The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-21

From Our OIsn Correspondents
NEW YORK, May 81, 1870
Feminine Beck PeddIcrs.

book he don't want. He ia conscious OF having a
small library Of good books at home he believes he
has some taste in literary matters he can lily afford
to throw away the price that is asked but in spite OF
the prudent conclusion to which his logic inevitably
conducts him, his galantry as an American proves
too much for him, and he shells out the stipulated
stamps Your feminine book peddler is ire
sistible, in the same sense that the widow
was irresistible who waited on the un-
just Judge. You listen to her because of
her importantly. You don't want her book and you
are not pleased with her manner. Her "cheek" is
offensive to you and the habit she has OF smuggling
herself into your private editorial apartments and
buttonholing you alone in your den is highly exas-
perating. She generally belongs to that class OF
people who would have one believe they have seen
better days. Certainly her clothes have. The New
York species are extremely pertinacious The
female book peddler Of Gotham carries round with
her little subscription-book, in which she requests
the names OF editors after having worried from them
gratuitous notices. The name once given means
two dollars down. and unless you broadly state that
you desire to be left alone she will talk to you for
hour at o time. II she is young and you are young
OF course your fate is douby sealed, for your gal
lantry goaded to the point Of desperation by the
spectacle of a good-looking woman in distress. AT
any rate, 1t is paying business for the woman and
losing business for you.
Man and Wife.
AS a pleasing example OF how parties are occa-
sonaliy made man and wife, take the following in
cident, which happened in this city only day or
two ago. 1t has been enormously stated that the
ceremony took place at Frenchs Hotel, whereas it
was celebrated at the Fifth Avenue, and in one Of
the most stylish parlors there. In the morning of
shat day well-dressed stranger entered certain
notorious drinking saloon not huRered miles from
that hotel, and after taking drink, asked the bar
keeper whether he knew OF any one who would do a
quiet piece OF business and keep dark about 1t, on
condition OF being well paid. The bar-keeper after
casting about for little said he thought he knew
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his man, OF whom the stranger took prolonged
survey. This was evidently satisfactory, for
the two men put their heads together,
and the stranger explained that he
wanted some one to personate a clergy
man and perform marriage ceremony, and that he
would give fifty dollars to have the work done well
The individual who proposed to assume the char
acter said he thought he should give satisfaction
and proposed to be known the Rev. Mr.. Smith.
He further explained that he must have clerk to
assist him, and that the clerk would be ten dollars
extra. TO this also the stranger assented, and Mr.
Smith having found his accompce all three repaired
to the bar OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel and took
Scotch ale, absinthe, and pony brandy. They then
went upstairs to a room on the third floor overlook
ing Madison Square, the stranger on his way up
presenting Mr.. Smith with a Prayer-book and in
forming him that he wished him to perform the
ceremony OF marriage between him and a woman
with whom he had been living two years, but who
had grown scrupulous since the Mcfarland
ue1tOu6TUeUc
not playing villains part for the first
time He did not appear taken by sur
prise, but promised that he would perform his
duties satisfactorily. They then entered the room,
where pale beautiful lady was sitting, with pro-
fusion Of blonde hair and anxious expression on
her features. Ths is the lady," said the stranger
The lady bowed, so did the two villains, and the
marriage ceremony proceeded. After 1t was over
the stranger handed Mr.. Smith thirty dollars hav-
Ing already given him half the stipulated sum before
the ceremony commenced, when the bargain was
first struck. Next morning man and wife departed
for the West and are supposed at this present
moment to be in Indiana
Diamond Dentistry.
1t is rumored that an extravagant fashion has
been invented by certain madmen in the uppermost
circles OF society, who have more money than they
know what to do with. This is meme other than that
OF having diamonds set into ones teeth! I have
heard OF teeth being likened to row OF pearls be-
FORE but never imagined that dental jewelry would
become mere matter-of-fact Isuppose the girl in
the fairy tale who dropped diamonds from her
mouth whenever she talked must have resorted to
some such artifce as this The settings got loose
and the jewels dropped out
One of Her Own Sex.
Virtuous women are not always remorseess
against those of their sex who are imprudent Mrs.
Richardson, for instance, has plenty OF friends
amongst good and noble women. 1 myself have
heard one of the purest women and brightest writers
in New York plead strenuously with a prominent
edlt0r IN oeIenSe Oh tnaI unhappy woman, ana Deg
him not to lift his pen against her. This fair pleader
had never seen Mrs. Richardson, and knew nothing
about her but what she had read in the newspapers,
but she believed in her innocence and purity and
felt that even were she as bad as certain organs
tried to make her out, she had suffered sufficiently
to compensate for 1t all. Nor the peaders voice
lifted in vain, for before she left the newspaper oce
the cynical man OF the pen had relented ami pro-
missed that for that day at least nothing should be
said against that imprudent but unhappy woman.
Decoration Day.
Strange as it may seem, there are some people
who disapprove OF the solemn observances OF Deco
ration Day, and would, if they could, scratch the
3Oth Of May from the category OF public holidays.
not deep and vital that it is merely the occasion for
floral trining and Irritation. Let such cynics say
what they WILL the fact remains that Decoration
Day has struck its roots deep and wide throughout
the community. Magnificent preparations are
making in this city for Its observance. There will
be solemn music and the distribution of the falres
and most expensive flowers the season furnishes
and there is not a graveyard where soldier lies
buried but what will be wreathed until 1t sends forth
heavy breaths Of fragrance
City Hall Park.
They have commenced beautifying City Hall Park.
They have dug up about twenty square feet OF earth
and laid it out beautifully to dry. This comprises
the amount OF horticultural labor that has as yet
been bestowed upon that paradise. Meanwhile the
sidewalks are soaked with mud, and the pedestrian
picks his way with fear and trembling
The Tammanv.
The theatre known as Tammany has undergone a
reform. Cigars and drinks have been banished and
the stands for drnkabes axed to the back OF every
seat are empty. At best however, the Tammany is
very dreary place OF entertainment The pro-
uNNx.