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iNQOTSTTrvs. —" What is the origin of
the Cerfew Bell f" The cerfew l« commonly said to
liavc been introduced into England by William the
Conqueror. By that monarch it was ordained,
Binder severe penalties, that when the cerfew bell
yang at eight o'clock in the evening all lights ana
■tires should be extinguished. There are those who
hold that this was merely the enforcing of an ex
isting and very common police regulation to that
effect. The absolute prohibition of lights after the
ringing of the cerfew bell was abolished by Henry
1., in the year 1100, but the practice of tolling a bell
at a fixed hour in the evening was continued, ana
this, welch is still extant in some places.is a survival
of the curfew of medieval times. At first the common
liour was seven o'clock, then it was gradually ad
vanced to eight, and in some places to nine o clock;
indeed, in Scotland, ten o'clock was not an unusual
hour. The curfew was a regulation most useful in
those early days, when it was the custom to place
the fire in a bole in the middle of the floor, under
an opening in the roof, to allow the ® Bca P e ‘J®
smoke. When the family retired for the night, the
fire was extinguished bv covering it up; hence the
term couvrefeu, or curfew. The regulation was also
Berviceable in obliging the people to keep in
houses, and thus preventing night brawls in the
Ftr-.ets. It is believed that there is no historical
authority for the popular tradition that the sever
ity exhibited by the conqueror, in enforcing obedi
ence to the curlew, was wore particularly designed
to prevent the English from assembling in secret to
schemes of rebellion against their Norman
lords.
Vulcan.—Albert Edward, Prince of
Wales, Duka of Saxony and Prince of Coburg-
Gotha, heir apparent to the British throne, second
child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, was born
tn Buckingham Palace, November 9, 184 L He was
created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester by let
ters patent December 8, 1841, and Earl of Dublin
January 17, 1850. He is Luke of Cornwall, pursu.
ant to the statute of Edward 111., 1 33 7, the •nnual
revenues of the duchy being about £50,000. in
Conformity with an act of the Scotch Parliament, in
1449, he ie High Steward of Scotland, Duke of Roth-
Bay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, and Lord of
the Isles. He is a general in the army, colonel of
the Tenth Hussars, captain-general and colonel o.
the Honorable Artillery Company, barrister at law
Bnd a bencher of the Middle Temple, president of
the Society of Arts and 01 other societies, and chan
cellor of the University of Cambridge. In 1860 be
visited the United States and Canada, accompanied
l>y the late Duke of Newcastle, and on March 10,
•1863, he married, at Windsor, Alexandra, eldest
Slaughter of Christian IX., of Denmark. His eldest
eon. Albert Victor, war. born at Frogmore Lodge,
January 8, 1864. In the Autumn of 1871 he was
seized with a dangerous typhoid lover, which pro
duced much public anxiety, and his convalescence .
Nvaa celebrated with great pomp at St, Paul s i.ath-
Cdral, February 27, 1872.
Legal.—The following laws apply to
footes. You will find your question answered among
them: Demand notes are payable on presentation,
Without grace, and bear legal interest after a de
mand has been made, if not so written. An in
dorser on a demand note is holden only for a limit
ed time, variable in different States. A negotiable
inote must be made payable either to bearer or be
jiroperly indorsed by the person to whose order it
Is made. If the indorser wishes to avoid responsi
bility, he can indorse “ without recourse.” A joint
note is one signed by two or more persons, who
each become liable for the whole amount. Three ,
days’ grace are allowed on all time notes after the
time for payment expires; if not then paid, the in- <
dorter, if any, should be legally notified, to be ]
holden. Notes falling due Sunday or on a legal holi
day must be paid the day previous. Altering a note
Jn any manner by the holder makes it void. Notes
given by minors are void# The maker of a note
that is lost or stolen is not released from payment
If the amount and consideration can be proven.
>lotes obtained by fraud or given by an intoxicated I
person cannot be collected. An indorser has a right
of action against all whose names were previously
on a note indorsed by him. Deposits of money in a f
Dank placed to the credit of depositors are always e
Subject to their cheek for full amount due.
Dexter.—lst. It is not obligatory '
Upon a customer to fee a waiter in any restaurant,
and if he is not waited upon promptly, he should 1
complain to the proprietor, who will see that he is ]
attended to. 2d. The only thing to do to stop the
circulation of Canadian money is to refuse to re
ceive it at all, and demand United States coin when- t
fever the Canadian is offered. 3d. We know of no
place where uncancelled check stamps can be sold.
Apply to the Internal Revenue department, where t
they may possibly purchase them from you. We f
do not think they can be sold at the office you speak
of. 4th. The paper you have is of no special value, 1
ns it may be seen at any of the libraries in this city; {
but it may be sold at any second hand book store.
Olivo.—According to Section 32 of (
th a "Penal Cods of New York,'’ “A person who, by
writing, or printing or by circular or letter, or in
any other way, advertises or publishes an account
of a lottery, whether within or without the State, (
Stating how, when or where the same is to be, or
lias been drawn, or what are the prizes therein, or (
any of them, or the price of a ticket, or any share j
or interest therein, or where or how it may be ob
lained, is guilty of a misdemeanor.” As a misde- 1
meanor is punishable by a fine or imprisonment or j
Loth, we could not answer your query without
breaking the law and laying ourselves liable. We I
therefore must refuse to answer. 1
3. C. — Ist. Our statement that Edmund <
K»*n made his first app.arauce in New York at the I
Anthony Street Theatre, is perfectly correct, accord- ;
Ing to the beet authorities that we can find. 2d.
Charles Kemble made his American debut Septem- <
ter 17. 1832, at the Park Theatre, as Hamlet, in
trhlch be was very successful. His daughter, Fanny,
made her first appearance on the American stage
September 18,1832. at the Park Theatre, as ••Bianca." ,
34. John Reeve first appeared in America, Novem
ber 30, 1835, at the Park Theatre, New York, as
Marmaduke Magog In " Wrack Ashore.” I
Photographer.—“To decide a bet, 1
please let us know when the first picture was 1
taken in this country and by whom.” The first ,
likeness ever successfully obtained in this coun
try by the Daguerre process, was taken by the late 1
Prof J W. Draper, in the Autumn of 1839. His ,
camera was a cigar box in which was placed a spec
taele lens. During the next Winter a small gallery 1
Wvas opened and some notable pictures were taken, i
k'rof. Morse, who invented the telegraph, succeeded
l>rof. Draper the next Winter, and from this small
beginning the art of photography grew. I
1 J, V. F.—The Guinness brewings 1
Anual annually 1,250,000 barrels, of forty gallons .
each, making a total of 50.000,000 gallons. The ,
aßass Brewery brews annually 1,000,000 barrels, of
Uorty gallons each, or 40,000,000 gallons, making a 1
•total of both breweries of 90,000,000 gallons or 1
a, 250,000 barrels. The lager beer breweries of New
Fork city produce annually 3,983.223 barrels of 1
thirty-two gallons each or a total of 127,463,136
cations Brooklyn 1,263 109 barrels of thirty-two
cations each, or 40,419,448 gallons. Making a total
fcroductloa of both New York and Brooklyn of
246,332 barrels or 167,882,624 gallons.
'' A. D.—The oil of pennyroyal will cer
tainly drive fleas from dogs, etc., but a cheaper
method, where the herb flourishes, is to dip dogs
Sind cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the
kerb and scatter it in the beds of pigs once a month.
Where the herb cannot be got, bil may be pro
cured. In this case, saturate strings with It and
lie them around the necks of dogs and cats, pour a
little oo the back and about the ears of hogs, which
■rou can do while they are feeding without touch
ing them. By repeating these applications every
twelve or fllteou days, the fleas will leave the anl
jaals.
Sufferer.—Rats arc said to have such
* dislike for potash that if it is powdered and scat
tered round their haunts they will leave them. A
piece of rag well soaked In a strong solution of Cay
enne is a capital thing to put Into rat or mice holes,
BS they will not attempt to eat It, A plug of wood,
covered with a piece of flannel so prepared, may be
Used to fill up the holes. Cockroaches and ants
Bare a similar dislike to cayenne, and a little Btrew
pd about a collar will keep it clear of them.
( H. K.— The following are the distances
ground the world : New York to San Francisco,
miles, 3,450; San Francisco to Yokohama, 4,764;
Yokohama to Hong Kong. 1,620; Hong Kong to
Singapore, 1.150; Singapore to Calcutta, 1,200; Cal
cutta to Bombay, 1.409; Bombay to Aden, 1,664;
Aden to Suez, 1.308; Suex to Alexandria. 230;, Alex,
andrla to Marseilles, 1,300; Marseilles to Paris, 536;
*>aris to London, 316; London to Liverpool, 205;
7-iverpool to New York, 3,000. Total miles, 22,172.
Ante.—Rule 13 of poker says; “Any
grayer previous to raising his hand or making a bet
knay demand of the dealer how many cards he
drew, and the latter must reply eorreetly. By rais
ing his hand or making a bet a player forfeits the
right to inquire and removes the obligation to an
swer.” The dealer has no right to tell at any time
Sow many cards any player drew. Each player
hear* for himself the number called for, except in
fhe case of the dealer.
Croton. —For detecting organic matter
In water some scientists use a solution of permangan
ate of potash (Condy’B fluid). Six drops to a wineglass
ful of the water. This imparts a rose color to the wa
ter. Let it stand for two hours. If the color changes
toduH yellow, the water is unwholesome. If the
color disappears, the water is dangerous. Any
Chemist will prepare the solution for you.
J. A. G.— The price of an ordinary
flrink of whisky in the regular liquor stores (not
tiotels) in this city from 1857 to 1860 was six cents.
The price was not advanced until 1863, when it cost
ten cents for a drink, and when the tax of two dol
lars a gallon was placed on whisky in 1863 or '64
the price went up to fifteen cents a drink in many
places.
W. H. O.—Apply to the postmaster
for examination blanks. It is impossible to tell
Low long you would have to wait before you ob
tained a situation in the post-office, even if you
Should pass the examination, as there are always a
great many who have already passed their examin
ation and are now waiting for vacancies to occur.
Unfortunate. —Superintendent of the
J?oor, Blake, distributed the money, $20,000. which
vas appropriated lor the blind poor Friday, at
Third avenue and Eleventh street. Some of the
fclind who are bed-ridden or were otherwise unable
to go, will have their money sent to them. Nearly
All of them applied in person.
N. S.—There is a much larger num
tier of Christians than Jews in our asylums, but the
proportion is about the same to the number of
these creeds. The number of foreigners in our
asylums is much greater in proportion to their
number than of Americans native born.
William. —The highest mean annual
temperature in the United States is at Jacksonville,
Florida, and New Orleans, La., where it is sixty-nine
degrees’. The lowest is at Fort Bridger, Wyoming,
Inhere it is forty-one degrees.
Store Keeper.—There is an amend
juent to the Penal Code which took effect on July
test, this year, making it a misdemeanor to give
Presents of glassware and crockery to purchasers of
fteas and coffees.
Elizabeth. —Apply at the office of the
Commissioners of Charities and Correction, corner
)©f Eleventh street and Third avenue, where you
Ikvill receive information as to which institution you
apply.
J. P. M.—An honorably discharged
Soldier is allowed on his death the sum of thirty
'll ve dollars to defray the expenses of his burial,
pl hero is no allowance made for a monument.
Uakjq.-v been misiniouned.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PA&K:
CONTINUATION OF “A MARVELOUS MARRIAGE.”
IN OLD-FASHIONED STYLE.
AMERICAN FABLES.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
A TOUGH YARN.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Brahma; Past Master’s Degree;
Transactions of New York; Frcm the Sunny South;
A Memorable Tree; Hall and Asylum Fund; Concur
rent Jurisdiction; Personal; Royal Arch Items; An
thon Lodge; A. A. Scottish Rite; Excursions: The
Unifying Force of Freemasonry.
SIXTH PAGE t
MY LOST LOVE.
A MAD DEED.
A DAKOTA WHOPPER.
PAMELA.
A CLEVER JEREMY DIDDLER.
INGERSOLL ON SOCIALISM.
HORSE TALK.
CHANGE.
IS IT REASON f
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
THE LOOM QF LIFE.
THREE LINKS IN A CHAIN.
THE KEEPER’S STORY.
A LONELY GRAVE.
OUR REPORTERS.
HAVING FUN WITH THE BOYS.
A WHITE DEMON.
OBITUARY.
THE BEST POLICY.
A CHILD’S TEARS.
A DIFFERENCE IN TIME.
GREELY AHEAD.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
A WHISTLING PARROT.
P'nrk
NEW YORK, JULY 31, 1887. ;
TO ADVERTISERS. ,
•
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ADVERTISING IS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A LINE IN ’
THE NEW YORK DISPATCH. 1
Owing to our large edition we are compelled to go to 1
press at an early hour, hence ADVERTISEMENTS CAN
NOT BE RECEIVED AKTER NINE O’CLOCK SATUR
DAY EVENING.
1
To Masonic Advertisers.
Those deairing to advertise in our Masonic columns |
must have their advertisements n our office P T! ”‘Ore
TWO O'CLOCK on FRIDAY AFTERNOON, l-o art '
vert)sement can be inserted on the Masonic Pago alter I
that hour. ]
The NEW YORK DISPATCH 1
has a larger circulation than any ‘
other Sunday Newspaper pub- ]
lishod in the United States. <
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REPUBLICANS TO THE FRONT. ‘
Tha Ohio convention has done a good work. ,
It has laid down a solid Republican platform (
and hoisted high a splendid Republican stand- ,
ard. Its renomination of Governor Foraker is ,
equivalent to his re-election. The most aan- ,
guine Democrats—it there be any such Demo- |
crata left—do not dispute this fact. Whether ,
its nomination of Senator Sherman for the next j
Presidency will be equally binding depends (
upon the action of the National Convention. (
Unquestionably Senator Sherman is a great ;
statesman and a trne Republican. He deserves (
ths highest honors which the people can con- ,
fer upon him. I» is a merited compliment that j
he should receive the emphatic indorsement of ,
the Republicans of his own State. “Now or f
never ”is a bold fnotto with which to begin the (
campaign for the nomination ; but this motto
should not be translated by his supporters into j
“Sherman or nobody.” There are, fortunately, 5
other great statesmen and other true Repnbli- (
cans before the country. The Republican party r
is not owned and run by any one man. If, in j
its wisdom, the National Convention should se- .
lect some other candidate, Senator Sherman is ,
pledged to sustain the ticket. If Senator Sher- t
man should be nominated, he will have the cor- <
dial, unanimous support of every Republican, (
and of many repentant Democrats, and we shall t
have no doubt whatever of his triumphant f
election.
The real Republican platform is that of prin
ciples not men. The Ohio Convention recog- (
nized this truth and enunciated principles (
which every honest and patriotic citizen can
approve, no matter who may be selected to ,
represent them. At no time since the out- ,
break ol the Rebellion has a Republican ad- j
ministration been more necessary to the wel
fare of the country than at present. The j
nation has been put back ten years by the fail- ,
nre of the Democrats to conduct the govern
ment satisfactorily. Cleveland is like nobody (
except himself; but in many respects he re- ,
semblea poor Pierce, and we all know the ]
consequences of the incompetency of that
President. The years passed by Cleveland in
the White House have been frittered away be- ,
cause he has no capacity for statesmanship.
The only good thing he has done is marrying
a pretty and pleasant woman, and it was not
worth while electing him as ®hief Magistrate ,
for this single achievement. Governor Foraker
scathingly ridicules him for his lack of courage;
but, beside, he lacks every quality which a
President of the United States ought to pos
sess. He belongs to a stupid party, and he
exhibits more stupidity than the average Dem
ocrat.
At the dictation of such impracticable politi
cians as the maa-milliner of Harper’s Bazaar,
little George Jones, of Jones River, and the
dude scribblers of the Evening Post and Bos
ton Herald, the people have seen the whole
machinery of the government transformed into
a Kindergarten school, in which the windy
knights of village debating societies prove their
unfitness for the offices apportioned to them by
recollecting the length of some fabled river,
the name of some obscure general, or the popu
lation of some extinct city. While this compe
tition in spelling is going on, under the name
of Civil Service reform, the important interests
of the country are being neglected. Petty
offices are filled according to the obsolete
Chinese system ; but our commerce languishes,
our fishermen are robbed and insulted, the
carrying trade of the world is kept from us, the
people are oppressed by the unnecessary and
infernal internal revenue. To remedy all this
we need a Republican administration, with a
good working majority in both Houses of Con
gress. The practical policy of such an admin
istration is already determined by the demands
of the people. They will take no leap in the
dark, as they did when Cleveland was juggled
into the White House by an accidental or a
manipulated majority. They know what the
Republican party has done for the country, and
what it will do again, after 1888.
The people want the Civil Service humbug
laughed out of existence, and the genuine tests
of fitness for office restored. They want that
worst of all frauds, the Interstate Commerce
Act, repealed, and the old women in trousers,
who now draw salaries for their ignorant and
costly meddling with the great railroads of the
country, sent back to their townships to teach
Sunday schools. They want the industrial cor
porations to be allowed to manage their own
business, without being blackmailed under
color of the law which they despise. They
want a Secretary of State who will not be afraid
te protect our fishermen from outrage and in
sult. They want a Secretary of the Navy who
will devote his energies to building up a mer
chant marine, instead of expending them in
passing plates of cake at fashionable tea-par
ties. They want a tariff that will foster Ameri
can industries. They want the surplus in the
national treasury distributed among useful
public works. They want that war measure,
the internal revenue tax, to end with the war,
and its army of spies and informers to bo sent
off to honest labor. They know that they can
only have these reforms under a Republican
administration, and, therefore, the success ot
the Republican party at the next election is a
’ certainty. Not Republican partisans alone,
but all men, of every party, who desire the
prosperity of the country, are united upon this
, platform, and the candidates who stand upon
> it are sure of the future.
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POSTERING WITH JUSTICE.
j. The trial of Judge Barrett, for the criminal
i offence of sentencing Jacob Sharp, Esq., an aged
1 and wealthy boodler, was continued, all last
week, belore that distinguished jurist, Chief
Justice Potter, of Whitehall. The plea on be-
L half of Judge Barrett, that he had acted accord
ing to law and the verdict of a jury, was prompt
ly overruled by Chief Justice Potter, who says
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JULY 31, 1887.
that he is in the habit of making his own law by I
guessing at it, and who, of course, has a sover
eign contempt for city jurymen. The elderly
and high-priced lawyers who have conducted
the defence of Jacob Sharp, Esq., so admirably
as to secure their client an extra sentence, were
rather doubtful about venturing so far as to try
Judge Barrett, and, therefore, the eloquent
Bourke Cockran, ol Tammany Hall, was paid to
rush in where the lawyers feared to tread, and
undertake the prosecution of Judge Barrett.
Alter closing his eyes in order to listen to the
arguments of Bourke Cockran more attentive
ly, Chief Justice Potter took the papers, packed
his gripsack and went back to Whitehall to talk
the matter over with his neighbors, between
meeting times, to-day, and arrive at his judi
cial decision.
According to Bonrke Cockran, who is as full
of words as a dictionary, the case against
Judge Barrett is very strong. He is a com
paratively young and vigorous judge, who,
just because bribery was legally proven, has
trampled upon the aged and feeble Jacob
Sharp, Esq., instead of regarding boodling as a
fair business transaction. There has actually
been public clamor against Jacob Sharp, Esq.,
and that suffering angel, the benefactor ot the
city, has been abused by wicked newspapers.
How Bourke Cockran glowed and blowed as he
denounced the public and the papers, and how
Chief Justice Potter, with his eyes shut, nodded
acquiescence to his philiipics, the reporters
have faithfully described. It is true that the
reckless and incompetent Court of Appeals has
sustained all of Judge Barrett’s decisions in
the boodle cases; but, asks Bourke Cockran,
doos that justify him in sentencing a wealthy
briber, who owns street railroads and lives in a
brown-stone house? Where are we, and what
are we coming to, it a man with money is not to
be considered respectable and protected from
the rude verdicts ot juries and the legal sen
tences ot judges ? When such a man is old and ■
drinks nothing but milk, what deliberate cru- i
elty it is to decide law points against him and .
consign him to Sing Sing, like a common, poor
malefactor! I
The eyes and ears ot the world—we do '
not mean Joe Pullltzer’s World, but the earth '
in general—are fixed on Whitehall. What Chief i
Justice Potter decides may possibly leak out, i
to-morrow, in the confidential, social chats he ’
will have with the minister, the deacons and i
the guests at his Sunday tea-table. He has i
never heard Bourke Cockran betore, and may i
have been impressed by the eloquence which has i
so often aroused the whisky braves of Tammany '
Hall to attempt to steal the public plun
der. The simple question before him is in |
regard to the guilt of Judge Barrett. The age :
of Jacob Sharp, Esq., is like the flowers that i
bloom in “The Mikado”—it has nothing to do
with the case. One may grow old in wickedness <
and depravity, and spend fiity years in disrep
utalde jobs, and become rich by rascality and
corruption. If so, age may be only an aggra- 1
ration of the offenses of the criminal, who, on 1
the brink of the grave, is still unrepentant and
uuregenerate, and, with trembling hands, 1
hold on to the spoils he has stolen. Men like 1
this may have been heard ot, even at Whitehall. 1
Chief Justice Potter cannot take it upon himself 1
to decide whether Jacob Sharp, Esq., is guilty 1
or innocent. A remorseless jury has done that, 1
already. No; he is to determine whether Judge 1
Barrett is guilty, and, if so, what is the exteut 1
and variety of his criminality. This is easy work 1
for a Whitehall justice, and the prodigious Pot- 1
ter glories in hie opportunity. 1
Suppose that, after due consideration, weigh- '
ing the age of Jacob Sharp, Esq., against his 1
wealth, Chief Justice Potter should come to the 1
conclusion that Judge Barrett was not guilty?
That would not be a sensational decision. It 1
has been made already by the General Term ‘
and the Court of Appeals. It would simply ]
mean that more of the public time and money 1
has been wasted in the effort to keep Jacob
Sharp, Esq., out of prison. On the other hand,
suppose that Chief Justice Potter announces 1
that Judge Barrett is all wrong and that Jacob *
Sharp, Esq., must be admitted to bail, so as to '
give him an opportunity to join his confederates 1
Canada ? The sensation which such a deci- 1
sion would make would not be very pleasant 1
for Chief Justice Potter. The publio and the
press would again incur Bourke Cockran’s 1
wrath by rigidly investigating Chief Justice 1
Potter and inviting him to take the room in 1
Ludlow street jail which he had left tenantleas. 1
Ho is in the absurd position ot volunteering to
review the conduct of the best criminal lawyer 1
who has ever held court in this city. He has 1
put upon himself the responsibility at granting 1
a motion which Judge Barrett, who is familiar
with all the facts, promptly and properly de
nied. In either event, nobody will envy Chief
Justice Potter. He seems to be a foolish and
impertinent intermeddler, and he will be im
mortalized in the phrase, Pottering with justice.
ONE MORE INVITATION.
Since Cleveland inaugurated the queer fashion
of accepting invitations first and declining them
afterward, every little town and every little
official invites him to go somewhere. The town
or the official gets its name in the papers and
teels quite sure that the advertisement will cost
nothing, since Cleveland is sure to back out
before the date of the visit. Up to the hour of
going to press, Cleveland has accepted invita
tions to go to Atlanta and Boundbrook, Kansas
City and Millville, Chicago and Glenn Island,
St Louis and Cross Roads, with several more
cities, towns and villages to hear irom. If, m
any case, he should take the invitation seriously,
it will only be necessary to mention that the
Grand Army of the Republic will hold a camp
fire in that vicinity, at about the date mentioned,
and Cleveland will sit down and write a letter
declaring that the dignity of his office must not
be endangered by contact with veterans of the
Civil War against the Confederate States, especi
ally as the veterans do not like the man who
sent a substitute to the Army and left him to
starve afterward, and who used the veto mes
sages ot pension bills to insult wounded Union
soldiers and their widows and orphans.
But we feel sorry for Cleveland, shut up in
the White House during this blazing weather,
and condemned to official labors for which he is
mentally unfitted. Wo have determined, there
fore, to invite him to visit the Dispatch office,
and, unlike most of those who send him invita
tions, we mean business. He shall have a safe
conduct and a full ticket from Washington to
Now York and return, and wo promise him first
rate beer and cigars and a good time when he
reaches our sanctum. Ho may hesitate, when
he looks over the Dispatch this afternoon, and
sees that a special department of it is devoted
to Grand Army affairs ; but wo may whisper
confidentially that the gentleman in charge of
that department has kindly consented to take a
day off, so as to Isave the office clear for Cleve
land. Our Fighting Editor wiU bo presented
with a new pair of boxing-gloves and instruc
tions to bold the tort against all intruders not
certified as disposed to be friendly. When we
add that we will introduce Cleveland to John
Carboy, who is a host in himself and an authori
ty upon summer beverages, we think that he
need have no further fears about the dignity of
his position. We will charter a coupe to con
vey Cleveland from our office to the train, when
his visit is concluded, so that he will not have
to carry his own bundle as he did when he
dropped in upon his literary sister. In short, he
shall have all the comforts of a home, without
its restrictions as to costume.
Cleveland can pick up many points at the
Dispatch office that will be useful to him when
his Presidential term is over and he retires to
private life. He will learn how a great weekly
newspaper is managed and can contrast our
system with his ill-regulated Cabinet. We shall
not bother him with advice as to how to conduct
the government, for that would be a mere waste
of words, like telling an elephant how to climb
a tree. If we mention the mugwumps, it shall
only ba to inform him what all sensible people
think of such political monstrosities. There
are no Rebel flags in our office, so that the con
versation cannot possibly turn upon that un
pleasant subject. He can tell his best fish
stories to our Comic Editor, who has some fish
stories ot his own that we will agree to hear
over again for Cleveland’s sake. If anybody at
l tempts to state how Rose Cleveland’s writings
t are regarded by professional authors we shall
f promptly interfere with remarks about the
- weather. In regard to Mrs. Cleveland we shall
- be upon sate ground; for, after paying us the
- compliment of allowing her husband to come
3 to see us, we could not do less than praise her
warmly. Altogether, we feel justified in assur-
I ing Cleveland that he will enjoy himself much
more in the Dispatch office than he would at
St. Louis, and we hope to receive a reply ac
cepting our invitation. But, please do not write
us a letter. A telegraphic dispatch will answer
just as well.
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An Administration of Sham.—One of
the cleverest and. most straightforward of our
exchanges is the Indianapolis Hews. It in
clines to Republicanism generally, but is Free
Trade in its tendencies. All the same, it is
frank and honest in its statements, which is
very much unlike the Free Trade papers of this
section ot the country. It is a civil service re
form paper, but does not seem to have an
abiding faith in the civil service reform of
President Cleveland’s appointees. The other
day it said:
“The Baltimore civil service folks will, it ie Baid,
test the sincerity of the Preeldent in the case of
Higgins and the other Federal officials who took
part in the Baltimore primaries last week. We trust
It will be done. Let the case be pushed until the
prostitution of the public service to private ends Is
punished or refused punishment Indianapolis
civil service folks will watch the event with inter,
ost. Tbay have had experience In the same way.
The two places above all others the worst in this
particular of flagrant violation of the civil service
laws have been Baltimore and Indianapolis.”
To expect any proper civil service reform
under an Administration which made Eugene
Higgins, one of the worst of the low politicians
of Baltimore, the Appointee Clerk, is as ridicu
lous as to expect to find snow in July or oysters
growing on apple trees. The Administration of
Cleveland is one of sham and hypocrisy.
Jones and Platt.—Somebody has at
last made a bid for our reward of one cent for
the head of Tom Platt, to be presented to George
Jones on a charger, as Herod’s daughter re
ceived the head of John the Baptist. George
Jones has found an official to argue, after Tom
Platt has served ont his term, and held over
for another term, that he had no right to ac
cept his office originally, not being a resident of
the metropolitan district. Attorney General
O’Brien is the inventor of this opinion as is an
opinion. It may have its merits; but it seems
to come a little late, since Tom Platt has
served as Quarantine Commisioner since 1880,
discharged his duties and drawn his salary.
George Jones is very hot about the discovery,
and so is his attorney, the bold O’Brien; but
Tom Platt keeps very cool, considering the
weather, and saye that he would be only too
glad to get rid of his office if he could see any
means of accomplishing it satisiactorily. This
is very aggravating to George Jones, and, if we
were Tom Platt, we should commit suicide just
to oblige the peppery little Welchman.
Hold the Fort.—Since our exposure
of the motives and the meaning of the sugges
tion to shelve District Attorney Martine with a
judgeship, so as to deprive the city of his serv
ices in the boodle cases, the matter has
dropped as dead as a smashed mosquito. We
have the highest authority tor saying that, tak
ing into consideration the boodle cases which
remain to be tried and the appeals which are to
be argued upon tha cases already tried, it is
absolutely indispensable lor the interests of the
people to retain District Attorney Martine in
his present position. No other lawyer, how
ever able, could conduct the boodle cases as
satisfactorily as Mr. Martine, without years of
study and experience. From a political point
of view, it is also absolutely indispensable for
the County Democracy to renominate him as
District Attorney. If they refuse, they disavow
all he has done and declare themselves on the
side of the boodlers whom he has convicted.
For once public interests and partisan interests
are united in holding the tort.
Wasting Money.—The whole Ameri
can people, irrespective of party, ought to
grieve over the money wasted upon useless
vessels of war that tall to pieces as soon as a
shotis fired on board. Why should our publio
money be squandered in preparations for a war
that will never occur ? Before the year 1900,
when the proposed war fleet will be ready, we
shall have a hundred millions of people in the
United States, and what foreign Power is going
to declare war against such a nation ? The
money that has been expended upon one such
vessel as the “ Atlanta ” would have built six
splendid swift steamers, which would extend
our commerce. The crews, who idle away time
and money upon such war vessels, would man
a fleet of merchant steamers, which would bring
wealth to our people. Sooner or later, those
who throw our hard-earned dollars into the
sea by such foolish experiments in naval archi
tecture, will be called to a strict accountability.
DADDY PUNKINHEAD ON BLUE GUMS.
Several days ago the newspapers published a
statement to the effect that two Southern ne
groes, who had bitten two others, had blue
gums, and that it had been found that in nearly
every ease where death had resulted from a
bite, the biter had been found to have blue
gums. Inorder to settle the matter beyond the
peradventure of a doubt, we interviewed Grand
daddy Punkinhead on the subject a day or two
ago.
“Dat is ol’nonsense,” said the old man, “an’
it looks like anodder fling at de colored man an’
will no doubt have a ’xilaratin’ effect on de
comm’ wote in de Souf. De man doant bite wid
ha gums, do he ? Dat are a ’slammerleroation
ob de fac’ dat it sol’ nonsense. In de lust place,
dar haint no sech ting as blue gums, an’ even
ef dar wus it wuddn’t count. Dar would be no
mo’ danger m bein’ bitten by a blue gum man
dan dar would be in bein’ bitten by a dog wid a
yaller tail, el de dog didn’t hab de hydrum'o
bia. I’d a darn Bight radder been bited by
some dogs wot I is acquainted wid dan I would
by numerous men wot I has a drinkin’ ac
quaintance wid.
“De mucus membrane, if dat’s wat dey calls
it, am by a far sight mo’ cleaner in sum dogs
dan in some men an’ yo’, hyar .my catchinate.
Dey libs better an’ mo’ religious lives, an’
doan’t make hogs ob demselves in de way ob
stowin’ away bad rum.”
“Then you don’t think that the color of the
gums had anything to do with the case.”
‘•No, sah. Now take for instinct de case wid
a mule. You stan’ enny ways close up ter de
back stoop of a right lively mule, and go ter
put on enny airsjau’ yo’Hjsee how quick yo’ll be
roamin’ arouu’ among hebben. No, yo’ might
as well try ter ram it down my troat dat ef
dat mule had a yaller spot on bis leg or had
a pink tail de kick would be mo’ contager
some. Kain’t yer see widout de add ob a log
net dat de plumage ob de mule wouldn’t hab
ennyting to do wid it an’ dat yo’d git to be a
angel jes a quick ef de plumage ob de tail was
blue, as ef hit was smoke elefants, breff or
moryantiok ? Go long, honey. Dose ain’t de
kin’ ob subjects wot wo desire ter wrassle wid
in dese days when de fermometer are knockin’
de scuttle off ob de roof an’ de bes ting ter talk
bo't am ice cream an’ wotermillions, yum,
yum I”
HIGH LIFE IN A FLAT.
We live in a flat, and we advise everybody
who is yearning to take up his or her residence
in a flat t > keep the yearn wound up and lay
the whole matter on the table for future refer
ence.
In nine cases out ot ten the woman up stairs
has half a dozen or more darlings who imagine
that the house is a circus, and that they are the
whole show, from clown to trick pony and from
bareback rider to educated mule.
They will begin at about sunrise, just when a
fellow is putting in his biggest laps on sleep,
and the menagerie never closes until nine or
ten g. m.
The elevator is the pleasantest and most ge
nial thing in the whole business. It has a
habit of getting off its base just when you are
looking through the chute to see who's there,
and in nine cases out of ten it almost murders
■ you by catching you between the shoulders and
topknot and making you imagine you have
i been sent ior.
I Another genial habit it has is that of getting
1 out ot working order when it has on it your
1 dinner, which the grocer’s boy has placed
> there. It generally gets fastened about mid
i way between the floors, and remains there un
r til a carpenter is sent for and doesn’t come.
Then it’s so nice to have your neighbor’s gar
bage rattling merrily past your door and
spreading contagion and a smell, that couldn’t
be busted with dynamite, all through the
house.
The speaking tubes, too, come in for their
share of the fun. It’s real pleasant to be awak
ened before daylight by some dastardly villain
who is endeavoring to blow himself through
the tube. You jump out of bed, hurry to the
tube, and ask who’s there.
In ninety-nine eases out of a possible hun
dred he wants the woman up-stairs, and in the
other case ho either wants somebody who never
lived in the house, or he doesn’t know what he
wants.
There is the spot where the chute is to be
blessed. While he is asking fool questions a
hodful of ashes or a panful of slops can be used
to advantage right down that chute.
The other morning we were awakened at five
o’clock by a brilliant young man who wanted to
know, through the tube, “if the woman wot
lived up-stairs was in.” We told him to wait
until we could go up-stairs and see, and as
there’s a.bad smell coming from the cellar, we
guess he’s waiting yet.
SMALL CHANGE.
The ten police captains who were ex
amined the other day for the vacant inspector
ship conducted themselves bravely, and came
out with flying colors. They all knew where
Timbuctoo was, and could tell the difference
between a back stoop and a cellar door every
trip. They didn’t ask them anything about
side-doors; but then, of course, tha captains
always go in through the front doors, and the
side-doors were built only for common cops.
And now two Paris editors talk of
carving or shooting each other all to pieces
on the field of honor. Don’t do it, old fels.
Call each other all the names you plsase in
your respective sheets, but don’t carve or
shoot. There’s no fun in being a demnition
corpse in this hot weather, and it must be
hotter’n thunder under about a ton of ceme
tery dirt.
The Castle Garden matter has at last
been settled, and the poor woman Jensen will
not be returned to her native country as an as
sisted emigrant. If that rule had been applica
ble in bygone years, we wonder how many of
the Commissioners would be in town to-day.
We only wonder, that’s all; needn’t take any
trouble to answer it.
The Chicago man who was arrested as
a disorderly person because he was caught
kissing the beat girl in the parlor of a local
hashery must have been dodgasted mad. The
trap was sprung by a young lady of uncertain
age, who had nobody’s lap to sit on, and who
couldn’t get a fellow in the whole house to
swap spits with her.
A Geneva, N. Y., editor recently cut
down a valuable apricot tree to deliver the
little boys of the village from the temptation
of stealing Iho fruit. That’s good snd hu
mane. That’s just exactly what we would have
done in the case, only blame us if we don’t
think we’d take a hack at the boys first.
Half a dozen bridge accidents through
out the country during the past week, and
nobody to blame. Until the railroad authori
ties are compelled to make their paint thicker,
so that it will hold the bridges together, these
accidents will continue. It is all the result of
penuriousness in the matter of paint.
Chris Von df.r Ahe and Charley
Byrne, the noted baseball managers, are now
biting their thumbs at each other, and it really
looked last weak as if they would come to
blows. Don’t fight, boys I It rums the consti
tution. If you are yearning for gore, murder
an umpire.
Mrs. Cleveland is having several new
dresses made by Worth. It’s lucky for Mrs.
Cleveland that the women can't vote or old
Grove’d never be President again after this
announcement. Come to think of it, guess old
Grove won’t be President again anyhow,
Marquis De Leuville and Prince
Eristoff have been cowhiding each other, and
there is some talk of a duel. We hope they
will fight, and wo would like to give each a
straight tip. Aim under the coat tails if you
want to blow each other’s brains out.
That messenger boy who was sent to
Europe to deliver souvenirs among the mem
bers ot the theatrical profession, is playing in
luck. If he is as slow as the average boy, his
friends have seen the last of him, and he’ll
never come back in God’s world.
Wb tell you it’s getting pretty hot
when the sun ignites a railroad track, as we
saw it do one day during the week. To bo
sure, the fire started in some paper, but the
track had been all blistered before it was put
out.
The President of the Leavenworth
Bank has been found to have been a defaulter,
and he has gone where the woodbine twineth.
Next to being a thief, the only bad thing
against him was the fact that ho belonged to
the church.
Up to the present writing. Jake Sharp
is still out ot Sing Sing, but it’s only a question
ot time when he’ll land there. Why not save
trouble and jump right in, and behave yourself,
Jacob? Ab, go on.
“What keeps the South solid ?” asks
a learned contemporary. We don’t know
whether we have fished up the right answer
or not, but we guess it’s the politicians. Can
we go up one?
The scooped in a game
from the St. Louis nine last week, and it so as
tonished the Brooklynites that they haven’t won
a game since. They feel lonesome when they
win a game.
Brooklyn has a horse-j’oekey who is
said to be worth $200,003. This kind of looks as
if horse-jockeying was almost as good as run
ning a newspaper, eh? 'Taint so brain weary
ing, either.
It looks as if we might possibly
have to take England out into the back yard
again and spank her little trousers. All about
a codfish, too. It makes us turn up our nose
in disgust.
Grasshoppers are destroying all the
crops in Belgium. As Limburger is the princi
pal crop in Belgium, we don’t envy the grass
hoppers, unless they are supplied with scent
bottles.
WM fit
G0331P OF THE WEEK.
Mb. J. H. Copleston, through whose services »nd
those of Mr. Cobbe, Mr. Wilson Barrett's tour in
this country was saved from being the dismal fail
ure it would have been bad it been left to that melo
dramatic actor’s own direction, or had he relied
upon the merit of bis company, writes from Lon
don in relation to Madame Gerster’s recent alleged
illness and insanity: “ While passing through Cen
tral Italy the other day I called upon Madame Etel
ka Gerster, the well-known prima donna, who is
residing at her beautiful estate at Sasso. I found
her in good health and spirits, and contemplating
going on a tour in Germany and Austria, and prob,
ably in America. She thought however that the
malicious reports which have been circulated about
her in America, would be likely to militate against
her success in that country. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘an
American lady who called here a few days ago, told
me that she had read in an American paper that I
was insane and had been placed in a lunatic asy
lum.” Of course Madame Gerster is much dis
tressed to find that such reports are in circulation,
and begs that her numerous friends on the Ameri
can press will aid her in contradicting these re
ports, for which there is not or ever has been the
slightest foundation.”
Louis James and Marie Wainwright are visiting
Stuart Robson, at Cohasset, and next week will bo
the guests of John B. Schoeffel, at Manchester-by
the-Sea. James and his wife have a fine route ar
ranged for next season and are in great demand, re
ceiving guarantees in many places and increased
per oentages everywhere. They open their season
at the Grand Opera House, this city, in September.
Miss Helen Bancroft shortly leaves for Califor
nia, where she has been specially engaged for Bou
cicault’s tour which commences at the Baldwin
Theatre about the 20th of next month. She will
play the leading roles in the revivals of the old
plays and create two new parts iu the comedy and
• drama on which the veteran dramatist in now en-
I gaged.
Manager Murtha Is mak?ns extensive prepara
tions for the opening of his Beason at the Wind
sor Theatre on August 15th, Mr. Nelson
Wheatcroft’s new play, called “G Wynne’s Oath,”
will be given its first presentation in 'his city. The
cast will be an unusually strong one, in'cluding Miss
Adelina Stanhope, Nelson Wheatcroft, George R-
Edeson, Herbert Archer and other popu/* r actors
and actresses. The chief scene of the play i.’’ where
the heroine rises from her bed in a
condition and goes through the entire scene of
father’s murder. This scene is said to be
ly realistic and likely to create a sensation.
Manager Rosenquest is having entire new scene-’-
ry painted for the production of “The Still Alarm,”
which will be made known at the Fourteenth Street
Theatre August 29th, with a fine cast, that will in
clude Nelson Wheatcroft, M. J. Gallagher and other
popular people. In the meantime Mr. Rosenquest
is spending his vacation at Babylon, L. I.
Mr. N. S. Wood sends the following as the list
of his company for the coming season: George W*
Thompson, George Morton, G. 8. Langdon, James F,
Tighe, F. A. Lyons, George J. Secor, H. F. Stone,
William Whallen and the Misses Ada Martin, Nellie
Maskell and Jessie Dean. Mr. Henry Williams will
be the manager and Mr. Tighe the stage director.
‘•The Waifs of New York,” (the right of which Mr.
Wood has secured from Mrs. William Emmett) will
be the principal feature. The new scenery is being
prepared for its proper production by Da La Harpe.
Time is all filled in the large cities.
The “coming American dramatist” seems about
to come to a considerable extent There are half a
dozen new plays and three or four “comedy farces,"
so called, which will be given an airing in the sea
son now close at hand.
Quite an elaborate programme has been arranged
for to-morrow night’s moonlight excursion on the
steamer “Canonicus” up the Hudson River, in aid
of the Actors' Fund of America. Beside a full mili
tary band, there are to be glees and choruses, fire
works, Ac. The steamer leaves at 8 o’clock prompt
ly from the loot of East Thirty-first street.
Annie Pixley and her “hubby” are having a
jolly good time in London.
Japanese Tommy, who has just died, was half
Indian and half negro. It was only his name that
was Japanned.
Christine Nilsson is to receive $2,500 for each
concert she sings in during her American tour next
season.
Cool Burgess, the veteran comedian, is worth
a cool quarter of a million, and yet he is as close as
if he depended altogether on bis salary.
Edwin Booth is at Cohasset, Mass. Madame
Modjeska is summering at Santa Barbara, Cal.
Clara Morris's address is in care of Dramatic Mir
ror, New York, ’Lotta is atSchroon Lake,New York.
Rhea is at Helena, Montana. Emma Abbott is in
London;
Bartley Campbell is reported to be improving
rapidly at the Middletown Asylum. His youngest
Bon> Robert, paid him a visit on the Fourth of July,
and states that he is looking well, appears happy,
and is anxious to get away. He Imagines be is
writing a new play, but asked most rationally about
business matters. It is impossible that a man who
is or imagines he is writing a play, can talk ration
ally upon business matters or any other subject.
Orville M. Remington, the well-known journal
ist, of Proridonoa, JR. 1., is going into the theatrical
business. Next season he will be in advance as the
press agent of the Redmund-Barry company. Mr.
Remington was for six years the managing editor
of the Providence Telegram, and the correspondent
in that city of the Boston Globe. He is also Past
Exalted Ruler of the Elks and an ex-President of the
Providence Press Club.
In a few days Messrs. Edwin Booth, Lawrence
Barrett, T. B. Aldrich, Lauronoe Hutton and E. C.
Benedict begin a cruise in the steam yacht “Onei
da,” visiting Bar Harbor, Halifax, the river St. Law
rence, the Saguenay, and touching at Labrador,
after which they return to Bar Harbor.
Jerome Eddy’s tragedy of “ Romulus and Remus,
or the Last Leap,” is finished, and will be produced
during the winter by Mr. Joseph Haworth, for
whom it wae written. Mr. Eddy will ba the gen
eral manager, resident in New York. Mr. Haworth,
who will impersonate Romulus, is looking for a
Remus. And still Eddy isn't happy. Playwrights,
with a business turn of mind, never are.
Mr. Imre Kiralfy is making extensive prepara*
tions for the production of “Lagardere,” which
opens the regular season at Niblo’s, on August 15.
Tne new scenery and costumes have arrived from
Europe, and are described as marvels of beauty and
richness. The complete list of the company in
cludes Maurice Barrymore, Helen Tracy, Mamie
Floyd, and Messrs. William H. Lytell, Harold For
burg, Robert Fisher and Joseph Slaytor.
Clay Greene will have three plays in the hands
of the most talented soubrettes on the stage, next
season—Mrs. McKee Rankin, in “The Gulden
Giant;” Lotta, in "Pawn Ticket 210;” and Jennie
Yeamans, in “Our Jennie.”
The well known comedy and musical organiza
tion, Salsbury Troubadours, will play their new
three-act comedy farce, called “The Humming
Bird,” next season, and will be seen in this eUy
during.the early Fall. “Genuine fun and bright
music” is their motto.
In ONE OFtke many attractive environs of Lon-
Mme. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt lives to-day,
passing her old age in a moat peaceful, happy man
ner. She is in her sixty-sixth year, but is still
youthful in feeling and intensely interested in every
musical event. Among the greatest of the achieve
ments witnessed by the people of Vienna, was that
accomplished by herself, and it must be a source of
great happiness to her to recall her triumph in the
Austrian capital. To-day she passes quietly in and
out of her home, unnoticed except by those who
know her worth as friend and neighbor, and greet
her with respectful deference. Forty years age
every civilized country in the world knew of her
wonderful powers and was ready to do her homage.
She could not pass from her hotel door without
encountering crowds, who would stand hours to
see her. Probably no woman upon the stage ever
held precisely her position. There may have
been quite as much curiosity to see other famous
singers, and crowds have followed them, but the
people of two worlds respected Jenny Lind, and the
old feeling has not died out. She is still the great
artist, and no one has dethroned her in the hearts
and minds of those who heard her years ago.
It is reported on the authority of a London news
paper man who is close to the D’Oyley Carte man
agement, that Gilbert and Sullivan's next opera
will be on an American subject, with special refer
ence to the Wild West craze, which Buffalo Bill has
made fashionable in England. With good and bad
Indians, scouts and cowboys. Gilbert can make an
exceedingly funny libretto, and Sullivan can writo
characteristic music. It is also probable that it
will be produced in New York at the Casino, on the
same night of its first production at the Savoy
Theatre, in London.
Col. Mapleson, who, along with his good luck in
losing his good temper, is fast becoming a perennial
litigant. He has just brought a suit against Patti,
in consequence of the fiasco at Her Majesty’s. Patti
claims that her breach of contract was justifiable,
owing to the fact that though her salary was se
cured, the salaries of her supporters were not, and
that, through their unwillingness to trust the wily
Colonel, she would have been compelled to go
through the opera without proper support.
. Wallack’s Theatre. —Another Me-
Caul! success is what may be chronicled for the
production of the “Beggar Student,” last Monday
night, when, despite the heat, Wallack’s was well
filled by an audience who came to welcome the re
turn of old friends to the cast and to renew their
acquaintance with the opera, that was tne reigning
sensation a few years ago. Its merits were well re
membered and as its charming numbers were given
applause and encores were the features of the h>our.
Musically, it was one of the best performances ever
given by the McCaull company, and dramatically
it was as good, as the artists are possessed of the
double ability of being able both to act and sing,
while the comicalities of DeWolf Hopper kept the
audience in roars of laughter whenever he was on
the stage. The “Beggar Student ” will be kept
on until the," Bellman ” is ready, and judging from
the results of the past week, the opera can run suc
cessfully for some time to come.
Colonel McCaull has purchased an opera by an
American composer and author. It is entitled the
“Begum,” the scenes being laid in India, and is by
Reginald DeKoven and H. B. Smith.
Fall of Babylon.—The business be
ing done at Saint George, Staten Island, the specta
cle called “The Fall of Babylon” being the magnet
that draws, is what it should be—great. The grand
stand and other stands nightly present a sea of
faces at every performance. There are no hitches
or waits in “The Fall of Babylon,” and the marvel
is how so many hundreds of people, comprising the
company, can be handled so effectively and with
such precision. The success has surpassed all ex
pectation, and the quality of the audiences reflects
great credit on the character of the enterprise. It
is estimated that nearly seven hundred thousand
individuals have paid to witness this tremendous
presentation since June 25th, among them being,
at the least calculation, a thousand clergymen.
The most prominent artists of the country have
been down to revel in the grandeur of the exhibi
tion, and many of them have addressed letters to
■ the management, couched in the most enthusiastic
• language. The whole dramatic profession, seem-
ingly, has attended. Performances will be given
throughout the Summer, every evening, and the
prospects are that Babylon will continue falling far
into October.
Dookstader’s.—Helen Mowat is an
exceedingly persevering, ambitious little woman.
She is a woman of nerve, of hopefulness, and one
who is trustful. In fact, she is and has been, not
only the helpmeet, but, in the Interest of her home,
the chief bread winner. Whatever can be done, so
far as her mental ability and physical strength go,
she does, and it goes without saying that in her ef
. forts—as an actress as well as an aspirant for the
name of a play wright—she deserves something of
kindly consideration.
Abiding by this rule, even were her play of “A
Lie,” which had its primal presentation
on TuWday evening last at this theatre—the worst
among Die bad—the honesty of her endeavor and
the purpose which actuated its production, should
in some d ’lgreo blunt the edge of adverse criticism.
It is well’’ io z be “cruel only to be kind”—it is
better to be kind where cruelty would wound and
be unproduc.kfae of good result.
"A Woman> Lie” is nominated as a society
drama, in five ac®»>with a prologue; Th©’cast was
published in these columns last Sunday.
While the story this play cannot rank iff the
category of the New, it : has the benefit of excellent
treatment in its narration; its aetka is direct and.
the characters involved iff its to the end r
have a purpose in their ppfcsence and possess a cor*
tain degree of individuality which commends them*
to the favor of an audience.
There are portions of the dialogue tha£ are bom*
bastic and flighty. The husband, who is a gam--
bier, is something too ferocious after his reforma
tion and something too barefaced land pronounced,
in his hypocritical villainy in m earlier period of
his career. His jealousy of his wife has a most
ridiculous basis for its expression.
There is, however, much of interest and human*
ly motive in “A Woman’s Lie”—the lie being iff
her assertion that she is a widow and that the child
accompanying her is her own,
It is a play which, with condensation and toning-',
into a quieter form of rhetoric, can take commend
able place in public favor.
The cast was fairly represented, and the scenic
settings adequate for the illustration of the locali
ties wherein' the events of the drama occur.
Miss Mowat will doubtless be afforded the oppor
tunity of giving “A Woman's Lie” frequent and
certainly—a»all should wish for her sake—profita
ble performances in other cities, during the coming
season.
The audience was large, despite the awful “at
mospheric humidity" of the night. The greater
portion of those present was composed of profes
sionals—actors, and the managers and represents-'
tives of out-of-town theatres.
There were many recalls, and the flattery of fre
quent and kindly applause was net absent during
the progress of the play,
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—The Ker
nells closed their fortnight’s engagement last night
in the presence of a numerous audience, which was
warmly as well as hilarously enthusiastic in its
demonstrations of approval.
For the present weok commencing to-morrow
evening the attraction which Manager Sanderson
offers will be Mies Kathleen Roland, who will ap
pear as the heroine in the new-comedy-drama en
titled “ Desperate Straits,” of which Mr. Herbert
A. Winslow is the author; A specially selected
company will represent the cast and appropriate
scenic settings provided. Matinees as usual on
Tuesday and Friday.
The Casino.—-Crowds just as great aS
at the beginning of the run of “Ermlnie” fill this
theatre nightly. An unusual sight was witnessed
at this house the other evening. Two of the pro
scenium boxes-were occupied by members of the
Chinese Embassy, the other two by a party of Jap
anese, and the balcony boxes by representatives of
the Brazilian Legation. For. the 500th representa
tion of this popular operetta, which occurs early in
September, Manager Rudolph Aronson promises
the "Casino's greatest night”
Theiss’s Alhambra.—The usual musi
cal attractions will be in order here dur ng the
current week. There will be given special con
certs this afternoon and evening.
MLusical and Dramatic Items,
Mr. Hughes, of Birmingham, England,
a friend of Mrs. Siddens in. her best days, was a mighty
manager la Exeter, and his. company frequently played
at W; ymouth. Among them was a remarkably mascu
line woman, who sustained the character of Miss
Pickle, in the farce of “The Spoiled Child,” which was a
graat favorite of His Majesty, King George. On lighting
their majesties to the carriage, which was a
proceeding, the King said to the manager:
“ Very good, very good, Hughes—farce well played—
well played. Clever man, that Miss Pickle—elever man,
clever man !”
"Man 1” exclaimed Hughei. “Y-our. Majesty is de
ceived. The person who sustained Miss Pickle is Mrs.
Blank, a very respectable woman I”
“No, n>, Hughes!” rejoined the monarch, laughing—
“a man, Hughes—a man—a man!”
“ With all submission,” replied the astonished man
ager, “ I assure your Majesty Mrs. Blank is a woman.”
“It won’t do—it won’t do, Hughes,” continued the
King; “a man, Hughes!—hey, Charlotte?—hey? hey?—
e'ever man, Hughes. Saw his beard—saw his beard, his
beard! A man, Hughes, a man!”
The next morning Hughes entered the greenroom, and
addresed the assembled company.
“ Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to tell you their
Majesties were much gratified by the periormance of last
night—much gratified! And (turning to Mrs. Blank, whe
sat in gigantic d-ignity in one corner of the room), and I
am most happy in saying, madam, that his Majesty par
ticularly noticed you?”
“God bless the King!” exclaimed the delighted lady.
“And the Queen also distinguished you,” continued
Hughes.
“Lord love them,” said the lady. “I saw they wer,
looking at me, bless their dear hearts!”
“ Yes,” said Hughes, “has Majesty was vastly pleased.”
“May the King live lorever I” rejoined Mrs. Blank
beaming with smiles.
“ But his Majesty ” proceeded Hughes.
“God bless him!” interru; bed Mrs. Blank.
“ His Majesty insists that you are—a man!"
“The nasty beast!” cried Mrs. Blank, and fled from th*
room.
On Thursday, July 21st, Miss Bessie.
Darling was married to Mr. Charles M. Barry, the well
known and popular produce merchant, of Warreu street.
The ceremony was performed at the summer residence of
the groom, at King’s Highway, near Coney Island, the-
Rev. Dr. J. C. Bernliart officiating. There were a large
number of friends present from this and other cities.
In the evening a grand reception followed. Tae many
acres of ground were handsomely Illuminated with Chi
nese lanterns, etc. There was music and dancing on the
lawn and a generally good time prevailed. Among the
many friends present, were Mr. F. W Barry, or Belfast,
Maine, tne rather of the groom, who is a very intimate,
friend of James G. Blaine; Col. and Mrs. E. N Darling,
of Washington, D. C.; Mr. A. Hershfeld, Mr. Al. S. Roth,
L’aron Ludwig Ullman, Mr. Alex. Herrmann, Mr. Wm.
Th<.mpson, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Thorne, Mr. Charles W.
Chase and wiie, Mr. Ben. Miller, Mr. G. C. Thomson, Mr.
and .Mrs. R>bt. Shinier, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Heckler, Miss
Alice Matthews, Miss Lulu Darling, the Misses Hart, M-r.
Chas. Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. John Rudd and Mr. Edward-
Fox. The wedding presents were numerous and costly.
The happy couple hold daily levees at their delightful
home, at which many of our society people attend.
The Japanese scale of music has only
five notes, and all the music is written in the minor key.
The orchestra is incre tsed during the dances. Fo»
comedy the orchestra is seldom used, except, for in
stance, to burlesque dramas, which is often done. Fot
dramas the orchestra is invi.iile. The musicians are
hidden behind lattice work, on the right hand side of the
s age (from the actors), and are from three to eight in
number, according t© the size of the theatre. Their In
struments are samusens (an instrument something like a
guitar, with a short body, a long neck and three strings),
harps, flutes, large and small drums, gongs and bells.
The orchestra plays during the entrances and exits oi
actors, and also in the following instance: With usan ac
tor speaks his side speeches aloud; the Japanese exprest
them by pantomimic gestures, while an invisible singei
sings them, accompanied by the orchestra. It is the
leading samusen player—best to he compared to out
first violinist—who sings these solos in a strong tremolo
voice. There is n® conductor, but the orchestra follow*
the leading samusen player.
The two ballet features of note in Bolos
sy Kiralfy's production of Sardou's “Dolores” this'season,
will be the Muscovite gypsy dance led by Mlle. Pori*
(now on her way to this country from St. Petersburg,
where she made a decided success in it) and the Dres
dina ballet to be led by Antionette Bella from La Scala,
Milan. The Dresdina ballet created a sensation at th<
London Alhambra. The figures and groupings repre
sented are those of Dresden China, and the effect pro
duced is said to be singularly picturesque. In the acting
company of “Dolores ” Newton Gotthold, Eleanor Carey,
J. F. Malone, and Cora Dean will have parts of import
ance. Bolossy Kiralfy has been taxing his industry tc
the uttermost in preparing for production not only
“Dolores” but the “ Seige of Troy,” as well. The
scenery and costumes for both have arrived from abroad
and by the begglning of August everything will be it
readiness for the inauguration of a season of spectacle
very rich in the promise of achievement.
On July 20, Aug. Daly passed his
fiftieth year. His birthday was celebrated very pri
vately and informally at the Palace Hotel, in Sin Fran
cisco, where he received the congratulations of his com
pany and a few San Francisco friends, on the anniver
sary and on the wonderful record which he has made
during his eighteen years of managerial life. Nearly
every member of Mr. Daly's company presented him
with some memento of the occasion, Mrs. Gilbert and
Ada Rehan uniting in a gift of Japanese curios, for
which Mr. Daly has a great fondness. The cell
quiet as it was, proved one of the pleasantest features oi
the trip across the continent, and the occasion will long
be remembered by Mr. Daly and those who participated
with him in the enjoyment of the