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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “DORIS’S FORTUNE.”
“BY GUM I”
MINERVA’S THIMBLE.
PERSIAN PUNISHMENTS.
.HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
PHRENOLOGY AFLOAT.
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.
taming a bulldog.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Brotherly Lore; Fifty Cents;
Grand Chapter of Dakota; Tidings from the West;
Masonic Veterans; Corner Stone Lodge; Honor to
Whom Honor is Due; Polar Star Lodge; The Wolf on
the Fold; Personal; Commaodery Notes; Imperial
Council A. A. O. N. M. S.; Laurel Chapter; M&sonio
Relics; Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE :
GALATEA.
LOVE. THE PILGRIM.
GIDEON’S TRAP.
THE DETROIT SOLOMON.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
EMPTY CHAIRS.
THE PHANTOM OF THE LAKE.
TORNADO STORIES.
HE WANTED A PASS.
A FLEET-FOOTED HOG.
THE TALE OF A CIRCE.
A GHOST STORY.
A BEAR TRAP.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
HISTORIC MUTTON.
LET HER RIP.
and (Queries.
F. J. L.—The best way to keep oil
pictures in a state of safety Is not to trust much to
their power of resisting damp, but to treat them
just as if they were notoriously delicate things like
•water-color drawings, although in reality we know
that their constitution is more robust. An oil pic
ture, it is well to remember, may be attacked by
damp from behind. If it is hung on a damp wall,
the canvas will absorb damp from the wall, like the
mill-board behind a water-color, and this damp will
reach the colors through the priming. The proof
that canvases absorb damp is that they hang flaccid
on their stretching-frames when there is much
moisture in the atmosphere. It is some protection
to have the back of the canvas protected by a coat
of paint applied with varnish, but a still better pro
tection is to have two canvases on the same stretch
ing-frame, the one that bears the work of the paint
er and another behind it with a coat of paint on
both sides. The practice of having two canvases
on the same stretcher has been adopted by more
than one modere painter, for various reasons. One
reason is that an accidental blow to the canvas
from behind, or an indentation from some angular
object, may produce a fracture of the paint in the
picture—a fracture not immediately visible, per
haps, but like to show itself later. Oil pictures un
protected by glass, are always accumulating a coat
of dust and dirt, which, in course of time, unless it
is occasionally removed, makes the hazardous pro
cess called “ piotnre-cleaning *' present itself ae an
ineluctable necessity if the work be visible at all.
The two preservative cleanings are first, simply
dusting with a 1-ght feather brush and an occasion
al careful washing with a soft rag, some warm wa
ter, and a little soap, but not a strong soap.
Geobge Amont.—An attempt to catch
Fata by traps, or by poisoning them suddenly, will
< 3ail. Old rats know too much and can only be
caught by kindness. To destroy them give them
1a good meal every day. Do not put any poison in
the food, but simply prepare a dish for them daily,
a free lunch, composed of corn med moistened
with milk, into which an egg and a little salt (to
seaon) has been beaten. At first they may not
touch it, but keep it before them, making it fresh
daily. They will soon try a little, and if not injuri
ous their suspicions will be allayed. In a week or
ten days they will expect it, and every rat on the
place will be at the appointed plaee for the treat.
Give them plenty of it, so as to induce all the rats
in the neighborhood to join in. Do not be in a
fcurry to poison them. If they eat all the food give
them a larger quantity next time. As soon as they
have thrown off all suspicion go to your druggist,
got some phosphorus paste, or other rat poison,
mix it with the food, and be sure you give them
enough and something to spare, so as to induce all to
eat. They will either be killed or become so suspi
cious of all other food as to leave, and not a rat will
remain. Hence, to destroy rats take plenty of time,
gain their confidence, and finish them when they
least expect it.
Publisher. —Of the newspapers pub
lished in the United States three are devoted to the
■ilk-worm, six to the honey-bee and not less than
thirty-two to poultry. The dentists have eighteen
journals, the phonographers nine, and the deaf and
dumb and blind nineteen. There are three publi
cations exclusively devoted to philately, and one to
the terpsichorean art. The Prohibitionists have 139
organs to the liquor dealers eight. The Woman
Suffragists have seven, the candymakers three.
Gastronomy is represented by three papers, gas by
two. There are about COO newspapers printed in
German and 42 in French. There is one Gaelio pub
lication, one Hebrew, one Chinese and one in the
Cherokee language.
Six Companies. — The American
Chinese all come from the province of Kwang
Tung. This province is composed of about twenty
small districts, and almost all of the 300,000 Chinese
tn America come from five of these districts called
Heong San, San Woo), Hoi Peng, Yan Peng and San
King. More than one-half of them come from San
Ring alone. There is a perfect mania in these dis
tricts for emigration, and in some cases 250 out of
the 500 men in one village have emigrated; but
■trance to say the fever never extends beyond this
small territory. One can stand on a mountain on
the sea coast, eighty miles west of Hong Kong, and
see all tbe places from which the American Chinese
come.
Forty N.—The following is a lotion to
remove freckles: Take cyanide of potassium six
grains avoirdupois; glycerine one-half ounco;
strongest camphor water two and one-half ounces.
Mix. A word of caution is, however, necessary, as
cyanide of potassium is highly poisonous when
■wallowed, aud as the above lotion is pleasant-tasted
it should not be left out of the dressing case,
nor should a larger quantity than that above given
Jtw kept in use at once; nor, under ordinary cir
cumstances, should it be applied over a large surface
at a time. If not kept under lock and key it is safest
to label it Poison. Kept with care and properly em
ployed It Is a safe and useful lotion.
G. M. N.—The territory known as
■*No Man’s Land,” or "The Neutral Strip,” extends
from the 100th to 103 d meridian, and from latitude
26 degrees 30 minutes to 37 degrees. It is regarded
"for convenience as apart of the Indian territory, but
does not properly belong to it It was ceded to the
Alnited States by Texas, and is public land, but it is
■0 undesirable for the purposes of settlement that
It will probably never be taken up. It is composed
pf barren and sandy table lands, covered in Summer
jrith saline efflorescence. Its only growth are
thorny cacti, yuccas and sagebrush, and even these
are only to be found in sparse and widely-separated
patches.
Clara.—The teeth should be brushed
twice a day. The proper time for this is on rising
in the morning and on retiring at night. In the
knorning a wash may be used. Brush gently over
the crowns of tbe teeth. This removes any mucus
that has collected during the night, and leaves the
faouth In a refreshened condition. Just before re-
Iring particles of food that have lodged between
the teeth should be removed, which, when left for
geveral hours, result fn the fermentation of an acid.
Which causes the softening of the tooth-structure,
and thus promotes decay. After eating, a tooth
pick should be used for removing the debris.
N. O. P.—Miss Charlotte Canda, a
young French lady resident of this city, was thrown
-from her carriage and killed on the anniversary of
her birthday, many years ago. Her remains were
interred in Greenwood Cemetery and a splendid
.monument erected over them by her father,' who
■was very wealthy. There was, it is said, an effort
made to have the remains taken to France, but the
cemetery authorities objected. The Canda plot is
held in trust by the last-named, and Miss Canda’s
remains still lie there.
Crimea.—According to the latest state
tnent of the War Ministry, the Russian army on a
peace footing numbers 514,000 infantry, 60,000 cav
alry, 20,000 engineers, and 77,000 artillery, with 1,640
guns. Beside these there are 47,600 Cossacks. The
reserves ready to be called out in case of mobiliza
tion number 1,500,000. Tbe health of the men has
improved during the last few years, but is still very
unsatisfactory.
Charlie.—The Prince of Wales ar
rived at Halifax July 30tb, 1860. reached Quebec on
fche 18th of August, and entered the territory of the
U.iited States, at Detroit, on September 20th;
reached Washington October 3d, and was received
at Castle Garden, New York, by Mayor Wood and
the Common Council, October 11th. This was the
Prince of Wales’s only visit to America.
An Old Reader.—“ln a game of four
handed binnocle—each man for himself—one of the
players melds out but fails to take a trick and one
of the other players by taking the last trick receives
enough to put him out also. Who wins the game?”
The player who takes the last trick and receives
enough to go out wins the game.
Jim Ross.—At the time you mention
(186'6-67) the Hudson River Railroad (city lin«) ran
cars from Thirtieth street and Tenth avenue, down
Tenth avenue and West street, Canal and Hudson,
to Chambers street. We believe there was an en
trance to the cars from Warren street.
C. B. L.—To each pailful of water
add two pints of fresh slacked lime and one pint of
common salt; mix well. Fill your barrel half full
with this fluid, put your eggs down in it any time
alter June, and they will keep two year 3 if desired.
Joseph Huber.—“ A bets B that he
(A) has thirty-five dollars in hi, pocket. The money
is counted and amounts to $37.45. Which of the
two wins ?” A certainly wins, as he has thirty-five
dollars in his pocket—and more.
W. S.—The salary of the Commander
in-Ch e? (under the President) of our armies is
$ 3,500 a ye-r. General Philip H. Sheridan, Lieu
tenant-General, is the present commander.
Anxious.—We cannot tell you how
much either Kx-PresidenX Arthur or President
Cleveland is worth, but from what we do know
neither gentleman is what is called wealthy.
Meriden, Conn.—We are not positive
but we believe that President Cleveland is about
six feet in bight and weighs about two hundred and
fifty pounds—or more.
Exeter. — According to “ Beeton’s Dic
tionary of Universal Information,” an English
work, the population of Exeter, England, is 44,226.
Constant Reader. — Any locality
where the soil is dry and sandy would be proper
lor a person suffering from malaria.
B. S. —A short course in the classics
would be advisable before beginning lectures at the
medical college.
Blue Bell. —You will have to be a
little more explicit in the statement of your query.
Peter B.—There is no difference what
ever between a yard square and a square yard.
Reno.—We do not know whether or
not the gentleman you mention left a wilL
An Interesting Reader—We know
nothing of the law to which you refer.
NEW YORK, JUNE 13, 1886,
r JTO A. I)V-KTVTISKIISU
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has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the (Jnited States.
THE BIOTS AT BELFAST.
Tho disgraceful disturbances fomented by the
Orangemen in Ireland come lust in time to kill
tbe fanaticism which has caused them. Every
rioter, although he does not know it, is a pow
erful pleader in favor of Home Bule. Every
shot fired, every atone thrown, every window
smashed, every person injured ia an argument
on the aide of Gladstone and Parnell. The an
cient proverb, that the gods make mad those
whom they would destroy, ia illustrated by
these Belfast outrages. The opponents ot Home
Bule are annihilating themselves. The Orange
mobs go about shouting “To hell with the
Pope I” because they have no other watchword.
The English Tories, led by Lord Churchill, the
Whigs, led by Lord Hartington, and the recreant
Radicals, led bv Mr. Chamberlain, summoned
up the spectres of civil war and religious war
in order to defeat Home Rule in Parliament,
and now they are confronted with the realities
of their rhetorical shams. Instead of Home
Rule resulting in riots and bloodshed, the fail
ure of the measure has been accompanied by
insane outbreaks. Tbe people of Great Britain,
who are about to be called upon to vote for or
against justice to Ireland, will have their eyes
widely opened by the reckless conduct of the
Orange malcontents.
When Gladstone introduced and Parnell ap
proved the Home Rule bill, we declared that
its passage was only a matter of time. In our
opinion, its success was assured as soon as its
provisions wers made public. By proposing it
Gladstone showed himself the greatest states
man of the age. Next to him in greatness
stands Parnell, whose cool composure and elo
quent argument in the closing debate demon
strated his superiority to the pigmies who
sought to annoy and interrupt him with tan
talizing questions and ironical yells. What a
contrast did his conduct present to the mad
folly of the Orange rioters I He nobly insisted
that he could not spare a single Irishman from
the free nation he sought to establish. They
are killing off Irishmen and unconsciously
giving new emphasis to his sublime words.
He quoted statistics to show that the majority
ot Irishmen had always respected the opinions
of the Orange minority. They are showing,
by overt acts, that the Orange minority are not
worthy of respect; that they are the enemies
of Irish independence; that they cannot be
safely trusted to govern themselves. Their
burnings and murders, their drunken orgies
and “ Belfast kidneys,” will alienate from them
all their English supporters. What must re
spectable voters of all parties think when they
see the opponents of Gladstone and Parnell
sacking grog-shops, assaulting the police, and
rolling together, men and women equally in
toxicated, in the gutters ? The Orangemen
have condemned themselves before the civilized
world. They have hastened the triumph of
Home Role by a year, at least, while intending
to impede it.
As soon as the Irish people understood that
Gladstone was pledged to crown his splendid
career by a measure of justice to Ireland, the
whole island became peaceful and patient
Irishmen in all parts of the earth bad confidence
m Parnell, and when he assured them that
Gladstone would speedily redress their griev
ances they trusted and waited. Their capacity
for self-government was evident from the order
which they maintained during this period of
promise. They had rebelled against England;
they had shot down tryrannical landlords; they
bad resisted unjnst evictions; they had strug
gled against the despotism that was crushing
them; but as soon as Parnell asserted that their
cause was virtually gained, all concerted and
individual acts of rebellion ceased; business
began to prosper, and Ireland prepared quietly
to enjoy the promised blessing. The promise
is not broken; it is only postponed. Gladstone
ie firmly determined to live or die upon his
Home Rnle platform, and the Irish nationalists
are contented to follow his leadership. Yet the
rebellion, the outrages, the rioting, the shoot
ing are resumed, not by tho nationalists, but by
the little, disloyal orange faction that has done
nothing but mischief in the past and is plotting
mischief for the future. It is a good thing for
Ireland that this odious element has so speedily
developed itself. Everybody can now under
stand what it means and why it must be purged
from Irish politics. Let us have patiencs and
we shall see that the Belfast rioters have ignor
antly assisted to work out the Home Rule pro
blem satisfactorily,
BOODLE AND NOODLE.
All of us are agreed that boodle is a bad
thing lor the Aidermen who have taken it, for
the bribers who have paid it, and for tho com
munity which have been robbed of valuable
franchises to enrich such criminals. But the
noodles of the daily press are becoming almost
as decided a nuisance. They are attacking the
District-Attorney because he does not try an
Aiderman every week, so as to help sell their
papers. These noodles began by abusing the
indicted Aidermen; now they are abusing the
District-Attorney for not trying the Aidermen,
and it is pretty certain that, by the time of the
next election, they will ba abusing every official
concerned in the trials. These Captain Jenks
of the daily press not only want the earth,
but they desire to run the whole universe. They
have their own ideas about the law. A little
thing like the collection and arrangement of
evidence does not bother them. They think
that they could arrest a boodler every Monday,
convict him every Tuesday, sentence him
every Wednesday; send him up to Sing Sing
every Thursday, describe his prison life every
Friday, pardon him out every Saturday, and
sell an extra number of papers every Sunday,
by publishing an account of his return home,
and witicisms upon the authorities for letting
him loose again. But the wheels of justice can
not be whirled around in this free and easy
manner. Criminals have to be tried by the
courts, not by the newspapers, and our con
temporaries should be more sensible, more just,
and more considerate.
It District-Attorney Martine should under
take to conduct his department according to tbe
suggestions ot the newspapers, ho would soon
become bewildered. He has good-naturedly
talked to tbe reporters too much already, and
they have put words into his mouth which are
now brought up against him in elaborate edito
rials, We do not believe that he ever said to
anybody, outside of bis official staff, that he had
testimony enough to convict all the accused
Aidermen and half a dozen of the bribers. The
case against Jaehne would have been very weak
except for his own confession to Inspector
Byrnes. It was the simple issue whether or not
the police witnesses had committed perjury
that sent Jaehne to prison so quickly. Other
Aidermen, who have not confessed, cannot be
so easily railroaded. District-Attorney Martine
would be worse than foolish if ho allowed him
self to be driven by the press into trying any
criminal before he Is ready to go into court.
Probably he would lose a case thus precipitate
ly presented, and what would the papers say
about him, then ? He can consult with his asso
ciates, tbe Blackstonian Bedford, the indefati
gable Nichols, the dashing Fellows, and be
guided by their advice without the interference
of those Journalistic noodles who know nothing
of law, and, apparently, very little of anything
else. To make a failure of justice through un
due haste, will be to forfeit tbe good opinion of
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JUNE 13, 1886.
the beet people of the community, who now
look upon District-Attorney Martine as the
purifier of city politics. We are as anxious as
our contemporaries that no guilty boodler shall
escape, but they are all under bail; the State
prison is not going to run away, and we can
afford to make assurance doubly sure by wait
ing until the cases are properly prepared.
MOLONEY AND THE ALDEBMEN.
The stories published in the daily papers of
thia city for weeks past concerning “ Billy ’’
Moloney’s whereabouts are undoubtedly the
most amusing yarns in their way that has come
to light in some time. It would seem that some
of the papers are coaxing “ Billy ” to return.
“ It would be much more convenient, comforta
ble and profitable for him, as well as conducive
to the quiet of his conscience, to earn immunity
from penal consequences by putting himself in
the hands of the District Attorney as a witness
for the prosecution than to remain in exile,
under the patronage, at the expense and for the
benefit of malefactors who will leave him to his
own resources as soon as his absence and
silence cease to be a requisite of their escape
from punishment.” . This is what the Daily
News says. Whether the wild stories told
about Moloney or this advice of the News is the
most preposterous we are at a loss to know.
Conceding that Moloney knew of the iniquitous
official proceedings which disgraced the city by
the action of its Board ot Aidermen in 1884,
does anybody who ever knew Moloney believe
that hs would turn iuformer ? No, no. Mo
loney is not that kind of material. If there
were ever any doubts entertained by the Aider
men accused of being bribed, or those of the
Broadway railroad, who manipulated the fran
chise through the Aidermen, that Moloney
would " squeal,” these doubts have now been
dispelled.
When Moloney saw the drift things were
taking in this city he concluded that should he
remain in the country be would be, in a short
time, physically and financially ruined. On tbe
lih of this month, Moloney, after settling up his
affairs, left Montreal for Boston, where on tbe
following day be embarked on board of a
steamship bound for Liverpool. Moloney’s
destination was the city of Limerick, Ireland,
where his father was born, and there “ Billy ”
will pass the greater portion of the Summer
with his two sons. When he left the shores of
his native country be told his friends that he
would be absent two years. That his family
will bo cared for in his absence there is no
doubt whatever, aud when he next appears
among us tho “hoodie” question will have
been disposed of, the convicted Aidermen will
be doing time in State Prison, and probably
no oars will be running on Broadway. What
ever fears those indicted in the matter of the
Broadway franchise may have, they need have
nona regarding Moloney’s return to this city to
testify against them. No matter how much he
may be missed by the prosecuting authorities
be is safe in a foreign land.
WISE ADVEBTISERS.
A great deal of money is spent in advertis
ing, and business men know that much of it is
wasted. They are constantly endeavoring to
discover the best means of bringing their busi
ness before the public, and they are the first to
appreciate any advertising medium that will
give them a profit upon their investment. Re
cently they have almost unanimously combined
to select the Sunday papers as the agency
which most promptly repays them. They have
found out for themselves that money expended
upon advert sing in tbe large dailies is mostly
thrown away, like the triple sheets and supple
ments of such journals. Tho dailies are now
neglected. Their empty advertising columns
exhibit a dearth ot business that would soon
push them into bankruptcy if it were not for
their Sunday harvest. Of what use to adver
tisers are these blanket sheets? Who reads
them ? Who has the time necessary to read
them ? You see the passengers in a street car
first drop the advertising supplement to the
floor. Perhaps the advertisement for which
you paid dearly is in that sheet, now under
foot. Then the readers glance over the head
lines, pick out the particular department of
news which is most interesting, and pitch the
rest of the paper out of the window. Perhaps
your expensive advertisement is in that part ot
the paper now fluttering in the mud. Business
men note these facts, and the remarkable de
crease in tbe blanket sheet advertising is the
wise consequence.
The Sunday papers are not as large as the
dailies, but svery word in them is read. Better
still, they are read in the household, and not
merely in streetcars or busy offices. They pass
from one member of the family to another ; they
are kept all the week ; some of them are regu
larly filed.on account of their continued stories.
From the lady in her parlor or the gentleman
in his library, the Sunday papers pass to the
servants in the kitchen and tho stable. They
reach all classes, and what an advertiser says
in them impresses all classes. Often an adver
tiser in a blanket daily has hard work to find
his own announcement. It is crowded into
small type or hidden away in an extra sheet.
How, then, can he expect anybody else to find
it ? In a Sunday paper it is conspicuous. As
a rule the Sunday journals are better printed
than the dailies, upon a better quality of paper,
and this assists to display the advertisements
more attractively. Business men comprehend
the value of these seemingly trivial matters,
and they show it by now patronizing the Sun
day papers to an extent unprecedented in the
history of journalism. The reading public
were ahead of the advertisers for awhile. They
recognized that the literary contents of tho Sun
day papers are far in advance of the trash
published as news in the dailies. But as wise
advertisers always follow the reading public,
the two classes of patronage are now united
upon the best periodicals.
We wish well to our daily contemporaries.
It is their misfortune that they are used to light
tbe fires in most households while the Sunday
papers are saved to be read and reread. If they
would be satisfied to publish the news of the
day they would be more readable and more
profitable. To do this would only require a
paper about half the size of the Sun, and it
could be sold for a cent a copy. But the blanket
sheets are obliged to pad their pages with long
accounts of slugging matches, divorce cased,
Deer Park fishing, and other rubbish which no
body reads and which nobody ought to write.
One of them has a special department devoted
to prize-fighters and their illegal brutalities.
Another gives a page to horse-racing. Another
pays more attention to a scandal in Europe
than to the news of this great country. An ad
vertiser who wishes to recommend good goods
to the purchasing public learns to avoid these
big and bad publications. He finds in the Sun
day papers a friend of thousands of families,
who will introduce his wares to the people who
will use them. To reform our blanket sheet
contemporaries is our earnest hope, but, in the
meantime, we are not surprised to find that
wise advertisers prefer the Dispatch and its
Sunday rivals.
Ex-Judge Bedford.—We agree with
our pictorial contemporary, the Graphic, that
Assistant District Attorney Bedford continues
to win golden opinions by his diligence and
ability. The Union says ot him : “He is one
of the ablest and most gifted prosecutors at
the criminal bar of this county. He ie a cool,
meditating, aggressive strategist, full of vim
and courage, just as he was when on the bench
years ago, having, moreover, not lost a particle
of hie lofty ideas that characterize the true
lawyer of education and refinement who puts
heart and soul into a case assigned to him for
trial. At a glance he sees his chances for suc
cess. Knowing as he does criminal law as few
lawyers do, he can, and sometimes does, lead
the presiding Judge in meting out justice, his
tried experience weighing heavily that way.
Ex-Judge Bedford is one of the few criminal
lawyers who have spent almost a lifetime at the
practice of criminal law, and if any man is
thoroughly familiar with and has a forte in the
criminal law, It is he who may be considered
tbe absolutely ablest man upon the staff in the
District Attorney’s office.” And the Dispatch
adds to this eulogium these few words : As As
sistant District Attorney he is never a perse
cutor, and severely a prosecutor. If he thinks
the man on trial innocent he will not prosecute
the case. That is justice.
Duffy Caged Again.—The impudence
and effrontery of the indicted Aidermen are
really refreshing. If they meet you in the street
they protest their innocence, curse the District
Attorney and anathematize the newspapers. Of
the whole gang of “ boodlers ” none has been so
overbearing or obnoxious as ex-Alderman Mi
chael Duffy. During Jaehne’s trial he sat in the
court room passing remarks on the various in
cidents of the trial and when it was over ac
cused a reporter, whose instincts of refinement
and education would revolt at even sitting at
tbe same table with the fellow, that on one oc
casion when ho (the reporter) was stupidly
drunk he borrowed a dollar from the indicted
“boodler.” When the lie was given to the ex-
Alderman he mounted a stoop and swore to be
avenged on the entire press, but the reporter in
particular. He then went to Harlem, where,
amidst the fulsome platitudosjol the gang, he
again turned on the tap of his voluiblity and
poured forth a stream of abuse upon the repor
torial and editorial head that was quite alarm
ing. How different this braggart has been act
ing since he was arrested recently on a fresh
charge of bribery. The Surface Railroad Bill
was passed May 6, 1884, and six days afterward
Duffy offered the first petition in the Board of
Aidermen asking a franchise for a railroad com
pany. Some months later he interested himself
in the Thirty-fourth Street Railroad Company,
and then Recorder Smyth, upon the affidavit of
District Attorney Martine, issued the following
warrant, which was placed in the hands of In
spector Byrnes for execution.
“ When the Thirty-fourth Street Railroad Com
pany mad’, application to the Board of Aldermen
for permission to construct and operate a railroad
.iloug its proposed route. Aiderman Michael Duffy
did give and offer to give to one Charles B. Waite, a
member of the Board of Aidermen, several thousand
dollars, as a bribe, on the 22d day of De
cember, 1884.”
Boycotting the President. —Some of
the Western Democrats are beginning to talk
about boycotting President Cleveland, without
giving him time to enjoy his honeymoon, and
are bunting up the precedent of President
Johnson’s case to see what powers Congress
can legally exercise against tho Chief Executive.
The excuse of these politicians is that the Presi
dent has boycotted tbe Democratic party and
that turn about is fair play. It does not be
come us to interfere in this family quarrel; but
we may venture the suggestion that tbe best
place to boycott a Democratic President is at
the polls. All the sins of omission and com
mission which have distinguished President
Cleveland’s curious administration were pointed
out as inevitable before the last Presidential
election. Some leading Democrats, like the
late John Kelly, who know Cleveland well, pre
dicted precisely the state of things which baa
come to pass since he entered the White House.
In order to avoid such errors m tho future a
good Republican should bo elected in 1888, and
to that end we shall be glad to welcome into
brotherhood any Democrats who feel justly dis
satisfied with the present administration.
Terrified by Typhus.—The managers
of the Deborah Nursery, in Eaat Broadway, did
a very sensible thing in sending seventy-five
little boys out of town last week to escape the
typhus fever which had broken out in tbe in
stitution. It is reported that the disease was
brought into the nursery by a porter who was
engaged at Castle Garden and who probably
caught the fever on an emigrant ship. He fell
ill in a day or two and left the house; but one
after another of the children sickened until
twenty-one were under the care of the doctors.
Now the little fellows, whose ages range from
two to seven years, are to be benefittad by
country air, and during their absence the nur
sery ie to be thoroughly fumigated. At this
season of the year, when contagious diseases
are dangerously developed by tbe heat, nobody
can be too careful, and East Broadway, with its
crowded tenement houses, has narrowly es
caped a serious epidemic.
Patti a Spinster,—After her marriage
with Signor Nicolini, in alittle Welsh church, last
Thursday, Patti signed the register as “ Adelina
Patti, spinster, of full age.” The great prima
donna evidently considered that her French di
vorce from the Marquis de Caux had restored
her to her maiden celibacy; but, under all the
circumstances, this was straining a legal techni
cality to the utmost. However, she was more
than matched by Signor Nicolina, who signed
himself “ a bachelor, of full age,” although his
real name is Nicolas and ho has a divorced wife
aud three or four children in France. Aside
from these queer registries, the marriage is the
subject of hearty congratulations from all who
know or admire the queen of song. It is a mar
riage of love and, therefore, intereets all the
world. Patti’s former wedding to the Marquis
de Caux was arranged by the Empress Eugenie
and turned out as badly as did the Napelemio
arrangements generally.
The Great Race. — The Suburban
handicap, which Troubadour won so easily at
Sheepshead Bay, last Thursday, was probably
the greatest race ever seen upon this continent
in the amount of money wagered upon it, the
number of spectators who witnessed it, and the
excellence of the large field of horses entered.
The time did not best the record for tbe dis
tance, for the winner was not pushed, but the
spectacle presented by the twenty graceful
racers and the twenty thousand people who
watched and cheered them, recalls the old days
when the North and tbe South matched Eclipse
and Prince Henry for the championship of the
turf, and “ the entire American people,” as a
sporting writer enthusiastically recorded, “ as
sembled to see this sectional contest decided."
There is no race-course in the world more love
ly than Sheepshead Bay, and the Suburban now
ranks first among the great racing events of the
year in this country.
One at a Time.—Before Anarchist
Most went to trial he received an offer from a
Coney Island showman offering him $250 a
week, with all the chowder and beer which the
island is famed for, thrown in, if he would Bit in
an iron cage for the delectation of such patrons
as might visit the museum. Now that Most is
sitting in an iron cage at the city’s expense,
we would suggest that the fellow fills one con
tract at a time. The Albany Argus in speaking
of Most and his blood-thirsty ruffians says that
the Anarchist “ recognizes no moral obligations,
but wishes to reduce civilized society to
primitive chaos and savagery. Such hideous
doctrines seem inconceivable in this age; yet
they are daily taught at Anarchist meetings and
in Anarchist newspapers. Society, in defending
itselt against those crazy cutthroats should not
be over-nice in the methods adopted. The
sharper and more effective they are the better.”
Duly Appreciated.—Governor Hill
did a service for this city during the past week
by signing the bill giving New York 500 addi
tional policemen which the citizens will not
readily lorget. Acting promptly upon the Gov
ernor’s good example the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment have appropriated SIIO,OOO
for the services of 300 policemen to be put upon
the force between now and the Ist of January.
It is too bad that the Board did not appropriate
the $40,000 asked for patrol wagons, but when
the final estimates are being completed, ample
provisions will be made for the whole 500 po
licemen and two patrol wagone for each precinct
and five at headquarters. Tbe value of these
patrol wagons and additional policemen will be
duly appreciated should any trouble occur.
All Elements. — Our Democatic
friends seem to be particularly opposed to Mr.
James G. Blaine saying anything whatever
about the affairs of the world. Recently he de
livered a few remarks on the Home Rule ques
tion, and our Democratic friends at once de
nounced it as a bid for the Irish vote. It is an
nounced that he is to speak on the fisheries
question, and he is accused by our Democratic
friends of trying to secure the vote of tbe
Know-Nothing element. If this thing keeps on,
all elements of the people of this country op
posed to the Democratic party will demand the
nomination in 1888 of Blaine for President. He
is good enough for us all the time.
The fishery question; Where is the
bottle ?
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EASILY MASHED.
A dude with a decayed dew mustache was
walking along Park Row yesterday, and he met
a friend.
“Bah jove, Cholly I How do?”
How do, Gussie.”
"Just had awful mash up street I”
" Naw 1”
“Yah I”
“ Where’s she now ?”
“Up street in cigar store. Como up ! Let
you have a look. Won’t charge cent I”
“ ’8 go.”
They walked up street, passed the cigar
store, and both took off their hats at a teasing
looking blonde who was gazing through the
doorway. She was smiling an excuciating
smile.
“ Bah jove, Cholly 1 She’s awfully nioe, yo
know.”
“Slap me in the face it she isn’t.”
“ Let's walk around the block and come back.
We’ll get up courage, go in an'buy a cigarette
an' I’ll speak to her.”
“Sure ? ’
“Sure. If you’ll treat to lemonade for a
bracer.”
“ It’s a go.” i
As they disappeared around tho corner a
hoodlum yelled to his mate.
“Dammy if them dooda ain’t mashed on
that cigerret advertisement wot’s pasted on the
windy.”
JOHN INDULGES IN A TIE-UP.
The “ tie-up ” business bss struck the Chi
nese.
Yip Hi and Yan Kee run a button-hole spread
ing foundry in Brooklyn.
Yip has been loafing considerable of late, and
at the suggestion of Yan, they formed them
selves into a Knights of Labor organization and
drew up a set of rules on fire-cracker paper.
It was agreed that they’d work on the eight
hour system on alternate days.
Yan made his first kick when Yip refused to
work from eight o’clock one morning until eight
o’clock the next morning. This was finally set
tled, and then they proposed to both work to
gether from eight o’clock in the morning until
eight o'clock at night.
Things went on swimmingly until Yip docked
Yan for the time he was absent in chasing hood
lums down street. They camo near quarreling,
but they compromised by Yip permitting him
self to be docked for tho time he was busy in
winking at a servant girl across the street.
During Yip’s dinner hour he used to sing.
Yan heard it, armed himself with a revolver and
hunted through the cellar, over the back fence
and under the stoop for “ klat-tee.”
Yip looked upon this as a personal insult, and
fined Yan “ wun dol-lee.”
Yan got square the next time Yip tuned up
his throat. He bad fastened a big fire-cracker
under Yip’s chair, and when Yip brayed out his
first note he went through the window. Then
be fined Yip for the price of the window, and for
the time he lost in going out into the back yard
in his serial flight.
They fought in this way for two days, and
were surprised that no customers visited them.
When they came to cast up they ascertained
the alarming fact that they had each been fined
about a hundred dollars more than was in the
till.
Then they shook hands, rubbed the fines
out, and then disbanded tho Knights of Labor.
As they went across the street to ball each
other off to cigars, they ascertained why the till
was so emaciated. The hoodlums of the neigh
borhood had pasted a placard in the window.
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Both are now in jail. As they were coming
from the cigar store they saw a man tearing the
sign down. They thought ho was putting an
other one up, and they mashed him into his
hat,
SMALL OHANGB.
The coining King of Spain, Alfonso,
who first broke out a week or so ago, was
served up on a silver salver and exhibited to
the Ministers and High Shouts ot ths bailiwick.
Alfonso starts out all right, but judging by the
condition of former Spanish potentates, he may
bo hunting around tor that tray to hock it before
be is crowded out.
Down in Canarsie, L. 1., it was dis
covered the other day that a brother and sister
had been living together as man and wife for
many years and bad had several children.
Other fellows sisters are becoming so expensive
and giddy nowadays that a man can’t be much
blamed if he hunts around nis own family for a
housekeeper.
“ The German regiments are being
instructed in the use of the bicycle and tricycle."
That’e nothing. Our army learned the use of the
unicycle long ago. Go down to Fort Hamilton
and you can see them practicing in front of the
officers’ mansions every day. They call the
machines “ wheel-barrows” in army parlance
vous.
Senator Stanford paid Meissonier
SIO,OOO for painting his portrait. And yet to
look at the Senator's mug, one wouldn’t think
that he’d like to have a fac similie of it in his
house. May be, however, he is troubled with
insomnia, and has it hung in his bedroom to
frighten himself to sleep.
Republican papers say that the Presi
dent got married too soon, too soon, for the act
to act as an 1888 boom. You just never mind I
Little Grover will be along just about then, and
if he puts in an appearance before that, every
tooth can be worked to paralyze the nation in
to enthusiasm.
A high collar recently saved the life
of a dude who was walking along a Cincinnati
street. Somebody fired a shot, and it struck
tho collar, which was so stiff that it failed to be
penetrated. Any firm that would make a col
lar like that should be penetrated to the fullest
extent of the law.
“ Above the noisy bustle of the city
wedding-bells rang out merrily yesterday,” is
the way the Herald begins the announcement of
a recent nuptials. The personality of the news
papers is becoming entirely too numerous and—
but we wonder what was in the bustle to make
it noisy.
Isaak Waltonites are generally dis
gusted because the President fished for trout
with a worm. We can’t see where the difference
is, so long as the trout is bagged. Beside, we
always thought that the President was partial
to worms. At least, we always thought that he
had ’em.
A Brooklyn editor, while recently vis
iting Greenville, New Jersey, fell overboard in
to the Morris and Essex canal. He was sink
ing for the third time, when a reporter who was
present threw him a blue lead pencil, and he
crawled out and yelled for “ some space man’s
copy.”
Country newspapers are beginning to
pull that old chestnut “ speckled beauties” on
ns again. Wo hereby announce that if they
don’t stop it we are armed with a more fatal
one, and that we’ll use it the very next time we
see them go down into their ancient history
pocket
Canada has snubbed Great Britain
and says that if the mother country doesn’t like
her recent action regarding the fishing question
she can go to thunder. This looks like a scheme
on the part of the New York authorities to an
nex Canada in order to capture Billy Maloney.
A Maine citizen claims to have recent
ly caught a trout measuring twenty-eight
inches in length and weighing eleven pounds.
As it was caught in Lake Mooselankmeguntic,
it is presumed that the"citizen got loaded and
measured and weighed the name of the lake.
Don Augusto Leopoldo Felippe Maria
Miguel Gabriel Raphael Gonzaque, Duke of
Saxe, is in town. It is said that when he was
young hqjell out of a third story window and
was rescued by a fireman with a ladder before
his name bad telescoped to the sidewalk.
A little girl named Bitters recently
had her foster-mother arrested for fnhuman
treatment. As the girl was decidedly pretty,
she was compelled to take the bitters with the
sweet.
Thb recent tie-up on the railroads,
which caused so much blue-light atmosphere
Saturday a week ago, was caused, it is said, by
the leaders, who were up town playing poker
tor the weekly subscriptions and wanted an ex
cuse for not going home to their wives.
A Rhode Island cashier is the latest
on the list of defaulters. He got away with
$40,000. We didn’t think that there was so
much money in Rhode Island, but then, to be
sure, we only took a hurried walk across the
State one day when we were there.
Another thief has been discovered
among the Brooklyn Post-Office officials. As
the clerks are working on starvation wages, it
looks to us as if it would be a good idea to give
them a dollar more a week or furnish them
with lodgings in the poor-house.
The Governor has signed the bill for
the appointment of three hundred additional
policemen. Most of them will be sent to the
annexed district whore, in the absence of door
ways, we presume they will sleep in the woods
while on post.
A swell Pennsylvanian went into the
milk business, and then his female society
friends snnbbed him. Then he committed
suicide. Probably ho had seen them in decol
lete costume and wanted to keep up with the
procession.
Sullivan is coining to New York to
live. This will be a groat loss to Boston, but
we can’t see how our city is to be benefited.
However, three hundred new policemen are to
be appointed, and maybe John can keep them
busy.
San Francisco De Young’s wife has
organized a new style of amusement in a series
of tableaux vivants depicting scenes from
“Don Juan.” Bring it to Now York and give
the bald-heads another hack at the so-bo-it
pews.
Frank Stockton denies that he is
blind, but says ha dictates his stories through
choice. We are glad to hear that he is not
blind, but sometimes—when his is the only
book around—we sometimes wish that we were.
Patti was married again on Thursday
and the editor of the Pars Figaro gave her
away. This appears rather mean, and it wo
were Nicolini we’d go around to that editor’s
sanctum and punch him in the nose.
Buffalonians are still excited over
the mysterious disappearance of little Laura
Link, the fifteen year-old daughter of an estima
ble citizen. Can she be the missing link we
have all heard so much about.
Fire crackers are beginning to sprout
and the crop promises to be a large one. We
wish to notify the managers of Angel-land not
to take the next annual census until we have a
chance to complete the quota.
The Macon Telegraph has presented
the national bride with a combination
bread-bowl, card-receiver and cradle. We
want to patent a spring-bottom for it which can
be used as a baby-spanker.
Last week’s papers announce the
marriage of Anna L. Huckel to Joseph P. Berry.
As soon as the first youngster comes they can
treat themselves every night to Huokel-Berries
and scream.
King Ludwig has been officially de
clared insane. The cable doesn’t inform us,
but he has probably announced that he is going
to begin to pay his debts.
Several New York physicians, acting
in the interest of science, are now practising on
dog’s brains. Let us hope that they don’t get
the brains mixed.
Oh, say ! how. by the way, would it
go. to engage Buddensiek to build a Peniten
tiary.
World of
G0331P OF THE WEEK.
Eleven theatres are now closed in thia city and
six in Brooklyn. And now for a brief period Coney
Island and the suburban beer gardens will have a
chance to get in their fine work in the way of amus
ing the public—and gathering in the •• boodle.* 1
Mb. Caleb L. Woglom, the popular business man
ager of the Lee Avenue Academy of Music (Brook
lyn, E. D.), will be made happy by a complimentary
benefit thia evening—tendered him by a large num
ber of his friends. Miss Lillian Lewis will appear
in an act of *• Camille," and a score of other profes
sional notables will aid in making the programme
specially attractive. Mr. Woglom has been atten
tive to his duties, worked bard, is not a millionaire,
and, therefore, this beneficial remembrance on the
part of the patrons of the theatre will not be out of
place.
John M. Bubke, "Old Scar Face," is in town,
making arrangements for the appearance of Erastiua
Woods, 8. 1., of Buffalo Bill’s " Wild West." In the
language of his own Indians, " Scar Face" makes " a
big talk" about the attractions of his remarkable
show, and insists that nobody who goes to see it
will doubt his veracity. The Indians, cowboys and
buffaloes, fresh from their native plains, will all
corroborate " Scar Face’s" statements.
Mb. Fred Bryton’s play "Forgiven " will be re
written for the coming season, in order to eliminate
a feature in it objectionable to him, and also to
generally improve the work.
Miss Bertha Welby is in the city for a few days,
having left the bedside of her father, who is very
ill at Rochester, in order to confer with her man
ager, G. A. Blumenthal, in regard to her coming
season. Miss Welby will be surrounded by an ex
ceptionally fine company. She plays only two
weeks of one-Dight stands during the season.
Mrs. Emilie Rickaby, widow of the late John
Rickaby, will return to the stage this Fall. She has
already had several offers of engagements, but as
yet has settled nothing definitely.
The members of the " Mohican Club" have put
off their war-paint and last week held a grand
council in the wigwam, passed around the pipe of
peace and indulged in an election of chiefs and
medicine men for the ensuing year. The warriors
chosen were: President, Edward Aronson; Vice-
Presidents, Jacob Hess, John A. Mackay and Henry
E. Dixey; Treasurer, E. Prentice Treadwell; Secre
tary, Robert C. Hilliard; Board of Governors—Jo
seph Howard, Jr., Blakely Hall, Gen. W. B. Barton,
Amos J. Cummings, C. M. Richmond. Ariel N. Bar
ney, Walter J. Price, Judge Fred. G. Gedney and
Daniel Frohman.
Big Chief Amos J. Cummings and Medicine Man
Joe Howard will do the war dancing; Judge Ged
ney will attend to the fire-water; Ed. Aronson will
play the big Casino lyre; Dixey will supervise the
walking-bome exercises and Hilliard will keep his
eye on the young squaws. And jolly good fellows
are they all.
Mb. Thomas W. Keene will make a feature of
"Richard III." next season. He was never in bet
ter health, and expects to do the best work of his
life during his forthcoming starring tour.
Mr. Lawbence Barrett is at Cohasset, Mass.,
where he has settled down for the Summer.
Raymond has said it, and that settles it. He hath
asserted that W, T. Florence is the greatest and
grandest of American artists. (Aside)— Except Ray
mond. Well, Billy is a jolly good fellow and one of
the old-timers—but—as for being the greatest
well—keep it up, Raymond.
Miss Lilian Olcott is in Paris. She returns the
latter part of August to prepare for her debut in
this city early in September.
Miss Helen Dauvray sailed quietly away yester
day on the "Aurania." There were no brass bands,
no tugs and n® farewell banquets—only a clever
young American girl going abroad for a much
needed vacation. Miss Dauvray returns in August
to prepare for her brief tour in " One of Our Girls."
Phil. Goatcher is busy painting the elaborate scene
ry for Bronson Howard’s new play, which this
popular actress proposes to produce at the Lyceum
Theatre next Winter.
•'The beautiful booming butterfly of the bacchanal
banquet scene," is the way in which a poetic critic
of an Idaho paper humps his pen and slings his ink
concerning a young variety specialist with pink
tights, rose-pink complexion, pug nose and patent
corsets, who had a benefit in his town. He is need
ed here badly od the Herald.
The successful farcical comedy, •• Confusion,"
will be produced at the New Windsor Theatre dur
ing the week of June 21, with Wm. John Venning
in the leading part, supported by a good company
of comedians.
Mlle. Rhea has closed her season and sailed for
Paris yesterday on the "Normaidie, tp be abseht
until August, when she will return to begin a fare
well tour of the country. At that time she will add
the following plays to her repertoire: "The Ro
mance of a Poor Young Man," "King Rene’s
Daughter/’ and " Much Ado About Nothing."
Manager Horace Wall is already making ex
tensive preparations to ensure his New Haven Thea
tre an even greater degree of popular favor than is
now its special prerogative. A new drop curtain,
new carpets and decorations, and a thorough reno
vation on the stage and in front of the house, are
among the improvements. He has, during his
managerial reign there, given New Haven what it
never had before, a theatre properly conducted on
business principles, for the benefit of the public as
well as himself. In his valedictory card, at the
close of this, his second season, his reference t<?
what is termed the cheap price stars and combina
tions, is pertinent and truthful. He says:
Artists will not play for 10, 20 and 30 cents, nor
will they perform twelve times a week. Actors
past their usefulness, novices, and third-rate per
formers will. Ergo: you can only get ten cents worth
for ten cents. It is impossible to present plryg
worthily, or engage good actors, at such »n entrance
fee, and a double performance every day puts it out
of the power of an actor to give any attention to
developing his part or infusing any spirit into his
acting. The most he ean do is to drag protesting!/
through the performance in a perfunctory manner,
with no care for anything save a limited (even lor
that work) pecuniary recompense. Again, these
prices will not pay for elaborate or even tolerably
correct scenery or dresses, nor will the double per
formance system allow of anything more perfect
than a rough and tumble dramatic* representation.
The musio, if there beany, must of necessity be
butchered, and a coarse, clumsy school of acting,
hurried, and imperfect production, depraving to
the taste and lowering to the true interests plays
and players, is, and must be the result of cheap-
Jack management.
Or in brief, five dollar banknotes cannot bo
bought for ten cents a piece. Evidently Mr. Wall is
not one of your " Off year" managers.
The late William Carlton s last play entitled
"Zitka," will be produced at the People’s Theatre,
June 21st, and the following people have been en
gaged to create the characters : John Jennings, Gus
tave Levlck, Henry Areling. John Tompson, John
Walsh, Arthur Forrest, Percey Weldon, Frank Rob
erts, Charlotte Behrens, Eda Clayton, Barbary Eyet.
The most striking scenes will be, the Winter Pal
ace at St. Petersburg, a Greek Church at Moscow, an
exiles hut in Siberia, and a military review at Cron
stadt. The costumes are now being prepared from
designs by the author, and the properties and scen
ery are in the hands of Messrs. Norman and Quinn.
The play was read to the company and parts given
out on the stage of the People’s June 10th ; the re
hearsals will be under the supervision of Messrs.
Frank Evans and E. E. Hume.
Fancy fat Jack Barnes as the successor of Mantell
in Louis Ipanoff. Great Scott I Well It is to bo.
Th® contract is signed, sealed and delivered, and
Barnes is engaged as the leading man in Miss Fanny
Davenport's Company for next season. This should
suggest to Mary Anderson when next she appears
here to engage John Jack to play Romeo and Claud®
Melnott®.
Stephen Fiske in The Spirit of the Times wants to
cure the public of its craze for topical songs by
letting Hamlet sing one as a duet with Polonious
or the Ghost and lago warble doggerel with Roderigo.
Stephen believes in surfeit as a cure. There is a
still more speedy method than he has suggested.
Get Carboy to write a topical song and let Fisk®
sing it. One dose will be sufficient and Syd Rosen
feld will be heard of no more, and Wilson and Do
Wolfe Hopper will be a " lost cause " of merriment.
Or—if the dose needed strenghtening—let the pair
of them sing together—and Ohaos would be no
where.
A number of the Chicago managers have taken a
wise step in the way of advertising, which should
be followed by the directors of theatres in all the
largo cities. They will discover a fact which every
body else has known for many seasons—that the
most effective, and after all the cheapest, medium
for reaching the great mass of playgoers is through
the advertising columns of tho daily and weekly
press.
In Chicago, at a meeting of the managers, it was
arranged that on and after August 1 the seven prln
cipal theatres of that city will abandon all manner
of window advertising; and lithographs, pro
grammes, &c., in windows, will no longer entitle
any one to free admissions to the theatres. This
action on the part of the managers is taken, It is
stated, because the highly and multi-colored litho
graph is no longer a *• drawing card," and because
they will not be given room in windows without
two seats a week being allowed for the privilege of
placing them there. This, it is calculated, will cut
off an average of three thousand deadheads a week.
Evidently Daly’s eccentric comedian, James
Lewis, has caught not only the public but the crit
ical favor of London. Clement Scott, writing in th®
Telegraph of that city in reference to the first per
formance of •• A Night Off," at the Strand Theatre,
says of " Jeemes :"
" That those who have hitherto been only tantal
ized with bearing of the caustic and pungent hu
mor of Mr. Lewis, can now have an opportunity of
seeing an actor who combines the finisu and facial
variety of Mr. Hare with much of the strong spirit
of fun possessed by the late George Honey. Ho
amuses without screaming, aud it ia a pleasure to
watch his face; the play of bis features, every turn
and action means something. Ho has studied the
principles of dramatic effect, it does not all come by
chance. He does not simply go upon the stage and
speak his lines, but be studies how best to say
them. He is not only an actor but an artist."
Miss Alberta Gallatin has gone to tho Atlantic
Highlands for tho Summer, and is enjoying herself
by the "sad sea waves."
Niblo’s Garden.—“ Bound to Suo
ceed " did succeed, not only in attracting numerous
audiences, but in pleasing them very greatly. Tho
cast, which includes thirteen personages, was—take
it for all in all—very fairly represented. There are
enough of Incident, exciting situations and realistic
effects to furnish material for half a dozen ordinary
melodramas.
To-morrow and every evening during the week,
Mr. John P. Smith will come to the front again with
his undying and apparently always anxiously ex
pected new version of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." In
the cast Mrs. G. C. Howard will make an addition of
eight more to the three thousand performances she
has made of Topsy since 1852. Mr. G. C. Howard
will also repeat his original character, St. Clair.
Arthur Gregory will be the Uncle Tom, and little
Emma Pollock will turn on the tap of tears as the
augelio Eva. The " Magnolia Quartette," the Jubi
lee Singers, Horace Weston, Mocking Bird Rube,
Dan Hart and his educated dog, "Yaller," Amy
Washington with her banjo, and other attractions
are included in this representation of the drama.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Standard Theatre.—Brother John
Duff is not only a brother and a man but a man
ager and one whose risibles are rarely aroused from
a dormant condition and whose most enjoyable
dramatic feast is a sombre and heart rending trag
edy, in which the characters are tossed from act to
act on great waves of briny tears and the stage is
filled with the dead and dying aud when wails and
lamentations convert the air into condensed miser
eres.
i Now, when brother Duff night after night sits
through a farcical performance and laughs so con
tinuously and heartily that even his mortal foes—
the deadheads—take heart of courage and think the
old man is weakening—that aforesaid performance
can be rated as being the very acme of fun.
And he does roar over Hoyt's example of " A Tin
Soldier." And the hundreds of people who crowd
the Standard join in the roar and very often think
of dyspepsia, debts, or any other of tho horrors of
their dally lives.
If you wish to live loog and be happy, believe in
Hoyt as a humorist and take in "A Tin Soldier"
six times a week. And don’t eliminate this from
your memory. Matinees as usual.
Koster and Biai/s Concert Hade.—
Despite the heated weather and seaside attractions,
this resort is crowded every afternoon and even
ing, and it is difficult to determine which is the at
traction, " Ixion ” or the cold air apparatus which
circulates a welcome coolness throughout the hall.
This evening, as usual, a sacred concert will be
given, for which a long and varied programme has
been the |principal feature of which is
the last appearance of Dutch Daily. This gentle
man has made a most profound hit, and only leaves
in consequence of other contracts which must be
fulfilled. Miss Laura Burt, Miss Rosa Leo, Miss
Lillie Shandley, Chas. Shattuck, and others will
contribute to the pleasure of the audience. To
morrow evening "Ixion," with the reappearance of
the Herbert Brothers, and first appearances of J. H.
W. Byrne and Miss Ida Lillian Abram.
National Theatre.—Manager Heu
mann may indulge in new clothes for himself every
week, but he allows no such thing as close to Lis
theatre year in and year out. Like a South Ameri
can Winter his house is always " open." Every
week he presents a new dramatic feature and an en
tire change of the variety programme.
For the current week, commencing to-morrow
evening, Mr. Dick Gorman will impersonate the
eccentric character of Levi Isaacs, the peddler, in
the four-act realistic comedy-drama, entitled "My
Hebrew Friend." The scenic settings will be now
and many novel mechanical effects will be intro
duced. The cast will include all the members of
the regular company.
The variety olio will include among its notable at
tractions Messrs. Lester and Williams in comio
songs; Messrs. Donnelly and Drew in "The Irish
Stranger;’’ Miss Jennie Leland and Tony Farrell in
their sketch "Love in a Hammock," aud Dav®
Marion and Minnie Bell in their rapid changes of
costumes and characterizations.
Matinees on Tuesday, Thursday and Satus&®y.
An extra (Pfingst Monday) matinee will be given. to
morrow. Special concerts this afternoon Quell
ing.