The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-21

Prom Our 0lrn Correspondent

You win anticipate that the first words |
have TO say to you to-day will be with respect to
Prince Arthur, who by the time this letter
reaches you will probably be in the apartments
engaged for him at the Brevoort House. can
imagine what a rush has been made thither for
rooms; I can appreciate the blind faulty with
which rooms in that nelghborhood, TO Let with
or without board, have been snapped up by
those in quest of accommodations. He is not
the Prince of Wales, indeed, but he is chip off
the came block; his complexion shows the same
latent tints of roast beef and bitter beer which
are capable of being detected In the countenance
of his vrtuous and irreproachable brother. As far
as eyes and hands GO prince ought TO have the
manual plurality of Briareus, and the visual
amplifcation of Argus, compressed in intensity
in the single pair which nature has seen fit to
endow him with; for in this country particularly
he has hundredfold harder work to undergo
than he would have ''at ome." Has 1t never
been your misfortune to meet person who has
''met" prince ?" Do you remember the ndif (?)
pertinscity with which his royal hghness was
dragged into every species of narrative aud made
TO figure as rich background against which
the speaker egotistically wreathed himself?
And then think what digestion prince-one
who deserves the name, at least-is required
to have! Not only one good digestion,
but several, / should imagine would
be required to walt upon has appetite. Think
of the endless career Of state dinners that must
be sat down to- and the enormous quantity OF
dances that must be danced with partners
whom, etiquette aside, you detest, or would were
you prince. Think of the fat mayoresses you
would be obliged to embrace, the stupid ambas
sadresses that you must porforce be civil to.
destiny like this Ia the kind of divinity that doth
hedge king-and consequently a prince-it is
an arbitrary tyrant that one can never feel much
liking or respect for. The 'pesky" etiquette
that haunts royalty is sort of imperial Fran
kenstein, and will sooner or later be the death
of the rash creator who evoked it. s
To come to facts, however, the present stay of
the Prince here will be very short. Tomorrow
he goes to Washington, where he remains until
the latter part of next week. Then he returns
here, when Gotham proposes to show him what
II can do in the way of balls and banquets.
But, after all, what is there new that Society
can purvey for this youthful Solomon?
There is one thing. 1t can furnish him with
the new pleasure OF being let alone.
1t can refuse to spread Itself upon the latest
style in cards, and treat STRIPPING who happens
to be related to the heir to the British throne
with the polite immunity to come and go that it
shows to distinguished but untitled stranger.
1t can refuse to believe that there is any in
herent archangelhocd In royalty;it can desist
from rivalry for the paltry distinction of clasping
a royal hand, or being whisked by the whiz of a
princely coattail, and learn to do homage to that
natural nobility which is without titles and be-
yond them.
Hush-a-by Literature.
magazine for babies has been started in
ON hot c;r
| shortly to put forth is first number In this
city. 1t is to be divided into two departments,
the first for the weaned and the second for the
unweaned Mrs. Winslow is to be proprietress
and editress-in-chief, and the happy title of
The Soothing Syrup has been selected. heard
that the type was to be set by machinery, but
incline to the belief that it will be set the way
some of Its readers will be raised-by hand.
have seen the advance sheets of the first humber
OF the Boston pap-boat. 1t bears this motto on
Its title-page-
'Pattycake, patty-cake, bakers man,
Ges will massey as fassy can,
Hickey and pickey, and marky with 4,
And tossy In oven for baby and me-"
The New Hotel.
Every wanderer up Broadway sees from a
great distance off the upper stories of the new
hotel, the Lafarge House, that adorns that
thoroughfare near Bleecker street. II Is indeed
a most imposing structure. Two or three stories
have been added to the original hotel until 1t is
now of an average height of eight stories. Who
are going to sleep up in them, wonder? They
look fairly frail and though the terms will only
be three dollars per day, the question whether
the.privilege of being burnt to cinders at that
Inaccessible point is worth the money, is the
question that inevitably occurs I think not;
but perhaps my prejudices in favor of self-pre-
seryation arc at fault
Ghost Story.
warn all who read this title that no mailman
or murderer turns up to explain all In the last
paragraph. Such vulgar materials are not for
me. No. The question was one of how much
damages should be claimed for the plaintiff Mr.
Sylvester the proprietor of an entertainment
called the Enchanted Canopy" Mr.. Sylvester
Is an illusionist who deals in ghosts, and other
vermin of that description. If these vermin are
trodden upon-as they appear to have been in the
case of Messrs. Jarrett 81 Palmer, against whom
he brings indictment of course turn and
sting, as all well-conducted worms have done
from time immemorlal 1t appears that Jarrett
& Palmer made an arrangement with Sylvester
by which he was to receive so much money for
thirty representations of his Enchanted Canopy"
to be distributed over space of three months.
Instead of this he only gave three and the reason
he only gave three was that he had no "proper-
ties" TO place the illusions on the stage with.
He alleges that all he engaged to give was per-
sonal services and brains-such as he had. Theu
allege that he engaged to give much more
namely, the properties" without which the
ghost would not come to time. Sylvester's
counsel argued that he could no more be ex-
pected TO furnish properties" than Mr.. Fechter