Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1875, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SU. AY, MARCH 21, 1875.-—-SIXTEEN PAGES. 3 ee AMUSEMENTS. gheatrical and Musical Events of the Week. Attractiveness of Toole and Mrs. Rousby. "Pooley’s to Re Given Over to Negro Minstrelsy. Coming Appearance of Mr. George Vandenhoff Music in Chicago and Abroad --Operatic Items. THE DRAMA, A DISCOURAG:NG PROSPECT. HR WLECITIMATE CLOWDING OUT THE LEGITI- ‘MATE. Among the disagreeable things to be men- tioned as having occurred during the week is the consummation of the arrangement between ‘Mr. Simon Quinlan and Mr. Maguire by which Hooley's Theatre is rented to the latter person for two years. It isa matter to regret from an artistic standpoint, for it ia virtual acknowl- edgment made by Mr. Hooley that he ecauot run a stock theatre to his own satisfaction, and, therefore, ndbody else eball. In carrving his company to California, be possibly yielded to necessity, and, in abendoning his charming honse to ita fate and negro minstrelsy, ho can doubtless plead the sme excuse. Much, how- ever, as we deplore the result and eympathizo with Mr. Hooley in his ‘defeat, it is not to be denied that he 18 responsible for it to a very large extent. Previous lo the opening of the jhouse lest season, when ho bed engaged the ser- ‘ices of the most accomplished stage manager in tho country, Mr. Hooloy, with justifiable pride, aia before bis friends the plans of the season's campaign. They were admirable. ‘The programme was rich in promiees easy of falfill- syext, which might have resulted in making the house more than profitable—famous. He en- gaged a capital company, and was the envy of £ilva dozen managers. Of the manner in which that company was first splic we have nothing to say. Tere were faults all round, no doubt, but Mr. Hooley cou'd better have spared half his company than the man whose plans would have placed him beyoud the necessity of going to California. It was not a wise thing to do, The public have stood by Mr. Hooley very ‘sell this season. It has been a severe one, but not to him. His pusiness has been alwars more cr less good. A thestrical venture is uot like a minstrel show, for money cannot be made as fast in one as the other, and anvbody who kept ‘afioat this season did well. Mr. Hooley has been I The pretty theatre in ahesvy losor in Chicago. ‘hich be played his minstrels before the fire was | gestroyed, and he had to start again under seri- us disadvantages. Ho bas dono the best ho could, and that has been s littie disappointing to Lin:eelf. ‘The most unplessant feature of his cession of the honge to Maguire is that it robs the city of its most available theatre and transforma it ‘into ‘Snegro-minetrel house. sey araivst this class of entertainment in itself, andthe compauy Mr. Maguire iniends putting into his house is the best in the country, includ~ ing, as it. does, Emetzon, Arlington, Cotton, Kemtle, Rice, and Little Mack. But we are to de surfeited with this sort of thinz. Kelty and Zeon will not submit to being summarily ousted fromthe Grand Opya-House. Grover ‘il treble bis attractions, a keep the varicty ‘business up to the hichest standaid,—which will necesatate ‘“provonuced” change for the better in his _porformances,—and, worse than all, Mr. Gardiner thinks of estad- lishing 8 simitar theatre on the West fide.” Where in the world, theo, will paople go when the minstrel business, the tane- ty business, and the free-and easy sort of thing allon.them, to seek novelty and refreshment. Fo Mc¥iccer's, of course; but instead of having two stara in the city to chocse from,hke Cush- yaaa and Janauschek, like Raymond aad Rousby, like Barrett and Jefferson, there will be but one theatre to attend for legitimate amusemncut. © Tois is hard. It makes Hooley’s defection from the Jegisimate rather hard to Jook upon with feelings of sympathy aud resignation, especially ‘48 it keeps the theatre fur two yeara vacant to thoce -who do not go into ecatactes over burnt cork. With all our theatres, led,;then, we shall have but one theate proper. ‘There is some copselation in the thought that these enterteinments can no more prosper to- gether than if tney were all strictly legiumate. Some of them must go under, and the tallest Je will ba beld by Grover. His theatre is the rgest ; bis experience the ripest, his ingenuity the most fraitfal, his prestige irresistible, his prices withio the reach 6f all, his free-ond-easy ttylecertain death to the formality of other syetoms. A 50-cent extertaioment, with negro- rainstrelsy in comfortabie doses, with lega, wilb cheer, with acobatic feats, ‘and all the vast re- sources of the variety etaye, will surely prevail. When the novelty wears off, Ar. Maguire will find himself with an ‘expensive company, @ smailor house, and diminished receipts, with Grover javghing at bim as ho lenghed at Stetson and Josh Bart last summer, nud a roll of greeupacks to emphasize the disagreeable meaning of his tile. His grest minstrel show wiil be an ele- phant, and when he takes it away Hooley’s will be vacant, There will bo no available artists for stock company. Stare will have made cheir ar- tapgements for the seasou. Ture will be trouble Inthe family. Maguire has made s ehori-sight- tdmove. Quinlan as done no better. Hooley may make an enormous bit in San Francisco— wd fe may not. We has to run against John McCullougn, and g@ McCul- Tush stock company is one of ‘the best on the continent, aud has prestige. The peopie Df that city will have nobody else to mange & theatre for tpem, and Mr. Hooley may come to gnef. We sincerely hope not. company is made of euch excelent material, and bas played together go Jong, that everything is harmonious. Bat the public 1s a crotchety sort of affair, and the public of San Fraucisco is especially fickle. Its favors are princely in munificence and. dura- ion, Ourloss is San Francisco's , and ‘his friends hope it will be Mr. Hooley’s also. i —_-— THEATRICAL. ‘TEE acaADEMY OF arusid, ‘The return of Mr. Toole to the city after an sbsence of some morths has been taken advan- 4age of by those who failed to see him during hu first engagement, and he has played during tha past week to excellent houses, He has given such a variety of characters. that almost every phase of his art has been presented in due order. He has played in serio-comic parts with immense enccess, His powers of illustrating the purest and tenderest emotions have been set forth in such parte as Bfichael Garner in **Deat- er than Life,” Harry Coke, and others; his ‘vivid character-painting has found opportanity dn his sketch of Tie Dodger, after Dickens; While in farces, a8 “Ici on Parle Francais,” be fas shown himself capable of employing ith the utmost advantage the rough sud rat- Ming stsle of the best low-com in this ‘country. Being confined therefore to no narrow ‘Stylo of acting, bat equally at homo im prosenting ty of these characters in the most masterly ‘manner, Mr. Toole shows bimself an artist of Tare Versatility, of natural genius, and of infinite Yewrrees, Ho is never the same in any two has co many peculiarities that be re- Paste none, and every character comes from him ghttering, and clean cut The present Keck’ “is the best we shall bare st comedy for s_ very long . time. Jia bout the last of real comedy for monthe, if not years, and the bill offers exactly the same Tsriety thet it did last week. Monday night Be Tooteplare ns greatost pers, Caleb Plummer in“ The Cricket on the Hearth,” for which he asjustly entitled to the highest praire. He is {0 original Caleb Plummer. He studied the Part under the friendly guidance and availed bim- Welfof the valuable suggestions of the great futbor numself, and succeeded in presentiug be- fore the world one of the most complete’ and tic ywces of characterization the world had = Been, #9 great was the succees of ‘in Longon that members of the as oe _Faid Mr. Toole compliments by imitating Flummers in the country are founded up- giilst ot Mr. Toole, and the better they. are pe more nearly do they resemble the o: epicce is folowad by the ro-riny fr We have nothing to} |The Btoepio Chess,” with Mr. Toolo as ' tums. Tuesday, “The Cricket on the Hearth * and “Icion Parle Frencais.” Weduvesday and Thareday, “Ihe Cricket on the Hearth.” sud the moat delightfut of farces, ‘ Domest.c Econo- my.” with Mr. Too!e as. John Grumicy, will be playod. Friday nigat, Mr. Toolo will have a ben- ofit and play “Cnele Dick's Darling.” give bis locwures, and wind up with the trial-eceno from Pickwick, Mr. ‘Coole playing Sergt. Busfuz. Baturday, eomething entirely now and unex- pected is promised. _ M'VICKER’S THEATRE. Mrs, Rounby's engagomont at McVicker’s Thea- tre, which terminated last evening, has not been as successful as it might. Not that Mrs. Rousby at all fell short of the opinion entertaitied of her in advance, for she really disaffpointed the Chi- cago peopie in quite another way, at d succeeded in leaving a very agreeable impression on the first night, whieh doopened with other parts played byher. But it was not a very good fort- night for nmusements, Jobn Raymond was the rage the fist week, and American comedy isa long way abead of English beauty when itis new endcrisp. ‘When Raymond wentaway Toolecame, and bronght with aim the abomicable weather been carrying round the country for the bois montbe. It burt his bueinevs and it hurt Mrs. Bousby’s. It hurt the tady herself, for she took cold upon the draughty stago Mon- day night, clad io the ecanty garments allowea ‘Rosaiind, and was unable to play tivo nights of | the week. Altogether, she was quite upforiu- nate in Chicego. But sho will return hero again, and under more favorable circum- | stances, and gives round of the charactore which ale ehould have plaved bere. Sho plays in St. Louis next week, and, as the people of that city bave a keen relish for beauty, and havo had Miss Neilson there recenszly to develop their wsthetic faculties, Mra. Rousby will doubtless bo weil re- cerved. ‘For Chicago, a treat is promised this week in the retura of Lawrence Barrett, who will play bis famous part of Jamie Harebell in the pictur- esque and tender drama of Scottish life, “The Man O'Airlie.” This piece was first produced in New York some three or four years ago. Its merit was instantly acknowledged, and 1ts beau- ties warp the theme of general nowspaper dis- cussion. It did not meet with o very great | pecumary success, but is always referred to in terms of the utmost praise, Its production at the ‘Academy of Music last September, with Mr. Bar- rett’s company aupporting bim, occasioned a very similar reception in this city. The piece was praised and drow faitly, but on 20 occasion Was there s large house presont. Mr. Barrett's return to the city aicer a comparatively brief ab- sence 1s due to tho fact that he believes the piece will draw if the people cav only be induced to seo it once. It has not the cloments.of popular- ity—siartling crime, explosivo villainy, and ster~ eotyped humor. Its humor, on the contrary, is fonnd only in quaint character-drawing. lt is not witty. bere is nota flash about it. It is not therefore « drams.to create a furore. It is, however, far beyond any of those pieces whith do become great popular favorites in point of dramatic and literary merit. It is vastly to tho credit of a great actor that he persists in playing gnch a piece with moderate remuneration wen with a clap-trap specialty he might make money. Bat with good fortuae it is possible that Mr. Barrett may call out acrowded Louse. He will have one zssurance: that the best part of the audionce—the seueitiv: the cultivated, aud the pure in taste—will thaai we hopo. \ 1 him for ono of the most exquisite aad memoz2- + ble characterizations they have seen. The piece is cast as follows : Lawrence Barrett |. Af, Hartio of specialties. HOOLEY'S THEATRE. “Henry Dunbar” was played lest weok at Hooley's Theatre with considerable siccess, In the absence of Miss Hawthorne, who was called away to make domestic proparations for ths Cali- fornisn trip, Miss Blanche De Bar assumed tne | leading part, and did it quite satisfactorily. The present week ‘The Romanco of s Poor Young tan,” a very pretty and romantic play, will be put on, with the following cast ; ¥: Mr. James O'Ne! “Siies Nellie MeHleury Mins M, Galiagaer ae iiss Dollie Hamilton THE GRAND OPZRA-WOUSE. Kelly and Leon have promised for the present qweek an unusnalis interesting bill at the Grand Opera-House, The after-pieco, which has grad- nally grown to usurp the interest ofthe entire programms, is to be another of their oxcellent opera bouffe adaptations. “Barbe Blouo” has fallen into their clutches this time, and, with o little trimming, has been made to fit the com- pany. Manager Kelly enoounces tbnt ho has added tothe company an efficient chorus of ladies, and will give the burlesque wilh all the advantages of new wardrobes, elegent costum- ing, capital sconery, and everything thst cao recommend it, In addition to it, Wayne and Lovely giva their joint performance ; Manuing. Hall, Master Frank, and Daly play ‘* The Fish- ing Line” sketch, ana the first partis good as usual. Louise Vanberger. -Christine.... O'NEIL'S BENEFIT. ‘Mr. James O'Neil, the popular leading man of Hooley’s Theatre, goos with the company to has been in Chicago three years, bes made muny friends, has, by diligent study and patieot attention to hia art, developed into one of the best losding men in tho coun- try, if, indeed, he is not tha best, and bas come {por 0 i feeling of s citizen. But it is not to bis interest to remain in one place, and he bas mle up his mind to pert from Chicago and all ita plosaant Tssociations, eo that be will play at Hoo- Ney’a only # few . times morc, Saturday aiternoon and evening he will take his farewell benefit, The programme for the Isttor performance ia not fully made out, but | the bill for the atrers00n includes ** David Gar- tick et,” | free prices of admission for this benefit per- | fcrmance will be tho same as those of the even- ing. ‘THE ADELPAL announces for the present week B. T. Stetson in “Neck aud Neck,” followed by the ‘usual olio, with the Lillian Sisters, Fox, the bird imitator, Charloy Howard, the negro pyre Harry ili snd Cooper, and Crossiey an Gam CORt wock Mr. Frank Aizen will play at the Adelphi. —o PERSONAL. Mr. Hooley is East, looking for talent. Murphy follows Toole at the Academy. Mr, Toole wilt superintend the rehearsal of ‘The Road to Rrin” at the Academy of Music to-day. Mr. Crane goes East fora few days, prepara- tory to starting for California with the com- pany. Oscar Guttman, the well-known German reader. will give s series of readings from «+ Fanst” and ‘Leasing’s comedies, at Standard Hall, in a week or to. The following ladies and ag members of the Hooley gentlemen are named company to open in San Francisco: James O'Neil, W. H. Crane, E. J. Buckdey. N. Saisbnry, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mesers. Dade and Brown, Miss Hawthorne, Miss Doyle, ‘Mrs. Maeder, Miss Mollie Maeder, and probably Mrs, Webster sad Miss McHenry. ee READINGS. + ‘YVANDENUOFF. ‘Taesday and Thirsday the patrons of the Star Courae ani the lovers of the histrionic art will have the rare opportunity of hearing for the first time at the resiing-deak the Shakspearian scholar and actor, Ge2rge Vandenhoff. Of lste tho taste for pabl.c readings has largely increas- ed, and the personations of the great creations of the poets and dramatists bid fair to become ts familiar from the desk or platform as from the stage. Alb ugh the reaier has none of the aids of scenery or actors, atill it is within the tower of such artiets 28 Miss Cashman or Van denhof to render the thought, motive, and action as real.and enjoyable faa oe: suaience iss seems stage. jenhoff is 6: u aed the quick change of manner, Peers ‘and faca necessary in the reading iT | give its third aonual California, and will not return to the city. Ho: to look upon Chicago vith the | * and the second act of ‘Romeo and Juli- ; with the support of the full company. BMat- | of dramatic distoguo, while the time and study she hay given the worke of Sazkepeare fit lum to accurately interoret their euptleties of thought and motive.’ The programme given below for tho first rending is onothat will ensblo him to show the tull scope of bis varied abilities, “econ ti wo neenes from Shakspeara’s I: v. 1, AgiGeourt beforo the Battle. saa, 2 Courteuip of Henry of England and Catharine of ‘Navarre. “ootey: a TART Es ;, heroic and humorous. 1. Désth of Marmion... ore) 2 Young Lochiays 3, Nocturnal Sketch. 4 French aud Englis 6. The Ticket Guard. @ickeos—From the Pickwick Papers.) 1, The higsly-homorons and mizth- * EDictabe at bate wee, 2 Mr, Winkle's Midnight Advent ures, musi. AT HOME, ‘THE MUSICAL RECORD still remains unmarked by any event of moro than local interost. The Isat week has been barren ina concert way, and thore 1 little to chronicle for the present. The chief mterest centres in coming events, among them the Apollo Club concert, April 5; the Boston Phil- harmonic Club concert, April 13, and the Beet- boven Society's concert, April 15. An announce- nient of more than ordinary interest is the fact that we sball probably hear Theodore Thomas again bofore his Enropean trip. At tho solicita- tion of many prominent musical people hero who have promised Mr. Thomas a chorus, he has decided to come here on his way to Cincin- nati, bringing with bim his solo artists, who will appear at the festival in that city, and his or- chestra, Arrangements aro now beiug perfected for the Inet week in April, to which we sball. al- lude more in detail hereafter. ‘The Apollo Club is laboring hard for its concert, which will be give in the Star Lecture Course on the 6th of April, with the-assistanco of eminent outside talent. It promises to.be the most attractive concert the Club haa ever given. During the present week we may expect entertainments 238 follows : 2 CHURCH CONCERT. Aconcert will bo given at the Michigan Ave- nue Baptist Church on Tuesday evening, the 93d inst., for tho benefit of the Berean Blission Sunday Sehool, the programme for which has been prepared with unusual care. This fact, coupled with the excellent character of the charity which is tho beneficiary, ought to bring out a large audience. The programme will be as follows: PART 1. 1. Organ transcription—"' Lohengrin”... Afr. I. ¥, Fiagler. 2 Quartette— Shine Out Stars”. irs, Aldrich, Mise French, ales 3. Piano solo—Sonsta C sharp minor. Birs, Da Roode Mice. 4, Bass solo—“'The Mariners’ Home is th Sea". a seers Ramdegger eeeeeBack rf. V, Plaal 2 Quartatte—“Hush Theo, My Bai “Mra, Aldrich, Miss french, Mes 3, {9 Ende von Lied. *.Yb La Maraeillai ss ‘Mra. De Roode Rice, 4, Aria from “Puritan’s Danghter. Mrs. Alarich, HOME OPERA. Opera-goers will have achance to patronize | | nome opera this weels, a3 ‘The Doctor of Alean- tara will bo given on Thursday evening, March 95, at tho Second Universalist Churob, carner of Washington and Sangamon strcets, with the fol- Ipwing cast: : DRAMATIS PERSONS. | Doctor Parscelus. Senor Balthazar. } Don Pot } Doana Lucrezia. Tsabella. Mize Fauny Hancox Inex. wMirs, 0. L, Fox Mr. Frank T. Baird will furnish the piano sc- companiment, and Mr. John McCurdy will pre- side at the organ. * ‘TME ANNUAL SCAXDINAVIAN CONCERT. ‘The Freja Scandinavian Singing Society, under tho. leaderaiyp of Mr. Johu L. Svenson, vill concert, assisted by Miss 8. G. Pratt, in the North Emma Larson aud Mr. March Side Terner Holt, on Saturday evening, 27, with the following programme = Pant 7, 1. Overture to “Fra Diavolo 7 Grext Western tight Gi 2, Choros—* May song * % Quartette—"* Stumbers tly, Dearest ", Wetterling /Mascher rej 4, Bolo— Say, Wes It Heartfelt 2”...6 Stias Emme Larson, Lreja. 6, Solo, with quartrttc—\ Serenade". -Kjerulf Ur. ©. Gottuebsen, PART IL 7. Grand Fantasie from “ Il ‘Trovatore,” ar- rab} i 2 9, Solo—" Shipwrecked ”.......0002+eeoeee diwa Emma Larson. 10, Duet~" When I Know that Toon Art Noar Mo”. A 11, Piano solo—Polonsis> brilliante. S. G, Pratt. } 19, Choras—“‘ The Keounksins of Norway *....jeralf rcja. ‘THE MUSICAL COLLEGE SOIREE. 1 Another of thoee pleagant Musical College soirees will be given in the college parlors on Wednesday evening, the 24th inat., with the ful- lowing programme, a notable feature of which is | the singing of several Scotch songs by Mr. | Abt 12-8. G, Pract { i 1 i i { i i i i Bir. James Gil, 5, Am Stillen Heerd... ia ‘Biss Zula Goodman. 9, Scotch song... sis Toatilames Gilt 1 \psodie Hongroiss.... 5 2 Shltas Annie Harrold, 11, Seotch song... -- dese ‘itr. James Gill, | 32, Fantaisie-Polonaise; Miss Mary BACRED CONCERTS. The first of # seriesof four subscription nacred concerts will be given this evening at the Third Unitarian Church, under the auspices of Mr. Charles A. Capwell, the church organist, sesisted by Bliss Mary A. Todd, pianist, and Mr. Heman Allen, violinist. The choir of this church, which fas recently been entirely reorganized and re- duced from s double quartet to a sguartel now stands ss follows: Soprano, Mrs, Mason ; alto, ‘Miss Clara Parker ; tenor, Mr. W. Mf. Goodridge; pagso, Mr. D. A. Kimbark. The programme will be as follows: Organ prelndo 1, “Teach me, O Lord,” Mendelusohn by...- PART I, i i 7 solo— Then shall the ‘Right & Tenet abine,” from Hiljah... ridge. 5 Piano aclo... ae + eseeereeseesODOPiD & Sweet and low ”..-05-- i iHiss rary Ao | Et omen Te 3 how. I hn : Muss Parker. |. wen-For piano and violin—Andante and { =.) from a Sonats.. atts Todd and dir. Ape Latics te ae ‘Mosentbal Ghcir. a “Itisa e Piano solo—Soloted. . . EE 4 to Thee. 2 ce "Yr. Limbark, 6, Male quartette—“ Benur Est"... ‘Blaney Lodgs Qurtette Ci Organ postinds.. ‘THE ADELFEI CONCERT, 5 ‘The regular Adelohi concert ‘will be given this evening. Among the atrractions of the concert tl | 5, Bolo—' Nearer i ! are ‘overture “Preciosa ;" finale to “ Lohen- grin ;” Lumbye’ ‘Traambilder;” 2 cello solo by Kichheum, and a trombone solo by Braun. } “CINDEBELLA.” is ‘The Amaranth Dramatic and Musical Society will repeat thair excellent performance of **Cin- derel” er as ‘he tenth cc eert in the West Chi- caro Councrvatory ecries uf: concerts at Martine’s j-nor’s heroic music.” | Wachtel’s engagement. Fal! on Ada strect, Wedsesday evening, Marci: 21, and ‘foursday, Aprit I, Tho cast wili be as follows : iiss Amy Mathews Mir, Lemuel Freemen, Mr, George E. Mason: HE, BALATHA'S BENEFIT. ‘This. evening the Liederkrauz Society will give to ita leader, Mr. Balatka, a beneiit at Tur- oer Hall, and present tho following attractive programme for the occasion: =~ 2, “In Darkening Nigh re 3 Concerto with orchestrst accomy'animent..Hammel Shas Clara Murdock, 4, “The Ocean has its Pearls”... ‘Alice Helene Batata. 5. Overture to “Tho Merry Wives of Windsor”, Nicolai Orchestra, oooess Thiessen ‘vno remaining parts will be taken by members of the Society. : USTOSL GOSSTP. On Sunday, March 23, the Orpheus Society will give the ontire gecond act of Mohul's *Jo- seph in Egypt.” ‘Mme. Araholls Goddard is now on her way to this city, and from the fact that hthographs grace many shop-windows, her sppearance in concert seems probable. The following correspondence with reference to Mr. Edward Scbultze’s forthcoming testi- monial concert explaina itself: e Cmcaco, March 10,—3r, Edreard Schultze : Dean Stu! Remembering, with grateful pleesure, the imany occasions on which you delighted ue with your fine voice and artistic singing, and being anxious to expris3 our appreciation in rome substantizl mauner, ‘We would take the opportunity of asking you to name aplaco'and time convenient to you, when your many frends and admirers could have an opportunity of Learing your voice sgain in a concert, arranged for your beuefit. (Signed) Hans Balatka, Dr. Biathardt, ©. Shackleford, Willlara Bross, A. C. Hesing, Henry Greensbaum, W. W. Kimball, Arthur C. Ducat, Root & Sous Blusio Co., Damel O'Hara, Lyon & Healy, Story & Gsmp, George Schneider, E, W, Wells, and numer- ous others. a REPLY. Gentiruen : Allow me to expresa to you my sin- cero thanks for the highly fisttering remarks with which you have been pleased to speak of my humble services a8.a vocalist in our local concerts, and I beg leave to say that nothing will be Icft undone on my port to deserve your good opinicn. I gratefully ac- cent your k’nd offer of a complimentary concert, Hav- fog Loen so fortunato 25 to eecure the assislance cf Mr. Hans Balatka as conductor of my concert, Iam ‘euabled to guarantee to my pstrons such an entertain. ment asisrerely given in our city. I would namo Thursday evening, April 8, as the time, ‘and Mo- Cormick’s Hallas the place where the concert shall be given. I revaain, gentlemen, with highest regards, your Obedient servant, Epwanp Scuvntze. ‘At the Wagner concerts given in Boston last week, Mr. Bischoff, who eung here eo many sears, appeared, and aa onr readors will be glad to hear irom him, we append the remarks of some of the Boston papers concerning lim. The Times says: “ The songe first mentioned in this paragraph were given by Ac. H. A. Bischoff, a kinger new to Boston, who proved an earnest and impassioned interpreter, with a strong but not very pure tonor voice and a fair style.” ‘Tho ‘Saturday Ecening Gazette cave: ** We must not omit mention of Mr, H. A. Bischoff, who sang at the Wagner concert and ai the matinee. Ho has ‘a tenor voica of excellont compass, fine quality, and ezceotional power, which bo usesin a manner that shows careful cultivation and refined taste. ; Ue seomed to be laboring under hoarseness, but bis singiig was fall of oxpression and intelli- gence, and would have beon as enjoyablo as it {ras eifective, had it not been for tho drawback wo Lave named.” ‘The Adcertiser says: “Mr. Bischoff eang Schubert's ‘Dio Allmacht,’ and a recitative cud aria of Arnold from ‘William ‘ell,’ Ho was well received, and his delivery proved as intelligeat and artistic as bofore, His Foico was, perhaps, a little out of condition. Bither from that cate or from intrinsic imper- foction, it revealed, in light piano passages, and hon quite uncoacealed by the instrumentation, detects which were scarcely perceptible in Wag- The Globe says: «The Yo- cal pelections consisted of Schubert song, ‘Die Ailmacht,’ and Arnold’s recitative and ! air from the fourth act of Roseini’s ‘William Tell,’ ‘Ah! non miabbandoner.’ They wore sung by Bir. Bischoff, whose naturally fiuo tenor yas 10bbed of: much of its swootaess by the: harsh German gutturals in the former, 28 well as by the undue loudness of the accompaciment. The Italian words ware sung in tho Rossii aris, and the effect of the voice was, consequently, ouch moro agrecable than in tha Schntert song, or in the Wagner celsction sung in Wednosdas’s concert.” From sil of which, it would seom that ‘Mr. Biseboff has made no change in his style of singing.” ree cores ABROAD. THE OPEZA. The Lnglish opera-troupe continues doing well. This week thoy will sing in Brooklyn, N, Y., and next week: will givo five represontations in New York. Mr. Elizabeth Holloy, aftor bsy- | ing been beard in Boston by Mr. Hoga, has been added to tho troupe. © ‘Mr, Cari Rosa begin a tour of the provincial towns of England with bis English opera com- pany this month. He will opon the Princess’ Theatre, London, in September. Miss Julia Gaylord has been secured to alternate with Miss Tose Herses in the loading soprano parts, Tho Jatter will first appear in the title role of Baritana. It will interest her many friends to know that the little soprano was marrieg on the 28d of February to Mr. Arthur Ton the double-bass player, a cousin of Edward Seguin. Opera in Burope is ino bad way. Tho Borlin Imperial Opera, eaya Figaro, isa thorongh fail- ure, The Director cannot afford to pay adequate salaries, therefore ' Mme. refases to appear thore, and Mme. Mallingor and ‘Mile. Grogui have gent jn their resignations. The Director of the Imperial Opera of Vienns an- nounces a deficit of 750,000 francs. The Royal Orers-House (Teatro Reggio) of Turin is closed; tho seasca atthe Scals is 1 disastrous one, and the Teatro Apolio, of Rome, is eeveroly tried by the indisposition of its whole staff of principal artistes. The new Opera-House of Paris pays, because it is s new opera-house, while the Czar and the Kledive pay the losses of the St. Peters- nig end Cairo operas respectively. The whole of the subsidized opora-houses of Europe sre, in fact, in a very bad state, and the blame is laid at the doors of the artistes, who demand salaries which the Directors of subsidized theatres, who are bound down to one scale of prices, are un- able to afford. ‘There is nothing to be reported from Italian opera in this country, except perhaps @ remip- iscence. The Albany (N. ¥.) Journal prints a very interesting letter from Mr. E. DeForrest, concerving the abrupt departure of Mile. Alpani from America. In the course of his letter Mr. DeForrest corrects the, popular delusion that the einger took her name from the City of Albany. Albavi, he says, is the name of an illustrious Italian family long since extinct. It was suggasted to Miss La Jeunesse as a stage name by ber old teacher, Lamperti. That it re- sembies the name of the town in which sbe lived for some time is merely a coincidence. He also says: ‘‘Inall the Western engagements sho sang two nights in the week; the reat of tho company without her singing four nights and one matinee. In every single instdnco on the nights when she sang the houses wero crowded to overflowing, andI challenge Mr. Strakosch to adenial of this.” Bir. De Forrest doesn’t know what be is talking about. Albani sang éhreetimes a week in Chicago, andi her six appearances only drew three good houses. German opera is looking up a little. Mr. Adolf Neuendorff, the’ manager of the Stadt and Germania Theatres, is making extensive ar- rangements for the coming season. The great success which attended the performances of Herr Wachtel during his lsat visit to thia country has induced him to retarn under the same man- agement next fall, and bo will then remain from September until May. The first soason of opera will begin on Sept. 16, and will be continued dur- ingsix weeks. Mr. Necendorffis alsoendesvoring 'to effect the engagement of Mme. Peschka- Leutner. The statement published in some of the newspapers to the effect that he had already done 80, Was premsturo. The repertoire will in- clude “Lohengrin,” ‘Le Prophote,” ‘The Jewess,” ‘‘ L’Africaine,” ** Rienzi,” and “ Tho Flying Dutchman.” All of these works Mr. Neuendorff promiees to bring cut during Herr At the expiration of the season of six weel:s, the tenor will proceed to Philadelphis, and thence to Boston, perform- ing afortnight in either city. Another season | will be commenced in this city, which will tor- minate Jan. 1, 1876. A tour will then be made throngh the Western cities, and this will fill the time up to March 15.- A spripg season in New York will follow, closing May 1. - Herr Wachtal’s hare of the receipts daring his previous Ameri- can engagement, covering 8 period of five month”. ME ty 397.609. . Lucca } WOMAN. : Disguising Sex---Female Cab-Drivers in London and Paris, Dressing—-How American’ Compare with French Women, A Paradise for Spinsters---What a Set of Jewelry Cost. i ' Miscellaneous Paragraphs About the Fair Sex. FEMALE, CAB-DRIVERS. Avwoman has recently been dotected in En- | gland who has been driving a cab, in the guise of aman, for the past ten years. She was born, it : seems, at Tauoton, Somerset, whore her father was land agent toa nobleman. She had a great liking for “‘handling the ribbons,” and learned to drive horses while very young. When little more than 14 yeara of, age she was married to an army surgeon by the name of Honeywell, and | ber name, 83 8 married woman, is Margaret | Honeywell. Thetwolived together so unhappily ; that at length she ran away from home and went , to London. She there met with a woman who had formerly been farm-servant to her father, and who had married a cabman, and, from what she heard in regard to the cab-driving business, she resolved to earn an independent living in that branch of industry. By wearing her bair | short, and bya judicious use of clothing, she managed to present the appearance of a short, stoat man. Her face being of « masculine type, her complexion florid, and she having an impedi- { ment in her speech, caused by a defective palate, conapired to render the illusion perfect. Vor | three yea in London and six in Liverpool she plied the whip as a cab “man,” her sex being unknown and unsuspected by all. Dur- ing that period she was on several occssions placed in a peculiar and delicate position, put camo out from each ordeal without even eus- picion of ber sex being aroused. On one oc- casiou, a noted bone-sctter in Liverpool exam- ined ner knee, which ehe thought had been in- jured, but which turned out to be only affected with cheumetism. Altnough he trested the com- plaint successfully, he seemed to have noticed nothing pecaliar in the formation of the limb: ‘Mrs. Honeywell states that during the time she acted ag a ‘‘cabby” she sav a notice in a news- paper that her husband had fuiled im business. Tn all probability, the public would not have | heard for some time of this female cab-driver had it not been for her unfortunate share in a theft, whioh caused her arrest and discovery. A similar instance has occurredin Paris. Some mocths ago the driver of a cab died suddenly, and was replaced ay few daya later by a quiet, delicate-looking confrere, who was rather re- markable for bis civility to bis customers, and for bis singular unsociable and silent manners. The other cozchmen dubbed him * Little Louis,” and troubled their heads very little about him, though, in spite of his silenco and unsociability, he was’ always obliging, and ready to render service to any one. ‘I'ne other day poor ‘Little is” wes Due from his stand. He had fallen sick. and bad been taken to the hospital, where it was speedily discovered that the quiet little coachman wae in realty a woman. It ap- pears that she was the wife of the coachman who had died suddenly. Being left with anin- fant a few months old, she had formed the dea- porate ‘resolve of. taking ber dead busbaud's place, and thes supporting herself and her child. So eke pat ber infant out to nurse, donned mate attire, and for some months endured all the hardships and exposures of 8 cab-driver’s life. ‘At tho end of that time her child foll eick and died, and then the poor mother broke down, too, and Lecamo seriouely ill. A few days of fever ; avd doliriam in tke hospital, and then the end came, and the poor creature's toils and sorrows were ended. A strange, sad littie romance was i this ont of the many that stud the annals of the | poor of Paris, DRESSING. Olive Logsa, in an article.in Harper's Bazar, sa7s: The loading ides mrogard to dress—any dress, almost—in the mind of an American wom- an, is thatit shall bo rich and costly. Wor many yoars no black ailke but those called gros gr: ine could find purchasers in this market. Uven now, io these onr times of tightening of purse- strings, this heavy and costly fabric-is almost in } tniversa! uso, and it is nothing uncommon to | seo girls not outof their tcens wearing silks | of a beaviness of texture fit for the pompous ; apparel of gray-haired dowagers, Many ; Fronchwomen, whose attire has always been : sas finished as an epigram,” have never owned so costly a dress asa gros grain, And just here ; is the paint to note the basia of the difference ! between the French and the Americans, which is yisibtfe not ooly in dregs, but io all other ob- eervances, and which contrioutes £0 greatly to the | admirable ordering of life in France, viz.: the 1 xbsence of pretension, the avoidance of a desire | + toappeur richer than thoy roally are, which is ‘ the secret of the success of the Parisian eslon, -the petits diners, and other unattainable French i luxuries. No ‘reepectable woman in Fiance | would consent to wear apparel not in’ accordance with her cstablished © position io life, For tho wife of a clerk | or other small-salaried person to appear wearing alace flounce, or so Indian shawl, or any othor expensive garment, would be to invite sack comment os ‘no modest damo can meet without a blush.” A Freuchwoman’s dreas must be in + accordance with her means ; but how froquextly wwe besr tho exclamations in this country: “How ; | do they doit?” ‘Where does the money come j from?” and when the wife and daughters of | Jones, the banker’s clerk, swell up aod down | Broadway in sealakin sacques, and flounced gros i ‘sing, and the, last new thing in bonnets and Eve-bution, pearl-colored gloves, the least cen- sorious person caunot but marvel how they af- | ford such costly sccoutrement. ; Are Jones’ wife and Sauphtere well dressed? ; Are American women usually well dreased? As ; to be well dressed is to be fitly dressed and fresb- | ly dressed, Ibavo email hesitation in replying that thoy are not. : ! Peshaps even grestor than her aversion to not j being dressed as becomes her situation in life is | the Frenchwoman’s horror of wearing a garment } that is passe, fane, fripe. It requires but n fow | wenrings in the dirty streets of suy of our towns to convert the handsomest gros grain into that understandable impropriety, ‘‘a sight to be- hold.” Strictly for carriage’'wear, & toilet of elegance and costliness may be allowed ; put no woman can be well dressed when clothed in the costliest gown, the sweeping akirts of ; which had caught the impurities of the streevs. Tho length of the street dress skirt of the pres- | ent day, though far from being the disgusting | | ctrail™ of a fow years ago, ia sufficiently i great to cause it to dip in the mud and snow, the dust and water, of the thoroughfares, The only means, therefore, by which a lady can pre- serve her neatness tolerably intact is by wearing dreszes so inexpensive in their materis! and fate tbat she can afford to lay them asido as soon as they are hopelessly soiled. Certainly a half-dozen pretty dreeses better adapted for atreet wear than s gros-grain can be hed for the cost of this latter material. Tbe extravagance of American women, 80 often the theme of masculine remark, 18 not 60 much displayed at route and partiew—the proper scene of gorgeous apparel—ab in the street, where extravagance is not merely extravagance, but vulgarity and folly. THE PLACE FOR SPINSTERS, Ssys the Virginia (Nev.) 2 We have a very pretty letter from & lady in the Green { Mountain State asking us to inform her what j her chances: would be in Virginia City to get s | |. situation as teacher, or, if possible, what en- couragement an accomplished housekeeper would probably receive in ths city; one who would come bringing the highest recommenda- tions as a scholar andalady. As wo are fre- quenty in receipt of such letters, we have con- cluded to answer this one through the Enter prise: Miss B.: Your note ia under reply. We need not waste space in extolling the good taste of your letter. ‘Iho fact of your writing to the Enterprise is sufficient evidence of » most sound dizcretion. Toachers here command from $100 to $200 per month in gold coin. Board coats shout $35 per month, and lodging from $15 to 975, according to tho caprice of the lodger. Female domestics command from $35 to $40 per month, with bosrd included, of course.” Whether you could obtain a situation as teacher or not Xo taonot say. 1 would depend on msny things. In. the first place our present teachers are probably the best teachers in the world. If you were to come. you would have to wait for s vacancy ; aod then if you ara | mistress ordered not fine-looking yon could not pass the oxsm- ination of our Superintendent. who isa single man; and if you aro very beautiful, tho appro- | bension would be that you would got married before you learned the names of your pupils. We do not think a private echool sonld succeed, excopt behind it was the ‘capital fo build fine structures and furnish them with. tha apparatus of the modern school- room. Abont getting employment in private families there is but one difficulty. The confi- dence of our families has been 0 often abused that they are demoralized and have settled down to beliove there is nothing reliable but 3 China- man, aad be cannot be deponded upon about the tirse of the Chineso New Year. The difficulty lies in the fact that there sre more of those brates hers called men than thera are of those augela called women, ond the men haves way of coaxing which generally, in abort four weeks, tyansforms an Eastern girl—who camo here with the best of intentions to work faithfally, lay up great deal of money and go back and support hor mother—into a wife, with her time divided batween presiding over her own home sud bunt- ing around town for s Chinaman to do her housework. If this last suggestion is of any in- terest to you, yon may depeud upon the miners living here, ‘snd may know in advance that any one of them has more reverence for and appre- cistion of a worthy woman than a thousand of the youths of Vermont, who, bemg brought up among 80 Mavy women, never realize that thoy are really angels in disguise. AN INDEPENDENT DAMSEL. The Kingeton Freeman says that one of the young ladies from the upper part of Kingston bad a general invitation from the managers to a social hop recently. No gentleman took the trouble, however, of asking to escort her to the hall, and, aftor arraying herself ina magnificent suit, she thought it would not be domg justice either to heresif or themauagers to stay at home. Therefore abe oxercised her woman's rights, or- dered a handsome rig from tho livery, stable, and went tothe party in excellent stvle. The boys found it out, and, when it came time to take her home, s dozen asked permission to se6 her eafe in the paternal mansion. Dut she pos- itively refused, saying, “I came alone, gentle men, and, as it has long been my role to allow no pomen except the one who escorts ine to a party ‘0 take me home, you must excuse me.” Then she tolithe driver tomove on. Tho boys like her independence, anyhow. KNOWLEDGE OF COOKERY. Atssocial gathering of geutlemen held re- cently at the residence of one of the number on Murray Bill (says the New York Express), the conversation turned on the lack of knowledge of the practical detaila of housekeeping which is said to be displayed by the majority of young ladies. ‘The daughters of the hort declared that much that is sagerted on this: subject is incorrect, and to prove their statement of- fered to provide a dinner, composed of the usual number of courses, each dish to be cooked by the ladies themselves without aid from the ser- yants. ‘he offor wae accepted. The dinner was provided a day or two after, the young ladies acting as waitresses. The cooking was declared to be excellent, Eacu of the youag ladics have been presented with a pair of baadsome brace- lets ag a mark of appreciation of the culinary skill displayed. HE DIDN'T CARE. A vewly-married couple from somewhere down the Lansing road, says the Detroit Free Press, were riding in a Grand Biver car yesterday, and the groom insisted on holding the bride’s hand in his big red paw. “Ob! no, don’t!” she said, as she jerked her band away. “Oh! luy, let me hold yer hand jest for ten minutes!” ho pleaded. ‘'Shoo! Don’t you ses they ara looking at us?” she whispered. “They are, eh!” he replied, looking up and down tho car, “Wall, now, I'm going to put my right arm right around ye, and if any fellow in this car dares to spit crooked, I'l git up and mop the floor with him until I wear bim up to his = oul- ‘and the der-bisdea!" His arm encircled hor, if they other passengers looked as solemn as were on their way home from s faneral. THE FIGURES. Says the Detroit Free Press: ‘Chere, my dear wife, there is the set of jewelry which you hars #0 long waited for,” saids Detroiter as he laid @ package before his wife tho other evening. “Ohl you dear old darling, bow mnech did it cost?” she inquired as sue tore off the paper. “Only $50." he replied -carclessly. “* And what's this mark, ‘$5.50,’ on the card for?” she asked as she held it up and looked at im with suspicion in her eyes. ‘That—mark— why, that means that they paid only $3.50 to have the jewelry made!” ho replied. think, daring, of their gr working artisan down to #8.50!” Sbo was satis- Sed with the explanation, and he whispered to himself, “Whats male I was not to change that $8.50 to t SERVANTS ON THEIR DIGNITY. Zondon Court Journal: A lady having twelvo servanta in her house gave # small article of ! gress, known among the uninitiated ss a chemi- ette, and composed of muslin and lace, to her Iady’s maid to wash; the lady’s maid passed it on to the lanndry-maid, on the plea that the articlo was muslin and belonged to her department. The laundry-maid declined to do it, because it ! was lace, and, as such, it must be “got up” by "As neither would do it, the the necessary appliances to be got ready, znd heraeif descended to the laundry and washed the article. the lady's maid. . (TEMS. ‘Waisting sweetness—Putting your arm about a pretty woman. ‘A statistician eatimates that courtships sver- ! ago three tons of coal exch. ‘No true woman will ever marry s man so tall thst she anno reach his hair. “Unmanned by the logs of her huaband” is the latest style of indicating a widow's grief. A Pennsylvania man and wife lived two weeks on bread and whisky. Sho a‘e the bread and he drank tho whisky. i A mother asked hor little daughter to do some- thing, and the daughter's reply waa: ‘+A gener] ai tiredness pervades me.” A Williamsport, Ps., woman tried to have her husband arrested because he “winked at and nudged the girls” at a party. ‘At Zinnwald, in Germany, a widow of 103 bas married a man of 60. One of the bride's chil- dren, aged 80, was preaent at the wedding. Ata faneral at Madison, Me., lately, the man who was buried was placed beside two of his “Sage ding | poor, hard- ‘Ho was arrestod the other day in Cincinnati, liv- ing with another woman. A negro girl of Oglethorpe County, Ga. was msrried when 11 yeais of ago, and had 2 child when sho was 12, At the age of 12 that child was & mother, making the woman s gcand:nothsr when she was 24 years‘old. ‘We eau point you out a Michigan woman who refused to go to a festival bacanse she wanced to fone ner Bostands mocks: A similir case 745 eal in Now Yor‘: State som ears but was not well authenticated. cts ree A lady near Boxvilie, Ky., presented her ‘old man” with three boys isst month, which gava the old mau 80 much oleasure that he. proclaimed their names in the three rat words he spoke: “Tom, Dick, and Harry, by—~!" Oue of the sweetest things about a young and budding love is tho way in which she will auicoth the hair ao gently off your brow, and then smile tenderly in vour face and show that about four of her back teeth are gone.—Norwich Bulletin. Awoman in Aurora, lL, insista on going to prison with her busband, he having been sest there for one year. Howrefrcebing this is when one recollects that history is full of instances where the wife gets divorced, married, and haa 9 baby or two before the old man gets out.—Hil- waukee News. “Well, what can J, do for you ?” said Damon, of the Milwaukee Poor Department, to a Ninth Ward female ali rags and tatters. “I'd hxe a talnty Mlston © dal paper for etx mosthn, fet later,» paper for six mont jeat to see how this Beecher trial is a-comin’ ate yo gee."—Milwaukee News. ‘Miss Molly Allen, of Nape, Cal., « maiden of 12 or 13, bas killed more @ with her small telescopic rifle than any two buaters in that re- gion this winter. She made 230 on squirrels tails last summer, getting only 5 cents apiece. At amhooting-match last year she took eo macy prizes that her bearded opponents ruled ber out of the ring. A Danbury girl received a porous plaster in a Rorgeous enyalope bearing & monogram. At10 o'clock that night, the oxner of the monogram. standing dierobed before the fire, preparatory to applying a remedy to his chest, fainted desd away on drawing from a paper a mass of paper flowers and mottoes. There wes no ire in the parlor Sunday evening, A mother-in-law has sent a communication to a Milwaukee magazine, denouncing “the vile rabble of coarse, low-bred journalists,” who make paragraphs about meu’s wives’ motbera. ‘We'll bet that women keeps her gon-io-law with- in the traces, Perhaps sho even stood over the poor devil, and made him writo her communica- tion for her.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Tne Brooklyn Argus gives the following co- scription of a woman's way of siguing her name ina book: ‘She deposited her gloves directly on the page whero she intended to write oer name. Then she turned over the leaf, and left her muff oc the next page. Not Basing a place for signature, she turned a leaf in the other dhrection, and left her veil as 3 book-mark.” The latest divorce development comes from the West. At the twilight hour they wero mar- ried. Atearly darn, when the Justice who tied the knot was tasting bis moroing cocktail, a gentle hand touched his ehoulder. He recog- nized the bride avd said, “* Ah, you've come for the license you forgot.” “No I ain't, Judge, Bill snores iike a porpoise with the asthma ; I'se come for a divorce.” Awoman entered a crowded stroet-car the other day, and for r. moment or two uo one offer- edheraseat. Then afat man, afhicted with the asthma, beckoned.to her and said: ‘* Madam, please fake—take—" (congh, cough). She stood there waiting for his seat, and as soon as he was over his coughing fit be concluded: ‘“ Madam, please take cara and not step on my sore foo:!” ‘The look sho gave him was appallug, but all the rest saw the joke.—Delroit Free Press. ‘A lady lately wont to pav her respects to one of tho iatest arrivals on tha liat of babyhood, | when the following colloquy tool place between | her und tho little 4-year-old sister of the new comer: ‘Tvecome for that baby now,” said the lady. “You can’t have it,” was tho reply. “But I must; Icame over on parpose,” urged the visitor. “We can’t spare it at all,” per- sisted the child, ‘but I'l gets piece of Paper snd you can cut a pattern.”— Washington (ia. Acchancery case is occupying the attention of ; Some of our lawyers, and has brought in here | quite a number of witnesses. in conversation | with one of the attorneys, a girl who isa wit- i mesa on the caso was descanting on the ! meanness of one of tne parties to the j suit. “Why,” said she, “ whon his wife 1 died, he sent with $15 to gets coffin. } —— could not get a good one for $15, and he. ; paid $18 for the codin, _ And whonhe gat back (the party to the suit) was awfal angry because he paid the extra $3.” And then this artless young lady remarked, *‘If it had been my father, he wouldn't miud paying $40 for a coffin | for ma.” Was this a tripuia to “* ma’a” worth } or not ?—Adrian (Afich.) Times. i | 1 i MARCH, | March, with gigantic, towering form, ‘Comes girt with cloads, with wintry ctorm: Each timorous heart, opprensed with woe, Tasmables beforo th’ enshrouding snow : Loud whistling etill the Northern blast,— The falling takes deacending fast : And, whon the son enlights the dey, ‘A dazzling waste he doth display,— Greation bright, but bleak with frown, ‘Wearing stern Winter's icy crown. Dut change is near: ofer field and plain, Love's notes shall soon ba beard agai ‘Again eweet buds ahall burst and bloom O'er Nature desolate, a tomb; Again shall flowers of myriad dyes ts do the aars te akfes; fushing, beauteous ahina, alvin ‘Warmed by the sun's : ‘The world, in beanty’s mantle bright, Soon charm, entrance, give sweet delight! ‘Then welcome, March! Thon standest where ‘Two guint for es ply thy care: Stern, dreary Winter, with hi Ben his arrows at thy hesrt, Piling thy form with dimming clouds, With brightness cold thy form enshrouds— Fierce tem) pe ite belting oct the desp, ‘spectres shapelesa sweep, i ‘With rathless tread, remarsefal ire, ‘hat numbness, death, alone i ! Spring—beentoous Spring,—at whose reture, 1 Swoot altare, bright, fresi incense barn, ‘Thy grest attendants dart their beam,— ‘They seek for power, empire supreme. Bublime in matchless, sugust power, ‘As thon dost come with brightening dower, ‘With giant energies thine own, Oi! burl dresd Winter from his throne ; 1 i i ivi ‘From thy vast { thy hesving breas! dead wives, while two living ones atteaded the | ror toy ree ean aak fs a, bash ty es Cola winds tha: blow, make Jreat the land, 3 Ht Pass ‘Northern stran ‘ADaughter of Eve—‘I_ asked Bobby Laven- Bass rapid to the oe ee der if be thought you a pretty, and he said ‘Yes!"" *+ Whor he comes back, ask him again—and I'll listen!” A phonographer, taking down one of Dr. Mary Walker's lectures, made the well-known legend, ** Honi qui mal y pense,” read “ Only 50 how Molly pants !"” “7m not in mourning,” said a young Isdy, frankly, a anene. vf pasa the widows “ retting al 6 offers nowsdays, we ir girl Fave rd resort to artifice.” ce ‘No, sir,” said a weary-looking man on & atreet-car to an individual by ‘his side, ‘L woulda’t marry the best woman alive. I've been & dry-goods clerk too long for that.” ‘An exchange asys that every woman haa chance of being married some time or other. It is not unlikely. The e isno tellmog what aman ‘will do when he is drank.— Brooklyn Argus. “he is a perfect Amazon,” remarked apt of hia teacher to scompanion. “Yes,” said the: other, who was better versed in geography than history, ‘ noticed she bad an swfol big mouth.” APortland chap who during courtship sent his girl some poetry beginning: «Was It a Gleam of Golden Hair,” was mortified after taar- riage to see her hang that ‘‘gleam” over the back of a chair. Speaking of the traveling of sound, s lecturer said Tho voice of a woman can be heard further than that of a man.” ** Yes,” and often- er,” said a disgusted looking man, who was not happily fixed at home. Kate, in a note from Brooklyn, ssys that girls with pretty feet alaya choose the maddiest atreet crossings, and that when s lady walks aiong looking for a dry path itis proof that sho wears No. 4a at least. Nevada brides won't stand much foolishness at a wedding. Recently ono of them, while going up the aisle of the church, stopped short acd Jacked all the skin off the shins of a groomsman ‘who trod on her trait. * J imow, my dear, that it's 10 degrees below zero, and the last pair of socks you have in,tho world want mending, but I must go over tell Mrs. Busby that Jane Leo's in cap is nothing but imitation.” “ Farewell, Susan, you have driven me to the grave,” wrote Jobn Larch, of Alabama, four years ago, and left the note on the river. banks i i Beigns ‘mold dark, Polar realmsatone! ‘thy new-born bleasings, great and rare, ¥rom Eouthern-climes triumphant bear; Change thou the season ; warm the alr; Pour deepening splendors wide around 5 Thy charms diffuse ; warm, warm the ground; Bid yerdure mantle far and wide, By river's marge or mountain-side; Grestion smile with genial light,— ‘Become vast reatm of beauty bright I ‘Thus, in Time's awful, fated urn, ‘Where destinies unnumbered turn, ‘Mid clouds and darknese, fearful, dresr, ‘The lowering heavens of Hope shall clear, ‘The prize, long-wished, unasked shail ‘Koa bess’ at last with beams divine | - Brv. W. 8. —————>-_———_—_ The Boss Washee San. Piusbura Leader. A Leader reporter visited tae Chinese Isundry on Liberty street, near Sixth avonue, for the purpose of interviewing them to get the Celestial Spinion es to the general prospect of trade. He found them besy, with ‘the exception of one. who pppesred to be the foreman. ts rah Lee in?” asked the reporter, taking his cue from the sign outside. ‘The foreman ssid he wasn't. “Where is he ?” asked the roporter. “Ob!” snawered the foreman, shortly, “he anywhere—Phil'delfy, New York, Boston.” © Doesn't he live here, than ?” ‘No; he live nowhere.” “Ts this hislaundcy 2” ; “Yes; this one his. He more in Phil’delfy and New York.” i ‘The foreman then stated that Wab Leo was n nich Chinaman. He imtormed him that be owned two laundries in Philadelphia, two in New York, one in Boston, four in Chicago, and one in ~ Indianapolis, which, with the one in Pittaburg, make nine altogether. Busineas as good, ho anid, and Wab Les waa nappy. It kept him busy going from one city to another where he had laundries, so he was always on the fly. He couldn’t ssy what bis wealth was, but ho knew it was immense. “How long has Wah Lee been in America?” + Aboat six years.” Hoe further stated that the puddiers’ strike didn’t affect Wah’s business. in the Jeast “‘Washee, washee plentes; washee call day a. He couldn’t tell what Wah’s weekly income #rom all his Isundries amounted to, bat | it waain the neighborhood of $1,700, i i i