The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-12

firted till it was too late,
O'ertaken by avenging fate,
Behold in me warning
Young maidens, do not always 1lirt,
Be wise and Nemesis avert,
And waste not Lifes bright morning.
AN UNFINISHED OPERA.
The following fragments are all that have
at present written. Here is picturesque bit
for the girls to sing on the slopes of the Alham-
bra-third act, first scene:-
"Come away to the Sierra Nevada,
To the dapce:-
On the vine-covered hills Of Granada
Gaily prance." (T}0ice.)
Then my csstapets come in. Boabdil won't
play them, being a Moor. He could have
battle-song instead; not long, but charaoteris-
tic. This is how ii should go:-
''Our steeds are lightly bounding
La, La
Hark hark the clarion sounding,
Ia, Ia (BUgJe caH.)
To conquer or to die.
Dying brrr'm," (Drum.)
He goes Of anywhere to this tune, the others
crOwding around him and weeping real tears.
! have Venetian bit in my desk, but
won't come il just here. This is how it goes
Gin fiat, if pOssible), with rippling business
underneath
"The gondolier gldes on the something lagoon,
Luraliety ~
Then q passing allusion to the moon-only
for rhyme, but the people in front of the
house like it. Stars cannot be brought in
because they require cars Qrish jaunting cars)
to make it all right. If we could have cars
(lrish jaunting ones), perhaps the word
"Philaloo" might be employed, or "Musha
Gramachree doing the "hree" all
about the stage, and the orchestra taking il
NIT 20, ,srrI,t a..
prison scene, if l introduce one.
The girls ought properly to say as they
come on
.4orry, merry mountain maids are we,
(Echo) are we-e-e-e
Beautiful, happy, careless, respectable, aud
(Ddto) Re.e-e-e-ep'
Then a spy in mask says, "From Lithua-
MAS plains | come,' and every body says Gin
imitation of echO) "Um-um.' This can be
made powerful bit of sarcasm by putting the
footlights nearly out, and making the musi-
clans hide their instruments under pocket
handkerchiefs to deaden the sound. The
Lithuanian is then carried off by guards, and
the scene changes to something more gloomy
say a dungeon. Chorus OF under-gaolers,
clapking keys major and minor.
Boabdil is pardoned at the last moment,
because he saved OlOzaga's life in the quarrel.
This is all that l have written, but there is
plenty more where that came from. / have
it here (tappiDg my forehead).
TIE PERvERsITY OF MAN.-Writing from
THE Horsepools," " near Stroud, Mr.. Samuel
Bowly, the well known temperance advocate,
informs the public, through the medium of
letter to the Times, that he is not a member
of the United Kingdom Alliance. We fully
agree with Mr. Bowly, tbrt moral suasion is
better than legislative action; but is it not
painful to think that III the majority of in
stances, although you may lead q man to
''The HOrsepoOls," you cannot make him
drink-WaterP
THE MAJORITY.
In Election Epigram.
Quoth Joues-'Id fain know if the victory
clings
To the Tories or Wings on the whole"
Quoth Brown 'TwOuld be BEST in the fit
ness of things,
If the W(h)ig were atop of the poll"
wINTRY WARNINGS.
Two signs there are-two signs which tell
That winters coming, plain enough
The One-it is the mullin-bell,
The other is-the belle in muf.
A CATTLE. SHOW THoUGHT.-It must be evil
dent to the meanest capacity that the reason
why our British farmers-bless 'em ARE of
sO POltIy pl6heuCS lS DScauSc tlISy yIOW Jut'
TILL-Y VALLEY Prize Ploughing Matches
should be discountenanced; they have, We
fear, led many young man to have ga hand
in the HH."
COEylvIAL THOUGHT. - The Englishman's
favorite arithmetical exercise.-'Three times
three''-with 'thTee more for the ladies'"
FALSE ECoNoMY.--That of the total alb
stainers-'tis true they screw at the tap, but
don't they "let out" at the bung hole
You rarely find naval men at a civic ban
quet. Is this due to their wholesome dislike
to "stowawsys p
In what English county should our Ameri-
can cousins find themselves most at home p
In STr-ee, of course.
Suitable and just now, seasonable domestic
exercise for prospective Notwithstanding
"a cold.
Why are plum-stones like mile-stones p
Because you never meet with them in pairs
| (pears).
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY.-The reception
given to strangers at the Stock Exchange.
BETTER THAN WAITING FOR A TURN OF LUCK.
Turning an honest penny.
WHY'S proclamation like eight draohms
Because it an-ounoe-is.
THE AGE OF GOLD, AND TIE GOLDEN AGE.--
| Iova lettars-L. s. D.