Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 1, 1877, Page 10

\ 10 ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 1, I877—SIXTEEN AMUSEMENTS. Continued Success of the Dull. Season at the' Theatres. The Boys of the Shakspeare Theatre Present “Hen- ry V. Barnum’s Circus To-Mor- row---Dramatic Gos- sip Everywhere. The Summer-Night Con- - certs---The Compos- ers’ and Sympho- ny Nights. Mendelssohn’s Scotch and Schu- mann's Rhenish Sympho= nies--The Scandina- vian Night This Week. Annual Meeting of the Apollo Club— Operatic Gossip at Home and Abroad. THE DRAMA. * RON OF THE DULL SEASON. ‘The dull scason Las met with the most emi- nent suceess. It has been hailed, as the writers on the New York press say, “with joyful ac- claim.” it has carned and deserved—but, ow- ing to the poverty of our rescurces, not received —more scsquipedalian scutences than any other entertuiument in the country. We hope it may Lave a long run, and that its glory may remain unfaded until the end. For the reli¢f it has given, many thanks. There are tears for its love, joy for its furtune, aud honor for its valor. Mr. Jobn Thompson has been disporting him- self at Hooley’s Theatre In his origh nal piece called “On Hand.” The sttendance has Dbeen small, but quite equal tothe merits of the performance. This week the house will Lie closed excepton the Fourth of July, when H. A. Webber and J. W, Bluisdell, supported by a number of local actors, will give two performauces of a pla; never befure seen here, called *“Nip and Tuck,” wincl, they claim, was highly successful iu Paris. It is not recoguizable under the title they have given it. At the Adelphi last week ¢ Unele Tom’s Cabin ™ was played by the Slavin Slave Troupe,—most euphonions combination, —in a manuer 10 arouse the eothusiasm of the patrons ut the theatre. The same bill will be presented during the curreut week. McVicker's Thieatre, the New Chicago Theatre, aud Wood's Museum were closed. TR SHARSPEARE THEATEE. The opening of the Shakspeare Theatre was noticed in these columns a month ago, and the public was at that time conzratulated upon the addition of this temple of the muses to the - dramatic resources of the city,y Another per- formance was given in the new theatre yester- day morning. The barn was thronged by an interested_company of spectators. ~ Paris of “Heary V.” were given with the following cast: KingHeary V......Donglas St George Huntington B l-‘r“r.fir_h Arg:hludm’, % " Goverpor of Harfleur, ». . Charles Hall i f Frane Alonzo Bt. George Huntincton Bolaier. -William Giles Page aa Fritz Fake Princess Catberine. Miss L. Kirkland Lady Alice.... Miss €. Kirklsnd Queen of France... Miss E. St.George Huntington . biage Mauager... e . Charles Hall ‘The burden of the performance fell upou. the reprosentatives of Henry V. (aged 12) and the 2'rincess Katherine (aged 10). They acquitted ‘themselves with credit. Anything wore quaint and oddly cunning than the French lesson and | thé courtship scee it would be diflicult to con- ceive. The archness and sweet simplicity of the ZFrincess; herbroken French, so skillfully preserv- ‘ed betwecen theunintelligibleand the grotesque; her unconscious dignity, and childlike ecli~con- fideace won all hearts. . Henry was & wooer to whom any fair lady migbt with decency capitu- Jate. He gpuke all his speedma] as they were set down for him. trippingly on the tongue, and Wwith a correctuess of emphasis that argued care- ful training and intelligent acyuirement. The promise of the managers was Kept, and the compsuy preseat was taught by experience “How sweetly childhood utters Shakspeare's thought.” LOCAL NOTES. “Cnde Tom’s Cabin" will Ue given by a slave troupe at the West End Opera-llouse (Oed- dentsd Hall) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday ev?‘:ugfi, and Wednesday afternoon, July 2, 3, and 4. The benefit of Mr. Dasis, doorkeeper of Hav- ___eriy’s Theatre, will take place to-morrow night. Forty actors and minstrel performers bave vol- unteered, Mr. Davis will appear in several aiostrel sketches for the ficst time on any stage. The Ellsworth Zouaves open Cotton’s Opera House on Monday evening, July 2, with ‘““ An- dersonville,” a militory drama _which they gave Iust vear when they were Company E of the First Regimevt. "This ycar greater care has -been bestowed upon the “play, znd it will be &ven in a more complete manner. NEW YOBE NOTES. Rose Coghlanis to be the leading ladyat Wal- fack's next season, and Gustavus Levick the Suvenidy ma. McKee Rankin, in Joaquin Miller’s new play, As to be the openiLg attraction of the new Broad- way Theatre, under J. C. DufPs management. E. F. Thorne and Mrs. Frank Murdoch are to Join the company at Niblo’s Garden July 2, and ** The Three Grardsmeu ™ will then be pro- duced. J. H. Rowe, leading heavy-man, furmerly of McVicker's, and Miss Georgic Dickson (3rs. _Rowe), soubrette, have been engazed for the durtheoming scason at the Lyceum Theatre. Mr. Hoopér, Treasurer of the Union Square “Theatre, contradicts the report that Mr. Charles R. Thorne, Jr., has lately exhibited symptoms of msanity. He acted for Mr. Gouge's benefit last Wednesday night. The play of “The Crabbed Age." seen here last winter, gets high praise from some of the !\Iuw York papers, thongh the Tribusnc says one of the scencs is the “most_astoundingly 21:1!0!(': ever scen on the stage.” The desmpfinn ight ‘With justice be extended over the whole picce. The Clipper says: * James O'Nell, it is ru- mored, was recently married in this city to Mise Quinlsy, of Chicago, Tll. We sre told that he acnies the marriage, and that possibly the arri- val of 8 lady (who dlaims to be his wifc)and & «child from "Chicaro had something to do with the denisl. We Fi\'u the report, asit is town gossip, for what it Is worth.” *“ Jennie June ” writes from Paris to the Bal- timore American ; ** Sardou’s ‘ Dora’ (which has been sold to the Union Square Theatre in New, York), is in its two hundreth meht at the Vau- deville, and, It is to be hoped, will be produced jn New York without having all the motive taken outof it. The morality of our Freuch translators and adaptors 18 so obvious and is ’pushed“ 50 under ¢ne’s nose that one can smell t.! 3 There was no new production in New York Ikt week. “Smike was played at the Grand Uyera-House, “ The Crabbed Age ¥ at W k'S, gnd “Evangeline™ at_the Fifth Avenue. For Mies Lizzie Webster's benefit at the Fifth Ave- nue on Friday night Miss Rose Temple made her debut as Kwialie, Miss Webster. R ayed Fvangeine dor the only time, Miss Sophie Worrell appeared as Gabriel, 2nd Mr. 3. C_ DNalyas Le Blanc. On turday, for the benefit of ir. Harry Josephs, extravaganza was proceded by **The Little bel,” in which Mise Minnie Palmer mho kind~ Harold, jand Ran- \volnnleemd)‘ Miss peareds” GEINERAL AMERICAN NOTES, ph ap) ere were no theatricals worthy of the pame u or Philadelphia last week. B {ate Clarton gave ** The Two Orphans” at \, -lontreal last week. “To-nerrow night Miss S:unie Hughes, the variety-singer, of New York, ‘makes her dramatic debut in the same dt‘y. pre- senting a play ot Charles Gaylor’s called Love Among the Roses.” The Soldecne Company, under Chizzola, goes from San Francisco to Australia, not returning to New York. F. R. Pierce and a selected comean_v il play % Our Boys” and “ Lemons * at Grand Rapids, Mich., July Sand 4: Generous Fannic Marsh_gave a_performance for the bencfit of the 8t. Jobn sufferers at ber theatre in Portland. Mr. George Faweett Rowe s likely to pass the fall months in Europe, the day of his return hav- ing been Indefinitely postponed. “ Bebe,” the Parisian success, s shortly to be Rmduced at the Park in New York, and at tle fusenm of Boston. Probebly the Chestnut will get it for Philadelphia. Is there a Chicago man- ager on the alert? Le Moyne and Boniface are 10 be in the Park cast, and the play will be given the 16th jnst. Boston is about to lose 3ts pet actress—Mary Carv—who, after a long-continued success inthe character of Poor Jo, in Woolf's new five-act drama of that name, has purchascd the manu- script and sceepted the invitations of some of the leading managers to present the piece dur- ing the next season in the principal ditics. Mauble Leonard, the child actrees, is with her motber in Hoboken, Mrs. Harriot has received a letter from her as follows: My DEAR Miss CLana: 1hope yon are better of Enur sicknegs. Please, Miss Clara, scud my things v Mr. Rogers when he comes up. ~ I send my very best love to you and your mother. T am very sorry for what has happened, but I could not help it 1 love my darliug mamma oo mach. 1 want to be with her. Miss Clara, iy heart was almost broke when they took me away from my dear mamma. Hoping you are all well, which leaves me now at present.” 1 remain your fricnd, Love ana kisses. MABEL. Alice Oztes prints a card nes:_y o column long in the New York Dramatic News, paying ber re- spects to Mr. Samuel lle, her laté azent. She says he has misrepresented and decefved her, snd causcd the press to ill-treat her. In conseguence of his imisinanagement, the season cnded with aloss of $1,000, which Mrs. Oates considers small enough, in view of his extrava- gance and incompetency, and the enormous ex- penscs of the company. She also charges Col- ville with iuducing her actors to icaye her, and with obtaining favors in the newspapers fc Miss Rosean at her expense, Colville takesa small opera-boufle pmfi' to En_xsund with him, including Emmeline Roseau, John Howson, Charles Drew, cte. They arc 1o perforin i the English provinces. i M The Dramatic News says: * The Bartley Campbell stock s decidedly looking up for next season. The Campbell Comedy Compnn%', for which James W. Norris, W. H. Leake, and Jo- sie Batcheller have already been enwaged, will play * How Women Love,’ which was recently successful at the Arcn Street, Philadelphin. The combination opens at the Boston Theatre, Aug. 27, for two weeks. Miss Eflie Ellsler stars in Ar. Campbell's ¢ Heroine in Rags.! May Howard stars in Mr. Campbell’s * Hearts,” ofcniuz at the Arch Street in September, and Mr. John Raymoud stars in Mr. Campbell's “Risks.” Besides all this, Mr. Wallack pro- duces 2 comedy of his. We trust all these will be successful, if for nothing else, for the konur of American dramatic literature.” Manager Thomas W. Davey, of Detroit, an- nounces that on Sept. 1 he will sever his con- nection with Whituey’s Opera-House, and as- sume the management of the Detroit Opera- House, which will reccive a new and thorough overhauling during the coming suniner, and be furnished in a style cqual to that of oy other theatre on the continent. Meanwhile Manager Davey will cstablish a circnit including the Detroit era-House, the Memplis Theatre, and - Di n’s Grand Opere-flouse, Indianap- olis, 60 that cach will he provided with the best attractions in the smuseument live. Mr. Davey will also control Lawrence Barrett during the season of 1877-'3, and has engaged as the su, port of that tragedian Messrs. Juseph Wheeloek, Harry Langdon, J. P. Sutton, Edwin Prico, W. Young, B. R. Graham, John Marble, Harry C. Barton, R. Vance, J. McConuel, J. Edwands. Ellen Cnwmins, Mrs. Foster, Miss Buker, and Mrs. Baker. The 8an Francisco papers say that Sara’s dancing Is not in the least degree lascivians. * Weare entirely at a loss,” remarks the Chroae- icle, *what about Sara’s kickin X} prudish uplifting of hands and 5 before the face of the Boston public and press. It would seem to have been nothing more than a storm of pharisalval cant, got up to scli-de- ceive the dear old Hub that it was verv moral. ‘We have s moralist in San Francisco who bas written 4 tract against dancing which riots iu sensuous if pot positively disgusting sugzes- tious, und we belicve that its nuthor could spend 2 wholc week at tiae Califurnia ésch night fouk- ing at Sara’s wonderful kieking from ascut close to the stage, and not turn u moral hair.” Cogblan, t ¢ admired New York actor, has failed in San Francisco, as is not infrequentiv the case of *“metropolitan® fuvorites who o out to storm the “ provinces.” George Faweett Rowe, for instauce, is tou good for us. ‘The fall particulars concerning the personelle of the Lydia Thompson Burlesque Company have been communieated from. London, aud are given as follows: The names of the lady prin- cipals enzaged to support Miss Thomnson ure Miss Alice Burville, Miss Marie Williams, Miss Eila Chapmun of fhie well-kuown Chapman sis- ters, Miss Emily Duncan, Miss Alice Bennett, Miss Lina Merville. Miss Marion Nathan, and Miss Alice Atherton, all said to be very charming and very cleyer actresses. The comedians of the com- pany are Mr. Fred Marshall, Mr. Willie Edonin, and Mr. I Leigh; the popular Mr. M.~ Counnolly is musial dircetor, Mrs. Wil B mistress of the wardrobe, Mr. Samuel Cotviise mavsger, and Mr. Alexauder Henderson pro- prictor of the company. Twenty-four ladics are to be engaged here for the corps de ballet, sud alsoa sufficicnt male chorus. The female chorus and pages come over with the company, and iuclude the Misses Carleton, Crey, Beacon, Lee, Horton, Huughton, the Winner sisters, Temple, and Clancy. The company will leave Liverpool iu the City of Chester Avg. 2, and open at Wallack's Aug. 20 for six weeks, After- ward they will visit Boston, Philadelphia, Balti- more, and Washington; and_returning to New York, ill open at'the Eagle Theatre Nov. 19 for an unlimited enearement.—New York Sun. POREIGN NOTES. M. Worms has appeared at the Comedie Fran- calse after an absence of twelve years.. He acted in *Le Marquis De Vi}lemer.” M. Alenandre Dumas is terminating a plece founded on his father’s novel of Juseph Balsa- mo, “Memoires d'un Medecin,” and which is intended for the Odeon. The part of Mine. Du- barry will be played by Mile. Leonide Leblane. Mr. Jennings says of Mr. Jefferson in farce: “ I am sorry to say that the performances this week have been dead failures, although tie newsgapers bave been most forbearing and kind on the subject, aud have satd as little _as’ possi- ble to give pain to Mr. Jefferson. He must, hovwever, be keenly conscious of the colduess and disappointment of the audicnees to swhich he bas played- As a low comedian, Toole would prohahiy be ceuerally deecmed a better actor than Mr. Jefferson, and certainly It was not wise to tread on ground which is suited to the ‘cock- ney actor,’ but not to a man of higher powers. The present unfortunate experiment is not likely to last Joug.”” ‘There has been very little change in the pro- grammes of the Londou _theatres. Mr. Jeffor- son has apoeared at the Havmarket a3 v, Go- Ughtly in ** Leud Me Five Shillings,” and 08 Mr. Hugh de Brass in “A Remular Fix.” On the 20th ult. the **School for Scandal,” with an ex- cecdingly strong cast, was given at the Gaiety Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. Charles Keaney, who has been for some years umable to fol- low his literary pursuits throuch severe illness. Miss Ellen Terry and Mr. C. Kelly were to rcgmsent, for the first time in London, Lad Teazle and Sir Peler; Mr. Henry Neville ang Afr. Johu Clayton anpeared as Charles and Joseph Surface; and Mr. Santley sang, as Sir Harry, the incideatal song. At the end of the comedy, Mr, Heory Irving recited * Tie Dream of Eu- geoe Aram.” MUSIC. THE SUMMER NIGHT CONCERTS. . The fourteenth concert of Mr. Thomas’ sum-~ mer night scries closed last evening, with the cntertainment given for the benefit of the St. Jobn sufferercrs. There is a general improve- | Coronation March. .. ment to be noted. The weather bas been more | SY2P favorable, the programmes have been better, the first weck, so that success now begins to beassared. In addition to the repetitions of numbers on last week’s programmes, we have had Mendelssobn’s *Scotch’ Symphony,” his quartet for “bLoros, *Cornelius March,” the Concerto in G minor, the overture to “Melu- gine,” and the “Midsummer Night’s Dream » music; Schumann’s “Rhenish Symphony,” ) and “Bilder aus Osten; the *“Cujus Animam» ffom Rossini’s * Stabat Ma- ter,” for cormet; sclegtions from **The Flyy ing Dotchman,” the “Ritt der Walkueren,” aod the Vorspiel to the *‘Melstersaenger,” by ‘Wagner; Svendsen’s “ Coronation March ”’; the Saltarello, : ballet music to “‘Faut,’ and over- tare to “‘Mireille” by Gouned; theallegretto to the Seventh Symphony and **3eonoru Over- ture” No. 8 by Beethoven; Mozart's “Theme ana Varlations '; Rafl’s overture to ** Dame Ro- bold"; Saint Saens’ *Marche Herolque; the Bach Chaconne, Rafl’s arrangement ; Scharwen- ka's * Polish Dances”’; Liszt’s ‘“‘Sixth Rbapso- dy"; Strauss’ “ Koénig's Lieder " and “Beauti- ful May? waltzes; Schultze-Benthen's *‘In- dian-Corn Dance” ; Piefke’s “ Dupifler Schanzen Sturm March”; overture to “Semiramis”; overture to Robespierre ?: theme and varia- tions (“God Bave the Emperor”) by Haydn; Meyerbeer’s “Fackeltanz,” No. 8, in C mmor; Raff’s “Vor der Czards™; and the overture to Adam’s “ Le Rof & Yvetot.” . The notable features of the week were the concert of Tuesday night, which gave us Men- delssohn’s Scoteh Symphony, o called, and that of Thursday night, at which Schumann’s Rhen- ish Symphony was heard for the first timein Chicago. They were mutually interesting in one particular, namely, that both were written in our own time, the Scotch in 1843, and the Renish in 1850, both being thus far removed from the fountain-liead of Beethoven, at which both Schumaun and Mendelssohn sought their inspiration. Altbough they were alike in one feature. they were different in every other. Mendelssobu and Schumaon were ut op- posite ‘musical poles. Tle one wrote from an clegant musical cultare, the otber with little knowledge of scoring.” The one wrote his sym- phouy amid the happiest of circumstances, the other when the cloud of his final misfortunc had already begun_to throw its fatal shadow about him. The one was dramatic, the other romautic; the one sentinental, the other scholastic. Mendelssoln was cosmopoli- tan, notwithstanding his race, to the degrec that he easily received impressions from his travels. s symphiony was not written until fourteen years after his Scotch journey, and yet it was the memories of Holyrood that inspired his work. Schumann was cssentially German in his mode of thought, and his symphony was in- spired by the Rhine and the Cathedral of Co- logne. Mendelssohn’s symphony may also be termed cosmopolitap, having been commenced in Italy, tinished in Germauy, but evideatly de- voted to the memory of the composer’s tour in Scotland in 1820, thesame journcy that gave birth to thé delightful * Fivgal's Cave Overture,” the +*Sonate Ecossaise” in F sharp minor, and nu- merous settings of Scotch songs. The sym- phony has been played herc bv:Xurfi 50 that” we need not devote much space to & description of it. 1t is not 8 symphony n the d form. It bears about the same relation to a Becthoven or Mozart symphouy that his “Elijah " does to the ‘ Christimas Oratorio” of Bach. Mendelssohn never allowed himself to be tied down to stated form or con- ventional tove structure. Uis fancy, imagina- tion, and dramstic scope, his tendency to the seutimental, and the grace and sweeiness of his wusical thourht all contlicted with a severely intellectual effort. His music, whether in sym- phiony, oratario, or song, is always lyric rather than epic, dramatic rather than scholastic. So in this symvhou{. ‘There is a_sombre color to gome of the work, more especially in the adagio and in the finale of the last movement, but the thoueht 1s alwaystender and graceful, and there is rarc fascination and beauty in the very sim- plicity of the weans which he employs 1 devel- opivg its structure. Graceful and elegant as it is, however, its impression can never be 4 last- ing a6 the superb Wwork of Scbumann. The sympuony performance on Thursday evening was a memorableone. The programme throughout was one of rare excellence. ‘The audience was 8 very large one and composed of the best class of our musical connoisseurs and rs: the performance, e}nednny of yuyhoas, Vs super): aud Mr. Thomas himself fwas 8o satisfied both with his audience and his programme that he entered fnto the in- tecpretation of the Iatter with unusual enthu- siasm. It was a combination of circumstances that made the concert one of the best le has ever mven in the city. The gmgnmmcopcm:d with Seint Suens’ Wagnerish ““Marche Hero- igite,” which was sugmestive not ouly of “Lohengrin,” but also of the Kunkel Brotbers, who succceded last winter in palming it off as one of their copositions, and with nublusking St. Louls cheek dedicated it to Chicago. The sccond nuinber was Hail's trans- cription of the Bach chacoune, the stately measures of which were delightiully givea. Two Polish national darces by Scharwenka, which have never been heard here before, followed the chaconme, and were In striking contrust’toft, with their sombre and characteristic rhythm. The stiring powp and festival splendor of the prelude to Wagner's “ Melstersaengen,” with s old time Hachelike music, introducing the Zuilds, clesed the first part. The prominent feature of the programme was Schumnann’s Fourth Symphony, in I fiat major, op. 97, usuully alled *The Bhenish,” which was plavel for the lirst time in Chiago, and therefore deserves sowe atiention. It was not uwtil 1311 that Schumanu gave attention (o the syinphonic form. Previously ne had devoted himself to the sunata form. fn that year Le wrote the B tlat major symphony, “which Mr. Thonms has given here, commnced the D minor, which was not finfsucd autil 1551 and sketebed a third in C minor. It wus pot autil 1850 thut he wrote the Rhenish. which really represents the results of his study of the symphony, e pecially as developed by Beethoven. Me delssohn studied the sapie source, but Seln maun came tho nearest to the great master in forin,—that is, intbe cxpression of the old forms, As compared with the_ Schumanusymphonics, Mendelssohn’ are ruther fantasias for orchestra. ‘The difference in their products is accounted for in the difcrence in tho intellects and tempera- ments of the two. 3cudelssohn was dramatic, poetic, and sentimeutal. Schumann was ro- mantic to the verge ot obsecurity, morbid in his later life, unrealistic, and even in his smallest pinuio works prone to be symblical, as°may be seen in his “ Carnival,” ** Papilions,” ad even fu his “Kinderscenen,” and other trifles which represent his least wmportant works, and with still more vivid cleet does this characteristic appear m his writings where he typitics himself in various forms. Jlis romanticism carried to extreme limits made him the Jean Paul of music, and often took him, s it did the creator of “Titau? and * Hesperus,” beyond the bounds of the real into agrotesque and often in- comprehensible world. In this yery symphony the themes are someutmes 83 odd, and bizarre, and apparently asinconsequential as one of Jean Paul’s Dog-Post-Days, bat in reality worked up into a most beautiful tone structure. Schumann himsell has told the meaning of this symphony. Its ideas were inspired by his first sight of the Cathedral of Cologue, and while writing the work another inspiration came from witnessing the pageant conscquent upon the clevation of Archbishop Van Geissel to the rank of Cardinal. The idea seized upon him with such forcee that beadded a fifth movement to the four that usually constitute a svmphony (although it is the fourth in order),and called it An Accompani- ment to o Solemn Ceremony.” He has also left the statement that he intended the national element should prevail in the symphony. Its performance, diflicult asthe music is, made a more profound impression upon the audicnce than any other symphony in our recollection. Its etriking individunlity and onginulity, the wealth of his invention, and the romantic beau- 1y of its effects, combined with a certain spright- liness, and at times*even exuberant {oyousucss. could not but male adecp impression. What is there in music more delicious and quaint than the Scherzo, more tender and sympathetic than the Adagietto, more dignified and sugrestive than the Ceremonial movement! Surcly do lovers of music owe 2 debt of gratitude to Mr. Thomas for giving them the opportunity of hearing this great work- Its performance is one of the memorable cyents in our local mu- sical annals. The remaining numbers of the rogramme were Liszt's *Sixth Rhapsodie,” Becthoven’s “ Romance in G,” Strauss’ * Koen- fuslieder Waltz.” and the “ Indian Corn Dance” of Schultz-Benthen. The present week will be full of attractions. The programme for Monday night will include Berlioz's * Rakoczy March ™5 overture to Schu-, bert’s *Alphonse and Estrella”; Strauss’ “Lob der Frauen” and * Unter Donder und Blitz” polkas; Massenet’s sufte ‘‘Scenes Pittoresque™; the overture to *‘Oberon” the Bach Chawonne; Brahm’s “ Hungarian Dances selections from the first act of “Lohengrin ¥ Strauss’ “ Weiner Fresken” waltz; Meodels- eohw’s duet “T would that my Love”, for the cornets; Neustedt's Gavotte *Souvenir de Marin Theresa; and the overture to “ Zampa” The Tuesday evening's coucert will be devoted to the Scandibavian composers, with the following superb prozramme: . 3. syEND8ON. (Born 1840.) Louic Introduction. to drama, ¢ Sigard Slembe A {Born 1844.) and the attendance mach Jarger: than duriug | Love Scenc—Evening in the Woods. ASGAL UAMERICK. Dedicated to Theodore Thomas.) First Norze Suite. . ish Bajiad. 1. In the Woods. 2. Norse Fling, Bridal March. 1 5. Mennet. Inlermission. jorn 1817.) INTFLE W. GADE. Symphon7 No. 1 in C mino 1. Modirato con moto. . Scherzo. 3. Andantino grazioso. 4 2 Molto Allegro ins con faoca. Inlermission. HORNEJNAN! . Overture—Aladin........ a4 Wedaug March—From the Swedish dra T (d Marc! rom the Swei *‘Tne W CUdbtig OF NeTRSERever sorcees o oeirsenssrceron 4. cumis. LUNBTE. (Born 1806—1874.) Fantacje—Visions in a Dream..... ....... With Zither Obligato by i, Etting. Galop—Chaggpagne voee.vvenienns . On Wednesday, the Fourth, there wiil be two GES ! performances. At1, s matines will be given. Cowpany C, of the Firat Regiment, Capt. Davis commanding, will assist; alio u military band. Emery Storrs, oy will deliver the oru- tion. Other spcakers will appear and 3, Thom- s concert will be given. In the evening at 8, the entire %xommme of the opening of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphta will be g}xven, ‘with a chorus of 200 voices, under the ection of Mr. Tomlins, including Dudley Buck’s cantata, * The Meditation of Columbis,’ Whittier's Hymn, and the Hullelujah Chorns. TUEODORE THONMAS. Tn the Editor of ‘The Tribune. ‘ Curcaco, June 28.—Plesse inform me, and many friends of muslc, where Mr. Theodore Thoas waa born, his nationality, and give a short sketch of hislife. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. RerLy.—Theodore Thomas was born in Han- overin 1835, and is consequently a German by na- tionality. He received his first instructions from his father on the violin, and played in puliic at a very early age. Iis family came to New York in1845. For two years he played in concerts, and then traveled through the United States as first violin in concerts with Sontag, Jenny Lind, Grisl, Mario, rde, Thalberg, Piccolomini, and other artists. During this period he estab- 1ished a conservatory in New York with William Mason, and gave some memorable soirecs of classical music, and also for atime was identified with the opera, but sbandoned his connection with it in 1861, and soom after, at the head of his own orchestra, comwmenced his brilliant ca- reer asone of the very few great conductors of the world. What he has done since then as & mausical educator to elevate the public taste and to secure a love for the purc and legitimute in music need not be told. His work for art speaks for itself all over this couutry. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE APOLLO CLUB, The annual business meeting of the Club oc- curred on Monday evening last, to hear the re- ports of the officers of the season just closed and to elect officers for the ensuing year. The aduress of Vice-President Hamilton, thanking the gentlemen of the Club for the interest man- ifested in the success of the season just closed, their untiring exertions to execute the demands of all oceasions, and to thé ladies of the auxilia- ry and festival chorus for their invaluable as- sistance at the several concerts in which they participated, was received by the Club with un- qualified cnthusiasm. The reports of the Sec- reary, Treasurer, Librarian, Musical Director, Musie and Social Commitiees were in detail the most complete of any ever cutered upon the records of the<Club, showing fully thedegreeof successattained during the recent eventful sea- son and the basis formed for the future work of the Club. < The Committee sppointed to nominate candi- dates for the ofticial positions n the Club (Mr. Edwin Brown, Chairinan) reported the names of the following gentlemen for the cousidera- tion of the Club:_J. S. Hamilton, President; J. Van Inwagen, Vice-President; E. G. Newell, Secretary; Willlum Cox, Treasurer; Philo A. Ols, Librarian; R._ 8. Clark, on_the Board of Management; F. 8. Pond, on the Board of Managemeut; William L. '!'omlini, Musical Di- rector. The nominatious were 8o far satisfac- tory that the cutire Board was umanimously elected. Motion was made by Mr. Williams, that Mr. Stouz, the attorney of the Club, sbould b re- uested to attend to the fucorporation of the lub. A motion was made by Mr. Van Inwagen that the cxcursion contemplated by the Club last season compiimeuntary to the ladies of the auxiliary chorus, and which wasdelerred for the time, bé reconsidered, thal satisiactory arrange- ments be made for the entertainment of the Club with the proprietors of the Hyde Park House, and that Monday cvenivg next be se- lected a8 the time for the excursion. Carried and Mr. Van Inwagen appointed Chsirman of cominittee to make necessary arrangements. Mr. 0. 8. Westcott moved that usa compli- ment to Mr. Newell the Secretary of the Club present him with §200 from the treasury of the soviety. Carried. Mr. Foote moved that the Club vote to Mr. Frank T, Baird,. the piamst of the society, $100, asa complhnent. Carried, A motion was made by Mr. Westcott that the Club give an exira concert for the benefit of the sullerers by the recent fire at St. Joan. Car- ried. On motion the Club adjcurned uniil the first Mondsay in September nexr, E. G. NEWELL, Secretary. ST. LOUIS AND WAGNER. St. Lounis has at lust a scnsation. Some musician of that city has received a letter from his brother, 4 musicinn somewhere in Germany, tothe cffect that Richard Wagner is coming over to this couutry mext scason. Thereupon the St. Louls Repubiican stirs about to secure an orchestra for him, and in the course of its operations makes the fullowing startling state- wents: Dr. Bernays expr bring at lenst a portio the opinfon that he will of an orchestra with him, for " the reason that at leaat two fm- portant instraments cannot be played - by any of our American musiciang in o way that would be satisfactory to Wagner's faatidious ear. These are the oboe” and bassoon, neither of ‘which, strance t8 suy, are often found in Americun orchestras, They are both difficntt instraments-to ploy, and the necessiies of the score are usually ImeL in vnr orchestrur by the substitution of some similar mstroments, the musical caltivation in this country nol_bein such as2 rale as to make this change in_instruments apoarent. The. oboe or houtboy is b reed instrument ehaped like a clorionet, bat flat and about a foot longer, for which the viola Is generally made to do duty with us, The bassoon i also a wind reed ingtrument of wopd, and is the proper bass for the oboe and the clarimet: the vioioncello substinted for 1t zenerally. It 13 stated that these instruinents have never been used more than two or threéd times in orciesiral parformances in St. Louis, the performances of Mozart's requiem not loug ago, under the direction of Prof. Poppen, und a reries of operaiic performances & few yeurs ago, being the only occasion which can be réinem- bered. It is almost certain, thereford, not ouly performers on theee instruments, but even the in- struments themsclves being difticult to find in this country, that Wagner wi:l bring witl him two ovoe players and two bavsoon players, For the rest it woiild not seein necessary for |.§ to be at the ex- pense of bringing a full” orche: for we have in the Tiomns orchestra, In Befzman's orcheatra, aud iu the excellent orchestra at Chicago, which recently attracted vo mnuch attention at Quincy. quite a8 good waterial as can be found on the other gide There I8 no orchestra in St. Louis which can be ranked with those named, but there are a number of violln performers of the very firet grade. Of course there is no orchestra in St. Louls that can rank with anything snywhere, but the Republican’ ne<d not despair ou that account. We can help them out. We can supply them ‘with oboes and bassoons. Better than that, we havea bass clarinet we can eend them if Balatka will glye bonds to let it alone. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mr. 8. G. Pratt, who is now fu London, has found Lisway into the Athenaum. He scems to have commenced the Grudus ad Parnassum. Prot. J. J. Hattstaedt, of the Chicago Musical College, is conducting a very successful Insti- tute at Lewiston, the county-seat of Fulton County, Ill. i The late cholr of the Plymouth Congregation- al Church will sing for the last titne at the church this evening—a sort of swan song in the agonics of dissolution. 1 Mr. Jerome Hopkins' expeeted. coneerts in thl5 city have been postponed owing to the fact that he bas retired from the world to write an opera to be catled *“Dumb. Love.” Good-bye Jerome. Don’t hurry about coming back. Mr. Eddy gave his cighteentn organ recital gcs&erdsy noon to a small audience, which may ¢ due to the beat and three sonatas,~Fiok's in E flat, Bac’s in C,and Ritter's in'A major. Mafrs. llcrshcy and Mr. D’Ailly, a very promising low bantone, were the vocalista. B Mr. O. BlacKman is re-elected to his position as Suverintendent of Music in the public schools of the city, and duriug_his vacation will make a visit _to his parents in Columbus, N. Y. Mr. M. L. Wheeler takes charge of Mr. Blackman's choir at the Union Park Church in his absence. Mr. Frank G: Rohrer, the organist, who has ‘been absent from the c:lf]y during the past two yeare, has returned, and will resume his pro- cssionnl duties in this city as orzanist at the Jesuit Church, on the West Side, commencing lo-&i.ay. His choir will perform Weber's Mass n G. T Mrs. Clara D, Stacy, who sang at the com mencement exercises at. Beloit last week, met with a very enthusiastic success and handsome reception. Her numbers were Reinecke's great Miriam aria. two songs by Cowen and Roecicl, and_the Haydn canzonette, * My Mother Bids Me Bind My Halr.” “Miss Lizzic Foresman, the well-known con- tralto. and late of the Plymouth' Church choir, has been appointed teacher of vocal music at the Lake Forest University for the ensuin; Echool year. The appointment i o deserve compliment to an excellent musician and a mat- ter for cungratulation to the friends of the in- stitution, Mr, Liebling will teach instrumental music. Thus equipped, the University ought to take o high musical position. Mr. C. O. Lundberg, of Chicago, who is known i private musieal circles as a composer of sev- eral tasty musical compositions, has lately com- posed a solo for baritone, “The Knight Tem- plar,” dedicated to the Masonic fraternity, of which he is a member. This composition, which is to sume extent an kmitation of 's oris, in “Ihe Marringe of Figaro,” by Mozart, fs, both in words and melody, 3 very happy one, and s undoubtedly destined to bevome populer and o weleome numberon our concert pro- grammes, Mr. L.s intention s to vublish his composition himself, by taking up a subserip- tion for the purpose amougst his Masonic brethren. The members of the Apollo Club will hold a reunion on Monday evening, the 24, at the Hvde Park Hotel. A special train will leave the 1Ili- wois Ceatral Railroad depot at 7:30 p. ., stoppiug ut Van Burcn street, Weldon, Twenty- sccond street, Twenty-seventh street, Thirty- first street, Fairview, Oakland, Forty-third strect, and Kenwood, and returning about'12 o'cdock p. m. The mewbers of the ** Ludies’ Chorus ' are privilezed to bring their own es- corts. v As hass been already telegraphed to Tnm TRIBUNE, Miss Julia Rive, the planist, was mar- ried_to Mr. Frank H. King, at Milwaukee, on the 28th. Mr. and Mra. King have come to Chi- capo, their future home, and taken rooms at the Clifton House. It will bu a matter of Intercst to Mrs. King's many friends and admirers, and. also a matter of national pride, that this excel- lent artist bas received a flattering offer from M. Pasdeioup, the Paris conductor, for a series of councerts in that city. MUSICAL NOTES. Mme. Titicus’ reappearance this season is doubted. Mme. Pauline Lucea has now positively re- iired from the stage. Anpa Meblig is now in London playing in Henchel’s morning concests. Mlle. Atmee suled for Europe last week, and will return hiere in September. It jwstated that Botesinl has-been named con- ductor of the San Carlo of Naples. Henri Vieuxtemps, the celebrated violinist and composer, hus had a stroke of paralysis. Herr Rublnstein has received the cross of the Legion of Honor from President MacMahon. Miss Anna Drasdil leaves for Europe on the 5th of July, to be absent until the ead of Octo- ber. Ilandel’s “Messiah*’ will be performed in July, with Adelina Patti and Mlle. Albani among tue singers. The friends of Waener arg contemplating the presentation of a testimonial. to the father of the music of the future. Mr. J. (3raff, the tenor, has just returned fromn Europe to fulfill an engagement with the Kel- foggg English Opera Cowpauy. Heory Cramer, well Lnown as a writer of fashionuble drawing-room music for the piano, died at Frankfort-ou-Main, un the 30th ult., at the age of 59, The denth is announced from Vienna of Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel; the distinguished compiler of the great thematic catalogue of the works of Mozart. Dr. Kochel was 77 yearsof |- age. Mlle. Ilma @i Mureka (at preseant Mrs, Hill) willarrive in New York on Sept. 15, aiter an absence of several years. Don Di di Vivo expects to Le her manager. An operitic season ut the Academy is probable in October. Rubinstein carries back with hiin from En- | eland to his bowe at Peterhof, near St. Peters- burez, $40,000 to $45.000 net profits, besides & handsome gift of diawond studs and two mag- nificent vases from the Queen of England. tAlboni is_53: Bishop, 63; Ole Bull, 67; Von Bulow, 47; Jules Benedict, 72; Jeuny Lind, 56; Gounod, 59; Paunliue Luces, 87; Nilsson, 34: Offenbach, 533 Sims Reeves, 55; Scherder, 121 Titiens, 433 zuer, 64; Wienlawski, 42; and Vieuxtemps, C. D. Tess arrived in New York City Saturday mornitg from his Califeruia tour. which made money for bim, though not for Joln McCul- loughi. He goes to Europeon the 3)th iu search of operatic artists to support Mics Emily Mcl- ville, Lis star for the coming scasun. Carl Rosa has for next season in England the following operas in contemplation: * Ivanhoe,” Macfarren’s “ Robin Hood ** (with Miss Gavlord as Maid Marian), Weber's *Oberon,” Doni- zettl’s ““Luvia 7 (for Mme. Blanche Cole), and Nicotai's * Merry Wives of Windsor.” TOE CIRCTS. BARNUM'S SHOW, P. T. Bernum’s show—ihe only one with which Le has connection—will occupy the Iake front to-morrow. The tonr in which it is now engaced has been successful. From tie time of leaying the Hippodromo Building iu New Yorlk to the recent cxinbition fu the Town of Niles, Mich., favorable noties has'been_extend- ed to the managers by press and public. In some towns three performances were found necessary for the accommuodation of the public. The musenm and menagerie departments are highly spoken of, and ure said to contain attrac- ttoms mever before scem with a traveling circus. In the ring department the ost marvelous things will Lq the perform- ance of a number of trained stallion: atandem tean driven by Miss Jenuie Louise Hengler, @ fine horsewoman; riding by Charles Fish, Marthius Lowande, and_Miss Jeanie Wat- €on; the Leotand brothers; Satsuma and * All Rizht"; Migcoo, Ben Alagiuley, and Ted Al- monte, the clowns; and the automatic German band. Tic procession will on Monday take the Tollowing route, provided the _weather will per- mt: Up Randolph street to Halsted, to Madi- son, to State, to Twenty-second, to. Michizan avenue, to Twelfth strect, to Wabash avenue, to l udolph street and lllnce of starting. The o Burnum’s show coutaius many living enriosities from the New American M- seum of New York City. Among them aro'the 718 pounds of womanbood, the $100,000 jamily of German dwarfs, an Australian bushman, & wild boy, Circassian and_Albivo. At 10 o'clock in the morninz, and after each of the circus performances, entertainments arc given by a combination of twenty variety actors. annex is under the management of the Bunnell brothers, and is u scparate exhibition. —m— 2 CLARABEL. The sanset’s gailflun glimmer ripples on the moss- grown wall, And deeper-hued, and darker-bued, the sombre shadows full, ‘Whilst the day gloams, memory roams to days that once were glad, Ere came the night of sorrow's blight, that made ‘my eonl 80 aad, What time I loved, and was loved by, a maiden more divine Than ever 8ings or sighs of such as thine. love, 'mongst maidens oft, v:l::lfls; melancholy musing, T reem to hear the Of her wnose &teps, once fairy-hight, for evermore have fled: And, in my loneliness of thonght, I wonld that she might come, Whose lips. alasare now like lips of marble—ever duiab, Once her feet just kissed the daisfes that nod upon the hilly, o And, merry onice, her voice was Jike the babble of the rills, But the cowslips and the dalsics nomore ahall bend h : As when my bonnie Clarabel went gayly tripping 53 The primroses are paler now-—the lilies ' their bloom, Contrasting with my joyless mood, intchsify the om, Tn ull the carih is naught of mirtb or gladuess to mine car: My soul i¢ stlent, dumb, and dead, and all my hife iswere, Swaet Clarabel was torn from me by Angels § Rt tight, w6 by Azeln 1n As she was juvelier than they who came from realms of izht: Aud g0 they Lound her captive, and boré her away from me To silent sirands of a silent land, o'er & silent sea. Upon the hills the bella in solewn tones say, Clara: Whilst Angel . from that silent Jand, retarn an echoed woell— Clarapel! W. H. SiNcLam. —————— THE CHRISTIAN CONVERT. 1 wish to be a living sizn Of Christian love and trust; And wita God’s help 1 now resign All earthly, worlaly Just. Tl conrecrate mysell anew, Andpray with ceaseless might, That God 'will my proud heart subdne, And teach me what Is rigat. No more I'll pass the livclong day “In idieness and wrong: Bat, with a beart 0 glad and froe, Tl praiee my God fn song.: All sinfol haants I now will fhun— T'll scek the Honse of Prayer, And, when the evening shadows fall, They'll find me kneeling there. From sin I'll pray to win my friends, And lead them on to rizht, To know the Peace that's found by faith In Him who gives us light. . Thus, hand in hand with thoee I love, ¢ I'd leave the wofu] past, And seek to win and wear the crowa ‘With saints in Heaven at last. (% Caicaso, Jene 16, 1877 TheT GOSSIP FOR LADIES. ‘A Dynasty of Cooks===A Pair in the Surf. The Troubles of Fry and Boil-—‘‘Lord, It's Dad!” The Return of the Slipper---English- women’s Want of *¢Style.” AFTER THE BALL. How lonely to-night, and how cheerless, Seems the quiet of my ** bachelor's hall,” ‘When men'ry revertd to the fair one 1 met yester-eve at the ball; I catch even now the sweet frugrance Of the roses that clung in her hair. The strains of fhat waltz, how they haunt me; And the thought of her smile is despair. 1 wonder to-night if she’s thinking E'en a4 T am now thinking of her; If u thought of Inst night snd its pleasures For a moment her calin pulses utir. But whata presamptitous fancy "lo Imagine.that, even by chance, She would aeign to remewmber her partner 0f a few flecting hours of the dance. But for me, now, the mem'ry’s grown deeper. Shall I meet her againy When and where? Shall 1 breathe bat once more the soft fragrance Of roses that cling in her hair? Skall we mingle again in the elitter And the raptare of music and light? Shalt we——Pshaw! T've becn dreaming, andfallen In love, T believe, at first sight. Cuicavo, June 27. OwEN M. WiLsox. A DYNASTY OF COOKS. Aopletuns’ Journal. Not long ago an interregnum of a disastrous and unholy charaster rook place within the fam- ily of a certain literary gentieman of New York. | From week to week he kept account of the rapid " changes in down-staira governmnent, and called his document when finished, * Culinary Dynasty of the House of Brown, from the Reizn of ' Bridwet the Pure down to the Present Mon- ‘arch.” Similarly embellished by incidental rhetorical graces, Mr. Brown’s list read some- ! thing aiter the followiag manner: Bridact I, surnamed the Pure. Began to reign December, 1867 abdicated October, 1576, because contemplating a iife of seclusion—and trimony. Her reign was marked by great executive wisdom, clemency, ani cconoiny, and its cessation caused the most siocere regret. Suceeeded IY Bridget 11., = sovereign of considerable ad- miuistrative power, but cursed with 2 most ims- ! cible disposition. Insulted her Prime Minister i (Mrs. Brown), when justly rebuked by that dig- nitacy for her reckless consumption of butter. . L'epuler opinion (Mr. Brown) being decidudly avainst her, she abdicated, November, 1376, in favor of Katharive, surnamed the ¥lirt, on account of the multiplicity of her suitors. A widdy, good- natured Queen, but wholiy unfitted for her ex- alted position. Deposed November, 1873, and suceeeded by egency of three days, during which Jane, a valued chamber-naid, wielded with much ability the culinary sceptre. Alter which the kitchew was descended into by Bridget Ll a sosereiga, whose character pre- vious to accession had beeo represented as ainless, but who early gave sizns of the most voltiwg intemperance. Drven from the - kitchen by an indignaut pecple (Mr. Brown) after an alcoliolic reign of only two days, and suece by Mary Ellen, satirically surnamed the Skeleton, on account of her Unnatoral stoutness. Cele- brated for ber intense lazivess. Deposed De- cember, 1576, and succeeded by Marzaret, popilarly known as the Flend. Threatened to kill her Prime Minister tivo hours after coronation. On the followving day refused to abdicate. Kesisted ¢ven the demands of the army (2 policemas), who Baaainously ludorsed the policy of the Prime Minister. Imorisote: for high treason Decewver, i576. £nd unknown. Suceeeded by Bridget I'V., surnamed the Lunatie. Her ad- munsst bictly distnetisited by an at- teinpt to subvers the usual 1acibods of dining throughodt her realm; caueing soup to be servedufter flsh, un before dither. Banish- wd aiter o turbulent veign of twelve Loars, and suceeeded by / Aun, known as the Spoiler [ . « Andso brouzh a terrible list of wroug and out- e chronicle cuntinues, ut last_ending in the month of February, 1877, with the following hnEm' item: . Bridget XV., the reigninz govereicm, sur- vamed the Culinary Antouine. "Mudest of de- weauor, geutle in speech, wise and economical io her rule. Betovea by Minister and prople. A slight difficulty withi France (the children’s foreign nurse), which oceurred in the early part of mer renzn, has pow been umicably settled. “The realm i3 at present in a most flourisking “condition, and the refrigerator Las never Leen so prosperously administered. Long live Bridget X V.1 IN THE SURF. Cape Muy Correspodence New Fork Times. To-day 1 saw a young man snd woman come tinudly out of the hathinz-hoases to go into the surf. Sie was slender, graceful, and fair; he " was strong-limbed and rather stout. Evidently they had only been a short time warried. This was 50 apparent that they were watched with quore thay ordinary interest by the idlers on the beach. waiutily she picked ber way over the sands to thic cdge of the sea; timidly, and with the winning grace and geiitlencss of a young fawn, she clung to the arm that was to proteet her in health aod in sickness, upon the deep as well as upon the lund. He scemed to fecl the full weirht of the respoasibility he had assumed, and with tender “care and words of encournzement he - guided ber towards the waves. At length they Stood upon the edge; the indashing surf reach- flannel bathing suit was dry and unspotted, an "the bright red trimmings caught and threw back the clear raysof the summer sun. So they stood for a moment; she with her hand Testing confidingly in his, helaoking bravely in- 10 her upturned and half-frightencd face, and Aurging ber to trust to his streagth and with him to plunge into the dashing +whirlpool that lay beiore them. So striking was the picture that one conld easily finagine they had just turned {rom the altar, wnd were about to throw them- selves into that other far more dangerous, that treucherous whirlpool, that men call life. Of course, the man’s persistence overcame the woman’s fear, and they dashed into the surf to- gether. Taen all at onve the picture ehanzed. Ihey parted company, aud he, * braving ail and” fearing naught,” rushed forward into the wayes. Fora mwoment he rode’ them manfully, und his lttle partner, standing knee-deep in the bright water, lvoked upen hini with adwiration, not unmixed with a satisfaction that comes of assured possession, But, as has becn the case with strougermen, hisglory was short-lived. A Dillow bigher and inoré powerful than any that nad gone before—whut Is known here as ““a Cape May cripple "—dashed fall against him; he strueted, lost his balance, was lifted off his fect, aud, splashing, dashing, throwing his arms und lezs sbout him wildly and help- lessly, be was thrown sprawling st the feet” of _the little Iady whoma a moment belore he had been patronizingly urging To put_her frustinhim and fear a0thing. * So piide must cver bave a tell.? The young woman was equal to theoccasion; what American girlisuot! The receding wave was about to varry the venturesume young gentleman back into the sea in which heprofesscd to be so much at home; he was still s“;mwlinz— it is the only word—and catebing #ildly at_ifie sands, strug- gling to rczain his feet, when ehe, stouping dow, quletly but quickly caught his bathing- shirt irmly in both her hands and beld him fast tiil the wave had zone to his feet, and she, womanlike, when be was no longer in aavger, wloried in bis downfall, and said, with a pretty toss of her dark brown curls, “There, I told vou so; what did you want to £0 out so {ar for, foolish fetlow.” ¥ —— FRY---BOIL. Bostan Globe: The town of Belchertown was highly excited, last week, over an almost trag- ieal wedding of Amhberst parties, who spell their names Fry and Boil. The girl’s father didn't want her to marry the man, and so the latter took her to the place where her sister was em- vloyed till the wedding could pe arranged. The sister, however, was also opposed to the 'match, being attacked by the grecn-eyed monster, be- cause the same fellow had previously madeTove to her, and 80 she Jocked the bride expectant Iuto her roum. After a night’s incarceration, she jumped from the window and jomed her lover at the hotel. The clerk of the house drove off furiously for a clergyman, and the Methodist tor was just beginning the ceremony when e sister appeared at the windaw to forbid the bans. The certificate was all right, bowever, and the minister concluded to go on, but in his 1axa P, Bouneuz. | excitement he resd most of the baptismal serv- fce, bezinning, "Whu::u. all men are barn in < almost, to their Jcct, but s:dll her pretty gray. back. Then he jumped* sin,” and repeated the names of the couple he last marrfed. The elerk held the door so that the sizter couldn’t come Un Sunday the girl’s father came to the church-dvor and called the minister from his Sunday-school dlass to demand of him why he married his danehter, at the sarhe time admitting her lezal age. Mcan- while the groom had lost his place at Amberst, and left for parts unknowa to the griel of his creditors. A PATERNAL ESCAPADE. Etmira Adeertiser. A laughable incident occurred at Perry re- cently,, which caused much sport, and the cir-. cumstsnces of which are as follows: An old gentlerman who bad two handsome daughters was so cautious of his charge that he would not permit them to keep the company of young men. However, they adopted the following ex- edicnt to enjoy the company of thefr overs: After the: old man had retired to rest the girls would hang o sheet out of the second-story window, and Jim and Charley would seize hold of it, and, with the assistauce of the girls, would thus gain cntrance. It s0 happened last Suncsy eveuing tae girls hung out the sheet ladder too early, for the old i, by some ill wind, was scidentally out of doors, and, happening to come around the corner of the house and sg}'mg the sheet dangling from the window cottid Dot conjecture the meaning of its being there. So he cauuht told and ¢ndeavored to bring it down. Tha irls above, supposing it to be the boys. beau To hoist, and did_not discover the mistake until the old mun’s bald head was level with the sil) when oue of them exclaimed, * Lord, it's dad! and let o her hold, which frightened ber sister and she et go the sheet, and down came the ol man on the stone walk, breaking his wrist and tearing his unmentionables. His cries brought out the householl and several ucighbors, and they removed him into the house. He is now busy cogitating whether to let the girls have their beaux in the parlor or to sue the young men for damawes. The boys have uot™ been around to offer uuy sympathy and probably won't until the old gentlemun feels casier. THE RETURN OF TIE SLIPPER. New York Gruhic. Wehailwith pleasure the sdvent of the ladies’ slipper. It has long been In retiremeut. 1t adds a new attraction to the street. TheFrench bottine may now take a rest. Nearly a genera tion has passed whose only street-view of tho feminine ankle has been through leather. At lost the stocking of our grandmother is reveal- ed. The clean, white hose i3 o power in the lund. lts infiuence is sudden, mysterivus, sub- tle, and magrnetic, It concentrutes all eyesas toafocus on itself It atnuses and interests the lounger. It jiffurds to the burried man of business 3 momenfary respite. It redoubles the liubilities of the darcless to be run over. Tt is not without a_chirm for she aged breast. No portion of a lady’s| appure! is more eiective. The showy articie] if at all symmetrical, balf nsatcs for 4 plain face. It i3 a make t in the dowdr ot feminine beauty of which women for long ypars have been rovbed. For the boot i3 expunsfve. A Lttle worn, and it be- comes wisshapen|and ugly. We welcome the slipper. Lomg may it reigo. The simpler tho style the better. ENGLISH WANT OT “STYLE.™ ¢ Jennie June,” [in a letter from London to the Baltimore Américan, says: * The moment a new cut or style dppears In any city, town, or viilage in America,every woman rushes for it, and before night Has it in a new fabric or made over out of an olfi one. But Englishwomen, appurently, cever | make over,’ except for the chitdren. ~The cobsequence is, that wisle tas aew Ideas in form fvhich France bas developed are copied in everfy part of the United States, inciudivg the bLigft “tailor cut’ on the shoul- ders, and the cldse jacket, very long inthe to the form, the flat tunic, enourh to ailow full- , this elegance of style is the nd, the majority still wearing the straiglt, shortdwaisted basques and j : shor ;5 blier overskires, and bamicy sleeves, lovse at fue wrists. The detail is the same in other relipe.ts—the colors are more crude and less harfionious; a zreat deal of com- men_purple i3 whrn, and there is a general tloridness of .cowplegion aud abundance and *blowsiness * of Uright-colored hair, which de- tracts from eleganjc In refined American exes.’ ASSORTED KISSES. * | F. . Drowcn in Aspletons'. A humorius frichid of ours used to be particne Iarly enthusiastic dn the classic subject ol os culation. e deflared that there were few “gefeneas” so Qiffikult of acquisition. ¢ Peo- ple,” said ke, ** will kiss; yet uot vne in a hun- dred Enows how |o extract Uliss from love lips any more thasf ke knows how to make dia- mods from charedal.” - e used to velate bis experieuce of 4 zohd-night’s kiss, imprinted on the lips of his ingfiorata_after having eseorted her to and from a | New England forfeit party, where tie poor girl, being the belle of the evening, had been [sissed, and, as he expressed himself, "slobbcrqx over by all and sundry.” exception in Eny He declared that iy that one chaste salute he could discriminato Foine distinct znd separate flavors,” pam “onions, tebacce, pepper- mint, gin, lurcrlecr, brandy, checkerberry, musk, sad camphof.” MOTHER-IN-LAW. oit Free Press. t, excited crowd on Michigan avenue yesterday 2| Why, adetermined widow returned frum thi market to find that her daushter had put oo her Sunday clothes, been with her lover to | clergyman’s, and that the two bad been profounced man and wife. The widow rushed ovef to the house where they were stopping, chadud the sou-in-law up-siairs, seizcd him by the collar and dragzed hitn to an open window, and 4s ghe danrled him over an awning she called bot to the crowd below: “Staud clear thered-want tor knock that amp- post over with him["” That was all. CHEY DO IT. * said crafty Philip, maidens kissed would be, hts Goft they sweetl ds lu accedts free™ HOW ““Enew you e'er| **That when Then with accel Lisp thelr woj Back the answde come, & golden Mine of w;:éb in every word: hsel gently murmured, Philip, tko I've heard.” —New York Sux. FE;‘!XIJ INE NOTES. Of =11 the varivus| methods proposed for the reduction of pushg1 none is 80 practical as this —Get married! A woman was ol!!l:rcd 2 thousand dollars if she would remain sflent for two hours. At the end of fifteen minufes she asked, ‘“‘Isn’t tho time nearly up?” Any lady can pres| her old bonuet over Into the new summer styge by placing it on a pave- ment block and Igttibg a loaded Iee-wagon back over it lengthwise., 1t is understood tat a yoang married couple of this city are thinking of naming their first born * Niesfes,” bepause the little chap wants revictualing so ofted. — Worcester £'ress. Arbiter Elfi(,’:m iarum. — Housemaid —“0 please, 'm, coudd I go out this evening! 'eause cook nex’ door’s zot{a *lang’age o’ lowers Bee,” and she:rcquehbem ie to be one o’ the judges |’ —Punc ! “Young men of tle middle ranks are getting £0 shy and bard to cqtch that parents will have to begin to offer thrqmos aloug with their mar- |7 says the Taroer's Falls b ] [ g & s £ £ S & £ A colored wedding party gatherad at Hartford, Conu., recently, ard waited lgng for the bride- m. “:\ Doih.-en}lzx |hfimuly hund him about ke the cars. ‘he times is g0 hard,” by said, “1 had to give {¢ up.” it > A gertleman entered a bachelor’s room, and, looking around, saifi: “Very snugz.” * Yes,” ;’mnwl‘red the ubiwhl' lu;.’d "l;.‘le;lwrhwo[ snug. ut 1 subpose abetter half [ mizh have ludmm:rq ters.? SR The strawberry-shorteake festival held by onr church societies infzht be rendered more inter- esting and attractive by aonouncip that the younz man who flods the strawberry In his Ppiece of cake will be|entitled to z kiss from tho vr;t_fiesl. girl in'the Joom, or something of that 01 Scene at the seaside: Youth with. sad, love struck air—* O wilt thou not be mine—iny own dear Uride? 1 love ybu deeply, fondly, passion- ately, wildiy! I ot live without you! Say, oh, “say thou wilt mine P’ den, with downcast eyes—: Adolphus, Is there anything the matter with my dress? 1 eaw the Smith girls fust now look a4 me curiously. Does m bair set all right " Adolphus discontinues bi love-making.—.ifex . % A lttle gir), who has been importunate for a baby companion, came down to breakfast the other morning. withl a self-satisfied and im- portaut air. ‘Now," said she to her mother, 41 gruesswe'll have ouepretty soon.” “Have what 1" asked the mother, 2 by,”” promptly replied the young innceent. prayed to Tast t to send us 3 but, of alithines, not 1o se; ad & red-baired| one, for we~ all hate red bair.” Breakfast was resuwed: amidst n pro- {found and salemn dee, N. Bo~The et 1s not yet mwred:‘r 7 L - | —