The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-06

From oar o,on Correspondent


sugar Gum drops TEEN with glue instead of
gum arabic; and all sorts of chemical poisons
are used In coloring sugar plums. Those who
dare to swallow goodies in the face of these
facts, do so at their own peril. The poisOns are
much cheaper than the genuine extracts. Peach
Havors are obtained from fusil oil, and the taste
Of bitter almonds Is derived from prussic acid.
Nitric acid and rotten cheese taste like pineap-
pie, and when you buy from cheap peddlers
there Is no knowing whether you are not COM
mitting involuntary suicide by swallowing in
definite quantities of Paris green.
John Renl
Judge Cardozo has granted stay of all pro-
ceedings in the case of Real, SO far as they
might go towards the execution of the prisoner,
until the Court of Appeals can hear and deter
mine upon the new writ of error. The papers
were filed In the Court of Appeals in Albany,
Judge GarVin waiving formal notice of applica-
tion for the writ. The counsel for the prisoner,
ex-Judge Stuart, Is confident he can save his
client.
The Bali Season
gives every Indication of being very brisk. This
evening the first annual ball of the Lincoln
Union comes off at Apollo Hall. Tomorrow
night the Americas Club holds carnival at the
Academy of Music. On next Monday the Dodds
Express Employees Association holds forth at
Apollo Hall. Then follow on the 18th, the
Morton Commandery, No. 4, reception, Apollo
Hail. and the NJ. T. Brennan Coterie at the
Academy of Music; on the 18th, the Excelsior
Musical Union, Masonic Hall, and La Coterie
(aecond ANNUALLY masquerade ball atthe Academy;
on the 18th, Ocean Lodge, L. o. of 0. F. Irving
Hail. and Caledonia Club, Apollo Hall; 18th,
Richard B. Connolly Association, Academy; 10Th,
Baxter Hop, Academy; Gath, Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum, Academy; 25th, American
fin de
monie Academy; February 3, Charity ball,
Academy; February 4, Bellnasloe, social recep-
ton; February 9, French Opera ball; February
16 New York Firemens Association ball;
February "a, Lederkranz, Academy of Music
So you see that the season promises to be in no
wise dull.
Judge DowIiuR ms n Witness.
His Honor Judge Bowling, of the Tombs
Police Court, does not bear the reputation of
being a very hard man-though he occasionally
enjoys the credit of being o 'hard customer" !"
He has plenty of chords in his human heart, and
they are fit for something better than TO make
clothes lines of. He is always prompt at the
post of duty and enjoys reprimanding police
officer, who deserves Jail, better than re-
manding back to it some broken-down offender.
There are those among the guilty who do not
dislike him, and more than one newsboy who
has had his share of the worlds hardships,
owes to Justice Dowllng's liberal pocket his
first beginnings of success. OF fine afternoon
he may generally be seen sauntering down
Broadway, dressed 10 very quiet black, and with
nothing fierce about him but his moustache
But even then he is on the lookout for biz On
Tuesday, for instance, about four o'clock in the
afternoon, he happened to be in the vicinity of
Broadway and Tenth street, where at that hour
of the day, when the weather is 6ne, there is
generally crowd His judicial eyes espied a
woman named Mary Ann Taylor who has for
many years been known to the police courts as
an accomplished pickpocket. He saw one of
Mistress Taylor's hands dive into the pocket of
a well-spectacled old lady who had just come
out of Stewards, laden with the trophies OF
shopping. He saw her take thence bursting
pocket-book and conceal it in her muh. He
asked the old lady what she had lost. The old
lady instantly replied that she had lost her
spectacles. IN. B.-She was looking through
them at the time!) Justice Bowling pointed
out to the Aged P. this little discrepancy, when
she Immediately recollected her pocket-book,
whereupon Miss Taylor was marched off to the
station-h house for the sixty-seventh time, and
Justice Bowling handed in his lucid statement
next morning. Being a constitutionally bashfu
man, he was very backward about kissing the
book, and objected for a long time to taking the
OATH on the ground that he never took any
thing. That was flb, thought for he likes d
good Jamaica sour as well as the best tempe
rance lecturer that was ever hoored by cole
water.
Beecher's Annual BeneGt
came off on Tuesday evening in Plymouth
Church, Mr.. Beecher beaming with the rccol
lection of successful spiritual season. Few
men get better paid for saving souls than th'
brother of the author of "The True Story does
1t may significantly be said of him that he has
brilliant career before him; for does not Scrip
ture teach that they who turn many to righteous
ness shall shine as the stars forever and ever
To be sure he gets well paid for it, but let u
give him credit for much Of that kind of labo
for which no money ever pays. And why shoul
we carp at him for turning the house of 60
into one of merchandise? Is not life one bl
auction, and cannot II be perpetually said @
souls that they are ''going-going- 2"
believe you. 1t Is one of Mr.. Beechcr's amb
tions ~ round his character ont, and perhaps /
this effort after rotundty his spiritual natur
has become a little too ''earthy,' and const
quently little fiat at the poles. love of tn
secular has become tangent TO its spherodi
sanctity, and somewhat impaired its g0dl
globularity. Yet if could afford 1t, shoul
buy pew in his church, for the mere sake
escaping the pious inanities of other preacher
Our HindOo Visitors.
Messrs. Mooljie Thaclersey and Toolsdas j
daije, our visitors from Hindostan, have in
returned to this city from their Western ton
The secret of pronouncing their names was CO.