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~ NOT ‘ VOL. II. OCTOBER 25TH, 1883. NO. 43. 1155 BROADWAY, NEw YorK. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. ate highly esteemed contemporary, the New York Commer- cial Advertiser, referring to the recent celebration in New- burgh, says: ‘‘ Hundreds of persons made the rounds, seeking shelter from hotel keepers, boarding houses, and even personal friends, but found all full.” This is scandalous, and scarcely credible. We can readily understand how, in the general enthu- siasm, some few dissolute persons may have been inordinately convivial, but that the whole town, including personal friends of visitors, were full, is beyond belief. * * * 6c I WAS somewhat in doubt of my chance in the campaign until Mr. DANA published my portrait. Now it is settled. Please have my name spelled correctly in the obituaries, and please do not mix me up with liver pads.” —-HOLMAN. * * * WE are pleased to notice the fine distinctions made by the Holy Mother Church in the bringing home with bell and burial of her dead children. Two weeks ago a man died ina garret in this city of many spires. That he was a hardened and despicable wretch there can be no doubt, for two years had passed since he had contributed anything to the Fund for the Erection of an Altar to ST. JOSEPH, or the Fund for the Pyx7and Monstrance for the chapel of ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, or paid his dues to the Sodality of the BLESSED VIRGIN, or ordered a $5 mass for the repose of the soul of his grandmother, or subscribed to the Peter’s Pence or any other of the thousand and one policy schemes so dear to the Catholic heart. It is true that before that time he was a most devout in- vestor in these little heavenly bonds, and that since then he had been so addicted to consumption as not to be able to buy bread for his children, much less be liberal with his confessor. But this should not be weighed in his favor. He died in a lamp- less garret, with only his starving wife and brats to console him in his last moments. Next day, doubtlessly insane, the depraved wife applied to the priest for permission to have him buried from the church to the support of which he had formerly contributed. This brazen impudence was properly rebuked by the austere man of God, who, with that fine business instinct so carefully cultivat- ed by the MoTHER CHURCH, informed the bold lunatic that it was $10 or no prayers. And so the body of the dead consumptive was buried by the coroner in potter’s field, and his soul was left to howl its way out of Purgatory as best it could, This was of course just as it should have been, Contrast with this the affection shown last week by the MOTHER CHURCH for Mr. JOHNNY WALSH and Mr. JOHNNY IRVING, the two gentlemen who, having promised to kill each other on sight, were honorable enough to keep their word in the saloon of Mr. SHANG DRAPER. Both were men of influence and standing in the community—so much so that their portraits were several times taken to order at the expense of the city, and each in his day had been the guest of the State. The misunderstanding which led to the demise of both these gentlemen it is unnecessary now to com- ment upon, but suffice it to say that it was the outgrowth of their profession, and therefore pardonable. Mr. IRVING went gunning for Mr. WALSH, and winged him. Mr. WALSH promptly drew, and killed Mr, InvinG, and then Mr. PorTeEr, a friend of Mr. IRVING, killed Mr. WALSH. Both Messrs. IRvING and WALSH, therefore, died in the very act of murder, for Mr. WALSH was as anxious to settle Mr. IRvING as Mr. IRVING was to settle Mr. WaALsH. Here was a clear chance for MOTHER CHURCH to ex- hibit her appreciation, and accordingly there were blessings and incense and holy water plenty, and the remains of both gentle- men were laid away to rest in consecrated ground with the othér saints. Price, $275.00. It might be said by ribald scoffers that this would make it ap- pear that money can buy anything in the Church. This would be a monstrous libel. The facts we have just cited show it is quite the reverse. * * * ‘THE impression gained abroad that Mr. George Vanderbilt was about to become a newspaper reporter, probably arose from the fact that Mr. Swinton was about to start a journal. No newspaper man, according to Mr. Swinton, receives less than $2,000,000 a year. eo ee Ue 66 “THE public makes as much fuss over my grip experiments and delay as if it owned the Bridge. I want it known that me and the Trustys is running this thing, and if it isn’t my grip what ’s to go, it’s zo grip. That’s flat.”—Paine. os * ey mon. CAPEL says that the theologians of his church can hold their own, even in science, against all comers. We should say so.. What was the name of that Amer- ican who lost 13,000 francs trying to teach a theologian draw poker last winter in Brussels ?” * * * U NLESS France makes ampler reparation for the insult offered him in the Parisian streets, King Alfonso says he will order the Spanish minister to quit Paris. There it goes again— the savage, merciless, Castilian spirit of revenge—the disposition to crush and annihilate—the terrible, blood-curdling Spanish vendetta, For Heaven’s sake, where is the Congress of Powers?

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202 ‘Etre * AA \ AW YW \ GG XN \ SAAN XY N NAS SSS \ N\ \ Hi ‘ NR \\ RY UANYIN \N\; y ‘ \ wo Wes AW ASN AN AK SC WSs SSSSs wer v DESCRIPTIVE DEFI- NITIONS. Lvcus—Hoodlum. Dam(n)as(s)cus—Dude. Crocus—Rooster. Bacchus—Dunce. Caucus—Crow. Discuss—Ego. Hlocus—Farmer. Pocus—Stoker. Focus—Enemy. J. J. J. “ By the way, Brown, did I ever show you this?” said Jinks, as he fumbled in the inner breast-pocket of his coat for something or other. “T don’t know,” replied Brown, turning a shade paler, “but if it’s your tin-type, taken at Bar Harbor, with a tennis racquet in your hand, please don’t! Nine fellows have shown me theirs already this morning, and I can’t stand seeing another !” WHAT room would one ex- pect to find in a castle in the air? A “brown study,” to be THE BOOM IN JOURNALISM. sure. A RARE CHANCE FOR A MANIAC. (ree AL courtesy between England and America has of late been the rage. In the first place, England very politely paid $15,000,000 to us as a reparation for the slight breach of manners involved in the fitting-out of. the Aladama. In return, the United States paid England $5,000,000 for the privi- lege of catching $2,000,000 worth of fish in Canadian waters. Then we saluted the British flag at Yorktown, and England invited Mr. Lowell to unveil the bust of Fielding ; while, not to be outdone by the “ blarsted Island,” Mr. Villard asked the English aristocracy to a free blow over our continent. Mr. Field’s monu- ment to André, and the placing of the bust of Long- fellow in Westminster Abbey, are fresh tokens of the esteem which the two nations have for each other. Another opportunity of showing our admiration for British institutions is offered us. In the Boston Zven- ing Transcript the following notice appears :— “Subscriptions are solicited for the purpose of placing a painted east window in Woodstock Church to the memory of the late Duke of Marlborough, and will be thankfully received by Rev. Waldo Burnett, Southborough, Mass. ‘The cost of the window will be #250, and the subjects the principal events in our Lord’s life. Up tothe latest advices £95 had been subscribed.” Surely, this is an opportunity not to be neglected by our Anglomaniacs. Who would not cheerfully wear his last year’s cover-coat, have his Lobb shoes tapped, or be a little behind the march of science in his cane or shirt-collar, if he felt that by the incidental saving he was contributing to the placing of a painted east window in Woodstock Church to the memory of the late Duke of Marlborough, especially if the window appropriately emblazoned the principal events in our Lord’s life? To be sure, the late Duke was only famous for being descended from the great Churchill, who “sold his beardless honor for a rouleau of gold,” and for being one of the meanest men in England— who was an absentee to save expenses. But he was a British peer, and a real Duke, and if the reverend gentleman does not get the rest of the needed £250 in Boston, the field is white for the harvest in New York. “a

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“CONDUCTORS MUST OBSERVE THIS RULE.” 66 How did I become superintendent ?” answered the rail- road official, ‘‘Why, it was this way. I was’con- ductor of the morning passenger express, and one day as we were coming down by the junction, we struck a misplaced switch, and ran into a freight train that was standing on the siding. As we were running about thirty-five miles an hour, of course it piled things up a good deal. Our engine was smashed all to pieces, the ‘ smoker’ telescoped the baggage-car, and the forward passenger-coach ran up on the heap and rolled over. I was standing on the platform at the time the thing happened, and luckily was slung off about thirty feet beside the track. When I picked myself up everything was confusion, the air was filled with clouds of escaping steam, and about fifty passengers were somewhere in the wreck. Of course it was what you might call an ‘emergency,’ but there’s no such word as that in the com- pany’s dictionary. I had my orders, and knew what todo. The roof of the smoking-car lay near me, and I heard a man crying out from underneath it. After about ten minutes’ work, I got the stuff all cleared away, and reached him. He was very weak and groaning. ‘‘* Oh, Heavens!’ he said, ‘this timber presses on me so, I can’t move. Both my legs are broken below the knee.’ ‘¢*« Think you'll be here till the next train ? I asked. ‘*«QOh, yes,’ he moaned. ‘** Then you ’ll need a stop-over check, sir,’ I said, and I made out a pasteboard and gave ii to him. ‘** Young man,’ he said, ‘I observe that you have neglected to fillin the day of the month, but, under the circumstances, your omission is excusable. I am a Director of the company, and, if I survive, your attention to duty shall be rewarded.’ ‘* The old gentleman pulled through, and is now Vice-Presi- dent. That’s how I’m Superintendent, and—” he continued, musingly, as he fingered his lantern watch-charm, ‘‘I believe in the old saying that the ‘company has rights which the public is bound to respect, and rules which they must conform to.’”’ H. L. SATTERLEE.

| fad is not to be doubted that Mr. Edgar Fawcett has done some of his best work in the chapters of ‘‘ An Ambitious Wo- man.” But there is an anti-climax of quality in the work. There is nothing in the closing chapters to be compared with the som- bre and delicately drawn sketches of poetry which form the pre- lude to the ambitious Claire’s career. The episodes of one day overshadow all others—the day which ended with the death of Claire’s father. It would be hard to compress in a few pages more vivid description, combined with deep and varied feeling, than is found in the story of Claire’s lonely and terrible journey from Niblo’s across town to the ferry, fleeing from brutality. It is when the scene changes to the splendors of Fifth Avenue that Mr. Fawcett’s faults become accentuated. He revels in de- scriptions of gorgeous costumes ; they are well done, but literary tailoring and literary art cannot claim equal honors. Mr. Faw- cett’s pen portraits of Sylvia Lee and Claire could be effectively introduced in a first-class fashion magazine with colored. plate illustrations. .

“You could tell at a glance that that butter wasn’t old,” said Jones to his landlady. “ Of course it is n't, sir !”” she replied, much pleased; “but how can you tell, sir ?” “Why, I can see that it isn’t bald yet,” he an- swered softly, and for ten minutes naught broke the silence save the exclamations of a fly in the milk pitcher, who was unable to swim. ‘EFS -

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EVIL COMMUNICATIONS. ‘6 A CHINAMAN, Jack Hi; All broken up—black eye,” Was all the cop, who brought him in, could give for pedigree. But when he went to bed, The nurse on duty said, He went through his devotions in a way that shamed Ward 3. Andon our morning round, To our surprise we found His only useful optic on a Sankey Hymn-book fixed ; But though he tried to say With glee, Y. M. C. A., His ideas of the language were, with this exception, mixed. That very afternoon, We heard a fiendish tune That seemed to have its starting point somewhere about Ward 3. A visitor in black, Accompanied by Jack, And a penitent barkeeper, just over the D. T. He would n’t say a word To us, although we heard Him patiently at times repeat, in accents indistinct, An English word or two, Apparently askew, While the D. T. chap beside him encouragingly winked. In just about a week, Jack’s russet leather cheek Was wrinkled with the mildest of mild Mongolian grins, As his good friend again Appeared with an ‘‘ Amen,” And a somewhat incoherent allusion to his sins. ‘* Don-gimme-annee-slack,” Proudly responded Jack, Then, in quite an off-hand manner, he inquired what he ’d take, With such supreme content He evidently meant That, ‘* My Christian salutation appropriates the cake.” One scarcely could describe How, with a ribald jibe, He complacently desired us to tumble to the crank, Concluding with a phrase, Which, in these modern days, Is politely designated by a suggestive blank. The worthy man of tracts Skipped out between the acts, Shocked at the"strange behavior of the innocent Chinee. The D. T. chap we bounced After we had announced That the reformation racket was played out in Ward 3. pe ee

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204 AMUSEMENTS. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE. GRAND ITALIAN OPERA. Moos. ie i ee ae DIRECTOR. - GRAV MORRICE,. - - - - MANAGER. THE FOLLOWING ARRAY OF TALENT: SIG. CAMPANOULITI, SIG. KEROSINI, SIG. HUPI DUDI, SIG. HIGHCI, SIG. VASILINI, AND SIG. RUM PUNCHI, SIG. MUNKI, SIG. FUSSI; Also the Celebrated Chinese Tenor, SIG. WUN LUNGI. In Addition to the Above Gentlemen, the Management are pleased to be able to announce the First Appearance of MLLE. SQUAWKI, M'DME SALLILUNDI AND MISS SOMEDAY. AN IMPORTED ORCHESTRA, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF SIGNOR SHAKASTIKI. Opening Night, - - - - ** Fast,” by Gonot, Opening Night, ‘** Fast,” by Gonot. Opening Night, - ‘*Fast,’’ by Gonot. Fast (a giddy youth), Sic. CAMPANOULI. Mark-your-right, - - MLLE. SQUAWKI. Mr, O’Pheles, - - - . - SIG, DIABLINI. Valentine, - ‘Sic. RUM PUNCHI. Due Notice Will Be Given Of The First Appearance of Sic. BALCONI. PATRONIZED BY NEW YORK’S FAMILIES. POPULAR PRICES FOR THIRTY NIGHTS. Front row, balcony boxes Second row, balcony boxes Artists’ boxes Proscenium boxes, to hold 6 Mezzanine boxes Parquet and balcony, front row Balcony, other rows 8,000 *,* ‘limited number of general admission tickets for the season will be is- sued at $5,000 each, available for every performance. WEALTHIEST 12,500 ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ITALIAN GRAND OPERA. Cot. MAPLESON, late of HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, takes pleasure in announcing that the season this year, as in the years gone by, will commence at the beginning. The Following Engagements Have Been Made: SIG. NEWNICKLINI, Sig. Bellow, Sig. Basso, Sig. Kibordi, Sig. Baritoni, Sig. Shriki, Sig. Glasseye, and Sig. RuM PUNCHI. Prime Donne.—Mdme. PATTI, de Foie Gras; M’lle DoTT1, the Dotlet on the i; Miss YorkKE, of 'Yorkeville; Mdme. Soprani E. CONTRALTI, ”é Bassi. Boots and Director of Music, Tonsorial Department, = - - - Sig. Rasori. Scenic Artist, - 7 - - - Sig. Paintpotti. Leader of Orchestra, - . + “Mr. Hamm (Sig. Piggi). Premieres Danseuses.—M'lle Umbrella, of La Scala, Milan; M’lle Shorti, of La Fenise, Venice; M’lle Fatti, of La Toni Piastre, Via Fourteenti. : First Performance, - - ‘* FORCED,” by Gonow. Maggie Wright, - - - Mdme, PATTI. Mefisto, - . - Sig. BELLow, from Below. and First, - . - . - Also positively Valentino, - - - - - - Sig. RuM-PUNCHI, PATRONIZED BY THE OLDEST FAMILIES OF THIS CITY. Sig. Hardatit. Sig. NEWNICKLINI. LIFE THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. MASSACHUSETTS SURE To Go EITHER For BUTLER Or ANTI-BUTLER. [ Special to Lire. ] Boston, Oct. rgth, 1883. [ NDICATIONS now point to the election of Gov. Butler by a rousing majority, Glory, Hallelujah. Geo. F. Hoar. [ Special to Lire. ] Boston, Oct. 2oth, 1883. I can now state authoritatively, that Robinson’s majority will be at least 10,000; Butler’s Spooksbury argument is being freely circulated, and “skin ballots” are being distributed all through the state. Joun K. Tarsox. [ Special to Lirt.] TEwkKsBuRY, Oct. 2oth, 1883. The paupers have’come out solid for Butler. The “skin ” games of the Republicans and lack of poultry in the chicken soup has made many enemies for the party in this quarter. O. A. BUTLER INTERVIEWED. [ Special to Lirt.] Oct. 20th. Your correspondent called on his Excellency this evening, and the following conversation occurred: “ Good evening, Governor ?” “ Good evening,” replied his Excellency, showing the urbanity which characterizes the man’s private life, contrasting it so unfavorably and strongly with his demagogism as a public servant. “Governor, I understand, you are deaf in both eyes ?” “ That,” said the Governor, ‘isa campaign lie. I am only paralysed in one eye, sir, at atime. The Republican party tries to make capital over a deformity which I have had the misfortune to own up to for the last ten years.’ “Would you mind informing me how it was that this misfortune befell you ?” “Certainly not. I strained my eyes in regarding my political future. I watched both parties for several years, and they at first were widely divergent.: They have now reached a common centre—spoils—and, naturally, my eyes have reached such a degree of con- centration, that they bisect. That’s ail.” “How do you regard your chances in the coming election ?” “T am confident that I shall be.” “You shall be—er ?” suggested the reporter. “Yes, that I shall be,” replied the Governor blinking blandly. “ You are confident then ?” “Eon.” “ Of what, your Excellency ?”

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eit 1 Ai i il i x wr OH BOSTON, CITY OF MY SOUL! Reginald (to his sister, as they walk up Beacon Street): “OH, DEAR, THERE COMES THAT MAN I was INTRODUCED TO AT THE CLUB. HE’s DESCENDED FROM THE EARL OF COVENTRY ON HIS FATHER’S SIDE, BUT I CAN'T FIND OUT WHO HIS MOTHER’S GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS, SO I GUESS WE HAD BETTER CROSS OVER AND NOT SEE HIM.” “Ah!” said the Statesman, as he smilingly left the room. From this it is evident that Governor Butler fully expects to be. On the other hand, Mr, Geo. D.. Rob- inson, the Republican candidate, claims the honor of being. It is a significant fact, however, that Mr, Robinson has engaged rooms in Washington for the coming winter, At the same time Gov. Butler is said by some to be seriously thinking of taking up his abode in Washington very soon at the old Hayes Temperance Union, on Pennsylvania Avenue, next door to the Treasury Department. J. K. Bancs. Query : Can Faith and Hope be called Sisters of Charity ? AN ZESTHETIC ROSE, H E gave her a wild-rose fresh with dew, With the usual speech, ‘‘ It resembles you.” But the likeness some way she failed to see— “What curious fancy he has,” said she, ‘* To liken me to this meagre flower That falls apart in a single hour.”’ Then he sent a rose in a hothouse grown, The size of a peony fully blown; Tobacco smoke was the strongest scent Within its manifold petals blent. ‘* Ah, culture is everything,” said she; ‘* He might have likened this flower to me.” A. G. W.

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A&I NES A RONDO OF YE HIE WYNDE. E Wanton Wyndé yt biteth Colde Y" most unseemlie Sport® and Bolde Dothe lift® A greavous Dust y* flyes Y® Mistresse Marjorie her Eyes, Soe She maie not y® Path beholde. Yett inne y® Waie (yt wyndinge ly*) Ye Gallant sorely Try4 lykewise Wth peevish Wordes, wolde Gyb® & Scold¢ Ye Wanton Wynde. Ye Frolick Breeze y® Plighte espy®s & dothe a Naughtie Prank devyse,— Yt Mistresse Marjorie y$ Roll Intoe y® Gallant’s Clasp® & Fold®, Whyle She, alle Redd, berayt®s, wt Sighes, Ye Wanton Wyndé! M. E. W. SOME DENTAL REFLECTIONS. 6S Me dentist is the only man who is happiest when he is down in the mouth. What makes the dentist happy is the thought that his profession like oatmeal is filling at the price. The good dentist like the woodcock is known by the length of his bill. No man but the dentist can produce a “ holler” by filling a cavity. The plumber is first cousin to the dentist. “ Dentist” does not mean one who makes dents, but applies rather to the man who discovers dents, where no one else ever suspected them. In a tight place.—A cork. Harp pressed.—Cider apples. SinE die.—S. J. T. On the tapis.—The carpet tack. SuRE pop.—Good champagne. THE most unkindest cut of all.—A two-spot. £3 AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY. No. VIL. “* Your gentleman is polite custom’s slave, But fools and knaves are free.’”"—Semiramis. Act JI. MAN naturally aspires to distinction. If there were no clothes, no language, no physical differences of form or feature, and no gradations of strength, mental, moral or mus- cular, there would still be fashion. One set of men would wear their hair flowing, and affect a diet of cocoanuts, and another set would use curl papers and confine themselves to bananas. The cocoanut clique would probably look down on the banana coterie, for the trees they frequented for dinner would be higher —and thus we would still have an aristocracy. A pink monkey with a blue tail would undoubtedly excite the wildest envy in monkeys attired in the usual brown. Not that he would be a better monkey, or a wiser or a more agile, but merely because he would be different. He certainly would not be an agreeable monkey to look at, as numerous convivial gen- tlemen who have seen him will testify. Nevertheless, he would be among monkeys what tHe aristocrat is among men ; all the

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*~ female monkeys would declare he was really too stylish to live, and even the most virulent of male monkeys would be compelled to admit, in monkey language, he was what in the French language is called chic. It would, therefore, be incumbent upon every monkey who took the least pride in himself. to dye his back hair magenta, and paint his tail with a lively cobalt, or forever acknowledge himself to be the inferior of the monkey who set the fashion and of the monkeys who followed it. Dismissing this lurid subject with a little bromide, we can apply the moral of it to the human species, and convey the result by a little illustration. Several years ago it occurred unto Mr. RICHARD SARSANETT that he would like to possess a wife. In the earlier days of his struggle with fortune, he had been similarly seized with a con- nubial impression, but his courage had failed when he contem- plated the gulf yawning between six dollars a week and happiness asa married man. Later on, when fortune was his and friends plenty, the club and turf furnished excitement enough, without an appeal to millinery bills and babies. Now, however, grown tired of baccarat and bacchanals and the carelessness of land- ladies, his thoughts turned wifeward with a vigor which surprised his old sin-weary heart, and his eyes were cast about for a chance to put the thought into execution. About this time, strangely enough, it occurred to Miss EFFIE VAN TINSLE that she would like to have a husband. Six years before, when first she blossomed in the field of gayety, and JAck VAN DAZZLE, the great beau of the season, was laying floral siege to her, and the fortunes of such catches as GORDON DESBRO and LISPENARD VAN VRIEs went begging for her acceptance, she laughed at the thought of tying herself to one man, and so danced heart-whole through traps and snares which many as fair a maiden just ached to get into. But, Time—that great scamp, who, in the end, gets the better of the best of us—Time finally bethought him that Miss ErFie had reigned long enough, and so he brought out new stars and set them a-glimmering, and the poor merry ex-favorite found herself a drug on the market. Now, it happened, likewise, that just in exact proportion to Mr. SARSANETT’S desire for a wife in general, was Mr. SARSA- NETT’S desire for an aristocratic wife in particular. Also did it happen that Miss EFFIE’s abstract ambition to secure a husband was in no ways inferior to her concrete preference that that hus- band should be rich. Hence, it was not surprising, that when Mr. SARSANETT met Miss VAN TINSLE and knew her to be aris- tocratic, he proposed to her, nor that Miss VAN TINSLE, on hear- ing that Mr. SARSANETT was worth several millions, accepted him. So it came to pass that the bells of Grace rang out one day a merry chime, and the two were wed. This, as may be seen, was just one of those matches that Cupid delights in—one of those ennobling unions which dignify the name of love, and render the ceremony of. marriage worthy of being called a sacrament. There were only two objections to it. One was that Miss VAN TINSLE’s haughty nostrils were exceed- ingly sensitive to the odor of calico. The other, that Mr. Sar- SANETT had unfortunately acquired a vulgar and obsolete notion that a wife should not flirt with other men. Now there was just the least little suspicion of the odor of calico about Mr. SARSANETT, acquired during twenty years han- dling of that valuable material, and it would cling to him despite his most violent endeavors to shake it off. There was likewise in Miss VAN TINSLE a chronic dislike to the monotony of one - LIFE: Clergyman: DRIVE ME TO NIBLO’S THEATRE. Cabby: ALL RIGHT SIR; STAGE DOOR, I SUPPOSE. man’s attentions, and a pardonable partiality for the attentions of a plural number. Neither of these maladies took wing because of the nuptial benediction, pronounced by the fashionable Dr. PALIssy, strangely enough—for surely his fashionable blessing, from a fashionable church, filled with fashionable worshippers, should certainly have been ratified by the God who loves fashion- able people. Soit came unto the hearing of men, that Mrs, EFFIE SARSANETT, #ée VAN TINSLE, was most miserably wretched on account of the constant detection by her aristocratic nostrils of the odor of calico, and that Mr. SARSANETT himself was not made the most wildly happy of men by the discovery that GorRDON DEssBRO, JACK VAN DAZZLE and LISPENARD VAN VRIEs, who had not for two years taken notice of the woman,- now his wife, were now more desperately attentive than in the days of her girlhood, completely neglecting for her sake the several spouses whom they had taken and sworn to cherish. If all this had happened among the LOWER CLAssEs, what a vulgar and discourteous row there would have been. It would have been said at once that as Miss EFFIE had marked her sweet self at a certain figure and was for sale at public. auction to the highest bidder, she had no right to complain of the quality of the purchaser, so long as he paid the price demanded in legal coin. It would also have been said that Mr. SARSANETT, having bought her as he would buy a bale of calico, after due inspection, had ao right to blame her for imperfections, mildew or colors which would not stand the laundry. She was sold as a chattel and RN Oe ELUENT LE IO EI AT I A I sess:

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210 bought as a chattel, for so many dollars, and both must make the best of the bargain, however disappointing it turned out to be. How different it all is in that First CrrcLE wherein both parties so fitly move. Here it is the chattel which has the right, for in this case the chattel is the born aristocrat. The chattel sold itself and got the money. If the purchaser pleased not after the purchase, it was the purchaser’s fault. But shall the chattel be forced to stand to the bargain? Oh, no. The chattel is going to free herself. And give back the purchase money? Not ex- actly. The chattel is not a fool. The chattel is spending the winter in Newport. That is necessary in order to come under the protection of a liberal-minded Rhode Island law. In the spring, when the violets blow and the twittering birds mate, the chattel will be made free, and will have for her own the money for which she was knocked down to her buyer. This is First CIRCLE justice. Next autumn Dr. PALissy will pronounce another benediction, while the chattel kneels before him. No, not chattel this time, but purchaser. There was a time, when the Church was vulgarly plebeian, and this would have been some- what impracticable. All things are practicable to fashion. Mrs. SARSANETT will be Mrs. SARSANETT no longer. She willbe Mrs. Dessro probably, for rumor hath it pretty correctly that GORDON Dessro has forced Ais wife to a winter in Newport for similar reasons. Newport is getting to be quite a favorite winter resort. The purity of its morals will make it more so. Several weddings will make its Eastertide interesting—doubly so, perhaps, because one of them will be such a jolly good joke on SARSANETT. “You ought to put a sign over that hatchway,” said the policeman to the storekeeper, “or some one will be tumbling into it.” “ All right,” replied the merchant, and he tied one of his “ Fall Opening” placards to the railing. -LIFE- VERY one knows who Ouida is—that dear Mlle. dela Rami, who does not love the Americans, and who is constantly writing letters to the London 7imes, for the purpose of denounc- ing the American publishers and the fifty millions of American fools, Poor woman. Her fine and sensitive nature, so frankly and beautifully illustrated in her novels, has been profoundly shocked by her trans-Atlantic libellers, and by the bold, bad Yankees who steal her books. It isa matter of fact, of course, that some pretty sharp and disagreeable things have been said about Ouida on this side of the sea. But, Ouida, on the other hand, always did take a rather harsh view of the detestable Yan- kee. The American woman, in her eyes, must be a vulgarian. And the sight of M’lle de la Rami is cleared and strengthened by her own refinement and morality. However, it is only par- tially to the point. One of Ouida’s very popular novels is called ** Moths.” Why - of her novels should be popular, we are at aloss to understand. ‘‘ Moths” was adapted to the stage of London by one unknown to fame, modestly yclept H. Hamilton. The Hamilton-Ouida drama was produced at Wallack’s Theatre, the home of legitimate drama, to use Mr. Wallack’s charming phrase, last Thursday night. It is still on exhibition there. Go and see it, by all means. Perhaps you will then make up your mind about Ouida. Here isa truthful account of this startling play: A certain exalted young man, who is so good that he ought to die and be an angel, falls in love with a fair lily of a girl, who is equally exalted, and, probably, more virtuous. Vere Herbert isa saint. Raphael de Corrize is a young singer, whose voice steals away her senses, but fails, for some reason, to bring about a speedy and comfortable marriage. The mother of Vere is a pretty blonde woman, whose flippancy is only equalled by her weakness, and who is chiefly concerned, during the progress of the play, with her complexion. THE INVOLUTION OF THE NEWS EDITOR.

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- hires 211 This mother has been, in a happy past, the mistress of Prince Zuroff. The prince is a large and portly person, with a tremen- dous black moustache. The Prince falls in love, apparently, with Vere, who hates him with a wild, sixteenth-century hate. Her mother, nevertheless, induces her to marry the Prince, on the ground that she, the mother, desires her, the daughter, to save her, the mother, from some vague infamy which is about to fall upon her, the mother. The girl, if she had more sense and less saintliness, would undoubtedly have flown to more congenial climes with her Raphael. But she becomes Princess Zuroff. As soon as the Prince gets possession of her, he proceeds to beat her, and to show that he wants to marry another woman. A remarkable fellow, this Zuroff. Well, the Prince packs his wife off to a melancholy Polish retreat, where all her friends, by one of those lucky coincidences of the drama, meet in the last act. A young English lord, ,who loves Vere, then fights a duel with the Prince, kills him and is killed. The death of this magnanimous young man is certainly deplored. It is understood, we suppose, that Vere and her vocal lover live thereafter in bliss to the end of their days—legitimately married, without doubt, though they do not trouble themselves about a ring anda priest in the novel. In the novel it is Raphael who fights and is shot through the throat. But he continues to live, and Vere takes upon herself the agreea- ble and perpetual business of nurse. The hectic unreality of this play is depressing. The characters are either exalted fools or violent devils. The piece is a smart rigmarole of rubbish, though it is very well acted by Mr. Tearle, Mr. Glenny, Mr. G. Eyre, Miss Coghlan, Miss Hill, and Miss Everson. We are grieved to class ‘‘ Moths” among Mr. Wal- lack’s illegitimate drama. “ JAKEY,” cried Mrs. Rosenberg, as she discovered twenty-five letters in her son’s bureau drawer, “ here vas all dese letters I gif you since last spring, to put the mail-box derein! Vy for haf you forgot dem ?” “So hellup me, I don’t forgot ’em !” replied Jakey, “T been vaitin’ for dot dwo-cent bostage !” RENDER. VNTO $CIS§SOR$ THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE $CISSORS- S'PAVL TO THE FENIANS IV., 1,44. GRAY shadows fall ’neath the arches dim, Bright lights through the stained glass windows swim There ‘s a touch of gold in crypt and hall— But where are the bones that built it all ? High is the seat they carved for the dean, And the eagle lectern is bronze, I ween ; But how the lesson the crowd would scare Should they see his skeleton reading there ! The chimes ring out from the steeple tall, And ‘* Bim, bones, bell,’’ is their rhythmic call ; While the five-part organ in chorus moans 5 In its hundred thousand dollar tones ** Here is his organ, but where are his bones ?”’ Oh, foolish man, with heavy gold, To build a chapel, gray and cold Costly and gloomy, grim and tall, And lose his own Canes, after all! Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘* How are you and your wife cummin’ on?” asked a West Point man of acolored man. ‘ She has run me off, boss. I is to blame, boss. I gave hera splendid, white silk dress, and den she got so proud she had no use forme. She ’lowed I wastoo dark to match the dress.” —West Point, Ga., Enterprise. — ‘* How to obtain the life beyond,” is the title of a fifty cent book. We will tell you foracent. Eat a cucumber.—Buriington Hawkeye. ‘‘Yes,” said the doctor, ‘‘I wanted that patient as a tramp wants rum, but I sent him over to Dr. Tombs just to make Tombs think I had more business than I could handle.”—Boston Post. 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IT was, of course, a misprint when a Pome AMUSEMENTS. paper referred to the ‘‘ Christian Poker Almanac. ALY’S THEATRE. BROADWAY AND ae , ‘ oth ST, It meant pocket, of course.—/etrott Free Press. Det der the management of Mr. AUGUSTIN ALY Orchestra, $1. 50 ; Dress Circle, $1 ; Second Balcony, soc, Every night 8:15 ; over 10:40; Matinees begin at 2.

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A MAN, lately married, was asked at the club about his bride: ‘‘ Is she pretty ?” ‘* No,” replied he; ‘‘she is not; but she will be when her father dies !”— Un- tdentified Exchange.

THE celery crop of Kalamazoo will bring over $300,000 this year. Judging from the usual market price of celery, Kalamazoo must have raised several bunches.—P&z/a. Call.

HarVEY D. PARKER & Co., BOSTON, MASS. EXPRESS companies are thinking of refusing to transport statues of the Venus of Milo to connois- seurs. They receive too many bills for damages to the arms.—PAz/a. Call.

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