The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1877, Page 8

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PARISIAN VARIETIES. vi COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE—V curry, BROOKLYN RINK.—Patix Skatt THEATRE COMIQUE—Vani TONY PASTOR'S THEATE ULINTON HALL.—Sratvany NEW YORK AQUARI QUADRUPLE YORK, SUNDAY, FE TT. NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, n a special newspaper es apa traip over its connections, leaving Jersey anurter M., daily and Su carrying regular edition of the HUALD VW far i» Harris and South to Washington. reaching jadelphia nt a quarter past six A. M. and Washingvon at y one P.M. wm From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day wil be cool and clear or partly cloudy. Watt Srrevr Yesterpay.—The market opened heavy, with lower prices in the principal speculative stocks; throughout the day there wasconsiderable irregularity in prices, with weak- ness toward the close. The coal stocks were the chief object of attention and the prices were very irregular. Gold opened at 1057 and declined to 105%. Money was supplied at 31g and 219, the lust prices being 21g and 3. ‘Tux Mopern Coat or Mau—a policeman’s chest protector. AxornER Coup Snap, and overcoats are easier to weur than a day or two ago. Or Att Brutes the one that walks upon two fect is the worst, as the Leon case proves anew. Tue Wisp did considerable street cleaning yesterday, using human eyes as dumping ground Law was found in a Henceforth the old gibe A Move. Morne: police court yesterday. will be pointless. Tuxiry Cuurcn being a wealthy corporation it is not surprising to find it going to law for its proprietary rights. Jupcep By Tuat Farrurut Purse, the Post Office, business is improving; last week more stamps were sold than in any other week within @ year. Or Covunse religion will appear very attrac- tive to sinners who read “Holy Militants” and learn how some of the faithful regard peace and unity. Twenty-Five HUNDRED cotton factory opera- tives are to have time for meditation and the spending of their savings. Wanmsutta Mills. TuHatr tHe Custom Hovusn came near going to the dogs through the seizure of some Skye terriers is shown by the sule of the captives as narrated in another column. Mayor Evy Invoxses toe Herarp’s PLax for atreet ng, andl if the Legislature will follow his exampl r streets and sewers will cease to be so much alil Tue Usvorroxaty, Girt who was found dead field on Staten Island has at last n iden- and it ix believed that the police have discovered traces of the man who ix supposed to have been the first cause of the tragedy. Receiver Srewant, of the Bo should remember that we have no postal money order arrangements with the other world, aud that more than half the ereditors of bis institution hay ilrenly left our own globe. Makiran Divvicusris contione to appear in our courts, story of a husband who sought tes ix told in our law re- war also, and the lawyers ports. will have their hands full before the case is } ity within its assigned sphere; another in ; ended. | Duane street, whence the Department ot Docks does likewise ; still another in Mul- berry street, where the police are, and a semi-detached seat of government in the vame capital is the sphere of the Board of Health ; there is a fourth in Mercer street, where the Fire Department rules; @ fifth in Fourth avenue, where the Building De- portment is to be found ; excise decrees are | fulminated from Houston street, and the De- | partment of Public Works shares the City Hall with the Mayor. All this, viewed from dpoint of scientific or prac- tical polities, borders on the farcical. It is a | government of the kind that nobody would | be astonished to find in the airy regions of Liliput or the other famons countries dis- | covered by the late Lemnel Gulliver, Esq. | One of these minor governments actually | has « finance department and a department of public works of its own apart from the general departments so designated, Tue Per Srrrz has be N, this time in Boston. Hydrophobia comes so natural to these darlings that not even the modern Athens can prevent its occurrence. The sufferings of the unfortunate lady who was bitten are nar- rated in our telegraphic columns. It is to be hoped that steps to exterminate these pretty but dangerous animals will be taken at once, without waiting for fresh proofs that such a dvom is necessary. Tus Weatne The depression which moved over New England from the lake region “Thursday and Friday has developed into a ste ‘as it reached the Atlantic coast. Its pre has been marked by a 4. fall of presse its centre and a consequent in Hovity of the winds that attend it, Yesterday morning the centre of the disturbance was off the const of Maine, but during the day it moved in a north- easterly direction over Southern Nova Scotia with a rapidly fulling pressure. An extensive area of rain and snow attended the storm, em- “8 bracing New York and the New England States § Snow | 9nd the engineers of that particular im- and the northeastern British provinces, ments will be received and Cause, a strike at the | ‘y Bank, | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1877—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Our Manicipal Heptarchy. tion. enough process, that of washing windows, there it is studied as o fine art, and men brought up to it go about as doctors do to physic their patients, and rub up your windows at so much a pane. Consequently it was not for the want of knowledge how windows should be washed that they suffered in the palace, nor for want of water or long- handled brushes, or implements generally. But the trouble, upon investigation, ap- peared to be that in the mysteries of the Brit- ish constitution and the civil and military service every royal palace is contem- plated as possessing, like humanity itself, an inside and an outside, and as falling, therefore, under the super- vision and guardianship of widely dis- man falls to the tailor, and the inside to disciples of Galen, Hippocrates and abstrac- tions of that sort. Inside the palace the lord high steward dominates ; outside it is the quartermaster general or some equally magnificent functionary, Thus the mild Baron could only get one sidesof his win- dows washed at a time, and to clean them on both sides moved half the British Empire. Our condition as to the government of the city is precisely typified by this little picture from British history. It is impossi- ble for any act of city administration to be done without the consent and co-operation of several high mightinesses ; and for want of that consent and co-operation the acts commonly remain undone, because there is | always some sort of antagonism existing between the departments that must coincide for the performance of any common purpose. There is some point of precedency or dig- nity; some views of convenience, or if the merely moral obstacles to ‘pulling together” are removed there is some difficulty in the fact that the purse of one department gets empty just as the purse of the other hap- pens to be freshly filled. Thus our munici- pal windows, if washed at all, are washed only on one side, and before the ponderous machinery can be brought to bear at the other side of the thin division the side first washed needs to be washed again. In the English case cited there was a possibil- ity ofa remedy. Her Majesty, or the com- mander of the forces, having ascertained the precise day upon which the steward was to operate upon the inside of the palace could order out a division of the quarter- master’s department and scour the out- side. But this absolute remedy we are without. It is true we have the Mayor. It is his function to drive, and if the diffi- culties prove insurmountable he can initiate a change in the departments, though he cannot complete that change. Even this partial remedy is not of the right kind. It is extravagant. It breaks o butterfly ona wheel. It is like ordering up a locomotive when you want a wheelbarrow. It defeats its purpose just as extreme penalties | always do. Juries will not condemn a man for stealing a pair of second hand boots, if he is to be hanged for it, though they know him to be guilty; and ifa Mayor should suspend the head of a department | for reasons merely related to the failure of | that department to coincide with some other, the Governor would not sustain the act by removal. Yet that failure might be the source of extreme derangement of the | whole public service. All this difficulty in the city government is due to the extreme division of authority which should be concentrated at one point. | It is proper and effective to have the func- tions of city administration organized in several departments and to have each sub- ject to persons skilled in the line of the duty | of that department; but this is only good when the departments are directly respons- ible to one authority that can concentrate | their efforts upon any important point. Our city at this moment, through the fail- ure of the law to supply such an effective authority, has at least seven separate seats of government, and is subject to seven dif- | ferent authorized organizations. There is a seat of government in Union square, whence the Department of Parks exercises author- any sound ste fell at Chatham and Sangeen and heavy rain at | Perivm in imperio of its Department of Public Halifax. The storm centre, already ne | Works are to be seen busy on one side of the HERA, is advancing toward the lakes from | Harlem River, while the engineers of the the Northwest, and the present indi % marked. It is probably moving northwestward city’s Department of Public Works are side. Indee ; 1 98 if to illustrate fully th 1 | parallel of Y he their comparison with the In the entertaining memoirs of Baron Stockman there isa pleasant story of the beanties of certain extremities of organiza- | The Baron went to England in the suite of Prince Albert and was lodged in that old-fashioned corner of the royal estab- lishments, St.James’ Palace. As a stranger sat wich | he was doubtless more likely to take THERE OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH | notice of the peculiarities of life there LONDON © than a native to the said peculiarities born and hardened. He was especially impressed with the difficulty experienced in getting his @indows washed. It is a simple and more or less understood in all coun- | tries. In London it has reached a more ad- vanced point than in most other places ; for similar authorities. Thus the outside of engaged within sight of them on the other | through the Caribbean Sea. The highest pressure és in the Lower Mississippi Valley, the area ex- tending vhigan. tene Sec comanuatelay tn Oe olen and the city government had between them- ‘central districts, but is comparatively low on the | selves a short time since a brush of civil Gulf coast. No changes are reported in the | War -as two States of the Saxon hopurchy rere. The weather im New York today will be | might have had. They fonght respectively eool and claar or gprtly cloudy. \ also, pro aris & focis—fought for their altars separate governments of the ancient days of the mother country, two departments of and their fires. But the Police Department, like a mighty monarchy with trained troops, crushed out the feeble Health Department in one desperate onset. In every possible particular this is “wasteful and ridiculous excess.” For the mere items of rent and office expenses the city might be spared a very considerable sum if this were changed, as it should be. The functions of the Department of Health, the Excise Department and the Department of Buildings are strictly police duties, and they should be made bureaus of that department, while the Department of Docks and the Department of Parks have no duties not obviously included within the sphere of the Department of Public Works. With such a consolidation made, and with the heads of the departments that would remain made subject to the Mayor and appointed by him—not by his prede- cessor—we would have a reasonably efficient administration, and this we will not have until changes in the direction indicated have been made, Our London and Paris Cable Letters. All the opening beauties of an early Eng- lish spring cannot dissipate the gloom that wells from the heart of our London cor- respondent when he casts his mournful glance toward the gathering war storm in the East. The outlook is certainly not en- couraging to the lovers of peace, and the jocularity of the London Times over the way Europe would regard Russia's withdrawal from her armed position sounds a trifle strained and dismal over here, The sight of half a million’ of men in position to pounce upon the enfeebled and iso- lated Ottoman Empire has nothing funny about it for Turkey, and ‘very little for England. There is a strain of the grotesque, however, in the prospect of Sultan Hamid giving way to his younger brother Reschid, as he took the place of Murad. Sitting in the palace of the Padishah seems to try the brains of men like walking over the foot | bridge between the piers of the Brooklyn Bridge. At the least sign of giddiness there are a hundred hands ready to push the Sul- tan over the edge, as the spirits of air, whisper ‘jump off” into the ears of a novice on the toot bridge. England has re- treated with more or less grace from her un- tenable position on the extradition qnes- tion. Mr. Pierrepont has fallen into the hands of the foul fiend as Minister Schenck did. He is accused of stating that it would require a certain amount of bribery to get a bill through Congress. He de- nies it emphatically, and that should be enough. The teapot of Flint, with the ghost of “dear Lady Mary,” will rise in accusa- tion against him, however, and the hasty will argue unpleasantly. The stage finds a friend among the Scotch professors, and in spite of the Dumfries clergy- man will not go in the direction he indicates for some time to comes O’Ma- hony’s body will be honored” in his native land, all classes of malcontents with British rule agreeing to join in“honoring his remains. So the immense bndget of news rolls out its facts of interest to all classes. Not the least impertant is the announcement that Herr Wagner has given mortal offence to King Ludwig, and that the entire Cabinet is perturbefi atthe audacity of the musician of the future in writing a letter ‘‘without consulting anybody.” Paris, all agog with her carnival, has little else than its merrymaking to re- count, but that always has its charm for the outside world. Sensible Advice. When the democrats, by the unanimous vote of their Representatives on the joint Congressional committee, agreed to the bill creating the Electoral Commission they bound themselves to abide by the decision of that tribunal, whatever it might be. Should it be favorable to Mr. Tilden they would scarcely justify the republicans in fighting against it, and should it be favor- able to Mr. Hayes they cannot honesily fight against it themselves. ‘To argue dif- ferently would be to confess that they had only agreed to the proposed method of counting the electoral vote in the belief that the decision was certain to be in their favor. It is gratifying to see that the leading demo- cratic organs in this city and in Brooklyn take this view of the matter, and, however disappointed they may feel, offer sound ad- vice to their party. The World says:— As for the democratic party, since it in good faith accepted this tribunal, we do not ow any bad faith or incompetency on the part of its accepted agents can Felease it from its obligations. We have little doubt that no calamity could befall a free country worse than the inauguration of # President ander a vitiated titlo, We have not the slightest doabt that there is one thing much worse for any political party than an honorable defeat, and that 1s a dishonorable victory. The Hepress remarks :— ‘While it would be comparatively easy work to defeat the finality of the Electoral law by the resignation of the democratic members or by the refusal o1 the House to goon with the count, the votes of twenty-two States remaining to be counted; or by the election of a President ip the Houso—no election having been made by the commission ; of by forcing @ new viection next year, we ure not prepared to recommend any such Conclusion, In tho first place, two wrongs never made the second wrong the right act. In the second place, tho remedy is tull of danger to tho country and of no corresponding benefit tothe democrats, in the third place, there was a moral agreement to abide by the decision. 'The Brooklyn Eagle, one of the stanchest democratic papers in the country, following the same vein, says:-— We trust the representatives of the democratic party at Washington will unitedly bow with loyal obedience to what has been determined for them as the law by a body they aided in creating. The snaps and tricks and fraids which they are unable now to guard against will be universally reterred to 1m the years that arc to come with the contempt to-day felt for them by every honest American and by every believer in popular rule the world over. Ivis to be hoped that the democratic papers throughout the country will follow in the footsteps of the metropolitan journals, Purrrr Tortcs To-Day. —Sensational preaching is so common that it hardly needs to be made a special theme, and yet an hour will be spent in the Academy in Brooklyn this morning discussing it. Bible pneu- matology will demand an hour elsewhere; common sense and Christianity will go to- gether in Cooper Institute, albeit they should travel hand in hand everywhere and at all times. The seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, one of which is sainthood, will be analyzed and presented by Dr. Ewer, and the beau- ties of the Sermon on the Mount will be ex- tracted by Dr. Smith, And meantime that madly neglected class of our community, the commercial travellers, will receive Dr. Talmage's warmest consideration and care. Even the poor Indian will be remombered | by Mr. Meacham, who will describe the character and qualities of the red man’s religion. Louisiana and the Presidency. The country is doomed to spend another uneasy Sabbath pending the settlement by the tribunal of the Louisiana electoral question. The Senate proceedings yes- terday with reference to the matter at issue were marked by nothing unusual, excepting an unfortunate and ill-timed attack by Mr. Bogy upon Justice Bradley. The House took a recess until Monday, when the Louisiana count will be pro- ceeded with. The joint democratic caucus was attended by almost every democrat in ench house, and adopted a resolution offered by Mr. Reagan, of Texas, to the effect that the House should proceed on Monday to the counting of the electoral vote according to law, the resolution having been offered as an amendment to one which called for extreme filibustering measures. The stronger members of the caucus acted in the most patriotic manner, in- sisting upon prompt and _ straight- forward action, and the vote by which Mr. Reagan's resolution was adopted was almost unanimous. The caucus, provided, however, for the preparation of a protest against the action of the commission concerning Louisiana and Florida. This protest is to be sent to the country at large, and will doubtless call forth a counter statement from the republi- cans, The fair and business-like spirit of the democrats should have the effect of assuring the country that party feeling is not to stand in the way of a prompt settlement of the Presidential question, and for this as- surance the public will @oubtless be ex- tremely grateful. Working Up Capital Cases. The two letters found in the cell occupied by Ryan and Oschwald are calculated to in- crease the prevailing doubt as to the guilt of the unfortunate men. One is addressed to the jailer and states that the prisoners had resolved to commit suicide, finding es- cape impossible. It was written when both men expected to be found dead in their cell, and declares that they die innocent of the crime of which they were convicted. Osch- wald, however, had not the courage to take his own life, and his portion of the poison was also found. The other letter is from Ryan to his parents, telling them that he dies by his own hand and solemnly protest- ing his innocence. It seems incredible that one who had the courage to commit suicide to save himself from what he regarded as a more shameful death, should, with his last parting breath, be guilty of a lie to his mother, especially when he confesses that bad company and “night walking” have brought him to his miserable end. If his life had been different, he says, the evi- dence that brought on his unjust conviction would not have had the force it did have with the jury. This remark calls to mind the wdil known and remarkable case of the murder of the Italian organ grinder in Dublin some years ago. ‘The boy was found dead in a vacant lot on the outskirts of the city with his throat cut. Where the body lay the branch of a young sapling had been freshly broken off. Acting on this clew the ever vigilant special detectives followed up the case, until they hunted down and arrested ‘‘on sus- picion” a tinker named Cooney, a tippling “ne’er-do-weel,” who was given to ‘bad company and night walking.” On searching his room the branch of the sapling, fresh from where the boy's body lay, was found under his bed. The model detec- tives ‘worked up” the case _ beauti- fully and everything was prepared for the trial and conviction of the vagrant tinker. But the story as published in the papers met the eye of Sir Frederick Hodson, the Deputy Lieutenant of Ireland, then in Paris, He returned immediately to Dublin, appeared at the tinker’s trial ard proved an effectual alibi. On the night of the murder he had hired Cooney to attend to his horse, and had detained him during the very hours the deed must have been committed. Cooney was acquitted. The | question then arose, by whom had the twig of the sappling been placed under the tin- | ker’s bed? Investigation followed, and soon John Delahanty, one of the very detectives who had run the tinker down, was placed under arrest as the real murderer, Link | followed link in the chain of evi- dence, and at last Delahanty confessed the crime. The special detectives, of whom he was one, enjoyed snug berths, but were threatened with disbandment because they had nothing to do. In order to ‘‘make up case” and prove the usefulness and neces- sity of the special force Delahanty first cut the poor Italian boy’s throat and next dis- played his own efficiency by tracking the murderer. He would have hung Cooney, if he could, as remorselessly as he took the life of the unfortunate boy. Delahanty was exe- cuted for the crime. We commend the case to the consideration of Governor Bedle. The circumstantial evidence against Ryan and Oschwald was as well worked up as was the case against the Irish tinker. But is the letter published in last Friday’s Henarp a genuine document? Is there a Delahanty behind the Jersey crime? * - A Judicial Inadvertency. Considerable excitement was occasioned in financial circles yesterday by the state- ment that an order had been granted by a judge of the Supreme Court requiring the President, managers and company of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company to show cause why a receiver of its property should not be appointed. The story was flatly denied on the street by the Vice Presi- dent of the company, although it turns out that the order had actually been granted by Judge Donohue on the previous day, but was, on application of the counsel of the company, vacated yesterday, It seems singular that a judge should grant an order one day, returnable in ten days, and vacate it on the following morning. But the ex- planation given by Judge Donohue of his action in this particular case is calculated to invite criticism. He states that the order was “inadvertently granted.” It is scarcely conceivable that a Supreme Court judge of thousands of people without knowing what he is doing. Yet such is Judge Donohue’s own explanation of this singular matter. An order to show cause why & re- ceiver should not be appointed for & great moneyed corporation affects its credit very seriously, implies the danger of its bank- ruptcy and creates a panic, not only among those immediately interested, but through- out the entire financial circle. A judge is certainly reprehensible for signing such an order “inadvertently.” Such a practice in the Supreme Court might be productive of very serious evils. A Serious Defect in New York Edu- cation. In a country where so much time and money are spent, and spent so willingly, in the interests of education, the extent to which one of its most important branches is overlooked is, especially to Englishmen, simply astounding. For from twelve to twenty years of the life of most persons, certainly of most of those whose parents or guardians are in circumstances above ac- tual poverty, the utmost care is taken for many of the best hours of each day to in- form and train the mind and fit its owner for his or her life’s work. But while much that is satisfactory results not nearly so much is accomplished, even of mental labor, as there would be were the body kept in healthy working order. One starting as a child, with no organic defect, no more needs to reach manhood with a thin chest and poor legs than he does unable to spell or cipher or write correctly. Equal care as assiduously applied would have as certainly developed strength and ease in the physical working as in the mental. Who can doubt the effect of a healthy and vigorous body on both the mental and moral sides of a man, and who at fifty, weak in lung or stomach or kidney, would not gladly exchange any branch of knowledge he acquired at school for sound, sturdy health? Yet what does he do for his boy to avert the same evil? What one school in New York city requires its boys or girls to use their joints and muscles, even five paltry minutes daily, in really vigorous exercise? How far would they get mentally if the allowance and quality of their daily work were equally stinted ? Every parent should see to it that his child every day brings into vigorous and sustained action all the muscles of the trunk and limbs, and that the amount of such ac- tion be gradually increased until it lasts in all atleastan hour. Every school teacher should understand what will strengthen and symmetrize the entire frame, should have the necessary apparatus, should know how to use it and should insist that it be used, as much as parents should that a boy keep his teeth or his whole body clean. Carry out such a system faithfully in the public schools of any one city for evén ten years, and, though our race degen- erates as much physically in the next genera- tion as many predict, there need be no fear of the men and women of that city. Blue Glass. On account of the absence of his lady love the poet observed ‘as to the gayety of nature that he would personally. ‘‘As lief that the blue were gray,” the evident impli- cation being that gray is a good, dull, whole- some everyday color—in harmony with the conmonplace and with disappointment— and blue is only to be lavished on holiday and festal occasions. It affects the eye in that way, and the reason perhaps lies too deep for any one to say why in our present knowledge of first facts. Some one must tell us precisely what colors are before it will be safe to venture on many guesses why one color stirs our human affec- tions in one way and another color in a dif- ferent way. Butthe martial spirit of the red and the affluent gayety of the blue are ancient recognitions—a sort of com- mon law principles of the relation of colors to conceptions of the mind. Yet the blue is not indiscriminately gay, os the blue laws of Connecticut, the blue noses of Nova Scotia und the blue blood of exhausted royalty may attest ; and the ‘blue devils” are pre-eminently the worst of all the foul fiends that trouble humanity. Doubtless the blue in these cases indi- cates an idea of extreme development; for, according to General Pleasonton’s theory, a little devil brought up under blue glass would possess a malign and desperate activity above other little devils, just as a small pig treated in the same way squeals for his dinner with the impulse.of a more desperate appetite than is possessed by ordinary juvenile porkers. Another evident associatior of blue with gayety, however, is that of blue pills. Here the sombre elements prevail in o man’s nature for a day or two and his inclinations are toward suicide, when, presto! the little dose of blue pill clears up the skies of his life and gives to all the pro- jects of his mind a new and splendid as- pect. It will be somewhat pleasanter if plue glass shall-eventually do all that and more in an easier way. We are pleased to seo that the Graphic, always full of pic- torial enterprise, shows the new style of fashions that will come into use under the impulse of the endeavor to make a little artificial blue sky over every ill that flesh is heir to. Piggish Women. We thank heaven that the above term with its terrible adjective is not of our own mak- ing; it is an outgrowth of the experience of some of our indignant correspondents, Lovely woman has been known to enter the crowded street car, omnibus or ferryboat, contemplate with impatient eye the rows of men who preserve their statue-like calm- ness and obliviousness in spite of demands which are no less positive because they are voiceless, and then she has been heard to comment in vigorous Inglish upon the selfishness of the sex which does all the voting. The angry cor- respondents certainly have some cause for complaint. The awards of courtesy can never change a custom into a right, and the male purchaser of » seat has often as good physical cause of objection to standing as woman herself. If ladies must relieve their minds of the irritation caused by in- sufficient accommodations let them select as would attach his signature to papers which involve millions of dollars and the intorests scapegoats the beings who are responsible for all the torments of local travellers ; let eet them heap objurgitions and epithets upom the men who are amassing fortunes by pre- tending to give the public facilities which are oftener hoped for than enjoyed. No condemnation of directors of companied owning boats, cars and stages will ever prompt any one to write indignant letters to newspapers; on the contrary, the lords of creation would aid theit own rulers with a supplementary bill, of grievances of impressive magnitude. ‘If such a course were followed the ladies might create a public sentiment powerful enough tosecure what man unaided has been una. ble to obtain—a law which would compel public carriers to supply all the seats fos which they accept payment, Even in mis« governed, bull-dozed Louisiana any pas- senger may prevent the crowding of a street car by notifying the driver that all the seata are occupied. Let woman charge’ herself with this duty, and the writers of uncompli- mentary things about the gentler sex will put on unlimited sackcloth and gratefully yield his own seat at the mere sight of femie nine attire. The Wagner Opera in New Yorke The triumph of Richard Wagner at Bai« reuth made him known to the entire musical world, and in no country did the perform< ance of his greatest work arouse: moreine terest than in the United’ States. The leading themes of the opera were published in musical notation by the Heratp, and _ since then Thomas and Damrosch have reproduced the finest passages in orchestral form, Th¢ musical public, however, has desired ta study Wagner more closely, and we are glad to know that ap opportunity will be given next month at the Academy of Music, when Mr. John C. Fryer will produce at least four of his operas, “The Flying Dutchman,” “Lohengrin,” ‘Tannhiuser” and ‘‘Die Wal- kire.” It is the intention of the management to give these works in the best manner, and an orchestra of sixty of the finest musicians in the city, a chorus of fifty voices and a good company have been already engaged. Mr. Fryer wisely determines not to depend upon the wornout scenery of the Acad emy, and is now having entirely new scenery painted for ‘‘Die Walkiire” and the other operas. ‘This enterprise should give Wagner an adequate interpretation in New York before London or Paris has heard his music in operatic forms, and we trust that the season will be well supported by our public. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Blue glass is sald to make milk white. . Senator Kelly, of Oregon, sighs tor a cipher. ‘When Hewitt heard about it he made several! !! Scoretary Gorham, of the United States Senate, looks like a political Swinburne, Judge Bradley says that the democratic Potiphar’s wife need not go far to find a Joe, Blue glass has become so popular in Washington that Matt Carpenter has a pane in his stomach. Wo are as ready as any to spare the feelings of animals; but what is one to do with the mites im the cheese? Riding whips for young ladies aro made of rhie noceros hide, clarified #0 as to look like amber, set im silver and adorned with a turquoise, Mx Moody, who is pious but not grammatical, says that thero is no need of grammar in heaven, There ain’tao grammar nor there ain’t no nething. A Western man, poetically inclired, thinks that there is nothing sweeter than the mutic of the carving knife. You mean when it gets a word in edgeways, Salvini’s wife was a poor sewing girl, and she says, with tears in ber © that “he is just like God.? Poor woman; perhaps she hasn’t been married long. ‘An English critic says that the Labit of dressing cbildren for fancy bail and concert exhibitions induces in the children a foolish conceit and an immoral ton¢ of ideas. Th ston girl is nothing If not intellectual It i¢ a queer sight, that of a Boston girl and her bean aa eventide trying to look at Venus through the same telescope, Toledo people are proverbially economical. A man who died in that city the other day left word that the door piste should be taken off and screwed on the top of his cofiin, ‘A brido’s dross was of pale café au lait silk, arranged with diagonal plaits and flounces of the same shade om a train of a deeper shade; her headdress was of blush roses and small garlands of vine Jeaves, with banches of grapes. Boneless codfish is all the fashion now. Besides the number of hasty ejaculations it saves on Fridays it has thé merit of preventing fond mothers from losing time by carefully taking the fine comb out of the back, Eastern men of learning aro likely to believe that. there is no civilization west of the Alleghanies. Once in a while a man like Kasson, of Iowa, or Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, nd tells Harvard Colleg¢ that Charles Francis Adams 1s not the only man in th¢ world. She was complaining that she never began to put his dinner before him on the table but she felt thas the sword of Damocles was hanging over her and that the last thin, despairing throad of her wedded lite wag likely to be snapped, and the sword—“Oh, Dataocles!’? gaid he, ‘give mo the beef stew. ’” Norristown /lerald:—‘President Iglesias, of Mexico, rejoices im the middie name of ‘Mariar.’ Unuappy tomcats siton the back tence at night for hours try ing to pronounce that name, And itis marvellous how close they hit the correct pronunciation! You may have beard ’em.”” Evening Telegram:—“The Young-Man-after-an-OMico, who invested $100,on° November 8, 1876, in a cushion of flowers, inscribed ‘Tilden—Bismarck—Gortscha: koff,’ and sent tt to Uncle Samuel’s house, has made @ dead loss of his moncy. It was worse even than an investment in New Jersey Contral."” Thore {s one time in a man’s life when even the clo, quence of Burke would not give fit expression to the yearnings of his exalted spirit, and that time is when he gets up in the night to find the baby a drink, carroms iis ankle on the rocking chair, and jumps round on one leg while he holds his wounded foot in his I hand, It is then that he says indistinctly something about ‘sell,’? or “knell,” or ‘tell.”” In most Connecticut towns the little round molasses jug is stil kept on the upper shelf of the cupboard, and it makes a church-going man sad to blow out the candle, just belore going to bed, and forget to take a long draw of moiasses from the jug. But it te sadly pleasant, even in the darkne: to hear the familiar gurgle of **jug-a-rum, jug-a-rum.”” Guizot:—''Man ts formed for society, Isolated and solitary, his reason would remain pertectly unde- veloped, Against the total defeat of his destination for rational development God has provided by the domestic relations, Yet without a further extension ‘of the social tres man would still remain comparatively rude and uncultivated—never emerging from barba rism."” A Western editor, who thinks the wages demanded by compositors an imposition, bas discharged his hands and intends doing his own type-seiting in future, He says:—‘ominG To the eXonbirant Wi d EmaNdep by paimeRs wR haae CoxCludrd yo ouR own Wpe sefring (N the futunK; wND anthouGs we never IKarned Tye Bustness we dO Not sok ang gRoar masTeayorY ine ayy.” Brooklyn Argus:—‘‘Incidents of the great Moody and Sankey revival in Boston :— “© ‘Dean CHaruey—Will meet you at the appointed Place and time. Hartix.' “Dean Hartiz—I will be there, sure, CHARLEY.’ “Then Charley senas the following message to hig wii “Don't wait dinner for mo, I attend the prayet Meeting again to-day. Little do you realize, Sarady what a work the Lord is doing for me.’ ” | i } ;