The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-06
N II w-xo h Krs M 8.
From Our 0lCn Correspondent


New YORK, Sept. 8, 1862
Along with those twin travelling newspaper
paragraphs which give, respectively, details con-
cerning the 'oldest inhabitant" and the lucky
waiter who has been left large fortune, may be
classed the one which specifies
The FavOrite Beverages of Prominent Sing ers,
Resolved not to be behindhand in the informa-
ton furnish to the readers of THE TELEGRAPH,
have been at some pains to learn the names
of the drlnkables most in vogue among
some of the artists of the stage best known
in Philadelphia. spent great deal of time and
patience in these researches, but feel amply paid
by the result. Mrs. d. p. Bowers, for instance,
drinks nothing but water. This will be bad
for her during her Philadelphia engagement, on
account of Fairmount having been exhausted in
consequence of the Biddies drawing on it to such
an extent Miss Lydia Thompson is fond of get
ting on the outside of ginger beer. MissWeathers-
by leans towards soda water and vanilla cream.
Mr.. jefferson, off the stage, confines himself
strictly to schnapps; as "Trip Van Wrinkle" what
he takes don't count" Mr.. Owens imbibes
large quantities of apple-sarse Mr.. Booth swal-
lows milk and water weak. Miss Eifie Germon
takes brown stout, strictly as a medicine, and
Miss Annie Graham preserves pleasant degree
of embonpoint by slight instalments of Rhine
wine. Mr.. Forrest is addicted to Mrs. Winslows
soothing syrup and Mexican Buchanan, atter
having torn q passion to tatters, absorbs equal
proportions of the Ready Relief and the Keno
waiting Resolvent. Mr.. Beckett applies Pam
Paint Immediately after each performance, ana
Annetta Galletti prefers lemonade via a leetle
mort wine in heem." This account is quite as
v racious as the others that have been going the
rounds of the newspapers. am quite as ready
TO youch for the one as the other.
A Worlds Fair
&c tbe latest thing spoken of in this city. Our
former Exposition was very far from being
success. But little inducement was given to
foreion inventors, artisans, and artists, and
many of those who did take part were treated
with extreme shabbness and made the victims
of Yankee swindle. The communication, how
over between this country and Europe is now
so ropid that every facility would be offered to
FOREIGN exhibitors should Worlds Fair in New
ork he decided upon. If it can be made to
take place in 1870 identical with that visit
which the Empress Eugene is announced as de-
termining to pay u.s. so much the better. Mean
while the Fair which creates the most pleasant
authorizations, altogether, is the Fair of the
American Institute, which is to open next
Wednesday.
'Wo Ist Der Cute StOH -
is the exclamation of tro German population
here in view of the dearth of lager. We have
as little beer here as you have water in Phiadel-
phia. The summer was not such remarkably
hot one and yet here, at the very commence
ment of September, we are obliged to import
our beer from Milwaukee and Cincinnati. The
best native lager beer procurable is hashed up
from the remains of last winters brewing and
any of the liquid refuse left over night at the
restaurants. ''Wo ist der quite stoff ?" What
are we to do all autumn and winter? Even at
the Central Park Garden, hitherto the Mecca of
lager beer drinkers, glass of the quite stoff'
is unobtainable, and both the male and female
drinkists there are obliged to fall back upon the
mixed d inks.
At the hour of noon did you ever stop in at
The Bar-room of the Astor House,
and take lunch? They give you music-a fine
band in which the harp and the violin play
prominent parts. The selections, of course, are
from Offenbach, and you eat sandwiches to the
song of the SABRE and drink coffee to the chorus
of the Can-can. 1t is sentimental snack, last
ing for ten minutes, and when you get through
you don't know which has agreed with you
most. the bonnie bouche you have taken into your
mouth. or the "Barbe-Beue" you have swal-
lowed with your ear.
On Saturday night over fifty delegates, repre-
senting as many German societies of this city
met at the Germania Assembly Rooms, Mr..
Theodore Heldenield, President and delegate
of the Northeastern S9ngerbund, acting as tenn
porary chairman. The object was to propose
means and arrange preliminaries for the cele-
bration of
The Humboldt Centenary,
tomorrow week. A portion of the celebration
will probably consist of torchight procession
along Broadway
With the setting of last evenings sun com.
menced
The Great Festive Season OF the Jews,
the celebrating of the mystic number seven. All
the synagogues in the city were opened for
special services, and many of the public halls
that, as a rule, are employed for secular pur.
poses, were flledwth Mosaic audiences, consisting
of both ''orthodoX" and ''heterodox" Jews who
expressed their ious views with that semblanct
of secular fashion and spiritual feeling charac
teristic of public religion in the nineteenth
century.
The Board of Health has recently been ex
amining
The Subject of MiI'k Adu' teratiOns,
and has discovered that while the milk leave
the wholesale dealer in an unaduterated condi
tion, it undergoes a series of adulterations be
fore it is delivered to the public. The agents o
the Board have visited all the milk establish
mentS in the city, and secured specimens of tn
article on SALE Their investigations prove tha
in nearly all cases the milk is greatly adulte
rated, and the result will form the subject of
report to be made to the Board at future sus
sion, when suits against some of the adulterator
will be commenced
Miss Bateman
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