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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “THE MODERN CINDERELLA.”
ABOVE THE MIST.
THE BUTTONS.
IN A FALSE-FACE STORE.
DUCK SHOOTING.
ONE EYED RILEY.
RAILROAD DISCOVERY.
HE WAS OVERWORKED-
THIRD PAGE:
MASONL’ MATTERS: Frauds: The Ha’.! and Asylum
Fund; In Remembrance; Well Done; Commandery
News; Between Old Friends: Echoes from the Elec
tions; James E. Kerrigan; Twenty-five Years To
gether; Quest ions and Answers; Personal; Freema
sonry; The Fast Master's Degree; A Tough Story; Re
cent Elections; Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE t
A LITTLE SUMMER ALL SHUT IN.
GIVING A ROSE.
NAMES AND NICKNAMES.
A NEPHEW'S S' OUNDRELISM.
THE RABBIT’S FOOT.
ONLY A DREAM.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
LOVE.
WILDING *S SUM MONS.
CURIOUS MARRIAGES.
THE GHOST DRILL.
MONKEYED WITH THE COURT.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
HELPING A MAN DRAW 52.000.
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
MODERN FABL; «
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
anil (Qwieg.
M. L. C. — “ Was Sir Walter Raleigh
ever in America ?’* Yes, in South America. Being
excluded from the royal favor through his mar
riage, his ambitious and adventurous spirit, was at
tracted by a project lor the discovery and conquest
of El Dorado, a fabled paradise of gold seekers,
■which was supposed to exist in South America. He
sailed from Plymouth, England, with five vessels,
in February, 1595, and ascended the Orinoco in
boats about sixty leagues, but his further progress
is said to have been prevented by the sudden rise
of tho water. Ho returned to England the same
year. Again, in JGI7, he camo to South America,
having had himself released from prison by bri
bery, for tho purpose of opening a mine of gold in
the supposed highly favored region. Tho second
limo ho conduct d a float of thirteen vessels; he
went an exploring party up the Orinoco. They en
countered, at St. Thomas, a body of Spaniards, in a
fight with whom Raleigh's son Walter was killed;
but their search for tne gold mine was unsuccess
ful. Raleigh sailed ior Newfoundland, intending to
relit and to obtain provisions, but ho was forced by
his mutinous crew to return to England, where he
arrived in July, 1618, and was beheaded in the fol
lowing October.
Mahy C. —Bad breath, a most disa
lireeablo infliction, may be alleviated or cured by
tho following, provided the teeth do not need the
dentists’ assistance; Chlorine water, as supplied by
a good chemist, a table spoonful to half a tumbler
of water, to be used :is a wash and a gargle for the
mouth. No harm is done if a few drops are acci
dentally swallowed in so doing. A frequent cause
of foul breath is a torpidity of some of the excre
tory organs, such as the skin, kidneys, bowels, liv
er, lungs. When they cease performing their func
tions one of the others will be called upon to per
form an extra office. In this way, when tbo skin or
bowels become affected, the lungs being an excre
tory organ, will bo oalh d upon to throw off an ad
ditional waste from the system. If so, tho breath
becomes tainted. Should the foul breath bo depend-
Ing upon th" stomach, it must bo corrected by some
Bkillful physician.
A. L. N. - Infusoria was tho name
formerly given to numberless kinds of microscopic
animalcules, the most minute of created beings,
«o called from their being especially abundant in
water infused with vegetable matter. From their
exhibiting the simplest forms of animal life, they
were grouped together under tho division protozoa,
but such a division, supposed to differ from all
other animals in producing do eggs, does not exist
in nature. Many are ascertained to be locomotive
elgao, or sea weeds; others are acephalous mollusks,
■embryonic worms, or crust-cea: they form favorite
tost objects for microscopes, and have been carefully
Atadied by Bailey. Ehrenberg, and others.
V. A. C. — Ist. General Thomas Francis
Meagher was drowned at Fort Benton, Montana,
July 1, 1867. He was sentenced to death for sedition
Clonmel, Ireland, in October, 1848; this sentence
was commuted to banishment for life to Van Die
xnan’s Land, from which he escaped and landed in
the United States in 1852. At the time of his death
bo was Secretary and acting Governor of Montana.
2d. John Mitchell, tbo Irish agitator, was never
condemned to death by tho British Government; he
was sentenced to fourteen years’ banishment to
Australia. He escaped in 1854, camo to America,
and took up his residence at tho South.
A. L. 0. —‘‘The Cambuscan bold,"
mentioned by John Milton in “Il Penseroso,” was
a king of Sarra, in the laud of Tarbary, and was a
inodel of all the royal virtues. He bad three pres
ents sent him by the King of Araby and Ind. 1.
A horse of brass, which would, within a single day,
transport its rider to tho most distant region of the
world. 2. A trenchant sworl, which would cut
through the stoutest armor and heal a sword
Wound by simply strikiug it with the flat of the
blade. 3. A mirror, which would reveal conspira
cies. teli who wore faithful and loyal, and in whom
• trust might be confided.
Household.—lst. Try placing toasted
cheese in your traps. 2d. To cure a corn, soak for
one-half au hour in a solution of soda and pare as
close as possible; then apply a plaster of tho follow
ing Ingredients : Take of purified ammonia and yel
low wax, of each two ounces, and acetate of copper,
>ix drachms. Melt the first two ingredients togeth
er, and alter removing them from the fire, add the
'acetate of copper just before they grow cold. Spread
;tbia ointment on a piece of soft leather or linen and
>pply it to tho corn, removing it iu two weeks.
; American.—Ths present American flag
■Was adopted in 1818, by resolution of Congress,
.reading as follows- “That from and after the
fourth day of July next, the flag of the United
jfatates be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red
Mnd white; that tho union be twenty stars, white
do a blue field; and that, on the admission of a new
ptate into the Union, one star be added to the union
tho flag; and that such addition shall take effect
»n the fourth day of July next succeeding such ad
mission." Approved April 4,1818.
! Wax.—John Morrissey first ran for
jTongress in 1866, in tho Vth District. His opponents
wvers Eneas Elliott (Rop.) and Nelson Taylor (Ind.
pom,). Ho beat Elliott 6,869 and Taylor 2.659. In
£IB6B his opponents were James M. McCartin and
fceorge Francis Train. Over both his opponents he
Riad a majority of 8,678. In 1875, in the IVth Sena
torial District, John Morrissey ran for State Senator
• gainst John Fox, whom he beat by 8,277 votes. In
p. 877, Morrissey boat Augustus Schell 3,854 votes.
V A. L. O. —United States Senator John
teherman, of Ohio, was born at Lancaster, Ohio,
.Itlay 10, 1823. Ho first entered Congress as a mem.
fLer of tho House, in 1855, remaining there con
tinuously until 1861, when ho was elected United
fctates Senator. Ho was never Governor of Ohio.
t Wager.—lst. “Estrella” means “a
ytar." “Mia" moans “mine.” 2d. Napoleon Bona
te's remains were returned to Franco in 1840,
S*nd December 15th, 1840, they were interred in a
'Jeiagirfiicont monument in tho Hotel des Invalides.
I G. J. F.—lst. Wo have not sufficient
Jjjpace to answer your queries in this column. A
preference to the “American Cyclopedia” will dis-
Mcloso all tho information you desire. 2d. Your
k>onmau3hip would answer for business purposes.
? L. C. N.—Tho composer of the opera
of “Der Freiscliutz" was Carl ’faria Von Weber. He
'was born at Entin, near Holdstein, in 1786, and died
Sn London, whither ho had gone to superintend the
{performance of his opera of “Oberon" in 1826.
■Republican.—ln the Vlth Assembly
district the vote for Governor wan in 1879 : Corneil,
p. 386; Robinson, 2.382; Kelly, 2,188. In 1882 the
Gubernatorial vote stood in the Vlth Assembly Dis
trict : Folger, 1,582: Cleveland, 5,393.
Francis.—George Francis Train was
arrested by tho British authorities on board the
.British steamship “ Scotia,” at Queenstown, on
emissary.
■ Popular.—There was a Are at the
,‘‘White House, Washington, January 18, 1867, which
destroyed tho conservatory and a valuable collection
of plants. Damage to buildings twenty thousand
(i A. B. C.—Should a woman die intes
tate, leaving no children, but a husband and other
the husband would receive one-third of
ftho personal estate, the remainder going to the next
kin.
I W. C. S.—ln the opinion of persons
'competent to judge, Mr. John M. Turner is the
inost accomplished banjoist now before the Ameri
can public. His studio is at No. 1,263 Broadway.
f< Negro.—Henry R. Revets, United
j|states Senator from Mississippi, was the first color
ed man ever admitted to the American Congress.
plo took his seat as Senator on February 25, 1870.
Cribbage. — “ In the game of cribbage
A plays a 4 spot, B plays a 2 spot, A a king, B a 3
>pot, Aa 4 spot. A claims a ruu of three. It it cor
rect or not ?’’ There is no run.
Sol.—Jacob was the third and last of
.the Hebrew patriarchs, son of Isaac and Rebekah,
and younger twin brother of Esau.
' L. C. M.—John Keats, the English
poet, was born in London, in 1795, or 1796, and died
in Rome, February 27,1821.
Gray.—We have no authentic record
of the opening of the Norfolk Navy Yard. Perhaps
come reader can oblige.
Cashier.—After you have paid the
phrenologists a v sit. you will be as able as we to
judge of their ability.
' W. IT. H. —Full information can be
obtained by applying to the Pension Agent, at No.
893 Canal street.
Opera.—Clara Louise Kellogg was
born in Sumtor, South Carolina, of New England
parents, in 1842.
M. K. — The late Mr. Ridley, the dry
goods merchant, was an Englishman by birth. He
was not a Jew.
Sticks.—The term of enlistment of
Soldiers iu the regular army of the United States is
three years.
Constant Reader.—We will endeavor
to answer accurately in our next.
v H. S.—We have no authentic record
ipf the fata you mention.
Jersey City.—We know nothing of
Jthe firms you mention.
• Old Timer.—You answer your ques
tion In staling it. 1
|lfto gflik Jlisptcg.
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NEW YORK, JANUARY 10, 1886.
TO ADVERTISERS.
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must have their advertisements n our office BEFORE
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vertisement can be inserted on tbe Masonic Page after
that hour.
The NEW YORK DISPATCH
has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the United States.
A WORKINGMENS’ TRIUMPH.
Tho settlement of tho disputes between tho
engine mon and tho managers of tho Elevated
railroads, is a triumph for workingmen. It is a
victory of right, moderation and good sense,
over a grasping and grinding monopoly. The
settlement was made upon the basis of mutual
concessions, but the workingmen have obtained
substantially the reforms which they demand
ed. They asked that they should be paid full
wages for a day’s work of eight hours, instead
of being compelled to work eleven and twelve
hours without extra pay, and the company has
agreed that nine hours shall constitute a day’s
work, but that tho men shall be released alter
eight hours, except when some urgent necessity
demands. Ou the whole, this is a fair arrange
ment. The engine men are perfectly satisfied
with it, and the managers ot the Elevated roads
profess to be delighted.' We congratulate the
public, therefore, upon the harmonious termi
nation of a trouble which seemed likely
terrupt traffic, and inconvenience hundreds of
thousands of people.
All through the negotiations tho conduct
of tho workingmen, as represented by
the officers of the Brotherhood, of Loco
motive Engineers, was in happy con
trast to that of the railway monopolists.
The men behaved sensibly, were moderate in
their requirements, and were ready lor any
equitable compromise. They did not stop
work, and thus injure other working people
who travel by the Elevated trains. On the con
trary, the railroad managers undertook to
strike. They actually stopped the Second and
Ninth avenue lines in order to put a pressure
upon their poor employees. But the law, back
ed by a unanimous public opinion, was on the
side of the workingmen, this time. Commis
sioner O’Donnell promptly notified the railroad
magnates that their charters would be forfeited
if they stopped their trains. Tho decision of
Chief Justice Davis, a Republican Judge, was
cited to them, and showed that they had no
right to neglect their duties to the people in
tboir efforts to coerce their workmen. Then,
like the famous coon of Colonel Scott, the
monopolists decided to “ come down.” Tyranny
is always cowardly, and our monopoly tyrants
are no exception to this rule.
The three capitalists who have been promi
nent in tho latest attempt to force workingmen
out of their rights are Jay Gould, Cyrus XV.
Field and Russell Sage, whose names are
already too familiar to the long-suffering pub
lic. As usual, this triumvirate have scattered,
now that their contemplated mischief has been
prevented. Jay Gould has run away to Florida;
Cyrus W. Field has announced his intention of
leaving for Europe, and Russell Sage has locked
himself in the back office where he once laid
down upon his stock privileges. These are throe
fine fellows to try to bully tho people of New
York I Jay Gould is constantly running away
from somebody when ho is not wrecking rail
roads or being dropped over area railings. In
thia law-abiding community he has such a dread
of Judge Lynch that he cannot sleep in his own
house on the night after a Presidential election,
and quits the town when the Elevated employ
ees stand firm. Cyrus W. Field is the meanest
rich man that ever existed. He made his first
money in the junk business and carries his old
rag methods into great financial enterprises.
He begrudges workingmen an extra hour’s
wages; but he spends thousands of dollars
upon a monument to Andre, the English spy,
for the purpose of pleasing British aristocrats.
The name of Russell Sage is synonymous in
Wall street with all sorts of sordid economies
and sharp practices. Yet these three scallywags
band themselves together and attempt to op
press workingmen and punish the public for
sympathizing with the workers. They have
been accustomed to override the law, but, for
once, legal might and public opinion have been
too strong for them; their plots have failed
ignominiously, and they are glad to escape se
verer penalties by compromise and flight.
Two lessons are taught to the workingmen by
the result of the Elevated road trouble: One is,
that the Republican party is their true friend.
It was the prompt action of Commissioner
O’Donnell, as an official created by the Re
publican Legislature, which helped them to
conquer; it was the decision of Chief Justice
Davis, a Republican Judge, which was their
sure protection. The other lesson is that they
can always win if they manage their affairs with
the dignity, discretion and moderation which
have distinguished the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers. The Brotherhood might have
ordered a strike, thrown hundreds of workmen
out of employment and seriously interfered
with the labor and comfort of the public. They
might have ordered the Elevated roads to be
boycotted and fomented disturbances through
out the city. Instead of these extreme measures,
they displayed such tact and prudence as to put
the railroad monopolists completely in the
wrong, and they have carried all their points
without the loss of a dollar of wages. We have
steadfastly preached that the workingmen of
this country have the power to protect and
benefit themselves if they will only have the
sense and skill to use their power properly.
They should learn wisdom from Chief Arthur
and his colleagues of the Brotherhood and
imitate their manly and moderate methods.
They succeed without strikes, whether they
argue with a Vanderbilt or scare a Jay Gould
into justice. If the workingmen had a few more
such able leaders they would rule this country,
which belongs to them, and wo advise them to
educate a class of such chiefs without further
delay.
TRINITY CHURCH TENEMENTS.
We are very glad to receive the prompt, ex
plicit and indignant denial of Controller Cruger
in refutation of the charge that tenement houses
owned by the Trinity corporation are neglected
and in an unhealthy condition. It would, in
deed, be digraceful, if a religious corporation,
professing to care for the souls of the people,
should be so grossly indifferent to their bodily
welfare as to leave its tenement houses in the
condition described by the daily press. Con
troller Cruger states that the houses complained
of do not belong to Trinity. This shifts the re
sponsibility, but does not remove the ground of
complaint. Who are the owners of the neglected
tenements? We hope that the authorities, and
especially the Board of Health, will discover
and punish the guilty landlords. If tenants
who are compelled to live in houses neglected
by the owners, would address a complaint to
the Dispatch, giving the name and address of
the person to whom they pay their rent, wo
would see that the matter is properly investi
gated. Our complaint box is always open to
the public, who get tired of having no attention
paid to their communications by public officials,
and when we once take up such a subject, we
exploit it thoroughly. There is no reason why
the dwellings of the poor should not be as neat
and wholesome as those of the rich. Tho sani
tary regulations of the city, it properly enforced,
provide for this, and the general health requires
it. Now that the Trinity corporation has plead
ed “not guilty,” let the real culprits in this ten
ement house nuisance be discovered and ar
raigned at the bar of public opinion. The re
cent frost has saved us from an epidemic of ty
phoid fever, and wo must not bo subjected to
any further risks
NEW YORK DISPATCH. JANUARY 10, 1886.
O’CONNELL AND PARNELL.
Among the great men whom Ireland has
given to the world, no one of them was so en
tirely great as Daniel O’Connell. He was born
in 1775, and when but twenty-five years old be
delivered a speech in Dublin which electrified
the whole Kingdom of Great Britian and Ire
land. He lived until 1847, and during his whole
life he was opposed to a resort tofarms. He said,
time and again, “Let us agitate, and in the end
we will get justice.” He fought with the great
est ability and energy for Catholic Emancipa
tion, which was carried through Parliament
about 1830. In the year 1840, he declared that
the only means for obtaining justice for Ireland
would be through the dissolution of the legisla
tive union between England and Ireland.
Through the action of Daniel O’Connell tbo
course of Parnell became possible. O’Connell
was undoubtedly one of the ablest men of his
time. We remember being present at a lecture
delivered by Wendell Phillips, some twenty-five
years ago, and the subject was “ Daniel O’Con
nell.” Mr. Phillips said that in his time ho had
heard Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Thomas
Benton, Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Wil
liam E. Gladstone, and others of the most emi
nent orators of America and England, but that
the greatest of them all was O’Connell, “and,”
said Mr. Phillips, “ with all his supremo ability
ho had the sloightest flavor in the world of the
brogue.*'
Mr. Parnell stands forth to-day the foremost
man in Ireland, if not in the British Empire.
He is calm, self-poised, and patriotic. Though
partially American in birth, be is wholly
Irish in feeling. His self-poiso, his great na
tural talent for combinations, and hie entire de
votion to the object for which ho is working—
the freedom of Ireland—has made him the ar
biter of the English government, the one man
who can say whether Gladstone or Salisbury
shall be Premier. Acknowledging tho great
ability of Parnell, wo still contend that Daniel
O’Connell was the “ Great Liberator,” and that
without him Parnell’s career would have boon
impossible.
Suicide and Charity.—Another des
perate man has attempted to jump from the
Brooklyn Bridge, has been saved from suicide
and his wife and family rescued from starva
tion. History repeats itself in the circum
stances of this case. Unable to obtain work
or to beg food for his wife and four children, a
poor foreigner resolves to end his life and
selects the most conspicuous spot in the city
for the deed. He is dragged back and his ad
dress is found upon a letter of farewell to the
world. Then charity steps forward and gen
erously supplies the means of livelihood which
had hitherto been sternly denied. We should
like to see a variation of this old, sad story.
Why should not the charitable answer such
appeals without waiting until the poverty
stricken man is driven to the very verge ot
death ? Why do not our charity organizations
look after such Why is there no public
office where starving people may obtain tem
porary relief if found truly worthy? We have
a Bergh to look after the welfare of animals ;
but a greater reputation is to be gained by
some philanthropist who will undertake to re
lieve suffering men and women without waiting
tor the advertisement of a public suicide.
Black and Blonde.—The prejudice
against the color of the negro outlasts tho war,
slavery, the constitutional amendment and
twenty years of freedom. A colored barber
marries a white girl with golden hair, and all
the papers publish sensational articles about it
and the police are ordered to hunt down the
newly-wedded pair. The negro barber summed
up the situation when he said : “I am an Amer
ican citizen; the lady is of age; we have a per
fect right to marry each other if wo please.”
But prejudice is not to be abolished by argu
ment. In Europe there is no popular antipathy
to the negroes. On the contrary, they are
rather admired and courted by white people on
account of their color and their scarcity. Here
we accept a very brunette Spaniard or Italian
as our social equal, but we draw the line at the
lightest colored negro. Is this prejudice a relic
of the old slaveholding days ? White men have
formerly been slaves, and there is no such relic
in their case. The whole subject is curious,
full of difficulties, and will repay careful thought
and study. Cases of miscegenation do not oc
cur very frequently, and perhaps it is their rar
ity which makes each one of them a popular
sensation.
Underground Wires.—We have a
law compelling tellegraph wires to be laid
underground, and a special Commission to en
force the law. Look out of your window, and
you will see how much our great corporations
care about the law. In England the govern
ment owns the telegraph lines, and over njno
thousand miles of wires are now underground
in London alone. There wires work satisfac
torily, while the overground wires are broken
by storms and snow. The problem which the
special Commission is taking so much time to
consider and investigate seems, therefore, to
be already solved in England. Perhaps a trip
across the water, at the public expense, may
be necessary to demonstrate this fact to the
commissioners, and perhaps they would prefer
to combine business with pleasure by taking
this trip in the Summer; but, at any rate,
there is a reasonable probability that our
streets may be cleared of the unsightly and
dangerous telegraph poles and wires before
another year has passed.
American Commerce.—Once Columbia
ruled the waves, but Britannia seized the oppor
tunity of our Civil War and sent out piratical
cruisers, under the Confederate flag, to drive
all our ships from tho ocean. Our flag has now
completely disappeared from foreign commerce.
Last year forty-seven millions of bushels of
grain were shipped from this port to other
countries, but not a single bushel was carried
by an American vessel. This fact tells a story
which should interest and instruct every
patriot If James G. Blaine, of Maine, were our
President, we might be sure that the marine
branch of American industry would be speedily
restored, developed and protected; but what
have we to hope from a Democratic Congress
which plays into the hands of England by
threatening to tinker the tariff so as to establish
free trade ? The restoration of the American
mercantile navy is one of the certainties of the
future. When it comes it will come to stay,
and the decline of England will date from that
period.
Soldiers as Policemen.—-The guard
of United States regulars is to be withdrawn
from Garfield’s tomb next June, by order of the
War Department. W’e should be glad to see a
similar order in regard to the soldiers on duty
at Grant’s tomb. Both Cleveland and New
York have policemen who are fully able to pro
tect these honored graves, if anybody desires
to profane them, which we do not admit. It is
contrary to the genius of this Republic to em
ploy our soldiers for police duty. A guard of
honor is a phrase that sounds well, but the
poor soldiers who are shivering in Lake View
Cemetery and Riverside Park deserve some
sympathy and consideration. The honor paid
to Grant and Garfield is in the hearts of the
people, and no military policemen can ade
quately symbolize it. Let our soldiers be sent
back to their usual quarters and the tombs of
the illustrious dead left in the guardianship of
the officers of the law. That is the true Ameri
can sentiment.
Good Advice.—M. Pasteur is wiser
than his admirers. He says that tho American
disciples of his hydrophobia cure are going alto
gether too fast. ::>d advises them to wait and
watch the effect- >1 inoculation upon the New
ark children be ore establishing special hospi
tals. He might nive added that a few hydro
phobia© patients wero also necessary. The rec
ords prove that only an average of one person
a year is bitten by mad dogs in this city, and
one patient cannot make a hospital any more
than one swallow makes a Spring or a drink.
Thus far the scare about hydrophobia has done
more h-jrin than good; but M. Pasteur seems to
be a man of sense, and his caution to Americans
to “go slow” will give the doubters more faith
in his system.
Democratic Policy—Every great party
ought to have settled principles and a decided
policy; but the Democratic party is divided
against itself and must soon fall. The Demo
cratic President processes to take no interest
in the proceedings of the Democratic Con
gress, and the Democratic Congressmen are
fighting among themselves about the silver
question, the Tariff question and every
other subject of importance to the people.
All over the country the signs .of a Repub
lican reaction are evident and numerous.
Fortunately the Republicans have control of
the Senate, so as to be able to check Democratic
excesses, and Providence has given us a Repub
lican Vice-President, in accordance with tho de
sires of a majority of the patriotic people.
With these safeguards the Republic is secure
for the present, and it is now. certain that the
next Congress will be largely Republican, and
that a Republican President will occupy tho
White House and enforce tho laws for the pro
tection of American industry, after the next
general election.
El Dorado.—Florida is being exten
sively advertised as a paradise not only for in
valids but for workingmen. Companies are
being formed in various parts ot tho world to
organize colonies of working people and trans
port them to the land of flowers to grow oran
ges and grapes and manufacture American
marmalades and winos. Our own workingmen
ought to take an interest in this subject and a
share in tho now El Dorado if its pleasures and
profits aro to be as great as tho prospectuses
promise. But they should make careful inquir
ies before leaving their certainties at tho North
for the golden future of tho South. No invest
ments in Florida lands should bo made except
upon the authority of trustworthy agents who
have actually seen tho promised land. Too
many of the rich orange plantations turn out to
be dismal swamps and too many of the city lots
aro kneo-deop in water. Tho experiences of
Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley have been
repeated by persons who have leit comfortable
homes hero to seek for fortunes in Florida.
•—w-
Esteemed Contemporaries.—We are
sorry to seo that tho Daily Telegraph has sus
pended. It tried to be a newspaper without
giving tho news, and this policy always proves
fatal. The trumpery Morning Journal, which
has no news, but lives by publishing gossip
one day and contradicting it tho next, is only an
exception to the rule. Tho Herald, which
long been conspicuous for incapacity, is now
idiotic in its editorials and is beaten sadly in its
news columns. There was a timo when tho
Herald was bought and read for its piquant edi
torials, but nobody now cares for its journalis
tic drivel, while all the other papers surpass it
in recording current events. Wo should not
be surprised to hoar that James Gordon Ben
nett, the Little, had dropped out, or been
bought out, of tho paper which his father
founded and which he has pretty thoroughly
spoiled.
Star Gazing.—A study of the heavens
will reward the observer on those clear, cloud
less nights, even it no celestial phenomenon
occurs. A splendid display of the aurora bore
alis was visible during last week, accompany
ing the cold wave, and last evening Saturn
could be seen iu close conjunction with a star
of tho third magnitude. But the stars aro
beautiful enough without any such extraor
dinary incidents. They seem to shine with un
wonted brightness; they hold tho mystery of
creation in their solemn silonco and they re
call the lovely lines of Addison :
“ What, though in solemn silence all
Move round our own terrestial ball?
What, though no real voice nor sound
Amid their radiant orbs be found?
In reason’s ear they all rejoice
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing, as they ahino,
The Land that made us is Divine 1"
A Warning.—What accidents might
have happened if tho directors of tho Elevated
roads had been allowed to discharge their ex
perienced engineers and put greon hands upon
the locomotives, wo may judge from the col
lision on the Third avenue line, last Thursday.
A Second avenuo train was in charge of a now
man, who had been put on in case of a strike,
and he promptly collided with another train
and interrupted tho traffic for several hours.
The Brotherhood- of Locomotive Engineers
should follow up this case, and seo whether it
is not a legal crime, as well as a moral crime,
to put an incompetent person in a position
where human lives may be sacrificed.
A Chinese Monopolist.—The Chi
nese are an imitative people and it is not as
tonishing to find that Wo Kee, of Mott street,
-has acquired a great deal of property and tho
reputation of a celestial Jay Gould. Like his
American autotype, Wo Kee is fond of using
the courts to carry out- his plans; but of late he
has been rather unfortunate. Ho is willing to
swear “ alloo samee Molican man,” but the
courts find that his evidence is not coincident
with his previous affidavits. It is easy to see,
therefore, why he is called tho Chinese Jay
Gould.
The Silver Question. —As the Bland
dollar is worth only a fraction over seventy
nino cents, and the trade dollar just eighty
cents, why should the workingmen be asked to
accept these dollars for one hundred cents, and
why should they expect to receive one hundred
cents’ worth of value for them ? Here is the
silver question in a nutshell, and, before long,
it will come homo to the pocket and the heart of
everybody who receives wages. Tho country
is rich enough to use honest money only. Wo
want no Mexican currency here.
ami
“ ODDS AND ENDS ” IN BED.
Was’t aver ill.
We was’t.
We would like to have as many dollars as we
was’t ill for the past ton days.
Tell yoxt all about it.
We went to Albany with tho Kings County
Club to inaugurate Gov. Hill, and we inaug
urated him in Room 151, of the Delevan House.
In the procession wore Col. “ Tom ” Carroll,
William H. Goff, E. J. Ametrans, Bernard Mc-
Elroy, Mortimer C. Earl, Peter McCann, Tim
Dyson, Joe Haggerty, Eddio Murphy and other
statesmen, and Dr. Balch, of Albany. The latter
administered the oath of office in the way of
mustard plasters, hypodermic injections, hot
flannels and opium.
Death was hovering around for a more or
less space of time, but thanks to the kindness
of the friends above named and a cast-iron con
stitution he was ejected from the congregation
just in the nick of time.
It was nip and tuck for two nights and days,
and pools were selling in which we occupied the
field. We had a good jockey, and although the
race is not yet over, we think we see the win
ning point looming up in the gloaming, and the
Dark Horse is iar behind.
We don’t know how we reached our own little
home in Brooklyn, but we are here, and if
kindly care and the attentions of good, kind,
honest friends go for aught, the Dispatch
readers will not be rid of us for many a day to
come.
There were other friends of whom we wish to
speak here. Those who worry the life out of
one and make death sought after. We will
portray au incident as an example.
She is a dear friend of the family. We will
call her “ dear” because it always costs so
much to keep our temper when she is around.
She is always on hand when there is sickueSs
in the family, and has known us from boyhood.
She never brings anything but advice.
In the midst of our trouble she “ dropped in”
to see how the patient was getting along.
What was the trouble ? Information of the
bowels. Hundreds of people were dying of it.
But we were getting better. Ob, yes! that’s
what Jane Clark thought, and the next day
Jane Clark was dead. Then there was George
Armstrong’s wife’s cousin. Ho was taken the
same way, and died before he knew it.
We sympathized with the cousin, and said
that somebody should have sent word around
to him.
“Let’s see our tongue.”
We poked it out until we thought we saw our
stockings on the end of it, and then desisted.
“How horrid!”
Wo wanted to know if sho objected to the
length or breadth.
“No. tho color.”
Wo told her that she had probably been
brought up in some high-toned family, where
they had tongues of assorted colors, and that if
she’d bring us a red, white and blue one, or
one with the green above the red, we’d see
what we could do to introduce it into the Quevo
do family, when ours ran down.
Thon sho felt of our pulse. At least she
thought she did, but she didn’t have it’s ad
dress, and fumbled up our arm for it. She
finally located a boil that had gone into bank
ruptcy, and looked thoughtful.
“If I only had a watch, now,” she said, “I
could tell just how you feel.”
We told her we could remove all doubts on
that subject if she had time to prepare an affi
davit; or, if that wouldn’t do, we’d put our
clothes on and run up and look at the City Hall
clock, and telegraph her the time.
She finally prescribed a mustard plaster fore
and aft.
That made us mad.
We had worn mustard plasters until there
wasn’t enough meat left to make a sandwich
big enough for one plaster, and we told her that
if she brought any mustard around she’d better
bring a loaf of bread with it, and we’d sacrifice
what was left of us to the poor of the neighbor
hood.
Then she went away.
She will never return, for she said she would
pray lor us, and if she attempts that sho is lost.
SMALL CHANGE.
“My !” said Mrs. Punkinhead, “what’s
this world coming to?” They assure us that
these little Newark children are in no danger of
having babies. I should hope not. Why, they’re
mere children 1 But, then, I see that their
mother is going to have one 1” And then she
sat back in her chair and wept for tho wicked
ness of the world.
The Corporation Counsel has decided
that a car-driver need not necessarily be a citi
zen, notwithstanding the fact that the Aidermen
passed a law to the opposite effect. The Corpc
• ration Counsel didn’t say anything about Aider
men in his decision.
Professor Proctor says that in time
there will bo no water on tho face of the earth.
Or on the face of mankind, we presume. Well,
we can spit, and nobody’s going to stop us.
The thought bulges up that we’ll get pure wbia
*ky, anyhow.
It is said that the ground-hog has
come out of his hole and looked around, and
farmers say that this presages a mild Winter.
Wo never sausage a Winter as tho ground hog
is making lor us this year.
The manager of the six days walk has
disappeared with tho proceeds of the week.
Good ! Ono or two more cases of tho kind
and the tramps will be compelled to work for a
living like white folks.
The managers of all the roads to
Coney Island have joined forces, and next
year no free passes will be issued. This is
rather hard after the politicians spent so much
money to bo elected.
Minister Winston is going to aston
ish the Shah with a suit of soldiers clothes. All
the Shah will have to do will be to poke a gun
at him and he'll crawl through himself out of
the back window.
A foot-ball union has been organized
in this city. It does look as if men’s brains
were traveling down even below the equator,
where somo people arc said to carry theirs.
This hotel-keepers have banded to
gether to provide means for the removal of
swill .and garbage from their premises. What
are they going to do for their tables ?
John Lush Sullivan knocked out a
little newsboy in one round the other day. And
yet wo know a little fellow—demi-John—that
can knock big John out every trip.
The scoundrel who sends little boys
on errands and then runs away with their over
coats is again in town. Somebody should make
a shot-overcoat of that fellow,
A St. Lours lawyer has been dis
barred for endeavoring to purchase a witness.
This will, no doubt, be a sad blow to their well
known success in winning suits.
A Trades Journal informs us that a
new and loss laborious means for the tanning
of hides has been discovered. Jinks ! Won’t
the little boys catchit now ?
It is now authoritatively stated that
tha reason for the howling against the silver dol
lar is beoansa the cashiers can’t get away with
so many ol them.
It is said that Battenberg can’t sleep
at night. Ho’d batter not let his mother-in
law hear of it or she’ll spank him and lock him
up in the garret.
The Harvard Faculty has withdrawn
its objection to football, and the druggists in the
town are preparing to satisfy tho mortgages on
their promises.
A Chicago temperance organization
has begun a suit for the suppression of a local
saloon keeper. He probably wouldn’t hang
’em up.
Skating is here, and provident people
save money on epitaphs by building suggestive
holes in the tombstones over their children’s
graves.
A citizen has charged an elevated
railroad conductor with having robbed him.
The conductors must make a living somehow.
It looks as if all the dishonest men in
the city are on their way to Sing Sing. How
lonely the editors will feel, to be sure !
A phutiy Cleveland girl has eloped
with a colored-barber. She wanted a little
shaver to strap and lather, probably.
At last, a man has been found who has
beaten a bunco-steerer out of S2O. That man
would make a good Congressman.
King Ludwig is in Paris in cognito.
King Ludwig should bo in his own country in
lunatico asserium.
A New Jersey track-walker was
recently murdered. This will drive the tramps
to the dirt roads.
Brooklyn has an organization known
as the Wayside Wheelmen. That’s the way we
ride the bicycle.
It would appear from the recent ab
duction cases that most of the girls are the real
abductors.
Flatbush church people should be
vaccinated. They broke out in a rash way last
week.
Now cross out the “ 6 ” and save your
diaries until next year.
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GOSSIP ON THE SQUARE.
The next important theatrical sensation of the
present dramatic season will be the new play of
Jack-in-the-Box,” which is to be brought out at
tho Union Square Theatre on the Bth of February.
This piece is the work of Messrs. Clement Scott and
George R. Sims, of London, and it has met with
success in Great Britain. It is pervaded by an
atmosphere of romantic adventure and suspense,
and it is replete with striking character and inci
dent. The scene is laid in London. The plot turns
upon the detection and capture of a criminal and
the vindication of an innocent person. An im
portant character in the play is an intrepid boy,
v, 1) > N instrumental in effecting the punishment
o! ci me and the triumph of innocence. This part
will be played by Miss Carrie Swaine. The cast
will also include Miss Blanche Thorne, Miss Ade
laide Arthur, Miss Sophie Arnold, a child named
Little Mamie, Mrs. A. J. Brutone, Mr. Walter Bent
ley, Mr. Hugh Fay, Mr. McCullock Ross, Mr. C. W.
Barry, Mr. Ralph Delmore, Mr. Harold Russell, Mr.
Thaddeus Shine, Mr. R. F. Dana, Mr. S. Phillio, and
Mr. Walter Hyde. “Jack-in-the-Box” will receive
its first reprentation in this country at Philadel
phia, on January 25th.
Miss Myra Goodwin and her “ Sis ” company
were in the Crocker House, New London, last Sun
day night, when that hotel was nearly destroyed by
fire. Miss Goodwin being particularly fleet of foot
escaped in safety, as did the members of her com
pany. " The walking was good ”
The first performance of the Amateur Comedy
Company, for the benefit of the New York Ortho
paedic Dispensary and Hospital for Cripplod Chil
dren, took place last evening st the University
Place Theatre, The comedietta, “The Anonymous
Kiss,” and the comedy farce, “The Trial of Tomp
kins,” were produced. The cast of the first includ
ed Mr, Henry Chauncey, Jr.. Mr. Elisha Dyer, third.
Miss Marion Sharpless, Miss Ruth Lawrence and
Mr. Samuel Parsons. In the latter Mr. Robert
Sturgis, Mr. Alexander T, Mason, Mr. Henry S.
Blake. Miss May Brady and Miss Cornelia Van
Auken appeared. The performance will be repeat
ed on to-morrow evening. The gentlemen and la
dies taking parts are well known on the amateur
stage. The tickets for Saturday evening were all
sold, but admissions for to-morrow evening can be
obtained of Mrs. Griswold Gray, No. 9 North Wash
ington Square; Mrs. James K. Gracie, No. 12 West
Nineteenth street; Mrs. Henry D. Nicoll, No. 7 West
Thirty-ninth street; Mr. Buchanan Winthrop. No.
63 Wall street, and at tho Society of Decorative Art,
No. 28 East Twenty-first street.
Miss Rose Osborne, last appearance in
New York was in “Almost a Life,” at the Standard
Theatre, under William Henderson’s management
is playing “Hortense” in Bartley Campbell’s
“Paquita" in the West.
Manager Murtha has engaged aa the advertising
agent of his theatre, Mr. Louis Waldron, who is said
to be a skilful and loyal worker.
The “Black Crook” is to be done at Niblo’s in
April.
Miss Helen Dauvrat is the absolute owner of the
play “ One of Our Girls ” which she purchased out
right from tho author, Mr. Bronson Howard, for
$5,000 in cash. The piece has been done, for a sin
gle performance. in England, to preserve intact the
copyright in that country. Miss Dauvray will ap
pear as Kate Shipley in London early in May.
Miss Kate Forsythe has entirely recovered from
bor recent illness and renews her tour with Mr.
John T. Raymond to-morrow night, appearing as
Agatha Porpet in tho “ Magistrate,” for which sho
was especially engaged.
Blanche Roosevelt says she met Mrs-. Langtry,
on her first coming to London, at dinner, at tho
late Lord Ranelagh’s. She was shy, wore a plain
black silk, and one rose in her hair, which was nut
brown and thick; her eyes were fine and her skin
fresh and hardy, but her mouth and her waist were
terrible—both ns big as ail out-doors. Sho spoke
with a frightful provincial accent, and every word
she uttered -ent the company off into screams of
laughter. Sho sot to work on herself, according to
Blanche, vigorously. Let ladies with large mouths
and waists listen. She began by shaping in her
waist, a hair-dresser soon lightened the nut-brown
of her hair to copper, and brought the tower from
the top of her head to the nape of her neck, and a
fashionable dressmaker soon routed cheap black
silks and Jersey-cut garments. Looking at a photo
graph taken at that time you would not know her
as the Lily she now is. There is a heavy, sensual
lower jaw, a pert nose, a tower of braid and puffs,
an ill-made dress of homespun, no bust, and a waist
that even an old-fashioned Grecian Venus would
have blushed to carry about with her in the times
when Helen flirted with Paris, and Milo made eyes
at Antinous.
The “Monte Cristp ” company, with Mr. James
O’Neill in his familiar character of Edmund Dantes,
has been meeting with great success in the South
ern States. In Texas, particularly, the company
was well received. The organization will be in
Georgia this week, and next month “ Monte Cristo”
will play a return date in this city.
Miss Kate Castleton will be soon at the Standard
Theatre, commencing Jan. 18th, in her new farcical
comedy, “Crazy Patch.” Chicago, St. Louis, Louis
ville, Boston, and other cities, have pronounced the
piece a success. Miss Castleton's company includes
several well-known people, among whom are John
Gilbert, Eddie Girard, J. N. Long, L. R. Stockwell,
Ada Gilman and Esther Williams.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett closed last night the
most successful engagement he has yet played in
Brooklyn. During the coming week he will appear
in Providence, reaching the Globe Theatre, Boston,
January 18th, where he will open in Victor Hugo’s
“Hernani." February Ist Mr. Barrett begins his
annual engagement at the Star Theatre, this city,
with an elaborate production of “ Hernani.”
The Kiralfys produce “ The Ratcatcher” at the
Boston Museum January 25th, with Mr. Hubert
Wilke as the star, the original cast, grand ballots,
and all the picturesque scenic and mechanical
effects.
L. R. Shewell's vivid melodrama, “ The Shadows
of a Great City,” was produced in Melbourne, Aus
tralia, November 15th, by J. C. Williams.
The Galveston Tribune, speaking of Frederick
Warde’s production of Leonard Outram’s new play,
s>ye: “Tastes may differ, but the verdict of those
present last night was unanimous that 'Galta* is a
tragedy born to the man, and in its conception Mr.
Warde finds the idealization of future power and
fame.” Owing to the success of this play, Mr.
Warde has added it to his repertory.
Manager Frank Murtha is pushing the work on
the new Windsor Theatre with sll possible dis
patch, and expects to open it the first week in Feb
ruary with a popular star. The decorators have
nearly completed their work, and in a few days the
seats will be put in place. Many of the most popu
lar and attractive stars and companies have already
been booked to appear at the new house.
Mr. A. M. Palmer will send his excellent travel
ling company from tho Madison Square Theatre to
fill an engagement of one week, beginning January
lltb, at the Jersey City Academy of Music. Seven
performances will be given—three of “Young Mrs.
Winthrop,” and four of “ Sealed Instructions.”
The company includes Agnes Booth, Maude Harri
son, Annie Russell, Mrs. Thos. Whiffin, Mary Robe
son, Miss Leach, Frederick Robinson, Henry Miller,
Walden Ramsey, R. M. Royal, E. Barron, and T. P.
Wilkes. The strength of this dramatic organiza
tion is obvious, and the playgoers of Jersey City
may therefore anticipate a series of dramatic per
formances of the best character.
Boxes and reserved seats for the Henry A. Thomas
Art Loan Testimonial, to be held at the Academy of
Music on the afternoon of January 25th. may be had
by applying to tho Secretary of the Finance Com
mittee, Mr. James P. Matthews, Nos. 817 and 819
Broadway, Room No. 4.
Dan. Sully has again leased Tony Pastor's Four
teenth Street Theatre for another six months, com
mencing April 26th, when he will produce “The
Cornei’ Grocery for a short run; also two new come
dies, which he is now at work on.
Mayo’s “Nordeck” Co., under Sheridan Cor
byn’s management, have cancelled all their South
ern dates in order to return to New England, where
“Nordeck” has been very successful. They will
reopen in Norwalk, Conn., January 13.
Bijou Opera House.—On Thursday
night last, the 500th performance of “Adonis” was
emotionally, commotionally and hilariously cele
brated, and several truck loads of plaster statuettes
of Dixey were ready for distribution to the twelve
hundred or more visitors who had paid in their
ducats for admission and seats.
There were “ distinguished guests ” in tho boxes,
and undistinguished guests in the orchestra
guests of every variety and social type up stairs:
guests of “ standing room only ” pedigree; guests
of the Grand Order of Hay-soed-in.the-Hair, and
guests of the crop wig guild.
Everybody there know that, aside from being the
500th performance of “ Adonis,” it was also the 30th
anniversary of the birth of the aforesaid and herein
after-mentioned Henry Dixey. For and on account of
this latter fact—-the birthday—the Mohican Club
entertained him with a breakfast at Delmonico’s.
Amos Cummings presided, J. F. Harley looked wise
and ominously impressive through his glasses and
the bottom of a wine glass; Anson Pond saw the
plot of a new play in the inextricable mystery of his
share of lobster salad; Blakely Hall terrified the
glance his magnificence attracted; Leander Richard
son towered up like a giant refreshed with sleep
and several cocktails, and Gresham was as villain
ously polished as heart of man could desire.
Dixey made an Adonisian speech. The Bijou or
chestra played a piece which sounded very much
like “Dixie” with variations, and the “Mohicans"
went in heavily and solidly with tho chorus. Then
came flashes of repartee and dashes of wino, the
vapor of sentiment and the smoko of cigars. Char
ley Thorne told a funny story with very little fun
and much of reminiscence in it concerning Dixey ’s
original ideas and conception of Adonis.
After more wine, more vapor, more smoke and
tho usual toothpick exercise, the “Mohican’s” es
corted Dixey to the Bijou.
When the performance of Adonis was concluded—
the audience —or at least an exceedingly large pro
portion of it, made its way—or way was made for it
to the Metropolitan Opera House whereat the
“Dixey Ball ’ was already in the pleasant agony of
commencement—and really where the only agony
was in the expectancy of the appearance of the
head and front of this offending.
The Prince ol Carrara —he whose wish-bone is mar
ble—he who is known throughout tho length and
breadth of tho land—was known, is known and will
hereafter bo known as Dixey Adonis—arrived at
midnight in a carriage, the motive power of which
was four milk-white equines with flowing tails and
flowing manes, with gold and jeweled mounted har
ness, with outriders in lull livery of rod, white and
blue, with spread-eagle trimmings, and escorted by
a well-organized and patriotic regiment of Ameri
can citizens.
Out of the carriage came Dixey, supported on the
right by ex-Senator Gibbs and on the left by th®
Hon. Jacob —sometimes familiarly alluded to in the
Morton House or the Hoffman as “Jake”—Hess.
Jay Gould was not expected and did not appeal
in the escort. Dixey, thus escorted, entered the
great opera house—the lyric Bastile which broke up
Abbey aad killoff Damrosch and is bringing Stanton
through a limburger cheese purgatory of Wagneri
an lunacy into a limbo of gray-haired worriment—
a thousand voices welcomed the ex-half of the Evan
geline heifer.
No longer the statue of marble, otherwise ths
tights, props, grease paint and make-up of Adonis,
Irving, the barber, the drug clerk and the old clo 1
man; but thd plain, common, ordinary, every-day,
humanly Dixey was there, and being there in ths
presence of a larger audience than his modesty
had over before faced, he received’ the homage
tendered him meekly, but bravely. Every woman
had a smile for him and he hod a smile-for every
body,, male and female.
The “ Evangeline” band, tha Bijou band, Bern
stein’s band and Patricio Gilmore’s band furnished
the concord of sweet brass and string-ed.
Everybody—aa well as the nobodies—of profes
sional judicial, political and social life was there,
and happiness and hilarity waited upon health and
appetite.
In the refreshment rooms there were suspicious
evidences of a general prevalence of thirst; in tho
rooms assigned to the special use of the representa
tives of the press, as well as on tho floor below,
there were evidences that a score or two of fel
lows wore press badges who were frauds and bad
no more connection with the guild than a pig hat
with the pentateuch. They were betrayed, by tbei»
ineffable cheek, their unquenchable thirst and
enormous and Illimitable hunger..
The theatrical profession was fairly represented,
the logal fraternity had its share of prominence
and “society” had its shewing.
Taken altogether, tho Mohican’s breakfast, the
ovation at the Bijou and the ball at the Metropolitan
Opera House ought to make Dixey happy for life.
Union Square Theatre.—On Monday
evening last Miss Margaret Mather made her first
appearance in this city as “Leah” in the Augustin
Daly's vision of Mosonthal’s original work. Hor
first performance of this character occurred on
September sth, 1882, in Chicago, at McVicker's
Theatre.
Her impersonation of the character was then, at
the outset of her professional career, although
crude iu some essentials, sufficiently imbued with
the force of her strong theatric instinct to gain lot
her effort the commendation of the majority of th*
leading critics.
Concerning her present performance of tho char*
acter and its merit, Mr. Carboy, in another part o,
this issue has made extended comment. Mr. Hili’*
production of the drama and the care he has shown,
in giving it proper and effective scenic settings and
in having the cast adequately represented, deserves,
more than an ordinary tribute of praise. As to tha
representatives of the cast special consideration
will be given hereafter.
Leah will be continued until further notice.
Niblo’s Garden.—Only two weeks
more remain for the run of the Kiralfy Brothers
picturesque and glittering spectacle, “ Tho Rat
catcher.” at Niblo’s Garden, as on January 23 il
will have finished the eight weeks season oritfiDallj
sot for it in this city.
The attendance during tho past weak has tested
the capacity of this largo theatre, and Mr. Wilko’i
impersonation of the title role has been received
with increased demonstrations of approval. Tha
ballets, headed by Mlle. De la Brujere, the proces
sion of all the trades, and tho charming of tho rati
have been vigorously applauded at every perform
ance.
As a spectacle “ The Ratcatcher ” has never boon
equalled by the Messrs. Kiralfy, and is a sumptuous
pageant of handsome scenery, bright costumes and
beautiful women.
The Casino.—Czibulka’s popular op
eretta “ Amorita ” still remains the attraction at
the Casino; it has now been presented over sixty
times, and is still meeting with such success that
it will be many weeks before Manager Aronson will
present a new attraction.
One of the prettiest pictures yet witnessed on
this stage will be the first scene of Johann Straus’s
successful opera comique, “ The Gipsy Baron,” to
follow “ Amorita,” at a future date not settled
upon as yet—owing to the success of tho latter
operetta—it represents a Gipsy encampment by
moonlight, with its many lamps illuminated with
vari-colored lights, seen as though for miles off; it
is hero where one of the most spirited “ finales ”
ever written by the great “Maestro” is heard.
The management promises in this production an
unusually elaborate and complete representation.
Fifth Avenue Theatre. — “ The
Mikado "—only this and nothing more. It now
looks as if Manager John Stetson will be Japaneasy
in his financial mind for the remainder of the spa
son, although he smiles not upon tho removal of
Mike Adoo— from its present location to the stage o(
the Standard. But Edwin Booth Insists on the
Fifth Avenue—according to the nomination of liia
bond—and there’s the “ end o’ it.” On to-morrow
evening the 150th performance of the “ Mikado ’*
will be made duly memorable by an appropriate
souvenir, the subject of which will be the “ three
little maids.”
Standard Theatre.—Rosina Yokes
will continue her series of appearances here during
the present week, and longer if the management
can make arrangements to that effect. Her success
as well as that of her company has been so unex
pected in view of the frigid shoulder reception ac
corded her in Boston and other bloated villages,
that it should suggest to Mr. Stetson that, hereafter,
when he brings an attraction from England or else
where—over the pond—it would be the bettor
judgement to give it a first opening in New York.
Had he pursued this course in this instance—it
would have ensured her a success and himself a
profit everywhere out of the city.
Comedy Theatre.—Kellar is doing a
large and profitable business at this cosy little
theatre. Beginning with to-morrow night, Misi
Alice Raymond, one of the best of female cornet
ists, will appear at each performance in cornel
solos and will also play a cornet duett with the
Ghost in the Cabinet seance. Mr. James Blamphln
continues to give his artistic performances on tha
harp. On Wednesday afternoon two hundred chil
dren from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will attend
the matinee performance, as the guests of thi
management, and a special programme will b|
carried out for their special benefit,
Fourteenth Street Theatre.— “ Sit
still, my heart, for I like> it," quoth the dude;
quoth the front row baldhead; quoth also the gen
eral public, in echo to Johnny Mackay and Fay Tern,
pieton. So it is that “Evangeline” will go on—and
on, until the last syllable of recorded profit is visi
ble in the “count” of the house.
Matinees as usual.
Daly’s Theatre.—“A Night Off”
will be continued during the present week. When
ever this Night off is “off” in popular estimate,
it will be altogether her off'un, or words to that
effect. Its successor will probably be “ The Merry
Wives of Windsor. Matinees as usual.
Harrigan’s Park Theatre. — “Tho
Grip.” Ned Harrigan, Stella Boniface, John Wild,
Amy Lee, Mrs. Yeamans and all the rest of tho
bright and lively spirits of the company—each
have their share of strength in this “ Grip,” which
will in all probability maintain its hold upon pub
lic favor for many weeks to come. The “ standing
room only” chromo is still in use, and those who
waltz in late in search of seats can always see it
confronting them.
Matinees as usu th
National Theatre.—A succession oi
crowded houses during the past week witnessed tha
performances of “Monte Cristo,” and greeted
Mamie Wallace with applause for her perform*
ance of the character of Mercedes. After a long ab
sence from the local stage,Mr. Frank Frayne will once
again make his appearance at this theatre in his
emotional five act play, entitled “Si Slocum; or,
struck Oil at Last.” In the course of the perform
ance his trained dog “Jack” will exhibit what an
intelligent canine knows about acting. Mr. Frayno
will be supported by the principal members of
Manager Heumann’s regular company.
The variety olio, which precedes the dramatic en
tertainment, will be specially attractive. Among its
notable features are included Mr. Georgo A. Booker
and Miss Maude Leigh, who will appear in their
comedy conceit of “Assurance;” Mr. J. J. Jones, the
champion rifle shot, in his exhibition as a wonder
ful marksman, and the “German king,” Andy
Amann, in his burlesque musical act.
Special concerts will be given this afternoon and
evening. Regular matinees on Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
B. P. O. E. —New York Lodge, No. 1,
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
will this evening entertain their many friends and
visiting members at a grand “ Social Session,” to
be held at their lodge room—over Koster & Bial’s.
The committee in charge of the entertainment will
consist of Augustus L. Heckler, Harry Staudish,
Louis Robie, Harry S. Sanderson and Richard Fitz
gerald.
Representatives of every branch of the theatrical
profession, dramatic, musical, and artistic, have
volunteered for the ocsasion, and will be ably as
sisted by a full orchestra*