Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 29, 1880, Page 10

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. and erening atst Jonas Charehy Ellis avenue, irty-seve Stree! neeThe itev, Mason Galigher will officiate in the morning and | Bishop Cheney 12 abe pevening at Christ Ch ic ay venty- fourth sed The tatter’s subject will be * Daniel In Babylon.” | preach morning and NN. F. Ravlin will preach morning an ¥ the mission, No. ‘Sl Ogden aventic. —The Rev. G. Anderson will preach morning and evi ‘at tho Second Church, corner of SMor- oe ELreets. a Hees Fee og wil preach, the moruing aS the Binge ‘Avenue Church, near ty=thi stree! * Tere Rev, E. B, Hulbert will preach morn- ing and even: sf es Fourth jGoureny corner of i fon ant ‘uulina stree! athe lev, J. Rowley will proach morning and evening at the North Star Chureb, corner Divis- on and Sedgwick streets. ~The Rev C. Perren will preach morning and evening atthe Western Avenue Church, corner of Western and Warren avenues. —The Rev. W. H. Parker will iny and evening at the Coventry Street Church, corner of Coventry street and Bloomingdale road. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach morning and evening at Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street. —The Rev.J. Paterson will preach in the even- ing at the South Church, corner of Lock and Bonaparte streets. —The Rev. A. K. Parker will preach morn- ing and evening at Centennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets. —The kev. E. 0. Taylor will ares m and evening at the Central Church, Orch: street, near Sophia. —There will be a G 1 meeting in the even- ing at the Tabernacle, No. #2 Wabash avenue. —The Rev. J. B. Thomas will preach morning and evening at the Dearborn Street Church, near Thirty-sixth street. —The Hev. J. Q. A. Henry will preach morning and evening at Evangel Church, Dearbornstrect, near Forty-seventh. —The Kev. J. T, Burhoe will preach at the Tniversity Place Church, Thirty-tifth street and ‘Rhodes avenue. Morning subject: “ The True Esprit de Corps of the Christian Church.” —The Kev. Dr. Lorimer will preach at the First Church, South Park avenue and Thirty- tirst street. Subjects: Morning, * Paul Before Agrippa”; evening, * The Famine Vision,”—the fourth in the geries’on Joseph in Egypt. Bap- tism at the close of the evening service. -MISCELLANEOUS. _ The Rev. James Kay Applebees will preach at the Free Religion Church, No, 892 Cottage Groy avenue. Subjects: Morning, ‘ The Conscience" Douglas Jerrold, the Wit of the Lon- ~Railroad men’s meetings will be held as fol- lows: Corner Canzl and Kinzie streets at 3 p. m., Jed bv A, Isbell, of the Chicuga & Northwestern; No, 4645 South State street xt 3:00 p. m., led by H. R. Hopkins, Trainmuster of the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad; No. 634 South Canal street at 7:45 p.m, led by A. W. Stewart, of the Bultimore & ‘Univ, Allrailroad men und their friends are cordially invited to attend any one of these meet- -The Rev. C.J, Trusdell will preach in the morning and the Rev. J. H. Arling in the even- ing ut the Tabernacle corner Morgan end In- diuua streets. 2 —The Rev. C. Perren will preach at 8 p.m. in the chapel at the Washingtonian Home. . Dr. Muthewson will peed morning and evening at the Advent Church, No. 01 South Green street. —tThe Rev. A. Monroe will preach at the Union Tabernacle (Independent), corner Ashland ave- nue und Twentieth street. Evening subject: * Lessons Drawn from the Birth of Christ."” —J. B. Crocker will lead the Liberal Reunion, at No.213 West Mudison stroet, at 2:30 p.m. Subject: “Selfishness.” —Elder Mark H. Forscutt will preach to the Latter-Day Saints at Temperance Hall, No. 213 ‘West Mudison street, morning and evening. Subject: 9 Second Coming of Our Lord.” * ~The Disciples of Christ will mect at No. 229 West Randolph street at ¢ p.m. lizabeth L. Comstock, the missionary, will attend Friends’ meeting this morning at their mecting-house, Twenty-sixth street, near In- diana avenue. —Gospel temperance-meetings at No. 431 Og- den avenue, uear Polk street, at 3:30 p. m. —Gospel iheetings. to be addressed by Donald Ross and Henry lronsides, will be held at 3 and 7:30 p. m. at No. 97 South Desplaines street. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. . .EPISCOPAL. Feb. 29—Third Sunday in Lent. ‘March 1—Seventeenth Day of Lent. March 2—Eighteenth Day of Lent. March 3—Nineteenth Day of Lent. Barch 4—Twenticth Day of Lent. March 5—Twenty-tirst Day of Lent. . March 6—Twenty-second Day of Lent, CATHOLIC. Feb, 20.—Third Sunday in Lent. aan 1—Feria. 2—Feria. 3—Feria. ‘ March 4—St, Casimir, C.; St. Lucius, P.M. diarch 5—The Five Woands of Qur Lord. March 6—Feria. “* ue es reach morn- LITTLE MISS MUFFET. IN STUSDY ANGLO-SAXON. Little Miss Muffet Sat ona tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; ere came a great spider, And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away! AS AN ARTHURIAN IDYL, pon a tuffet of most soft and verdant moss, Beneath the spreading branches of an ancient vak, Miss Mutfet sat, and upward gazed fo where a linnet perched and sung, And rocked nim gently to and fro. Soft blew the breeze And mildly swayed the bough; Loud sung the bird, And sweetly dresined the maid— Dreamed brig J The golden When one—suome wondrous, stately knight 2f our great Arthur's “Tuble Round ”— Jne brave as Launcelot, and Spotless as the pure Sir Gulnhad— Should come, and, coming, choose her ¥or his love, and in her nume, 4nd for the suke of her fair eyes, jhouid do most knightly deeds. And, as she dreamed and softly sighed, Sue pensively began to stir, s With tiny golden spoon, Within an antique dish upon her lap, 3ome snow-white, milky curds; 3oft were they, full of cream and rich, 4nd floated in translucent @hey; 4nd, as she stirred, she smiled, {hen gently tasted them, And, smiling, ate, nor sighed no more. Lol as she nte—nor harbored thought of ill Sear and nearer yet, there to her crept 4 monster great and terrible, With huge, misshapen body—leaden eyes— full many 2 long and hairy leg, And soft and stealthy footstep. un ad nel Did eat her curds and dream, Blithe, on the bough, the linnet sung— All terrestrial natures, sleeping, wrapt in a most swect tranquillity. Closer stili the spider drew, and, Pausing beside her, lifted up his head and into her face. Miss Muffet then, her consciousness alive ‘To his dread eves upon her fixed, Turned and beheld him. Loud screamed she, frigntened and amazed, And straightway sprang upon her feet; And, letting fail her dish and spoon, She—shricking—turned and fled. ' —Detroit Free FROM THE GERMAN OF BODENSTEDT. [Translated by Amelia Ende.) With ev'ry breath a part of life doth wane; What once thou lost, by naught thou canst re- in. Seck soon & worthy aim for which to strive: “Tis not thy fault if thou wert born to live, But thine it is if thou hast lived in vain, As the mountain-torrents rapid flow g But tremblingly retiects the sunlight’s glow; nd, as its current deeper, calmer grows, ‘The image of the sky more clearly shows: ‘Thus dawns the light of everlasting truth But dimly in the passionate hearts of youth; But, when the battling w:tves are reconciled, Retlects within our bearts/its image mild. How differently people talk of thee; They praise and they defame. Mirza Schaffy*: To-day a man speak well of thee I heard— But yesterday full many an evil word. T enswered: He who blames not openly, Dues to my own esteem no injury. Contempt deserves who utters sland’rous lies, But the informer [still more despise. - The calumniator's poisoned arrows dart Behind may buck, from distance dangerless; But the informer grasps and hasts to press ‘With smiling kindness them into my heart, (*“ Mirza" (with the accent on the last sylla- Die) isa Persian tide, which, when pixced after apame, means “a Prince"; when before, “a scribe"; henoe, “Mirai Schatty” would be equivalent to “ Scribe Schaffy.” During Boden- stedt’s sojourn at Tiflis, Mirza Schatfy was his teacher of the Tartarean and Persian languages. The celebrated “Songs of Mirzs Schatfy” were orseveral years erroneously believed to be translations from these languages; but they are original products of Bodenstedt’ s pen, inspired by and written more or less under the intluence of his friendly intercourse with Mirza Schatly andof his surround! at Tiflis, which give those poems their peculiar color.) Caicaco, Feb. 25, 1880. A French Thief. A christening in a Paris church recently led to the capture of a thief who, it is believed, is a notorious culprit. While the nurse was waiting jrith the child on her knees, a man came up and asked permission to kiss the infant. His request was granted,for in France such instances of spontaneous affection are not uncommon. Yhile the embrace was be! bestowed the nurse feit a hand in her pocket, and exclaimed, “Thief!” The man ran away, but was captured ‘with the woman's purse in his possession. THE, STAGE. Exit “The Danites”—The Cast of the Play for Sadler’s Wells, London. Dramatic Novelties— All the Rage,” “My Son-in-Law,” “ Hiawa- tha,” and “A Fool and ~ His: Money.” Gossip for the Theatre-Goor—Now Plays and Revivals—Sayings and Doings of Actors and Actresses. Whereabouts of the Wanderers for the Ensuing Six Days. “THE DANITES.” GOING TO TRY IT ON THE ENGLISH. It is highly probable that the engagement brought to a close last night at MeVicker’s ‘Theatre by Mr. and Mrs. McKee Rankin will be the last played by them in this city for some time. In five weeks they sail for England on the Spain, and on the “th of April The TDan- Sieg" will be presented for the first time in Lon- don at Sadicr's Wells. Should the play prove a “hit,” and there’ is certainly every likelihood that it will, the English engagement will bea Jong one. a _ “The Danites’” has been running at Me- Vicker's for two weeks, and, although this makes the fifth presentation of the play in this city, the engagement has been a highly profita- ble one financially, and this proves a popularity which bag been rarely won by either American or foreign plays. When the picce was first pro- duced, we remember how the critics fastencd upon the improbability of Nancy Wiliams’ story,—the impossibility of a young woman being thrown down an abyss about a mile deep and rescuing herself without assistance, and re- appearing among her would-be assasins' im- mediately nfterward in the disguise of a boy; the absurdity of a women. uppearing in such a way in a mining-camp, the most curious imaginable, without eilcit- ing comment; and the ridiculous idea or a beautiful girl living long in male attire among alot of miners undiscovered, etc., etc. The illogical nature of the story ‘was certainly very glaring to the analyzer; but the ‘people, fortunately or unfortunately, are generally con- tent, when they find something that interests or uses thom, to lay the critical sword ina cor- ner. In the case of “ The Danites" they were satisfied that Joaquin Miller had managed to disguise his improbabilities sors to give them an appearance of possibility; he bad ‘given strong, and sometimes powerful, dialog, often exquisitly and naturally poetic; he had given a multitude of stirring situations, a number of finely and truthfully drawn characters; the coarseness and profanity customary in works founded upon Western life was eliminated; an rable opportunity was offered the scenic artist for effective display; andthe author had excellently relieved the sentiment of the pluy with a strong vein of comedy. These are some of the qualities which have helped to commend “ The Danites” to the public, but above all that tended to popularize the pluy was the fact that itgave one a better idea of mining-camp life in 1849 than auy play of its class which had -been written up to the time of its production. When the engegement at McVickor’s began, in the course of some remarks upon the acting we alluded to the Parson of Mr. W, E. Sheridun, and while admitting the strength, the vigor, and the effectiveness, we intimated that to us as- sumption was not an entirely sutisfactory one. It wasa disappointing one. Subsequent per- formunces bave strengthened our opinion. From the beginning Mr. Sheridan does not indi- cate, as he sould do, the undercurrent of good- ness in the Parson’s nature,—that nobility woich manifests itself so clearly in the last two acts. Muck of his comedy in the second act is inissed. In his proj 3 for the hand of the Widuw there is neither that eurnestuess in his ppocett nor that rough diffidence in his manner characteristic of such a man, who evidently in his heart looked upon this woman as a being so urity, in gentleness, in re- finement, that e very idea of winnin; ber, when it came a proposal, struck him asa sort of sacrilege. The termina- tion of the third act, however, and also hisscenc in Sandy's cabin and in the last uct, are powerful and finely managed efforts, deserving of all praise. Mrs. Rankin's Billy Piper, we think, bas lecidedly improved since he¢ last appearance in this city, the second act she cnters into the character of the boy she secks to personate more fully than heretofore, acd makes her dis- farabove him in guise more plausible. The third act aftords her - fine opportunity for powerful and pathetic act- ing, which opportunity she fully improves. As for the handsome MeKee, he has rendered Sandy ‘with his wonted power and pathos. Of course there is any amount of speculation as to the reception of * The Danites” in London. To insure success, Mr. Rankin is taking every precaution, as can be seen from the following cast, which, when completed, will probably be the ‘strongest, ever given the piece: Mr. 5. M. Holland, of Wallack's, will piuy_the Judge, and Matt V. Lingham, of the Union Square, will as- sume the part of the first Danite. We under- Stand that the Jidow's purt has not yet been filled, but in all probability Miss Genevieve Rog- ers will be the actress selected, and negotiations are pending between the manag2ment and Mr. Gilbert, of the Kate Claxton iiaaa rene for the role of Limber Tim. - Mr. inkin, with the exception of Jarrett & . Palmer, will be the first manager to take an entire Amer jean company inan American play to London. He does this not because he is afraid of{being ‘unable to secure competent people there, but in order to save time, the party finishing their sea- son in Hartford, Conn., on, ‘Tuesduy, the 2d of April, und being under engagement_to open at pees Wells on the 26th. The English cast Alexander SfeGee. re Afr. McKee Rankin ir. W. E. Sheridan . BML Holland Sir Hisery Hawk ir, P. A. Anderson Ar. J.G. Peakes gham Mr. George B Waldron ‘Mr. J. Richardson Little Belle Kee Rankin ‘ulda Brown. 54 Salli¢ Sloan. .. ‘Miss Isabel Waldron Henrietta Di Miss Emma Marble PLAYS OF THE WEEK. “A TRIPLE COURTSHIP.” By W.D. Eaton, from the German of Rosen. Produced at Hooley’s Theatre, Chicago, Fob. 24, 1880: Mr. FF, Mackay ‘De Wolf Hopper Mr. 'T. F. Egbert Se WH Triple Courtship” was honored with a kind reception at Hooley’s on Tuesday night by a large audience,—an au- dience comprising many members of the dra- matic and journalistic fraternitics. Naturally enough, there was much interest taken in the presentation, Mr. W. D. Eaton, of this city, be- ing the author, and public curiosity has been whetted, of course, by the recent success of that gentleman’s comedy, “All the Ruge,” in Brooklyn and Boston. “A Triple Courtship," we believe, is the second effort of Mr. Euton in the way of dramatic writing, and bis success in both instances sufficiently shows that he pos- sesses talent in that most difficult branch of Uterature—dramatic composition—which he has just begun, Tor “A Triple Courtship” the author claims nothing more than an adaptation, and’ states! the original source from whence he derived his plot to have been Rosen, a Germun author of considerable repu- tation. Just how much of “A Triple Courtship” ig Rosen's and how much gis Euton’s we caunot exactly say, but weare told that three-fourths of the dialog Is the work of the latter. This we esn say, however, that “4- Triple Courtship” as given is an exceedingly woll-written play, cleverly constructed, with excellent characteri- zation, comical situations, anda light, agreeable, interesting plot. Should the piece not obtain the success its merit entitles it to. we can only blame certain members of the company who in- terpret their parts ina manner evidently never intended by the author. Further on wo shall allude tothe acting, and here say that, while we recognize the many excellences of the play, the work is not without defects; but these defects can be readily obviated. They are chietiy found in the first act, the dialog of which is entirely too long-drawn out. Thereis too much talk and too little action. The second and the third acts are the best of the comedy, and exhibit often @ purity of tone, un elegance of “pleasagt atmosphere of comet dng their c] tructiye skill. There isa od gaphere of 208 edy fh tho. pee, hor depending for his success more por mine . fliugeration of manners as they five affected by the experiences of bumun- ity than upon uprourious —farcicul — sinua- don or broad effects in character. There fs ‘and Jodicious eharncterfentions fe PTSOD! differing in temperament, y ped dime of life. In the dialog the equivoque !s pod; often, in the lust two nots particularly, the fica riinge 18 terse and fine; and its cynical truths iets of sont}ment here and there ura worthy ao ete tone ‘The piece nivvesupon.the iable- Jand of common life. The plot is light, the ol ject aimed at being to introduce the personages jntqn'serics of cross-purposes, and finally: to igentangle them.’ There are three pairs of lov- ers who, ‘Geroro ultimately mutrimonially secur- affinities, go through a-number -of ‘amusjug dificulties which we will not attempts to chranielg. In Shicugo “A Triple Courtship is lnfd, the incidents occur within’ twenty-four hours,. The piece ig in three ant and they are played in ona set scene,—sn el jaborately-fur- nished purlor.. can only bestow the highest Tavariably we pruige upon tho work of the Criterion Comedy company, the members of which appear: in the Seeley ‘On this occasion, however, we must take decided exception to the acting of two or three of its members. We should suy. rather their conception of the characters they assuine, for they are evidently outside their jles_ulto- ther, First among them is Mr. F.. F. Sinckaye, ig supposed to represent -n touch, who hearty ‘old Western farmer, Abrahant Withers, a man not reared in the most refined cireles,—rough, unlettered, with » good deal of cooley sense anda good deal of simplicity. Mr. Mackaye turns outachuracter so for 1s polish, manner, dress, and action goes, who might have stepped from the pages of Con: ve, Sheridan, or from. those of Dumas or Eoedou. He play's the role as if it were old com- edy, and from his’ point of view plays we fancy : few will dis- pl fact. that his conception is entirely _erroncous. Then the managing mother, Mrs. Reynard, one of the most strongly marked charactars in the play, and reully the central figure, is assuined by Miss Marr Daven- ort, a clever young actress generally. Evi- ently the part is that of a woman well gd- yanced in life, shrewd und practical, but in the make-up, in the action, cr in unything else, there fs nothing certainly in the assumption of Miss Duyenport to indicate this. Wecan scarce ly imagine thut the author evor intended Wal- dam to be the noodle tL Mr. W. A. Whitecar makes him out to be. The. young follow is, we. should fancy, , meant’ -to ra fainiliar typo of character,—a, com- ound of — goodness, folly, and _ sense; But ate. Whitecar turns him futo whut Sothern would call x howling idiot. Neither cnn we be- lieve the suthor ever intended the man-servant to be rendered as Mr, Jobn Ogden presents him. He is entirely too boisterous. He is out of the picture. The actor could muke the part, cranky, old, favored domestig without ocasionaly placing him in the position of a bully. Wit! these excoptions the company did some clever work. One of the incest comedians in this troupe, and, indeed, one of the most promising in the country to-day, is Mr. Hopper. He plays the rile of a young journalist, a very long anda very diticult part to assume, because for success quite as much depends upon him as upon the author. He has cupltal idea of fun and character, and can 2s easily pluy an eccentric réle gs one de- manding the grace, the ease, and the polish of refinement. Miss Louise Sylvester charm- ingly rendered the wealthy heiress, and the same may be said of Emma Fellman as Emma Withers. A soubret part was exceedingly well played by Miss Helon Gardner, and Mr. ‘t. F. Egbert, who assumed the rile of a Senntor imatrimonially inclined, gave, a worthy piece of acting. ‘A Triple Courtship” has done a good business during the week. “MY SON-IN-LAW.” & By Leonard Grover. Produced at the Brooklyn ! Park Theatre, Feb. 23, 1880; ‘Biss Sarah Turnhcart. Miss Henrietta Vaders Airs. B. L. D: 1. L. Davenport ‘Mls Aioroe Gharios ‘Miss Peprl Eytinge ‘Annie Edmondson AMijss Emily Delmar iss Gertie Johnaon iageMllss'T. Reus, Sis Pilly Richardson Miss A. Collins De Witt C ippe ego ft gesun Cholomondally Sturt, Mr, Otis A/Skinner Jeun Antonin Marie Bisbon...//Mr. Leonard Grover Budi. screed, Walter Bronson Mik Air. 1. F. Brennan .From the New York criticisms we should im- agine “My Son-in-Luw” to be a sort of *Sara- tomar’ with the acene laid at the popular metro- politan watering-place, New Brighton. Accord- ing to the New York Herald, Old Fel appears to have struck a bonunza in this his latest elfort. That paper is very-:mphutic in its praise, and snys in its notice of the first performance: “ The author of Our Roarding-House’ must bave been laboring under some doubt after listening tw the laughter and applause which grected his lateat production 23 to which of the two coinc- dies has the advantage in popular favor. The lines are exceedingly mirth-provaking, and tho situations are well chosen and bumorous.” “The motive of the play,” according to the Mirror, “is. to cultivate a hitherto unbroken field, the production of 2 satire on_ every-day people; and in this direction Mr. Grover hus succeeded in drawing a dramatic picturo full of incisive, but, at the sume time, good-natured points. ‘Some glimmering of she mock senti- mentality and extravagant emphasis and regard of Mr. Gilbert's work, notably “Boragens is ap- parent in this of Leonard Grover, but there is not kinship enough to connect them or con- vict Leonard Grover of treading in a field and theme the Englishman has made peculiarly his own. Pungent humor and howling satire dis- '-tinguish the colioqutfes of * My Son-in-Lavw,’ and most absurd situations and funnily-startling complications leud amusement and interest to ‘the action of the piece.” : “HIAWATHA.” Words by Nat Childs; music by E. E. Rice. First production at New York Standard, Feb. 21, 1880., Cast as follow: iawn ‘Miss Alice Atherton William Pei <3. Willie Edoutn emus Br ‘Air, Louls Harrison Romulus Smith. esdeserd ‘Mr. Dixey Mr. George W. Howard Miss Lina Merville ‘Mr. Lo. iss Marion Elmore Sally Bohee._ iss Florence J. Buker ‘Minnebaka,.. -Miss Marion Singer Upon reading the New York criticisms on “Hiawatha,” this new extrayaganza, we suspect that Messrs. Childs and Rice found themselves in pretty much the same kind of 2 box as Mr. Edgar Montgomery did when he searched the newspapers in an ‘earnest spirit of inquiry,” the morning after the production of his * Fulse Friend” at the Union Square. We will illustrate what we mean by a few extracts from, the opinions concerning it, ‘Hiawatha” is g parody upon Longfellow’s poem. “The ‘merits of this latest buriesque,” says the Times, “ are two or three brondiy comic scenes, and two or three fairly effective choruses; otherwise it is a melancholy and incoherent mixturo of weak . commonplace music, and silly horse-piuy. It unpeals to the lowest taste, though, as there is plenty of the stuf in the market, the dis- tinguished author and composor may take hexrt; they will probably reap where others dis- dain tosow. Moreover, they will certainly be commended by the ‘bastard . brood’ of scribblers’,—a fact to be well borne in mind.” The sight of “ Hiawatha” did not arouse the same Virtuous indignation in the breast of the Clipper writer, for he says “it is overbrimming with extravagant nonsense from beginning to end, and its ludicrous situations, witticisms, in- cluding the most heart-rending puns and pretty melodies, are certain to make it enjoyuble even to the most dyspeptic listener who may seck burlesque for an antidote.” On the other hand, the Times man solemnly says: ‘We would not advise any person of sense or refinement to see * Hiawatha,’ since the profit of such sight must necessarily be small, the only impression that it makes being a somewhat confused one in which short skirts, well-displuyed limbs, and not over- modest young women mingle under the search- glare of Hme-light.” —* Musically,” the Clipper wells us, “ the work ia, in \places, more than rr. Rice's former is particularly _ notice- the concerted numbers,” and Mr. Rice's “ambition in this respect has led to gratifying results.” The Timer doesn’t think 80, in that paper we read that “it was gener- ally expected that Mr. Rice's music would have some merits; but it proved to be mere yarlety- hall sing-song.” According to the Clipper the piece wus 2 decided success, and the writer says “a large meusure of the success attained must be credited to the ubility with which the per- formers filled out the requirements of tholr roles, especially when they were well seconded by those in the minor parts.” The Times ia very. hard upon. the members of the Rice Surprise Party ou the other hand. “The mule perform- ers,” the writer allows, “were mostly good enough for their work,” but “the women in the cast Were strikingly out of place. None of them: could sing or act decently, and not one of them was in the least degree attractive. Their talent, we judge, was concentrated in thoir legs.” He is partons, hard ou Mrs. Edouin. “The leader of this ‘bevy of beauties,” be goes on to say, “was Miss Alico Atherton, who is brazen enough to disgust the old boysin the front row.” Summing up the whole affulr the Times re- marks: “In viewing this decadence of a once popular form, though always a coarse and vul- gar form, of burlesque, the hope may fitly be expressed that something of a higher order muy soon take its place.” The Clipper, however, takes a more cheerful view of * Hiawatha.” ‘The performance,” says Frank Queen's piper, “was given with so much dash and spirit and so few noticeable errors that it hardly appeared 8 first-night recital. The piece was, therefore, Judged in good form, and is certainly a worthy companion, musically and nonsensically, to the composer's former and ruccessful effort, * Evan- geline.””" Another notice in the Mirror informs us that “the music is- bright and catchy. the of butlesqua wile perrdtes the whole is bee ch pervades the whole i= nently worthy of Nat Childs.” a aa “4 FOOL AND HIS MONEY.” iy Henry J. Byron. Produced at the New pork Park Theatre, Feb. 24, 1880. | Cast as fol- W, EO SIL Willina Gutlington Miss Rachel Sanger -Aliss Ada Gilman “A Fool and His Money” was one of the sue- cesses of the London season of 1879. Its produc- tion in New York appears to have been a tiat failure. The chief part in the comedy Is that of Charoles netngen ye inent English low co) y J. Byron's work the cee a en are strung a number of laughable sentences and ludicrous situutions. This butler, “having wormed him- self Into the-confidence of his master, omes Into hig werlth to the exclusion of the heir. The heir, Percival Ransome, having met Bi rth Yandaleur, a society adventurer, and his daugh- ter Kate, has fallen in love with her, Henriog of his unclo’s death he invites them to the hull to discover, just. previous to their arrival, thatthe is disinherited. Desiring to remuin in the house, he accepts the position of servantto Chawlesywho gleefully orders him nbout, Chawles purobases an ostate in Wales, and his struggles with bis: new possessions, bis servants, and the English mmar combined, make him utterly miserable, Endeavoring to sever old connections he is pur- sued by a kitchen-mnid,whom be promised in his days of poverty to marry, and who humilitates him before his guests by declaring that and other kindred facts asto his former low estate. After manifold comical situations, caleuluted to show Chawles in hig role of the beggur on horse- back, and in whica he gets off speeches which out-Partington Mrs, Partington, the will is, of course, discovered to be illegul, and the heir, virtue, and morality generally como to the sur- face triumphant with x facility common to the lust acts of most stage stories." The part of the cockney butlur Chawles was given to: Mr. James Lewis, who, as might bave been surmised, was entirely unsuited for the role, ‘The audience was smull and unappreciative nan anilysis of the play the ‘Tribune tells us the story is *slizht, the incidents are mostly grotesque, the churacfers are .thin, the humor 18 greatly strained, and the picee fs us deficient of rational significance as ‘it ig of substance and motive, Dramatic interest cannot be creuted by the use ‘of puppets; and there is not in this play a single character whom {tis possible ta regurd as real, and with whose joys, sorrows, or other experi- ences the human’ heart can for » moment, ee pathize.” The est{nateaof the play in the Times and Sun are substuntially tho same, while the New York Herald speaks of it “not strictly « ‘one-man" play, though many of the best things are put into his mouthand the other churucters all play tohim moro or less, is brill- dunt at times, and itié crammed from the first sentence to the last with puns and Lon mots gen- erally, after Byror geuleeuown style, Afow of the jokes ure old,“and. thera is almost 4 super- abundance of new and sparkling mutter which is we!l worth listening to, and-must perforce be luughed ut, the action and the words being well suited to each other and equally amusing.” : LOCAL NOTES. PASSING EVENTS IN CHICAGO. . Mr. W. D. Eaton retirned to this olty this wel in time to seo the'lust performance of his com- edy, ‘A Triple Courtship.” Anthony & Ellis’ “Uncle Tom’s Cabin'’ com- pany jubilee singers and all open at McCormick Hall to-morrow evening. ‘ Messrs. W. M. Pratt, Thomas W. Keefe; 37:8. Ross, and Miss Fanuie Roberts have satraggled from their several combinations into the city. Bid C. France and his drama, “In the Web," atthe Academy the coming week. Among the variety folks wilt be theSwains, Carrio Lavaraio, and Dolph Levino, " : This evening tho. Minnie Palmer “ Boarding- by the Toole. story is u mere thread upon whic! Isat ance, and out of the fund of his experience, lit- erary ability, and delicate! yochastened taste confers upon my pieve exactly whal re maka in worthy ary place on his boards—Afr. nner." The girl Zco, at the Aquarium, in London, on fan. 3l was thrown from the catapult with such force that hor body wont clean throush the weak netting placed to catch it asit foll. She only just missed hitting the girders, and fell with a crash that was heard all over the building, When pest up ‘one sido of her face appeared to be black with extravasated blood; her teeth ’ projected through her cheek; her body was quiv;, ering violently; she was perfectly unconscious; Mr, A. M. Palmer and Mr, H. E. Abney. have digned a contract in virte of which tha follow- ing plays will be produced at the Park Theatre, of Boston: “French Flats," “The Two Orphans,” “The False Friend,” “The Banker's Daughter," and “The Danichetfs.” These plays will be presented, in most respects, with their origina! casts, scenery, costumes, etc. The con- tragt culls for nn engagement or seven weeks, beyinning April 12, the dante on which thoregular seuson of the Union Square Theatre ends. Various musical improvements huve been made in New York theatres within the past fow months, Mr. Boucicault has put the band into the cellar both in Rootb's Theatre and Wal- lack's. Mr, Mackuye at the Madison Square has ut it into the niic, “If Mr. Abbey, of the ark, “suggests the Tribune of that city, would vomfortubly exstyblish his band upon some nelghboring root his audiences might perhaps retire from, the‘ vicinity without broken ear- drums." A happy thought which might be sug- gested to some of our local managers. Among the cash contributions from the ladies and gentlemen in the dramatic and musical pro- fessions to the Irish Relief Fund, are John Mc- Cnlough, $500: E. A. Sothern, $500; Dion Bouci- cuult, 3100; Luwrence Barrett, $100; John T. Raymond. $100; Barley Campbell, $100; Frank Muyyo, $100 and 10 per cent of the receipts of the Olympic for x month; P, T, Barnum, $100; J.C. MeCollom, $100; Edward Hurrigun, 3100; Tony Hart, $160; Mary Anderson, $100; Fanny Dayen- pers $100; Gilmore's band, $100; Rose Coghlan, 50; Arthur Walluck, $50; Harold B. Wullack, $59; Edwin Price, $50; Mrs, E. L. Davenpart, 20, and many othors smaller sums. PROFESSIONAL DIRUOTORY. ‘ The following stars and combinations will, during the coming week, play ut tho places named, Managers and agents please forward routes by Friday of each week: Attraction, Location. Dats, Anderson, Mary.,... Washington, D. C, 1 Abbey's Vantomime.....0New York (Boothis).::1-31 An Arabian Night” Go.ess,Burlingtony Ves 4 # allthe Rage #275, Boston ‘Theatre Ga. Boston Ideal C Byron, O. Deseorerres Berger Family... Schoo!” compuny will begin a short engagement at Hamlin’s. The company comprise the same -people as were here a few weeks ago. Josh Hart's variety combination will continue another wack at the Olympic. Among the nov- elties will be tho production of u new burlesque, “ Across the Plains in a Smoking-Car,” ‘The engagement of Mra. Annie Ward Tiffany, whivh has been a falny protitable one, came toa closo last night at Hamlin’s. She has confined her efforts while here to. The Child-Stealer.”* “Tommy Jefferson, the comedian,” a local dramatic agent tells us in a note, “is far away in the Black Hills pluy‘ing to ood biz." We ure glad of this more on the Chicago public's ac- count than on Tommy's “The Two Mothers" will be produced on the. $th by the Boston, Theatre company at Me- YVicker’s. ‘A Falsa Friend,” now running at the Union Square, and: The Two Mothers" are sald to bear a close resemblance. The sparkling comedy of “Naval Engage- ments” wil be givon’ by the Garrick Dramatic Chub Brey evening,“ March 5, at the chnpel of the Washingtonian ..Home, for the joint ben- efit of Tabernnelo Division Sons of Temperince and the Bethel Mission. Instrumental and vocal music will be interspersed, so that altogether a delightful entertainment is promiecd. Ben Maginley. now: playing the Judge in“ The Dunites” company,bassecarcd Habberton's new play, “ Dendwood Chums," for next seuson. We understand that the piece was owned by McKee Rankin, but owing to. his projected trip to Eu- rope he hus sold his interest to Mr. Maginley, As the title would iniic:te, the drama deals with Western life, and is shid to be very strong. Maggie Mitchell, at.actress who needs no word of introduction, begins.an engagement at Hoo- Jey’s to-morrow evening. Her repertoire for the week will be: Monday, “Fanchon”; Tuesday, “The Pearl of Savy"; Wednesday matinée, “ Li, Je Barefoot,” anjf‘in the evening," Lorle"; Thu ne “ Jane Eyre” Friday, * Vho Peurl of Savoy” Saturday matjnée, “ Funchon,” and Sat- urday evening, * Little Barefoot." At McVicker’s to-morrow evening, for the first time in this city,.a new comedy company known as “The Strategists” will appear. The entertainment is said to abound in the laughter- moying qualities. found in “Hobbies and kindred farcial affairs. The comprny embraces Mr. Clinton Hall, Mr. 2. J. Hind, Mr. Sol. Smith, Mr. John F. Herne, Mr. W. H. Lytell, Mr. Sam E. Ryan, Mr. L. F. Howard, Miss Ada‘ Monk, Mrs, Sol Smith, and Miss Lizzie Newell. “ Going to bring the Pirates of the Penzance* to your house?” was asked of MeVicker yester- day. “I ain't bri them,—they are to bring them,” fd he. Who?” “Oily Carte." “When?” “On the Ist.” “Contract signed?" “Was last summer... “With whom?” ‘Oily Carte.” Silence. “Are the ‘Pirates’ then com- ing?”” “Don't know,—suppose so.” “If Oily doesn’t bring ’em, otng, to do anything,—law- suits, eh?” “ Wo'l sée. " Exit Mac. . Gen. Jack Haverly got the best of Admiral John Hooley in_ the: Mastodonic-Megatherinn fighton the New York circuit as to who should destroy tho largest quantity of posters, but the Admiral bas got ahead of the General in Bos- - ton. There the General has been: figuring for the possession of a theatre for the last_cighteen months, and hasn't got it yet; while the Admiral —sly old dog—hus quietly stepped into the Nov- elty Theatre of that city, put his name over the door, and begun busine: 7 SCATTERING. GREEN-BOOM GOSSIP. Charles Archer joins the “ Oofty-Gooft" com- pany at Columbus, 0. “Our Rallroad Men,” they say, has been fa- vorably received in Cincinnati. Sardou’s “Patrio,”“ under the name of “Fa- therland,” is soon to be presented at the Boston Museum, = Montion is made of a new drama by John Brougham, entitled “Home-Rulo; or, Justice for Ireland.” ‘ Clara Morris is acting at Baldwin's, San Fran- cisco, and she has a new play entitled “ The Soul of an Actress,” : We read of a new'play by a native drimatist of Icetand, which is beautifully entitled “ Sigri- den Byvjagjordansol.” They say that a new play by Bartley Campbell is wo be produced in the preliminary season at the Union Square Theatre, New York, next fall. Financial distress hits closed the doors of the Milwaukee Theatre. 'Mr. C. S. Sullivun, its lite kewees ig in town looking for something to turn Ada Gray has engaged W. J. Coggswell as a member of ler troupe, and Wood lenson has become a member of the “Alvin Joslin’? com- pany. ? Mrs. Butler (Fanny ‘Komble) recently_said, in reply to a question by the Buroness Burdett- Coutts, thut if Shakspeare could sea Irving in Shylock he would rewrite the part. The New York Tribune says that Mrs. Bowers and Mr. McCollom may be members of Edwin Booth’s company during tho forthcoming short season of that eminent tragedian. It ig said that Charles R, Thorne, Jr., will “star” next season, and that James O'Neill, now at Baldwin's, San Francisco, will take his place as leading mau of the Union Square company. An cffortis afoot in London to found 2 dra- matic academy, A meeting of actors and oth- ers interested in the stage has been held, and Messrs. Hare, Byron, Neville, Vezin, and John Ryder were appointed a committee to draw up a plan. Edwin Booth says of Steele Mackaye’s Madison juare Theatre: “It certainly is the perfection of 2 comedy theatre, It is beautiful in every detail. I hope, with all my hbenrt, that Mr. Sackaye will be amply. rewarded for the great improvement he has made in theatrical decoru- ton und mechanism.” Stuart Robson sends to the Detroit Free Press a vigorous reply to. an onsitught intely made by the Hey. A. 'I. Pierson on the stage, in which the comediun says: “ I challenge the Rev. Pierson to name a single State Prison which numbers among its inmates an actor, and I will edatrib- ute $100 to the Irish:Famine Fund if he can name a single State Prison that does not hold a preacher.”” i ‘At Mackaye's new Madison Square Theatre, ~ Hazel Kirke" will soon be withdrawn in favor of “Masks and Faces,” in which Miss Rose Coghlan will make her first appearance as Pey Wofington. Miss Elisler will uppear us Mabel: Vane, Mr. Murray as ‘Mr. Whiffen as Colley Cibber, und other parts will be mken by Mfr. Couldock, Mrs. Whitfen, and the rest of tue company. Mr. George Clark has been added to the organization, and will appear as Ernest Vane. The Gilbert-Daly controversy over “Charity” i goes on in the New York papers, In the Inst letter by the author of “Pinafore” he thus defines his position: "I am a helpless but rather interesting beginner in stage-craft. I have stumbled upon something which, in more expe- rienced hands, might've sbiped into a stage- play. That secomplished and highly uriginal author, Mr. Augustin Daly, t= 3 comes to my assi Biaisdoll-Dilon j.s+y000 Furlbault, Mi! Owatonua, Minn CBOE OS 8S ato etek Ena Ecce oni be be nie he em Be Hpchester Minn . Waseca, Mf Cavendish, Ada. 2 - 6 Colville’s Folly. - Gritor on Comed: = 6 Sbanfruu... = 6 Coombs, Jane. ni Massilion, Mansfield, 0: cn Wooster, 0. f, Davenport, = 6. pmmet, JK rg = onthe a New Bodfo! 4 Hartford, Cor 5 Newark, N 6 Florence, Mr, and Mrs......Cinclnni 6 * French Flats” “Washington, D.G..... 1-6 France, Sid hicago (Academy)... 1- 6 Gray, Ada... ‘ondulvilte, tnd..,.... 2 oldwater, 4 « Galley Slave,” No. = & Galley Slave,” No. Bed Gctorvon 6 Grau's French o 3 Gilmore's Band. New Haven, Conn. Bridgeport, Conn. South Norwell, Worcester Masi..,,,.. ‘Woonsocket. Providence, i 1. -Cineinnat Alba Haverly’s Mastodons.. 7 Haverly's C.C. C.... Havorly's Georgias, Bavorly’s Juveniles, wae Toys Dubuque, Ta. Muraballtown, Ia. Mahn’s “Fatinitza”, Macauley......+- Murphy, J06.....--s000 ‘Maploson’s Opera. “My Partner”. ‘Maggie Mitchell MeCuttoush, Jot Milton. 8 Alice... ' Paulding, Fred. Palmer, Minnie. sr Biracés.” Combs wBiraces,” Company “Pirates” Company C....0sWes0, Rochester, 3 Lockport, 'N. Bradiord, Pa. Jamestown, “Pirates,” Com D.. Pomeroy, Louse “Photograph” Party......-£ Rooney, Pat. Richmond & Yon Bosle. Maymond. J.B: e wee Rankin, ck’ ==. & Mrs. Milwaukee, Wis... Surprist ew York (Standard) Sothern, B.A. Strakusch Opera. Thursby Emma. ‘Thompson, Den... ‘Munchester, Portsmouth, “Tourista Weatheraby * Sroliques' “Widow Badote”. BESIDE THE BARS, Grandmother’s knitting has lost its charm; Unheedcd it Hes in her ample lap, ‘While the sunsets crimson, soft and warm, ‘Touches the frills of her snowy cap. She is gazing on two beside the bars, Under the m»ple—who little care For the growing dusk, or the rising stars, Ge the hint of frost in the Autumn air, One is a slender slip of a girl, And one a man in the pride of youth; ‘Tho maiden pure us the purest pearl, ‘The lover strong In his steadfust truth. “Sweet, my own, as a rose of June,” ‘He says, full low, o'er the golden head. It would sound to her like a dear old tune, Could grandmother hear the soft words said. For it seems but a little while ago Sinee under the maple, beside the She stood u girl, while the sunset’s glow Melted away "mid the evening-stars, And one, ber lover, 50 bright and brave, Spaxe words us tender, in tones as low; They come to her now from beyond che grave, ‘The words of her darling so long ago. “My own one, sweet as a rose in June!” Her eyes are dim and her hair is white, But her beart keeps tine to the old love-tune As she watches her daughter's child to-night. A world betwoen them, perhaps you say. Yes. One bas read the story throughs One has her beautiful yesterday, "And one to-morrow fair to view. . But little you dream how fond a prayer Goes up to God, through His silver starg,. From the aged woman gazing there, For the two who linger beside the bars. —Margaret E. Sangatcr in Youth's Companton. The Gravel Mines. s inginia City (Nev.) Chronicle, If you want to make a@ certain Virginia City merchant real mad, nsk him if he bas a gravel mine to sell. He got to playing poker one day and won $200, but took in payment an undevel- oped gravel mine. His friends teased bim ter- ribly about the alleged worthless property, and, at last, getting a little excited, he told thom that before he gut through with that mine they would sce that he was not such -a fool as they tookhim for. Then he wrote to some rich ac- quaintances that he had a splendid claim, which, being hard up, he would seil cheup for’ $2,000: ‘Then he bought $500 worth of gold dust and nuggets, and salted the claim thoroughly with them. The capitalists came, prospected a little, bought Jt immediately, and paid him his $2,000: cash. In three weeks they got out $8,000 worth of ore. 3 ‘That Virginia City man didn’t’ smile for 4 mon’ nore PERVERTED QUOTATIONS : Misapprehension and Misrepre- sentation of Great Authors. ‘Are Made Responsible for What How The y They Did Not Write, New York Times. : Thad oceasion recently to look trough “Hudibras,” for the first time jn along while. ‘As I turned the leaves, although I read but here and there, as a quaint rhyme or a quainter fancy caught my eye, I was more than ever impressed by the great merit of the poem, by the weight of thought which is carried so easily—a sort of concealed burden—on the shoulders of its laugh- ing, lightly-moving _- verses. Written ag a mere satire upon the party, and, indeed, upon the person, of the Puritan gentleman in whose house the author waz living, it has, notwithstanding the narrowness of its sub- ject and the familiarity of its style, become a classic in English literature. It owes its position less to its humor and its satire than to its wisdom. It is brimful of that kind of wisdom—a knowledge of man’s heart and of the world—which alone insures a permanent place in literature, and which will insure @ permanent place to an allegory or even toa burlesque. Although Butler oceupies seven pages and a half in Mr. Bartlett’s book, the quotation-mongers are very far from having exhausted “ Hudibras” of its pregnant say- ings. The nuggets of wisdom crystallized ith wit which lie yet unminea along his pags witness eittter that he has fallen into neglect or, preferable alternative, the habit of quotation is passing away; possibly they telLof beth. As [went on pulling out plums, asort ofa literary Jack Horner, £was reminded of the perversity that is so common in regard to what are generally known merely as quota- tions; “ that -is, sententious passages which embody, or rather seem to embody, a eneril truth in'a compact form. ‘The use of these in conversation or in writing is a sige of in- ‘tellectual weakness, The cause of the gen- eral fondness for them is that they save the trouble of thinking. ‘Tothe average man theve seems to be no trouble quite so trouble- some as thatof thought, Asthe Turk liked— sensible fellow that he was—to have his dancing done for him, so the average man likes to haye an author who will do his think- ing for him—be for him an intellectual prancer and poser, and strong man in.the mental circus. He likeste rest upon the con- clusion that another has drawn, especially if it is put in’ a brief, bold, sententious form, and, above all, if it is somewhat paradoxica! and’seems, while it settles the question, to in- volve itin'an air of mystery. ‘This is to be deplored. On the one Side it leads to the en- feeblement and the emasculation of the xen- eral mind, which is brought by it into 4 con- dition of dependence, —a dependence setting itself up for strength on the ground of a per- ception of wisdom; on ‘the other, it tempts ‘writers to become phrase-mongers, sayers of sayings, makers of maxims, utterers of oracles, with the general result of emptiness contained in large pretense, and of the form of wisdom without its substance. General assertions are generally at variance with fact. ‘The world’s mouth is full of say! and aphorisms, and proverbs, and maxims, and oracles, which are only witnesses of the presumption of those by whom uttered and the folly of those by whom they were ac- cepted,—sentences pronounced as final de- cisions and received as such by generations of men which yot would not stand five 1in- utes in the face of fact and of criticism. ‘Two habits of mind are worthy of remark in regard to this use of witty and: aphoristic sayings. ‘The firstis that which attends to the attribution of such sayings to the best- known sayers of them, and the enriching of such men as Shakspeare, Mollére, Roche- foucauld, Talleyrand, and Sidney Smith with the little wealth of others; which is but the operation of tha} grievous law, to hin that hath shall be given, and from him that that hath not shall be taken away that which he hath,—one of the very few gencral laws which are absolute and unchangeable both in the moral and in. the- material world. But- ler, for example, the occasion of our present colloquy, is almost universally credited with the couplet: ‘He who fights and runs away - Maylive to fight another day. But Butler did not write this. It is not in “Hudibras.” There, indeed, we find two couplets to the same purpose; but they are these: Es For those that run away and fly ‘Take place at least o” th’ enemy. In the third canto of Part First, and in the third canto of Part Third: For those that fly may fight again, ‘Which he can never do that’s slain. Even the idea is not Butler’s; and the very words in which it is generally clothed are buta translation by Udall, who. lived 100 years before Butler, of an old Greek proverb quoted by Demosthenes, and set forth in the apothegm of Erasmus, Udall’s translation, published in 1564, is: my git $ G |. That same man that reuneth awaie -. Maie again fight, an other daie. “And his translation of Erasmus’ comment on his is: i “ Judgeyng that it is more for the benefite of ones countree to reune awaiec in battaill than to lese nis life. Foruded man can fight no more, but who hath saved hymself alive by reunynj awaie may in manie battailles mo, dooe service to his countree.” (Page 372, ition 77. _ It is, however, in the perversion of senten- tious passages and aphorisms that the weak- ness of the general mind is most often and most clearly shown. For the change is al- ways, not toward simplicity and truth, but toward paradox and falsehood. Of this also Butler furnishesan example, Fewercouplets are oftener quoted than this: Aman convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still. And for the quoter thereis plainly a charm, —a fascination in the thought that a man may be convinced, and yet be of the same opinion that he was of before he was con- yinced, And ‘then the thing rhymes, and it is in two lines, “adapted to the meanest ca- vacity. But Butler wrote no such thing. What he did write was: - He who complies against his will 4s of the same opinion still. This is true enough. A inan’s. complying has nothing to do with his intellectual con- victions. ‘This, however, does not satisfy the demand fora saying that shall be oracular and mysterious. Itistoo plainly true. The world will. go on pronouncing as judgment the OUBEnSS that it has put into Butler’s mouth. S Alike perversfin, and one more harmful, is that ofa saying supposed to be divinely in- spired, because itis attributed to St. Paul, that “money is the root of ali evil”? ‘This is not only so general in everyday talk as to be almost universal, but the aphorism is thus <presented inthe books of authors of repute. inet with it lately in one of Mr. Trollope’s, and Irecollect meeting it in the works of reverend divines and doctors of divinity. Now, in the first place, Paul; at first or at second hand, wrote no such nonsense. In the latter part of his first egistle to Timothy he wrote: “For the love-of money is the root of all evil, which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith.” ‘The perversion has been made easy by the use of the analytical phrase love of money,” instead of the synthetical term, “ covetousness.” Had Tyndale’s and Wicliffe’s translations remained, which make the Apostle declare that covetousnesg is the rootof all evil, the perversion would have been impossible, and the world would have been deprived of a supposed inspired denun- ciation of that which every man in civilized life must have or die in misery. But even the declaration that the love of money fs the root of all evil is not St. Paul’s, and has not a divinely-inspired origin. Here, again, Erasinus comes to ouraid with his col- lected apothegins, in which he tells us of that dirty old Pagan cynic Diogenes that “full often and inanye a time did he saye covetous- hesse of money to be the head palaice or head citee of all evils.” (Page 131, edition 1877.) The Greek word which is here translated head palaice, or city, is merely one which we have transferred bodily into English—me- tropolis; which means, properly, not the head or chief city, but’ the originating or mother city, and thus contains clearly Paul’s idea of the root. - A declaration of St:'Peter has been no less perverted, although ina different way. He 1s constantly quoted (although most of those who quote him do not know their author) as saying: “Charity covers a muititide of sins’; and as meaning that if a man be char- itable, many sins shall be forgiven him. Now, these were neither Peter’s words nor his meaning. What Peter did write, as he was exhorting ‘the Christians scattered throughout -Asia Minor toa good and gra- cious life, was: “And, above all things, have fervent charity [or, rather, love, agape’) among yourselves; for charity will cover the multitude of s| ly He who has cha ins in bis others will not be strict to mark: what isd amiss, but will shut hiseyés faults, th n author very unlike St, an srample of a saying the Tied ane deentre ly vert i e context. — Bulwer is conti: as authority for the aphorism mightier than the sword.” wrote no such nonsense. “Richelieu,” which is thus - But its meaning, is this: to many of their perverted by its ae The twisted” cat for long ‘arnt from 8 The woted pen Buin ot Beneath the rule of men enti »-fha pen is maightler than the sora ~Act IL, Scene 2° How often do men “entire; pear in the world, that either government,.or under their hands or minds, the than the aword? For only say that itis mightier. But this may be will be v IY great” oy ‘under thele the ‘direct contro} ni then ‘does nights ul wer g unsatisfactory, particularly to the nome Rs writers of powerful articles i; pers; and the eee that Bulwer said that their weapon powerful than Gen. Grant’s. And, he Is, except in the fiel Of all passages perverted by placement, however, one toast is quoted is'the-most plainly and twisted from its proper meaning, the saying attributed to Shakspe: “One touch of nature makes the world, -kin.” To. they are generally more to be dread . TOUS world will continue to be eat is more ind ed that Violent dis. Oftenest directly Whole my astonishment, - found ‘this even on the title-page 4 the Globe edition of Shaks; where, however, I_ cannot was placed by the editors; an pears as a part of a fanciful remarked upon this passage ATE’S Wi elleve ors Indeed, levice. I before, but it that it itap- have will dono harm to consider it the meaning that it has when thus ken and the doctrine of of the contex! ted in support, are dir is always quot Which it rectly op. posed to the purpose with which it’ was written. Probably not one in a thousand of those who glibly cite it speare’s dictum knows in w it occurs, and of those who hundred as “Shak. ich of his an know, probably not one in a thousand has read itinity proper connection, It is in “Troilus and Cressida,” one of the most rarely read of Shakspeare’s plays, except by the of Shakspeare. true lov Fhe play was written at ey periods; and of the part produced in the pitied the speeches. put into the Bey lysses are eminent, even among Shak. speare’s drama' their dee: insight into the heart poetry, for their ‘wisdom, of ian. In the speeches of Ulysses in this play we get more nearly a personal utterance from, Shak. speare’s sel writings. than we do in any other of his In one of these speeches Ulysses ig craft endeavoring to draw the surly Achilles nt of his retirenleft - into the leadership of the Greek battle again. Achilles has complained that of late he has not been treate ashe thinks, with so much consideration as hehad before'been in thie habit of receiving. Uh ses tells him that he is right, and that the neglect is because his retirement is causing mento forget his great deeds, and that he cannot expect to be honored always for what he has done. world is addicted to paving new, and that a trivial nove The son of Autolycus toexplain that this is becanse the ole after something - ity will make most men forget great worth which lacks the giit- ter of freshness; and that this trait isons that mankind. Here marks the kindred of all the passage: ‘Time hath, my Lord, a wallet on his back, Wherein he A grent-size ‘Those scraps are ats alms for oblivion; vour'd monster of ingratitudes. - good deeds pust, which are de- As fast as they are made; forgot as soon ‘Asdone. Perseverance, my dear lord, Keeps honor bright. ‘To Quite out of fagnion, like a rusty Tn monumenta! mockery. For time is like a fasulunable host ' 01 have done, is to nang mall ~ ’ I That slightly ‘shakes his parting guest by th’ fan ee And with his arms outstretch’d, as he would fy, Grasps in the corner. Welcome ever amiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing jt was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all” . To envious and calumniating time. One touch of Nature makes the’ whole world kin— . ‘That all ae one consent praise new-born gawds, ? Though they are made and molded of things past, % And give to dust that is a Ititle.gilt « More laud than gilt o’erdusted, he present eye praises the present object. ® ye aa a Scenes. A mighty passage; whether we regard it as aspeech of persuading Ulysses to reluctant Achilles, or as the utterance_by Shakspeare of a judgment on mankind. But observe the meaning-of the oft-quoted line. "It isnot that one touch of mature makes the whole world kin, that is, that an exhibition of natural feel- ing draws the whole world together in one- ness of Kindred, but quite the contrary, that there is one manifestation of huma in nature which shows that ail nen are alike, and this is that they all forget past merit new-born gawdas,” and that they and “ praise —give to dust that is a little gilt; More land than gilt o'erdusted. ( This trait of mankind, upon which Ulys#s has been in which ouring down lis lofty scorn, it fs Bhakspeare says the whole worl is akin; andthus that which is usnallyquoted. as a support of a much-support-needing a man-flattering notion is really a satirical, cynical, almost savage gibe upon the whols human race,—one worthy of Timon, if he were wise enough to utter it. Butin will be, in vain this’ perversion. as “been, the exposure of Men will go on. citing Shakspeare as they have cited Butler Bulwer, and Paul and Peter, in support ot the nonsense that it pleases them ato Belen A SYMPHONY IN SMOKE. A pretty, piquant, pouting pet, ho fikes to muse and take her eas2y She loves to smoke a cigaret, To dream in silken hammocket, ‘And sing and swing beneath the trees— A pretty, piquant, pouting pet. Her Christian name is Violet; Her eyes are blue as Sumrmer-seasi She loves to smoke a cigaret. As calm as babe in bassinet, She swingeth in the Sumnmer-breeze— A pretty, piquant, pouting pet. She ponders o'er a novelet~ Her parasol is Japunese— She loves to smoke a.cixaret. She loves a fume without. a fret— Her frills are white, her frock cerlse— A protty, pouting, piquant pet. She almost gbes to sleep, and yet, Halt lulled by vooming honey-becs, She Ioves to smoke a ciguret. A winsome, clever, cool coquet, Who flouts all Grundian deerees— A pretty, pouting, piquant pet, Wo loves to sumoxe a clguret. —Harper's Bazar. - $$ Arsenio in Kindergartens. AtLEGueny Crry; Pa., Jan.10.—~ been of late, in the local newspai deal of discussion,‘pro and con, the merits and demerits of the kind system. Without presuming to Whether the system is abit than local iuterest. ‘here bag pers; a guvd - i concerning rtelt ereehla vish to, good or bad, I wis! under the notice oo pour renders a aoe le fact in connection with i ‘A. friend of amine ia Pittsburg, who has‘a little daualiter beng instruated (or amused) in one of, gartens here, recently handed -nle Pieces of a green-colored paper W ehild brought told mz that one of the amusements dren in such ingtitutions out of various colored papers and as‘ to cut Kinder fe- some hich home from the institutions) ie 0 res aston them into designs of,different, kinds, the ” of such nmusements being tinguishing various shades of color ferences of furm. The green pape mentioned Ihave very caefully of arsenite of copper, W people nowadays know poisonous. In these days of toinstruct iF ‘and dif r above examines and I find that it contains an seb ost Weck assertion by pretended mei: of science, itwa) be well to fortify my statement, ingly send you two | one of which contains 9 mirror of arsenic, and the other a ring arsenious acid, both of them f -erys' Clerived from and I acco! ermetically sealed tu metallic tals of the green paper, of which L also send peed sample. Several mirrors were 0! ybtaint piece a fragment of paper half the size of ett ed inclosed, and material enough was from it to produce several more. _ tals can be recognized, under a 300 the microscope, as octahedra. Kno’ that such paper is used in all other gartens throughout the countr. ‘The crys, 3+ cing every” also the habit of children putting a espe thing available in cialiy of swallowing: a dort cofured with an arsenical pigme the severest reprehension. serving of may, it you feu nee fit. Yours truly: ‘as you may see fit. You Geonce iiay, M.D. lease, show these tul their mouths, am paper, I think the use of nt de You to any hemists of your city, OF describe ‘Analyst