The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-25
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Prom Our 0tcn Correspondent
New YORK. March 25, 1870.
New York Flags

going up ana coming down, and-aS Win gOlu--
no one appears to exactly understand the reason.
Every other morning, at an early hour, you see
the national flags upon the tops of public build
ings in state OF huctuatlon, and one who reads
them Alright would l suppose, detect in them
the history of national, State and civic deaths
and celebrations. They certainly always on
the move.
The Nobby Note MastIcator.
Not many months ago paragraph was copied
from foreign paper purporting to give the ad-
ventures of a thief who stole diamonds by means
of his tongue, aud might be said TO be perpe-
tually tasting the sweets of his profession His
plan was to examine trayful of precious stones,
holding them very close to his eyes, under pre-
tence of being near-slghted. This brought them,
of course, very near to the mouth, so that at any
moment, when the jewellers eyes were averted,
the thief could protrude his tongue and fork the
treasures into the oral cavity. This plan
ceeded admirably for long time, but at length
the thief met his match in detective who had
once been all but foiled by similar miscreant.
Something like this has been attempted in our
moral little nelghborhood of Newark. New
York and the Bowery, however have the honor
of claiming him for their own. Finding himself
in that virtuous little suburb, he went into a
grocers, made purchase, and handed in
change one five-dollar bill and several smaller
ones. He deliberately counted the change
over and then informed the astonished grocer
that it was five dollars short Whether the
grocer had seen the man9uvre by which the
deception was accomplished, or whether he had
been served 80 once before, Is not known but
his suspicious were awakened He attacked the
Bowery youth, forced his jaws open, and dis
covered the fve-dollar bill he had given him
crumpled into little ball aud slowed away in
hollow tooth People generally prefer having
AAo,s lx.r,tb .rNlA h,,tt
boy evidently preferred greenbacks. He was
arrested and sent to prison, and during the
examination he was confronted with several
parties who claim to have been similarly VIC
timzed by him.
The Risley spanish Troupe.
The And9lusian brunettes have arrived. The
females are beautiful as though they had
been made to order expressly for the Tammany.
The males unite the best qualities of Ajax and
Won Homme. l am expressing myself not ac-
cording to my own lights, bat according to the
spirit of the advertisements which lie In waiting.
The troupe has one fault, however-it boasts no
letter-writer There is not one of them that has
ever written letter to newspaper. This fault
will, however, soon be remeded. One of the
arst things that Blondism did, when its popu-
iarity threatened soon to be on the wane, was
to get in O row with some and blaze away
in ''cards' to the newspapers. That was one of
the most fertile of popularity. The
''cards" came out and the audiences went up.
OF course brunettism will follow up this path.
Enough of the aroma of blondism fingers around
the Tammany to furnish at least one letter
writer capable of putting into English sufi-
ciently good for the Herald the grievances of
Andalusian ballererias. The letters will be
forthcoming all in good time. The first night of
the brunettes is all but identical with that of the
n lpt,, nfnl,t tl,n
fight.
MIR. Parsioe's Bnnch of Fives.
Why do actors invariably insist upon settling
their private disputes in q public manner? Why
do the male ones often haunt lobbies, billiard
saloons, and the fronts of theatres and hotels
in wait for the ignoble offenders who have so
long eluded them? don't know why, except
it proceeds from a marked love of notorety
Publicity becomes meat and drink to them. Off
the stage they imagine themselves behind the
footlights still, and act in such way as to con-
centrate upon them the eyes of the public Are
they not sensitive beings and does not their
constant openness to public criticism foster IN
them sickly craving TO be talked about? L
think that ia what is the natter with them
generally, but l hope that is not what is the
matter with Mr.. Parsloe who lately used his
bunch of fiyes so demouStratively in front of the
METROPOLITAN Hotel 1t was there, l believe, he
met with Francis Rea, who had offended
him and whom accordingly he dealt
fist in the face. IF it had been in the dark Mr.
Rea might have excused Mr.. Parsloes having
furnished him with the means of seeing ''hand
before him" but since the affair happened in
broad daylight and Broadway light, he resorted
to the law for redress. The sequel was that Mr..
Parsloe was arraigned yesterday before the JEFF
ferson Marbet Police Court, and required to give
bonds in the sum of three hundred dollars. 1t
is sad to have ones illusions in regard to an
actors ggniality all rudely dssipated, One
moment you see the favorite of the public smil-
ing and bowling behind the footlights happy
man and successful artist, rich in the smiles and
applause of large audience and q more than
respectable salary. The next you see him
stripped of all the gaudy humbugs of the stage
and 'sent up" like any common criminal. Well,
life Is one long process of dislllusion.
The third and last
Bal de In Grnnde Duchesse
was given last night at the Everett Rooms 1t
was as bad as the last one, both with respect to
those who attended, the quality OF the "carry-
ings on" and the condition of those that were
carried off. The can-can was danced until the
bewildered and tipsy Floras tumbled in heaps
and the police interfered in spite of the protes
tatons of the roughs. This will be the last OF
these epicene beauties for some time to come
another year.
Our City Arabs.
The juvenile city Arabs are composed of boot
blacks, newsboys, and oil those nondescrp
classes of youth who gain their living by Vagran