The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-06

From oar osvn Correspondent.
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ehio ume aware tDat the damages aCCOrueu JO
M. Charles Reade in his recent suit are placed
AT six cents; but that literary world Is not
perhaps so we'll aware of the number of authors
,hat were quoted from n order to prove that
Griffith Gsupt' was wicked book. Milton
and Mrs. Henry Wood we're hauled over alter
nately, aud "Paradise Lost" and EAST Lynne"
were placed side by side. Dickens, Trollope
Wi'kie Collins, Dumas, and Miss Braddou came
In for their share of praise and blame, but the
American authors, am happy to say, had their
fair fame left unimpugned
Such crush aud rush as there was at the
French Theatre ball on Inauguration night!
Perhaps the very cream of responsibility was
not represented, but then there were plenty OF
beautiful women and fast men and beauty and
'fastness" are The next best things to bravery
and virtue. Before the doors of the theatre, in
Fourteenth street, heavy crowd waited until
midnight, shouting out volleys of sneering re-
marks as the fair and flashy undressed danes
passed. 20 my! amt she scrumptious?n "Loo&
at them perambulators, Jimi" "Good
as the Black Crook any day" Nor
were these remarks without reason. The ladie
who trod upon one another's heels In their pas
sage into the French Theatre seemed to have
arrived at the progressive conviction that
brevity is the soul OF fashion as we'll as of wit
for their toilettes, like that OF Talleyrand's
belle, began too late aud ended too early. Busts
legs, and hair are women's three claims to per-
sonal consi Iteration nova nights. Accord
ingly the b1 des drtisteS at the French Theatre
was an overbri mining assemblage OF blonde
locks, peram bulators in tights, and bosoms in
nothing worth mentioning. l am afraid to say
how many women were there In the costume of
the pastry cook in Genepieue. l admired them
in the ballroom immensely, and pitied them
out oft, when saw them stepping out after mid
night In that bitter March winds ,and walking col
lectedly to their carriages with nothing to pro.
tect those tender "blcyclesn except the pink
feshings that clung TO them like skin. "Ca-
mile" forgot all about her cough. light lace
veil thrown loosely about the neck was all she
deigned to wear while Alfredo" was looking
after her carriage. But probably the poor thing
was warm enough inside, for the champagne
flowed like water. About half past IL O'clock
too, an accident occurred which, had the char.
acter of the ball been frgdly respectable,
would have sent half the ladies home to bed IN
Mysteries. This was none other than the
breaking down of the floor over the seats
in the parquette. Considering the crash
that was made the CONSERVATION was
very slight, and that little was allayed by the
fluent young mantle theatrical critic in
fact, of one of the Sunday papers here-who
addressed the assembly first in English aud then
in French, and assured them that the floor
would be mended in fifteen minutes. The sequel
proved him better than his word. In ten min
utes the breach was filed up, and by O'Clock
the Can can was in full blast The anxiety that
is manifested, by-theby, by pious and respect
able people, to ee this Can can is M ost remark
able. People who have scarcely ever been to
balls before go TO the fancy dress ones here,
when it Is probable French actresses will appear
and the Can Wcdn be enacted. 1t is something to
say you have seen it. Having seen it once, you
would no more cross the street to witness
repetition than you would take voyage to
o aheite 10 witness the performance OF national
dances by the Traviatas of that cline.
The keeper of swimming school at the foot
of Sixty-sxth street has been unsuccessfully
trying to Barnumize the public with whale.
The whale was made TO order from q fac-simile
furnished by Imagination, and was provided
inside with accommodations for three men,
whose duty it was to work its intricate ma.
chinery. This machinery initiated the effects
produced blythe lungs and the muscular system
OF the animal, and enabled it to splurge and
founder with the most cetaceous liehkeness.
The natatorium keeper then did what would
have been a very wise thing If what he had first
done had been honest-he advertised the whale
IN all the newspapers, and drew an immense
crowd to the swimming school. The three i'm
pious Jopahs confined in the eeta-
cean abdomen did their work well.
The crowd screamed and elapped their
hands, as New York crowds will. 1t was sure
pop this time, and they had got big thing;
but, alas it always happens that Rthe enfan.
terrible is lurking about somewhere. The boy
is the father of the man, and the entdRt terrible
is the procreator of the adult spoil sport. One
of the on-lookers, whose eyes should have been
better employed, and who managed to remain
upobserved after the Others had Withdrawn, saw
the three Jonahs emerge after the performances
were over He told his friends, and the whole
party set to work on the great dsh-fraud, and
in few moments had demolished it. The pro.
prietor meanwhile eloped and will find it pro-
htable, for the future, to restrict his advertise
ments to natatoral facts.
mentioned the other day that murderous
attack had been made on the inmate OF car
riage who was supposed TO be Judge Bedford,
but who happened to be his brother, DR.. Bed
ford. and that the Judge had incurred the
epite of a herd of ruffians on account OF the
heavy sentences he had lately pronounced on
various criminals. 1t has transpired that q
still more murderous outrage had been plannec
against District Attorney Courtney, and for Tho
came reason. The chief transgressor suspected
is native of your city, philadelphia jack
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