, and two ounces olive oil. This should be
rubbed gently on the chilblains twice a day.
Kittie.—The steamship “Arctic,” of '
the Collins line, collided with the French iron pro
peller “Vesta,” in a dense fog off Cape Race, on
September 27, 1854. In a very short time after the
collision the “ Arctic ” went down.
Carlton. —“ B bets that James G.
Blaine would win the libel suit. B bets that he
wouldn’t. Which wins?” Our opinion is that, as
the libel suit has been withdrawn, the bet is a draw,
and consequently neither wins.
Ignoramus.—We do not know why
the men of the country you name have more pre
tensions than other foreign-born residents. Prob
ably they succeed better than others because they
are not troubled with modesty.
M. L. and Jas. Mo.—lst. There are so
many associations and companies called Empire
that you should choose some more distinctive title.
2d. Apply to the Legislature, through a member,
for a charter.
H. L.—Apply to the Second Auditor
of the United States Treasury, with affidavits of the
officers who commanded you, if you can get them;
if not, the affidavits ox your comrades in the navy
Will suffice.
E. L.—There is no special license in
Boston which permits the sale* of wine and beer on
Bunday. A stranger finds it difficult to get intoxi
cating beverage of any kind jn Boston on Sunday.
L. B.—We have not the time to calcu
late the sum to which you refer. You can do it
yourself by multiplying each number by two and
theu adding the various results together.
T. J. O.—Mr. James O’Neil may have
played Richelieu at Booth’s Theatre, but we have
no remembrance of his having done so, nor have
we any record of it.
R. McC. D.—The proprietor of a bar
her shop is responsible for the hat or overcoat of
customer, if it is stolen while the customer is in the
shop.
C. Weiss. —There is no dintinction,
under the law, between a man and a woman who
commits murder in the first degree.
D. O’Connor.—On the last day of July,
1878. Gen. Grant entered Russia, where he remained
until the middle of August.
J. McC. —Mr. F. C. Mosely has been
connected with Mr. Lawrence Barrett only during
the present season.
Two Beaders. —We have not the lines
of Victor Hugo, to which you refer, in our posses
sion.
Joseph S.—ln draw poker, where
straights are played, a straight beats three of a
kind.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
■ CONTINUATION OF “TO LOVE AND HONOR.'»
I A LOGGER’S STORY.
' FLOWERS IN THE WINDOW.
J HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
j A YOUNG HUSBAND’S WOES. ,
A CURIOUS STORY.
THIRD PAGE:
’ MASONIC MATTERS: The Grand Chapter; Acacia Lodge;
City Lodge; Questions and Ansyers; Lecturing Ap
pointments; Commandery News; History of the
Coronation; Personal; Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE I
WHATEVER IS, IS BEST.
CONCLUSION OF “ DEAF AS AN ADDER. M
HITS ALL ROUND.
OLD MEPH’S LAST RIDB.
i A HIGH CASTE BOBBERY,
A DUDE-DEOOY.
TALKS WITH BOYS.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE :
OVER THE GARDEN TWO WEE FEET. ;
, ALICE’S MISTAKE.
. AN ODD MISTAKE.
A YORKSHIRE ODDITY.
THE ZOLA OF MODERN ART.
SENSIBLE ADVICE.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
' TOO MUCH OF A LIE.
; Htto gark gfispatefe.
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 8, 1885.
TO AOVKHTISEHS.
ADVERTISING IS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A LINE IN
THE NEW YORK DISPATCH.
1 Owing to ottr large edition wo are compelled to go to
press at an early hour, hence ADVERTISEMENTS CAN
NOT BE RECEIVED AFTER NINE O’CLOCK SATUR
DAY EVENING.
To Masonic -Advertisers.
Those desiring to advertise !n our Masonic columns
must have their advertisements In our office BEFORE
TWO O’CLOCK on FRIDAY AFTERNOON. No ad
vertisement can be Inserted on the Masonic Page after
that hour.
The NEW YORK DISPATCH
has a largrer circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the United States.
EIGHTS AND WRONGS OF THE INDIAN.
The Indians have tit last been forced to the ex
treme limit of the Western border, and there is
aMisposition in certain quarters to exterminate
the race, deprive it of all rights, legal or other
wise, and to ignore all treaty obligations with
them. The rights of the poor Indian is a mat
ter of no sentimentality, but something that de
serves the attention of everybody. The ques
tion should no longer be kept from the public,
and the public should be educated up to the
faot that it is no longer just to keep the Indian
out of his rights. Large grants of land have
been made to them by the Government, of
which they have been deprived by misrepre
sentation. We have reason to believe that the
time is approaching when the idea that the In
dian should be exterminated is to cease, and
the more equitable side of the question shall
take its place. The Indiana are not going to
disappear, but, on the contrary, they will be
come civilized and make good citizens.
Recent statistics go to show that in many of
the reservations schools had been established
and the people learned rapidly. There are
farmers among them, and there is a disposition
to own land in severalty. It a fair chance was
only given these people it would not bo long be
fore they would be self sustaining. Tho Gov
ernment should gradually cut off supplies from
them and teach them to depend on their labor
—give them tools, jnd, above all, give them an
assurance that the land occupied by them will
be theirs forever. The great trouble is that the
Indians have been so often deceived that they
have lost faith. They are afraid to improve
their lands because they do not know at what
moment they would be forced to abandon them.
During the past year a commission had come
out to treat tor the Sioux reservation, 11,000,000
acres. There are white settlements all around
the reservation, and railroads clamoring to got
through. The Indians, it was stipulated, were
to be paid about $900,000, while the land in
question is worth at least $7,009,000. The
treaty provided that the consent of at least
three-fourths of the Indians should be obtain
ed, while the bill passed by Congress authoriz
ing the sale of the reservation provides that on
ly the consent of the chiefs should be obtained.
At a place called Pine Ridge, men representing
the Government have been known to go among
the Indians and induce children, more infants,
to affix their marks to a paper giving away 11,-
000,000 of acres, being absolutely ignorant ot
what they were doing. Is it not about time that
steps were taken to stop a policy which forces
the Indian to abandon homos guaranteed him
by the Government, even after he has improved
and cultivated them ?
FINDING HIS NEMESIS.
The Dispatch last Sunday in commenting
upon the dastardly attempt to blow up certain 1
institutions in the city of London some few days '
’ ago, intimated that the ultimate result of this '
kind of work would be death to somebody. On
Monday afternoon last Mrs. Ysoult Dudley, an
English woman, shot O’Donovan Rossa, the 1
reputed head of Irish dynamiters in this conn- '
try, alleging as her reason for so doing that '
society in general, but English society in par- 1
ticular would be better without this man. The ’
prime cause of Mrs. Dudley’s rash act is no '
doubt to be found in the attempted demolition
of the House ot Parliament, which fiendish act '
so worked upon her sensibilities as to make her !
attempt assassination.
Rossa has been looking for his Nemesis for 1
some time past, and his search has at last been '
awarded. His blatant rot concerning the
liberties of Ireland, and his own disinterested
motives in endeavoring to free that unhappy (
land are simply the vaporings of a schemer, and
he has found that he and his dynamiters cannot
have things all their own way. Mrs. Dudley
will not be the only person, who, actuated by a
spirit of national vengeance will take the law
into their own hands. According to Mrs.
Dudley’s statements she had made up her mind
to sacrifice her life to save England from further
violence on the part of Rossa and his gang, and
with that end in view she waited her oppor
tunity and shot her victim.
It is only a few days ago when a man was
enticed into this fellow’s office and brutally
butchered by a ruffian who excused his action
on the plea that his victim was suspected of
giving information to the English Government
concerning the dynamiters. Rossa probably
did not think then that his turn was so rapidly
approaching. This man, whose thoughts, one
would imagine, ran from morning until night
on methods of murder, at once placed himself
in the power of an unknown woman. He now
chews the cud of reflection, which must be bit
ter enough. Should the worst befall Rossa, it
must be admitted that no one has done more to
deserve his fate. But if he were killed some
other fanatic would instantly spring up to take
his place. It is not human nature to suppose
that the attack will evoke a spark of pity. In
taking the law into her own hands, Mrs. Dudley
followed Roesa’s precepts. Those who live by
the sword must perish by the sword. This
ought to act, by the way, as a timely admonition
to those who contemplate adopting the doctrine
of private vengeance.
MOCK AUCTIONS.
It would seem that the Bowery will never be
free from deception, and that the home of mock
auctions is destined to continue unmolested for
some time to come at least. At one of these
places we recently counted a score of “ stool
pigeon” employees, and we wondered how the
enterprise could be remunerative under so much
expense. We watched the slowness and diffi
culty oi swindling with considerable interest.
The stock of the establishment consisted of
nearly worthless watches, jewelry and kindred
wares. The auctioneer was glib and loud, and
the pretended buyers were going carefully
through all the motions. A woman entered.
She was young and neat, but plain of face and
ordinary in clothes. What she looked like was
. a thriving mechanic’s wife or daughter. Tho
entire force of the establishment was brought to
, bear upon her. She was tried with watches, then
■ with breastpins, and finally with knives, forks
and spoons. The cappers let her hear them
' talk of the dirt cheapness of things and made
their show of purchases with exceeding eager-
NEW YORK DISPATCH, FEBRUARY 8, 1885.
□ess. During fifteen laborious minutes the
proceedings were entirely devoted to her de
spoilment. She placidly gazed about tho store
and at its inmates, but did not open hor mouth
to bid. Failing to fool her by the ordinary pro
cesses, the despairing auctioneer resorted to
the forlorn hope of boldly knocking a castor
down to her.
“Gone to you, madam,” he said, “ at two dol
lars. Please stop to the cashier’s desk and
settle.”
“Oh, I didn’t bid,” she replied.
“Don’t miss it—it's cheap,” said a “stool
pigeon” at her side.
“Two dollars, if you please,” said tho
cashier, quite serene and peremptory.
“Ididn’i know you was a workin' me,” re
marked the woman, laughing. “I’m capper
Jimmy’s wife—he’s in your gang, ain’t he ? and
I was just waitin’ for him to come in."
The gang of cheats looked very sheepish
when they found out their mistake.
Oitma! gtotak
The Reason Why.—A Washington
dispatch to the press of this city a few days ago
announced that there was groat fun in the House
on the day previous. Why not ? It’s great fun
to boa Congressman, especially whan there is
a Democratic majority. About all that a Demo
cratic House has accomplished since 1877 has
been fun—fun for Congressmen, not for the
people. Once upon a time there was a pond,
end in that pond was a family, consisting of Mr.
Frog, Mi;?. Fpog, and several ojivo branches in
the shape of son and daughter frogs. In the
village near by resided a number of festive boys,
who took great delight in heaving bricks at the
Frog family as they sat under their own vine
and fig tree on the banks of the pond. This be
coming tiresome, one day j>ater famtlias Frog
got upon a reed and made a stump speech, say
ing: “This is great fun for you, boys, but it’s
powerful tough on us frogs!”
Moral—Congress represents the boys; the
people are the unfortunate frogs.
Remove the Nuisance.—Hardly a day
passes that complaints are not made by ladies
in Washington who visit the House of Repre
sentatives. They say that their throats are
very much irritated by the smoke which con
stantly arises from tho hall of the house, and
suggest that tho rules against smoking ought
to be enforced. But these rules are not en
forced, and possibly never will be. The mem
bers defy them. There probably is.not a mo
ment in the day when an observer from the
gallery cannot sea half a dozen members smok
ing on the floor, and the Speaker of the forty
ninth Congress has but once called public
attention to the violators of the rules. More
over, the restaurant-keepers at the Capitol say
that the average price of the cigars which they
sell to the Congressmen is five cents—which
does not improve the quality of the smoke.
The restaurant men say that the higher-priced
cigars are generally sold to the pages and the
lobbyists.
The Country’s Danger. —A Western
journal in an article pointing out the great dan
ger tho country runs ot ultimate ruin through
the machinations of selfish and unscrupulous
millionaires, gives some very true and start
ling facts. Among other things it says:
“Tbey will control the Government in all its
branches, executive, legislative and judicial. How
j easy then will it bo to gratify a desire for hereditary
estates I Who can compass the measure of possi
bilities which are before such resistless power? He
who has riches may be exalted as a mountain—the
poor man must suffer and be ground in the' dust.
With such a prospect before us, the revolution of
all the Institutions wnich are now so sacred to us
as a people—who can say that socialistic doctrines
have not some excuse, some reason ? The danger
that such a state of affairs may exist is not immi
nent as yet, but it is casting its shadows before. It
it comes it will be owing to blindness on the part of
those who might prevent it. The cry of warning
cannot be echoed through the land too soon—the
people, while they possess the sovereign power
which now is theirs, should resist the slightest en
croachment on their rights and maintain them to
the last."
The Duty of the Press.—The many
responsible duties which devolve upon the
press throughout the country, are but little ap
preciated by the public. The topics of discus
sion are numerous, and in many instances the
views of tho reader are wholly guided thereby.
Sometimes the editorial bird wings its way into
fanciful regions, or plunges into subjects ab
struse and unintelligible. For instance the I’
Drych, a representative Welsh paper published
in Utica, this State, in a leading editorial arti
cle most truly remarks:
“Ar bob bwrddgraig wastad yn yr ochrau,
mewu parthau hollol anghysbeli, adeiladodd
preswylwyr y graig eu haneddau ar leoedd y
gallesid meddwl nad oedd yn ddichonadwy i
neb fyned, oddigerth wrth raff neu dramwyi'au
tanddaearol.”
What do our metropolitan papers think of
themselves now, after reading the above ?
Not So in Olden Times.—Fifty years
ago a man worth $10,000,000 would in this
country have been considered a three-ply
Croesus, and had it ever been mentioned that
there was that much money in existence be
tween New York and Kansas City, the man
making the statement would probably now have
over his remains a monument distinguishing
him as the best liar of bis time. But now we
hear of mon, accounted worth millions—even
up to the hundred millions—and it is stated as
a fact that the railroad investments in the
United States amount to $7,000,000,000 ! Whew I
And there are men who hang about the streets
late at night to ask for a nickel to get a meal
with ! $1,000,000,000 is more tfaan-Goliath could
have carried in his vest pocket, but just think
of $7,000,000,000 I It’s enough to take away the
breath of a Democratic politician.
What They Worry Over.—The Acad
emr ol Sciences, we are told, is still worrying
over the red sunsets. Now we have more in
teresting problems than that to submit to that
association, viz.: Why is it that a street-car
conductor will ring in a smooth, bad quarter
on a passenger on the down trip, in change for
a standard dollar, and repudiate the coin if
offered for fare on the up trip ? Again: Why
do politicians,, when looking for office, stop you
in the street, slap you familiarly on tho back,
ask about your family, ask you to have a drink,
and then ask you to vote for them, and when
elected pass you by on the street as though you
were a small-pox patient or a dunning creditor?
It the scientists can explain these facts, they
will be of more interest to the general public
than the causes of red sunsets, or moonsets,
either.
History Repeating Itself.—There is
so little room for absolutes novelty anywhere,
that the history of all things from time to time
finds repetition. Even in the matter of getting
men into the ground after death peculiar cases
are reproduced. In 1793, a Welsh squire, whose
size was such that he drank eight gallons of ale
in an evening, died suddenly. It was found
necessary to use a derrick to lower the coffin
containing his body into the grave. A few days
ago a fellow countryman died whose remains
employed the combined strength of ten lusty
men toward an easy settlement into the final
rest. There are very many though, we fear,
who require more than a derrick to raise their
souls into the realmsjof bliss, or anywhere near
that much coveted locality.
A Remarkable Fact.—lt is a re
markable fact that nearly all the philanthro
pists are wealthy. It takes money to be a phi
lanthropist. Peter Cooper, Peabody, Girard,
Horace Greeley, Benjamin Franklin, Wendell
Phillips, and other public benefactors could not
have been such had they been poor. They
would have been like W. H. Vanderbilt and
Jay Gould, who, while their hearts are over
flowing with the milk of human kindness, are
kept too busy fighting the wolf from the door to
be able to d o anything for the benefit of their fel
low beings. Mr. Vanderbilt thinks, however,
that by close economy he may be able to leave
enough behind for the erection of a monument
to his many virtues.
Cheap and Good.—ln “ Something to
Read,” for March, there is the beginning of a
. very interesting story entitled “ Strangely Part
ed.” The same number contains tour novelettes
complete, and many excellent short stories, to
> gether with twenty-three illustrations. This
■ magazine is very cheap at twenty-five cents.
She Didn’t Scream.— A young mar
ried lady in Omaha unlocked her room recently
atad saw a burglar standing at her dressing
case. She didn’t scream; but, on the contrary,
marched him to the station-house. It was a
curious sight, this arrest. A big, strapping fel
low, fully six feet high, with broad shoulders
and heavy frame, came marching up the street,
with his head hanging, and looking decidedly
sheepish. Right behind him walked a little
woman of average hight and slim bnild, but in
her eyes was a determined look, and looking
oven more determined was a five-shooter revolv
er, which she carried in her right hand, with the
muzzle in a direct line with the big fellow’s head.
The pistol was cocked, and the prisoner knew,
from the look in her eye, that a mis-step meant
leaden pills for him. After the lady had turned
hor man over to an officer, she put away her
pistol.
OAMB WITHIN ONE OF IT.
Passaic, Feb. 6.
Since we have attained Qur great wealth we
have been looking about for a family-crest, as
no family with any pretensions to respectability
can possibly get along without one.
AU of our forefathers were born in Brooklyn,
but our groat-groat grandfather, who made his
fortune on the high seize and is alleged by his
enemies to have been a Spanish pirate, came
over here just ahead of the Mayflower (tobacco)
in a barge of bis own.
Of course wo don’t mean to assert that any ot
our folks were in the Garden of Eden, for our
folks didn’t speak to the Adams family. The
latter were too fond of gossiping with their
neighbors and had their back fence full of bung
holos, through which they told everything they
knew and more too.
Our folks Jjved ip a higher-toned portion of
the town, ami only acknowledged the Adamses
when forced to do so. It was Said that their
grandmother was only a poor washerwoman.
Anyhow,)Mr.Adams used to spell “paradise” as
if he were referring to a raffle,and wiped his nose
on his coat-sleeve when they were compelled to
renounce the full evening-dress for stealing ap
ples, and Mrs. Adams is known to have been of
such plebeian parentage that she tied her gaiters
with kindling-wood rope and used to wear her
underclothes a whole month.
This can be proven by neighbors who watch
ed the clothes-line, and the Dispatch needn’t
be afraid of a libel-suit, as we can prove all we
say.
Our folks wouldn’t evou travel with Noah,
which proves that they wore pretty high-toned.
They had a boat of their own, as our ancestors
said that they didn’t propose to travel around
with a skin menagerie. It was only a fake show,
and the carrier pigeon racket was only an ad
vertising dodge of the Tody or Jack Hamilton
ot the day. It fell flat, however, for when they
opened at Arrowroot there wasn’t a soul came
to see the show, and the members of the family
made up the whole audience and bribed the
editor of the Arrowroot Weakly Mugwump to
give them a spread, and announce that, “not
withstanding the inclemency of the weather last
evening, Colonel Noah’s Great Consolidated and
Only Show on Earth drew a crowded boat at the
Tiptop Menagerie last evening. The perform
ance was instructive and pathetic, and there
was not a dry Beat in the house.” Anybody
can see that the editor was “soaked,” as it were,
and such language did not mislead the public,
and acted as a boomerang to all future efforts
of the tramp concern.
Tho floating population of the place all visited
our folks’ instructive and religious show, and
tho proceeds of the matinee performance were
given for the benefit of the sufferers by the
flood, many of whom were left homeless in con
sequence of the high tide.
If anybody can trace his lineage back any
further than this, we would like to know it.
Now, about the crest. We would like our
readers to suggest a few coats-of-arms from
which we can take our pick. We have thought
of a bung-starter rampant, a kog with bottles
for legs and free-lunch bowls for ears and other
things of a like nature, but they hardly reach
our idea of perfection. Perhaps some of our
readers can help us. Please try.
About Brooklyn, where we were born and
have always resided, we have a story to relate.
Our great grandfather came near purchasing
the whole of tho village once for £25. A neer
do-well of the bailiwick offered to sell it to the
old gentleman for the amount mentioned and a
day was fixed upon to close the bargain.
The two met, and only a slight difficulty pre
vented our family from owning the whole place,
which is now worth millions.
When the lawyer, who was present, began to
question the would-be grantor, it was ascer
tained that he didn’t own a foot of the town.
History—family history—of course, also relates
that there was another impediment and that was
our great grandfather didn’t have the £25.
It was quite a slight slip, wasn’t it? But
when we think of the woman who came within
one of having twins, we don’t know as we were
so far out of the way of owning Brooklyn as wo
might have been if there had never been any
great grandfather and no other fellow.
IN THE GLOAMING.
In the gloaming, on, my darling.
Where the little snow-heaps grow,.
And the footsteps of your papa
Softly come and softly go.
When ths old man grabs his shotgun’
For some chump's head off to blow,
Will you think of me and love mo
As you did not long ago ?
In the gloaming, oh, my darling.
Think not bitterly of me—
Tho’ I passed away in silence
Left you lonely sot you free*—
For I saw the bull-dog coming
And I scooted hastily.
It was best to leave you then, dear;;
Best for you and best for me.
SMALL CHANGE.
At an evening party, the other night,
they were singing plantation and
when a Boston girl was asked to sing Uncle
Ned,” she began:
“There was an ancient individual whose cognomen
was Uncle Edward,
And he departed this life some time since.
And he had no capillary substance on the summit
of his cranium,
In the place where the capillary substance should,
by right, vegetate.
Then relinquish the agricultural implements,
Allow the violin to remain pendant to the wall,
For there's no more physical enery to be displayed
by the ancient Uncle Edward,
For he’s gone to an abode, appointed by kind Provi
dence, for all exemplary colored individuals to
depart to.
And when she got through there was only one
live person in the room, and that was the host’s
lunatic grandmother, who thought, all the time,
that the singer was " a poor, dear, crazy thing.”
A man with no arms and but one leg
was recently arrested in Joliet, 111., for stealing
a row-boat. The judge sentenced him to a.
year’s hard labor in State Prison, and the
sheriff had to carry him from the court-room on
his, the sheriff’s, back. A man with no arms
who can steal a row-boat would probably be
able to do the hardest kind of labor. May be
he was an Ohio man.
It seems rather hard to keep the tele
graph operators oiit of their wages, but, really,
this is the first time wo over knew that they re
ceived any. We thought that the companies
had, all this time, been endeavoring to intro
duce a new method of spelling. Come to think
of it, they should receive something, even while
learning.
A bevy of sweet girl graduates in
Paterson,’during the week told their admiring
and enthusiastic relatives all about their future
prospects in fourteen languages. Wait until
those girls are polishing the kitchen stove and
hear a ring at the door-bell. Then’s when the
dead languages will be resurrected all at onee.
The latest fancy of fastidous females
is to wear little gold wires for fastening their
shoes. This when nine-tenths of the husbands
in the universe aro wearing bull’s-eyes in the
seats of their trouserloons. They’ll want gold
shoe-pegs next. Then they’d ought to get tho
pegs—but not in their shoes.
Grant, Sherman, Buell, Beauregard,
and McClernand all differ in their accounts of
the battle of Shiloh. Why not have have it
fought over again in the presence of a referee ?
—Detroit Free Press. ’Fraid o’ Cap’n Williams.
| They’re doing it in the newspapers.
Db. Myers says : “ Man lives in the
lower rear of his brain, and by keeping that
part warm, the whole structure is kept warm.”
When we were young, our mother either didn’t
think so, or she didn’t understand phrenology.
She knew bottomy by heart, however, and tha
same result was arrived at.
A Brooklyn lawyer reports that he
and the other members of his family experi
enced a real earthquake-shock in the middle of
the night during the week. Ha probably lied
about the other members of the family and was
endeavoring to crawl np stairs with his boots
in his coat-tail pocket.
“ Ha there ! ’ yelled a policeman, as
he saw a man with a brocaded nose and two
dotted eyes and a woman with a club following
him, rushing past. “ Ha, there! Where are
you runnin' to ?" “ Runnin’ to stop a fight!’’
gasped the man, as ho dodged around the cor
ner and disappeared.
A Passaic man recently entered. a
f—" where a party of society ladies were
seated, and immediately backed out through
the door. When asked what was the matter he
said: “Don’t let’s go in yeti Let’s wait a lit
tle while 1 They’re jest goin’ to nuss their ba
bies.”
Twelve Bridgeport girls are each to
give a reception, twelve young men are to be
invited to each, and at the end of the season
the girl who receives tho most votes for “beauty
and accomplishments,” is to be considered the
“ belle of the city.” We’d like to be poll clerk.
Citizens are complaining of the high
price of gas. Inasmuch as wo have to pay our
legislators more than they are worth, somebody
should invent a means of connecting taxpayers
residences with the Senate Chamber.
The King of Ireland got a little of his
own medicine during the week, But why will
people who are not accustomed to the use of
weapons persist in using them ? Uneasy lies
the ho'ad that wears a corn,
Sulphur and molasses will remove
all humor from the blood, and we think that
Mark Twain must have looked like a cross be
tween a match factory and a oanebrake when
he wrote “ Shucks Skin.”
Ginhead Lush Sullivan has been
fined SIOO for endeavoring to knock a horse
out. He knows enough to fight a winning fight
every time. He don’t dare to tackle a mulo of
his own size.
Mrs. Tom Thumb is to marry Count
Rosebud, and Commodore Nutt is to lead a
midget bride to the altar. A well-known cigar
box manufacturer has received an order for
two beds.
They won’t permit Edmund Yates to
read any newspaper but his own. How the
devil can they expect him to write his editor
ials unless he has the Dispatch and a pair of
scissors ?
A Paterson editor says that a young
lady never shows to better advantage than
when playing on a violin. Oh, horrors ! Why
didn’t somebody kill hinrbefore he had told it ?
A New York divine says that “ roller
skating is the devil’s device.” Certainly. How,
in hell, (irreverent compositors will please note
punctuation,) could the devil skate on ice ?
There is an unusual scarcity of mar
riages this Winter. ’Smatter ? Have the giddy
little things been reading the newspaper re
ports that the oyster crop is a failure ?
The Democratic papers are predicting
a large fire in tbe public buildings at Washing
ton, between now and March 4th. We think the
big fire will come after that date.
General Chestnut, of South Carolina,
died during the past week. So old Chestnut is
dead, is he ? We trust that our friends with
the B. C. stories will take notice.
The correct Cabinet hasn’t been men
tioned yet. We will say, for the benefit of our
readers, that we do not propose to relinquish
our position on the Dispatch.
A Philadelphian named Mackerel was
recently arrested for beating his wife. The
judge remarked that he was too fresh and
promptly salted him.
A Scientist asserts that a bee is able
to draw twenty times its own weight. ’S’at all 1
Oh! Maybe you don’t moan lift! We mean
lift!
Beecher asked Irving for a private
box, and Irving snubbed him by refusing. The
drama is fast drawing the line at the pulpit.
Why don’t the liver-pad man accept
Lieut. Melville’s offer? One of ’em slapped on
to the North Pole might yank it home.
The World asks in a headline “Is
there poison in the dye ?” Undoubtedly. And
there is also' die in tho poison.
It is now settled conclusively that
somebody dropped one ot Tennyson’s poems
under the- Tower.
GOSSIP ON THE SQUARE.
There ib to be an artistic baom in Paterson, New
Jersey, U. S. A., this week. A new Mary Anderson
will come to dbbutantio judgment. She is a Mrs.
Doctor Warner. Her stock in trade as an aspirant
for histrionic fame consists, a» far as heard from, of
personal beauty, irreproachable social standing,
and artistic taste in dressing..
She is described to be about the same build as
Mrs.. Langtry—a little heavier, perhapa, though no
less divine; the same age; she has bonnie blue eyes
and brown hair, shot with gold. Her complexion
has been a subject of conflict for years; the impar
tial have declared it to be nature's purest red and
white; others, numbering all her rivals, denounce it
as a combination ol kalsomine and cochineal.
She has been undergoing the ordeal of coaching,
her trainers being experienced, experts in that line
of work.. She has attended all the leading perform
ances in the season of the Opera House of that high
art centre, and she has concealed until now, even
from>her most intimate friends, her determination,
as well as* her preparations, to be an actress and
among ths actresses take her stand.
Of her voice, whether it is best fitted for the so
norous declamation of tragedy, the pathetic mewl
ing of emotional drama, or the drawl of society
cornedy>.nothing will bo known until to-morrow
evening, when she makes her debuU Which it will
be as Lady Teazle, In “The School for Scandal.”
She lias a repertorie. She had studied—dead let
ter perfect—various bright and shining as well as
several old and dusty characters in the standard
drama.
Among others it is.asserted, sLe proposes during
her series of efforts to revitalize with the creative
power of her genius that long since dead and
buriad rel\p of tho “ Palmy days” age—“ The
Stranger”—so that once again we will have the
funereal Mistress Haller mopping the tears of re
pentance from her dismal face, and The Stranger
wandering about like an undertaker in hard luck.
It is also said that she is to be supported in this
revival by the veteran Edmon 8. Connor—whose
seventy-six years sit lightly upon the venerable
brow from which the eyes that have witnessed the
coming on and. the passing away of six generations
of actors—still gleam brightly and cheerily.
Now here is a chance for the critics to on
their tap of gush. Especially is it an opportunity
for the Hexaid end men Joe Howard and Go Free
Williams, and the Herald Big Four headed by Poll
Potter to. get in their fine work.
Go to» Paterson, young men — and give JMrs.
Doctor Warner a chance. Don’t back cap the lady’s
soaring ambition with coldness and neglect.
Mu. M. B. Curtis will make his first appearance
this season at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, on Monday
evening, February 16th, when ha will present* for
tie first time in this city, his naw comedy, “Spot
cash.” This play is a continuation of the haps and
mishaps of Sam’l Plastrik, known as “Sam’l of Po
sen,” and also of the career of the French woman,
Celeste, who in this piece ia prima donna of “Les
Bouffes Parisiennes.” Mr. Curtis is as breezy,
cheeky, and humorous as ever as the commercial
drummer, and Miss Albina De Afer ia also good as
the French adventuress.
Hartley, the artist, has just finished a bronze
bust of Lawrence Barrett as Cassius, which has been
presented to the Garrick Club, of London. The
House Committee of that exclusive organization will
place It in the main hail of their club house. Mr.
Barrett is an honorary member of the club.
Louis Aldrich’s new drama, entitled “Tho Old
Dominion,” will probably be produced in this city
in tne Spring or early Fall. It is intended to re
place “My Partner,” with which Mr. Aldrich has so
long been identified.
In Austin, Texas, last week, the State Legislature
adjourned and attended Roland Reed’s performance
of “Humbug" in a body. This comedian appears to
be popular in the Lone Star State.
Kick’s Subprise Party and John A. Maokay will
produce their very successful musical farce extrava
ganza, “A Bottle of Ink," at the Brooklyn Theatre
during the week. Marie Loftus, Ida Mulle,Vernona
Jarbeau, Hattie Starr, and the great Cragg family
are still with this popular organization.
■5 Emma Romeldi, the prima-donna an.
nounced for last Sunday's concert at the Casino*
has fully recovered her health and will positively
appear to-night. Mlle. Romeldi returns to this city
after an absence in Europe of seven years, where she
has been successfully singing in Italy, Spain,Portu
gal and In St. Petersburg, where she last
appeared, she was suspected of being a Nihilist and
was forced to leave on that account. She is an
American and one of the successful singers that
have gone to Europe. Her repertory includes the
prim-donna roles in twenty-four operas, an*
tiatlon. ue now ponding for her - pMrafi ■
I oft. in opera o{ t he ,ea«on.
W. A. Mestayeb and Theresa Vaughn and their
company in “ We, Us & Co.,*’ appeared all of last
week in Brooklyn to crowded houses, and their
amusing absurdity appears to have had its intended
effect on the residents at the other end of the
Bridge. To morrow these laughter-furnishing fiends
will move on to Philadelphia, where they expect to
conquer every theatre-goer of that wicked city.
Minnie Palmer is playing limited engagements
In the principal cities of the West. Her advance
into that country has not been checked, and the
little “ Sweetheart ” is correspondingly happy.
When she appears at the Union Square Theatre in
April, she will wear as a trophy the famous Cleve
land diamond, valued at forty thousand dollars.
After her engagement in this city she will go to
Europe for two years, appearing in London, Paris
and Vienna.
Mb. Heinrich ConriiJd, who has been engaged by
Mr. Rudolph Aronson as stage manager of the
Casino, has arrived on the steamer Elbe. All ar
rangements are now being completed for the opera
comiqus representations, which to be presented
at the Casino alter the first of May.
Union Square Theatre,—lt is pleas
ant to record that an audience which completely
occupied the seating capacity and a large share of
the standing-room of this theatre was present on
Wednesday evening last upon the occasion of the
first performance of a drama entitled “A Prisoner
for Life."
There were among the notables in the orchestra
the “ Big Four ’’ of the Herald, as also its two End
men.
No first night is complete unless the Herald
specialists occupy at least six orchestra seats. In
accordance, of course, with Mr. James Gordon Ben
nett's express orders that no attache of his paper
other than the accredited dramatic critic shall be
recognized as a deadhead or permitted the courte
sies of free admission.
As the Herald has no accredited dramatic critic,
and as, since the senior Bennett’s departure from
this vale of tears and Polo it has had no such dime
museum novelty as a dramatic critic included in
its staff—the theatrical manager is either obliged
to seat the entire six, and as many more as
may deem it their duty to “work the racket," or
rislQfthe chance of their awful and crushing dis
pleasure.
The Markee de Bluepill, which bis family name
is Bolivar (Patsy), was not present in a private box.
The reduction in the prices of admission probably
made him averse to the possibility of being elbowed
by that large contingent of the wretched rabble,
which believes in getting all it can at the lowest
rate.
The professional element was adequately repre
sented—but in many instances it paid for its ad
mission—which was a loss to divers of the adjacent
beer mills, wherein it would have expended this
amount of surplus capital.
“The Prisoner for Life" is designated in the
house programme as a romantic drama in five acts,
adapted from the French by Mr. Louis Nathal. It
is illustrated by a series of picturesque scenic set
tings, which may be ranked as among the most ef
fective of the many memorable efforts of the scenic
artist of this house, Mr. Marston.
The “Prisoner for Life" is a drama of effects;
of situations which are the outcome of a pre-ar
ranged plan, rather than of the natural sequence
of a dialogue which should create the situations.
In a word it is a play written according to form
ulas of dramatic composition which belong to a
past era of stage work.
But, this being the case, is it the less acceptable ?
It is not imperfect in its construction; it is not lack
ing in interest, nor in consecutive action. It is ro
mantic in that its incidents belong to the imagina
tive, and not to the actual of human life.
It is made up of the material from which all melo
dramatic compositions in the present,as in the past,
must gather their that is the Possible
rather than the Probable.
The events of “Monte Cristo" may have been and
may be possible, but—in the regard of the intelli
gence and the matter-of-fact temperament of the
public of to-day—they are-enjoyed only because of
their contrast with the realities of our time.
The events of “A Prisoner for Life’* - are improb
able, but they are not impossible. Nothing is im
possible—except to get through an: orchestra gate
past John Duff as a deadhead on l a Peoria profes
sional card.
Romanticism will always have its-place upon the
stage; without it the drama would be lacking of its
most potent element of attraction and: of interest.
We have had enough of fact—of realism. The
English playwrights have given us & surfeit of
the Newgate Calendar and the Old Bailey.
“A Prisoner for Life” is in the line of productions
for which this theatre became famous in past sea
sons. Its romanticism of storyand its effects are in
the same category of those which insured the success
of the “Two Orphans," “Rose Michel,” and “The
Celebrated Case.” Their stories were possible,.but
their probabilities-were vague.
This drama is in its action dependant wpou the
effort of a daughter to secure the escape of her father
from a life imprisonment in &■ French fortress,
caused by the macinations of an enemy—in which
effort she finally succeeds. It introduces in its
narrative some seventeen personages, none of whom
are marked by the author with any special individu
ality of character.
All these personages, however,, are given an
individuality by the members of the company
represented in the cast, excepting those imperson
ated by Mr. Barnes and Miss Sarah Jewett.
Mr. Barnes—who is known as “ Handsome Jack
Barnes,” made a most lugubrious-and dismal non
entity of the Count, Prince De Valney—out of which,
with its opportunities he should have made an im
pressive and memorable impersonation. He was as
devoid of strength and vitality as a stuffed image—
and, let us say right here, that by his- inertness he
sadly marred in more than one instance the effect
of Miss Harrison’s work and the interest of the play.
Miss Harrison as Mignonne.it should’be recorded,
deserves the credit of, in a great degree, carrying
the interest and.weight of the play with her. She
was earnest and sincere in her impersonation. Miss
Sarah Jewett, who, as the mother of Mignon no (the
latter, according to the story, a girl of eighteen or
twenty), apparently endeavored to appear in dress
and facial make-up younger than her daughter. It
was a relief to the audience that she did not enter
the scene until the fourth act; : it was a blessing to
the effect and action of the drama that she was not
a factor in the work of the preceding acts.
Mr. Stoddart as Larose, the deserter, gave an ad
mirable and distinctive personality to-the character,
and Mr. Tilton as Laroze'a bugbear and arch enemy
—the Unknown—was sufficiently suggestive and
villianous.
The cast was, in its entirety, capably represent
ed; the changes of the heavy scenic sets rendered
the waits between acts, tedious—a fault which has
since bean remedied— but to the falling of the cur
tain on the last act, which occurred within a few
minutes of twelve o’clock, the audience remained
and was satisfied.
It can be safely noted that “A Prisoner for Life”
—with the pruning to which it has been subject
ed—is a success. Not a great success, but one
which in all probability will bring the present sea
son to a profitable close. It is simply a romantic
story of th® old time French school fairly told,
amply illustrated in its scenic adornments; in
its nature an adherence to the methods and quality
of dramatic material which has brought to this
theatre its greatest profit and the reputation by
which it will be bast remembered in the traditions
of the stage of our time.
Madison Square Theatre. — Now
then, here you are again, right side up with care
original package—use no hooks—keep dry—marked
11 Private Secretary," care of the public—from Mal
lory and Palmer.
And so the “ Private Secretary " will continue
until the public become tired of receiving it. When
that interesting condition of weariness will occur
is as yet a matter of mere conjecture. Matinees
on Saturday.
New Park Theatre. —“ McAllister's
Legacy ” is being nightly repeated in the sight and
hearing of audiences as large and as hilarously ap
preciative as those which greeted it during the first
week of its performance. It will be continued until
the close of Messrs. Harrigan and Hart’s temporary
lease of this theatre. Then they will “ take up the
thread of their story’’ at tho Fourteenth Street
Theatre.
Fifth Avenue Theatre.—On Monday
evening last Mr. Edwin Booth began the third week
of his engagement with his familiar.impersonation
of Richelieu. Aside from his work in the fourth
act, he never gave a more tame and slovenly per
formance of the character of the Cardinal upon the
local stage. His support was even worse. The
Barradas of Mr. Charles Kent had more the appear
ance, enunciation, and action of an amateur front
wood villain than those of a politician, courtier, and
noble gentleman of the Court of Louis XIII. The
De Mau prat of Mr. George R. Parks was weak and
inexpressive, and the De Beringben of Mr. Nolan was
a notable example of How-not-to-do-it. Miss Annie
Clarke was an aged, but artistio and sometimes
stagey apology for the loving, youthful, and
ing Julie De Mortimer. The stage •'Vctogs were not
startlingly appropriate, and 6f the thlrd act
wm unworthy In It. on6apness not on)y o f M t ,
°° s P O9 discreditable to the local
ma .-»gemont, as it was to that of Mr. Field.
On Thursday’and Friday evenings, Mr. Booth wm
seen at hU best as Bertuccio in “ The Fools Re
venge.** During the past week, and more notably
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, tha
audiences complete’/ packed the house: so great in
fact was the demand evel! for admiasioft that
scores were turned away from the doors.
Surely the name of Edwin Booth is a tower of
strength—however he may act and whatever hia
mood mav be.
To-morrow—the commencement of the last week
of his season, and on Tuesday and Wednesday even
ings, he will be seen in a double bill—as Ruy Blas
and Don Casar de Bazan. On Thursday and Friday
evenings he will impersonate Richard 111. At the
Saturday matinee, he will repeat Sir Edward
Mortimer in “ The Iron Chest.’*
Star Theatre.—Mr. Barrett and his
company gave last evening in the presenoe of an
appreciative, if not a very large audience, the final
performance of “Julius Caesar." Of his impersona
tion of Cassius, and that of Brutus, by Mr, James,
we have already made comment.
The present is the final week of Mr. Barrett's
series of performances, and during it the most im.
portant event of this—his most successful engage
ment here—which in the interest of dramatip art
has boen too brief, will occur. This ev&t will la
Jhe production for the first time In this city, on to
morrow e*<3fllhg, of Mr. Robert Browning’s three
act tragedy entitled, " A Blot in the 'Scutcheon,"
and Mr. Alfred Thompson’s adaptation from the
French of Theodore de Bguville’s drama in
one act of “ Gringorie," to which is here given th®
English title of “ The King’s Pleasure."
In the tragedy, Mr. Barrett will impersonate the
character of Lord Tresham—the character origi
nally performed by Macready. In the t drama Mr,
Barrett will be seen as Gringorie, the strolling pooU
All the leading members of his excellent company
will be included in the cast of these two productions.
On Thursday evening and at the Saturday math
nee, will be revived W. D. Howell's three act
tragedy of “Yorick’s Love." On Thursday evening,
Mr. Barrett will be seen for the first and only time
this season as Cardinal Richelieu.
Grand Opera House.—Mr. Gns Wil
liams, otherwise and familiarly known as “Captain
Mishler," a very worthy and efficient but eccentric
police officer, whose precinct includes the entire
country, and who for several seasons has been at
the head of the theatre squad—was on duty her®
last week. He arrested that slippery customer, th*
public attention, and was the cause of attracting a
series of large audiences into his temporary sta*
tion.
Captain Williams Gus Mishler laat evening closed
his week of special duty here, and with his detail
transferred himself to another station.
To-morrow evening, and for the week, including
the matinees os Wednesday and Saturday, the Sals*
bury Troubadours will make themselves pleasantly
welcome and hilariously acceptable in Mr. Ed. Kid
der’s farcical comedy, which bears the trademark of
“ Three of a Kind'," Of course the irrepressible
“Nate" heads the subscription list with his usual
large contribution of jollity and humor, which has
heretofore proved to be the right thing in the right
place for the health and' digestion- ©f the piaygoing
public.
Fourteenth Street Theatre.— On
Monday evening last ;Mr. W. T. Carleton and bis
English opera company made their first appearance
upon the local stage. Since the formation of thia
company it has been heard in its repertoire in tba
leading cities of the West and has been the re
cipient of more than ordinary favor, not only frosa
the critical but the general public.
That it deserved this recognition, the performance
of “The Drum Major’s Daughter”—the Englishver
sion of Offenbach's work —was an ample
The cast was—without individualization and!with
out note of the minor defects which were at time*
notable in the work of its representatives—as a*
whole, excellently impersonated. The choruse*
were well given; the scenic setting and the cos
tumes appropriate, and Mr. Carleton and Miss Dor*
Wiley as the leading exponents oL the cast were>
greeted with encouraging welcome and- cordial re
calls.
To-morrow evening “The Drum Major’s Daughter'*'
will be replaced by “The Mascot." The cast will 1 ,
be as follows :
PiPPQMr. W. T. Carleton.
BottinaMiss Dora Wiley
Prince Frederick Jessie Bartlett Davis-
FiamettaMiss Rose Beaudot
Prince Lorenzo Herr Gustave Adolph!
Rocco Mr. Richard Golden
People’s Theatre.—That “Bunch of
Keys,” and the general hotel business with' whicifc
the aforesaid rattling Keys exhibits so much hilar
ious intimacy, were sufficient to attract a mighty
showing of large and delighted audiences.
To-morrow evening, and during the week, MT. J.
H. Haverly’s company will be seen in their specta
cular production of the drama of “Michael Strog
hoff.” The drama will be illustrated with inter
esting scenic effects; a ballet corps led by Mlle.
Adele Cornalba; bands of mounted Russian-torch
bearers, and other accessories, in which will be in
cluded the appearance of nearly two hundred per-■
sons on the stage during the
The usual matinees will be given od Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons.
The Casino.—“ Apajune” will be con
tinned here until February 21st. On Monday, Feb,
23d, Washington's Birthday matinee, “Patience" i*
to be presented, with an exceptionally strong cast.
At to-night’s concert Mlle. Emma Romeldi, prim*,
donna, will positively appear. Mr. Whitney Mock--
ridge, tenor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, will
sing “Salve Dinora” (Faust) and Hatton’s “Com®
Live with Me," and Miss Henrietta Maurer, pian
iste, is to play several selections,. Mr. Rudolphi
Aronson is to conduct the orchestra, and among-th® .
numbers to be interpreted are the ballet Etienne, .
Marcel, Invitation a la Valse, La Giaoonda, Pizzi- -
eati. Sylvia, Straus’s Nardseebilder Waizer, andV
Aronson’s Jockey Galop.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre. —For th®-
current week, Tony facetiously announces that Mr,-.
G. K. Fortescue will plead the baby act—that is t®>
say, he will do the Baby in a burlesque which is all;
his own, and which bears that generic name of-th*
infantile section of the human, race. In this .h*
will be nursed and cared for by Miss Helen®.
Mortimer, who will make believe to be Baby’®
sister. She will soothe the litfJe darling Baby with
the touching nursery song of “In the gloaming/*
and the Baby will, with a. precocity hitherto., un
known in infant prodigies, cry aloud and warblasueh
gems as “I wonder how much will it be,” and ba
heard with more or leas effect in a medley of popu
lar .airs.
After Baby has hadihis airing, Messrs. Tierney and
Wayne, the Three Ashtons, Frank Moran, Miss
Myra Goodwin, Lillie Western, Messrs. Pickert and
Moran, Mamie Learned and Mr. Shortis, the De Bar
Brothers, and the Braham Brothers will individu
ally and collectively fill the bill with their various
specialties. Alsch—Tony Pastor.
Matinees on Tuesday and Friday. Np» cards.
Flowers need not be omitted.
National Theatre.—Manager Hen
mann, ever on. the alert to;gratify his patrons with,
dramatic novelties, has secured and offers for th®,
present week as his special attraction, Mr. Dicki
Gorman, with his new drama in.five acts, entitled
“My Hebrew Friend." Mr. Gorman will imperso
nate the hero, Levi Isaacs, the itinerant peddler.
will be supported by the entire company of the
theatre. New scenery, will add to the interest of
this performance.
The variety olio which will,, as usual, precede the
drama, will include many notables. Among these
are Mr. Harry G. Richmond; the St. Felix Sisters,
Henrietta and Charlotte, introducing their specialty
of the “Poor Little Newsboy;” Mr. John Saunder®
and his educated donkeys; Messrs. McAvoy and.
Hallen, and the return of the ventriloquist and hu*
morist, Mr. Alexander Wilson, in his sketch of
“Begone Dull Care/’
The regular matinees will be on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday. The usual concerts will b®
given this afternoon and evening.
Bijou Opera House.—Ancl now then
—here you are, Dixey, Adonis, The Simple villagß
maiden, The Polished Villain, The Duchess, The
wild and weird Dunstan Kirke-on-tap, The array
of Pretty girls, Donnelly in front of the house on
the rush. Audience large. And things. Mora
Dixey. The Marble Family triumphant. Tableau;
Quick curtain—stage door—around the corner.
Refreshments—home. Come again next nlghU
Matinee on Saturday*