The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-08
NEW xoRKIsMs.
From Our O,on Correspondent.

From Our Oton Correspondent
NEW YORK, May g. 1860.
That uit,,oso of victuals Professor Blot proposes
giving culinary seances at all the fashionable and
finishing young ladies' schools in New York. He has
already begun and is being warmly seconded by the
newspapers in his endeavors to teach the young idea
how to roast, boil, and fry. Whether this will mate
rally increase, in Fifth avenue, the number of mis-
tresses who know how to cook, may be question,
but am certain that Professor Bots lectures will
prove of the most tittilating sensations OF the
hour, and that the Blanche A1e0ries Of Maury HILL
and where not, will confess to the personal seduc-
tiveness of this Gothamite Maibalant For Blot is
something more than cuisinier. He cures as well
as cooks. His sauces are sanitary we'll as pquant
and his very hash could he be guilty OF such thing
is hygenic. He provokes a culinary dilettantisn,
He satisfies the ''curous in 1sh-sauce." l am not
sure that he creates good cooks, but he ditfuses
charming smattering of the kitchen. We may not
drink very deeply OF the Pieran spring he opens for
us, but we have not found the little knowledge a
taste gives dangerous thing. In fact it is rather
safe-when conversation is langud and ones lovely
partner is mot to put too fine point on i stupid
Physicians and druggists are exercised to some
extent the law recently passed by the Legisla-
ture, prohibiting drug clerks from repeating pre-
scrptions without authority from physician. There
there is good deal be said against it. The writ
ten prescription is in fact the property OF the ind
vidual who took the trouble to procure it from ply
scian and to pay for it. II the apothecary to whom
1t was originally taken refuses to it, the ag-
grieved individual has redress in his own hands, and
only loses the time necessary for taking to another
druggist. Any one bent on suicide, and who hopes
to compass 1t by misuse or doctors recipe, will
not assureSy S oe tne tb oy amy Sw o Of 'S g
inmate renewals OF prescriptions Ia very much
abused. Take the case OF bromide OF potassium,
preparations OF which are given in nervous disorders,
and which in itself is one Of the safest and most
soothing Of reliefs. The unreasoning patient hoping
TO gain from large doses relief proporonate to that
acquired from small ones, soon consumes in
day quantity intended to last for week, and goes
Uaraops Of opum This class Of cases ope Where
no legislation will do any good. The guilt is the
guilt simply OF mprudence; the punishment is per-
death will ever affect cure.
Mr.. Roebling, the engineer OF the Bast river
bridge VOWS and declares that it will be commenced
forthwith. The plans which have been presented
meet with the approval OF the Navy Department, and
the objections OF the old fOges that the bridge will
be an obstruction to navigation have been success
fully combated. The waterway as 1t exists at pre-
sent will be in no manner lessened and, except with
the largest class Of vessels (and that In very small
degree) the navigation will not in the least be inter-
fered with. The central roadway will be six hundred
feet in width, and from one hundred and thirtytwo
and half TO one hundred and thirty-tve feet in
height There be some people still who shrug their
shoulders and say they will believe in the East river
bridge when they see It; but believe that having
become already an accomplished idea it will sooner
or later become an accomplished fact.
Passengers detained In quarantine at the lower bay
declare that they have been vaccnated there bySwn-
burner against their will and been submitted to the
risk OF contracting all sorts Of terrible and oaths0me
diseases Unfortunately for them, they separated
too quickly after their arrival ut this sort and by too
remote localities, for them to league together and
lodge formal complaint against the health oficer
IL Is come the passengers that lately arrived here
from Aspinwall in the Alaska, who most obstre-
porous in their accusations; but then perhaps the
Vrulence OF the disease they were dreading had
something to do with the viruence OF their COM
| plants They say that as soon they arrived in
quarantine they were boarded by the health officer
VINO, casting his eyes over the crowded vessel
opined that he had a fat job before him, and an
nounced his intention Of vaccnating ali hands-cap-
tam crew. and passengers. Vaccinate them he did,
consuming some four hours at the work, charging
one dollar per head, and sending in bill for four
hundred dollars more than two hours before the Ves
sci reached port. This Independent OF the fum-
CATION OF the Alaska, for which Of course the usual
heavy fee was charged. Thus the passengers Their
threats, promises, eXhortations board ship were
picturesque and vehement, but of no avail. Vacc-
mated they must be, on pain OF being dropped by the
| way. Delicate and white-limbed women were nut
on level with dropsical vagrants and scorbitlc
viragos; and no wonder the health onicer worked
hard, for every puncture with the lancet was so
much in his pocket. He bled the passengers in a
double sense and afterwards "fumigated" his way to
fortune.
AT the annual OF the S. P. c. A. Mr. Bergh enjoyed
long-deayed opportunity for expressing his sent-
ments with respect TO the act OF Justice Bowling in
refusing TO try any further cruelty y-to-anima cases
and made some merciful remarks about pigeon
shooting which he classed with cock-hghting and
| bull-baiting. He had consulted the most eminent
lawyers IN te cy with respect to turtles and rejoced
turtles TO ind himself upheld by them in the idea that
We're "animals" and not ''repties" The society is
no longer poor one. 1t has already had nearly half
million dollars bequeathed TO It, and Is in expectation
Of two hundred thousand dollars more. He thought
that the career OF the society hitherto resembed that
| OF wilful child; but 1t had been spanked in
public so often now, that Il gave every promise OF
| becoming nice sort OF young fellow.
II Mumler had only been on hand with his photo
graph plates ana camera wemight have had thewhole