The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-29

Ffom en- o,pn cOrespondenL

From 0R Osn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. %, 1870
Brooklyn BarRRins.
II any lady desires to insure herseli deslr-
able seat in Mr.. Beecher's church, all she has to
do is 70 make some purchases at one OF the large
fashionable stores on Fulton avenue in that
citv and 10 turn the conversation in the direction
of the Plymouth pulpit. She explains that she
ia stranger in the city, that she has never heard
Mrs. Stoves brother, and that she is beset with
an eagerness 10 sit, if but for one Sabbath, under
the preaching of the man of God who evinced
his regard for the sanctities of welded life
by marrying Mr.. Richardson and Mrs.
Mcfarland. The polite shop-keeper, with
tongue as smooth as the silk he measures
out, listens with an affected surprise. sis it
possible she never heard Beecher? How for
tunate il is he has 1t in his power to obige her!
He has pew in Beecher's church. Will she
honor him by using 1t next Sunday" Tho invi-
tation Is not lost. Next Sunday she repairs to
Plymouth Church, inquiries of one of the ushers
for Mr.. Counterjumper's pew, is shown into 1t,
and hears the shoo-hy gospel preached, with
true Beecherian bathos. Some of these Fulton
avenue stores, / am told, swell their incomes
considerably by this means. You may be sure
that ultimately the pew at Beecher's is charged
for in the bill; and the lady never forgets to re-
turn 10 the b0Opulau WHO buOWtu tuO Lly
mouth pulpits way to salvation.
SHORTLY Potatoes.
Everything that IS not ''can-can" Is 'shOo-
fly" at present. Even potatoes bettray this en-
tomological tendency. An announcement of
'shoo-fy" potatoes stared me out OF coHnte nance
the other day from q bill of fare. Like Matilda
Heron, who always made it point to order
from the bills of fare whatever she didn't under
stand The meaning of, it is my rule always to
demand whatever is at once comestible and in
comprehensive. In another moment ''shoo-fy''
potatoes were laid before me. The poname de
terre is cut up Into endless strings, which you
can never succeed in getting upon your plate
unless you either cut them or empty the entire
dish. The emotion they create within you impels
you to exclaim "Shoo fly and hence the name.
Theatrical Bent.
Mr.. Michael Gallagher, whose profession is that
of a hummer. has been calling upon all the
theatrical managers in the city for the purpose
of collecting charity on behalf Of supposititious
Michael Abrahams. This Abrahams, according
to Gallaghers account, was a theatrical mar
who had died and left wife and children in
poverty. The dodge in many cases was success
full. Lester Wallack, out of the goodness of his
heart, gave considerable, and other managers
were not less kind. Upon applying to Tony
Pastor, however Mr.. Gallagher met with re-
ception that he hardly anticipated. Tony, whose
accessons of fame and flesh during the last few
years have not eDgendered any physical languor
Immediately recognized him as fraud, and had
him taken before the Jefferson Market Police
Court. Justice Shandley detected in his Inca
ments those of well-known swindler, and sent
him to the Island for twelve months
ALI BABA.