The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-22

From oar o-vn Correspondent
New YORK, Feb. %, 1870.
Trinity on Holidays.

New YORK, Feb. ~, 1870.
Trinity Holidays.
Trinity Church celebrates the holidays as
religiously and regularly as the theatres do.
To-day, for instance, being Washington's Birth
day, Mr.. James Ayliffe, the old-time bel-rlnger
of the church, will ring number of changes,
and tintinnabulate some popular songs, both old
and new The tintinnabulations will be patri-
otlc and sentimental, such as the 'Red, White
and Blue, Yankee Doodle" "Coming Through
the Rye"
Triumphant Type-settIHg.
Possibly you may have heard ere this of the
triumph in type-setting accomplished by Mr..
George Arensberg, one of the composltors on
the Times. The feat consisted in setting 2064
ems of solid mnion type in sixty minutes. This
is very remarkable, so rem arkabe as to surpaes
belief If the statement was not exceedingly well
authenticated. The performance was the result
of bet that Mr.. Arensburg could not set 2000 ems
of solid minion in one hour. Mr.. Arensberg is
the Dexter of the press, and suppose Mr.. Bon
ner has engaged him.
Miss Alice Gary
is dangerously Ill at her residence in this city,
but the fact of her Illness does not surprise any
of her friends. She has been an invalid for
many years, and her disease is insidious, pain
full, and incurable greatly affected by changes in
the weather. and certain to eventuate in death.
These sad circumstances, however, have not
prevented her being the sunlight or rather the
moonlight, of her pretty and placid home in
East Twentieth street, near Fourth avenue. /
say moonlight, because she is so much more
serene and silent than her sister Phebe, to
whom the sunlight simile more naturally applies.
Both the sisters have led good, useful, and
happy lives, winning equal popularity, and
more of it than falls to the lot of two in two
fhouaand of woman wi nuhlish noetrx- Roth
think, are believers in spiritualism in its higher
sense, though the fact that they practise Swe-
denborgianism will horrify many of the ortho-
dox as much as though it were Lucrezla-Bor-
gianism instead.
The Anti-Robber Bank-Boy Protective
is presume, the name given to a curious ar
rangement which observed yesterday on the
person of boy in Wall street. The youth, who
was about fifteen, was apparently bank-boy,
and carried in his hands one of those precious
tin boxes which burglars and highway robbers
so much affect. To the box was attached a
strong chain which passed once or twice around
the boys waist underneath his jacket, and was
securely fastened. Evidently there was no run
ming off with that tin box without running off
with the boy too.
The Well-dressed Stranger.
Society never will learn the lesson which sad
experience is so anxious TO teach it, for the
simple reason that it don't want to. 1t likes to
be humbugged not only in its public amuse-
ments but in its social pleasures. A certain in
diyidual who dubbed himself with the name of q
certain foreign and distinguished diplomatist
has been creating great havoc in the good little
suburb of Elizabeth, and some also in the bad
big town of New York. He was introduced in
differently as count and baron, and indeed it
didn't make much difference SO far as veracity
was concerned what degree of rank was con-
ferred upon him. AS far / can understand, it
is the old Baron de Riviere and Lord Ainsley
business over again. How stale all old stage
tricks are are they not? This latest fraud
made the young lady fall in love with him,
borrowed some money of her, disappeared, and
has not since come to the surface. l suppose
there are grades of snobbishness low enough to
enjoy being ''beaten" when the rufian who ac-
complishes it bears title.
The Finger of Scorn.
Scom has only one finger. Ever since | have
heard Scorn mentioned as an interesting topic
of personal remark have observed that only
one finger is ascribed to her, invariably men
toned as the Finger of Scorn.
Waving this unique digital fact, will merely
remark that the upper classes of New York
society Cinto which am not admitted, SO dom
for moment suspect me of claiming that dis
tlnctl0n, Dut tne DuODleS IRON WHICH sometimes
ripple past my ears)-I will merely remark tina
the upper classes have instituted mild ani
pleasant manner of moving Scorn's finger
1t consists in this, and amounts to nothing
more than a momentary ostracism. When
at dinner in "society," some ont
at the table begins to tell story which tn,
others have heard, those who are acquainted
with the facts silently raise their knives, and
balancing them upon the rims of their goblets
direct the points gently in the direction of tn
unfortunate speaker. 1t is mild way of point
ing Scorn's finger-a polite method of saying
'Dry up; we've heard that before The speake
takes the hint He "dries up" Conversation
ally he may be said to wilt for the remainder O
the evening. He remains blasted beneath tn
mildew of mockery. Society waits in vain 70
him to speak again. He shrouds himself, to tn
end of the entertainment, in a mystery as un
fathomable as the "Mystery of Edwin brood. "
'Buck! Buck How many Hamlets?" We
may We ask Last week we had five. Fetche
being gone, four remain-Booth, Fox, Ton
Pastor, and Charley Backus. In fact, every
thing is Hamlet, and probably there will be tw
or three more before the season is over.
ALI BABA.