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CONTENTS OFJNSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “THE MODERN CINDERELLA.”
ON BURNED WOMEN.
WE CANNOT KNOW.
THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK.
AN INTERESTING GAME.
THE LOST TOWN.
BABY’S ENGLISH.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Some Things to Avoid; At Rest!
One of the Oldest; Our Library and Reading-Room;
Boardot Relief; Kane Lodge; From the Grand Mas
ter; Ancient Chapter; Perfect Ashlar Lodge; Hiram
Lodge; National I«odge; Eastern Stax Lodge; Ameri
cus Chapter; Personal; Commandery News; Cosmo
politan Lodge; Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE t
LIFE EVERLASTING.
OUTSIDE THE LIMITS.
TRAPPING A YANKEE SPY.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
UNPRETENTIOUS.
AN OLD REMINISCENCE.
THEY WOULD HAVE PIE.
STOOD NO NONSENSE.
TOM AND CHARLIE.
SUNKEN TREASURES.
MISERIES OF A PLAYWRIGHT.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.
MAURICE STANFORD'S WIFE.
QUAINT JUDGMENTS.
UNDER TWO FLAGS.
HE WAS COLD.
THE INDIAN QUESTION
A PHILANTHROPIST.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
guU* and
INOTICK—For want or space many questions received
remain unanswered for some time. Each query, rf legiti
mate,will,in its turn, receive proper attention We must
request oar correspondents to write plainly and state their
wishes concisely. If thev would receive concise answers.
Many notes that are received are so nearly illegible that
they find their wav at once to the waste-basket.]
E. F.—Mason and Dixon's line is the
parallel of lat. 39 cleg., 43 min., 26-3 sec., which sep
arates Pennsylvania from Maryland, drawn by
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two distin
guished English mathematicians and astronomers.
As the northern limit (with the exception of a small
part of Delaware and Virginia) of the original slave
States, it was prominently mentioned in the contro
versies concerning slavery. It begins at the N. E.
corner of Maryland and runs due west. The years
from 1681 to 1768 were marked with constant dis
sension and conflict between the rival proprietors of
Pennsylvania and Maryland and their partisans on
the subject of their common boundary, and the
vicinity of the line was the theatre of riot, invasion
and bloodshed. Mason and Dixon arrived in Phila
delphia on November 15. 1763, and commenced their
work in December, which was continued to a point
241 miles from the Delaware river, and within 36
miles of the whole distance to be run, when they
wore compelled to suspend operations in conse
quence of the opposition of the Indians. They re
turned to Philadelphia, and were discharged on De
cember 26th, 1767. At the end of every fifth mile a
stone was planted, graven with the arms of the Penn
family on one sido and of Lord Baltimore on the
other. The intermediate miles were marked with
smaller stones, having a P. on one side and an M. on
the other. The stones were all sent from England.
In November, 1782. Col. Alexander McClean, oi
Pennsylvania, and Joseph Neville, of Virginia, ran
the remaining part of the line, which was tested
and corrected by astronomical observations, and
permanently marked in 1784. In 1849 the former
surveys were revised and found correct in all im
portant points.
W. A. X.—lst. To make fine red seal-
Ing wax, melt cautiously four ounces very pale
shellao in a bright copper pan over a clear charcoal
fire, at the lowest degree of heat that will be neces
sary to melt it. When melted, stir in it one and
one-quarter ounces Venice turpentine (previously
warmed), followed by three ounces vermillion.
The heat must not be too much nor too little, but
just sufficient to allow a most thorough mixing of
the different ingredients. When this is accom
plished the fluid mass is discharged into metallic
moulds’ and left to cool. For the purpose of melting
the shellac more easily, some add to the same a
little alcohol. 2d. To make fine black sealing-wax.
take sixty parts shellac, thirty parts finely powdered
ivory-black, and twenty parts Venice turpentine,
mixed as m the proceeding. |
“Editor Notbs and Queries:— Would
you be kind enough to inform me through the
Question Column of your paper, if during the late
war there was a Guerilla captured by the name of
•Johnson and executed or shot at the old Capitol
prison, Georgetown. I know that you could get the
information, if not posted, where I could not.
Parties inform me that he was captured by the
Eighty-fourth N. Y. S. M., Col. Conkling command
ing, and that Capt. Douglass, of K. Company, could
give the information, but I do not know where to
look for him. As thero is a bet pending the same, I
trust you will give the information if possible.
Edward Harris."
Can some reader oblige this correspondent with
the information desired?
Christians.—The "Loi-etto” to which
devout Roman Catholics make pilgrimages, is a city
in Italy. The shrine of the pilgrims going there is
the “Holy House,” a small brick structure, encased
in marble, and containing a statue of the Virgin
(our Lady of Loretto), said to have been sculptured
by Bt. Luke from the Cedar of Lebanon. According
to the Romish legend the holy house in Loretto was
the birthplace of the Virgin, the scene of the an
nunciation and incarnation, and the place where
the holy family found shelter after the flight out of
Egypt. It is said to have been miraculously trans
ported from Nazareth by angels and Anally depos
ited in 1295 on the spot it now occupies.
Union. —Ist. Roanoke Island, N. C.,
was captured by the land and naval forces of the
United States, under General Burnside and Commo
dore Golusborough, on Feb. 8, 1862. 2d. Commo
dore Rowan, United States Navy, captured a squad
ron of armed Confederate vessels off Cobb’s Point,
N. C., on Feb. 10, 1862. The vessels were protected
by two shore batteries. 3d. The British schooner
••Adelaide," of Nassau, N. P., was captured on Nov.
17, 1861, v. bile trying to run the blockade, near
Capo Carnaveral, by the United States gunboat
•« Connecticut," and taken into Key West. Sht was
loaded with coffee, lead, swords, and other mer
ohandise contraband of war.
G. A. K.—“ Boulevards” is a name
given in all the cities of France to the public prome
nades, but is chiefly applied to the wide, magnifi
cent streets of Paris, which occupy the site of the
famous fortifications, or bulwarks (whence the
name), once devoted to the defense of the city. In the
centre of the Boulevards of Paris is a road which is
lined with trees, and between each row of trees and
the houses are wide sidewalks. They became a
grand promenade in the reign of Louis X’ v. Napo
leon HI. built several great streets, which traverse
the city in different directions, and to which the
naino boulcvart is now applied.
Business. —Trademarks are as old as
trade itself. As soon as manufacturing began, each
maker adopted some device to stamp goods of his
making. Volumes have been written on the trade
marks of the old silversmiths registered in Gold
smiths’ Hall. London, and so often referred to as
"Hallmarks." All the famous printers from the
early days of the art had trademarks; so had the
vintners; in fact, all the craftsmen in the old times.
Indeed, a few centuries ago every traffic had its
peculiar mark—the mark of the trade—as we call it
now, the trademark.
Leopold B.—lt is not in order to
read the minutes of a regular meeting at a special
meeting. The special meeting is called for a certain
object, which must be specified in the call for the
meeting, and outside of that business the meeting
cannot act. Of course, at the regular meeting of
the association the minutes of the special meet-
Ing are read and acted on.
Annie. —Beat up two fresh eggs with
two or mere spoonfuls of loaf sugar. Add a tea
spoonful of ginger, a pinch of pepper and a table
spoonful of brandy. Warm up half a pint of claret
to the boiling point, and pour it on the mixture,
tossing it from one vessel to another till thoroughly
incorporated. Serve hot.
Century.—We are now living in the
nineteenth century. From the opening of the year
1 to the opening of the year 101 was the first cen
tury. From the opening of the year 101 to the
opening of the year 201 was the second century, and
so on. The nineteenth century closes with the
opening of the year 1901.
A Schoolgirl.—lst. The Rspresenta
tives in Congress from Brooklyn and the districts
they represent are : II. —Felix Campbell. lll.—Dar
win R. James. IV.— Deter P. Mahoney. V.—Archi
bald M. Bliss. 2d. Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, is
the Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Miss K. M.—To make West India bay
rum take two pounds of leaves of the myrtus acris,
ono-balf pound cardamoms, two ounces cassia, one
and one-half ounces cloves and nine quarts rum.
Distil one and one-half gallons. Bay rum may be
colored with tincture of saffron.
An Old Reader. —“ I have three fives
and a Jack of clubs, a five of clubs turned up. How
many does that count in the game of cribbage ?”
The hand is the highest that can be held. It counts
twenty-nine points.
E. G.—For the information you desire
inquire at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, foot of York
street, between ten A. M. and three P. M. Sundays
and legal holidays excepted. |
Sticks.—By a typographical error in
our last issue we were made to state that the term
of enlistment was three years. We should have said
five years.
Juliet A.—This reader desires the
address of General Sullivan, ex-Minister to the
United States of Colombia. Can any reader oblige ?
L. F.—To avoid being involved in any
difficulty or unnecessary expense, we would advise
you to consult some reliable lawyer.
W. 11. Johnson.—You never know
till you try. Of course you would have to study
surveying. Apply to a surveyor.
A. S. W.—The late Amor J. William
son, the founder of the Dispatch, was a native of
the State of Pennsylvania.
E. Rogers.—Mr. E. R. Brown, room
No. 65 Astor House, is a reliable lawyer in patent
cases.
C. W. B.—We do not know the ad
dress of the Boston firm to which you refer.
J. T. L.—We know of no such firms
or companies as those you mention.
S.—The article is a catchpenny.
Nothing of the kind can be done.
J. S.—We have notspace to devote to
the criticism of pictures.
Bia’ocle. —You should escort the lady
whom you invited.
O. L. N.—Ole Bull, the violinist, died
August 18th, 1880.
Chas. L’ixw:i. —See "E. 1.”
NEW YORK, JANUARY 17, 1886.
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ATTENTION, LEGISLATORS I
Before election every candidate solicits the
support of the workingmen. To secure this he
is ready to promise almost anything. Put him
in office and he will turn on the electric lights
of the milleuium for workingmen immediately.
Credit what he says, and you will believe that
his heart is aching for the laboring classes;
that his life is devoted to benefiting them; that
he thinks and dreams of nothing but projects
for their advancement and plans for their
comfort.
But, as soon as the election is over, the work
ingmen seem to be forgotten by their political
friends. They have cast their votes; the con
test is decided, and nobody cares about them,
politically, until another campaign begins.
They are no longer called together to hear elo
quent speeches about their rights and their
wrongs. Prominent officials do not shake
hands with them and sympathize with thorn.
They wait in vain for the measures to amelio
rate their condition which have been so fre
quently promised. Day after day they read
the reports of the proceedings of Congress or
the State Legislature and find that no repre
sentative is attending to their affairs, although
every legislator is looking sharply enough—
Jake Sharply sometimes—after his own busi
ness. The annual comedy is over, and the
workingmen, like supernumeraries, are super
fluous on the stage.
We think it only fair that the legislators irom
this city, in the Senate and the Assembly,
should now be reminded of the pledges which
they gave to the workingmen before the elec
tion, last November. Many of them are new to
official honors, and their consciences may not
be so hardened as those of the regular Albany
veterans. All of them are more or leas bound
by the promises they made in order to obtain
the votes which elected them. There is hardly
a man among them who did not go out of his
way to curry favor with the workingmen, and
who did not state that, if he were sent to the
Legislature, the workingmen would be directly
blessed.
The session has begun and as yet there is not
the slightest sign of any blessing. No Senator
nor Assemblyman has evenjintroduced a bill to
help workingmen in any manner whatever. An
advertisement which has recently been going
the rounds of the papers, calls upon people not
to be clams, but Senators Murphy, Reilly, Daly,
Dunham, Cullen, Traphagen and Plunket are
as silent as any clam upon the great topic of
the work and wages of those sons of toil whom,
only two short months ago, they were so anx
ious to conciliate. The same remark will apply
to the Republican Assemblymen, Messrs. Van
Allen, Smith, Binder, Hamilton, Windolph and
Lyons, but we will attend to their cases later
and from another standpoint.
As a rule the Republicans do not make such
specific promises to workingmen as the Demo
crats, because they belong to a genuine work
ingmen’s party and its broad, general principles
govern them. But every Democratic legislator,
Tammany, County or Irving Hall, is personally
pledged to measures for the workingmen which
now appear to be indefinitely postponed.
Election is not so far away in the mists of the
past that the voters cannot remember how de
lighted the candidates were to meet “ the boys”
and how fervently they vowed that “ the boys”
should be cared for by this Legislature. Work
ingmen could not pay them a higher compli
ment then than to call them by their nicknames,
take a treat with them and listen to their glow
ing anticipations of the bright future.
Well, eighteen of them are in their seats at
Albany, and what have they done for the work
ingmen? Have Dan Finn, Tom Maher, Jim
Power, Jerry Hayes and Mike Brennan intro
duced any laws looking to the relief of “ the
boys” who put them in office ? Has any cheer
ing word come to the factories and workshops
from Bill Hall, Johnny Naugles, Mo Dinkelspeil,
Lu Conlins, Woerner Bruns and Ed Hagan ?
Have Bill Dalton, Johnny McManus, Bill Hill,
Ed Shelley, Harry Steinert, Jake Cantor and
Johnny Shea risen in their places, caught
the eyes of the Speaker and announced
that, like the Farnellites in the British
Parliament, they will obstruct all other legis
lation until justice to the workingman is
assured ? Why, so far as the interests of the
laboring classes are concerned, the opposition
candidates might just as well have been elected
aa these gentlemen whose names we have call
ed over. They are all honorable men by virtue
of the votes of their constituents; but they do
not keep their pledges. They are in office and
they are doing nothing for the workingmen who
put them there. Is this fair ? Is it honest ? We
know that it is considered fair and honest by
professional politicians; but these gentlemen
are calculating without the Dispatch if they
suppose they are going to permit them to escape
as easily as some of their predecessors.
Now, we are willing to make allowance for
our new legislators.
The session is young yet, and they may not
have had time to unload themselves of thei»
schemes for the happiness of the workingmen
and put themselves clearly upon the record.
The Legislature is largely managed by experi
enced veterans, like Speaker Husted, and the
friends of the workingmen may have been
crowded off the floor in the hurry and scurry
of the opening of the session. Nay, more
some of them may be sincerely desirous of re
deeming their pledges-to the laboring classes
of their districts, but may not know how to set
about it practically. Moved by these considera
tions, we will lend a helping hand to the legisla
tors and give them a suggestion which will
solve their difficulties. Let them unite in
presenting a measure making ten hours
the extreme limit of a day’s work in this
State. Let penalties be attached to any viola
tion oi this law by employers, whether in fac
tories, workshops, stores or railroads. If a
man chooses to work extra hours for extra pay,
that is his own affair; but restrict the legal
hours to ten in any one day. A bill with these
provisions oouid be easily passed if the pro
fessed friends of the workingmen in the Legis
lature would combine to present and support it.
That would be doing something practical and
beneficial. That would fulfil some of the prom
ises made before election. Nobody can deny
the justice of such a law and it requires no elab
orate argument to prove its value to working
men. How many of the legislators from this
city are in favor of it ? Who will be the first to
push it to a vote in the Senate or the Assem
bly? • t
POLYGAMY AMONG THE INDIANS.
The rules governing the Court of Indian
offences, as originally prepared by Commis
sioner Price, take especial note of the fashion
with that race of contracting plural marriages,
but in so doing make no attempt as has been
intimated, to interfere with already existing
families of polygamous character. The effort
has been to establish a means for the correction
of a pertinent evil by future restrictions and not
by a violent overturning of the traditional rites
of the Indians. The red man in his savage
state of course has no very exalted notions ot
what is becoming to the married condition, and
is rather boastful by his excuses in the abuse
of those qualities that civilized nations regard
as being sacred. But while they were predatory
nomads most of them found it rather difficult to
- maintain more than one wile at a time, though
tlv’ right to many was not only recogni e<l, but
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NEW YORK DISPATCH, JANUARY 17, 1886.
But when they came under the economic sup
port of the Government the impediment no
longer existed, and the braves began to culti
vate their predilection, the more as the allow
ance oi radons was greater, accordingas the size
of the family increased. While the Interior De
partment perceived the inadvisability of inter
fering with plural marriages now existing,
stringent means were provided for discourag
ing marriages of that character in future.
Rule 5, of the Indian Code, provides that any
contract of the kind hereafter entered into bv
any member of an Indian tribe under the su
pervision of a United States Indian agent, shall
be considered an “ Indian offense,” and the of
fender, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of not
less than S2O, or work at hard labor for a period
of twenty days, or both, at the discretion of the
court, and so long as the relation continues the
Indian’s right to rations shall be forfeited.
There is an honest effort being made to im
press upon the Indian the solemnity of his
marital obligations, and so far with very good
success, though in the very nature of things
the radical reform must be slowly effected, as
the noble son of the free rolling prairies seems
to think this a Government interference with a
right as inalienable as his unwritten title to the
lands he may not now roam in at will.
AN EVIL OF THE DAY.
The example set by the late and lamented
Peter Cooper in establishing an institution
where youths and young men are enabled to
acquire proficiency in various mechanical trades
is one which is well worthy of general imitation.
Most intelligent people are familiar with the un
fortunate fact that a majority of the boys of the
rising generation enter upon the business of
life very inadequately equipped for taking au
effective and successful part in the struggle for
existence, and that they grow to manhood with
out learning to do such work as the world most
needs, and thereby to earn for themselves an
honorable and competent livelihood. The boy
who learns a trade is the exception to the rule.
Not many sons oi artisans and mechanics are
found following their fathers’ calling. They go
to the public schools and learn to read, write
and cipher, and there their education ends.
After their school days are over, and it is
time for them to begin earning their bread and
butter, they throng to the stores and counting
rooms of our storekeepers and merchants in
search of employment as clerks, bookkeepers,
salesmen, and so forth, and as the supply in
that direction is enormously in excess of the
demand, their experience is usually extremely
unpleasant and disheartening. As clerical labor
is at a discount in the market, their wages are
correspondingly low, and they are able to do
very little good either for themselves or for the
community. Many of the young men who make
tbelr nlo.lt in lifa under thosp dreary circum
stances choose their career under the infiuonce
of a foolish notion that there is something de
grading about manual labor, and that the posi
tion of clerk or salesman is superior to that of
the skilled mechanic. This is a deplorable mis
take, of which, if they have any sense at all, a
little experience in the world will convince
them. Yet it is a mistake which is frequently
made, and to which the scarcity of good Ameri
can-born mechanics is largely attributable.
There is, however, another influence at work
which helps to keep our youth out of the work
shops and to drive them into stores and offices,
and that is to be found in the difficulty with
which the acquisition of mechanical skill is
attended. The boy who is really anxious to
learn a trade does not find it an easy thing to
do as he wishes. This is due to the changed
conditions under which the mechanical indus
tries are carried on ; the apprenticeship system
has almost died out, and as no modern substi
tute has yet taken its place, the opportunities
for mechanical training in the various trades
are extremely restricted. It is to furnish these
opportunities that industrial schools like the
Cooper Institute are needed in every city in the
Union, and unless this need is supplied society
will suffer a serious injury.
PARNELL’S PLANS.
It is announced that Lord Carnarvan, the
Viceroy of Ireland, is about to resign, and that
no successor will be appointed by the British
Government. This is the first installment ot the
price which the Conservatives are willing to pay
to Mr. Parnell for the support of the Irish mem
bers in Parliament, as the Tories cannot hold
office without this support. Now the Liberals
will attempt to outbid the Conservatives, and it
is hinted that Gladstone has a scheme by which
Ireland is to bo placed upon the same footing as
Scotland, and may even be allowed a local
legislature, like one of our States. As these
measures mean justice to Ireland, they must
be frankly welcomed by all friends of the Irish
people. But the Irishmen who have been send
ing money to help Mr. Parnell’s project will not
be satisfied if his plans do not include some
thing more than the abolition of the Viceroyalty
and the establishment of a legislature for local
affairs. They expect him to demand a separa
tion from England and to insist upon it. This
would make the Irish cause similar to the “lost
cause ” of our rebel States, and put Mr. Par
nell in a position aualagous to that occupied by
Jeff. Davis. Our Southern States wished to se
cede from the Union in order to retain negro
slavery, and the Irish certainly have a better
foundation for their demands than this; but, in
other respects, the comparison holds good. The
British Government recognized the right of se
cession on the part of the South, and encour
aged the rebels in every possible manner short
of an open declaration of war against the United
States. How, then, can England consistently
deny that Ireland has a right to secede from the
union with Great Britain? How can England
blame this country if we imitate her own policy
and do all in our power to assist Ireland ? Un
fortunately, governments are never consistent
in such matters. We, who sacrificed thousands
of lives and millions of dollars to prevent the
South from seceding, are sending over money
to help Ireland secede. In international, as
in all other affairs, it makes a great deal
of difference whose ox is gored. Mr. Parnell’s
plans are known only to himself. Perhaps he
has not ventured to formulate them, but pro
ceeds step by step, as opportunities present
themselves. But it is evident that there must
come a time when he will be called upon to de
cide whether to remain satisfied with England’s
concessions or to formally demand the entire
freedom of Ireland, and then the Irish question
will again agitate the whole civilized wotd.
The Excise Muddle.—Even the most
radical total abstinence men admit that it is
better to have decent places where liquors are
sold, respectably managed by reputable land
lords, than to allow haunts of vice and crime to
monopolize the trade in spirits. The present
Excise laws may read all right in the Statute
books; but, as now applied, they seem in every
way to discourage decent dealers and encour
age the keepers of dens which ought to be
promptly pulled by the police. It is whispered
that the reason for this maladministration of
the laws is that disreputable landlords are
more ready to pay bribes to officials and to
divide their illegal profits with the politicians
who protect them. The Legislature ought to
take up this subject; investigate it thoroughly;
give us a plain, clear Excise law, if the present
laws be defective, and make such an example
of the givers and receivers of bribes that we
shall have no more of this form of crime for
another generation.
The Chicago Scare.—The city which
boasts that it was burned down by a cow and
rebuilt within a year, is again completely
cowed. Chicago, which prides itself upon its
nerve, is nervous over a Socialistic scare. The
police profess to have discovered that a con
spiracy has been organized to blow up Chicago,
and the newspapers are full of alarming ru
mors. We presume that the whole affair is a
pretext to call attention to the Western town,
which sometimes pretends to rival New York,
but of late has been so entirely eclipsed by the
metropolis, that, in despair, it invents this So
cialist conspiracy. Our Chicago readers may
rest assured that if the Socialists had decided
to destroy any American city, they would not
h:ve selected Chicago and they would not have
LIE oil I'JUIIU UUt irMU pMAAvv*
Press Notes.—The Times, which is
the organ of the English free-traders, dances
with delight upon the grave of the defunct
Daily Telegraph, because that journal advo
cated protection to American industries. But
the Telegraph died, not because it was in favor
of protection, but because it was not a good
newspaper. If the Times continues to live, it
is not on account of its free-trade absurdities,
but because of the revenue derived from the
sale of its reading matter to advertisers, which
seems to old-fashioned journalists an illegiti
mate source ot income. We have seen issues
of the Times in which several pages of what
purported to be contributions from its editors
and reporters were really advertisements,
bought and paid for over the counter. The
Times will not be rash enough to deny this
charge; but the Tribune indignantly repudiates
a similar accusation and continues to prosper,
its tall towers overtopping the Times building,
although it has been devoted to protection
ever since the days of Henry Clay. We must
remind the Times, in the most friendly spirit,
that it is not in a position to call any kettle
black nor to gibe at the misiortunes[of any other
paper. The Herald once indulged in such
pleasantries at the expense of the moribund
World; but now the World has eclipsed it in
circulation, in advert’soments, in enterprise and
in grammar, and still lives triumphantly, while
the existence of the Herald is daily becoming
more doubtful. Let the Times remember that
courtesy is one of the surest signs of pros
perity. A paper which is solidly satisfied with
its own business is not likely to lose its temper
over the success or failure of its contemporaries.
■ ♦ I S I ♦ —-
Samoa and Germany.—The German
diplomatists deny that the Island of Samoa has
been seized by German troops and ships ; but
it is part of Prince Bismarck’s tactics to gain
time by such denials. England has just taken
possession of Burmah with no more shadow of
right than we would have to annex Cuba, and
the comment of Germany upon this flagrant
usurpation is the occupation of Samoa. It
seems, however, that Americans have an inter
est in this little island. A harbor was ceded to
us as a coaling-station, several years ago, and
Germany is robbing us of our property by tak
ing that harbor. Beside, Samoa is a Republic,
in a small way, and it Is clearly the duty of the
United States not to allow a little Republic to
bo wiped out by German despotism. The
American hog, which has for years been the
object of Prince Bismarck’s bitter animosity,
may yet be avenged by the outcome of this Sa
moan imbroglio. It can do no harm to send a
few war vessels, if we have any that can float so
far, to look alter our harbor in Samoa and re
port upon the proceedings of the German fleet.
Ever since the defeat of France, the Germans
have undertaken to buliy all mankind; but this
is a very big contract wlren America is counted
in the speoifieationß. We do not want a war
with the country which has sent us so many of
our best citizens, but we do want our treaty
rights respected and the small Republics which
are founded upon our model left unmolested by
German despots. Insignificant as the Samoa
incident now appears, it may have important
consequences in the future.
Fortunes Abroad. — A number of
sharpers live well at the expense of credulous
persons who are induced to believe themselves
heirs to large fortunes in England and other
foreign countries. Regular offices are main
tained by some of these rogues, and their ad
vertisements are inserted by newspapers whose
editors know that they are assisting a swindle.
Every now and then solemn statements are pub
lished to the effect that the Bank of England
lias not a billion of dollars awaiting the de
mands of the Smith family, or that the land
upon which some great city is built, does not
belong to the long lost heirs ot a man named
Jones. On the other hand, the sharpers are
shrewd enough to supply the press with occa
sional romances to keep up the courage of their
victims. Thus we are told that an actor has
just inherited a million of pounds from an En
glish nobleman after whom he was accidentally
named, and that a servant girl in the West has
been discovered io be the heiress of the famous
Sherwood forest. Those stories are interesting
reading, but they are seldom verified. No
doubt many people in this country are legiti
mate descendants of old families who own
property abroad; but it is usually discovered
upon investigation that the members who emi
grated to America disposed of their rights be
fore they sailed, or that they left England under
such circumstances as forever preclude their
descendants from reclaiming their estates.
An Inspired Boy.—Superstitious peo
ple believe that the extreme cold everywhere,
the earthquakes and eruptions in South Ameri
ca, and the muddled condition of matters gen
erally, must mean something supernatural. A
North Carolina boy, named John Sturdivant,
comes to the front, and says that these things
mean that he is specially inspired to preach the
Gospel to all nations. As a sign of this in
spiration, he has become blind for two days
and nights. When he recovers his sight, he de
mands that the world shall credit him with his
mission. We wish John Sturdivant well. So
many preachers are inspired by nothing except
their salaries or their personal ambition, that
the world would be better for a preacher who
claims that his motives are divine. But if John
had been born blind, and had recovered his
sight miraculously, the sign would have been
much more convincing than his two days of
blindness, which, skeptics will ague, may easily
have been assumed. This is a wicked world ;
it needs a large supply of true religion, and,
therefore, sensible people will wait until John’s
sermons are reported in full before forming an
opinion as to the genuineness of his inspiration.
It must not be forgotten, however, that we have
in the Bible a genuinely-inspired book, and
that John is, consequently, somewhat super
fluous.
The Sunny South.—While we have
been enjoying the cold, bracing weather and the
sleigh-riding, the people of the Sunny South
have been suffering from what seem to them
Arctic experiences. It is astonishing to learn
that the weather has recently been colder in
Charleston than in New York, more frigid in
Chattanooga than in Boston. The Southern
people have made no provision for such an ex
ceptional season, and we read of people freezing
to death, of plantations laid waste and of
general discomfort. Most of the houses in the
South are unprovided with fireplaces, except
for the kitchens; they are loosely built and they
are lightly furnished. Families are described
as wrapping themselves in blankets and cower
ing around the kitchen hearth, unable to sleep
on account of the cold. We have trouble enough
here to keep cool during July and August, but
it is surprising to find that a cold wave can thus
submerge the greater portion of Dixieland. If
this is to be the weather of the future
social conditions will have to be reversed and
the Southern people will come North during
the Winter, instead of the Northerners seeking
comfort in the South. The old proverb, “ ex
tremes meet,” was never better illustrated
than in the weather of this country.
Pasteur’s Process.— The children
who were sent to Paris to be inoculated by M.
Pasteur have returned home in apparently
good health and spirits. They are objects of
public interest, because in them the system of
inoculating against hydrophobia is on trial. If
within a reasonable time they exhibit no symp
tom of rabies, the discovery of M. Pasteur will
be universally adopted, and, of course, it will
be extended to other diseases. If, on the other
hand, the majority of the children should go
mad, M. Pasteur will be condemned and dis
graced. The issue is, therefore, very impor
tant, not only to the medical faculty, but to
everybody else. The system of Pasteur differs
from that of Jenner, in the fact that we vacci
nate in order to prevent small-pox, but Pasteur
inoculates to cure hydrophobia. In spite oi
Mr. Bergh, who has a private rabies upon the
subject, vaccination has been a boon to hu
manity. But inoculation will be even a greater
boon. If, by putting into the blood ot the pa
tients the virus ot various diseases, all such
diseases can really be cured, the science of
medicine will be wonderfully simplified, and
the health of humanity reach a standard hith
erto imjorslbto.
Tracking Typhoons.—Henry Harries,
an English scientist, professes to have tracked
the great typhoon of 1882 from Manilla across
the Pacific ocean, the American continent, the
Atlantic ocean and Europe, until it used itself
up or was lost sight of, in the Baltic sea. This
following a typhoon would bo remarkable, if
true ; but how does Mr. Harries know but that,
somewhere along the route, the original typhoon
did not take a rest and another typhoon con
tinued the work of destruction ? No storm on
record has ever lasted for so long a distance of
space and time. The calculations require us to
believe that the typhoon traveled for thirty-six
days and over fourteen thousand miles. We
remember that, when a scientist was asked why
the tail of the Donati comet pointed one way in
the morning and another at night, ho boldly
solved the difficulty by declaring that thero
were two comets. Upon the same principle we
hold that there must have been two or more
typhoons in 1882. Somewhere along the road
from Manilla to the Baltic, Mr. Harries must
have lost the trail of one and struck that of an
other.
Stranger than Fiction.—A famous
French novel opens with a murder in a railway
carriage, and the plot of the work is the search
by detectives for the unknown criminal. Last
season a play with the same story was produced
at Wallack’s Theatre, and was claimed as origi
nal by the American dramatist. These fic
tions are recalled by the murder of M. Barreme,
a French provincial official,who was found dead
on a railway bridge, having evidently been
killed, robbed, and thrown from a train. All
Paris is excited about this crime, but the detec
tives hope soon to obtain a clue to its perpetra
tors, as the murderer was foolish enough to take
the watch and pocketbook of the poor prefect.
In the French novel, strangely enough, a watch
is the means of the discovery of the criminal,
and in the play a pocketbook aids in the detec
ion of the real culprit, after the hero has under
gone four acts of misery. Truth is, as usual,
stranger than fiction, for no novelist or drama
tist would have selected a French provincial
official as the victim, that class of men being, as
a rule, shrewd, cautious, and far from wealthy.
Future Trotters. —The owners of
trotting studs are now called upon to pay en
trance fees for horses yet unborn in a race that
is advertised to be run in 1889, and is limited to
trotters foaled in 1886. This is looking a long
way ahead for a race, but our enterprising con
temporary, the Spirit of the Times, offers a cup
valued at SI,OOO for the winner. Colts are en
tered for the English Derby as soon as they are
born, but Americans go a step further - and nom
inate trotting colts which have not yet seen the
light, taking all the chances that the youngsters
may have no talent for trotting, or may not de
velop any unusual speed, or may not live to be
three years old. Next month, at Chicago, a
Trotting Congress is to be held to settle all
questions relating to this department of the
turf, and we hope that there will be some offi
cial recognition of the enterprise of the sports
men who get up a race between horses before
they are born.
Notoriously Corrupt.—Everything
in the official line is done on a large scale in
Russia, stealing not excepted. The office
holders are notoriously and flagrantly corrupt,
and they enjoy opportunities for filling their
pockets from the public treasury which even
so colossal a thief as the late William M. Tweed
would not despise. The reports now and then
circulated that deficits amounting to millions
of roubles have been discovered in the accounts
of the administration of Turkestan can always
be relied upon.
“ The Young Ladies’ Journal” for
February, 1886, is now on sale. It is one of the
most interesting numbers ot this magazine
which has ever been issued. It contains
stories of every-day life and of imagination.
Beside the stories there are sixty fashion en
gravings and numerous other matters of inter
est to all families.
OOj? ofl (Fntb.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
He wore Waukenphast shoes and Wauken
phast trousers. His hat wasn’t much to speak
of, but his coat-tails showed that he had been a
sport, and from its nibbled appearance, betok
ened that he had done much cross-country
hunting in pursuit ot the hounds or in advance
of the bull-dogs. His other articles of furniture
were a pimple, which made him look as if he
were endeavoring to grow another nose, a green
drop-curtain over his left eye and a snow
shovel. He had obtained a job in front of a
local residence and was heaping the snow
mountain-high upon the railroad track.
A horse car meandered gleefully thro’ the
gloaming.
The driver was evidently spoiling for some
body to yell at, and as be sighted the snow
shovel contingent he looked happy and unbent
sufficiently to borrow a chow of tobacco of a
passenger.
As he approached the snow-bank he put his
brake dead on.
“ See you here, John Jacob Astor-house !” he
yelled, “ d’ye suppose this ere cair do be havin’
legs an’ kin cloimb ?”
The contractor didn’t move an eyelash,
“ Oi say I”
Not a murmur, and no sound was heard save
the “slush I” of the snow aa it assumed greater
proportions on the track.
“ Alexander Sthewart, there I Did ye hear
that a hoas-cair had arroived an’ was wantin’
t’ git up to the stables beyant ?”
There was more silence, if possible, than be
fore.
“ Be huvins, O’ive a moind t’ go daoun there
an’ dump ye in the snow-boank, so Oi have 1”
The man had his back turned, and didn’t
look around to see where the noise was coming
from.
The driver tied his reins to the brake, dis
mounted, grabbed the shovel-fiend, and then
suddenly went over himself, and disappeared,
head first, into the bank. After he had pulled
himself out, and worked the snow out of his
ears, nose and mouth, ho mounted the plat
form.
“ Ye wouldn’t a’ thought he wus so beg be the
Inks av his baack. Oi guess he owns that
house ! Only Oi thought he did, Oi’d a’ bruk
him in tree halves, so I wud. G’up, Chairley 1”
And naught was heard but the driver think
ing and the swish-swash of the man with the
narrow-gauge back and the broad-gauge nerve.
TWO MILLIONAIRES’ DAUGHTERS.
They entered a downward bound car, and
were evidently en voyage to the matinee.
They evidently wanted to be mistaken for
millionaires’ daughters; but their alleged seal
skin sacques and cruet-stopper diamonds gave
them, in the vernacular, dead away.
“What horrid cars ! I know that paw would
be angry if he knowed that we didn’t take our
kerridge,” said one, as she hung her tongue out
just as if a doctor was feeling of her pulse.
“We mustn’t let him know it.”
“Not for the world.”
“Are you going to Europe in the Spring?”
“I really don’t know whether we shall go to
Europe or to Paris.”
“Oh ! I think Paris is so much nicer.”
“So’d I.”
“Did you get many Christmas presents ?”
“Oh, yes. I got a diamond necklace and a
check tor a thousand dollars. What’d you
get?”
“Isn’t it a strange coincident? I got the
same.”
“How nice!”
They had attracted the attention of all the
passengers by this time, and they looked happy
enough to die and go straight to heaven. Sud
denly both grew pale and gasped. The pas
sengers looked where their eyes were focused.
Coming through the back door of the car was a
man. He was round-shouldered on one cor
ner, and had evidently spent the most of his
life in climbing a ladder. He had a scrubbing
brush under his chin, and a Pat Rooney hat
tipped giddily over one eye. Under his arm
was a big clothes basket. He evidently had a
day off, and was carrying somebody’s family
washing home for his good wife. He walked
straight up in front oi the millionaires’ daugh
ters.
| “ How do, Katie ? How do, M-ry Ann?” he
ejaculated, as he pulled his forelock and
scraped his foot along the floor in a God-save
all-here curtsey. “ How’s mam-xnair and pap
pair ? Oi wus cornin' raound on Noo Year’s,
but Oi got loaded at Gilligan’s. Oi’il be raound
ou Saturday noight an’ wax the ould man at
forty-foives.”
It required just two seconds for the million
aires’ daughters to alight. As they left the car
the old fellow said:
“Two dommod noice girruls. If it wasn’t
fur their workin’ at sarvice, ould Pat McGiff an’
Molly’d be in a holo many’s the toime, so they
wild.”
He looked around for somebody to second his
motion, and the applause he received made
him do the curtsey again, and he said:
“ Thank ye koindly. Oi was poor wanst me
sel.”
SMALL CHANGE.
The railroad authorities are finally
being convinced that even conductors and
drivers have rights which they are bound to
respect. And now, it the conductors and
drivers would only unbend a little and en
deavor to imagine that the public has
some rights which they are bound to
respect how happy we could all be
and how many more of us would spend a few
minutes daily with them without fear of being
squelched.
An enginner on the Long Branch road
recently saved a number oi lives by his bravery
and forethought, and the company will reward
him by furnishing him with a free pass on his
own train and by presenting him with a bronze
medal. Truly virtue is its own whatyoucallit.
A Brooklyn girl recently sued for
slander and placed her damages at $25,000. She
got the first two-thirds of the amount i. e. $250.
The jury dropped the two last noughts from the
amount, which probably proved they thought
she was a little bit noughty.
The jury in the case of Ray, who
shot his wife and then killed himself, were
unable to decide whether he killed himself or
was murdered. Maybe Mrs. Bay was troubled
with remorse and returned and killed him out
of pure pity.
The base-ballists have begun holding
their conventions. The chairmen’s hands are
so bunged up that they are compelled to wield
the gavel with their teeth and the secretaries
have learned to hold their pens between their
toes.
They have President Cleveland’s statue
up at the Eden Musee and it is so lifelike that a
countryman, the other day, struck him for a
postmastership and then wont out and cussed
because he met with the usual result.
Sixteen decrepid and aged pauper
Arabs were returned to Europe during the
week. They were toothless and were without
means of support. We have enough gum ara
bic here already.
A Texan has just been convicted of
murder and the citizens are so incensed that
they talk of hanging the judge, jury, district
attorney and even the relatives of the man who
was murdered.
The children who were attacked by
Pasteurphobia have returned from Paris, and it
is jnst possible that institutions for curing the
rabies will soon be more prevalent than mad
dogs.
Lillie Devereaux Blake wants a bill
passed prohibiting inspectors of election from
interfering with voters because of their sex.
Why don’t Lillie wear her pants on the outside ?
The King of Bavaria’s new widow is
going to pay his 15,000,000 marks debt, but she
will probably get square by compelling him to
get up and light the fire in the blizzard A. M.
Tobogganning is becoming quite
prevalent in this country. As it is generally
attended with serious results and as its only de
votees are dudes, it should be encouraged.
They tried to blow up Dublin Castle
the other day. When Battenberg heard the
noise he crawled under the bed, imagining that
his mother-in-law was hunting for him.
They are now quarreling about a pen
sion for Thomas Jefferson’s granddaughter.
This is a shame ! It isn’t the poor girl’s fault
that her grandfather was a Democrat.
The Presidential Succession Bill ap
pears to hang. All the Democrats are in favor
of it. They appear to want a chance to sneak
Grover out over the back fence.
We have an American opera at last.
And yet, most of the names remind us of organs
and chestnuts. Perhaps their parents were only
chased by Italians, though.
De Lesseps says he will sail through
the Isthmus Canal on December 31, 1888. He is
going to have it widened so that his family can
go abreast.
The Flatbush people want a new fire
engine. They should play on some of their
ministers—and over-healthful maidens.
The Coffee Exchange elected officers
on Thursday. There doesn’t appear to be much
grounds for such an election nowadays.
Judging by the large busts at the ball
the other night Dixie must have imagined that
he was really in the land of cotton.
A local detective is on trial for hav
ing accepted a bribe. How in thunder can you
expect them to live I
Nine suicides during the week. The
plumber must be getting in his fine work again.
The Bridge grip is again in trouble.
Why not fasten an aiderman to the cars 1
The ball is up and crape is on the
rise.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
Mb. Lawbence Babbett begins his annual en
gagement to-morrow night in Boston, at the Globe
Theatre, opening in Victor Hugo’s striking play
entitled, “ Hernani.” Since its first production
in Philadelphia, where it made an instant and pro.
nounced success, Mr. Barrett has made several
minor changes and improvements, which are cal
culated to enhance the attractiveness of the play.
During the eighteen weeks that Miss Myra Good
win has been on the road in Edward E. Kidder's
“ Sis,” her manager asserts that she has not experi
enced a losing night. As| yet she has not had time
to play a return date in any city through her
anxiety to cover all the territory possible in this,
her first season.
Miss Kate Forsythe makes her first appearance in
Washington, this season, January 18, with John T,
Raymond, in “ The Magistrate.” A number of
public officials and their families have tendered her
a reception.
Manager J. M. Hill will have the sympathy of all
his friends, who learn with regret of the death of his
mother, Mrs. Nancy K. Hill, at her home in Lowell,
Mass., a fortnight since, at the ripe age of seventy
six. She was the mother of six children. Mr. Hill
attended the funeral and upon his return home
caught a severe cold, in which symptoms of pneu
monia appeared. Until within the past few days
he was so ill at his hotel that his physicians de
nied access of all visitors. Happily, however, he
is now convalescing, and will, with his restless
spirit of enterprise, be again in full direction of
his several theatres, road ventures and other busi
ness investments. Men of his nervous force, men
tal resources and activity rarely find time to waste
in illness to any extent. They are up and doing
and leave the ills that flesh is heir to, to the sluggish.
The •' Shadows of a Great City,” was performed
in Philadelphia last week for the second time this
season, to very large business.
Thatcher, Primrose and Wests* Minstrels
commence an engagement at Niblo’s Garden on
Monday evening, January 25. The troupe is the
same as when it packed this theatre to overflowing
some six weeks since. In addition to several new
songs the burlesque “ Mikado,” which has proven
a big success, will be given.
Mr. J. G. Saville la engaging his company pre
paratory to going on the road with the Madison
Square Theatre success, “ The Rajah,” in which he
will assume the leading role. The character of the
Rajah is just in Mr. Saville’s line.
Mr. Frederick Warde has nearly completed bis
| tour oi Texas and will reach St. Louis January 24.
: February 8, ho makes his first appearance in thia
i vicinity this season at the Criterion Theatre, Brook
-1 Ivn. Mr. Warde has at least found what he has
• always uccdvu —a
A reception, ball and concert is announced by
“Our Council,” No. 252, Royal Arcanum, to takn
place at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, ou
Friday, January 22d. The affair will be under ths
direction of an entertainment com»Attee, consist
ing of many well-known members of the theatrical
profession, who are exerting themselves to the ut
most to make it a success, and who have already
secured the services of a long list of brother profes
sionals to t ike part in the entertainment. Among
those who have volunteered for the occasion are
some of the members of Harrigan’s company, and
representatives of nearly all the leading theatres in
the city.
Grand Opera House.—When Mr. Sol
Smith Russell again makes his appearance upon
the metropolitan stage it will be a tribute to the
intelligence of his audiences if he doos not bring
with him the mesa of flatulent rot—“ Felix
McKusick.' *
It is about the most pointless, idiotic aggregation,
of stale, commonplace dialogue and threadbare
situations which has been seen on the local stago
since the days of Fawcett Rowe’s “Smiff.”
Not even a bright and talented comedian—which
Mr. Russell is not; nor the acting of a clever com
pany, which his is not—could infuse into the
dreary mass of incongruity any more cheerfulness
than there is in a country graveyard.
Mr. Russell’s specialties in the variety line, which
are his sole stock in trade as an exchange for popu
lar regard, have been familiar to the patrons of the
variety theatre since the time of the Olympic. He
comes forward with the same old repertoire in the
thin guise of new words and warmed-over phrases.
Such a performance as this “Felix McKusick”
may tickle the risiblcs of the yokels and farm hands
of “one night stands ” on the road—but it is not
the sort of stage show that will cause grief by Its
absence forevermore from this locality.
“ Are you ou ?” To-morrow evening and during
the week Mr. Nat. C. Goodwin will be welcomed in
his jolly absurdity, “The Skating Rink,” in which
he and his merry company of mimes made so pro
nounced and well-deserved a hit at the Standard
Theatre a short time ago. In the course of the per
formance Mr. Goodwin will repeat his inimitable
imitations of leading actors.
Matinees will be given as usual on Wednesday
and Saturday.
Cromwell’s Illustrations. — Pro
lessor Cromwell will interest, amuse and instruct
his audience this evening at the Grand Opera House
with his magnificent series of illustrations of t o
scenery, famous localities, works of art and histoi o
attributes of “ Germany, the Fatherland.”
Standard Theatre.—Dosina Yokes
closed her very successful engagement last evening
in the presence of a numerous audience, which gave
ample testimony, in its appreciative applause, that
its “ ’Art was true to Poll”—otherwiae Rosina. It
is hoped that she and her excellent company will
again be seen upon our stage.
To-morrow night. Kate Castleton will begin a two
weeks’ engagement here, presenting her new music
al comedy, “Crazy Patch. She will be supported
by several notable people, including John Gilbert,
Eddie Girard, J. N. Long, L. R, Stockwell, Willie
Royston, Ada Gilman and Esther Williams.
Miss Castleton’s new topical song, ‘T've Never
Done Anything Since,” and the introduction of the
“Three Awfully Jolly Young Girls” will be pleasant
features of the performance.
Matinees, as usual, on Wednesday and Saturday.
People’s Theatre. — There is hap
pily in this re-appearance of Miss Kate Claxton upon
the local stage no suggestion or hint of the resurrec
tion of “ The Two Orphans.”
But there is. instead, a revival of “ The Sea of
Ice” for the week commencing to-morrow evening,
in which Miss Claxton will come forward—“ smiling
and in tears”—with all the emotional attributes for
which this favorite little actress is notable—as
Ogarita. She will be supported by Mr. Charles A.
Stevenson and a capable company.
The scenio settings and costumes, the manage
ment assert, are all entirely new, having been pre
pared specially for this production.
Preparations for the great production of the new
drama of “Blackmail” at this theatre, are being
rapidly pushed forward at considerable expense;
the idea of themanagement being to make it as
perfect as possible.
Third Avenue Theatre.—The come
dy drama of “ Nobody’s Claim,” which held this
stage during the past week, had a very successful
showing. Mr. Jos. J. Dowling and Miss Sadie Has
son represented the leading roles. The play appears
to have been improved upon since its last represen
tation in this city, and is therefore far more attrac
tive. Mr. Dowling is a young actor of talent and
has starred for many years in various dramas.
Miss Sadie Hasson, young, handsome, and viva
cious, seems peculiarly adapted for the character
she represents in this drama, her singing and acting
forming an acceptable combination. A capable
company and a full military band complete this
combination, which will be seen here again later in
the season.
To-morrow evening, Mr. J. M. Hill’s Murray and
Murphy Combination will commence au engage
ment, making their appearance in their popular
specialty comedy, entitled “Our Irish Visitors.”
The scene of this three act skit is laid at the farm
of Col. Gilhooley, who claims to be an Irish lord,
during the visit of Jeffry McGinnis, an Irish aider
man from the “ old fourth ward ” of a neighboring
city. These two characters are played by Thomas
E. Murray and Mark Murphy, who are the happy
possessors of brogues thick enough to cut with a
knife. Other personages introduced are Mrs. Gil
hooley, who is the real “boss ” of the household;
Dorothy, a mischievous waif, formerly a performer
in a circus; Fritz Kepner, a Teutonic farm hand;
Mrs. McGinnis, the alderman's vain and purse
proud wife; Arabella, their daughter, just
“finished ” at a boarding school; Sammy Tupper,
her dude lover and Yank Salem, one of the aider
man’s colored constituents. To relate all the acci
dents, the haps and mishaps, the blunders and dis
coveries, the quarrels and peacemakings, the diver
sions and the miseries of the visit is unnecessary.
It is left for the audience to comprehend and enjoy
them.
To-morrow, and every evening during the week,
and at the Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
Niblo’s Garden.—To-morrow night
‘.‘The Ratcatcher” will enter on its last week. Dur
ing its run the attendance has been large, and a
handsome profit has probably accrued to those in
terested in the management. Mr. Hubert Wilke,
who has been seen in the title role, is a romantio
actor and vocalist of great merit, and has made a
pronounced success of the part. This spectacle,
with two superb ballets, its magnificent scenery and
costumes and thoroughly competent cast will,with
out doubt, attract admiring audiences in other
cities.
Two matinees will be given this week—Thursday
and Saturday—and Saturday night next will witness
the last performance of this successful play in New
York this season.
Fourteenth Street Theatre.—And
here we are again. “ Evangeline” with all the mod
ern improvements, including Mackey; the faded
flower and the undying Heifer, with the other dec
orations of pretty chorus girls, bright music and
fun galore.
On Thursday night a delegation of two or three
hundred brokers, by preconcerted arrangement,
possessed themselves of the orchestra and had a
lively and refreshing session of high old' hilarity.
“Evangeline” will be continued indefinitely and
perhaps a week or two after the close of that par
ticular period.
Matinees as usual.
Lyceum Theatre.—Bronson Howard’s
“One of Our Girls,” with one of the brightest of
our girls of the stage, Helen Dauvray, as the loading
exponent of the comedy, and with its cast so ad
mirably represented, is now in the third month of
its season. It bids fair, so far as present appear
ances are concerned, to hold its place upon this
stage and in public favor until the “flowers that
bloom in the Spring” are in the market.
Matinees as usual.
Harrigan’s Park Theatre.—Another
chance—and every week brings it—to get in a little
fine work of the “chestnut” order as to “The
Grip" of the Brooklyn Bridge cars and “The Grip”
of Ned Harrigan’s invention. Ned’s “Grip” hasn't
its hold upon popular favor, and isn’t
likely to for weeks to come. The audiences are
numerous, Harrigan is happy, and all goes well.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
The Casino.—Miss Pauline Hall and
Miss Victoria Schilling will appear as usual in
“ Amorita,” from to-morrow night, having entirely
recovered from their recent indispositions.
The Casino is at present the scene of great activity,
owing to the extensive preparations being made
for the production of Johann Strauss’ Opera Comi
que “ Gypsy Baron,” which is to be presented
after the withdrawal of “Amorita," the date of
which, however, is still indofinate, owing to con
tinued success.
The New Windsor Theatre.—Frank
Murtha will have the new Windsor Theatre all
ready for the opening not later than February Bth,
when Clara Morris will be seen in a rounU of her
most popular plays. During the coming week
work will begin on the seating, which will be wry
much more roomy than that in any other theatre.
A fine stock of new scenery is painted, and
when the opening occurs the public will find the