The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-24
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from orr o,On Correspondent

hads Consult the newspapers, and they mention
any quantity Go to see the places, and you will
nnd them cheap-and nasty Not many years ago
single women could obtain good board for $3.50 per
week, and a single man for ~. Now s5 is the very
lowest price at which any sort OF board is obtanabc
These exaggerated terms not growing smaller.
Almost every head OF family is q boarding
keeper on large or small scale, and what be-
tween making her rent and laying up for that rainy
day whose arrival is only question of time sho
has no opportunity to grow soft-hearted Her empty
pocket is cloud continually hanging over her, and
who blame her for trying to give It silver lin
ing2 What the citizen of moderate means cries
after is good boarding-house where there are
neither decacies on the table nor indeicacy at the
head OF it, but where the weekly sum demanded
does not run away with all his earnings. That
boarding-house has not yet been forthcoming. New
York has not yet evolved it from its interior
sci0usness.
Oliver Dyer
Is not dead, neither Is Packdrd's Monthly lie has
been to Sing Sing, preaching to the spirits in prison
First he preached to male convicts and then to the
females, and was equally successful in subtractng
tears and fostering the spirit which leads to good
resolutions. AT Sing Sing particularly, he is said to
have been more instrumental in the paving of hell
than In any other ocalty-only the pavement, like
that on Fifth avenue, don't last long. 1t wears out
and shows the bare places By-the-by, the Methodist
Christian AdDocate has been pitching into Mr.. Dyer
lately, holly sneerng at him as lecturer, and more
than insinuating that his name ought not to be men,
toned even in advertising columns The luminous
views entertained by religious newspapers in regard
TO the ethics OF advertising are at all times amusing.
The Tbncknberry Question.
Miss, Mrs., or Master Thackaberry, in regard to
whose sex so much mystery exists is stated to be
required at the bedside of sick sister, but the gen.
tleman who acted her agent and introducer during
one OF her recent SednceS authortativey states that
rs soon as she can leave her post she will be ready
to claim the one hundred dollars which delicate
minded female promised her If she should prove to
be woman. after searching examination. What
Is the sex OF Thackaberry is the present test ques-
ton. When ella Zoyara was in this city, some years
ago, making all the men in love with her on the
sumption that she was woman, and half the
women in love with her on the suspicion that ,she
was O man, she hardly excited greater sensation.
Only Mademosele or Master Ella Qor don't pre-
tend to advance an opinion on this sexual subjecD
was much better managed than the Thackaberry
has been. The mystery that surrounded the lovely
hybrid was artfully magnifed and fostered until
every man and woman who nurtured the passion
was in doubt whether he were bestowing it upon q
legitimate object. Meanwhile, it is noteworthy that
correspondent, whose name is the same Is that used
by one OF the Thackaberry attaches some days ago,
has written to one of the newspapers, claiming that
his name had beeh fraudulenty employed, inasmuch
he had never seen the lad or the lady whichever
1t might be>, and never attended one of the seances
MIR. Fisk Again.
Mr. James Fisk, Jr., has been in court again-this
time at the suit of Letta Jackson balletdancer to
recover damages for injuries sustained in falling
through q trap-door during q rehearsal Of Lurli,e
From the examination, it is very evident that Mr..
Fisk has no connection with the Academy of Music
and never had. He says So There is the fact SIM
ply and quic KY stated What more does one want ?
The only interest he can possibly be said to have
had in it was desire to assist his friend 'Max dur
iuU n nd
Italian opera upon alternate nights to the extent
OF four 1--WE thousand dollars. 1t during this
season that Miss jackson fell through trap-door,
and incapacitated herself from appearing for several
weeks. At the representation of her counsel, she
expressed her willingness to receive $3.50 which Fisk
offered her. and ''nothng more said" The $50
were not forthcoming, however, and hence the
present suit.
This airy youth will next Monday evening appear
at Mr. Booths theatre, in the character of FdlstaB
He appears to have brilliant career before him. He
has certainly had behind him for the past fifty
years. He is stopping now at the Astor House, and
is as firm and 1eshy-ooking as If his hour for bab-
bling o. green fields were very far of. And, in the
Falstafian sense, l hope indeed it is. Miss Bate
mans career concludes with matinee on Saturday.
when she proceeds to Philadelphia to perform for
one month. Pere Bateman OF course goes with her.
Did you ever notice how alike Pere Bateman and
Pere Hyaeinthe are? They both hate notorlety.
Policy Shops.
Have you any idea as to the extent to which the
policy shop business is carried on in this city? There
are no less than four hundred here at this present
time, and probably the number has not been much
less for the last five years The gross receipts OF all
these average fifteen thousand dollars per day, both
lottery tickets and policy tickets being sold. The
business Is conducted by three classes of men-
managers miadlemen, and shOpmen or clerks. Each
day two drawings take place thirteen numbers
being drawn from the wheel at time from a collec-
tion OF sevepty-eght. Occasionally the lottery
Dealers shopmen sell out to one another in order
TO ascertain whether they were really clerks acting
for principals, or regular dealers, not responsible
TO any middlemen. The managers in this city are
few in number-as real artists in any profession
always viii be-and man named Baulch usually
executes the bonds for them. At the end OF .everY
month dealers make return to the principal oflce,
and are taxed five per cent. on their profits, the
money OF course going to the managers. The total
value which has thus been kept by the managers
and which ought to have gone to the Government
probably amounts to one million dollars
saint Patrick's Cathedral.
Last year aOout 500 900 were handed In by various
congregations towards the support Of the new Saint
Patricks Cathedral. About $4,000 have this year
: been collected.
Orpheus G. Kerr.
The world, nowadays, seldom or never hears any.
thing OF this much-esteemed man and gifted writer
1t is because the hard work he does is performed in
quietness and modesty. He is one of the purest
minded and purest mouthed men connected will
the New York press, and is very greatly respected
even by those who least resemble him. Al BABA.
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