The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-11

Prom Our oton oorrsspondene
Flower Preservors.


In New York Is that OF preserving the flowers
which decorate the remaius of dead people.
While the body is laid out note arrives from
some fashionable flower preeervcr--or from one
who desires to become MISUNDERSTANDING
your patronage. He appeals TO your emotions
as mourner whether you do not wish floral
commemotatiou of the unhappy occasion, and
offers to make neat job Of it, cheap. He
tracks out your address by means of the adyer-
tisemcnt and often waylays you as you return
from the funeral. Making his assault upon you
In the moment when You are least in the humor
for bargaining and worldlness, and under the
specious pretense of sympathy, he gets custom
from the bra2en cheekiness with which he sets |
to work. He is an institution peculiar to New
York and this winter has driven better bargains
and more OF them than ever before. The bland
and beefy Brown, of Grace Church, has done
much towards making fashionable funerals
an intelertAblc nuisance. The flower preserver
takes'up the thread where Brown dropped 1t,
and twists it around you with the dexterity OF
. the accomplished fraud. The funeral florist Is
alone a sufficient drain upon liberal mourner's
purse. The flower preseryer perfects the work,
and charges monstrous price for ombaming
the bouquets for which you have already extor-
tionatey paid.
Miss Anthony's Birthday.
Never to mention q ladys age being one OF
the principles upon which these letters
are written 1t would i'll become mo to
say whether Miss Susan Il. Anthony were fifty
or fifteen. sac is certainly not more than the
one aud not less than the other At any rate
her birthday comes around with the regularity
of most peoples, and Will be celebrated next
Tuesday evening at her residence No. 40 East
Twenty-third street. Though not possessing the
enchanting ioveliness of form and feature which
characteyiaes other members of the ci-deodm
Woman's Suffrage Association, Susan is quite
as graceful in social life as MILDLY Morgan OF
Madame Anneke. She Intends to give recep-
ton to all the readers of the Rerolutton. The
report that Miss A. was about to be married Is
utterly untrue She is glorious old girl, and
will remain 80 until the day Of her death, when
she Is translated into q higher sphere, where
male and female angels have equal rights.
Madame Patti-Caux, before her marriage ex-
plained in answer to impertinent rumors that
She was ''hethrotbed only to art" It may SINH
larry be said Of, Miss Anthony that she Is
''betyith" only to politics, and L don't think
they'll ever sue her for breach of promise.
Buchu In Hnrness.
DIR. Hc,mbold, family, and friends have been
avaiilng themselves of the sloighiug season, and
his really magnificent team has been attracting
unusual attention along Broadway. am always
willing TO give the doctor a gratultous notice
as often as possible, for it is sure to bring forth
a presentation bottle of ouchu in return.
Beautiful RrOkcresscs. ..
"Who is Mrs. Clafin2" is the question inces
sanity asked of whomsoever 1t Is suspected a
satisfactory answer can be obtained. Rumoi
says that she is identical with certain Mis-;
Tennessee who used to be remarkable as q me
.dium. The Miss Tennessee whom l have any
"reminiscences about used year ago to publish
amazing handbllls, on which were printed very
bad poetry of her own composition, aud an inf
mite number of certificates from people who
pxofessed to have been miraculously cured
through her mediumshp If Mrs. Clafin, The
"beautifol brokeress," be Identical with Miss
Tennessee the fortune of her and of all her part
@ ners is secured for of course it win be Infinitely
easy foe her to go off in q trance and foresee th
price Of gold at any imaginable date. l don
wonder she feels sangune, or that her NAL
rivals quake.
:" ~ The Csraude Duehesse Bail
IA n niece of fbrilliant immortality was fraud
There was nothing about it either brilliant o
immoral. The dresses were not more decottete
than other affeirs of the kind. Drunken wome
did not abound, and the can-can was not mad
the medium for the fiinging of feminine heel
higher than usual The guests were not by an
means select, but they were very well behaved
Whether this was in any wise due to the pre-
sence OF large police force may be questioned
Pruriency was disappointed, aud expressed ltse
in guinness and indignant scows. Fools VIII
came to gloat remained to glare. In fact
was French ball with the wings not only cliI
ped, but completely cut off.
Sleigbing mt Central Park.
Sieighs have been introduced at Central Par
in place OF the cabriola-wagonettes which hay
been 80 successful since they were first use
there in the summer and you can enjoy got
sleigh-ride there, an hour in length, for twent
five cents. The sleighs are just as warmly appr
ciated as the wagons were, and the cheap-ri
system may he said to be complete success.
hf sPunchInelic."
The proprietor of the new weekly is Mr.
A. S4epheas, formerly of Vanity Fair. He
now busy hooking all the good humorous write
in the city, and is already angling for Mr.. Bi
Der, one of the most graceful and accomplish
newspaper humorists, if not the most so, in
United States, He Is extremely well knoN
among the New York journals, used to be CO
tributor TO the Round Table, and has index
published volume of essayets made up fri
those contributions and entitled Crumbs fri
the Rousd Table" He LIS the author of the
ters in the Mercury signed bya "Disband
Volunteer" and does great quantity OF misc
lanecas writing to which hls name Is ne
attached.
The Brokeresses Once Mores
May be pardoned for recurring TO a SUBJ
chat ought to have closed up at the time
Gold Board and the Stock Board have made
their minds not to recognize the firm OF VIC
hull CiaAin IL Co. They are extremely anxl