The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-10
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where. You may be said 20 die OF (Ottar OF
rose in aromatic pain.
POsltiyIst JOuroalisu,.
In St. Louis journal Of Speculative Pl,ii0sO-.
ply is being published. In this city DR.. Good
man, a positivist of the school OF Augusta
Comte, announces that come time during the sp-
preaching summer he intends publishing a peri
odical called the Modern Thinker. He invites
the criticism of the bigot and the ultra orthodox
by explaining that the articles published therein
with reference to religion and society will be
without reference to the prejudices they may
provoke and he promises that In IL the latest
results of human thought and modern science In
all departments of speculative activity shall find
place, no matter what creed or existing pre-
conception they may conflict with His pecu-
MARY responsibility and honesty arc vouched for
by the secretaries of the Independent
Positivist Society and of the Liberal
Club. Are there enough speculative
people-I do not mean the kind OF speculation
that exists on Wall street-to support periodi-
cal of this peculiar kind People here prefer
making money TO building theories on the In
finite and the absolute and the conditions
under which the necessities of life are won arc
too painful for them to concern themselves
much with the philosophy OF the Uncondi-
toned" But since the philosophy OF Auguste
into their essences and causes, DIR. GOOdman's
enterprise may have at least temporary sue
cess.
waIIack,s Fire-scene.
Lost at Sea, now being performed at Wal
lacks, is remarkable for two things-the beauty
of the scene with which the third act concludes,
representing the steamboat-pier at the foot OF
Hungerford Bridge, and the burning attic at the
conclusion of the fourth act. The last-named
is real that the insurance officers visited
the theatre aud informed Mr.. Moss that he must
either withdraw the fire-scene or they would
annul the insurance. To calm their fears, and
through them those of the public to whom, by
some fearful journalists, the danger had been
misrepresented, the insurance officers were in
vted to a rehearsal, taken upon the stage and
informed how the thing was done. When it
was explained, it was as easy as the Floating
Head of the Mysterious Gold Fish, the contri-
vance simply consisting in insulating the flames
and inclosing all that portion of the scene in
which they were comprised in a movable frame
that could be closed together and showed out of
the way at a moments notice. You see we
manage these things better than they do out West
Miss Efile Germon very saucily impersonates
one of those impossible apothecary prentice
boys who have the best hearts and the worst
manners, and excites merriment all through the
play.
Snd and Strange.
man may manage Il theatre without being
able to manage his wife. This appears to be
the case with the manager and proprietor of an
extremely popular and well-known theatre in
New York. That he understands his business,
| such as it is, is evident in the immense audi
| ences which nightly congregate in building as
| large as the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
| The wife of this manager was recently sent by
a magistrate of this city to Blackwels Island
| for three months Yesterday she voluntarily
| put in an appearance before another magistrate,
charging a certain Broadway jeweller with hay
| ing connivcd at theft Of $500 worth of jewels
from her. During the examination it transpired
| that the robbery had been effected in q dis
| reputable house. But this is one of the criminal
etflorescences upon which l never like to ex-
| pand ALI BABA.