The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-26
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From Our OlVn Correspondent

NOW 90 city clerks DeBn TO look l0ngngly Tor the
time when their conventional two weeks shall have
been granted them, and they may go their several
ways rejoicing. 1t would be hard to persuade them
that they would be much better off without the two
weeks than with them; that the change OF air, of
drink, OF food for short space of time is scarcely
beneficial enough in its results to act prop for
the remainder of the year. few of the larger stores
here quite enient in the privileges they allow in
summer time. The stores, indeed, close very generally
at 3 O'Clock on Saturday afternoons. Some OF the
stores, however, permit clerks and saleswomen to
absent themselves for any reasonable number OF
weeks, not paying indeed, full salaries during these
intervals OF absence, but retaining their places and
allowing certain proportion OF wages But If l
were clerk, scarcely think should enjoy it were
my employer to come to me some fine morning and
say, ''Ali Baba you have two weeks holiday; here
isYour fortnight's salary in advance take it; bless
you; be happy" No, were l to discover the trea-
sures Of the Forty Thieves tomorrow, should resist
the temptation OF trip to Europe, unless could
make arrangements to write for THE EVENING
TELEGRAPH whilst away.
Cholera morbus is for sale on all the frut-stands
along Broadway. Only they call it cherries, and
these in their present state remind me of what Josh
Billings says, vz.that eating cherries is like suck
ing marbles with sugar on them. am very fond OF
the greenness Of nature, but don't like to it for
sale in the shape of fruit. afraid nature is not
healthy in exactly that form, but manages to put
the verdure and the virus together.
published a card the other day, maudlnly bemoan-
ing the termination OF his engagement at Testers
theatre, and mildly intimating that when the time
came for him to shuttle off this mortal COIL he
should be left to turn up his toes without money
enough to pay his funeral expenses. 1 do not say
that is what George sad but what might be inferred
from the tenor of the card. The old gentleman has
been snapped up, however, by Mr.. DAILY for the Fifth
Avenue Theatre where presume he will sniff next
season to the entire satisfaction OF his old admirers
have seen Mr. Holland act over and over again. l
admire that sniff. 1t is perfect triumph Of nasal
art and ought to be patented. 1t is that which has
gained him success, and in relying so much upon it
Mr. Holland may be said to have followed his nose.
He has certainly smiled himself into the affections OF
New Workers.
The accommodations this summer along the Hud-
son are very superior The steamers @. Vibbard and
Daniel Drew belong to the Albany day line. One
OF them leaves New York every morning at seven,
from Desbrosses and West Thlrty-fourth street. and
reaches Albany at four in the afternoon. Returning,
you leave Albany at nine in the morning, and arrive
here at six in the evening, touching at West Point,
Newburg, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Catskill, and
Hudson. So far as the scenery along the Hudson is
concerned, American UOyGgeurs along the Rhine
have no pre-emnence to boast OF. There is no rea-
for which to exchange the over-written Rhine
land mountains for the romantic legends which halo
| the picturesque Hudson.
| 1t has been proposed and reproposed to open at
various points throughout the city cheap reading
| rooms and places Of innocent amusement, the ex-
pense OF which would be only few pennies to every
| visitor. Readings lectures, music, and chemical
experiments are proposed as the "innocent amuse-
ments" in question. 1t may be sad, but it is never
theeSs true, that poor people-in America, at any
| rate-do not relish amusements which are gotten up
solely for their benefit They would rather go to
Siabad once year than hear every week the sixth
rate readers and singers and lecturers who are always
willing to volunteer. The plan has been tried here
Il ...HG honv hnA Dn
| Sides poor young men and women like to pickup
one another as well as rich young people do, and
these cheap entertainments afford them every OPP
portunity. Whether, therefore, morality bids us
countenance the cheap reading-rooms, leave it to
| the easuistical readers OF THE TELEGRAPH to de-
| termne.
Santa Annas house on Staten Island is getting
ready for him-to die there, enc of the newspapers
| charitaby hopes. He is old enough He thinks
Staten Island is the only Paradise extant and intends
to write his autobiography during the dog-days.
The reporters OF the afternoon papers are rejoicing
in the fact that they TO be admitted to the Spen
cer-Tyler wedding that is to take place this morning
| in Christ Church rumor was in circulation that
the door to be closed in the face OF Jenkins and
that no portion of the venal press was to be per-
mitted the chance OF hunkeyism. But that rumOr is
now discredted, and the Evening Telegram Of this
city already has its cartoons for this afternoon pre-
pared.
Yesterday evenings Express contained card from
Mrs. Clara f. Meade, OF Philadelphia, begging the
public 10 suspend all Judgment in the case of heI
unfortunate husband" Captain Meade, and assur
ing them that all his apparent violations of truth and
| honor were only '1ncidental to his disease"
''Where is Colonel Ryan," is the cry. He is not al
police headquarters, that is certain, for that estab
| ishment has been ransacked more than once in the
vain nope OF discovering him. Some say that Oficel
Downey, In whose charge Ryan was, connived at his
escape; and others agree in Marshal Barlows more
, charitable opinion that he was overpowered 1t II
'the general opinion" that he left the city Thurs
day night and it ls currently reported" that he ha
made for Canada But the detectives who failed Il
, | find the Rogers murderer cannot be expected, b.
ferreting out Ryan, to surpass the brilliant feas the
l | performed last winter party OF Cuban nlibuster
have ensconced themselves in Coopers Hall, Jerse
q | CITY, Their head-centre Is a man calling hmsel
) | Thomas jennings who gives out that he is gettin
Q up slver-mining expedition for Nevada. In fact
v he talks nothing but Nevada-its climate, produc
| tions, and institutions. He knows nothing abou
| Cuba, is not aware OF the existence OF any 0the
locality than Nevada Nevertheless, Cooper's Ha
and its surroundings have very recruit-ike aspect
\ 1t would not take much to make one trace In theT
resemblance to soldiers barracks. The recruits
beg pardon, the silver-mners-- mostly Irish an
n German young men, who will be quite new to tn
climate of those northern diggngs But II al
e not mistaken, they will soon harRor " q soUtReT