The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-26

"BeRn-ERter', in Court.
Some days ago workingman on his way to
Omaha stopped before one of those fascinating
establishments on Greenwich street, in this city,
where the irresistible oroide watches are dis
posed of. While gazing upon them, and wish
ing that be possessed one, professional roper-in
observed the evidences of rural greenness upon
him, and invited him to enter pushing and
nudging him over the threshold in manner
that was at once alluring and gentlemanly.
When the inviter, whose name was Edward
Jacobs, had got the invitee inside he thrust
card into the "bean- eaters" pocket, and re-
marked to the clerk in waiting, ATTEND to this
gentleman" At the moment previous to the
cards being thrust into the bean-eater's pocket
that pocket had contained nearly three
hundred dollars. When the thrusting was
accomplished the money had been by some mys-
terious means distracted. Perceiving his loss,
the bean eater addressed the clerk, who retorted
by bestowing upon him the picturesque epithet
which heads this article, together with other
opprobrious epithets. The Bostonian did not
object to being called bean-eater-that he was
one was too obvious for him to wish to deny
but he sorely objected to losing his hardly
three hundred dollars. However, he was bullied
out of the place, and, as last resource went
to the nearest police-station and had the parties
arrested. Both men admitted that they were
gamblers, but denied having stolen the money
The Court, however, took its own view of the
case, and sent one of the oroiders to prison for
three years, and the beau-eater was sent upon
his way 10 Omaha. This narrative would lack
completeness If l omitted to add, in words which
are exclusively my own, and for which have
applied for a patent, that the bean eater is o
sadder and wiser man
Fisk Once More.
EtDOth IL aDDear that this Fisk hath bnen dOinp
something more ?"
1t doth. Marry, thus:-I have informed you
of the troupe of Andalusian dancers that Pro-
fessor Risley has imported from Spain, and
intends to bring out at the Tammany. That
was all truth, every word of it. But all that
goes for nothing. Fisk has done something
above and beyond all this. He has sent Maret-
EEK to Europe to engage something new. Upon
reaching that somewhat indefinite locality
Maretzek discovered that Spanish ballet
troupe, containing six first-class danseuses and
fifty Coryphees, had all but consummated an
engagement with the Khedive of Egypt to ap-
pear at his magnificent theatre at Cairo. Mr..
Maretzek pricked up his ears and determined to
outbid yon sordid huckster for his peerless
Jewel. The result was that the Spanish ballet
troupe, containing six frst-class danseuses and
fifty corypheeS, have given the Khedive the slip
and are coming to Mr.. Fisk to join the Ttoelue
Temptations. The agents swear that this is
true, and suppose 1t is, in the sense that thea
trical agents always mix up little truth with
their statements. Mr.. Fisk Is as good a judge of
feminine beauty as King Ahasuerus, and when
his Vashts fail him he scours the world for
more complacent Esthers.
MIR. Moore's Benefit.
Mr.. William A. Moore's friends and / pre-
sumo he has some in Philadelphia be glad
to learn that the benefit which was given on
Wednesday afternoon at Nblos, under the
auspices of his friend Mr.. Barney Williams
nettsd him as much as twenty-five hundred dol
lars. In sickness and in suffering, Mr.. Moore
greatly needed this kindness, for he was one of
those who omitted to lay up for rainy day.
The Lnie George Wakemnn
has left voluminous manuscripts, from which
enough may be gathered to form good-sized
volume that will probably be brought out by
Sheldon g. Co. The manuscript has been placed
in charge of Mr.. Frank P. Church, of the GALAXY,
who was q personal friend of Mr. Wakeman's,
and who will probably preface it for publication.
The Biggest Ball of the Senson.
The third and last bal de la Grande DucheSSe
celebrated on Thursday evening" was the most
crowdedly attended of any ball of the season.
great portion of the attenders was composed
of old men hankering after new vice. Extremes
were there-young girls Just entering upon sim
full careers and old women just ending them;
boys who ought to have been at home AMI in
bed, and the gloating greybeards above men
toned, with prurient eyes straining from behind
the eye-holes in their masks, fevering and fret
ting over the successes of younger rivals. 1t
was wicked and a shameless sight, and
might say more, but will not.
Opening Day.
approach ye, then,
My merry, merry men,
1t is our opening day."
sing the gipsies in Meg AerriIies, and the New
York miliners sang much the same thing yes
terday, for it was their opening day, and it is
the men, after all, who do approach or are ap-
preached when the bills come to be settled As
general thing, the styles are less loud than
they were last year. The fineness of the day
Insured very numerous attendance.
ALI BABA