The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-07
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i'm the morning, and the chances are ten to one
that by the time noon comes the whole man is
tagged out, and thirsts for the repose which
awaits him only in return to his old avocations.
City men are not intended to take
country strolls unless they work themselves
up to it by degrees and take little at a time.
The country is all very pretty as seen through
volume of verses or a stage-coach window. The
patches of tender and serene green, with the
neat and carefully hoed aisles between are very
picturesque specimens of natures embroidery;
but the perspiration and the dust through which
one has to travel for the sake of admiring them
are too great a demand upon the endurance of
metropolitan man. And so, the suburbs of New
York, charming as they are at this season of the
year, are to be enjoyed by any one but the
suburban in small pieces at a time. Like the
scenery of the stage, the scenery of nature often
loses half its charms when one comes to actually
walk amongst it. l know this sounds very
heretical and fearfully unpoetical. But it is the
solemn truth with respect to the city-bred man
who undertakes days jaunt in the country
under the delusion that during that brief breath
ing space he can snatch time to look from ma
ture up to natures God.
That Sacred Concert.
Mr.. Fisk's Sacred Concert on Sunday night at
the Grand Opera House was big thing and
great suchess Every seat in the vast auditorium
was taken. The advertisements, with the strict
adherence to truth which is characteristic of
those advertisements generally, stated that the
orchestra was to consist of one hundred and
fifty instruments. If it did, about ninety of
them must have been bundled beneath the
stage for only sixty were visible on the closest
calculation. But that makes little difference.
The people were pleased. The concert became
popular, and is to become Sunday evening in
stitution. The principal singer is Miss Nuly
Peris, fne-looking woman, possessed of
strong but by no means sweet voice, and the
wife of a noted gymnasium keeper. The sacred
composer most largely drawn upon was Offen-
bach, some of whose gems from La Pericbole
were frantically applauded by that portion of the
audience farthest advanced in the spiritual life.
All those crowded lobbies and that Sunday
evening. 1t was more the picture of Sinners
Ramble than Saints Rest.
Dramatic Utopia.
The Dramatic Fund is soon to have benefit
in this city. A very remarkable rumor has been
started with reference thereto-so remarkable,
that it is no wonder it should be received by the
press and public generally with indications of
sarcastic doubt. 1t is to the effect that Hamlet
is to be performed with Mr.. Booth as "Iamlet,"
Dir. Fechter "Laertes," Mr.. j. w. Wallack
as the "Ghost," Mr.. E. L. Davenport as 'Hor-
atio," Mr.. Brougham as ''Polonius," Mr.. Jeffer-
son as First Gravedigger," Mr. Shewell as
"The King" Mr.. Lester Wallack as "Osric,"
Mr.. Barney Williams as "Second Actor" Miss
Leclercq as 'Ophelia," and Mrs. j. w. Wallack
as "The QUEEN" This is a very pretty and in
genuous ewspaper-theatrical story. 1t gives
refreshing view of near histrionic millennium,
when the devil Jealousy that rules the green
room and the ''couli sses' shall be charmed for a
day and night, and professional peace and good
will, charity and love reign unmolested 1t
would indeed be a sweet sight to view this dis
tribution of the dranlatis perSong. The Dra-
matte Fund is very worthy and deserving
institution; those who are benefited byit belong,
in many cases, to the higher walks of the the
atrical profession. Actors, as rule, are an eX
tremely 'clannish" set, kind and helpful almost
beyond measure to one another in distress. But,
goodness of heart has its limits even with them,
and it would stop far short of any concession
which, like this, would necessitate sublime
eelf-abnegation. Self-sacrilce is a charming
ideal role for the actor to embody; but for
practical, everyday virtue-no, thank you
FiiaI James.
James Herbison is a good little boy. He is
fifteen years of age-that adolescent period,
when, socially speaking, the hobbadehoy COM
of them which evince a tendency to become
wild. Yesterday morning he got offended at his
grandmother because the old lady made some
remarks about him of a truthful but uncom-
plimentary character. James is of a very sensi-
tive disposition, as will be seen by the sequel.
Some boys would have cried, some would have
kicked; but James indicated his outraged
feelings with determination beyond his years
and his grandmas expectations. Pulling from
his pocket loaded pistol, he cooked it at the
old lady's chignon and threatened, if she said
syllable more "to blow her --brains out
This spirited conduct so won upon the heart of
a gentleman who happened to be lodging in the
same house, that the gentleman exerted his in
luence and had the boy sent to the Catholic Re-
formatory, an institution for the express benefit
of cases OF this peculiarly flial nature.
The ''Paris-American."
And so there is to be an American newspaper
started in Paris TO be called the PdriS-AnaericGn.
Not bad idea. At first Rumor gave out that
Junius Henri Browne, a well-known journalist
of this city, and friend of the late Mr.. Richard
son, was TO be the managing editor. But Rumor
has just eontradicted herself Like the politi-
clans, she finds it very hard to be consistent.
Mr.. Browne to be sure, had some qualifications
for the position. In the firsG place, he don't
understand French; in the second place, he has
never been to Paris in the third place he was i'm
prisoHed in several Southern prisons during the
war; in the fourth place, he helped to write
that immense account of the Barnum confagra-
tion that appeared in the Tribune some years
ago. and in the fifth place, he is one of the most
successful manufacturers of books that are made
IN eell IL thesa are not Qualifications enourb