Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-02-01
NO. As.

charming families. They wore their
/ best clothes, and the scene was one of
| oriental Inagnificence. Even Mr.. Nc
Cash was visibly affected by it, and as
the bell rang for the rising of the cur
tain, lie said in a low tone, musinRly,
as if to himself, "Oh, why should the
| poor despise the rich ?" aud again re-
lapsed into a brooding silence.
He aroused himself, however, and
obligingly volunteered to find the place
which be was eminently capable Of do
ing, being, as he tersely remarked
predisposed toward peanuts from his
earliest Infancy, and, of course, ''up in
his Italian" Furthermore, at a later
period in life, he had been walloped
by a vender of plaster images, for
having In the eXuberance of his youth
full spirits, indiscreetly fired a stick of
stOveWood into the stock IN trade Of
this peregrinating merchant, much to
its detriment. The place found by Mr..
McCash indicated that the play had
progressed to Act Yhird-Scene I. /"
AT this junetUre a bald headed par
ty (McCash claimed him as a cousin
In the fifteenth remove, on that ac-
count, and the similarity Of their
names, which was striking. Il must be
confessed, as viii appear BY consulting
the programme above) enter from one
side and q very handsome young wO- /
man come In from the other. Walk /
ing on the same board, and toward /
each other, naturally enough they met. !
when the following intensely interest
ing conversation ensued. / quote
BURLEIGH, (tac0BtrGRdOLG),- - Ma
come, mia ottima amica. Vol non
siete pressO la Regina p
LADY ANNA.-"Ho eeduto IL luOgo
Lady Sara
Mr.. McCash was wrapped up In the
scene on the stage, and being under
the impression that it was Ristori "he
saw before him, was preparing to say
'huroar" very loud, when / checked /
him, and by means Of the tibTettO I
proved incOntrovertibly that he was /
on the eve of becoming asinine over a
very simple question and answer
WhereupOn he looked abjectly miser-
able, until in the presence Of the real /
Ristori he forgot his woe.
The play went on, and this wonder
fUl woman worked on our feelings till +
the close of the actor that She Is
really a splendid actress there can be |
no doubt, and it will be long ere L for
get the expression of her face in the
scene where she sends Essex to the /
Tower. It was wonderful indeed; and /
a more malignant, baneful, concentrat-
ed expression of hate, and wounded 1
pride and self love, l never saw limned
on a human face, and do not desire to.
Finally the little bell rang down the
curtain amidst terrific enc0ge. Fair /
women waved their handkerchiefs and /
clapped their hands, while brave men
their feet on the floor to such
a degree that it was a matter of no
to fancy myself in a livery
had only to shut my eyes
and the illusion was perfect.
And so on through another act, at
the close of which there was another
encore. And then we had seen our
last Of the last of the tragic actresses.
We-again I refer to Mr.. McCash and
shed no tears, heaved no
5igbs, grOaned no grOans, but we went
out with the gas, and sadly wended our
way to our humble home-feeling a
great deal humber than our home by
the Way--sadder. wiser, and three dol
lars and Il half poorer.
Mr.. MeCash subsided into bed In
and mournfully pensive
utteringn no word until he saw
me poised. on my toes, in the act of
turning off the gas, then up from his
pillow, in sepulehral tones, came these
words:
'Susini and Ghioni's italian Opera
are to be at the National Monday
week. Shall you go ?''
It was che last bag full of straw
in the good book. I replied
Indignantly
Mr.. McCash, every mans house
IS his castle'-this Is mine. Hence
7orth and forever Italian" is Danish
I'd from this apartment. I patronize
the italian" no more until my return !
rom Venice, where 1 shall go to per
ect my pronunciation as soon as I
nave drawn the Crosby Opera House.
Let's sleep on it. y M. +,