The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-16
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New Yong. Ang. Is. 1870.
Hydrophobsa.

of the hydrophobia as theologians have of the
objectionable sin. The newspaper accounts of
the sufferings of the victims of hydrophobia are
sufficiently thrilling to make the blood of the
nervous curdle. These accounts have been nu-
merous during the last year. II they are to be
believed, mad dogs abound, hydrophobia is al
most an epidemic and it is as difficult to tread
the streets of New York without being bitten as
it Is to tread those of Constantinople without
being barlKed at. To the fashionable male
New York, of unsteady nerves. the apprehension
is most painful. The low shoes and the fancy
stockings of the period present repast de-
lectable enough to make any dogs mouth
water with expectation. The spaniel which
prettiy- paired lovers were wont to teach to
stand ecstatlc on its hind legs, is now looked
upon with terror The Italian greyhound
whose frequent maps we're taken in the soft silk
hammock formed by the drapery that shrouded
its fair owners knees, is avoided with gestures
of fear. How many innocent dogs have been
shot to prevent the spread, from imaginary bites,
of hydrophobia they were never guilty of, 1
will not undertake to say. The task of calcu-
lating the dimensions of such slaughter / will
leave TO those who have had hand therein.
But probably the interesting superstition that,
in order to prevent hydrephobia resulting from
q dogs bite all that it is necessary to do is to
kill the dog, is too good and logical q one to be
got rid of easily. By all means let us cherish
this charming credulity. On the same principle
the easiest way to hinder the cause of temper
ance and of woman's rights would be to strangle
Mr.. Cough and poison Susan B. Anthony. l
am afraid that hydrophobia like total alb
etinence and female suffrage, will take care of
itself whether the original propagator be
''choked off, or not
Opening of the Theatrical Senson.
The regular theatrical season opens this even
ing, the doors of Niblo's and of Booths being
thrown open simultaneously. Niblo's has been
painted, papered, redecorated, recushioned, and
upholstered 1t had come to look very old and
shabby, and to need the renovation very much.
I said the other day that Miss Lizzie Price had
been engaged, and would appear as "Blanche
de Nevers' in the Dukes Motto. The statement
is a mistake. 1t was intended that Miss Price
should appear but that young lady evidently
preferred California to New York, and went,
few days ago, to San Francisco Her place will
be supplied by Miss Louisa Moore, whose reap
pearance will be made upon the same stage
upon which she achieved her first success in this
country two years ago. Miss Louisa is first
class cry-baby actress. She possesses a melodi-
Gus whine which contains enough essence of
tears for half-a-dozen ordinary actresses.
fancy that she could do ''Mrs. Haller" very cre-
ditably, particularly at the passage where that
exquisite sinner eXclaims 81 had q Will-yum
once !" or at that other remorseful paragraph
where she declares that ga cup of bread, moist
ened with the tear of pentence," is quite as
much as her appetite demands. The stock CON-
pany at Booths does not appear to be very
strong. This is mild way of saying that to
me it seems to be exceedingly weak. The two
good names which l recognize in it are
those of Mary Wells and Mr.. Fenuo.
Miss Wells has been away from New York
for about two years, and / am glad to see that
she has returned to hold a drst-class position in
a first-class theatre Mr. Fenno, the picture of
hearty good-health and spontaneous good
nature is certainly the only other actor, whom
l am familiar with by reputation, that promises
to give material aid to the season. At the
Grand Opera House an important work is in
progress-I mean the production of five-act
ballet, which, after Sitala is withdrawn, will
keep the stage until the opera-boufe company
arrives. The new ballet is entitled Urelia; or,
The Demon Of Night, and will severely test the
ardor of New York's devotion to Terpsichore.
Until Death Do Them Part.
1t is to be presumed that until the moment
indicated by the above sub-head, Chang and
Eng, the Sainese twins, will continue bound
togethe flesh, not precisely in the scrip
tural meaning, but after manner which unites
them more indissolubly than the tie which binds
man and wife. Chang is now i'll at Taylors Ho-
tel in Jersey City. He is the victim of paralysis.
This is a pretty close approximation to the
reality whence Paul drew the figure of speech
in which he mentions ''this body of death" that
he was obliged to drag about with him. Chang
is literally almost a body of death to Eng, only
Eng cheerfully endures the involuntary burden.
Imagine the nature of the feelings which Eng
would experience in the first moments of being
set free from that lifelong companiopship.
Fancy the ligature cut and each independent
twin going about upon his own hook. Perhaps
the first feeling would be something like that
which comes over the soul when first it is sepa-
rated from the body-for are not the soul and
body of every man a Chang and Eng Joined
together by chord of flesh?
The ssrwo Roses.o
Two interesting advertisements have lately
appeared in one of the most notorious and
widely circulated of the New York papers. One
of these advertisements emanates from a New
York publisher of plays, and the other from Mr.
Lester Wallack. The publisher begins by pro-
pounding the question, (Which is of the highest
authority in this country, the Senate of the
United States or an English strolling actor ~
and quotes section 103 of the new Copyright
bill, to the effect that nothing in that bill shall
be construed TO prohibit the printing, publishing
importation, or sale of any book, map, chart
dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, en-
craving or photograph, written, composed, oil
made by any person not citizen of the
United States nor resident therein
MIR. Wallack's advertisement, on the
inf hat h. ba.