Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1880, Page 6

LADIES’ GOODS. DRY GOODS. LA SERENISSIMA. peepee pa doors att cms, TURNER ASHBY. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ae = Whilst all other capitals have creased, and are inci every day tn eve:y direction, Venice, surrounded by its inland sea, attained ‘several centuries ago fts present size and shape. The Plazza San Marco has been since then its Forum; successive generations have daily repaired to it in quest of news, of Sunshine or of friends, and will continue to Walk under its arcades, to cross and recross it in every direction, as long asi he Duomo and the Procuratic wall it round, as long as the golden angel on St. Mark's Tower shines far above the silent city. Its glory and {ts power has disappeared; the Queen of the Seas 1s now only a small provincial town. But however fallen from a diplomatic or commercial point of iew, Venice has still and will always havea peculiar thrilling interest. Every stone has its own } ‘y of romance; every dark gate is haunted by its familiar ghost; evel every cranny whispers its old wetrd story. The official annals of the Most Serene Vene- tan republic contain innumerable instances of secret arrests, secret trials, followed almost always by still more secret executions; but besides these, many a terrible drama has taken Place within the stone walls of the state pris Ons. Conveniently situated under the Ducal Palace and with thetr floors slightly under high water mark, these “wells”—as they were called On account of their dampness—very seldom gave up a victim except as a corpse. Silent and Gark as the grave, they were a fit instrument for a stern and mysterious tribunal The se- Verity of the Council of Ten, the swiftness with whieh it reached both high and low, the secrecy Of its nocturnal sittings and of its sentences, created a universal feeling of awe, that has not yet completely disappeared. Amongst the poorer classes there are many who still believe in the existence of the Secret Council, and who expect to reappear some day; they abstain therefore from any direct alluston to ‘it, mentioning it, only when absolutely hecessary, by the vague term of La Serenissima. We may smile at this childish fear; but it proves very clearly the terror it must have in- Spired. The following legend, taat was whis- pered tome ashort time ago’ by an old gon- olier, will show by what means this result was obtained. Though J cannot vouch for the aceuracy of every detall, there ts no doubt in Tay mind as to its general truth, because the [pee of my informant lived at the time It occurred, and would not have dared to rep2at any tale Inst’ the Serenissima unless he wa3 sure of it. With this proviso, I will now relate the legend as I heard it whilst I was quietly Jolling In a Venetian gondola. It was toward the end of 1760, when one night an Engiish King’s messenger reached Mestre, wanting to cross over to Venice. Sir John Hawser—stch was his name—was young, brave and very highly connected, and as sucn, perhaps, he had been chosen by the ministry to convey some trifling message to King ceo’ a tually in- JiL’s representative in that town. After Jay that would seem enormous to our modern express train travelers, a gondola was manned, his luggage loaded tn it, and at last it began to = toward the city. He reached Venice just fore dawn; and after a hurried toilet and a Stilt more burried breakfast, Sir John delivered his packet, and began explo the lanes and alleys of this Incompreneus!)¢ tolerably proficient {n the lan; found his way to the Piazza S. was duly astonished by {ts pe; Then, as now, the Piazza was the heart of the city; laws and edicts were promulgated in ft: sentences were pronounced from the balcony of the Ducal Pal Whiist beggars, singers, and others of a similar caste gave it a strange ant- ation. Thoroughly ¢njoying the freedom of walking after his long journey by coach and gondola, Sir John indu’ged his rambling propensities to the full extent. “Whilst he was doing so a crowd collected in front of the Ducal Palace. Natur- ally curious, and having nothing else to do, he hastened to the spot, and elbowed bis wa the center. By the red pill usher was reading out the sentence of some un- known felon, with all the pompous cireumlocu- tions so much in favor in those days. The wretched prisoner, just brought out of some dark cell, seemed scarcely to realize the scene. as his eyes, unused now to the light of the sun gazed vacantiy on the excited mobd that s! Founded the low scaffold on which he was Standing. The sentence having been read, the prisoner was taken away to the jatl where he Was to undergo the term of imprisonment to which he bad just been condemned; and the crowd, the sight belng over, gradually dis- Pemis Incident was in itself very trifling, anc Sir John would probably have forgotten it within a week had it not been for its strange Consequences. Whilst pushing and elbowing his way in the crowd it seems that some clever ick-pocket had robbed him of his lace hand- erchief. It is certatoly very unpleasant to be robbed even of a valueless article; but in this case the thief had obtained a valuabie prize; and besides, there was for Sir John Hawser the an additional sting of having been robbed by an Italian. He would have been less angry if it had happened in London; the pick-pockeis there Were so clever that there were no shame in be- ing their victim; but to have been plundered by a clumsy Venetian was too much for his equa- Bimity, and he burst out in a torrent of abuse. ‘Speaking mostly in Italian, but mixing a f-w English auathemas in his speech, he related his Joss to a few by-standers, and was advi-ed by them to complain to the police, or rather to those officials who under the Serentssima ful- iuled the present duties of the police. Taougu Without great faith in this plan, he followet {t, end gave notice to the authorit’es. He wa3 as- sured by a very stately official that he need have 2 fear. and that bis property would sooa o- ULG aid restored to him. For be con 1€i.2 With this vague consolation, ke went home his supper and bed = oF Lee OF four di 5 2 Whils ‘rg born and bred in a free-thinking free-speak- € country, he was very apt to express his thoughts a5 they came to his mind without re- flection and without fear. It ts not surprising, therefore, that one night. under the arcades of the Procuratie, while relating his loss to a few friends, he should have said what he thought of the vaunted secret police of Venice. They Were, he sald, a lot of stupid fools, very pom- Pous and very stately, trying to hide thete tg- horance and capacity under very high-souading Phrases; but the meanest London detective was Worth the whole lot of them. As to the Secret Council he did not believe tt existed at all; or, if it did, it was no better than the rest. Ah, SirJobn! if you need must speak so trcev- erently of the Serenissima, why did you not use your own language? Why did you express your Fash thoughts in Italian? Did you not know that walls bave ears, and that every stone of Venice ts a sp; His friends, astonished by this sudden out- bursts, attributed It at first to those last cla ‘ses of vino santo they had been drinking togetner; but knowing full well the jealous eare the Serenissima had for its tation, they in- Stintly shrank from him, as trom a dangeroas man. Availing themselves of favorable oppor- tunities, they disappeared round dark coruers, down side alleys; and very soon Sir John found bimselt alone Alone! At least so he thought; but a silent figure had been foliowing him for some time, and Was now eagerly and steaitnily dogging Dim. So carefully it walked, so noilselessly it stepped. that fera long Ume Sir John did not notice this unwelcome shadow, and even when he did, he attacued no importance to it. But at last he began to feelsome doubts about this follower. Nothing could be guessed from his appearance. Completely wrapped up in a dark cloak, and with a wide hat shading and con- cealipg the upper part of his face,the man would not have be recognized by his own brother. It was only the [oes way in which he followed, and the ability with which he availed pepo of every nook and corner, that implied a Peariess Suil, Dut somewhat annoyed, Sir Jobb Comper his Way through the maze of al- Jeys that led from the Piazza to his temporary . Determined to try to throw off his mask- ed companion, he quicwened his step; but at the next turning, a glance back showed that {t was nouse. Having by this time reached the Ponte San Motse—one of the innumerable bridges that €ross the minor canals of Venice—he stoppe1on its steps to see what his shadow would do. As- tonished at first by this new ruse, the man hes- itated a second, but a s.cond only, and then dis- apy In the shadow of thechurch. Our nero 4 Strained bis eyes im trying to find out whether he had really gone, or whether he was only — behind the columns and watehing. He certainiy began to feel an intense interest in this new chase, in which he seemed to be the ¢ hunted down. Then, convinced that ne ad seen the last of his silent friend, he decided on conUnuing his way home,and was just goin; to move, when a cloak was thrown over his head and chest, completely gagging him, walist several strong arms entwined themselves round his body and effectually pinioned him. Before he could recover his senses, a voice whispered in Italian In his ear, “You are a prisoner of the Serenissima; is of no use.” Even after these words, the import of which he dimly guessed, Sir Join would have tried to Strike One blow at least for his life or for his banc FA the Cer bad = Wrapped up was so art! ‘So securel fastened that he could not move a muscle nor ng to others? There are many in Venice, poor, heart-broken, half-crazed, shunned by Srey boy, who had once been the leaders of fashion, of science, of polities, ani! an anonymous note drop into the Lion's mouth had caused their arrest, and their trialess detention in the underground—or rather under- water—prisons of the Serenissima. But then, who could have denounced him? Who could have an interest in destroying him into his cowardly fashion? All the people he knew were above suspicion; and yet even the Serenissima would not have arrested an Eng- lishman, a king's messenger, without some ‘good Treason. in that dreadful silence, broken only by the quiet splashing of the water on the stone Walls In which he was imprisoned, his memory was | oyhanbereohd vivid, and recalled to his mind all the incidents of his stay. At last he remem- bered those few hot foolish words he had used that very night; they, and *hey alone, could be the cause of his present condit'oa. Tats, how- ever, brought no relief; it exaggerated only his fears and his despondency, since he well knew what awful punishments were inflictedon those who, to use the Venetian phrase, “‘blasphemed the Government.” i, Settled the cause of his arrest, he — ually fell into a dull, drowsy state of half-un- consciousness, staring blindly in the darkness, listening vacantly in the vain hope of catehing some sound, however faint, of that outside world he had so recently left. The silence was as complete as the darkness that surrounded him, and hours passed without brin; ing any change. Now and then a mufied sound reached his ears, Was it a footstep in the Pp 3 Was it a wave a little higher than the others? Wasit only the plaintive cry of the seamen? Or was it the dying eo of a fellow-prisoner? He could not teil. After a very long time, of which he could not even guess the fength he distinctly heard a noise as of bolts and Keys at Lis prison door; suddenly it opened, and a flood of light ed every corner of his dismal cell. Dazzléd at first by the glare of the torche: he could not see the men by whom they were carried; but gradually, as_his eyes grew accus- tomed to the light, he saw they were all armed, all masked and all di in black. In the meantime his hands had been released of their fetters, and his guards had quietly surrounded him, Without a word, without a sound, they led bim on tn their midst. Through dark halls, and harrow staircases, through crooked pis- sacs and low beetling doors they marched a3 holselessly ag a group of ghosts surrounding a mortal man. goal is reached; a door {s flung At last their open, and Sir John is ushered into a spacious room. At one end, on a raised platform, sit ten judges, all masked, all draped in large bl. cloaks. By their sides, but a little lower down, are the scribes of this silent tribunal. Judges and scribes as motionless as if they had bea statues, and not human beings. The first glimpses of dawn struggling throtch the painted windows, powerless as yet to supersede the wax candles, gave to the whole scene the most weird aspect. ' Outside, all was sleeping: and no sound reached the inmates of this hall to remind them that a powerful city, a numerous population, surrounded thetr silent abode, As soon as the several actors In this strange Scene had reached their proper places, a min Still masked and dressed in the same dark hue, began in a monotonous slow tone to give his evidence, though mufiled by the folds of his mask.his voice was pecullarly distinct and clear, and Sir Jon at once knew it as being the sam: he had heard when he was arresied. Cold ant pitiless as steel, without a tremor and without a pause, the voice repeated all the words usei by the culprit when,in lis rash burst of passion, he had derided and mocked the knowledze and the power of the Se ‘ssima, Slowly and regu- larly the words follow cd each other as the links of a lengthened chain, as steadily as the drops of rain on a winter's day. The pens of the seribes, creaking as they hurried over the paper, made a fit oo to this recital, Ex- cept for them, all was as motionless, as still as if no human hearts were beating under those black silk mantles. It ended at last; and with a sense of relief Sir John strained his senses to see, to hear what would follow. After a short pause, the judge who sat at the center of the table stood up and addressed in these terms: “You have heard the evidenc> against you, now follow us and hear your sen- ce.” | No cross-examination, no defence was allowed | by the laws of this Council. Rising together as if moved by a le mind, the funeral proces- Sion followed its leader and left the hall by the door through which Sir John had entered Ic. Again through the same winding passages, again down the same narrow steps, slieutly and nolselessly they glided like ghosts returti- ing to their (Ace Surrounded by his guards, Str John followed immediately after the last of the Judges, wondering all the time what was to | be his fate. When they had reached the low- est feor of the building, and were nearing agatn the loathsome cell from which he had s> ately becn taken, the cortege divided and Sir chu was brougnt iace to face with We Senior ud; You ave insulted tae sereniseima:you have “nud its power of punishing crime, beca:1se ou have veen robbed of a paltry aandkerchiet, ba it nad not been immediately found and <iven back to you. Now look!” As he sald these ast words, the masked judge stepped on one side and directed Sir John’s gaze toa darker cor- ber of the dark There, hanging agaipst the wall, the encircled, his assage. rope thaty neck disappearing through the stone, was the corpse of a man. Entranced by this sight, and thinking that perhaps he also was going tobe hanged in the Same manner by an unseeen hand, Sir John felt Tooted to the spot. After a short silence the judge continued: “This man was the thief; tn his right hand you will find your handkerchief. Take it. As tor you. We Ought Dot perhaps to be so lenfent; nut, in Consideration of your Youth, and of the high ee you hold in your country, we will over- jook your fault. You are forgiven. Oniside tbls gate a gondola waits for you; ft will take you to Mestre, and thence you will de conveyed to the frontier. Go! But remember always what you have seen to-night.” Selzing with a trembling hand the lace hand- kerchlet that had been the cause of so much trouble, Sir John wanted to speak, wanted to thank his unknown judge; but before he could Tecover his volce, the phantoms had disappeared and two jailers only were by his side. Without a word, and apparently without an effort, these two men opened a secret door leading to the canal, and helped the now liberated min tuto a gondola that was moored to the DS, and in theforepart of which lay his luzgaye. No word was sald, no order was given; the two gondoliers seemed to know their duty, and they silently paddled away from the Palace tn which Sir John had spent that dreadful night. At Mestre a coach was waiting for him. Iu a few hours the frontier was crossed. ‘Then only did he begin to breathe freely. But for a long time afterward he avoided any tlluston to his Veae- tian adventure; and for many years he could not bear to speak of It. Now the Serenissima ts gone, the cells have been sacked by an infuriated ‘mob, and tonu- merable tourists visit the hall where the secret councils heid its nighuy sittings; but even now I cannot help feeling relieved when I have left bebind me Venice, its dark canals and the darker memories that cling to them.—Ciu ber’s Journal, A Night Watch, “*Is it uot morning yet?" From side to sid The sick girl tossed, hot-browed and heavy-e red, And moaned with feverish breath when I replied. “It is not morning yet.” «Is it not morning yet?” O leaden hou: How phe they move! The night mote darkly were Cold (on the wan leaves strikes the sudden owers ; “‘It is bot morning yet.” “*Is it not morning yet?” The clock ticks on, The sands fall slow a Bot half the night is pone; Avain I answer to that restless mosn— “Is it notmorning yet?” “Ig it not morning yet?" With tender care I bathe her brow and smooth her damp fair hair, And try to soothe her with soft words of prayer. ‘It is not morning yet.” If thoee tired Hae tine bunatan eee a Sst Poet ry ‘one eyes could keep! God knows the thorns are sharp, the road is steep! “It is not morning yet.” “1s it not et?” +> Tis com Ang, while Lepeak, the shadows press inc ‘And all the roum efows colder “It is not morning yet." **Is it pot morni et?” How faint and | The Eiteous accented Do not fremble so, se y nor mie, while answer, ‘‘No— yest is not moraine yet dear.” ress more near, ay fear. **Ig it net mo! yet?” I bow my head; eastera sky glows red oS wizard, performed many aston- male assistant away with all his money and apparatus. te?" The women of 0) Texas, have taken toa Go ang: their as short ‘smooth heads, and During that period of su excitement in Virginia after the John Brown incident at Harper's Ferry, and before the outbreak of the war, a yor man fromone of the northern ites a week or two asa guest in the house of one of the oldest and most distin- guished families of Northern Vi 01 was frankly & republican in nO difference what- irtesy Or kindness of his host. or in the treatment given to him by the — of the surroun country, to whose houses he | Was freely Invi as a gentleman, visiting in | the house of a gentleman, their Beighbor. His business in the neighborhood was social, not Political—he was, in “fact, paying his addresses to his host's daughter—and his political opin- | jons, though perfectly well known, were not discussed and perhaps were scarcely thought of at One evening daring his visit this yoang man, c. D. , Was Invited in company with his host’s family to attend a reception given by Turner Ashby on the occasion of a tournament. He went, of cot mingled freely with the other guests, and found nothing in his reception. to mark any difference between himself and other gentlemen present, until the supper was served. Thena algresable facident occurred. A young man of the neighborhood, who, as C. D——_afterward learned, was a rejected suitor for the hand of the woman to whom he was himself laying siege, approached him as he ‘stood talking with her, and without speaking to Cc. D—— atall, said to the lady: “Isn't it a sublime plece of impudence fora Yankee and a black republican to come down here now and Lager 's) the hospitality of a Vir- ginia gentleman, after all that has happened?” The young woman replied, quickly: “Mr. B—,, you should be the last person to criticise the catholicity of my father’s hospital- ity—you have profited by his indisposttion to draw social lines too sharply. You have been received by him as a guest upon several oc- casions.”” The reply was so stinging that the youth Straightway withdrew trom the supper room, and UC. D—,, thinking {t better to retire from company in which be might be less welcome than he had supposed, went to the cloak-room for his hat and coat. He had scarcely entered the door of the room when B— approached him saying: “What I said just now had reference to you, and was meant to be insulting.” Young C. D- had not been used to en- counters of this kind, and had little disposttion to engage in affairs of honor; but he seriously intended to prosecute his suit for the hand of his host's daughter, and he knew instinctively that all hope of success there must be aban- doned if he failed to resent an insult of so gross a nature, He therefore struck his antagonist in the face with the giove which he had just drawn from his hand. This was the signal for the persons present in the room to interfere to prevent a brutal fight with fists. A challenge in regular form Was quickly given and accepted, and C. D . anxious to have the affair ended as speedily a3 possible, insisted that the duel should be fought at once In a grove near the house, by the light of torches, All the persons concerned prepared them- selves immediately, and were about to qult the room for the appointed place, when ‘Turner Ashby, white with rage, burst through the door, A whisper of what was going on had reached him. He entered the room, paused a moment, and then advanced to B—, quivering as he went forward so violently that half the persons pres- ent supposed that he meditated an assault upon B—.. His voice, however, was low, and his speech very deliberate, “What is the time fixed for our meeting, Mr. B—2" he asked. “Tam to fight Mr. C. D— immediately,” ans d B—. “IT beg your pardon,” replied Ashby, * but Mr. C. D has nothing to do with this affair. He came to my house to-night as my guest. When I invited him to come the invitation was Turner Ashby'’s word of honor that he should be treated here as a gentleman; it was my voucher for his character to my other guests, aud for the character of my other guests to him. 1 am sorry to have to explain these points of good breeding to you, Mr. B—,, but you have shown your ignorance of them by insulting my guest. That insult is mine, not his, to resent. He is here under my invitation, and that ts my pledze | of protection. If you are not prepared to mike a proper and satisfactory apology at once, bota | to my guest and myself, you must fight Turner | Ashby, and the :time ana place alread, reed upon will answer as well as any oil: What do you say, sir?” Now, fighting a duel with a young stranger wholly unused to firearms and to lighting of any sort was one thing; fighting a duel with Turner Ashby in a rage, was very well under- stood to be another and a much more serious | thing, and young B—.’s consciousness of this difference wrought a complete change in his mood. He pleaded in excuse for his conduct the fact that he had been drinking too freely, and signed the pair of apologies which Turner Ash- by wrote. co D— ended his visit soon afterward, and the war cameon to prevent itsrepetition, ‘Tur- ner Asbby’s gallantry in war and courage and ccmu. and over Inen, and the story of his deatu, are ell matters of history now; “but his high character,’ says C. D—, “never impres: 0 strongly in reading of his military explo. sit does when I look at that faded slip of bapa . fis written by his hand and signed by B a curious autogiapa.—é. G. Bie N.Y. eeninuy Posi. fKeep Your Mouth Sh pecullar arrangement of the narrowed uched and dellsately-ic es ure specially sulted to strain the # nd to warmn tt before It enters tae lungs. Tue ioul ang sickening efliuvia which one meets in a day’s travel through the crowded city are breathed with greater impunity through the bese than through the mouth. Raw alr, haled through the mouth, induces hoarsene: coughs, ete. ‘The great actor Cooke, when dying, told his friend and faithful attendant, Broster, that, al- thougn he could make no bequest ia money, he woul ve him something worth money. ‘He then advised Broster to set up as a teacher of elocution, and to impart to his pupils, on condi- tion of a large fee, and a solemn promise not to divulge it, the secret of his (Cooke's) extraor- dinary powers of voice and its unflagzine qual- ity, which was to carry on respiration through the nostrils, 80 as not to dry or irritate the dell- cate organs of the voice. Broster took this ad- vieg and used it so well as to retire wit a@ fortune. He made every young clergyman, who took lessons, sign a bond tha’ in the event of bis becoming a bishop he would ay u further fee of 100 guineas. John Thewall inherited the secret from Broster, and used it with similar reserve and profit; but his son, on being appointed a college lecturer on public reading and speaking, disclosed the secret to all his pupils as a thing of the greatest importance to them. Mr. Pitman gives an epitome of the expert- ence of Mr. Geo. Catlin in his travels among the Indians, of whom he visited 150 tribes. Every- where he found the Indian women careful to ress together the lips of their children after fearing the breast, and before being suspended in their narrow cradies in the open air, and he found it tobe a very rare tuing to hear of a death during childhood among any of the tribes before stropg drinks and new discases were in- troduced among them by the whites. It Is satd that no animal but man ever sleeps with his mouth open, and that the lungs need a degree of rest from labor which they get with the mod- erate inhalation that, with a low pulse, attends perfect bietly wave rr. Catlin attributes his escape from malarial fevers, and his actual recovery from pulmonary Weakness, to a strict observance of the rule to keep the lips and teeth closely shut. When he Weut to the wilderness he was feeble. He found himself compelled to sleep in the open, dewy alr, His one main precaution secured the entire restoration of his health and vigor. He found that all Indians had good teeth, which remained sqund to old age, and that there were no stut- terers among them. In his closing perpranis he advises that mothers at, home, and teachers in seminaries, should make n ghtly rounds as long as neces. ot to put a stop to the unnatural, dangerous and disgusting habit of sleeping with the mouth open. “No one who has been. snoring through the night feels properly refreshed in the morning. Keep your mouths shut, my young readers—when you read silently, when you write, when you listen, when you are in pain, when you are walking or riding, and by all mears when you are angry.” How Pulp is Made. The Portland, Maine Press, tells us how wood pulp is mage: “So much is said about the paper pulp which is extensively used in the manufacture of paper that a brief description of the process of making it will be entertaining, Any white, soft wood may be used. The bark ig taken off, the knots and dark and decayed laces cut out. Itis then put intoa lange cal- n and boiled, which extracts all the glutt nous matter and resin, and renders {t so! is then put on a ty stone grinder, with water pouring on it allthe time. The ‘grind- stone wears off the fibers until they are finer than sawdust, which float away tntc a recep- tacle. The water is drained off by means of a fine sieve, leav! the pulp, which consists of a fine fuzz, or splinters of wood. It is white. and requires no bleaching, but ts ready to be mixed with Tag pulp or aaything else taat has a strong fiber, and receive the proper consti- tuents to make Into paste, after waich is {3 run off into paper sheets; whereas rags have to be washed and bleached with chloride of lime, Soda ash and alum; and such strong chemicals, to take out the color. Then they are picked to Pieces, and made into pulp. The provess by which pond bale is made is purely mechanical. It can be cheap—say at about one cent a poun &2" The man who hesitates is 0 ten los:—for ‘words.— Philadelphia Chronicle-H rata. A Harsu Hint.—Country Bore—“What ume do you retire here?” Young Lady (bored)— “Soon as the company goes.” Th was tended one concert. —Miss Ellen Terry, according to the cable dis- ‘ch, appeared on Friday evening, May 21, in ndon, in @ new one act play, entitled “Tolan- the,” adapted from “King e's Daughter.” — Through a mistake made by Mr. John Hol- Mngshead, man: of the Galety theater, Lon- on traits ot Mr. Florence, as the Hon.Bard- Well Slote, have already been extenstv‘ly ex- hibited in that city as the likeness of Mr. Ray- mond in Colonel Sellers, aes — Mr. Lawrence Barrett has anew drama, entitled “Pendragon,” written by Mr. W. W. Young, and founded on one of the legends of King Arthur. This will be produc by Mr. Barrett, in Chicago, on September 27. — Booth’s Theater will be illuminated this evening in honor of the close of Miss Nellson’s engagement. The last performance of “Cymbe- line” occurs to-night. —Madame Lucca whom all remember, is again in luck. Ten years ago when at Berlin one night she was quitting the opera, & rufian threw a stone at her and cut her eye. The prima donna, en: at the insult and the hurt, swore she would never place foot in Berlin in, and her husband con- firmed the decision. it has yone on, and fora decade Berlin in general and the old Emperor tn articular have sighed in vain for the sound of er incomparable voice. At length they could bear tno longer, and the kaiser wrote a letter to the baron, Lucca’s husoand.and him asa penal favor to bring his wife to Berlin. The mperor’s Wish was too strongly expressed to be disregarded. and Lucca went. How she was recelved will be remembered in Berlin for many a day. —The dramatic season is running into the summer while the musical will about end with the great festival which has run through this week in Cincinnat!; the opera season wiil close with the last night of the French opera in N. Y on Wednesday next. It began on April 19,1: will have lasted nearly fourteen months, gi Ing a total of 452 performances. The receipts were over $350,000, A table of receipts published shows that they did better in Washington ac- cording to population than any other city. The expenses of course have been large, but, even So, the manager has found his enterprise amply renumerative. M. Capoul has recefved $50,000: Mile. Paola Marie, $32,000; and Mile. Angele, $12,000. —On the Ist of June a benefit will be given to the well-known actress, Mrs. Jane Germon, mother of Effie Germon, in the Academy ot sic, Baluimo! Joseph Jefferson will appear “Bob Acres;” Mrs. Julia Polk will sing; Har- ry Beckett will act in a farce, supported by members of Wallack’s company, and there wiil be other attractions. — Mrs, Scott-Siddons will pass the summer in Europe this year, but will return, to the United States in October with two new plays. Here she will organize a company and travel with these plays. During the present season she has con- fined herself to the platform—though she is a better actress than reader. —The London Vanity Fuir says of Mr. Sheri- dan’s “Parson” in “The Danites.” “It is graphic and melodramatic acting of great tragic Intensity. The last act, in which he man with one side of his body helple: alyzed, 1s astudy quite as excellent in its own hideous fashion. M. tinct hit in London. He ts well remembered in Washington. ~—Mr. John T. Raymond's benefit perform- ance to be given at Booth’s Theater on the even- ing of June 3, promises to be one of the memor- able gecurrences of the season. The Igtest ad- dition to the list of volunteers is Mls S Coghlan, who will perform the screen scene fro: “The School for Scandal.” Mr. John MeCul- jough, Mr. E. A. Sothern, Miss } Anderson, and ether popular players will help to make the oceasion an interesting one. A very popular feature of the performance will be the appear- ance pea eer of Mr. Raymond and Mr. Flor- ence In the farce “The Keturned Volunteer,” — A number of new plays were produced last week, Among them were The False Son,” 4 | from the French of M. Valney, played at Law's Opera House, Providence; “Around the Web,” | by J. P. Campbell, played at. Woods’ Museuni, Philadelphia; and “The Exile of Siberia,” adapted by F. Ridgeway Griffith from an old play, “The Exile,” played at the new Nationat ‘Theater, Philadelphia. — The part of Hymen was restored to the last act of “As You Like It,” at the Imperial Theater, London, recently, being played by Miss Ada Blanche, who carried the traditional torch, and who was attended by damsels in saffron robes. The music of the wedding march and chorus was from the pen of Mrs. Tom Taylor. —Miss Ella Sturgis, daughter of Gen. Sturgis, U. 8. A., will, for the benefit of Mr. Charles Pope, appear’at Pope’s ‘Theatre, st. Louls, next rriday evening. She will be the Ja. let to Mr. Fred is, Warde’s Romeo, — Alice Oates’ opera troupe has come to gr ef in Pennsylvania. They left town without pay- ing thelr bills, but all the baggage, includiug the personal effects of the members, was at. tached at the depot. And that ended the con- cern. ~—Emma Abbott says she sometimes feels all the love she acts on the stage, and then again, when her corns hurt, she had rather raise a lovers’ row. —Itis finally settled that Marie Roze will be the prima donna of the Strakosch & Hess English Opera company now organizing for next season. She willapy in three perform- ances each week, and will receive a weekly compensation of $1,000. Julla Gaylord and Josie Jones Yorke, now with the Carl Rosa company, have also been engaged. “Alda, “Carmen” and “Lohengrin” will be in the com- pany’s repertory. ‘The season will be open November J at the Fifth avenue Theater, New York city, ~— When “Dantel Rochat” appeared to be a failure, M. Sardou rashly sald that he would never write another drama. He has taken a sober second thought, and ts hard at work writing a play on the Subject of divorce. ~—Acaple dispatch trom London states that Mr. Frederick the manager of the Covent Garden Italian Opera, has resolved to bring his company to New York next year, —Verdi’s new composition, ‘Pater Noster,” and words taken from Dante, has been per- formed at the Scala Theatre, Milan, with great Success, the composer himself conducting. — Von Suppe's latest opera, “Boccaccio,” was Performed for the first time in English Monday night, at the Union-square Theatre. Report speaks highly of this work, which, by the way has been produced in this ‘country tn advance of the principal European capitals. ‘The lovers of light and lively opera will remember ithe Success Of Von Suppe’s “Fatinitza” last year, which, notwithstanding the prev ling manta for “Pinafore” at that Ume, held its own duriag a long season. ~—Monday night Mr. D'Oyiy Carte’s original company will return to the Fifth-avenue Theatre for two weeks’ performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” It 1s so jong since this amusing work has been heard in New York that its reproduction will have somewhat the attraction of novelty, —W. J. Florence will follow John T. Ray- mond to London and will appear with his wite in “The Mighty Dollar,” in the Gaiety ‘Theatre, after Sellers has had hits day. —MissEmma Abbott as reported last week is said to have made $47,000 during her last sea- sop. With this statement free! circulated, it is not to be wondered at that so many young women feel that they have a “mission” to go on the operatic stage. ~—Mr. Fritsch, the best of our resident ten- ors, 18 to sing in an operetta entitled “The Queen's Shilling,” at Montreal, on the 31st inst. The epeeloe nal iments B Ls oe Special patronage ‘of the Ma: of Lorne an Rs royawite = i Zerr Wilhelmj has returned to New York. There have been rumors that he would be heard again in concert here, but it may be Stated on authority that he has decided not to appear in public for the present, —‘AGentleman from Nevada” Is said to be based on an English novel, entitled “The Goldea Butterfly.” — Business in New York this week was very bad at all the theatres, excepting Booth’s and Wallack’s, —The first performance in San Francisco of “The Pirates of Penzance,” oceurred on Ma: i, at the Bush street Theatre. Emily Mel- ville acted Mabel. LIQUOR DEALERS ln Massachusetts are having considerable trouble with a law passed by the last legislature, and which went into force on the first day of this month. It gives licensing boards in towns and cities the power to order all screens, curtains, stained glass and such to be removed from the windows of liquor saloons from midnight until six o’clock In the morning and all day on Sundays. This act has not so far been generally enforced, but in one or two. laces it has begun to bother the liquor sellers @ way that they despise. They say it has entatied a lo 8 of Custom equal to nearly one- pee ot eee ee Bon are going pgs Probably this is one part o: intention of the law.—Phila, Times, ace to meet the axnesees the peat eee expenses, the public schot Baas os ane rena a , ali employés to b3 missed from July 31. It ts not certain whether the schools will be reopened in October. ee s7The oft I qu mixed. A change of county boundaries is ‘pro- posed, but cach county wants the village, and brewing, or in the tenderer ministratiops of love which it is impossible to formulate. and she can make herself worthy her maintenance there, then there let her remain, accepting her food and her money with dignity; not asa pau- T, but asa useful worker. Or as a wife, let er Consider herself not as a pensioner of her husband's, but, contributing of her ability to the good of the house, let her feel a part owner- ship in the purse, and a responsibility for its wise appropriation. The value of money and its proper use should be taught to girls and boys alike. Very early habits Of extravagance, carelessness, miserlii- bess and extortion can be formed and lessons of thrift and generosity can be equally early taught. In this matter the girls should have the same teachings as the boys. There is not a Woman in the land so secure in idie luxury that she may not yet have to consider the dilemma of hard work or starvation, and if there were no feeling of pride to urge her there is the motive of policy to impel her to know how she can get for herself, and possibly some helpless loved ones, an honest living in the world. the dogs do bark; ‘There are plenty of beggars in town; Some are in rage, some are in tas, But many wear velvet gown! —Christim Union, ®®~ A conscienceless bride remained at Magara until her husband’s fortune was ab- sorbed by a hackman, and then ran off with the latter. The deserted husband has hired a hack, and hopes ina few weeks to induce her to re: turn.—Philadelphia Neve: OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE EVENING STAR THE WEEKLY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. ‘The EVENING STAR, (on Saturday’s a double shect or eight page paper of fifty-six columns, the size of the New York dailies), is everywhere recognized as the leading newspaper of Wash- ington. 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