Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1880, Page 12

Copland).........-.. Willow st, 73 ft w of Bi dated July 30 (Estate of William 0: 12 HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST I, 1880—SILXTHEN PAGES. ‘REAL ESTATE. “Land Market Dull, but Promising an Early Activity. Sales Made Last Week of City and Suburban Property. Steady Building Movement—New Fac- * tories—Permits of the Week. - Sewerage Contracts—City Improvements —Miscellaneous. Real estate was reported very dull by the agents, but the market shows bencath the surface signs of coming strength. Dealers are receiving important orders to buy for business houses and for railroads. Some very large transactions of that kind have been made that for obvious reasons have not been permitted to goon record. Capitalists who are - TIRED OF PAYING HIGH PREMIUMS for low-income securitivs are making in- quiries about investments to be made in real estate, Large holders are anxious rather to keep the market quiet, and buy a little more while they can, than to “bull” teal estate. Long-headed dealers are rid- ing over the country, looking for sites of tligible subdivisions to accommodate our growing suburban population. These and other straws give the experienced dealers who have seen more than one real-estate tide at the flood confidence that this ebb is about at its end. Thomas & Bragg report the following sales: 100x161 feet, west front, on Michigan avenue, between Forty-eighth and Forty- ninth streets, for $3,500; No. $13 (old nun- ber) Michigan avenue for $6,500; ten acres In Sec. 16, 37, 14 for $3,500; cottages No. 372 and 3+4 (old numbers) Cottage Groveavenue,, and cottages Nos. 46 and 4S Fourteenth street, With lot 100x105 feet northwest corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirtieth street, for $9,000; 26x178 feet, west front, Calumet avenue, between Twerty-sixth and Twenty- aiuth streets, for $1,430 and taxes of 1880; 26x 178 feet, west front, on Calumet avenue, north of and adjoining last, for $1,508. and taxes of 1880; 75x178 feet, west front, on Cul- amet avenne, south of and adjoining first, for 54,0S0and taxes of 1880; 25x178 feet, east front, on Calumet avenue, between Twenty- sixth and Twenty-ninth streets, for $1,750. and taxes of 1880; 154x178 feet, west front, on | Prairie avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth streets, for $15,500; 25x178 feet, west front, on Prairie avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth streets, for $3,125; 538x178 feet, west front, on Prairie avenue, between Twenty-sixtb and ‘Twents- ninth streets, for $6,360 and taxes of 18805 30x. 178 feet, east front, on Prairie avenue, be- tween Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth stréets, for $4,000 and taxes of 18%; 50x 178 feet, east front, on Prairie avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth streets, for $6,250. and taxes of 1880; 50x18 feet, east front, on Prairie avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth streets, for $6,500; No. 2704 Prairie avenue, frame cot- tage, and Jot 25x178 feet, for , taxes of 1080; No. 2710 Prairie avenue, frame cot- tage and lot, g 178 feet, for 33,900, taxes of 1880; No.'2714 Prairie avenue, frame cottage and lot, 2oxi7s feet, for $3,600, taxes of 1880; and in connechon with W. D. Kerfoot & Co., store No. i148 South Clark street, with Jot 25x. tet feet, for $36,000, all cash, and taxes of J.C. Magill has sold house 188 Vincennes avenue, with 4-foot lot, for $3,520; house and lot, 180 Warren avenue, for $6,000; house and lot, 21 Hoyne avenue, for $1,000; house and Jot, 210 Kossuth street, for $1,050. IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK were 19}¢x125 feet on Tompkins street, south- Westeorner of West Polk, improved, $4,300; 30 feet to alley on West Adams street, near Morgan, improved, $7.000; 25x132, improved, on West Lake street, west of Wood, $5,200; 25x15 on West Madison street, west. of Lin- coln, $5,500; 25x94, improved, on Sherman. street, north of Harrison, $6,250; -597x264 on Fabius street, nortiwest corner of Belden avenue, $15,000; 50x100 on West Lake street, northeast corner uf Carpenter, $4,870; 50x125 on North avenue, northwest corner of Sheffield, $3,000; 1S 2-10x95 on Fulton street, northwest corner of Uakley, improved, $3,300; 50x159 on Jefferson, south of Van Buren, $5,500; 120x100 on Cook, southeast corner of Dunn, $12,000; 25x20i0n North, Franklin street, north of Schiller, improved, $3,900; 25x1183¢ on State street, south of Thirty-sec- ond street, $3,200; 26x10 on Prairie avenue, south of Twenty-sixth street, $3,765; 264x125 on Layton, southwest corner of Stewart ave- nue, $5,200; 25x105, improved; on Pacific ave- nue, bear Polk street, $4,000; 2x82 on Fifth u on, $10,000; 50x16) on Forqner street, northwest curner of Jef- ferson, $8.900; 25x100 on North avenue, east of Wells street, $5,600. Schrader Bros. have sold 90-feet_on Clark street, near Burtun place, for $90 per foot; 25 feet on La Salle street, neur Schiller, for. $100 per foot; 50 feet on Dempster place, in Lake View, for $25 per. foot; house No. 315 Rush street for $7,500; and a house and lot at No, 325 Chureh strect for $2,750, A, nun- ber of small lotson Halsted street, near’Nine- teenth, have been sold for $500 each. The company report also the ‘sale of a at Kenosha, Wis., of 260 acres, for $8,500. HYDE PALK agents report a good demand in Hyde Park for lots to build oe : BY TRANSFERS. The follo instruments were filed tor record Friday, July 30: iE . CITY PROPERTY. Kissam st, 7 ft e of Lyue,.s f, 256x156 ft, dated July 28 (C. N. Trivess to Ellen Ohio st, HO fteof North LaSalle st.sf, . S5xluv ft, dated July 29 (M. C. Baldwin to George H. Baxter). riepete Webster av, 48 it w of Fabiu: nf, 4x 1% it, dated July 15 (James Morgan to John Meyer). ........---++- Carroll av, 25ft w of Lincoln 123 ft, duted July 3 (Lucy C. Sibley to John W. Pope)... 2... ceeeeee sees eons The premises No. 325 Church st, dated July 30 (Elizabeth Staug to Wilbelmine Schoener) ee . 2,750 Pacitic av, ty (05 {t, duted July 30 (Jacob Fritzinsky to Mayer Sgroziski).......... sigsesee Pacific av. 297 {tn of Polk st, w f, 25x105 ft, improved, dated July 30 (Mayer Sgroziski to Jacob Fritzinsky)......... A Fitth av, 66 ft o. of Jackson st, wf, 2x62 mt, Gated July 29 (John Voice to Howard Jones to Christian Wilhelm). . ........ Forquer st, 0 w cor of Jefferson, s f, 50x. 164g fr, “dated July 30 QL J. Stern to Waterville st, nw cor of ‘Thi rd, undivided % of 253 {t to river, dated Juty: 30 John’ G. Shortall to Estate of Samuel Stone)........ cde Oukwood st. 2 w cor of North State, s f. 39 6-10x78 ft. dated July 17 (Louise Gauer to Emil R. Haase)............ ait North Clurk st, #% ft n of Belden place, ef, Soxlio tt, dated July 30 (Francis W, to 270 @iichaci Harrold to Milwaukee av, 45; fts e of Western av, ne f, 2x100 ft, dated Juty 10 (estate of John H. Browning to Sacob Bibler)..... ‘West Eighteenth st, 25 fte of Latin st, ef, 2xi%4 ft, dated July 13 (David B.Lea eae a ari umsey st, 15) ft n i cated July 20(Henry Busse to Joseph Hamilton av, 145 n of Adams st, w f, 50x 128 ft, and other property, dated July 28 (David B. Lyman to Alonzo Newbre)... North av (No. 460), 199 fte of Wells st, nf, 25x100 ft, dated July 30 (Charles Schuefer to C. Henry Henrici)... 5,600 SORTH OF CITT LONTS, WITHIN TUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-ROUSE. Marianna st, 147 ft e of Racine av, nf, 25 x12 ft, dated July 23 (H. B. and C. H. Cram to C. H. Henrich).......2...2...-.+ Ashlund ay, n e cor of Montana st, wf, 244x100 ft, dated July &% (L. Miller to J. Reschke)..... 0... .05-sce-eseceeeseneeee Ashland av, 245 {tn of Montana st, wf, pero dated July 21 (L. Miller to F. gaesget § 0,000 50 WEST OF CITY SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Edbrook place, 178 ft w of Western av, n f, 54x13: ft, with improvements, dated July 28 (Will H. Moore to Mary BR. Ko- JaSocksaedtsaveCactaseSctssteserec ORO) ft The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, July 81:- - - CITY PROPERTY. , x 131 446 ft n of North av, w: Norra fe dated daly al (Ole EethOrSOR be a a * f, 25x125 ft, dated May 3 (Aaron L. Cha- » “pin to. William Lovb)...... } for a term of fity years from Alay 8, 1880, al to Jobn Moran) .... 22-8) 600 Carpenter st, 20 ft.8 of Erie, ef, 20x116 ft, . - dated June 24, 1875 (J. ‘Thomas Steren- sou to. Adolph W. znd O. E. Wolft).. ‘Tweuty-sccond st, 105 ft w of Archer av, 8 f, 20x10) (t, duted July 23 (Joun Maher 950 Ware Nncicentn st, ad G40. fe" we ot * st Nineteen . 249 ty Th sent waxi2t fi.dated July 30(Cor- nelia, cek, . Williams to John S Seniller. w f, 20x105 Feige Sohulor st, ne cor Wieland, sf, aurry Point road, 86 corof Redzienv,n ~! . Sat-10xL%5 ft, and other property, dated. June 25 (Francis L. Stewurt.to * Henry Parker)... ..s0.s0e.eee eee Sixteenth st, 88 ite of Throop, § f, und X of 4x100 ft, dated July 21 (Annie Dolan to James M. Walker) allace st, 27¥ ft nof Thirty-iirst, of, Mx1d0~ ft, dated July 28 (Charles H- Curtis to sfichael MeMahon)..... Burling st, 14$i3 ft n of Willow, wf, 24x 131 ft. dated fay ot (Sohn Lorig to Mar- un and Maria Kribs). ........... oe Franklin st, 115 ft s of Eugenle, w f, S33x 124 tt, with improvements, dated July 22 (John Lorig to Adam Kuchenbeiser and wife)........ en slessace Wieland st, 714 {t sof North av, 1, 26x Yu's Tt, with improvements, dated July 27 Wavid Bruckmann to Charles Ofen- loch and wife)...i. seesrysce 4,000 Alaska st 22% ftw 6 S 69 ft, with cottage, dated July 15 (Thomas Kelly to Wilhelmina Ortnann). ‘Thirteenth place, 24 ft oof Wood st. nf, 2Ax12%5 ft, duted July 23 (Michael O'Don- uell to Patrick Green)... .....0e00eee Randciph st, 13334 ft wof Fifth av. s f, 26%x180 ft, dated July 30 James H. Bice to Jane G. Jones, trustee). ‘Wilmot av, 30 fi.n w of Hoyne av.sw 54x12 ft, dated July 17 (Albert Slielke to Hermann Mielke et al,)........-.00-0+ Twenty- nth st, 6 ecurverof Wallace, nf, 35x125 ft, dated May 1 (John O'Shea to William Loeb)... ‘Twenty-seventh st, 25 of Wallace, nf, 100x125 ft, dated May 3 (David Davis to Wiitlam b). wna. oceeee ones est Tyweuty-seventh st, 3 fie of Wallace, n 3,100 # ‘750 1,800 25,000 800 ‘Twenty-seventh st, se corner of Wallace, nf, 200x125 ft, dated July 9 (William Leb to City of Chicago)......... SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers, within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House, filed for record during the week enaing Saturday, July 31: City—Sales, 95; consideration, $298,- 423, North of city limits—Sales, 8; consid- eration, $5,114. - South of cii y limits—Sales, 9; consideration, $16,075. West of city limits—Sales, 2; consideration, $3,700, Total sales, 115; total consideration, $323,282. LEASES. ‘The Committee of the Board of Education who had the matter in charge have recoin- mended that new leases be granted to the following parties: — ..To Thomas G, Otis, a lease of Lots 32 and 34, in Block 142, in-School Section Addition an annual rent ve of $4,320 for the: first TS. To George L. Otis, a lease of the west one- third ad) of Lots 1 and 2, in Bioek 142, in School Section Addition, fora term of fifty Years from May 8, 1880, atan annual rental of $2,580 for the first five years. . Lo Robert D. Sheppard, a lease. of Lot 31, in Block 142, in School Section Addition, for a term of fifty years irom May 8, 1880, at an annual rental of $2,376 for the first five years. 'o J, E. Otis, 2 lease of east 3{ of Lots1 and 2, in Block 142, School Section Addition, for a term of fifty years from May 8, 1880, at an anaual rental of $8,640 for the first five years. Ouly a moderate amount of BUILDING is going on in comparison with what was ex- pected, but there is still enough of it te make a good show. Several stories of the outside wall of C. L. Epps & Co.’s malt-house, at the corner of Dickson street and Bloomingdale road, havebeen putuv.-This will be the largest malt-house in the city, 160x80 will have a capacity of 500,000 bushels, and, will cust$40.- 000. It has sidetracks trom both the St. Paul and Northwestern. Bemis & Carder are rebuilding a inalt-house, 125x70, five stories high, and to cost 515,000, on Goose Island, at the corner of Hickory avenue and Bliss street. An addition, 144x157, costing $10,000, is being made by Mr. John Feather- stone to his Columbia Foundry on Front street, near the Northwestern . Railway. Alunger, Wheeler & Co., have between i and 250 men at work on their new elevator at the corner of Canal and Fulton. J. A. Lomax’s soda-water establishment on Con- gress street, between Fifth avenue and Franklin, is being enlarged to a frontagé of 207 feet ata cost of $35,000. W. H. Derby is building some small cot- tages, costing about $750 each, in the neigh- borhood of the car-shops of the Rock Island. at Fifty-fifth and State streets. ‘They rent for $15 month, Lots in the vicinity sell for $700 each. £ . E. S. Dreyer & Co. have loaned $18,000 for building a block of nine houses on Franklin .Street, north of Wisconsin street, in what is called Park place. These houses will be three stories high, will be brick, and will _Cost about $3,000 each. The same firm have made a loan for building two houses on State street, south of Goethe, to cost about $t,000 each. THE SUGAR REFINING COMPANY. It has been found necessary, before pro- ceeding to the erection of the mammoth glue cose works of the Chicago- Sugur-Refining Company, at the corner of Beach and Taylor streets, to do considerable piling in order to secure a good foundation for the vast weight -of the proposed superstructure.’ The ground ut the point where the new ‘works are to be Jocated is of soft, yielding earth, and would give but frail support to fhe mass of. brick, stone, and iron which is to be reared above it, The necessity of: piling, therefore, be- came apparent, and the Company is gettin: ready to go ahead with this initiatory wor! as early and as rapidly as possible. Some 4,000 or 5,000 Jong piles are already on the. grownd or in course of transportation thither, and the additional cost of the works from this source of outlay alone is esti- mated at not far from $100,000. The pili will commence in a few days. The plans ‘ot the buildings have not arrived yet, but are pected within a week or so, when the main work willat once proceed. The Company proposes to work night and day in order to get the buildings up and under cover be- fore cold weather sets in. ‘The Council, it will be remembered, passed an_ ordi- nance a few weeks ago giving it permission to dig a tunnel from the lake to the proposed works, in order to obtain its necessarily large water supply. The Com- pany still expects to take its water by this method, although its’ agent, Mr. Henry C. Carver, stuted to a TRIBUNE reporter yester- day thatthe matter had not as yei been definitly decided, and intimated ‘that the uestion of cost had something to do with le present nucertainty on that point. It is doubtful, however, if any better method can be devised for obtaining so large 2 quantity of water as will be needed, and the present expectation of the Company to get its suppl: in this way will in all provability be Tealteed. IN THE BUILDING PERMITS OF THE WEEE, numbering 101 for structures to cost $110,- 000, were tho&e to Jonn Kerwan, three-story dwelling, 50x60, at No. 323 Franklin street, $9,000; Patterson, two two-story dwell ings, 45x36. at Nos. 51 and 53 Erie street, 2,800; E. Haen, three-story dwelling, 25x48, at No. 705 North Franklin’ street, $2,500; F. Novak, two-story dwelling, No. 563 Centre avenue, $4,500; Franz Broz, two-story dwell- ing, Nineteenth street, neat- Throop. $2,400; ‘aclav. speavonicel, two-story dwelling, cor- ner of May and Eighteenth’ streets, $2,800 Heida and Lotholz, two three-story dwe ines, vos. 286 to 190 Indiana street, $10, ; Patrick Ryan, three-story store dwelling, No. 3501 State street, $8,000; one to R. Brown, to erect a two-story dwell” ing, No. 116South Hoyne street, to cost $3,000; one to John Kronenberger, to erecta two- story store and dwelling, corner of Halsted and Clay streets, to cost $2,600; one to Flor- ence McCarthy, to erect a two-story dwelling, corner of Western avenue and Twenty-third | Street, to cost $3,500; one to J. Lauritzen, to erect a two-story store and dwelling, corner of State and ‘Chirty-sixth streets, to cost 000; one to J.C. Hambleton, to erect a en dwelling, No. $58 Dearbor nue, to cost$12,000; one to C. Phillips, to erect a two-story dwell 2451 Wentworth ovenue, to cost $5,400; one to W. E. Hall, to erect_a two-story dwelling, Prairie avenu: near Twenty-ninth street, to cost $6,000; an oue to H. A. Hanson, to erect a two-story dwelling, Evergreen avenue, near Milwaukee avenue, to cost $3,700. a Ex-Alderman Pearsons -is building at the corner of North Clark street and “Burton lace eight ten-room houses, two stories in ight, with a basement. They huve stone fronts, and will cost $3,500 each. Afr, Mathew Johnson is putting up at a cost of $15,000 an apartment house on Dearborn avenue, to accommodate six families, Each apartinent will contain seven rooms. "NEW SEWERS. Contracts were awarded last week for all the sewer-work that isto be done this year, excepting that on the Twenty-second-street sewer. in the Third and Fourth Wards $9,625 is to spent; in the Fitth, $12,900; . in. Sixth and Seventh, . $5,581; in the Eleventh and Twelfth, $4,793; in the Thirteenth and Four- teenth, - $14,718; .in the Fifteenth, $4,718. There will be no work done out of this year's ppropriation in the First, Second, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, -and Eighteenth Wards, ‘TRUUNE of last Wednesday contained a full statement of the different localities to be sewered, ~ +." NEW HORSE-RAILROADS. Two applications for rights of way for horse-railroads were laid before the Commo) Couneil at its last meeting. : Ald. Everett presented a petition and ordi- nance granting the Metropolitan Horse-Rail- way Company the right to lay down a rail- way track on Lake street from: Michigun avenue, and upon Canal street from Lake to Fourteenth street. Ald. Shorey presented the petition and or- dinance of the People’s Horse & Dummy Railroad Company, by E. G. Asay, its Presi- dent, asking for permission tu construct, maintain, and operate its road over the fol- lowing route: Union Park place, between Lake and Fulton streets; Fulton, between | Union Park place and Maplewood avenue; Harrison street, between Franklin street an Campbell avenue; Fourteenth street, be- tween Canal street and Ashlud avenue; Frankiin street, between Lake and Hprrison streets; Centre avenue, between Hurrison aud Fourteenth streets; Throop street, be- teen Fourteenth street and the Chicago River; Michigan avenue, between the north side of Lake street and the south side of Adams street; Adams street, between the east side of Michigan avenue and the west side of Canal street; and on Jackson street, between the east side of Canal street: and Campbell avenue. . Both these applications were referred to the Comunittee on Railroads. Ata meeting of property-owners of West Lake street on Friday a communication was addressed to the Common Council Commit- tee on Railroads stating that within five days they proposed to submit to the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Chicago a petition for the passage of an ordinance for a horse-railroad track on Lake street, and until such an ordinance has been so pre- sented as above stated, and shall have been Teferred to the Committee, or some other committee, they respectfully asked to post- pone any action on all other petinons in ref- erence to the above, CITY IMPROVEMENT NOTES, Contracts have been awarded for curb- ing, grading, and paving, North avenue from Wells street to the Chicago River, and for curbing, filling, and paving Monroe street from Robey to Oakley avenue. ,At the last meeting of the Common Coun- cil an order was presented and referred to the proper Commiyee directing the Commissioner of Public “Works to cause a portion of the Lake Park, not exceeding 650 feet in length. to be prepared for and desig- nated as a parade ground, and_-that the sev- eral military organizations of this’ city be Perinitted the free use of the same at such times and under such rules as the Commis- sioner may direct. The Craughisman of the Illinois Central Railroad, M. James Nocquet, has finished the drawings for the viaduct, to be built by that Company over its track at the FOOT OF RANDOLPH STREET, The viaduct will start from Michigan ave- nue, and will have a grade of seven and a haif feet to the hundred. ‘The roadway will be twenty feet wide, with a footpath tive feet wide. The approaches at each end of the viaduct will be of cut stone. The iron structure between the approaches will, have a total length of 1,375 feet, and will be of the model known ag the Pratt truss. This structure, consisting of twenty-three spans, will rest upon. iron columns. ‘Lhe floor of the vinduct will be nineteen teet above the railroad-tracks. There will be two gas Jamps upon every other span. In order that the viaduct may be.protected to 2 convenient connection with the outer docks it will be necessary to fillin the edge of the lake for a distance of 2¢0 feet and for a width of eighty fect. The water et the point where the filling will be made is about ten feet deep on an average. The cost of the viaduct will be about $100,000, and it will be | finished this year. PAVEMENTS. The best of the experimental pavements on the Michigan avenue boulevard is said by Commissioner Waller to be a sample of asphaltum and Ifmestone pavement laid on Michigan avenue just north of Twenty- secon street, about a year ago. Work is now going forward on the street paving in front of the Government Building, Medina sandstone blocks are the material used. Superintendent McDowell has re- ceived instructions from the Department to award the contract for the unfinished. por- tion of the sidewalk to. A. W. Eggleston, of this city. The contract is for 24, feet of stone, at a total price of $5,040, of which $3,- 120 is for the stone, $300 for the exeayation, $820 for sand, and $1,800 for lay! if Work will be commenced immediately and. pushed ravidly, so as to keep ahead of the laying of thy street payment. . The Canal Commissioners have formall; Protested against the building of the pro- posed bridge across the canal at Lock street, for the reason that they want to occupy the ground thereabouts. They suggest that the ridge be put at the intersection of Ashland avenue and the ednal, but since the structure is already under way this is impracticable. The Coimuittee on Railroads of the Com- mon Council have agreed on a favorable re- port on the ordinance allowing the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad Company to mave its tracks to the west side of Stewart avenue, between Grove and Thirty-ninth streets, The Company intends, after moving. the tracks, to build a fence east of them to allow of the use of the east side of the street for team- iz, etc. wners of property north of Lincoln Park have bought the roadside house, that has been such a detriment to their interests, and the Lincoln Park drive will be at once ex-. tended through Belmont avenue. B A, Boston correspondent of the Tribune of New York gives an account of the success 0} : BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS IN BOSTON. ‘There are three of them,—the Homestead Co- operative Saving Fund & Loan Association, the Pioneer, and the Woringmen’s, the latter just started. The first two are in part under the same management, and all are in a thriv- ing condition. The system upon which these associations are conducted is similar to that of the Philadelphia Building Association. ‘The shares in these Joan associations ate is- sued in. quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly series, and the ultimate value of each is $200. No individual is allowed to nold more than twenty-five shares in either cor- ration. pon each share the stock- holder is required“... to pay a monthly “due,” as it is called, of $1, until such share shall, under the provisions of the act, reach the ultimate value of $200, when the pay‘ments cease. For every loan taken at#the auctions, 2s above described, a note, secured by mortgage of real estate, is_given, accompanied by a transfer and pledge of the shares of the bor- rower, These shares are held as collateral security for the loan and all subsequent pay- ments of dues,” and all profits and guins accruing afterward from time to time, which would otherwise go to the credit of the bor- Tower, are taken as payments on account of the Ioan until it is cancelled by the ultimate value of the shares so pledged or otherwise, as the case may be. The stockholders have earned § per cent the past year. THE FAMINE IN PERSIA. Following is 2 continuation of the diary of Sizad, a Christian Nestorian of Oroomiah, Persia (translated from the Syrian by Mrs. S. J. Rhea): May 23 (ancient reckoning).—To-day 1 went outside of the city, on one of the hizh- ‘ side a little bag of. ways. I carried at my. dried raisins to eat on the road. ‘There were crowds of men, women, and children, ex- hausted and faint, muttering unintelligibly, some with thelr lips moving only, and 1ands on their moutiis, indicating only by signs their desire for food. I divided my raisins in little portions among these hun- dreds; but, iéLhad had a load of. raisins, they would not have sufficed for the famish- ing in this street, and there are hundreds more buch streets in the city. Isaw a great many fleeing out of the land towards Russi: if perchance they might find food there; but they were without provisions for the way. May 2!.—To-day I did not see dead bodies, but I did see ten persons who cannot live through two more days. ‘They have no more hope of life. Some were speechless; some could not swallow the bread when it Was put in their. mouths. - I saw heaps of in- fant children to-day In ‘the streets. As ugar cast her son under the bush that she might not: see. him die, so these mothers have left their children.on the streets that they might not witness their death. The me of wheat 1s precious to the famish: ing, nore than. jewels to the merchant, or treasure, or diamonds. Often men exclaim with sighs and groans, “ O harvest—harvest Shall we ever see a thrashing-floor again, or eat bread till-we are satisfied?” Many fine qoulles have sold their ornaments and clothes for food. May 26.—Where I have walked to-day 1 have not seen the dead from famine, but they abound in other parts of the city. “Men are becoming insane and frantic through hunger. Many such were in the streets,— beggars in every condiuon. If we could count them, they’ would equal_in number those from whom they ‘beg. Every hour that you walk in the city you mect 200-of these wretched creatures, and every minute twenty emaciated hands touch you in im- portunity. While the cruel Mussulmans drive‘ away these ravenous seekers, their sobs and wailings fill our ears. May 27.—To-day the doors of the mission were filled with Mohammedans, crying out, “We are Nestorians! Our own teachers will not help us; what shall we do??_ One youn, man, a Mohammedan, whom I know, ant used to think strong asa giant, came weep- ing and entreating, saying, “All my family have perished; only give one little piece of bread to me; give that I too may not join them in death.” Hewas from a village near ourown. Fight of his family had starved to death. have just from the mountains starving to death before the doors of the Papists. Because he was a Nestorian and nota Papist, they would not give him bread. They are like the Mussul- mal unless the starv! embrace their religion, they can have. no bread. Alas for the lanu'}. The barest necessities of life are beyond the reach of the poor. Wretched country! Once beautiful Oroomiah, the beauty has perished of thy pleasant fruits, that were sent to St. Petersburg and other parts of Europe, Nothing is found now for thine own famishing. ‘The countries that praised thee for the fineness of thy wheat, the abundance of thy fruits, hear now only the weeping and wailing of the land and its inhabitants. If we had not the help of our brethren and frends in America, the heaps of our famine-slain would exceed those upon the fields of battle. IDEALS AND INTIMATES. °Tis Distance that Lends Enchantment to the View—Familarity Breeds Con- tempt, "New York Home Journal. The instinet which declines intimacies and maintains reserve, which prefers the full- dress of artificial courtesy to the dressing- gown and slippers of home abandon is in some respects wise, if in others to be re- gretted. It is wise in its conservation of the ideal and ‘its avoidance of personal annoy- ance by tuo close contact; it is to be re Rretied, in that it prevents real knowledge of the true character and substitutes shadows and simulaera for living men and women, Those ,whese sympathies are benevolent and whose imagination is keen, possess perfection in the friends whom they half know and wholly like. They see only the beautiful side of the character, touch only the velvet, trace out the fine pattern of the embroidery; they know nothing of those thousand sinall defects, those frays, and tat- ters, and tarnished edges which degrade the work when seen near at hand, and whieh de- stroy its harmony. They make their ideal more from what they believe than what they see, and they never come near enough to verify their fancy and find of what poor mate- rial that fine-looking ainalgam is made,—how the gold is more than half alloy, and the dazzling jewels on the breast-plate but eun- ning cubes of paste artfully cut out and dexterously set. So far they are to be con- gratulated. The fancy isa fact the same as anything else belonging to man; and what the imagination creates remains a possession for all time if Ithuriel plays no tricks with that disenchanting spear: of his, and the doors of the Palace ot Truth are not swung open, But sometimes the whole thing col- lapses, and the dressing-gown and slippers prove futal to the velvet that the gold. if You meet a fair-faced woman with a voice as sweet as music and as soft as cream; a spine that lends itself to nothing but grace- ful curves and the very poetry of. flexibility; @ manner that is siunply perfection in its happy union of caressing tenderness with personal dignity,—of sympathy for you with respect fur. herself. ‘Chere, you Say, is at last, your ideal realized; here is your su- preie, your absolute, your perfect woman, the hope of your life inthe flesh; your dream started into being to be weighed and ineas- ured,—to be tested by the senses and ap- roved by the reason,—to be loved and Known, and loved the more the better it is known. Come near to her as a friend, if Fou area woman orshe be married,—marry her yourself if she be single and you are a man,—and then prove by that unerring test of familiarity and the dressing-gown and slivpers of home, of what real material your idol is made and what is-her intrinsic value. She may stand the test,—some do, but at the best. with only indifferent success, being huiman,—or she may fall 10 pieces like a wooden doll glued at the joints and not war- ranted to wash, You find the sweet voice to be due only to a happy arrangement of the |. Yoeal chords, while underneath its silver lies the rust of uncharitable surmise and the yenom of jealous slander; you find the grace to be. simply mechanical and. the caressing manner the result of training and the love o' praise; but the sharp speech to the maids is natural, and the coldness to her husband, her children, her family, and old friends exactly balances her accent of tenderness to her new acquaintances as her indifference to love mnatehes her craving for admiration. You tnd her, in a word, beautiful only to look at and when full dressed; while in the familiar inthnacy of home she is nowhere in the cal- endar of perfected saints and realized idols. The marriage of yonder couple is happy, is it? 1t looks so, the world saysso. Believe it. It is pleasant to believe in the happiness of others, whether itbeas a state in harmony with our own, or one that supplements and supplies the wants of our own. On the out- side of things not a single flaw is to be seen. He is all attention, she all devotion; and their pretty little badinage is but another proof of their oneness and perfect harmony. This is their public garb; the satin and brocade of state ceremonial; and the bystanders accept what they see as if it was the real thing, to be never changed for crumpled cotton or soiled fustian. In the dressing-gown and slippers of home we find something quite different. When the house door is shut between them and the world, he hangs up his fiddle and she takes off her train. He ceases to be attentive, she forgets her devotion; and the twang of jarring strings and broken chords takes the place of the sweet harmonies that sound so well in public. She finds him tyraunical, mean, uninteresting; he holds her as little better than a fod, extravagant, inconsequent, unlovable. The children stand between them as a reproach rather than a link; and they quarrel over their education as they quarrel over the weekly biils and the favored guests. But they have the sense to Jock up the skeleton when the world enters within the four wallsof their home: and they never take it abroad to dance in the sight of the mocking multitude. It is hidden within the folds of the familiar dressing-gown, and the slipshod slippers kick it into View; but it | is wo and weariness to those who find out the truth by admission behind the domestic veil, and most would rather have had their ideal left untouched than have come upon this desolating and disenchanting reality. It is this consciousness that too close con- tact, too complete knowledge, will destroy the ideal conception and reduce dur hero to amannikin and our\saint toa columbine, which hold folk asunder from friendship, substituting only a superficially-familiar ac- quaintanceship. How difticult-it is to live together, to travel together, when not bound in the bonds of personal Jove, as between men and women, all the world knows and confesses. But it is only because you get so near as to’ see what is paint and what flesh and blood this difficulty obtains. -'There is nothing in the mere fact of domestic life, or of traveling companionship, which trans- forms the character—it only shows it; and, in showing this reality, it destroys the ideal and the respect and love of which that ideal was the origin. We must surround all things with a certain halo of ideality it we would keep our faith and reverence intact. ndymion sweetly asleep beneath the stars, placid and. unconscious, — with Diana bend: over him—what a lovely pleture of ish. grace and womanly nderness, of boyish beauty and womanly love! But Endymion with his mouth open and snoring, in a close, shut-up room, with the curtains drawn; and Diana, with her hair in paper and acold in her head—faith! the reailty puts out the ideal, asa farthing Tushlight makes the poetic glow-worm noth- ing but an ugly little coleopteia, which a girl would scream at if it crawled over her. Your patriot, enthusiastic for his country’s honor and solicitous for her wi the frases of his election address, and won- dering. which will be mostietching and which issurest to do the trick; your parson, pon- heard of a Nestorian, dering over his sermon.’ striking out that illusion as going too’ close home to an infiu- ential member of his flock, and adding this as likely to attract hearers and consequent grist to his clerical milly ideally, he is the faithful preacher of the Word, as the politi- cian is the faithful son of his country and guardian ‘of her welfare; but, in reality, seen in the dressing-gown and slippers of. truth and inner knowledge, each is simply a mountebank, ‘puffing his wares for Bread and arranging his moral nostrums with a quick eye for business and the main enance. What nobleness and energy there are in thatsplendid woman who gives up her- self to this cause and that proprganda! No slothful life of home ease and domestic com- fort here,—no degradation of the soaring spirit to the mean calculations of how much per -head’ is the rightful average, and what the housekeeping books should be, compared to what they are! She is all for humanity at large,—the education of the little blacks while her own children are growing up untaught and untrained,—the amelioration, of other women’s households while her own is half a wreck and all a mistake. But-the world strews her path with the palin-branches of. praise, and turns away its eyes from the, things done in_the dressing-gown and slip- pers of home. No one asks how much of all this zeal is due...to -the - recklesness of ambition, to the loye of _ notoriety, to the excitement of publicity. She is taken at her own self-made ‘Valuation, and the lining of the gold brocade is not turned up to view. Only those that see the work that should be nearest to her hand and most sacred to her heart tying neglected and undone, while that for which she has no real call is transacted befure the eyes of all men, the blare of trumpets; only those can ineasure her by a true standard, and see how farshe falls short when she isin dressing- gown and slippers, as compared with the gold and velvet of her state attire. All this is very humillating, but it is very true. Humanity does not gain by close knowledge and unrestrained familiarity. Justas noone living would care to have every word or action of his or her life made public, ‘so can no one’s character bear the test of close and Jnicroscopic investigation and come out without a flaw. The good- nature that slops over into weakness; the resuluteness that is hardness; the faithful- ness that does not change because the mind cannot take in new ideas; the sweetness that is put on for show, like rouge and dye; the cleverness that looks like spontaneity and is carefully prepared beforehand; the en- thusiasm that is nothing but. a trick of the speech; the sympathy which is nothing but a trick of the voice, of the eye, of the lip,—all this, and more, we find out to our dismay when we go too close to our ideals and test the amalxam of which our divinity is made. And all this takes off the edge of our faith in humanity at Jarge, and makes us beware of trusting again, and yet again, to another ideal realized. And yet we know nothing better than humanity; and our most exalte conception cannot reach beyond the Perfect Man! We worship ourselves in our worship of the ideal, and we are angry when we find how far below that ideal is the reality that we touch and see, as an offense committed against ourselves in this frailty of our kind. The only thing that_is greater than this idealization is love. . With love. we endure the disenchantment of closer knowledge, and find even a pleasure in forgiving what we condemn. Qucnd meme—there would be no living without that negic frase, and the most miserable of all created beings is he or she who cannot say, “I love her—I love him— quand meme! Inthe velvet robe of cere- mony or the dressinz-gown and slippers of of the ideal or the flaws reality, I love—and I for- home, in the glor and failings of give!” “KISS THE PLACE AND MAKE IT WELLI” For The Chteago Tribune. "Twas a picture robed in beauty, which a moth- er’s heart would bless: Violet eyes so full of lovelight, rosy cheek, and golden tres: z Crimson lips ike ripe red berries, tiny palms like pink-tipped shell. Came the little three-year darling to her mother * BM nim ant 1 pl ihe ‘hispered, “Mammal Mamma! please,” she whispe: “* kigs the place and make it well!” Then my thoughts went backward, backward, when x bappy ehlid I stood In the silvery wists of childhood, blessed with Motber Kind and good; And in fancy now I see her, with her rippling raven hair, Hazel eyes, and brow so placid, which an Angel now doth wear; “ For my biessed Angel-mother left our circle years ago, With her work well done and finished, ere a cloud of bluckest wo i Crossed our hearthstone. While the May rose on her cheek still loved to bloom, In ope moment Death's cold Argel chilled her muxtron’s golden noon. * In my soul it froze, its horror darkening into deep eclipse, Aswe found her pale and lifeless with a smile upon her lips. Mothor! Mother! oft I'm longing for thy arm around me now, For the strong, firm nerve to lean on, and thy kiss upon my brow. Ab! what wealth of precious kisses once she showered on my lips When a chance unlucky tumble made me reach my tinger-tips ‘To ber, as my cheidish murmur never on a cold heart fell: : “Mamma! Mamma! please, dear Mamma, kiss the place and muke it welll"" a Thou dos. know Life's crown is precions, and tho buds of promise Buds may burst to wealth of roses, crown of wife and motherhood. But our feet grow sometimes weary, and our ._ hearts, though brave and strong, Faint in crossivg o'er the deserts of this life, where care und wronz Stand to rub this life of gladness, and the aching spirit’s swell Is a cry of earnest anguish: “Kiss me, Mother— make me welll” So I gaze upon the picture,-and the tears flash to any eyes: Mother. thou canst understand them, gazing from the far-off skies, If thy disembodied spirit ever hath an Earth- glance given, Thou cunst reud my moment’s weakness, gazing from thy home in Heaven. Clinging, loving, warm, impusstoned, changed somewhat thy child hath grown; Since thou left us, darling Mother, hours of darkness I have known; More subdued my weird fancy, stronger nerved to bear the pain, Walk I veiled umong life’s reapers, who dream ~ not my soul's refrain, ‘Than when in my gladsome girlhood trifling sor- And Would ‘walsper ‘on thy bosom, * Kiss 11 would whisper on thy bosom, spirit—make it well!” y: O this world fs full of anguish, full of sorrow unexpressed, ¥ Full of longing, oft unpitied, for a faithful Mother's breast. With a heart rebuked to stillness stand I in the deepening shude, Spirit bowed in deep contrition for the sorrows I have made— For the thorns that I have planted in my care- Jess girlish hours, And I cry, “0 God, forgive me! Grant unto m Some sad heart to robe e soothing powers, tired and aching feet Pour tho vil of consolution—heal the pain with ointment sweet.” Keep me froin uurighteous judgment, knowing that I cannot guess Alla struggling mortsl's weakness, or mayhaps Some who sii tho Garth tike’Pariahs, perk jome who wal ie Barth like Pari 8} could the truth be known, PeEnePes Nearer stdud than we self-righteous to the blesséd Father's throne. © the dear Christ knows our Earth-needs! Better than 2 Mother's breast Is the Lord’s on whom in weakness we can finda perfect rest! SoIlay uside the picture that a touching tale doth tell, e ne hy ‘ AsI murmur, “0 my Father, thou hast ordered all things well!” HIGAGO. =~ Ena Passuone Browy. a Curiosities of the Census. London, Telegraph. The coming census returns might inform us 86 to the relative predominance of the Joneses, Smiths, Browns, and Robinsons, and it might tell us whether any one of these prolific clans bus gained ground on any other. 9 A3 yet it is understood, contrary to the genePhl beiler, that the Joneses are more numerous than the Smiths, and that after the latter come the septs of Will- dams, Taylor, Davies, and Brown. Jubnson stands only tenth in the list of the most tre- quently recurring names, Robinson eleventh, and Wilson twelfth. ‘Thompson, again, cun only cluim the twenty-fourth place; .und while the Clarks are twenty-eighth, the Clarkes with an “e” are ten places lower down. Then we shall probably get from the census officers a fresh collection of eccentric names, though mone perhaps odder than that -which one | registrar hus preserved for the -dolecta- Uon of the curious, to-wit: Zaphnatbpaaneah Dryson,, by trade @ cooper, if we remember rightly. “The enumerators in 1881 may be able to find out whether Albertina Regina Victoria Gotha Boult, another consus celebrity, if mar- ried, has preserved her extraordinary appella- tion as a sortof heirloom in her family. or if Prince Albert Daniel Gamon, an agricultural daborer who figured in former returns, has not yet gone over to the majority. We shall per- baps discover, too, if that other laborer who named his daughter Turnerica Henrica Ulrica da Gloria de Lavinia Rabecea Turner, bas fur- ther developed his marvelous power of appel- dative combination, or if the father of Hostilinia Ophiginia Maria Hypihile Wadge has christened .| snotherdaughter with accentuated eccentricity. In fact, the next censos will, among other things, inform us how fur the English people in gludness; on some reserve their reputation for oddity, a not un- Fo porcat fact. For, rightly conridered, eccen- tricity is ery @ phage of that stubborn indi- widualism, that dogged independence of charac- ter, which in all ayes and in all climes has made Englishmen a little self-assertive, it may be, but still ever victorious as pioneers of civilized en- terprise and adventure. THE STAGE. A. M. PALMER’S COMPANY. Haverly’s Theacre will be reopened. on Monday evening by the Union Square com- pany, that organization then beginning their regular summer season, which will last seven weeks. Therépertoire will be “French Flats,” “The False Friend,” “The Banker's Daughter,” ‘Led Astray,” “The Dani- cheffs,” and ‘‘The Two Orphans.” Some twenty people will be engaged in the produc- tion of these plays, among them Messrs. Thorne, Stoddart, Lemoyne, Courtaine, Ram- sey, Owen Fawcett, H. F. Daly, Charles Wol- cott,, Harold Fosberg, Joe Whiting, Tom Morris, Becks, Quigley, E. Morse, the . Misses Wilton, Harrison, Ida Vernon, Sarah Cowell, Nellié Moraut,Emma_ Grattan, Courtaine, Hattie Anderson, Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. Philips. Owing to the death of his wife Mr. Parselle will not appear during this engagement. Mr. Charles Thorne will play while here the False Friend, John Strebelow, Rudolph Chandos, Ossip, and the Chevaller. Mr. Joe Whiting has been brought onto play De Lesparre in “Led Astray.” and Vladimir in “The Danicheffs.”” The setting of these pieces, we are promised, ‘will be the sameas that seen at Union Square. aleady the scenery for “French Fats,” “The False Friend,” and ‘The Banker's Daughter” is here, and the rest will follow. We trust that this part of the program will be carried out, and that there will be no at- tempt made, as there was last year, to econo- mize at the expense of the setting. We un- derstand that Haverly pays Manager Palmer |. a certainuty,—33,000 a week,—and also bears the expense of transporting the scenery. “Frenen Flats.” the opening piece, was originally called in the French “Les Loc- ataires de Monsieur Blondeau,”—that is, “Mr. Blondeau’s Tenants.” The adaptation is by Mr. A. R. Cazauran, and he is said to have eliminated every nasty line from this— in its original dress—extremely dirty far- cical comedy. Mr. Blondeuu is a gentleman who has made a fortune in the: manufacture of button-shanks. Huving made®this fort- une, he is anxious to become a prop- erty-owner, and -he- purchases what 4s called a hotel in Paris. The lower floor is rented toa barber. Blondeaw occupies the first floorhimself. A Portugnese Baroness tenants the second floor. Mr. Bunay, a law- yer, oceupies the third floor, and Sicnor Rif- flardini, a decayed tenor, ocenpies the fourth floor, wu has besn paying rent all his life, and he takes this house intending to revel in the luxury of receiving rent instead of paying it. Then it turns out that in his earlier years Blondeau -had been 2 barber, and that in his former shop the barber who occupies the lower floor was originally his colleague, which fact leveis a blow at the dignity of ifr. Blondeau at the outset. .It turns out also that certain unfounded stories regarding the Baroness make it impossible to retain her in his house onaccount of his wife’s scruples. It next turns out that the lawyer has a clerk who is making love to Blondeau’s daughter. It further transpires that the tenor recollects that in his youth he was hissed by Blondcau at the Opera-House, Blondeau having been led to commit this awful deed from jealousy. The tenor has sworn that he will break every bone in Blun- deau's vody the first time he sees him. The first time he does see him is as his landlord, To avoid the tenor, Blondeau, in all sorts of ways, goes from story to. story, hiding in closets other places. While in these hiding-places he learns everything about the * families in the house, and he" comes to the conclusion _ that the sooner he gets ont thé better. The tenor thrashes the lawyer, mistaking him for Blon- deau. For satisfaction the Jawyer seeks Blondeau and finds him suspended upon a painter’s ladder on the outside of the hotel, where he has taken refuge from the tenor. Blondeau suddenly finds himself hoisted on the ladder to the fourth story,—the tenor’s rooms. Here, by a series of incidents arismg out of the play, everybody is assembled, an explanation ensues, and the curtain falls, ‘The difference between the cast for to- morrow eveniny and that when the play was originally produced at the Union Square can be seen from the following: Haverty's cast. _ Original cast. ‘M. Bonay.. J. 4. Beadare,..7 EL Stoddart. M. Biondeay.....W. J. Lemoyne...John Fursolie. ‘Margnis de B: z vartains aries Wolcott—J, B. Polk. len Hamssy. SCV. Lingham, dia Morris. io §e H, Wilder. inte: ley. Bphoisteter. ee iquet... a ‘Hattie Anderson, Buroness. de St. Amarenthe.....,Alss Elle Wilton. Ettle Wilton. Anna Biondeaa:: Miss 50) Mai Mme. Bonay...---2hiss ida Vernon. Mme. Blondeau.-Mrs. E. J.Phillips. Mrs, E. J. Philips. Bianca... ‘Miss Sarah CoweliSarah Cowell. Miss Emma Grat- =-Roberta Norwood jo Ri sereeeee Courtney Barnes, DRAMATIC NOTES. The Union Square company Pill arrive this morning. “La Cigale” will be seen at the Olympic this afternoon. “Nana” has been dramatized and played and Mr. O'Neill’s name, This j notable incident,—a new metho of eer Svange At Baldwin's, San Frane be the intention of the inan; nm e] dae,” Upper Geet Nabob.” . Lewis. Mo rust”? and uw: signed a part which Ne teasers: been his extraordinary taleni fis NWorthy of gagement at this theatre,’ ““°W uo Diseg. Messrs. Ed Buckley R down fora benefit, Walon alana. i. the Olympic next Friday eyeni ne Oa gram will inelude the second set 22.2% Boys,” the fourth act of “Canines! “Ow musical oddity “Hot Water. Sn atte players Who have volunteered there Mz the Iss Allee “Hastings, Miss Dice's Sill Bliss Florence Webster, Mrs. Emma Fy ae eal GoRver, att, G. B. Gratan harles Kent, ; Mr, n i Mitchell, and diss Mattie Lancet Me The first of the series of yeaa Teadings now being given by Pros Shear at Hershey Hall came off some iy, S22 erehng an aaa Se fia was the subject. Te ete Hamat substance o’ merely conte ing so as to keep ‘the within a reasonable” timer “Tre Gata created a better impression than wi tried “The Merchant of Venice, ele showed more study of the subject in He and his rich voiee was employ. to belie Vantage. The soliluquies were aimee Stiopead’ tt Festi eat at lary excelled. Beate be inf ‘The fate of Fred Stinson isstilt a matwr,, uncertainty. On the mornin; fi heme Calais, Me., he mysteriously disappe; : He was traveling at the time with a compe: in which his wife, Sadie Martinot, was chief feature. His sachel, which Was {3 behind, was opened, and fnit was founds letter to Mrs. Stinson by her husband, tag d ly hinting at suicide, but not stati hei tention outright. Upto the 25th no farther intelligence had been received. Hisaceounty were found to bein perfect order, but keptin i y original manner. ‘T for each Seeks was headed like tne “apse week, first act, prospects; seeond ful; third act, lost: fourth ae Ta There: was added; 5 fanagerial obituary] go where no salary-lay appears actors shall trouble me no mores? and weg There are rumors of an irruption of dancers next s¢ason In this cone ey these rumors have caused the“ sole and te sponsible agent of the only fiyi lancer,” who calls “himself. “ Walter ‘Dante th venteur Concersiunaire,” to send ead gy the Clipper warning American tana; of frauds. He has arranged with Thompson & Hill, of Bos o2, for the app ax ance ot Ariel, the tlyer. For the Denent of those of our readers who may not have read a description of the fiying-cancer we will te scribe the act-briefly: The dancer was ing seen upon a rustic bridge spannine a dell a hight of about twenty feet above the From this she’ descends at 2 bound, a alights upon the stage so_noiselesly that not a sound is heard. She springs aloft and bows gracefully in mid-air withont any aj parent effort, and seemingly withont the hide any mechanical appliance. She can fiy back wards or forwards, to the right or to thé lef with the same apparent ease, and her fing exit is made by shooting from the into the flies above the top of the prosceniuy, whence she again gracefully descends tore ceive the applause of the spectators. With one or two exceptions every theatry in New York is now closed. ‘London just now presents a striking contrast, ing to the advices on the 9h of July, Drury Lane “As You Like It” was played for the Jast time, and on the 10th “She Stoops Conquer” was to have been played, after which the theatre was to have closed for three weeks, to reopen Sist with a sensabox al and realistic drama entitled “ The World? The last weeks of “School Dies gnnoaneed at the Haymarket. “Forbidden Fruit” ws running at the Adelphi. “The Merchant at Venice” and“ Jolanthe” remain fixtures in the program of the Lyceum. Hare& Kendal had termisated their season at the St. Jamey’ Theatre, “Old Cronies,” “The Ladies’ Bay tle,” and “A Regular ix” remaining in the bills to the iast. ‘No changes had been inade in the programs of the Olympic, Strant Prince of Wales, Globe, Vaudeville, Open Comigque, Court, Royalty, Alhambra, and Folly, where, on the 15th, the comedy of “The Upper Crust” was acted for the hundredih consecutive time: “The Obstinate Bretons?) remain at the Connaught Theatre, The “Col Jeen Bawn” has been repeated at the Park Theatre. At New Sadler’s Wells “A Mid- sumuier-Night’s Dream ” had ended a caret Enieht appectine’ July 12 ta “Ono, ee ight appearing July 12 in 10, & mane. At the Surrey Charles ane menced on July 5an engagement, ap! in “Drink.” Warner was, greeted with Py thusiastic applause. The Standard had beer occupied, after an interval ot seren years, b} the Moore & Burgess Minstrels. “Lost it London” and “Jonathan Bradford” had formed_a strong attraction at the Britannia. At theGrecian “The Shaughraun” had beex the prominent feature of the: playbill. At Astley’s “The Octorcon” nad been repeated. The Marylebone had revived Douglas Jer rold’s effective drama, originally prnducel at the Coburg half a century a0, Qi “ Ammbrost Gwinnett, or the Gibbet on the Sands.” The atterpiece was “Russian Tyranny.” §t tht Pavilion “The Streets of London” had beet the leading feature of the playbill. e ROBERT BURNS, 4B. Richardson tn Otncinnatt Commerciah O! Robbie Burns where’er you bide, at the Alhambra, Rome. Manager Hill is raking in a barrel of money on the Talmage tecture tour. Hanlin thinks that he will be able to open his new theatre during the latter part of August. “Freaks” will open the Criterion Comedy company’s engagement, which will begin on Aug. 9 at Hooley’s. The Academy of Music will be reopened on the 13th of September. Painters and deco- rators are now in possession. Itis said that the smiling face of John Hooley, Jr., will be seen no more in the box office of the Randolph street house. Charles Engle, late of the Lyceum, will build a theatre on Clybourn, avenue, the plans for which are now being made. Miss Alice Harrison’s part in her new Musical comedy, * Photos,” according to a New York paper, “fits her like a glove.” In a few days the renovation of MeVicker’s will have been completed, and on Monday, the 9th, ‘All the Rage”? will be presented. “Lucretia Borgia” at the Halsted-Street the coming week. Miss Nellie Johnson and Louis Warwick will play the leading parts. - Miss Annie Pixley, now living at Port Stanley, Canada, has for four weeks been seriously sick. She is now, however, con- valeseent. Mr. Roland Reed and Miss Alice Hastings have been en; d by Dalziel fora burlesque company. Their engagement begins Sept. 6 and ends early in November. ‘ A new organization known as “The Mrs. Joshua Whitcomb” party has been _ put: tegether. Miss Minnie Doyle, Lonise Fox, W. P. Sheldon, and George Madaox are said to be members. Messrs. Blaisdell & Gulick, in reply to the letter of “ Manager,” say that they have no intention of making a “corner” 1 amuse ments in the West, but that they do intend to weed out, sofar as they possibly can, the believers in stolen plays, of which crew Mr. Manager is one. Miss Agnes Leonard, the young English actress buoked as a star for next season, has begun by getting rid of her husband. ‘She procured a diyoree from him in Brooklyn |. Jast week. Ilis name is W. A. P. Lagrove. lady placed a value upon i eX- husband did nok "7° if ee The “Fun on the Bristol” party will in- elude John F. Sheridan, Auguatus J. Bruno, Mark Smith, “Myron Calice, Henry Saville, William Courtright, Frank rannenill Kate Castleton, Agnes Hallock, Marian Fiske, and George Loesch, musical director. Season opens at Haverly’s Fourteenth Street Thea- tre, New York, on the 9th. Recently sounded on the subject of play-. ing in the United States bya aes ofa New ‘York manager, Henry Irving mentioned, after some deliberation, as his lowest term: $2,500 a night, with other expenses, whic! vould have pabiel ihe sum £0,98,000.. ce needless to sa} aly lea at al with the English favorit was abandoned. Joseph Mayer, the feading character in the Oberammergau’ Passion-Pfa; , Germany, the Mirror says, hagsent Mr. JamesO’Neill (who took the same part when Salmi Morse’s piece was produced in San Francisco) his photo- graph, to which he has subscribed his own May every Muse attend you; May heavenly wisdom be your guide, And heavenly power defend you. a "fwas four and four-score yenrs lang syDe— Whg keos not kens not mickle— ‘That what of thee yas not diving oes Felt Death's untimely sickle. - And now a new melodious strain,* ‘With Robbie Burns the theme of ’t, Attests thy genius duth remain, And bards inspired may aream of 't; Albeit their limaings add no trait ~ To forms of thy creation, 3 And do but fitly demonstrate A ‘Their own appreciation. ‘Whence came his strength that faileth 20t- ; A Titan's force unaided, ~ And light itluming iti spot ‘ When lesser stars have faded? And whence the inspiration, blent With tints divine and human, That manliness to manhood lent, «ind loveliness to woman? a Go ask the vale, the mont, the glen, Green field, and winding river—, He read them with an angel's ken— ‘Thoy tell of him forever: é : And men who sought douce wisdom's doom, _. Or gluhit folly’s portal, Even Nansie’s guests who held the splore,_ Through him became immortal. Taspired he sang auld Scotia’s strains— ‘The world attentive heard them— Of bonnie lassies, rustic swains, And to the world endeared them; ‘Then to the lowliest creatures turn— Poor wounded hare! "twas he ‘Who sang of Sruce and Bannockbura Did requiem chant for thee. No false refinings, trite and thin, Or dimm’d with over-learning, . But Nature's touches making kin oo All hearts for beauty yearning.+ ‘With love for all things wee and great He knew not rank nor station; y ‘The very De'il he could not date... | But wished nis reformation. ree Apostie of man’s brotherhood, s Yont pale of church andsteeple, =. « Hils songs the vender, truthful, wuod— , iymnal for the people: And down the vale its numbers flung, Frae morning gun till even, ‘That soul—a barp Hollan strung ‘To every wind of hearer, Methinks ‘tis ours such ght to p! Nor note each slight declension: ee As weil insult the starry shies ef : With pit; condescension: Woe pret eaive wa leave uatold ‘When all the world’s applauding ‘The dross of life, and not the gold, ily worta the hauding. And, bard o' Scorand, “ guest and groat” Mankind will ever greet thee, - . But thronéd where thy poet host z 1g not the man to seat thee— At Fame’s ain board, as is most fit, ‘Wi’ worth for a’ th! able; ‘Where too thy Cambridge friend mays a i long way down the table. ed - Longfellow’s recent poem. : Alarmed by Telephone Wires London Times, : A subject of reneral interest was mooted in the meetmg of the Liverpool City Council of" if. tales Wednesday, July 7. This was the inconvenience caused by the network 0 phone wires over the buildings in Liverpool a other large towns. Ald. A. B. Forw af . that the wires were tikely to prove 8 30 aa] ee and said that- when iu New York late at.: counted in one place 500: wires over bi a The ‘fown Clerk intimated that the Associa Hon? of Corporations bad taken up the ques! Intended to draw the atvention of the Howe 0% Soe to the subject,