The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-12

plain your position, mo money" with few bushes
as simulated sanGrrotd will spare you This point
having been reached you are not pong kept at that
climax OF misery The restaurateur either let's up
on you after few remarks calculated TO make you
the cynosure OF the saloon, or policeman is called
In and you are hustled of to the station-house.
From my apparent familiarity with the process, l
nope II VIII not be for moment supposed that
have "been there" When / explain that have
'asslsted'-as spectator merely-at several of
these explosions and that the latest one was only
last evening, hope that will be considered suili-
cient.
Prudent, pdterJdmilids already objecting to the
new system ospeasure carriages at the Park, the
ground that they are enjoyed by Delilahs, and they
are afraid OF their sons, locks being shorn. Unfor-
tunatey, this objection applies to nearly every public
luxury and convenience Where can q man dine or
ainuse himself, in public, except perhaps at the
gymnasium and natatorium, without encOuntering
the Delilahs? The ferryboats and steamboats,, the
stages and passenger cars, the theatres and
churches, the restaurants and public gardens
are full Of them. But plenty OF decent
men and women go there I too, and
IL is difficult to that the Cabrola wagonnettes are
particularly Objectionable in this respect They are
so far, great success. They were patronized to
great extent last Sunday they will be patrOnized to
greater extent next To the middle classes OF
people-to the artisans, whose respectability pre-
vents their being ranked with the CLOVER classes'-
they Will be great blessings They give their occu-
pants lovely drive, lasting hour and quarter
for the extremely cheap price of twenty-five cents
apiece Ten days ago only four cabrola- -wagonnettes
were in existence. BY Monday there will be nearer
forty.
That railroad accident not having administered a
quetus to General Grant and his party they arrived
and departed very placidly It cannot be said that
there was any excitement to them. The Presi-
dents personal quietness seems to be magnetic and
to communicate itself on occasions to the crowds he
in contact with. He and his suite arrived at
the depot at about half-past two in the afternoon
ami were received with faint cheers by feeble
crowd. Thence they embarked on the Desbrosses
street ferry boat, and thence took passage on the
Mary Powell, which bore them to West Point No
bunting displayed ITSELF and the voice Of the gun
powder was mute There was, in fact, nothing to
indicate that the Presidential party had come and
gone, except perhaps, the stump OF a well-smoked
Havana cigar found on the Desbrosses street wharf,
and which wandering newsboy appropriated, be-
cause he had seen 1t in the Presidential mouth.
Well may we eXclaim that the remedies are worse
Fhan the disease Ever since the first intimation of
| smallpox in the city, the papers have been dosed
with prescriptions none OF which were ever known
| to fail. Masks OF ammonacum and mercury, with
eyed ointment OK @HgWeattt hydrdrgyJi, recon-
mended by some TO prevent the pitting, and one
might imagine that an epidemic was raging and the
mufiled inhabitants OF doomed city were visited
hourly with the death-carts and the plague cry of
"Bring out your dead!' There is always o large
class of 'lo" citizens, however, whose remedy for
any trouble consists in writing to the newspapers,
and perhaps it is only kind to let the harmless old
imbeciles have their way
attended last evening one OF the most curious
exhibitions OF the Kind l have ever seen. | have
witnessed Signor Blitz's canary birds, and / have
heard Bobby, and am willing to admit that these
performances are very wonderful; but until last
evening had never witnessed the performances OF
trained feas. The entertainment is not public one
DiQuanCV at
fact. gentleman Of this city, for many years a
patient student OF gnsectvOrOus habits, has recently
perfected. his instructions OF quantity OF heas OF
various nationalities. He has the Russian fea the
French flea, the English fiea, the Japan fiea and
tse American hea, and they trained to do a va
riety of feats such the pulling of coaches, the
drawing Of buckets up well, the firing of cannon,
sitting down to table, etc, all with extraordinary
nicety and obedience. As soon as he shall have
acquired sufficient confidence he proposes to make
his entertainment public and he will probably enter
into partnership with professional necromancer,
and thus furnish a new feature to a harm
less amusement. As, however, from the very ma
ture of the performances il is quite impossible that
the little creatures under his control should be
viewed by large number OF people at any one time,
it would be great deal more feasible, think, were
he to endeavor to secure a nook in Woods Museum.
The sphere upon which the little ones operate is a
cardboard arena, upon which are placed the utensils
in use. To these the neas are attached by exceed
ingly hne-spun glass-threads passed around their
waists, and they melted to action by passes made
by their controllers hands, similar to those made by
mediums. The exhibition-if anything so private
be called One-took place in the parlor Of pri-
vate house not very far from the Astor Library and
is the uniquest New Yorklsm in all neadom.
The large and lovely the broad and the bewitching
Desclauzas intends to create a sensation. At the
French Theatre, under Grau, she was overshadOWed
by Rose Bell, who If she was bonnie was also bony.
She is an operate brand whom Fisk has saved from
the burning and will make her first appearance at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre in the part OF "Pequio."
In respects DesCauzas is the Oll1est woman at
present the opera bOu6e stage here. Ofthe STAGE
men who love large women sigh for her in vain for
like Belinda in POpe's Grape of the Lock" she
smiles upon them all alike, and cares for none OF
them "Pequillo 1t will be remembered, has hitherto
been Auiac the tenor's part in La PeT1chOle, but
DesclauZas has pe1ichdIt for mems parts, and the
novelty, WILL for time, ill the thin benches at the
handbook theatre.
During the week, reports have gained credence
that the reason Of the sudden closing OF the Grand
Opera House, where Pdtrie was beginning to
draw was the loreclosing OF the mortgage held by
Mr. Pike for the property sold by him to Fisk who It
is said had paid him only sl5O000 in cash. All these
reports are bosh. The sum paid down by the pur-
chaser was S350,0O0. Miss Western commences
there in East Lynne next Monday week. ALI BABA.