The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03

Mr.. stephens, the proprietor of the new comic !
paper, Punchineilo, is very sanguine of success.
hope it is true that he can afford TO lose
money. Rumor says that he is backed by sufli-
cient to enable him to run the machine for two
years in spite of obstacles that would swamp
most other enterprises of the kind. believe
that it is the intention to make of PunchinelIo
Democratic organ. According to my notions
wit and humor are of no Political creed and
publication which affects politics COM
mences by hampering itself with one of the first
causes of failure. ..'r .-T
The Theatres
are presenting a number of novelties this week.
Wallack's in Lost at Sea has placed upon the
stage q remarkable specimen of realism. One
of the scenes represents conflagration, and the
audience is treated to ''rea fire." The ingenious
critic of the Daily Times gushes over this dan
gerous bit of daring in an ecstacy that would
irritate that rigid antireallst Richard Grant
White. This gentleman insists, in the March
number of the GALAXY that Hamlet, as per-
formed at Booths, is q splendid blunder, because
an attempt is made to give historical consistency
to the furniture and costumes, while the play
itself is full of anachronisms that could only be
pardoned in a Shakespeare, and which prevent
any fixed historical era being assigned to 1t.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dominick Murray are at Woods
country cousins by-the-by, have transferred
most of their affection from Barnum's TO Woods.
Immediately upon entering the corridor there
you are entranced by the alluring smell of live
animals and as q rule the curiosities upon the
stage there are quite as remarkable as those
scattered through the rest of the building.
Crime In Brooklyn.
Brooklyn has just been discovered to be an
immoral city-excessively so. 1t appears to
have just come to light that its political system
is mixture of perjury and blackmailing that
its infants are poisoned by swill-milk, that its
clerks and artisans are seduced by gambling
hells and worse hells where more is staked
although there is no gambling These discove-
ries were made known to the public by the
grand jury empanelled in the Kings County
Court of Sessions. One of the most disgraceful
facts is that the Raymond Street Jail is con-
Quoted upon much the same principles that
Newgate used to be. Criminals of all grades and
ages, and of both sexes, are mingled heteroge-
neously together, and those who enter novices
in crime, come out greybeards in depravity.
The Excise law is more scandalously violated
there than in this city. Liquor is sold after mid
night and during Sunday with scarcely pre-
tense of secrecy, and the swill-milk business has
become an honored institution. Mr.. Bergh saw
there horrors which are too nauseous for me to
transcribe. This speaks rather badly for the
City of Churches. The outside of Brooklyn's
cup and platter is so excessively clean that one
is scarcely surprised to learn that the inside is
SO exceptionally full of extorton and rottenness
If Brooklyn really be as bad as she is repre-
sented, the longer she remains separate city
| from us the better.
Newspaper Story Writers
| find wide field for their exertions in this city.
| There are quantity of weekly papers devoted
entirely to stories, and to these all the literary
bummers, male and female, who cannot find
| permanent employment, resort. The stories pile
| in plentifully, and when accepted are sometimes
| very well paid for. There is always in New
| York class of writers who prefer the uncer-
tainties of ohemianism-sometimes very bril-
liant, sometimes extremely abject-to the even,
average wages of steady employment. They
were not born to drudge, SO they work spas
medically and achieve spasmodic results. To
day they wear purple and fine linen, tomorrow
they dispose of these articles at the nearest
pawnbroker's. They prefer making five hundred
dollars in a lump and wasting it away, tc
working regularly for the modest sum
of $25 or $50 per week. might mention seve.
raj well-known writers (who are not, however
to be confused with this Bohemian rabble) who
are paid some thousands of dollars year fol
the mere pse of their names, and without really
writing + e of foolscap in the course of the
year. certain well-known professor, who
resides ia pretty villa up the Hudson, received
no less than 800 last year for writing series
of papers which had no more brains in then
than many school-boy's essays. He laughs al
he takes in the money, acknowledges that thC
whole system is humbug; "but what woult
you have me do?" he pertinently asks. TIL,
proprietors of the paper are satisfied. The.
pay him for writing just such articles-essay
that are quite within reach of the average intel
lect Is he to blame because it pays him bette
than his professorship? ALI BABA.