The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-04

From Our o,Sn Correspondent
..PrInce Arthur VIII bo Preren

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New YORK, Feb. 4, 1870
s'PrInce Arthur VIII bo Present"
At the conclusion of how many announce
ments ] wonder have the above five words /
figured during the last fortnight You cannot |
pick up a newspaper without finding that sneak
ing little sentence awaiting you at every turn.
If you read the locals you perceive that the re-
porter has taken sensation header" so to |
speak, and plunged headlong into the regal |
ravine. II you turn your attention to the edi-
torials, the fact annoys you that the editor |
could not resist the temptation of ringing In |
some old and cherished jokes. The writer's of |
clothiers advertisements and kindred topics
lavish their finest Celebrations upon jeu desprh
the ''nub" of which Is the introduction of the |
royal adolescent's name. II a theatrical agent |
brings in advertisement to your paper, the |
last word he 'dlngs" into your ears are-"Prince |
Arthur will be present" On Tuesday evening, |
for the first time, he disappointed the public |
and failed to come up to time. The opera b0u6e |
audience expected him, but their expectations
were vain. For three mortal hours their eyes
were nailed to the box set apart for him; but he
came not. 1t was tantalizing. 1t must have
been as bad as preparing to suck up mint
julep and to find your straw filed with flies.
But you may depend upon 1t, the audience was
none the smaller for the announcement; and
narily Is.
Relapsng Fever.
Relapsing fever is neither a fatal nor fash
ionable disease. 1t attacks the poor those who
live in squaor, and whose hopes of worldly hap
piness are permanently squelched. The doctors
say 1t has been in the city ever since last Octo-
ber but only within the last fortnight has 1t
prevailed to any unusual extent. 1t obtains
among the tenement-houses and boarding-paces
known as Starvation Row. 1t bears some re-
semblance to typhoid fever, but differs from 1t
in the fact that when the patient is apparently
convalescing he is seized with severe relapse
which prostrates him for several weeks 1t is
an annoying and worrisome rather than dan
gerous disease. The first case known in this
city occurred in Bellevue Hospital, and there
have been about eighty cases altogether. 1t is
cured not 80 much by medicine cleanliness,
ventilation, good nursing and good food.
Though it is fond Of making the poor its victims,
it sometimes sticks its claws into the rich.
Young Raymond,
of the Times, has been giving O lecture entitled
"Across the Continent" in which he amusingly
relates his visit to Mormondom. His personal
appearanca and manners are prepossessing, and
he has more geniality than very young men
generally know how to make use of. Mr.. Ray
mond is scarcely more than youth, not yet
being twenty-five. His friends, of whom he has
and deserves to have plenty, please themselves
by finding resemblances between him and his
talented and lamented father. Hts lecture was
delivered in the Eastern Branch of the Y. NJ. C.
A., before large and eminently wel-pleased
audience.
Water Street Mission.
Suppose, by way of change, give you few
statistics in regard to the work done by theWater
Street Mission during the year just elapsed. Its
number of meetings WAS three hundred and
fourteen; total attendance, twenty-five thousand;
number of those who 'Rose to be Prayed for,
nine hundreds signed the temperance pledge, six
hundred and fifty; visitors to the reading-room,
six thousands Bibles given out one hundred and
twenty; Testaments, eight hundred; packages of
1'good" reading, six hundred and seventy; small
volumes, nearly one Thousands; homes provided
for fallen women During the past six years.,
fifty. Several houses whose character is such
that women of no character live there are visited
thrice a week by missionary lady who reads
the Bible to the inmates, and informs them that
the mission is ready to help them as soon as they
are ready to leave off sin. These good works
seem like few grains gathered from a sandy
shore but in the plan of regeneration, as in every
thing else, every little helps.
Amusements.
Mr.. Fox is trying to play 'Aminadab Sleek
at the Olympic, but he does not play it well. 1t
is unfair and inartstic to be continually insti-
tuting parallel between the conception of one
actor and that of another. STILL when one sees
a familiar play acted badly throughout, it is in
evitable that he should contrast in his own mind
the wretched evening he has been spending with
former happy hours, when the roles slipped re-
fulgently through the vivlfying fingers of actors
who were artists. For instance, when last even
ing saw Mr.. Fox as "Aminadab," Mr.. Studley
IS Captain Murphy Mcguire" Mr.. j. X. Morti-
mer as 'Jack Torrens," Mrs. Edward Wright as
''Lady Sowerby Creamy" Miss Ida Vernon
'Mrs. Ormsby Delmaine," and Miss Florence
Noble rs 'Mrs. Torrens," it was quite pardona-
BILE that should revert to those bright nights at
the old Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia
when those parts were assumed respectively by
John s. Clarke Mr.. Shewell, Mr.. Wheatley, Miss
Mary Wells, Mrs. John Drew, and Miss Emma
Taylor. The business was beautifully done then
but we didn't know what happy times we were
having
Mr.. Wheatley, by-the-by, looks old and out of
spirits. His wife's recent death weighs heavily
upon him, and he has discovered that fortune
of half million does not necessarily result in
happiness. He comes up to town to see Mr..
Fechter, between whom and himself he is fond
of drawing comparisons, not always to the ad-
vantage of that gentleman.
Central Park.
A great many Improvements, which will be
more perceptible when summer shall have come,
have been made at Central Park. Excavations
have been made for the PalmOntOlOOical Museum.