Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1878, Page 10

10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 7, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES - THE STAGE. . TIHE DRAMA. WITH THE CLOSE OF THE WEEI 3ust past there was a pretty general packing up of theatrical baggare, aud'a dusting out of very dusty theatres. **Closed for repairs » will be the shingle huvg out over the door of the Adelphi after Di Murska hes warbled Ler uative woud notes wild. Gone is the pious Unc'e Tom, the angelic Kva, tle mischievous Topsy, the Leroic George, and the entire band of singers whose sweet vofces have nizht after nizht and diay after day Wwafted the little aogel up to the gates ajar. They are gonme, after so - extraordinary run of sIx wecks,~hut Mr. Gotthold threstens another tnvasion by aud by. Meanwhile McVicker's Theatre $s closed, and the manager is fishing tor novelties in Eusstern ponds. The wondrous Miagets, Loo, have departed; so there isnothing Jelt in this quarter but the Strasburz Clock. The Unton Square Company at Hooley's, and John Alien's Varieties at the New Chicago, will have it all their own way for 8 time. In view of the present hot weather, the theatre-goiug lass generally will be abucdantly eupplied by these two organfzations. They are am- ply suflicient for the emerzency. The Union Square Comoany bave played the “ Celebrated Case ™ two weeks with good finan- cial results, and they proposo to follow it up with Cazauraw’s adsptation of Sardou's 4 Agpes,” which in San Francisco drew better houses, it s said, than any other picce in their repertoive. A sketch of the play will be found el h.\lr.‘ Allen’s enterprise at the New Chicago bux dourished from the tart, aud bas been the means of restoriug the prestige of that theatre, ich it had to some extent lost throush un- skillful handling. . For the first time in a very long while the auditorium has been crowded to the door cvery cvening, and by a class of people considerably more retined than is iu the habit of patronizing varie- 1y. The performances bave been of a very di- versified character, and marked by sprightliness aud wmirth. The new leader, Mr. Jobn ™ Navont, is a gentieman of recognized ability and fing musical accomplishnients, and Le has succeeded iy retting together a good orchestra, which, the first evening, has veen doing good The ouly. dramtic cvent of the present week will be the production of Sordow's * Agnes” by the Union Souare Company. The reader will have a furetaste of the play from the fol- lowing sumwary of the stors, whicl sy bo “‘THE LAW AND THE LADY.” ‘Tl:e Baroa Kaullien was Minister of Police— of ot, Pelice—to bis Imperial Majesty Franz of Austria. He was a middie-aged mza of quiet, reserved mantiers, of generous impulses, a deep kuowledoe of bumau nsture, snd a wide acquaintance with the world; and a little cyn- ical, of course, in consequence of thut knowl- P His Imperial Majesty scat. im to jail, =ud 3l Vienna was excited about tho affair. Cuurt circies declared there wus **a woman fn the They were right in their statement, ~wrongin the seuse they made it. Tns Baron Kanilien was seut to juil for sending a sane wto o luvstic asplum to please that sanc an's wife. Of course, his motives were impugoed on aull sides, and peoble shook their heads and sadd they always expected that the Toeplitz was **po better thau she 0 be.” \As the Countess de Toeplitz sud r husbund had been prowinent leaders of ifon. the supposed lapse of her Jadyship and mearceration of her husbaud in that luuatic i want the rounds of the Continental and a eccret investization was made. The foilowing facts came out: Apnes de Toep- Iitz by un accident discovered that bier husband 1< in love with a little danseuse named Stella. to know the extent of their she went in disguise to the ng-room of the danscuse at the opera. There, "unseen, she overheard ber bushand prowise to run awzy from her with this woman, Iu her jealonsy aud fear the poor woman catled wu Buran Kaulliew, told him her husband was about to rus away from ber at 3 in the morning, asked 1f e could not be prevented from . The sympathiziog Minister of Police il not see how. He could vot arrest. 2 man ¥ of no crime, he The wife admitted Ler hushand was 4 exemplary person aside trom s madness aboul this” dunscuse. B * Mad! That's LA N1 ¢ asylum tiil this 3 ove and tili he recove: > The Miuister ol Police kept his Stephen, Count de Toephtz, to Bu the Count ef~ pe. He attributed the outrage, as it, ger rid im i order that bis wite mizit be at liberty hotor hin, The plain fact that the Baron de Kaullien had imprisoved a sane mau in an usylum was uudeniable: and s haperial Maj~ sent him to jal. When, however, the 1rue mouves of the act were made apparent, he was reicased 2nd restored to his pisce. The Count de Touplitz, secing it was to bis ownwnis- inct, and not 10 his wife's, that he owed his raiion, becsme reconciled to ber; and v loved her ail the Yetier for the very ined of, 061t went to prove Low probah! et he compl loth she was to lose bim. On this Austrian Canze Ce'sbre Sardou buflt the play of “ Awnes.” which he wrote for Miss Azncs Fthel, who ®ith {is production success- fully iunugurated the Union Sguare_Thbeatre. Torthis pluy Sardou churged Miss Fthel the sum of $10,000. It was worthit to ber, how- ©) fur, alter ruoning (he vlay 110 nights in Kew York, she played it iu Buffalo, and, by her jAsture fu it of 8 true, loving wifc, she won a true, loving husband for Derselt o Mr. Troey, 1ho well-nuwn pnaire of (nat ‘whom she has since been ding in” Parls, freed from the necessity of bistrionic tofl. Mr. Cazauvan’s version of this alay will be presented at Hooley’s Theatre Lo-morrow even- by pernission of Miss Ethel, with a cast ing Miss Sura Jowett us the dynes, Mr. the Count Stephen, Mr. Parselle as ster of Police, and Miss Roberts Nor- the - fascinaling litiie dauseuse. The aracters 1o the play will be personated Pelk, Mr. Lemosne, Mr. 11 Crisp, Linda Dietz, Miss Hat- orne, ah Corncll. This will be t production of this picce n Chicazo. fon will open in et McVicker's Thesire on the 19th of August. 't Salsbory Troubadours will b in town . They closed an engagument at Dewver tust might. Tuis Jitte party, it will be remembered, was orranized o Chiczgo, and it since then, traveled some 24,00 miles, playing sucvessful engagements At varions pwints on the planet. Nate Suibury, who was the originator of the tronps, and its master spirie Uirough all its wandetings, is to procesd to Earope ta look ant for something fresh for the nexy season. Johnnie Webster and his wife (Nediie Mctienry) will remain in Chicago, where they Lelong. ly the Troubabours return to L first sturting-point with weli-filled purses sed well-carned laurels. At the New Chicago Thestre there will be nn entire chiunge of programme for tomdrrow evening, and several new performers will be in- will give a Dutch lie Allen sisters will appear in two <; Charles Dinwond in song and dance; winle "2t Rouney will ¢nact his favorite charac- ter, * icldoon, the Solid Man,” and sing some fresl ditties. Co ous among the other features of the cumbination are Harry G. Rich- wondin 2 uew sketch entitied *Epitaphs,” which will introduce Jokn Hart end A. C. Moreland, Miss Nault, the vocalist, Blanche Corelll, Clittou and Fox, Victoria North, ete. Te cotertainment concludes with Pat Rooney’s new act, ** Paddy in a Fix.” GRECN-ROON GOSSIP. Naitson will return to the United States next ason under Grau’s management. Charles Reade las sent @ manuscript play to a Morris for ler consideration. # Victorien Sardou is satd to have nearly com- pleted 2 new play for the Boston Theatre. It is iutimated that Colville's Folly Troupe will snortly appesr at Wallacks Theaire. Mrs. J. G. Burnett will make a summer tour of the watering-places, and will give drawatic . eutertainuments there. Sarab Bernbardt, the Parlsian actress, who is calied thre Rachel of the day, is studving En- . it is reported, with a view to an Amcrican The L Joe Jeflerson's son-fu-law, Farjeon; the nov- elist, will o back to the grean fields of England in July, taking with him an American wife and baby. Mr. Alf Burnett, the well-known elocutionist, Dias ot hold of the phonograph, and proposes 1o zive exhibitiors in several of the Western Reserve counties. Itis said that John McCullough and J. K. Emmet are_amone the most generons givers of tuelr time and service in behalf of beneficiatres Tow on the stage. 1t s atleged in dramatic circles that Mr. I M. Field, manager of the Boston Museum, now in Londen, bas offered $1,500 to Miss Fanuy Duvenport for the riznt 10 produce Wills’ play ~¢ 4 Qlivia" on his staze. Itis sald that ebe paid 35,000 for its usc in the United States and Canada. Tt will be brought ont ifi” August by Shook & Palmer at the Union Squsre, with Miss Davenport in the titte role. Edwin Booth states that outside of his New York engagement at the Fifth- Avenue Theatre, e wili-only appear for a month or sodurlue the entire season. Rather delicate bealthis the main cause. Miss Mary Anderson hias been warmly received and catertained in England, not ouly by mem- beres of her profession, but by prominent clti- zens who have read and heard of her American success. Miss Marie Prescott is enzaged as_juvenile Indy st the Californiu Thentre, San Francisco, for a setison of ten mouths. She made her first appearance on any stage atthe Grand Opera- House, Cincinuatl, us Lady Macteth, Feb. 31, 1877, and sfuce then kas risenrapidly in ber pro- fession. Miss Genevieve Ward, the American actress, sailed on the 27th of June for New York from Euglana. _She will vegin her engagsment with Jarrett & Palmer, in New York, on Sept. 2, in “Jane Shore.” Before leaving Paris, thirteen maenificent dresses, which she has had made at Worth’s, were exhibited there for some days. These dresses are wtended for uew comedics In which she will appear. ‘Theatrieal bustness at Pompeli, which has Deen al 3 standstill since the eruption of Vesu- vius, it 70 A. D., sppears to bo looking up, Judg- inz from the followlne aunouncement of Signor Langini: “Aftera lapse of eighieen hundred Years the theatre of this clty will be reupencd with ‘La Figlia del Reginento,” 1 solicit a continusnce of the favor bestowed on my pre- decessor, Marcus Quintus Martius, and beg to assure the public that I shall make every effort to uqual the rare qualitics displayed during his manggement.” Mrs. Dion Pouclesult’s reappearance on the stage at the Olympic, London, hus been desery- cdly celebrated by the Enulish press. Hitherto she had always appeared on the bills as Agnes Robertson, which was her maiden name—and this even when playing with her distinguished nusband, But in now usiug ber wedlock name shic pays a deserved comuliment to him who hus 20 largely contributed by his pen to ber great- st successes. Among these were her roles in *The Cricket ou the Hearth,” ** Culleen Bawn,” “Arran-na-Pogue,” * Thy Slege of Lucknow,” and *The Phantom.” It is sald that st the private performauces at the Theatre Koyal, Munich, for the King exclu- sively, the following is the lonely ceremionial: At T'0'clock exactly the Ring, in a plain Dlack sult, and unattended, takes bis place in the mid- ale box opposite the stare. The house is brill- iantly lighted, but no one excent his Majesty is anywhere to_be scen in front. The King's appearance is the signal for the performance to commence. After each act the King retires, and the performance 5 resumed the instant. ke returps. The artists mosuy belong to the The- atre Royal, and, save in the case_of opers, the co-operation of others is seldom inyvoked. Bartley Campbell's new drama, “The Vigi- lautes,” was brought out lust week at tho Grand Opers-flouse, New York. The story is one of love, adveoture. and frontler rudeuess, and is not entirelv devoil of the interest with which an intellizent playwright may invest both dialozue aud action, even in this department. There is a bit of scenery surmestive of tho “Danites”; the author enerously acknowl- cdues his indebieducs: to the *“OQutcasts of Poker Flats.” aud it s evident that he has freely skirmishea among the red-handed ro- mantic literature of the duy. It was handsome- Iy sud artistically mounted by the manazement, and the vust Was In many respects excellent. ‘The critic of the Boston Adwert'ser says of Miss Atice Harrison’s assumption of the part of @abric! in * Evanzeline® at the Boston Museum Jast Monduy evening: ©Miss Aice Harrison, the Gabriel of the new assignment, is little, nimble, snd pretty. She is vivaclout also, de- termiued, zealous, and confident. Miss Har- risow’s singing s much like her acting, a trifle 100 loud,—Hher voice beins remarknbly laree and powerful for such a small body, and in its quality and munagement showing a native sweettiess and fluency which Lave been miuch wurred by hard usage and training ina bad school. Miss Harrison, we are bound to say, seemed wreatly to please her sudience and 1o grov in favor with thein from first to last,” Unususl preparation is belog made by Jarrett & Palmer for the production of * Unele Tom’s Cahin” In England. One company, consisting of sixty performers, will leave New York on the 8d of August: another, comprislns the same number, will start on the 17th of August. The first will open fn Manchester on the 19th. The second will oven in London at the Princ Roval Theatre in the afternoon aud the Royal Anquarfuin Theatre in the evening. The nezroes Lave heen selected with great care from a Jaree wusical constituency on Southern plantation: and some of the “soloists,” su-catled. ave s to be very ine. Our English cousivs, whiie astonished at tue invasion, will bave un’ oppor- tupity of bearine wild. weird, minor music, ac- companied by the peculiar calesthenics of an excitable race, such as they probbly never heard before. - Jobn Moore, the veteran stage-munaser, talk ing of the lute Charles Mathews, the other day i “Mathews made his first appearance in at the Winter Gardeu in 1839 1n the ¢s of Windsor.” ‘He was quite suc- s Some time after this ne fell in love with Miss Lizzie W eston Davenport, wifc of A. 1I. (Doliy) Davenport, und a goud deal of scan- dal sueceeded. When Davenport got she divores from ber e was so annoyed at the publivity given to his nume fu copnection with it that b attacked Matliews oue murning when he was boarding-house on Broadway, hin: # gevere beativg. No lexal pro- followed, and Mathews became the busband of Mrs. Daveuport. lie was theu prubably about 60, but his appearauce was quite Juvenile. ITic lialion with Mrs. Duveeport ex. ks nzuiar comment amony the members of the profession, those at this side of the water supportivg Davenport, and those at tho other Alathews ™ The Uramiat'c Newssays: “Ttscems to bepretty wail decicied that almost everything the cominir seacon will merge into zombinativns, But eight cities in the whole Union will have stock comn- yunies, and of these but three cities will have a resident stock—New Yori, Boston, and Phila- delphia. McVicker, who will have the only &to mpany in Chicago, reserves the privilege of rumnizg it out through the country at odd times. Spaulding, of St. Louis, and Miles, of Cinciunat, employ but oue stock compuny in conjunction. New Orleans will buve no stock cowmpany, San Francisco wilf have but two, Lou ¢ nonc, Paltimore none, Albany none, Portland none, Detroit nove, Pittsburg none, Cleveland one (which will mainly be on the road, however). A rouwh estimate yives sixty- five as the number of combinations which will travel about the country. 1L is no exazgeration 10 say that barely twentv-five or thirty of these will be still out ubout the 1st of Juvuary, in Lheir origival coudition, ut all events.” Among the combinations for the coming sea- fon, now iu process of formation, ure the Qene- vieve Ward, the Janauschek, the Blanche Meda, Won at Last, the Ada Ward, the Ads Caveudish, the Chanfrau, the Wallack-Dillon puarty, the MeKee Ronkin, the Bartley Catnpbell, the Kate Claxton, the Ben Macauley, the John T. Ray- moud, the Louise Pon Tett, the Frank Mavo, party, the Fauny Da ¢ ) <l Ha 110 vort, the Fay Temple- tou, the Saulsbury Troubadours, the Eliza Weathersby, the Adab Richmoud, the Colville Burlesque, the Strakosch Opera Froupe, the Hess Upera Comany, -the Maplesun Goncert, Company, the Oates Company, the Mary Ander- son Combination, the Imogene, the Boardis THouse, the Lotta, the Mazsic® Mitchell, Beyond these there will be maumeraole others, sume of which have as yet attained no cob: cncy. Several of the Stars uwmed avove will onty_travel o portion of the scason with & com- Lination, s also Sothern, Madge Lobert Agues Kobertson (possivly), Florences, Motjus- Ka, Majeronis, Joc Jefferson, Bowers, McCul- lough, Fechter, Emmett. ete.—~Dramatic News. MUSIC. A SUMMER N OF OPERA in Chicazo is a noveliys Itis not altogetherg desirable thing these hot nights, but fortunately the season will be a short one, and will not severely tax those who wo. *Dan Pasquale I5 at best a light opera. and it will be made still lighter, witliout chorus and with small orches- tra. The performance substantially amounts to & concert, and as such will uudoubtedly be v tolerable. The first night will be given to “Don Pasquale,” with Mlle. Di Murska as Norina, Brignoli as Ernedo, Sustni as Don Pus- quale, and Mr. Makin as Dr. Ma'alesta. On the second night 3 portion of **Don Pusyuale” will® be given, ond Mile. Di Murska will appear jo the ** Mad Scene” of *Lucia,” and the “Shad- ow Scene” from *“Dinorab.” The artists, with the exception of the baritone, Mr. Makin, are old-timers, and for old assoclations' sske will undoubtediy meet with a good reception, PUPILS' RECEPTION AT THE I ERSUET 5CIOOL. The Hershey School pupils’ reception, which took place on Monday cvening at Hershey Hall, proved to be an entertainment of rare interest. The weather was as unpropitious us could wetl e imagiued, but the sudience notwithstunding was large and enthusiasti Miss Carrle T. Kibgmau opencd the coucert with an drean sonata in E minor of A. G. Ritter, a work of great beauty. Miss Kingman gained fresh Jau- rels by ber saperb interoretation of this worl, ber playing befng especially remarkablo for clear- ness and elezancoot phrasing and an exceedingly lovely Jegato. Mfss Sarah E. Williams sang zn aria from Mozart’s ¢ Idomenco™—* Zefretti Lustughieri "—with fino effect. It was her first. appearance before so larze an audience, aud ber success should encourage her to persevere in Ler studies. She has made great progress, and bids fair to accomplish much in the future. Miss Marguerita M. Walker followed with a piano number, “Sifver Spring fo Chamou- ny Valley,” by the Berlin pisnist, Franz Bendel. 'In_its interpretation the young lady showed unusual. abliity In tne exécution of elaborate arpeggio and . scale passazes. Miss Mary P. flendrick sang ** Awake Saturnis,' from Handel's **Semele,” with great dramatic power, 23 well as fine expression. The number makes great demands upon the voice of o singer, and Miss lendrick deserves credit for the excellence Of her performance. Mr. A, F. MeCarrcil played Bach's G minor Fuirue for the organ (the Grent one) fn an adinirable manoer. is performanec was so careful and conscien- tious, and bis conception o! the work so fine, that we may expeet i Lo attain to a hizh posi- .tion. The ladies’ quartette, consisting of Miss Grace A. Hiltz, l\lrs. H. A. Cox, and Misses Mina and Pauline Rommeiss, sang with much refinement and beauty of expression two quar- tettes for female volces, the * Angel Quartette,” from Costa’s “Eli” (“No ewvil shail befall thee”’), and Schumann’s ** Tambouriue Girl.” Thelr endearors met the iearty approval of the audience, and g repetition of the latter was in- sisted upon. The five blending of the voices, Which is 20 marked a feature of theladies® sing- ing, has only beeu attained by long and carcful ctice, the youth and freshness of the voices being of tsell no small advantage. Their sing- {ne was, in bothnumbers, thoroughly enjoyable. The * Polacea ” {rom **1 Puritani,” ‘which opened the second part, was sung by Miss Fi- della Densmore with brilifant effect. She pos- sesses a voice of no stall flexibiliyy, and her ex- cention of the trilis aud runs in which the num- ber ubounds was remarkably clear and exact. Miss Mina Rommeiss sang” Beethoven’s * [n Questa Tomba * with fine expression, siving it with & breadth ond grandeur too scldom’ at- tained by voung singers. Liszt’s diflicult rangewment of Weber’s * Coucertstuck,” in ¥ minor, was plaved by Miss Eva Mayers, the ac- companiment licing given upon a second piaao Ly Mr. H. Clarence Eday. Miss Mayers' pluy- ing is ulready nearing the poiut where it will be recopnized as that ot an artist. She is a hard- working pupll, and her technique enubles herto zive excellent revderingsof whatever she under- takes, Her memory, 0o, is remarkable, aweele sufficing her to commit an entire concerto. Sue plays everyibing without notes. Miss Grace A. Hiltz sung Faure’s “Sancta, Maria” with an excecdingly pure and sweet tout, and her. enunciation was so perfect that. every word was _distinctly audible. Mr, Peter C. Lutkin closed the evening’s entertainment with the scherzo and finale of Buclk’s E flab organ sonats, one of lis carlicr works. Mr. Laitkin’s playing was very smooth, especially in the dilliculs finale (2 fugue on ** Hail Colum- bia"”) and his interpretation of the author’s ideas excellent. The performunces were all highly creditable to the pupils who took part, and it is safe to presumo that the standard of excellence will remaindn the future what it has been in the past. TII FALK CONCERT. The third of the series of sacred concerts at Unity Church will be given this afternoou with a voeul and instrumental programme Including the following numbers: Guilinant’s * Marche Religieuse.” for organ (Louis Falk); Adum’s “Cliristinas Song” (Miss Jennic Duuonz; D raud’s trio for violin, orzan, aud plano (Me Wolll, Falk, and Wey): Abt’s sonr, Jesus™ (Mr. John Mu\\'mlt:); Erust’s “El (Mr. E. 0. Woltl); Torrente’s song, *Show Me the Way” (Miss Jessic Bartletr); the Bacn- Gounod™ ** Ave Maria,” with violio, organ, and niano accompaniment. (Miss Jeaufe Dutton); l’hulps’ duet, ** As pauts the Hart" (Miss Bart- lett aud Mr. McWade); Theodore Thonsas’ trio for violin, plano, aud organ (Messrs, Wolf, ). Wey, and Falk). OCAL HISCCLLAN Aunother change hag been mude in the dirce- tion of the Haydn Sheiety, Mr. George Loesch” having resizned as cpnductor, owiug to his nu- merous engagementyielsewhere, The Normal Musi¢’School at Columbus, Iod., opencd very successfully on the 27th ult., wnact the diregtion ot Mr. IL S. Perkins, Mr. 8. G. Praut gives 2 piano recital every Wednesday af- ternoon. He is piaying very excellent pro- grammes and meeting with ood suceess. The sccond anunal session of the Husical Tn- stitute at Lewistown, Fulton County, 1}, opcs ed June 25 under tne divection of ‘Mr. J. J. Haststaedt, of the Chicazo Musicsl Collegs, 1ts success is already assured, o large nimber of pupils belng in atiendance. The session will close Aug. 1. A testimonial concert will be given to Mr. Harrlson Wild, one of Mr. Creswold’s pu- pils, on thevevening of the 11th, previousto lis departure for Enrope. Miss Minnlo E. Curtis and Messrs. Wild, Knorr, Marston, aud Ulrfci will taize part in 3 very good programmo; the benefleinry playing two orran and one piano solos,—Hatton’s fantasic in C minor, Mendels- soln’s sonata No. 2, op. 05, aud Weber’s rondo, op. 24. We are indebted to the publisbers, Wyman & Davis, and 124 Slate strect, for a collection issucd under the utle of * Stlue’s Dime Series of Povnlar Music.” The selection is well made for popular muslc, aod is certalnly very cheap. The list includes Bishop's My Pretty Jane®; Coote's song eud chorn: There's a Letier in the Candle”; the favorite ““Wishin a Mile of Edinboro Tuwn''; Wright- on’s ballad, **Her Bright Smile Huunts Me 8till 73 Glover's ducts, “Gypey Couutess,” “In the Starlight,” and “ Murmuring Sca fune Fricker's_duct, ““There's a Sigh in the Leart.” MME. PAPPENHEIN'S ENGLIST DEBUT. The London Times of Junc 17 pronounces Mme. Panpenhelw’s'debut as F'entin in * The Huguenots™ u suecess, as will be seen from the following extracts from its criticism : Iu Mrdame Eugenie Paopenhelm, to judge by ber debut on Snturday night, Mr. Mapleson may, without. besitation. be congratuiated on having added a zenuine artist to his company, one endos- ed with the physical resources, musical aptitude, and dramatic ability dtted to' sustain with credit certam parts of the higher branch of opera -seria which for adequate embodiment §mperatively de- maud such qualifications. The welcoms sho ro. ceived from the audience at Jler Majesty's Theatre was by no micans one of uncommon warmth; end .this doubtless caused her to feel somewhat nervons atthe vatset. Before the end of the floale to Act 1. however, she uniued courage, und In thn following act had become unrestricted mis- ress of Mer powers. It was, however, in the act that Madame Pappeuheim oblatnet and descrved the hearticst recomition, o . . . 1t is unnscessary to enter fnio minute details of a stene with which repeated parformances bave made every opera-goer familiars and to eay that Msdume Papuenhicin fuldlled all 'the reqniremants of one utnong the most absurbing and st the same time tryine fitaations in the Iyric drama will suf fice. What if she rejects s certain well-remem- hered descending chromatic scale, sabstituting o passnge, of cadence, of her own? What, indecd! Sugh [iberties Lave been taken tine out of mind. by the greatest fingers: and the passava being no lesy unerateful than difficull (o cnunclate wa have not a word of objcction to make. - nough thut Pappenhicin_ created an impression in 11 not to be mistuken for anything otherwize than gennlne. und 1nny be said at once 1o have entlsted the atrong eympathies of hornew public. THE NEXT OPERA S8EASON. The Brovkiyn (N. Y.) Zag'e of June 80 say: "Clhe fatest opera news makes it an aseured thing that New York 11 to havea zood sauson of firs clazt opera next winter. This ia greatly awing o the cuisnze of Wirectars t the Academy of Music. Mr. August Belmoot is Prestdent of the uew directorate, and tis liberal-minded way of looking at things i already telling in favor of the public. Mr. Belinont fully appraciatea the low ebb ihe Academy has reached. and laokiug wiore to 1ta per- mauent than its jmmediate prosperity he has leased the houss for two. v it Sr.. the Loudon opera munager, at a very jow re on condition that Mapleson gises New York two scasons of opura during esch year, ous from the middle of October to the latter part of December, and the otlier from bout the 15th of Fobraary 1o the midale of April. Mapleson's lease will also inclnde the lubby _ privileges, embracing - tho sale of librettos, Wre of ginsces, and the control of the lat and dressinz-rod Strange to say, these privilezes have mever been wranted 1o nanagers of the Academy, which gous 1o show il further the meanuess of the old Board. Mapleson, S%., lus mude no annuange- ment beyond the broad ne that he will present his operas Throagh a brilliant and complete operatic troupe, and from the word complete we must in- fer that we are ut 1ast to have an cpers tronpe, and nota siugle prima donng, suoposted by a 1ot of third-rate soloists and 2 fourth-zate chotus, M. Jumes Gordon Bentett is sa1d to be hehind Maple- 500 in this aflalr, aud if ke 1€ the echeme 13 alroady 5, if money and enlerprise can pash it . Of course Bennett will have nothing to do with the manegement of the cumpany, seting simply na Mr. Mapleson's fnancial backer, if he acts in auy way. MAX DRUCH IN ENGLAND, Max Brueb, whose “Odysseus was recently given in this cliy by the Becthoven Soclety, has bren conducting congerts in- London, in connec- tion with which the Lontion Athenzzum of June 15 says: The carcer of the Rhenish composer has been watched with interes| by professors and amateurs in this country, who are ot prejudiced in favor of famous names, and who are anxlons to recoznize wusical ility or exceutional promlse, be the country which'i: may whence the muslciauy may come. Curiously enough, Herr Max Bruch nsed to ve disliked here, because he set the sabject of yearsof frrcsolution and of indeoisfon, selected for in opera, but the score of which he did not Iive to cumplete. The Iyricdrama of **Lorelel * met with much aniccess in Germany, and perhaps would havo found its way to England but for the Mendelssohn- fan mania. “Fven very recenily, when the violin concertos of Herr Bruch were Introduced in Lon- don, the **dead set ™ imnade against him was mark- ed. The only consolation to be found by forelgn professors, whother German, Itallan, or French. ~when ~thefr productions are virulently attacked, is that in the leng run no amount of invective can pravent the acceptance hero of 3 genuine work of art. Whatever may by the ultimate position taken by Herr Max Bruch, it must be ut least conceded that bis nims aro high, and in choral compositions he has made his mark, his most recput cantata, a setting of Schiller's **Lay of the Lell,™ at Cologne, having fully con- firmed the highly favorable impression mads by bis ‘‘Odyssens,” ** Arminius, " otc., while the very fact that hie haa been commissioned by the exceu- tive of the Birmingbam Musicul Festival to com- Posea cuutala for the uext Tricanlal Festival in 1579 13 an llustration of the trulsm that no com- poser ciu bs written down, although he may immo- Jate himsolf by bis own writings. As he b chosen Scows '~ Lady of the Lake " for his festival esaay, there will be inducoment _enough in 1879 to com= are hig setting of tho poem with that of Prof. Mactarren which was produced at the openivg of the new Glasgow Musical lalls. MUSICAL NOTES. ‘The flnancial report of the California Musieal Festival shows a defleit of $10,000. The management of the Cincinnatl Orcliestra has passed frow Mr. Ballenber; to Mr. Fletcher. M. Camilie Saint-Saens was the planist at the fifth concert of the new Philbarmonic Society in London. e pluyed his G minor concerto, No. 2. It is rumored that, Carl Rosa is golug to bring an Enclish opera troupe next scason to Amer- ica, with Mwme. Jennis Van Zsndt as prima douna. Miss Cary is in demand for the Maine collezs commencements. She has been eneaged to sing for the graduating classes of @iates, Bow- duin, Colby, aud the State Agricultural Col- leges. Mme. Ermina Rudersdord! is one of the most versutile women inthe world. She milks her cows, works in her garden with 2 hoe, trains | young ladies in musie, gives lessons in lan- guages, manges artistes, aud creates mischief. Mile. Gemna Luzfaui fs a Ifttle Italian pianiste not yet 10 years old, who is atrcady an honorary member of the Kogal Philharmonfe Society in Rome, and who bas been playing with great suc- cess in Parls the works of Bach, Beothoven, Mo~ zagt, [aydn, cte. ranz Espaune, the Custos of tho musical department of the Royul Library at Berlin, died in that city ou the 24th of May, at the age of 50. Herr Espague was well known asouc of the most learued musicians of Giermnany. fle was one of the editors of Breitkopf and Hartel’s cowplete edition of the works of Beethoven. All musical instruments worked with the bow, and especially the violin, produce certain acute, hard, and disoureeablo notes. Ina me- moir recently publishea by M. Dien, a remedy is announced. Ilitherto the short part of the string above the bridge has not been supposcd to infiuence the sonorousness of the principal part, but really it vibrates simultaneously, though very weakly, with the latter, and its vi- brations cause the futerferences to which the uupleasant offect in question is due. M. Dien lias experimented by tuning these profongations of the striniss to the unison or octave of the de- fective note by applying small movable uuts to the prolonged purts, which cun be adjusted as desired. The correction thus made i3 said to be quits complete. GOSSIP FOR LADIES. WOMAN’S WAYS. There is oue thing that woman does That makes man mighty mad: She feaves enough hair in the comb To fill u saddle-pad. A kindly practice woman has ‘That man does most admire: She leuves her couch at carly dawa, And wakes a cheerful fre. Another way fair woman has Which makes her husband bloe: Sho buys a bounet ev'ry soring, And ev'ry autumn two. A usefal task Is woman's own, Which all good men adore: She sweeps the cobwebs from the wall, And briskly sczabs the tloor. There is a thing sweet woman doos That noble man dow't do: She often takes her youngest up And fondly plies ber ehoe. A tritling deed 2 maiden does, Which malkes her lover glad: Ehc tells him that she loves him best Of all the beaux she's had. A cracl habit majaens have, That always scems unkind: They answer No when they mean Yes, Which agitates the mind. And thus we find with womankind, A8 with the Jordly sex, She's sometimes good, and sometimes bad— But always quite complex. L. W. Hou. ONE IDEA OF A WOMAN'S HOTEL. Norrtstoen ilerald. A lady speakor at the judizuation meeting in New York, recently, said “ Stewart's tlote! for Women™ proved a failure - because it wasa maw's iden. In other words, “A man was at the bottom of it.” Women do thesc things differently, you kuow. And successfully. We understand that o pumber of women are now meditating o hotel for thelr sex, which prom- ises to prova a success of the first magnitude if the following rules, which have been adopted to overn the house, are strietly enforced: 1. Breakfast from 6 to noon; luncheon from noon to 3; dinner from 5to1l. Each boarder has the privilzye of bringing two gentlomen friends to meals without extra charge. 5. Ladies, upon returning frow work, are per- mitted to throw their hats aud wraps oy the bed, table, or foor, or hang them in any of the serven- teen ciosets with which each room is provided. Falze hair can be bung on the backs of chairs, andlove-letters and curl-papers iy be deposited behind the 35,000 oil-paintings. 3. Each guest will be allowed -seven beaux a week—If she can trap ’em; but the gentlemen wust leave the house not later than 3 a. w. 4. The service of the hotel will be performed by marrisgzeable young men, who must be grad- uazes of vur leading Americun coileges, aud be proficient in Freuch, Greek, Latin, and the art of dirting. 5. Ladies will be permitted to chew gum in thefr rooms; but the management hope they will throw their gnids out the windows, or stici them bebind the mirrors, and not fip them against the ceiling. 4. The number ot fuur-leg%cd poodles to each boarder is Iinited to three; but, if o lady takes a fancy to a girafle or a chilpanzee, Lhe anintal Will be fed ugthe cxpense of the hotel. . Trunks too Jarge Lo get v u room will not be permitted, unless the boarder pays one- fourth the expense of enlargiog the dour. 8. Young wen may congregate under the win- dows aud sercuade. the buurders withoue féar of a bull-dog or & shut-gun; but the singing must cease at least one hour before dayliwht. 4. Ladies who cannot afford a change of dress. for cach mel during the week will be presented with {he necessury wardrobe by the muuage- ment. 10. Each “boarder will be provided with two dead-lateh keys, aud the management will pro- vide those who are verzing on to old maidhood escorts to the opera and theatre without extra chiarge, 11. Surorise-partivs are permitted ouce a week; and any gentleman insulting a lady will be shot on the spot, and no questions asked. 12. The scholarly gentlemen servants are not permitted to speak to the boarders—unless the Iatter speak first. ‘The management feel that these rules are not tyranaial uiad Lope ey will bu chcerfully ob- served. ENGLISH BARMAIDS IN PARIS. Luris Correspondencs Ve Yor k World. Your failure to get wonen to live i1 seclusion at the Stewart Hotel has had a sort of anaiogue here on a very hunble e. Awmong the many Toretgw bars at the Exhibition s one for En- gland, aud it is duly stocked with pewter drink- ing-vessels and Hebes to fiil them, after the fashion of the dear old lavd. Tne Hebes were brought over in a gang, a geouine lmportation —blond-haired, brown-baired, red-haired, even —and, in one sense, if not {n anotier, the fairest of the fair. Within a week of their coming, most of them had but one desire—~to return to London, because they could not £o out o nights. ‘The importing contractor thought ft was his duty to guard them against the temptations of Paris, and to do it, put them virtually in prison. ‘They were well lodzed—iwell warehoused should rather be-the word, for they were all in one larze place—well fed. They were driven down to thy ibition every morging in vehicles svecially chartered “for the purpose; they were driven back agnin every night; they wers virtuous be- yond qnestion, but they were not habpy, Thay **Loreled, " the Jegend which Mendelssotn, after ! \vere barmaids for teu Lours out of the twentv- four, and for the rest they were inmates of a convent. No man was permitted to enter their domicile; *cousins® were laughed to scorn by the doorkeeper, and even the sacred name of “ brother ) was no_passport to these inhospita- ble walls, no plea for an sttempt to leave them for ever o quict an evening walk in'the Paris stroets. The wirls beran to yield to a rcen and yellow melancholy, but presently they did something much more sensible,—they struck against the system, und one and another packed up trunks for home. Thnis bas brought the manager of the concern to his scnses, and when 1 1nsp visited the bar Jaughing faces and beaming eyes unnouuced that they had as last obtained a Sunday out. THE KISS OF PEACE. London Globe. Fighwives and other women have long enfoysd & reputation for truculence of speech and manner, not only in England, but fn 1nost parts of the world. A Russian Colonel, who bas lately been appointed Chief Police-Master of ane of the most populous towns of the Baltic provinces, has hit upoa 2 very novel, but truly Orlental, plan for the civilization of these irritable dames. He knew that preaching = moral homily would be of no use waatever where the hearers were two Women who were cursing oue anotber av the rate of 120 words a minute, and who wero onlv prevented from tearlng one another's faces Dy the strong armn Of the police. * You wmust be locked up In one and the same cell until you have kissed each other.”” This was invarlably the sentence of the new magistrate i every case of female brofl which was brought before him. He knew very well that althouih kissing one another is a habit with male Rus- sfans, it is not so much in use with the womon of Muscovy, least of all with the fahwives. The excited ladies were hurricd off, railed for a time louder thau ever, protested that they would dfe sooner than give this huwilinting sign of reconciliation, and then, after a few hours’ coafincinent, called the goaler, and informed bim that they had “kissed.” As the conciliatory act was effected in the dark, for the sake of procuring liberty, and without. the presence of witnesses, the fish- wives were Informed that they must repeat tue Kkiss publicly in the open market-place. A small fine was talkien from each, and they were marched out fnto the mercautile areopagus, and wers then compelled, in the midst of their sisters in trade, to kiss each other three times, and to give a public promise of future peaceableness, At the end of six weelts, during which period tlis curfous penalty was frequently. fmposed, not asingle outbreak of a market-wife battle urred within the jurisdiction of the humorous Dolice-Master. A JAPANESE LADY GODIVA. De B. Rundoivh Ketm in Philadelphia Press. As we were about\to leave, a lady of clegant atlire, and attended by 2 female servant bearing her toflot apparatus, and another with other lusuries of the bath, entered. We thought the license of a strangeer in foreizn parts would war- runt us in loftering a trifle in order to gratify a little curiosity. Our new arrival, alter giving some directions, with the assistance of her mald began to arrnuge herself for the bath. There are many points of radical difference between the human genders,—psychologically, mentally, morally, and physically,—and all in favor of the sentle gex. And 5o in their general habits. A masculine disrobing for the bath fimgs his clothes in all directions, and bounces into the water with an jmpetucsity and violence ony- thing but graceiul. Our Lady Godiva, for sucl we call her-for short, with her maid neatly folded and Taid away on & cloth i a clean place each particlo of her apperel a5 it was removed. First the silken robe, then the fowing gown- ke robe ot purple, then the mether garinents of white, untif we reached Nature's owu. It s suid thot astronomers frequently level their telescopes at one star fn order to sce another; wo leveled our shrht apparently at a pretty Tittle creature ju the bath, but by an obliquit; of vision took in the other sceuc unobserved. As rently us zephyr playing upon the foliaze of the trees she stepped along toward the water. ler beautifully-rounded form and poetry of motion would buve been worthy of the sculplor's chfsel. A beautimully-rounded ankle and a_pretty foot, vazuely visible be- ueath the lannated folds o 3 ozen skirts, t the whole community agog at home; whilst a whole form, nude as nature and more beautitul than an augel, would not 2o much as attract a passing glasce In Japao. A TALE OF 4'WO LOVERS. The two lovers plunged gracefully into cach other's arms acrossthe gate, splitting the top rafland breaking both hinzes in thelr frantic demonstrations of joy; and the frail structuro fell to the ground o hopeless, chaotic wreck. “ Come 'round here smaching gates and talk- iog moonsbine to ry darter! Eni eh? ehi was the old gentleman’s remark as he hauled lexander Bartholomew beckward ana forward over the rround, and banged him over the head witn a sample exhibit of the broken gate. And then he danced o Modoe war-dunce ou young Jones' prostrate form, stepped on his ears, jadbea him in the ribs with the butt-cud of ths {: 3wling?iece‘ and otherwise toyed with him. And floally, when the thing began to grow monotouous, particularly for the lover, he stood Alexander, ete, up, and gave him a homeward lift on the toc of his boot, aud then emptied both charzes of his shot-gun iuto his coat-taile 8s he vanished around the corner. ‘Alexander Bartholomerw stayed out. His love for Evangeline -Seraphina has faded like a morning-glory bencath the noonday sun. No more mate for hitn. fle is now enzaged in looking for a girl who lives In a house level with the street, and whose father i5 of a retiring disposition.—Ezehunge. JUST THE SAME. Detrnte Free Press. Yesterday mornioZ a man whose every look proved how hungry and penniless he was, balt- ed belore an eating stand af, the Central Market to lct his mouth water for awhile. The wouan kuew his worth and called out: “Come, be jogeing along! You won't get anv food hero unless you have the cash.” «My dear woman,” he conlidently bogan as he drew nearer, **I am not hangry; T just left the breakigst-Lable uftor the hearticst meal T everate. 1was uot looking at your beautiful meats, your lovely cakes, or your rich and juicy ples, but at yourself.” 4 What you Jovking at me for? « [ was “wondering,” be sald, *if you were any relatfon to Lady Clare, of fueland. You ave the same browh eyes, ssme beautiful Lair me sweet accent.” ** T uever kuew her,” replied the woman, ns her face began to eloar up. = “ Didn't, ch! Well, { never. saw two faces nearer alfke iu their sweet expression. I wish I k\:}d Joiie ortrait vaiuted on ivory—I really wish oil.” She handed biro balf a pleand g plece of meat, and, a8 he ssuntered off, she began hunting aronud for a plece of broken mirror. NOT SO DEAD AS IIE THOUGUT. 7hitadeiohia Record, An upland woman has returned to life, sud scured her husband sod friends. Some time azo she took a trip to- Enzland to visit some rolatives, snd spent okt her mooey. Then the ivrenfous female, knowing her husband wasout. of worls n this country, determined todle; so ouc of hier relutives wrote a Jetter apprising the husband of the decease of his better balf, and reguesting money to pay the expenzes of the children’s return to the United States. Ile was a member of 2 lodve which _uwards §40 to every brother wrhose wife dies. So he reported the matter the matter to the Bociety, and the oney was handed over to him. This he lorwarded to the children, and Jast week he came to the city to meet the youngsters. Imagine his surprise when from the side of the boat ne the chil- dren, with the mother leadfug them by the Iand. This was too muck. He declared that he did not know lier, ana that she was dead. Then sne lev loose her tougue, which con- vineed him that, If it was pot bis wife's ghost, it must be the same old gal. He remonstrated in vain, but the wife sdlicred to her ideatny, und told the trick she had played. Reconcilin- tioq, and a promise to restore the moucy to the lodge, end the chapter. SCOURZ'S SECRETARY. Wasaingeon Letter, 3 In Sccretary Schurz’s private room in the Patent-Otlice Building, writingquietiyata table, the visitor will see o graceful, pretty young lady. ‘This is Miss Anna B. Irish, the sccretary who answers 3r. Schurz’s French, German, Italian, and other letters in foreign tongues. Shetsa Nebraska girl, with elegunt manners and o ‘musieal voice, und gentte, lady-like ways which are wnnll{ winoinz. At an age when most young ladles, partictllarly in Washington, sicep nearly all day with their hair in carl-papers, and spend the nizht dancing, or traveling from ene reception to anotfhur, Miss Irish quietly turns fer back on the world, and studies. As 3 linguist, sheis probably not ex- cellea by any one of ber age i this country, liaving a knowledze of ancient languawes as well as modern. Besides ber lngulstic studies, she is also fearninz vhouography. she is nov more than 21 or 23 yeass old, yeb this graecful, “eolic-provoking article sold under that des: gifted American girl has the cngagement for translating all of Auerbach's works. She met Auerbach bimself in Germany while ber fatper was Consul there, and pleased Nim infinitely, as, judeed, she does everybody. The Germen movellst's latest worl is ** Lundolin,” and Miss Iristi’s travslation of ft pratifled: him so much that ho wrote hera letter, warmly expressing his pleasure. Undoubtedly the yoitng lady hes a fine career before her. She does her study- ing eveniugs, after she has speat ber eight Lours in the Departiment. > WENT OUY FOR A SHAVE. A Watertown (N. Y.) youth receatly engaged himself to two young Indies, which happened to coma to the knowledge of one of the familles interested. At his next call he was confronted by an irate paps, and ordered to marry the girl then and there, under penalty of being shot it ne refused. The soung man was only tog Gap- Py todo the old zentlemun the favor. He sald he would just us soan marry the girl us not, but would first tiked to get shaved, so to look re- spectably. The old gentlemin went out to fetch u minister, sud the bridegroom was al- lowed to go out for a shave. The mihlster nod his guide returned and waited for the young man. Watted anxiously and fa vain, for he had hired a'buggy, driven to the station, and taken the train for Now York. It wasa close shave. ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES. Indtanapoits Heraid. Purchaser (looking over a coliection of hats and bonnetz with great deliberation and inde- cislon)—** You see, I hardly know what to select. 1 don’t want a kat for myself; Iwantit for & woman with a beard,” A womun with a beard !" echoed the stylish saleswoman in surprise. Then, after a moment's reflection, she put the usual query: **Is she marrled *“Yes, indeed,” said the purchaser. “Vell! well]” sald the astonished sales- wotnan; ‘“this is rn fucomprebensible world. A wornan with a beard fs married, and 1 [casting an admirive look on her fizure refected tn the glass] am left here to sell hats." FEMININE NOTES. Archery Is the most dungerous amusement for young women. Thcy are sure to mako an-arrow escape from their beaux. ““How nicely the corn pops,” sald a young man who was sitting with his swectheart before the fire. “Yes,” she responded, demurely, “it's got over heing green.” & The definition of a bonnet ss **a covering for the ferale head,” ought to be remodeled into “a covering for the vision of the man in the back seat in the theatre.” It is gotting 80 on Lope Island that, if a wife has a strange taste in her mouth, she at once jumps out doors and screams, “ Pizened by my husband! "—Detroit Free Press. “Beg pardon for stepping ‘on _your train,” said o fop at o balt: then tdded, * You ought to have a cow-catcher on it **And I would have caught a calf,” said tho young lady. When Mrs. Dom Pedro’s popsy-Wwopsy begins to cry, the nurse remarks: **Now does ze eetle Louis Marfa Philippe Guiseppe Alcantara Gustay Miguel Ropbael Gabriel Gonzagu want a taste of z¢ soothing ssrup? Swarthwore girls who were made Bacliclors of Arts the other day are now going in for the hearts of bachelors. The diflerence between them and poets is that they are not born but waid bachelors.—Philadelphia Bulletin. There has been s remarkable case of con- stancy in England. A man who separated from s wile thirty-five years aro has just returned and offered to “Kiss and make up.” A few days prior to the offer the wife had inherited u ldrge estate. At 3 popular store famous for the prompt and polite attentlon of the a womau of per- haps 30 years was looking at goods, when a young mah stepped toward her and asked: “Is any one waiting upon you?’ Why, what o question! I've been married these ten years.” Among the Zulus, 8 nation of the Caffrcs, according to etiquette,the mother-in-law cannot faco the son-in-faw, but must hide, or protend to hide, when she sees him. _In this vountry the custom is teversed., Itis the son-in-law who docs the dodeing.—Cincinuati Buzakfust-Tadle. A Danoury woman of somewhat_gencrous pedal extremitics, having spoken disparagingly of anotherwoman's fondness for a pet dog, and declared that she would not have suea a thing about ber, the other woman unkindly explained | that the size of her feet prevented her from keeping a pet dog, unless the animal waos slung in a bammock. An Italian in o California town, after six months of wedded lifc, applied for a divorce on the strength of this gricvagee: ¢ Before I mar- ried my wife she painted her face and was always white, tinged with a rosy cofor that resembled a rose. I thought the colors were natural, but since she got married she paints her face no more, and ft has become as black ascoal.” The laswyers told the heartbroken man that it would be necessary to try fresh paint or soap before proceeding with the case. ——e———— MY HOME. 1 pina for the voico of the waves that sweep Past my aistant Soothurn home; 1 torn sad eyes, that fain must weep, From stately steeple and dome, J And iwuse of the gnaint old church that standa 1n the 2liadow of wood and hiil, T4l I nold my Lreath to catch the soung, Falnt aud far, of the rustic mill. T reach swift hands for Howers (hat grow Close by the flashing stream And 1 trip and fall, as T hasten on O'er the mossy rock, in my dream; Ipeer in the caverns, cool and dark, Where the miniaturo streams are born; And my heurt re-cchoes the voice of the lark Saluting the radiant Mora. Inoar the bells from where the focks Gleam white on the upland slopes: And I sce the time-worn, sturdy rocks, ¢ Jalt-pidden by tanzied copea; wade through the jeweled, det2ining gras: T Tstand b the fivers side, oo Where, spinit-like, the mists toat up From the depths they fain would hide, 'Tis there! my home! Like a precious gesh Ji gleame fu the roscate light The {recs o'er-archlug the rustic well Vet drip with the tears of night; The roses creop throuzh the casements low, And trall on the chamber-fiuor, And climb, with tireless, clinging arms. O'er pordal, and roof, and avor. The songs of hirds—but sweeter far Are thie volcee thiat grect me now, As u mother's saintly lips are pressed To my upturned, gladdened broy. on! Ilong, till my soul n its pain is mate, For the tones 1 cay ve'er forgets g Still thrills my heart, like a broken lnte, To the cudence of regrot. Juwy 4, 1878, Madars A. Corxe. — IMMORTELLES. Within the beart, within the mind, Within the soul of bumsukind, Along the ways 60 sweet to know, ‘The brightest blossoms bud and blow—~ More fair than grown on Natare's ficld, By far a sweeter fragrance yield; For Nature's blossoms bad to-day, To-murrow bioom, then fade away; Bat theee, within o Kinder sky, Thesge uever wither, never die. These never lose their beanty brighs, Not even through the dariest night. © God grant that you and I may stray, May find them overywhere to-duy ; To-morrow seck them as before, Still gather sweet the golden store, Still nurture them by kindly desd, Still sow agatn the fruitfal seed, Until at last our lives aro found With Immortelles divinely orownea. - Josern D. Tumscy. A Strawberry (Re)mark, New York Tribune. The strawberry, tiie real strawberry, whoso charms could never be deseribed in words less Juscious than the verse of Keats, is found no longereave m the ardens of the rich. [l crated name 15 a vile counterfeit, no more like the exquisite bersy of our youth than the Post- Oflice is like-the Parthenon. 'Tisa sour, scent- less, sandy inpOSLor, aad every yvear it grows more and more abominable. No longer the wild heauty of the woods or the pride of the garden, the strawberry has become a vulyar furm proa- uct, cuitivattd on the most extensive scale,—no doubt with the aid of horscs, steam engines, and other wholesale angnntus,—shlnwfl to great distances, aud sold the car-load. Unprin- cipled rnisers of this [raudulent thing have de- voted all their Ingenuity to the production of a variety that shall combine the “only four quall- ties that are valuable in their prosaic minds. They would have the berry blg, red, hard, and prolific, and in striving after thess mercantils excellencies they bave sacrificed everything else that made the strawberry precious.” The sweet- ness is gone, the flavor is gone, the perfume i gone; and the strawbsrry of commerce, dexenerate and cont@nptible, a foe to ool temper and digestion, 13 only e to e coobed With sngar o hidden’ veuweer: the doadly faps of a saleratus short-ceke. utterly ‘Communtcattons Intended for Tz finluun? Kot Should be altreased 10 0. O VRVIS. P.-0 Dot e Chieago, 10, 2 g For Publisher's price:lst of standard work x ris oa the gane, Address the Dranght Editor. L CUECKER-PLAYERS' DIRECTORY. Atheauum, No. 50 Dearborn strees. PROBLEM NO 73. By WitL Teracaty, Ciilcago Tack. From Dicka v K t0 move and wia, > Tom Dick's var. of poitiua tn Latrd and Lady garia in E. D. P. No. 5, whereln 26~22 13 plased and Black basan eusy win. Our contridutor places the white Pplecoon 23 instesd of 22 for a dificult Black wia, N NO. By C. llzrTer. Chicao. Black menon 1. 4, 12, 25, kings 13, 19, 28. Whlte men on & 15, 20, 22, 21,27, kingy 3, 11 Whitc to move aad wia. TO CORRESPONDENTS. L Jomes Reed, Jr.—Letter at hand. R. E. Dowen—Liccefved with thanks. A. 5. Chapman—Slips matied as directad. W. B, Fonvlile—WIil answer by mail very soon, Seruel Slegel-1 think you can manage 111 you try. VIl Tryacatn—Yor alys 4 comIl Tryacatn—TYour Brlstol wislysis shall grace oar Frank A. Fltzpatrick—a crowned Witk Gioounien suectas, "0 CTOTts ba Jolin Kirk—Yonr tavor. with lack sfely acliand. ') rRoraipagentc U 32 shated, J. A.—Your solutton to Probiem 72 Is not sonnd. —s 803WeE 10 J. D, (2) The solitlon £o Tosltion 38 wiil dee 7. D.—Your2-7, 2316, 1014, ete. wilinot win Pronliin 72. ° At the ¢l —30 piay 18—19, und the draw wiil 0 fhternationst Shechs rp et | na < tournacie Probabilitics at the Parls Exhibition. - > C0ORE the JMr. Starkweather, of Boston. was In Shis elty agat Instweek, and played Mr. Baldwin seve S SUICI0 5 a3 even yeore. o ik Ty 3r. Charles Mattieon, tha loading plager of 4 ton. K. J. Was Usdly fofented Bt The hant of Simons: Balhe, Faireliid, und Symonds, ac NewSrs, 2 fow’ dars Mr. Bresce, of Atbany, . Y., was at Danville, T, uite ns.;l:\::‘fl nd gare ) Mri_ Fdll;v ile °* Hal} cmfl-;‘, " 'S the fatter Writes. Farther £Core not stated. S et ol e 4 upon T TRECNES wivice match with 1oed, apd, htead of DArMINE By Sr and **awearing of.* B iy yery Seasibly contlaued . atady, a6 wduisie, Susk s it nothiog bad hap: Mr_ Bushy. of Philadelphla. recetly sent a lotter Mr. T2eei of Plitshare, askinc i if he. whs wilse toplay 2 match upon this sawe terms offered some flmg aev, The pinchy Hatte elishury player pEst iy s : wpiled that he *woild piay for § ad give 530 for expenses.” Noanswer o0 Hl¢ The New York Clfmoer (s the test In the Clietker Problem Touraament * busiase, the puecly 10 B 5 50l meia of The full valis of S5 A Aspea printe desfzns. {aciuding a diazram with the succtdstot problem eagrived thereon, tgeiher with the name of the wiuner. Troblems ¥l be recefved up to Aug. 20, e snd Messrs. Conkley, Relly, smd Deforest, of Sew York, will et as Judyes. On the 15t of September next, Prof. Frank A. Fitz- patrick, of St. Loufs, Mo.. will fae the brst nmbet of amutlly mazazthe devozed exclustvely fo the gans of drauglits. Tlic work i 0 be ider the Prof=sor's fmmedtate upervision aad coutrol. aud wheiher 1t Proves to be a sucexss iy 3 wise, hecuar- 2 Journal to o time at the t cach monzh dicing Ehe reriod of ube year after thag fte continuance will depead tije suppos: players ive It The initial gum- contaln wu exhausi(ve ualysts of the Switchier and Will-o'-tho-Wixp opeainze. givies an nvinzibin Hueof play for White, aud whii b couttnued throuzh succeeding numbera uithl the ne ls Mufshel. The price of the mazazine will b= T5centya year. The verslow price named, together WIER. Fof. Fitzpats rick's well-known ndility” 32 _writer, player, and anaiyzer. should Insurs the magazine 3 liberal sup; ‘wide circulatlon, and a hearty welcome. _SOLUTION End-gats ketween Demps ple@| a7 jes 13<13 11~15() | 152 Wilte wins by first posltiod, or P first posiifon, (a) In the orizinal pame, 23—24, =1, 2~7, etc., wagplayed, resuitinz in a draw. SOLETION TO FOSITION NO. T2 W K. Abbott. 13— G 10— 30 ~10 GAME ¥0. 23-SWITCHER. enth Game.) Played tn chi. The yarlations correspond with the muriver of L game pisyed. Hefier's move. ot 21g 1i20) | 610 H ‘ 3 1 white wins, inixs €adug of th, mhole matel. 219 17 (@1Z7-Z~White w! -18 | 22-18 g 1347 18-13 licrier rou, 28-10 10— 1 15-21 13-23 1- 6 for_match 5l This s the 1017 () A brilliant sh loukinis the blece on I Tost the nuste: entirely over- faial oyt whic AFTER ABSENCE. You knew me not, you knew me not, But quickly passed me by: Tbere was no greetinz an your los, No welcome in your cye. 1 had not thought to be 60 changed, Thbogh theae were busy years: Wad it the struzgle that I vion, Or'still my home-sick teara? And yet what wonder init all? 1 have been doomed to roam: You've lived in peace, and Joy. and love, Within your bappy hoie . 1stenzgled —yes, and wou, T sald, Though fevered youth was pasded, For still I hoard your sweet ** Golspeed— All good things comoat iast.” 1 thouzht to meet you in the cromd— To see the glad eurprise Dye rosy-red that winsome face, ‘And light thosc earnest eycs: Like mapy give their Jove snd Eope, ‘And o1l that makes life living, Exvecting like—then only find Their oy and wo n giving. No doudt T'll meet you 000 agats, Mayhap this very day: > You'll hear my name, will clasg mny haid, And kindeet welcomes say. Bat yet, frow out a longing be “T'his thought—ah me! will not You knew e aot. you kn: But quickly vassed me by; There wus n0 greeting oo yuur Hps. Nowelcome in youreve, A, AL Deuss. THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, - S SANTROCEATS