The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-20
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NEW YORK. July 90 1870.

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3nry Ward Beecher at the commencement of a
rmon, one sweltering summer day. So, with
30 dictionaries of the English language lying
\fore me, with Webster ebbing on one side and
orcester flowing on the other, like avernacular
lantic and Pacific, disdain the puny mono
liable whose component parts are an a, an M,
n, an q, and a d at either end. repose
the naked majesty of the announce
lent '1t is hot" 1 knew a scornful crea-
re once whose turned-up nose, sneering lips,
d shrugged shoulders might have become the
age of Scorn's own self. Nothing could make
ht man hot He used to walk down to his
ice of July morning in his winter lannels,
alizing the perfection of GOODNESS to degree
| which cucumber would be trite figure of
beech indeed. Not drop beaded itself upon his
row. and the touch of his hands was as dry and
l cool as a leaf at dawn with the dew brushed
n. The only perspiraton that man could ever
I've suffered from must have been q cold one,
ID believe if he had died then he would have
sept without ice all through the dog-days. But
an evil hour he took the advice of friend
ia ha y, and bought thermometer, and has
Ner had in summer time a dry day since.
hat thermometer used him up.
have seen him break out into streams of
respiration while looking at it. "By the eter-
h snakes, he used to exclaim, eff it amt 107
| the shadel' and off would go a coat. Five
5inutes after, feeling the atmosphere near me
owing with a sudden accession of horid heat,
would turn around and would behold his face
/ imson with heat and horror. "Great heavens,
| got to 1881" he would scream, and off would
vest and collar, and so on until he had
Sduced himself as near to state of nature as
e prejudices of civilization permitted. Believe
e, my friends, this thermometrical mania is a
Sndrance, not help, in hot weather. 1t is like
Imagining oneself into the jaundice because
hes Holland shades happen to reflect yellow
last upon the features. II you can't
Ghile away the heat in some sweet green
totto, slipping those "gentle American drinks"
lat the author of "Lothair' praises don't buy
tube with quicksilver in it, and mercurialize
L6urself into state in which the opinion of the
koroner's jury over you shall be epitomized
i the sentence, "Cause of death, suicides mo-
I'VE height of the thermometer"
A Female Advertising Agency.
(New \ ork now possesses a firm of Wall street
Sokeresses, a feminine tea company, whose
{Secise locality at present escapes me, and an
advertisement agency consisting entirely of
omen at No. Frankfort street. The firm
onstituting the agency runs a newspaper, and
INSISTS of Fraulein Meta Volkmann, Ma
Hide Wendt, and Miss Susy Smith, The
{olkmann and the Smith beat up advertisers,
be- Wendt as being the most sedate of the
Tree, sits behind the counter, and keeps the
lboks and her own counsel. The references
hey offer are the most startling contrast of
Beceshery and radicalism. The ladies who do
|he canvassing, together with the six or eight
girls who assist them, are said
10 be absolutely irresistible. How are you
10 be governed by your better reason" when a
SNlng lady looks you into giving her one hun
. red lines for three months or have you any
.etter reason at all than that of obliging very
pgical but pretty woman who literally talks
II into your first step towards ruin by per-
Lding you to go against your own convictions
Right? 1t is comparatively easy to say mo"
0 the hulking fellow who comes to make his
seavy percentage out of your pliability; but the
vide realm of language contains no such denial
or the pretty, pleading creature who says so
Sswitchingly, "You aoiU advertise with us, 'front.'
5u?" and adjures you out of a mouth that
books as sweet as pink cream-caramel.
Our Devoted Police Superintendent.
All sorts of stories are circulated with respect
10 Police Superintendent Jourdan the causes of
bis resignation (Which has since been with
|irawn), the humbug and duplicity that are at
The bottom of it, and the eccentric means by
which the Superintendent informs himself of the
koings-on among the choice slums of the city.
II is said, for instance, that the Superintendent
bever meant to resign; that his pretended resig-
bation was merely clever piece of stage effect,
Ehe aim of which was to awaken public SYM
bathy in his behalf, and exact from the Board
bf Commissioners the power of detail. 1t is
asserted that John Jourdan, being born poll
Eician, is assuming the injured role merely as a
business stroke to order captains, sergeants,
|Foundsmen, and patrolmen here and there at his
pleasure, and manipulate at will the 2500 men
the force. 1t is insinuated that at
strange hours of the day and night he makes
|.he round of the city in as many disguises as
1.-The Caliph of Bagdad. Now he is disguised as
IA drunken sailor, now as a soap-fat boiler, now
las diamonded negro-minstrel out of work,
now as beggar with a crutch. If in any oi
these letters have wasted any sympathy upon
|he Superintendent, all have TO say is that
LAm glad of it. The pleasure of placing con-
Rdence in worthless people, and finding that
(your magnanimity was i'll bestowed and you
were cruelty deceived, is too precious one tc
Zoe lightly parted with. In a note dated Monday
the Superintendent withdrew his resignation in
IA note worded with all the cunning reticence o.
diplomatic rhetoric.
H0rse-HOOds.
do not know whether the fashion is abso-
Eutely new or not, but perceive that in New
York the decoration of horses with sun-bonnetS
lis being carried on this summer with an elabora
|tion that bids fair to convert the manufacturing
|of them into separate branch of business. Bu
'cepalus' bonnet-which is in fact hats made
of various kinds of cloth, is elevated about an
linch above the equine head, so as to allow free
)passage of air between, and covers the space be
[uoon the animaIs ears hu which annendares