The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-25
NE Ew.YOR MS.



water was studded with boats which were filed
with gay dressed people, and, shooting swiftly on,
looked something like what the winged chfndnpas
or noating islands OF the Aztecs must have looked
Ike The opportunities for Irritation were very great
One fair feminine, whom noted IN my mildly adj
mirtng way, was whistling softly to herself ven
tured to compliment her on the refrain. 'To," she
said, blinking saucily, "dOn't compliment me. I'm
not a singlst, and I'm not whistlist; I'm Sally
come-uppistl" Before parting ventured to ask her
what should call her, then 81 don't care what you
call me-" she replied, $50 you call me in time for
supper" And so the opportunity passed away.
II has been hitherto supposed that the New
Workers had at least one thing TO be proud Of the
Croton water but that Illusion is now dspelled The
proprietor of GregOrys Hotel, near Lake Malapac in
Putnam county, of this State, evidently knows how
to keep hotel, for he has been applying the water
Of tributary of the Croton river to the manufacture
OF gas for his establishment. The tributary runs
through his farm, and Mr.. Gregory was In the habit
not only OF manufacturing gas by its aid but even
OF making use OF 1t for scavengerng purposes. 1t
was in fact a liquid Hercules which performed his
Auge@n work. This is pleasant for the Croton
drinkers. Some months ago the World frightened
us with the whisky we were drinking, and we new
to water. We thought that, let the worst come to
worst, we could place confidence in our CrOtOn. We
never fanced that the hydrant would go back on u.s.
When we swore off from fusil-oil we never antici-
ated being compelled to swallow the gas-ol from
Mr.. Gregorys private gas mandatory. We even
thought kindly OF the mllkman, because felt sure
that the Croton he gave us diluted with milk was
ct least pure. But Mr.. Gregory and his Croton-
waters r-gas-works have done our business, and the
CrotOnized cow juice prided ourselves upon sits
as sour ver- Juice upon our stOmachs.
Pelabored Lucille Western can better afford to
laugh at her critics than any other American actress
She Is not artistic but in these days when to make
money is the all OF existence, If success is to be
measured by that standard her success is very great
Within the last year, too she has freed herself from
one two OF those restraints which often used to
leave her penniless when by rights she should have
had thousands of dollars at her command, and she
has returned from Sacramento and Salt Lake City in
easy circumstances. hope 1t is the beginning of
easier and peasanter and purer life for her. for after
aH is done and said, the fact remains that she is
talented ill-treated, misunderstood, illuminated
woman, who has raised herself to an emnence that
other actresses, with infinitely better opportunities
sigh for all their lives in vain. She is the
only performer that has been able to fill
the grand Opera-house and this she has accomplished
to repletion every night this week. sat the per-
fOrmance out for the three and half agonizng hours
OF its continuance, pulling my handkerchief out at
the appropriate places, and weeping over the peni
tence Of that dual seventh nth-commandment-breakis
naturally If 1t for the first time instead of
the 6ftieth. Miss Western owes me debt of graft
tude, If she only knew it, for am confident that
have nvoluntarily performed the part of caqeur to
Isabel"-I mean "Lady Isabel' and madame Vine"
every time nave witnessed it, And that perform
ance is precisely now what it was eight years ago.
The same gushlngs and gurglngs; the same poutings
and pirOuengs; the 81 like that-O, like that"
when "Archbald" kisses her; the identical "Did you
ever love Barbara Hare ?" the same
When other leeps and other g, herts
that were the crudites of her acting here so many
years ago, when she first broke upon Philadelphia at
fl,a Ana of Mncia Rnt phn OEC %
lovely as Lucille Westernish as ever The black
shawl she wears in act third, and which it may be
remembered she is in the habit Of pulling at as
neat way of expressing remorse, has still a few
threads remaining, which says % good deal for the
durability Of the shawl. One thing was surprised
at Miss Western did not dye her hair in California.
When last seen she was a brunette.
The Sun of this city has invented an ingenious
dodge for making both ends meet, for obtaining
reputation for decorum, while in fact It remains as
scandalous as its neighbors. 1t publishes every
day department called "Indecent Sporting News"
the very title Of which, while implies of
the thing published, is in fact, its best advertise
ment Under this Machiavillian hanging -head-and
the sun has done enough things In its time to make 1t
hang its head-are published prze-hghts, dog-1ghts
fracas in police courts, and all sporting news Of
scandalous character, with such eXpurgations as
tend to make it a sort OF private police gazette
suited for family reading. 1t is getting Schuyler
Colfax a string now, and proposes him fori the
next President.
In future the mails for Japan, China, the Sand
witch Islands, and the Pacific States all to be
to Chicago then to be made up and sent through in
sealed packages In the same manner the mails
from those regions to be received here for dstr
button. The quantity of extra work thrown upon
the employees OF the Post ONCE by this arrangement,
ought to necessitate new building, but it WON'T
That Post once will stand a good deal OF talking
about yet. The present institution an excellent
rendezvous for rats, pckpockets, fraudulent clerks
and letters that never the lght great dead
letter department in fact.
The metropolitan InOdistes have nearly finished
their preparations for the summer campaign. l do
not profess to be great observer or connOisseur
among ladies' dresses but l perceive that an en-
brOidery-like variety OF pdSseDenterie is used for
trimming in silk dresses. Lace adOrnments of black
and white, finished of with similarly varied fringe
are much used with colored silks. Skirts are very
much furbelowed, and the embroidery, not only
upon silks but also upon dresses Of white jaconet
musIin and nankeen is exceedingly fantastic. 1t is
said, too, that among cosmetics, la peOnttne is
the newest (and, of course, the wisesD anecta-
ton; but since no Philadelphia woman was ever
known to assist nature in this respect, IL may be
that this remark is exceedingly out OF place.
s'Father Prescott is the name Of the preacher
who has created the latest rtuastic sensation in this
city, II has been hitherto believed that he was
Englishman, but since his sermon last Sunday even
ing at ST. Adams chapel IL has been discovered that
he is an American and the attempt to prove him
New Yorker is frantic. His sermons 0rim with an
tithesis almost as much the novels OF Victor
Hugo ana he has the art OF so preaching to those
fashionable saints there that the Jockey-Club ritu-
alists remain on their knees after the service
cluded and the miserable sinners who support the
church more over their prayer-boOks to-day much