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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF- FAIR ROSAMOND.”
FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH. ,
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
A CHECK SUIT.
HOW INDIANS GAMBLE.
A STORM WARNER.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: The Light of Days Long Past; The
Day of Action; The Last Sad Scene; De Witt Clinton
Chapter; Empire Chapter; Comtnandery News; Chan
cellor Walworth Lodge; Personal; Complimentary;
Masonic Temple. Boston; Four Ancient Symbols; The
Consistory of New York City, A. A. Rite.
SIXTH PAGE :
DAUGHTERS.
“OUR SECOND FIDDLE.”
THE YOUNG WIFE’S DBATH.
THE DETROIT SOLOMON.
LIFE LINK%OF HISTORY'.
MOLOCH, THE DEVOURER.
- A PERSONAL CARD.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
THE SONG OF THE WAVE.
.BLACK HUGH.
2F WE WERE TO SUPPOSE.
MAJ.-GEN. RANDOLPH, C. 3. A
A DOG SNVKE.
THE MAKE-UP.
SEDWIN ADAMS AND FORREST.
<3l HOST STORIES.
CUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
U.0t.0 and
Hobseman.—The condition and health
of a horse depend very much upon the kind of
ptable it is kept in. 1 hero are horses which suffer
from disease of tue eyes, from coughs, from a varie
ty of skin diseases, all of which are produced by
.the pungent, foul air in the stables. Farmers and
others who have horses will take pains to keep their
carriages and harness protected from the strong
ammoniacal air 01 the stables, lest the leather may
be rotted or the varni>b dulled and spotted, and at
the same time they will wonder why their horses
cough, or have weak eyes or moonbiiudness. or sut
ler from other disease*, which, if they would only
think lor a few minutes, they would readily per
ceive are due to the foul air the animals aro com
pelled to breathe every night in the year while con
fined in close, badly-ventilated stables. The reme
dy is very easy. The stable should be kept clean—
this will prevent the greater part of the mischief —
and it should be well ventilated. The floor should
be properly drained, so that the liquid will not re
jnain on it, to be absorbed and decompose and pro
duce the pungent vapors of ammonia which are so
Injurious to the eyes, nostrils, throat, and lungs,
and this liquid waste should be carried away to
•isome place where it can be absorbed and utilized.
rTlie floor should be washed at least twice a week
/With plenty of water, and then liberally sprinkled
Jwith finely-ground gypsum (plaster,) which will
jcombine with the ammonia and fix it. A solution of
(sulphate of iron) will have the same re
sult. Lastly, the floor should be supplied with ab
sorbent litter, which should be removed when
feoiled. Ventilation should bo provided in such a
; %¥ay as to avoid cold draughts.
' Loka.—lst. It is proper for any per
toon receiving an invitation to a wedding to send a
present to the bride, unless the invitation says,
p' No presents received.” The presents are usually,
toent before the wedding, but it is no lack of pro
priety to send them afterward. 2d. Those who
liave an inclination to fat should not drink either
ale or lager beer. The ingredients of each are al
inost the same. 3d. Some people require moie
'Bleep than others. The young require the most
Bleep. It is seldom that people over forty years of
age need more than seven hours’ sleep. 4th. De
'cayed teeth are not particularly .injurious to the
but they aflect the breath very disagreea
bly. sth. The bones taken from the gi’aveyards
-jnentioned were buried in a cemetery, but which
( one of the cemeteries we do not know. 6th. We
Slave as deep snow storms now as we have ever bad,
*but nowadays the snow, as soon as it falls, is carted
’t of the streets. The surface railroads are to be
’ responsible for New York city’s streets not be
-Jieta t de almost impassable by snow. 7th. In our
Ing f valuable coins we do not find that any of
record o 'h you specify are peculiarly valuable.
thw.wiiK -yj,.— o f Diony-
iNQUISITx j 8 a long limestone tunnel with a
teius,’* in Sicily, ; s about seventy feet high for a
£Wide mouth, it x "» yards, after which the roof de-
of about 20x - extremity of the high arch,
«cends. At the furtbe. m the fl’oor, is a small con
>nd about sixty feet frt» in the rock, in which, ac-
Xoalod chamber, excavated iu S Ba t t 0 listen to the l
cording to tradition, Dionya elow, who whispered
conversation of bis prisoners b 'er doings. It is a
ptealthily of their plots and ot*. • aro so reverter- <
fact that sounds produced belov near one of the ]
ated that a slight whisper, if uttered . at about 200
walls, can be heard in this chamber v i
|feet distance. . r .
Fiddler. —Tho violin, which $
earlier forms is of great and uncertain ?
assumed its present form about the of t
ihe sixteenth century. The maker of
She modern violin whose are well
Authenticated is € a y a j Oi who worked be
' Hween about 1560 and 1612. To one other maker c
before him, Duiffoprugear, many existing
Instruments ara attributed; but it is, to say the *
least, doubtf»*a whether these instruments are j
authentic. <,nd whether he made anything else than r
v <Viol« and lutes.
A S. P- K-—Th® main portion of what ‘
is known as the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on 1
Breed’s Hill. In the centre of the grounds witfiin j
the redoubts on Breed’s Hill stands the obelisk
known as'Bunker Hill Monument. It is a square *
Shaft, built of Quincy granite, 221 feet high, 31 feet ]
square at the base, and 15 feet at the top. Inside of ,
the shaft is a round, hollow cone, 7 feet wide at the
bottom, 4 and et 2 inches at the top, encircled by a 1
winding staircase oi 2 4 stone steps, which leads to .
a chamber, immediately under the apex, 11 feet in
diameter. £
Fever and Ague Patient.—Dr. Trent <
recommends the following as a cure for fever and ’
ague and intermittent fever : Take forty grains ol (
sulphate of quinine, thirty grains powdered licorice,
and ten grains gum myrrh. Make into forty pills.
Take two pills every two hours for the first twenty- j
four hours, two pills every four hours for the next
twenty-four hours, and the remainder one at night 1
on going to bed, and one in the morning, first thing, j
The doctor says this performs an effectual cure, if ,
the directions are implicitly followed.
Wakefield. —Ist. James Henry Hack- j
ett made his last appearance on the New York stage
at Booth’s Theatre, on December 25, 1869, in the *
character of Falstaff. Ho died at Jamaica, L. I.; j
December 28, 1871. He was born in this city, March
15,1800. 2d. “The Veteran” was first produced at J
Wallack’s Theatre, corner of Broadway and Broome i
street, on January 17. 1859. James W. Wallack eu (
acted the part of Col. Delmar, “The Veteran.”
E. J.—lst. The age of admission to .
West Point is between fourteen and twenty-one. To ,
secure the candidate must be well
versed in arithmetic, reading and writing, includ- ]
ing orthography, and must have knowledge of the ,
elements of English grammar, of descriptive
geography, particularly of our own country and of ]
the history of the United States. 2d. The examine- ,
tion will be an oral one.
W. B. — “Whittaker’s Almanac,” a '
London publication, states that in 1881, within the
Metropolitan and City Police Districts of London, 1
there was a population 4,766,661. This, of course,
Includes a large tract outside of the '• Metropolis
Local Management Act.” Within the control of this i
act there was in 1881 a population of 3,834,354.
‘W. C. L.—To cure poisoning "by
poison oak, ivy, or sumach, bathe the poisoned ]
part thoroughly with hot water, without soap.
When dry, paint the part liberally, two or three 1
times a day. with a feather dipped in a strong soln i
tion of lobelia. Avoid bringing the tincture in con- ;
tact with any fresh wound or excoriation.
Ink. —We cannot give the desired ’
recipe, nor can we understand why an honest man
shonld wish to have what he writes disappear in a ;
few weeks. This department of the Dispatch is not
intended to aid people who want to commit fraud,
but to give information of interest to the general
public.
James Fabley.—“ls a child (white) ;
born in tho United States, a citizen at its birth?”
It is a natural born citizen: though, if a male, it
cannot vote until twenty-one years old, and. if a
female, not at all. However, voting is a privilege, ;
not the entire qualification of citizenship.
Mercury. — Ist. We doubt if a ball
thrown from the top of the Washington Monument
could be held by any ball catcher. A weight thrown
from a great bight increases very much in mo
mentum in its descent. 2d. We know of no tech
nical term for the repitition of words.
An Admibeb. —“Will you please in
form me where I can find the phrase, ‘ Escaped by
the skin of the teeth ?* ” In the book of Job, chap
ter xix., verse 20, are these lines: “My bones cleav
eth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
with the skin of my teeth.”
Electric. —We cannot give you a de
scription of a machine of the sort you require. You
will remember that there are hundreds of electri
cians working to produce the sort of machine you
want, and that no one of them has yet succeeded in
the endeavor.
G. B. M.— If a gentleman walking
with a lady is right-handed he should give her bis
left arm so that the right shall be free for her pro
tection. If he is left-handed tho reverse would be
proper.
A. M. S.—There are books on wood
engraving, but we doubt their usefulness, unless
their instructions are accompanied by those of one
understands the art of wood engraving.
A Reader.—The law abolishing im
prisonment for debt was passed in 1846, as was,
also, the law giving women the control of their own
property in the State of New York.
A Constant Readeb. —It was stated in
the papers, during Madame Adelina Patti’s last visit
to the United States, that her salary was $4,000 for
each night’s performance.
Mbs. G. A. 8. — This correspondent
desires a recipe for making orange croara. We do
not find it in our recipes. Can some reader
supply the information ?
A. B. C.—lst. Th© lady is an (( emo
tional actress.” Where she is at present we do not
know. 2d. The affair was an advertisement
Solomon. —Alcohol can be made from
molasses, but not whisky. The liquor made from
molasses which is drunk, is called rum.
Anxious. —We have no space to give
to mathematical subtleties. Such questions are of
no interest but to those putting them.
T. V. J.—We cannot in for my ou which
is the best restaurant, nor who is the
keeper, nor what is his color.
i Eabkwt Inqdibeb.—We know of no
substance of the kind you desire. You will have to
apply to a chemist.
Theodobe S.—ln the State of New
York ail election days are legal holidays.
E. ll.—But your question more plain-
■ fklij frail
NEW YOM, NOVEMBER 22, 1885.
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must have their advertisements n our office BEFORE
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that hour.
The NEW YOKE DISPATCH
has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the linited States.
THE EXCISE MUDDLE.
One of the practical results of the legislative
investigation now in progress in this city is
that the Excise Commissioners are again in
! trouble. Charges against thorn have been laid
before the Governor, and these charges are
based upon and supported by the evidence
elicited by the investigating committee. Every
body knew that the Excise Board covered a sink
of corruption. The facts-an 1 a great many
more facts of the same kind which have boon
sworn to before the committee, have for a long
time been whispered about in political and offi
cial circles. Wo have no desire to prejudge the
case of the present Commissioners. Let them
make tho best defense in their power and be
dealt with justly. But for years the Excise
Board has boon a byword and a reproach, and
the revelationsnow made surprise nobody who
has taken any interest in local affairs. One of
the lawyers who formerly acted as counsel for
tho Commissioners—and, therefore, may be
supposed to know something of their proceed
ings -has been prompt to call tor their removal
from office. The general sentiment of the pub
lic is that the Excise business should be thor
oughly reformed, and this is demanded as
unanimously by tho respectable dealers in
liquors as by the worst fanatical prohibitionist.
Everybody is aware that tho Excise Board
has been a centre of bribery and corruption.
Men who have been granted, and have paid for,
licenses for conducting a legitimate business
have been harassed and blackmailed by offi
cials whose duty is to carry out the law. Many
notorious resorts, whose proprietors ought to
be in the State prisons, have received licenses
through tho purchased favoritism of men ap
pointed to take care of the public interests.
Many more such places and persons have been
allowed to sell liquors without licenses, in open
defiance of the laws and under the protection of
thoso whose duty it is to enforce the laws.
Whether the police are to blame in this matter
is a secondary issue. Documents have been
produced showing that the Excise Commis
sioners have ordered the police not to molest
their personal or political proteges. It has
been generally understood that the granting or
refusing of a license is an affair of so many dol
lars, and that the money has been divided be
tween the Excise officials and the police.
Thejdealers, reputable and disreputable, have
the same story to tell of demands made upon
them for bribes. When they declined to pay,
somebody objected to their licenses. When
they handed over the cash their licenses were
granted. It is all very well to say that this
money was forced out of the dealers by un
authorized subordinates under false pretenses.
Those who paid, received licenses, and those
who refused to pay were denied licenses, and
iliia Is whole revolti ng story in a single .
sentence. v-
Liquor dealers who keep frespeciable houses, .
duly licensed according to law, are as much en- (
titled to protection as any other traders. The
most radical Prohibitionists will concede this. 1
The Excise Board should take care that licenses
are issued only to men of good character and ,
behavior, but, when a license is once granted, (
its holder should be free from official extortion (
and robbery. He has paid the legal fee to the
public treasury, and why should he be forced
to pay illegal assessments to the Excise Com
missioners, or their clerks or deputies, to the .
police captains or to the patrolmen ? Why, also, (
should respectable dealers be subjected to the •
competition of places which are notoriously un
worthy, or which have no regular license what
ever.
Temperance advocates complain that there
are too many liquor shops in New York ; but it ,
would astonish them to learn how few of the
public houses which crowd each other upon our ,
leading thoroughfares, are entitled to legal pro
tection. They abuse all liquor dealers alike;
but the legitimate traders are as much opposed
as a«y temperance men can possibly be, to the
houses of call for thieves and prostitutes which
keep open in spite of the law and are outrages
upon legitimate business as well as upon public
decency. If gentlemen of standing in the com
munity, of honor and of good sense, were ap
pointed to the Excise Board, most of the evils of
which tho prohibitionists now complain, would
be at once remedied. The peddling politicians,
the official strikers, the money jobbers, are the
people who make the mischief and are respon
sible for the deplorable condition of the me
tropolis. To condemn the innocent dealers
with the guilty is unfair. So long as human
nature remains what it is, the liquor traffic can
not be suppressed, but it can be and ought to
be, satisfactorily regulated,
W T e aro especially in favor of licensing and
protecting dealers who sell native winos and
light beers. These are beverages which directly
assist .the temperance cause, beside develop
ing the industry Of tho country. Intemperance
is unknown in lands whoro native wines are
cheap and popular, or where lager beer is the
national drink. The spirits which are appropri
ately called “hard stuff” aro the provocatives
to crimes. The worse they are the cheaper
they are and the greater is the temptation to
sell and imbibe them. Make our native wines
as plentiful and as cheap as the liquid poisons
now consumed and the revenue would be bene
fited without any detriment to the public health.
Such brewers of lager beer as Bechtel, Yuen
gling, Ehret, Ruppert, the Doelgers (Peter and
Joseph), Clausen, Bernheimer & Schmid, Eich
ler, Everard, J. & L. F. Kuntz, Stein, Ringler,
Huber, Kress, Rubsam & Horrman and many
others do more to promote true temperance than
all the impractical prohibitionists. A proper
Excise Board would reduce drunkenness by en
couraging respectable dealers in the beverages
which are harmless and wholesome. But, in
order to secure such Commissioners, the mat
ter must be taken out of the hands of profes
sional politicians and treated upon broad and
philanthropical principles.
It has come to be understood in New York
that the low grog shops run the politics of the
districts, and that the Excise Board or its agents
must receive blackmail either in votes or in
money. This is disgraceful to all concerned,
and should be immediately reformed. If the
Governor does not seize the opportunity to ap
point as Commissioners honest men, irrespec
tive of partisanship, a movement will be inaugu
rated to sweep away the Board entirely, and give
the police entire charge of the Excise business.
On tEe other hand, we believe that the Legisla
ture should bestow extraordinary powers upon
a proper Board, so that that the liquor business
might be effectually supervised and regulated.
The report of the committee now in session will
bring the whole subject before the next body
of legislators, who will come fresh from the
people, and to them we shall appeal for reform
if the Governor fails to rise to the occasion.
A CURIOUS REVELATION.
It appears from a statement recently made by
a.HeUrew member of the Philadelphia bar that
divorces among Jews are very easily obtained
and very frequent, being secured by religious
proceedings, entirely without regard to the civil
> courts of this country. The party wishing a di
vorce goes before the “rof,” or dispenser of di
’ vorces, and, in the presence of a scribe and two
’ or three witnesses, asks for a “get,” or a bill of
divorce. It is written out in conformity with
the statement of the petitioner, at a cost of from
$5 to $25, according to tho purse of the appli
cant, Alter Ijeiug approved it is returned to the
NEW YORK DISPATCH, NOVEMBER 22, 1885»
scribe, to be handed by him to the party di
vorced, which completes tho formality, the di
vorced person thereafter being known as the
- “gresha,” or “cast aside.” Only the testimony
of the party applying for a divorce is necessary
to its procurement, and the applicant is imme
diately at liberty to re-marry, it not being con-
r sidered essential that he should invoke the au
thority of the civil tribunal. The validity of
these divorces has never been tested by the
State courts, but they would, of course, be de
clared null and void in such a case, as ecclesi
astical mandates in that respect are not recog
nized in this country.
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WINNING AS A “STUMP” CANDIDATE.
When Commissioner of Public Works Squire
went to Albany last Winter and inaugurated his
celebrated drink known as “egg flip,” his prin
cipal object in taking the trip was to secure
legislation regarding certain water meters to
put in use in private houses in this city, and
from which his friend Maurice Burns Flynn, it
was said, would reap a fortune. Everybody
remembers how the mysterious African was
• ;pd the petition tuxen by Major
Haggerty iDhl a bthers in dislodging tho
> tenant, to the surprise of thousands of tax-
> payers in this city. Of course th© jmajor’s hon
-1 esty to his constituents and the communiv 2?
i general had to be punished by the politicians,
1 and when he sought a renomisation from Tam
-1 many Hall he was told he could not have it.
Flynn and Squire must get even. Aiderman
Kerwin, tho County Democracy candidate lor
Aiderman, was told to indorse Haggerty, and
he would win. Kerwin went to Flynn
and asked that individual if the major was to
be indorsed by the Countys, and Flynn em
phatically answered “Ko. :} To A 4 Haggerty
then ran on a “stump,” and, without any ma
chine or money to back him, beat the Tam
many. Ir. ing Hall and County Democracy can
didate by sixteen votes. W’hen Flynn and
Squire heard that the major had wod, the latter
swore in verse, while the former looked grieved
and troubled.
The major will return to Albany this Winter,
and it is but fair to presume that if either
Squire or Flynn comes to thoZLegislature with
bills containing mysterious Africans, the re
doubtable Haggerty will readily discover them
and tell the people what they mean, too.
OUT OF JOINT.
If light literature has as much power for good
or bad as is claimed for it, there ought to be with
the changes in character of stories a noticeable
change in the outward seeming of the readers.
In no department of literature has there been so
great change within a comparatively lew
years as m the reading put in the hands of chil
dren. The fact that the publications of high
literary and artistic grade have crowded the
cheaper trashy periodicals and books into the
background, is evidence in itself that there has
been improvement id taste.
Tho strategy of literary workers is now em
ployed to make all subjects attractive to the
young, and it has been the more successful be
cause there are behind it men and women of
highest talent who have written in answer to
longings common to all girls and boys. The
impulse once given toward wholesome reading,
an important step has been taken in the forma
tion of a correct taste.
The young people of this day come to the
reading ot novels and other books with less of
intemperate zeal than formerly, and as they
read wuth more discrimination, what they
read should show to better advantage in re
sults. There is now less in the popular books
to inflame the imagination and less to tire the
expectant mind, but results are certainly not
satisfactory.
Is this to be accounted for on the theory that
the personal influence of men on boys and of
women on girls in some degree counteracts the
influence of the books and magazines ? Are
men as careful to put good words and senti
ments before their boys as they are to see that
good books go into their hands ? Does a rough
boy receive the right sort of encouragement
to be anything more than a rough boy ?
There is something out of joint in a country
that turns out so many assailants of women as
does th s. The fault is not in the books, be
cause the trashiest blood-and-thunder story
fails not to laud virtue and to present libertin
ism and its lower manifestations in despicable’
light. The lessons that lead to outrages like
those being ventilated in different parts of the
country at present are not learned even in the
books that the worst classes read. These
books may make young men worse by giving
them false notions, but they do not encourage
brutality toward women. There is another in
fluence at work that makes it possible for men
to forget manhood and act only on brutal in
stinct. Just what this is it should be the duty
of courts and all men to discover and define.
AN OSTRACIZED ANIMAL.
And now another decree has gone forth that
the Russian hog shall not stick his snout into
Germany. The imperial prohibition might as
well forbid the introduction of any foreign pork
into the country, and, for that matter, make a
clean job of it and rule out of the empire all
food importations which. compete with home
production. . We had the pleasure recently of
listening to the views of an American gentle
man, who has spent some time on the continent
of Europe, and who thoroughly understand the
subject in question. According to this gentle
man, the prohibition of American pork by
France, Germany, and Austria, on the pretense
that it is diseased and impure, is a sham. The
real reason is that it is cheaper and runs
their home pig-raisers and butchers too strong
ly on their own territory, and takes too much
gold out of Europe to America. But not daring
to openly impose a protection tariff on the food
of the people, they get at it in another way, pro
hibiting importation on the ground of solicitude
for tbe IwiiltK Of tHoir people, wUo are UiereDy
forced to pay three to five cents per pound
more for their meat than they otherwise would.
All this is old and obvious, and we have pub
lished it all over many times. But what some may,
perhaps, not know is, that the American hams,
bacon and mess pork now being shipped from
tho United States are the very best in the mar
ket. Since the agitation of this subject began,
in February, 1881, the American packers have
made enormous improvements in curing and
packing their meats for export, and they now
take the cake, and every one of our German,
French and Austrian cousins know it. Switzer
land admits American meats free of suspicion,
and takes large quantities of them for as mall
country, but the German Government will
not even let them through direct from Antwerp
to Basis, because the line crosses German terri
torry, and the trichiniie might hop out of a bar
rel of American lard and bite somebody.
Too Thin.—The Democracy assures
the colored men that it loves him. The whole
Democratic party loves him well enough to
want his vote. When the colored men of Amer
ica lose all memory of the past they will be in a
condition to reciprocate that affection. The
party which, daring all the years of its exist
ence, has traded in the bodies and starved the
souls of the colored race is not in a good condi
tion to argue.
The Diffbbence Between Girds. —ln
Italy it is customary for three or four married
women to drag a bride to her would-be hus
band. She pretends to struggle desperately to
get away. A wise journalist points that it
would take all the married women in the coun
try to hold back an American girl who had con
cluded to enter the conjugal state.
About Snakes. —AU the snakes in the
country have started for Ohio to pass the win
ter, and see about settling there. A reliable
contraband says that along the Indiana State
line you can see nothing but regiments of
snakes, all making for Ohio. The poorest Ohio
drinker will now bo able to Ihave them in his
boots.
, A Startling Declaration. — Mrs.
f Stowe, the dress reformer of San Francisco, de
i dares that before long women will display their
i legs as fearlessly as they do their arms. This
- is only another artifice, we fear, to attract emi
i to California.
A Suggestion to Future Candidates.
—The official returns of the election, as far as
received, indicate pretty plainly that the State
has gone Democratic by what Hon Bardwell
Slote would call “ a large majority.” Last year
Mr. Blaine, being opposed by the New York
Times, Evening Post, and all tho lesser lights
among the Mugwump papers, and their non
descript allies the independent press, was
beaten by twelve hundred votes. This year Mr.
Davenport, supported by all the traitor press,
was beaten by twelve thousand votes. From
this it is manifest that the united support of
the Mugwump press and the so-called inde
pendent papers when faithful in their efforts,
can and will, defeat the most popular candidate
placed before the people. We would therefore
earnestlyreoommend future candidates, before
accepting a nomination, to secure in advance
tho opposition of tho Mugwump press and its
allies, the so-called independent papers, and
to declipj a nomination on any other condi
ti®as.
Not Generally Known. —It is not
. generally known that Russia once had a Parlia
, ment. One was convoked in 1549 by Ivan the
Terrible, and continued its sessions a year. A
subsequent Parliament framed a Constitution.
, These national assemblies continued to meet
tor ' oro l l ian two centuries, and their delibera
tion? ’ovinefid wisdom > and conferred on
Russia innumerable beilGllte. e- B ' ast ono was
called together by Cathofitie IL, in 1760,
was composed of 652 delegates, representing all
classes. Nover since the Romanoffs have been
in power has a Parliament been allowed to be
called together. The Russians are not to be
censured for dosinng to be rid of their present
despotic breed of Czars.
In a Quandary.— The Excise Board is
at present in a peek of trouble. Cited to appear
before the Governor on Tuesday next to answer
charges preferred by tho Mayor, accusing them
of malfeasance in office, it would seem that their
cup of misery is quite lull. The law tells them
that they must close any and all doors in
theatres communicating with bar-rooms, and
when the proprietor of a place of amusement
conforms to this law, the Fire Department
orders him to open the door again, or he will be
amenable to the Department for violation of ono
of the laws regulating the Department. Surely
tho position of Excise Commissioner is not one
to be greatly sought after.
A Sad Case.—A prominent society
lady of this city, hitherto considered eminently
respectable, has ■ recently been arrested for
theft, and of course is declared to be the unfor
tunate victim of kleptomania. It seems that
she has been going around taking valuable
books, bric-a-brac, etc., from the houses of her
friends. In one or two instances, where the
articles missed have been of particular value,
their loss has been made public, and the
servants in the respectable houses arrested for
theft. Kleptomania can be restrained by proper
punishment.
Less Said the Better.—lt does not
take a good memory or an old man to remem
ber that the Democrats were loud and open in
the assertion that in time United States bonds
would only be worth the paper they were print
ed upon. It is something to see these same
statesmen anxious because so few of them are
left unredeemed. The currency of the United
States, the best the world ever saw, and the
entire financial policy of the nation is Republi
can in every sense, and the less Democrats say
the better.
Magnificently Illustrated. — The
International News Company has imported six
hundred thousand copies of the London Gra
phic and an enormous edition of the London
Illustrated News of their holiday numbers.
These numbers are magnificently illuminated
with colored and plain pictures. Each paper
sells for fifty cents, and they are well worthy of
the price.
Why It is Not Fashionable Here.—
Milk-drinking is quite the swell thing in Paris
now. Everybody drinks milk who wishes to be
thought fashionable. Milk-drinking might be
come a fashion here, too, if we could only get
the milk. Paris has set one example we cannot
imitate. , smsmcggai
THE BITER CHEWED.
A saloon-keeper around the corner, who is a
bit of a wit in his way has, tor the purpose of
fooling his customers, nailed a fifty-cent piece to
the floor in front of the safe which stands near
the door.
Many and many a time he has laughed him
self almost inside out to witness the unavailing
efforts of his patrons in endeavoring to yank
that half-dollar from the floor.
A day or two ago a number of friends entered
his place. There were five of them in all, and
they filed up to the bar.
“ What’ll you have ?” said mine host,
smiling.
“ I’ll have whisky I”
So’ll I 1”
“ Me Too I”
“Same I”
“ Ditto I”
They all wanted whisky and they asked the
landlord to drink too. Thinking that all
would treat in turn as they had otten done be
fore, he asked them to drink with him.
“ I’ll havo whisky 1”
“ So’ll 11”
“ Me Too 1”
Same 1”
“ Ditto 1”
The host drank seltzer, as he had done on
the round. Then, after they had had their
drinks, they started for the deor.
“ Hold up 1” said the landlord; “ who’s going
to pay for those drinks ?”
“Oh, yes 1” said the leader, “I forgot,” and
he returned and laid five cents on the bar.
“ What’s that for ?”
“ Your drink—seltzer.”
■‘But who’s to pay for the other drinks?”
“ Oh, I forgot I There’s fifty cents lying over
there on the floor. I forgot to mention it. My
pants are too tight and I can’t stoop. Let your
bartender pick it up 1”
Then they filed ont.
They hadn’t been gone three seconds before
the nailed coin had disappeared and the land
lord had taken a solemn oath never to fool his
customers again.
SMALL CHANGE.
A Brooklyn longshoreman is suing
for $30,000 damages for the loss of his leg.
Wonder what a good, sound, whole longshore
man is worth? Query: If a longshoreman’s
leg is worth $30,000, what is a dude’s head
worth ? To obtain satisfactory recognition each
answer must be accompanied by a five dollar
note, not necessarily for publication, but as a
guarantee of good whatsthis ?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de
cided that tramps can wander about at will so
long as they do not trespass. We know of one
State that will pay the fare of all of its tramps
to Wisconsin, but we don’t believe they’ll go.
They’d rather steal rides and get kicked off the
trains. Just imagine a tramp indulging in an
undisturbed ride all the way to Wisconsin I
*The genial turkey,
Looks somewhat murky.
And rather jerky
In every feature;
He thinks we’ll work he.
Or mayhap "Burke ’’ be.
And, therefore, lurk he
’Neatb barn. Boor creature.
•Poetry.
New York girls are now going crazy
over crazy quilts. That would be all right if, after
they’re married they would only know how to
fix ’em on the bed so’t a fellow wouldn’t have
to sleep with his back uncovered while they had
several yards of the quilt wound around ’em.
The Prospect Park policemen are
wearing their Summer hats in conjunction with
their Winter ulsters. The weather is so change
able that the Commissioners wish them to look
well and be' really for the emergencies of the
season.
Mbs. Minnie Walkup, the alleged
Kansas murderess, who has just been acquit
ted, has been advised by her iriends to take to
the lecture platform. Those who are not her
irienas.tpitOM
Bridge policemen are now compelled
to count the number of milk-cans that cross the
Bridge. As they have a little time to spare it
would, perhaps, be advisable to compel them
to use it in splitting wood for the directors.
Three holidays are in sight and our
citizens would do well to saw off the handles of
their family washtubs and close them with cloth
or sealskin,'-unless they want to appear on the
street hatless after New Years Day.
Several hundred immigrants, mostly
men, went to join the Mormons during the
week. It’s going to be a cold Winter and they
probably want backs to warm their feet on.
Bob Ingersoll is to reside permanent
ly in New York. If bo wanted to ascertain if
there really is such a place as he says doesn’t
exist he should have gone to Chicago.
A Philadelphian judge has objected
to a woman lawyer pleading. That’s a direct
hit at the newspapers. Just imagine what pie
there’d be in a woman summing up.
Thirteen ambulances dr ova th to New
Haven last night. The pao]Je thought there’d
been a terrible explosion, but Princeton aM
Yale had only been playing football.
The New York Central is discharging
all its old conductors’ It is said that they only
demurred they weren’t permitted to
take the cars and track with them.
The s?stt-mortem lias proven that good
old Jobn McCund:” u hatl tbrombraia ° f the
brain. Shouldn’t wonder, w'.'.? all dootor ’
he bad.
“ Gilbert has gone to Egypt to hunt
up material for a new opera. Sullivan remains
at home.— Exchange. Wonder who he’ll fight
next 1
“Ouida” claims that a mad dog will
not, necessarily, communicate hydrophobia.
But he’d die if he tackled some of “ Guida’s ”
filth.
A boy named Prosperous Crammer
was recently run over in Philadelphia. That
boy’ll soon bloom forth a graduate from Prince
ton.
It is alleged that somebody has stolen
$75,000 worth of largo granite blocks from Cen
tral Park. They better chain Central Park up.
They are closing up all the bar-rooms
connected with the theatres. This will neces
sitate tho carrying of cloves in one’s pocket.
Tim McCarthy, the woman beater, re
ceived a year’s sentence. Somebody should
raise a club and help him out—of the world.
The ministers are holding a confer
ence in Brooklyn. They will probably revise
the rules relating to straights and flushes.
These thousand Servians were killed
in battle the other day. The Bulgarians are
shooting their names at the Servians.
Joseph Groblewski, who filled at
least one wife with arsenic, is in danger of being
administered a large doss of hemp.
A Leipsic wife has just given birth to
her twenty-ninth child. Just imagine the night
parades that loving papa has had.
A Buffalo cashier has changed the
tactics by absquatulating to Florida. Now Flor
ida wants to catch the small-pox.
Cincinnati has a dog that chews to
bacco. We always thought that tobacco would
soon find its proper level.
The largest gun ever made was recent
ly tested at Sandy Hook. If it ever kicks, God
help our Navy.
Habbison, the boy preacher, makes
nealy S2OO per week. He must hold bully
hands.
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GOSSIP ON THE SQUARE.
Thanksgiving at Nearly all the Theatres.—
At all the theatres extra matinees will be given on
next Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) afternoon, upon
which occasion all the ladies of the stage will be
unusually lovely to look upon, and the managcriai
turkey will be suspended at its loftiest altitude.
Miss Myra Goodwin, who recently camo forward
as a star at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in Mr.
Edward E. Kidder’s comedy entitled, “ Sis.” is acting
in Virginia, and is said to bo meeting with success.
Ida Mulle, who is advertised as the Elfln Star, be
gins an engagement in Albany to-morrow night, in
Howard P. Taylor's “ Dimples.”
Edwin F. Thorne has given up his idea of
starring in the “ Don,” and will confine himself to
acting in the “ Black Flag.”
Mr. Lawrence Barrett will probably open his
season next year in the Hon. George H. Boker’s
new tragedy, ” Glaucus; or the Last Days of
Pompeii.”
Miss Adelaide Moore concluded last night a suc
cessful engagement in New Orleans, and to-morrow
will begin a tour of the principal cities of Texas.
After filling engagements in St. Louis, Cincinnati
and Pittsburg, she will play a return engagement in
this city.
Stella Bees, the Western Quakeress, to
the photographs concerning her beauty, and says
she prefers to be judged on her merits only.
Gus Williams will be supported during his en
gagement at the Brooklyn Theatre, commencing
November 30th, in Geo. Hoey’s new comedy •• Oh,
What a Night 1” by Messrs. C. F. Tingay, O. E.
Lothian, De Loss King, Misses Anita Harris, Videt,
McGinness and others.
In the “Ratcatcher of Hamelin,” at Niblo’s Gar
den, the Kiralfys will introduce a novel scene,
painted by the famous Magnani, of Florence, Italy.
A cathedral, occupying the entire stage, suddenly
becomes transparent, showing the interior full of
people at a marriage ceremony. Another scene will
be an illuminated garden by Ferario of Milan.
Charles Pope, the St Louis manager, is in town.
He denies the private report that be is to appear in
the “Corsican Brothers” at Forepaugh’s Philadel
phia, or any other museum.
Mr. Joseph Hawarth has not been offered the
position of leading man by Mr. Barrett, as he has so
industriously announced to his friends.
The McCaull Opera Comique Company will
commence a limited engagement at the Star Thea
tre on Monday, December 7th, presenting Millock
er’s opera comique, “The Black Hussar,” with the
original cast, excepting Digby Bell, who has been suc
ceeded by George Boniface, Jr., a clever young com
edian, who has achieved considerable success in the
role of Piffkow.
The Hanlon Brothers in their spectacular “Fan
tasma,” will be seen at the Grand Opera House,
Brooklyn, commencing to-morrow evening, the
Hanlon Brothers, this season, appearing in the
leading roles. Miss Kate Davis, who made a success
in the past season will introduce naw specialties,
while among the new features added are Alex. Zan
fretta, Prince of Pierrots and Little Aimeo.
The Actors’ Fund benefit will take place at the
Casino, Thursday afternoon, December 10. A long
list of artisfs have already kindly volunteered, and
Mr. Rudolph Aronson’s orchestra, increased to one
hundred musicians, will be one of the features.
Fanny Davenport in “ Fedora ” is the Thanks
giving attraction at the Brooklyn Park Theatre, The
play will receive its first presentation on the Bow
ery at the People’s, week of November 30th.
Miss. Lydia Thompson arrived here on Friday last,
on the Inman line steamship “City of Berlin.”
Lydia is bright, jolly, but somewhat stouter than
she was seventeen years ago—notably Oct. 3d, 1868
when she made her American debut under the
management of Samuel Colville, at Wood's Mu
seum, in the burlesque of “Ixion ’’—with Ada Har
land, Pauline Markham and Lisa Weber as her sup
porting beauties. Harry Beckett was with them,
but he wasn’t a beauty. She is now in her forty
ninth year, and she is as lively and looks as youth
ful as—well, as Maggie Mitchell.
Let us give her a cordial welcome when she once
again comes forward upon our stage, in remem
brance of the delight and feast of female beauty she
gave us during her former engagement here.
Last evening ended Messrs. Abbey and Shoeffel’s
management of the Grand Opera House, and Mr. T.
Henry French—” The man of plays ’’—became the
Grand Mogul thereof. There will be no change in
the general conduct of the business. Prior to this
new departure Mr. French had been for some time
a silent partner in the management.
Daly’s Theatbb. —There is little need,
to record concerning " The Magistrate," now run
ning at this theatre, more than that it is doing
“excellent well” and is likely to hold the stage for
many weeks to come. Its successor is in rehearsal,
but there is not much likelihood o'f its production
before the new year.
as usual.
Bianca at the Academy. —On Thurs
i day evening last a young lady of the name of Bian-
■ ca made an offering of herself upon tho Shakes
pearean altar.
She came forth as Juliet. She had for her mana
ger, leading man, press agent and general lord high
everything else a hitherto unheard of Poobah who
■ modestly subscribed himself Garrett W. Owen.
Bianca is, the public are informed by Poobbah
t Owen, a sunny daughter of sunny Italy, and had in
her childhood played hooples and hop-scotch and
yearned for unattainable taffy in the very Verona
where the love-lorn Juliet had gamboled in her
frisky girlish days.
Miss Bianca should never have come to this chilly
northern clime—with her talent. She should have
remained in “fair Verona"—and put her talent out
to be raised by hand instead of bringing it here to
i be shriveled up by an early November frost.
; The Rev. Mr. Milman's Bianca, was the vic
tim of misplaced confidence in her Fazio and
upon whom she wreaked her vengence by having
him collared for having murdered an old miser;
; this Academy Bianca having now discovered that
> her confidence in the histrionic and educational
capacity of her Fazio—alias Poobah Owen, was mis
placed, should have immediately “run him in’ -
as the leader of the band of assassins, who, on
1 , Thursday evening, murdered Mercutio, Tybalt,
f Capulet, Romeo, Paris, Benyolio, and divers other
Shakespearean personages.
: But if the fair Veronese Bianca should do this and
’ become tho prosecuting witness, she would crim
inate herself as one of the principal actresses in the
' tragedy.
Miss Bianca as Juliet, read and acted like a school
girl, coached by a country schoolmaster, “speaking
( apiece without snowing anything about the
( PWrpiirtj ning or sense of the lines she was re
peating she has a fairly pretty face, but it is as
pf exprSflaJon as a face carved out of
frozen L.? 4 ’ was in earnC 3t in ali that she did ’
but of all sld word's N tongue or th-, saddest
*d n F t kn o w
are these: “ She meant —but s'■»>.
how."
She needs to unlearn all that she has bec'l taught
of elocution, reading and gesture by Pooah Pwen;
she needs to begin her theatric career at the foot, n
at the top of the ladder. She evidently possesses
intelligence, ambition. As for talent —while it was
not visible in her struggle with Juliet, she may have
it all the same.
The Mercutio of Owen and the Romeo of Mr.
Alfred Young were so execrably bad that either
one in the absence of the other would readily pass
muster as the worst of the two. Mr. John Matthews
in the absence of his dear Dorcas —gave a respecta
ble tie wig showing of Old Capulet; The Tybalt was
as fiery as a wet parlor match, and seemed to be
suffering from an intermittent toothache.
Mrs. W. G. Jones, one of the few of the old-time
actresses left to our stage, in her performance of the
Nurse, must have felt strangely out of place in
such a company of incompetents.
A large audience was present—that is to say a
large one considering the nature of the attraction.
The performance being a curiosity in every respect,
it is not a matter of surprise that but few persons
left before the close of the transformation of a
tragedy into a burlesque.
Grand Opera House. —Thera are few
actresses upon the stage who will never be old
in the remembrance ox* in the present sight of tho
public. Custom cannot stale nor age wither their
infinite popularity. One of these is Maggie Mitchell
—who has held a welcome place upon the stage for
more than thirty years. Yet hero she is, yet as
sprightly, apparently, with the same pleasant charm
of presence as when in the days gone by, she won
the plaudits of the old Chatham and Bowery Thea
tre audiences.
The great majority of the generation of playgoers
that then knew her have passed away; the few who
remain are old and gray and one of them a veteran
who looked as if he had just slid into the vestibule
of the theatre from the gang-plank of Vanderdeck
en’s Flying Dutchman or from the editorial rooms
of the Star, green with the mold of a century, was
asked by Dunlap, the ’attor, you know:
“ Well, old man, how did you like Maggie
Mitchell ?”
“ Very well—very well,” he crooned, bringing the
point of his ancient chin nearly up to the end of his
aged nose in the effort to brace up a smile—“ she’s
very well—most as good as her Mother Maggie was
thirty year ago—at the old Chatham, when she
played sailor boy’s."
Miss Mitchell appeared hero during the past week
in three characters, Jane Eyre, Lorie and Fauchon.
Large audiences witnessed and enjoyed her per
formances.
To-morrow evening and for the week, the Madison
Square Theatre drama of “May Blossom" will
once again bloom, and its fragrance of attraction
and interest will doubtless be as usual duly appre
ciated by the patrons of this house.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
The Casino.— The management as
sert that so active has the demand bean for Beat® to
witness “Amorita” at the Casino, that the.arrange
ments have been made to “ book ” them four weeks
ahead from to-morrow morning. Au extra matinee
of “ Amorita" is to take place on Thanksgiving day.
Extended review of this opera and its perfi' ma ice
is deferred.
At this evening’s concert Mlle. DeVergne wl 1 sing
an aria from “Les Huguenots,” Signor Ginannini
M’Appri (Martha), and a duet from “Trovatore,"
with Mlle. Perrini; Signor De Anna a selection from
“ Ernani and Di Provenza ” (Traviata). Mme. Sac
coni, the harp soloist will also assist. Among the
numbers to be interpreted by Mr. Rudolph Aron
son’s orchestra is the ballet music from Goldmark’s
* Queen of Sheba,” etc.
Union Square Thbatbe. —Mr. Hill, o£
the Un ion Square Theatre, has announced that, con
trary to the usual custom, no souvenirs will be dis
tributed at the 50th performance of “ Romeo and
Juliet" on Tuesday evening, December 1, He feels
assured the manner in which the play is presented
and the acting of Miss Margaret Mather command
public support on their merits!’ Novoxtueiess, be
liAvina that thooo who nave applauded and admired
Miss Mather’s Juliet, would be glad to possess some
thing that will boa pleasant reminder of her per
formance, he announces that at the 76th perform
ance of “Romeo and Juliet ” at the Union Square —
that is to say, at the Saturday matinee on the day
following Christmas—Miss Mather will present to
each person in the audience a handsome photograph
of herself, with her autograph written upon it.
There will be an afternoon performance of “Ro
meo and Juliet” next Thursday, Thanksgiving day.
Third Avenue Theatre. —Miss Ida
Mulle —the little Cupid, so to speak—scored an en
couraging success during the past week in the
comedy written for her by Howard Taylor, entitled
“ Dimples.”
To-morrow and ©very evening during the week,
once again Mr. John P. Smith comes to the front
with the undying and all-enduring “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin/’ with all the latter-day accompaniments of
genuine negro plantation cleverness, blood-hounds
and realistic scenic settings. The cast will be capa
bly represented, and it goes without saying that
the audiences will be nightly sufficiently numerous
to make business lively in the Ijox-office and keep
the ushers from biting their thumbs from lack of
active employment. An extra matinee will be given
on Thanksgiving day.
Comedy Theatre. —This is Mr. Kellar’s
tenth week, and as yet there is no change in the
record of large and delighted audiences. The week
commencing to-morrow evening he will introduce
for the first time in this city, one of the most in
tricate and surprising of his many wonderful
mechanical devices —that of “His Majesty’s Casket”
—an oriental mystery. This he claims as one of
the most elaborate and marvelous works in his
repertoire.
In addition to his special seances will be heard
Mr. James Blamphin, the harp soloist, and Mor
ley’s Fata Morgana.
An extra matinee will be given on Thursday
(Thanksgiving Day). No more enjoyable evening
can be passed at any place of amusement in this
city than with Kellar and his wonderful perform
ances.
Madison Square Theatre. —Mr. Palm
er can have no cause of complaint as to the public
appreciation of his latest production, “ Saints and
Sinners.” Since tho first night of its presentation
it has been revised, and the dialogue condensed so
that now the action and progress of the work is
rapid and the performance closes much earlier.
“Saints and Sinners” will bo continued until
further notice. It may not be out of place to re
mark to those who are late in seeking for seats,
that the “ standing room only” sign is now in use
in the lobby.
Fourteenth Street Theatre.—Tillot
son says every seat is sold ahead for the next four
weeks, and Rice is willing to back his manager’s as
sertion with a boiler-iron-clad-copper-fastoned affi
davit, man and notary public ready on call by tele
phone. “The New Evangeline ”is evidently pros
pering and all goes well. Extra matinee on Thurs
day.
Bijou Opera House. —Of course, on
- Friday -evening, the “ souvenir night" was duly
observed, and there was the usual pack and jam in
every available seating and standing room portion
of tho auditorium. Dixey was never so happy and
I he never made everbody in front happier than they
; were on this special and particular occasion.
And this is the second year of “ Adonis."
I Matinees as usual.
Lyceum Thea i re. —Somebody—“press
agent," “ busines manager or perhaps tho bill
poster has sent us the following information in re
ference to the past week's performance at this
theatre. We cheerfully give it place :
Mr. Rickaby is to be congratulated. Hltj first
venture at the Lyceum Theatre is already an as
sured success. During the past week the business
done by “ One of Our Girls ” has been more than
double that of any previous week at this theatre.
The already rich appointments of the bouse have
been added to. Heavy curtains now hang at the
rear of the orchestra. The system of stage light. Bg
has been altered and improved, and an enormous
illustrated sign attracts attention outside the
theatre.
Considering that there is another factor in the
business of this theatre mention of whom isstrane
ly omitted—probably because of her insignificance
in only appoariag as a star, wo beg to call attention
to the fact that Miss Helen Dauvray is playing here
the leading role, Kate Shiply—and for whom tho
pray was written by Mr. Bronson Howard whose
name as the author also passes without notice.
Inasmuch as it is Miss HMen Dauvray whoso
capital is invested in this venture; that it is she
who is responsible for all the liabilities of the thea
tre at the present time, and that Mr. Rickaby is
merely her general manager, subject to her orders,
it ought to have occurred to the follow who fur
nished the foregoing paragraph that she should
have had some recognition.
Without her Mr, Rickaby would have not boon th<
Manager of tho Lyceum; wituout her Mr. Bronson
Howard’s “ One of Our Girls " would not have been
produced on this stage, and without her persona
presence and bank account the production of th*
play by any of her managers would have been
matter of small account either to the press or th<
public.
As compared to a play and its leading representa
tives the manager’s personality is of little conse
quence, either to tho critics or the general public.
Miss [Dauvray (and Mr. Bronson Howard’s play,
written for her, are the attractions at this theatre.
Whatever additions in the way of ornamenting the
front of tho house and its “ already rich appoint
''nts ’’ or the placing of “ an enormous illustrated
c . * ract attention outside the theatre"
are not Which ■ e.
‘■Ons with (Miss JHelen YaUVi'iy as
representative , of » VP« °< »» American sir!, Knd
witb'Jtn exceedingly .effective oast, which includes
Mr. Lciie James, one <h' thebest fading men now
upon our /itage; with M?. '■’* Mackay, Mr. B, H.
Sothern and’ .Miss Ida VeTX bas at ' rac 'cd largo
audiences, and it is scartfcly cessar J. in order to
enlist the atteßHon ”of I .'-A pto,/ 801ng publi °. to
bring the manager and liis aments * for *
ward as tho groat I Ass of the esCsblisSiX. ent ‘
Matinees as usual.
Niblo’s Garden.— lt is by »6 > 1,3
altogether the worn old r’CTnance Of "
to," with its familiar scenic effects and its score 6$
characters who crowd the stage in their action/
which has given the drama the popularity it has'
held since its revival by John Stetson a few sea
sons ago.
When Fechter died the play was laid aside as no
longer available. Mention it for re viral, to a man
agor or an ambitious loading actor, ail'd the single
word “chestnut” settled it.
These wiseacres, when John Stetson put it on the
road, with O’Neil as Edmund Dantes, wars very
anxious to know whether Stetson “ would Mr take
a tumble," and solemnly asserted that the’ afore
said “chestnut" wouldn’t last a month.
son did know what ho was about, this time.- H&-
mounted the drama splendidly, paid O’Nei? »
larger salary than he had ever before received, Ml#
engaged the beat people he could find to fill
cast. The first season was even more successful
than he had dared to anticipate. The second rolled
in the "duc» f ’.”
Now, O’? il h mself is not only the “Star” but
the manag r o the company, aud everywhere
“Monte Cristo” *s presented, its performance is
witnessed by audiences which, in numbers,.seem to
bo limited only by the holding capacity of the the
atre.
It is not much wonder then, that, prior to Mary
Anderson’s return to this country, when John B.
Schoeffel, for her manager, Mr. Abbey, offered him
twenty-two thousand dollars to play the leading
roles in her company during her present season,
O'Neil declined the offer.
So, here we have “ Monte Cristo " at this theatre,
with O Neil as the Edmund Dantes—playing to as
great audiences as any dramatic work and actor
have attracted upon its stage.
And we will have “ Monte Cristo ” during the
present week.
Fifth Avenue Theatre.— At last there
is but one “Mikado” left upon the'metropolitan
boards, and Stetson is himself again. Now Brother
John, the lively Helen Lenoir, the fascinating Burn
ham and Signor Maze Edwards can join hands ia
the Twenty-eighth street lobby and circle round im
a Yum-Yum cancan of triumph.
This “Mikado"—like “Pinafore”—appears to bs*&>
sort of craze with that large portion of the public
who Hold Chut eomifl onera. with its dash. iXs tonic
al rhymes, its pretty choristers, tights and display
of female anatomy, its fun and jollity, is “the*
thing.”
So let it go on prospering and to prosper hero, while*
the Duff “Mikado”- takes to the road and make»>
things lively among tho provincials, •who have not
yet seen the “Mikado” in its proper condition and
at its best. Matinees on Saturday.
Harrigan’s Park Theatre. — The
long and prosperous run of “ Old Lavender ” ie*
nearing Its close, and its hundreth night’s per
formance will be properly marked by the pre
sentation of appropriate souvenirs on Wednesday
evening next. It will be succeeded by Mr.
Ed. Harrigan’s new jplay, entitled “Grip,"
which he claims will be one of the best of all the
dramatic expositions of city character and life be
has yet produced. The cast will include all the
members of his famous company. The scenic
settings realistic, and Mr. Dave Braham, his lyric
right bower, will provide the new songs and music.
An extra matinee of •• Old Lavender ” will be given
on Thursday—Thanksgiving Day.
National Theatre. —This week, com
mencing to-morrow evening, and at the matinees on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Mr. C. W. Barry
will be the dramatic attraction, appearing in his
sensational drama of “Escaped from Sing Sing.” In
this work he will impersonate five characters, these
being a doctor, a sport, a burglar and forger, a
scotchman and Mr. Claude Livingstone. The
drama is in a prologue and five acts. Mr. Barry will
be supported by the leading members of Manager
Heumann’s regular company.
The variety olio, which precedes the dramatic
performance, will include many and attractive fea
tures. Among the most notable of these will be Mr.
Harry Le Clair and Mr. W. J. Russell in “A Practical
Joke:” Professor J. W. Hampton with his company
of performing dogs, monkeys, goats, cats and geese;
Mr. Andy Collom, the banjoist, and Mr. Garry
Hooper and Carrie Hall in their novel sketch en
titled “Secret Service."
Special concerts will be given this afternoon and
evening.
New York Museum.— This will be th»
last day of Miss Fannie Mills, “ that girl from Ohio"
who wears a No. 30 shoe, measuring nineteen
inches in length and seven-and-a-half inches in
width. Miss Mills has during the past throe week®
probably attracted an equal attention with that of
any curiosity ever seen in this city.
To-morrow an attractive holiday bill will be pre
sented, including the first appearance of “ That Boy
from Germany,” who has the largest feet of any
person in the world except Miss Mills. Also, the
Hon. P. T. Barnum’s original Aztecs, Maximo and
Bariota; and the famous Ohio Girl Giantess, Miss
Anna Bell, who weighs 565 pounds and is only six
teen years old. A grand stage performance, entirely
now, will be given hourly by a selected corps of
first-class artists.
Koster & Bial’s Concerts.— The
production of the burlesque “Mikado" by the
management of this popular resort has proved ono
of the most pronounced successes of the season.
The talent which is employed in its representa
tion is much above tho average. For example
there is Miss Louise Lester, who impersonates the
character of Langtry Pooh. Miss Lester is the pos
sessor of a soprano voice whose equal has been
seldom heard on this stage. Miss Laura Burt is the
Yum Yum of tho piece, and is of course as attractive
as usual. The same may be said of Miss Carrie
Gould, who introduces a speciality in the shape of
an African Kangaroo. Paul Brown as The Mikado
is sufficiently dignified, and his makeup and imita
tion of General Butler is applauded. Mary Woods
gives a unique representation of Viky, the English
Queen. All the characters are amusingly por
trayed.
The costumes and appointments are picturesque,
and the music' under the direction of Professor
W. J. Rostelle, is appropriate. The usual concert
will be given this evening.
Miss Phillips’s “CrazyQuilt.” —The
Needle Art Exhibition at the Masonic Temple,
Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, has been
crowded during tho week. How it would have de
lighted our great-grandmothers to wander through
such a wilderness of patches 1 Criticism is out of
tho question where there are so many pieces of ex
quisite work. Still, we cannot refrain from saying
that “Exhibit No. 26"—a crazy quilt, the work of
Miss E. L. Phillips, deserves more than ordinary
commendation for the artistic taste displayed in the
harmonious blending of its colors and the original*
ity of its design.