The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-22
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NEW YORK, April ~, l6IO.
The SheIterinR Arms
The Shetcring Arms Bazaar is the great
fashionable crush, out of which il Is impossible
10 get without having spent all the money you
took into IT, 1t is held in the armory of the
37th Regiment, which is honeycombed into
thirty or forty enhancing little booths, fitted up
expensvely and beautifully. Each one of
these booths is presided over by one or two
young ladies, and the biggest and most beautiful
booth OF all has a bevy of the farest and most
fashionable girls in New York for saleswomen.
This recess is called the floral bower, or, by "a
semi-pun, Flora Temple Qoral temple), to iudi-
cate the fashionable fastness of the syphs who
attend there. The fair is Episcopallan in
character, and is lively as Episcoplian
fairs usually are The young ladies who sell
wares there the pick of New York society,
and the buyers and visitors in general do not by
any means form the social updcrcrust. There
8 on exhibition splendid Weber grand piano.
forte, which s to he presented to the clergy
mans wife who receives the greatest number OF
votes every voter naming the one whom he or
she particularly fancies. handsome watch is
also in waiting for the clergyman enjoying the
greatest number of votes, which are purchasable
ut ffty cents apiece. One is allowed to vote
for whomsoever one pleases, and truth to tell
the Pope's chances are not bad. 1t would be
significant fact IN connection with an Episcopal
celebration If tie Pope we're thus to prove his SUI
perior claims to popularity over all competitors.
Two New Papers.
Two new newspapers are very soon to be
started in this city. One of them, as / said some
weeks ago is to be called the Age, and to be
placed under the charge of Dr. Wood, one of
the principal men at present employed by the
sun. The Doctor will make splendid managing
editor for the newspaper, for he is an untiring
and indefatgable worker. l never see him
without being reminded of a skeletonized flower
his countenance and beard rapidly bleaching
under the influence of midnight paste and
scissors.
The other paper to which I referred is that
which is to be started by young Philadelphiau
whose name as journalist is familiar to every
one in the United States conversant with news
paper matters. The fact that he is to start one
is well known and freely discussed in newspaper
circles, but since the preliminary work has been
done quietly and a premature publicity is
scarcely desirable, will not bestow it by men,
tioaing in this connection either his name or
that of the journal he is to create. 1t is enough
that he starts it backed with the three most
prominent necessities for such an enterprise -
cash, brains, and experience. Some of his coad-
tutors will be old friends all of them will belong
to the large class whom he has inspired with
sympathy in his fortunes and admiration for
his extraordinary abilities.
Lath TO Rclinquish.
All female teachers-to q man-have
united in petition to the Board of Education
to restore corporal punishment. This petition,
mark, comes from the ladies, not from the men.
They say that while there are some gentle and
gentlemanly boys in every school, who obey
without being ratanned into it, there are many
others, between the ages of thirteen and six
teen principally, who will yield no obedience
unless they can be made to physically smart.
This declaration is thought by many fathers
and mothers to be debasing and significant,
especially in connection with some recent re-
pusive extracts on the subject from the Eng
6Shwomdn'S Magazine.
MysteriousIy Heard From.
About a week ago Frederick Bennett n bright
boy of fifteen, left the store of his employer in
Water street, New York, with $3.50 in his pos
session to deposit in the Manhattan Bank. He
did not return, and he has not returned
since. The only clue to what has become of
him is note that has been received by his en-
ployers, and that represents him to be confined
in sort of dungeon the whereabouts of which
he has no means of knowing He implores
them to use whatever means they can to find out
where he is and to come to his assistance, inti-
mating that he is treated horribly. He says that
he was attacked suddenly in the street by a
man who mopped his face with saturated
sponge, which made him unconscious, and that
when he recovered he found himself in the dun
geon whence he dates his note The singular
fact about the note is that it was mailed at the
New York post Office.
1he New York Industrial Exhibition Company.
The bill has at length passed the Legislature
incorporating the New York Industrial Exhibi-
tion Company. The men of capital who support
this enterprise mean to keep up perpetual
Worlds Fair there A New York morning
paper makes the absurd statement that at the
opening of the London Crystal Palace of 1851,
twenty-five thousand persons participated. If
tioe thousand did, that was all. No doubt, how
ever, but that much larger number will assist
at the opening of the building to be erected by
the New York Industrial Exhibition Company.
Some central stir like this is needed. In the
line of simple amusement and relaxation Gotha-
mites have been stirred and thrilled quite as
much as is good for them. Now they need a
raking up financially and commercially
ALI BABA.
mUHTGWEAN AND URHR M EWG