Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-15

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SCENE AT TIE OPERA.-A New York corres-
pondeut says: Pauline Lucca created a gen:
uine sensation the other evening in Era Dia-
volo" She represents Zerlina in very natu-
raj and piquant way, according to her own no.
tlons-not those Of any of her lyric predeces.
sors or contemporaries. You remember the
scene of the bed chamber, In which the heroine
stands singing before her mirror, and disrobes
for the night-a scene that the severe Men.
dessohn declared he never could have written.
Auber, a Frencbnan, must have taken parti.
cular delight In it, because there is suggested
by it no little ambiguity of what is to come
next. Lucca seemed desirous of making the
passage emphatic by transporting her dressing
table to the front of the stage, and coming for.
ward to prepare herself for the couch In the
audience was plain and honest country gen
tleman, on his first visit to the opera with his
wife He had told her much Of the sins
and iniquties of the great city, but until he had
entered the Academy that night be had no
idea of an opera, and consequently felt the
deepest interest in its progress. When Zerli-
ma had removed her bracelets, taking down her
hair and put off her bodice the simple minded
rustic, who had watched her eagerly, revealed
the livelist symptoms of apprehension, not to say
disgust. He looked around, evidently surpris-
ed that the elegantly dressed ladies still kept
their seats Then rising, he said to his con-
sort, We'll, Mary, We d better get out of this.
This may be all right for the city folks, bat it's
no place for us. | never seen the opera before,
and don't want to see it again. | can stand al
most anything. but when it comes to woman
undressin' herself before the public you can
count me out Come along, Mary; we may be
green, but by cracky, We are decent anyhow
So speaking, and with indignant glances at the
high-bred indiferentists around him, he and
his spouse departed in anger and confusion.
MILK TEA AND CoFFEE.-Prof LOOMS
thus speaks cf milk, tea and coffee: ,.m
milk contains n solution not only due pro-
portions of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitro
gen, but all the other elements necessaryfor the
construction of bone, Derve &c., and hence IS
always a proper food in all circumstances of
health. !. -:u : II
''Tea derives its beneficial qualities not from
its direct supply of nutrition, but from It's afford
ing peculiar substance called theme the effect
of which in the system is to diminish the waste
thus making less food necessary. Tea thus has
positive economic value, not as supplying
but as saving nutriment.
Coffee, though of taste so little allied to
tea, derivesits value in precisely the same man
ner and from nearly the same substances. Its
value and effect in the system are therefore the
same as those above stated. 1t is hence evil
dent that milk tea and coffee are valuable arti.
cles of food under all conditions of temperature.
Yet, it must be generally conceded that a
free coffce-drinker will almost invariably CON-
plain of biliousuess and present cadaVerous
appearance For work people as rule coffee
will seldom produce this effect; but for all per-.
sons ofsedentary habits who take littleexerclse,
coffee is not to be recommended. Tea as
substitute is greatly to be preferred as II IS
equally refreshing and strengthening and pro-.
Iuces no bad effects. .t....l
A. ALpEoRA BRADLEY, a colored lawyer.
has settled, temporarily, at least, in Savannah,
Georgia. He has, as usual, distinguished him
self there, and come very near being e1tIn-
guishcd. He would have been utterly demol-
ished with poker in the hands OF an lrate
United States Collector nhmed Atkins, had not
second thought prevailed, and his head been
spared Atkins had rushed upon Bradley
with the deadly weapon upitted IN hls hand
but he did not strike. These sort ct people
never do. This was at the Custom house, and
when Bradley charged Atkins with assault and
battery, and went to procure warrant tor his
arrest, a delicate question arose. Ihe alleged
assault having occurred in the Custom house
building, which is upon Government ground,
the magistrate was undecided as to the proper
course to be pursued Precedent shows that
when crime is committed upon United States
propcrty, it becomes national offence, ,and do's 8
not come within the Jurisdiction Of the State or
city courts, but has to be tried before Unlted
States court. So the magistrate, not being
able to make up his mind, the; knotty question
was adjourned for mature conslderatlon.-6ou
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Rest VARIETIES OF THE PoTATo AND TO.
MaTo.-At meeting Of the Mt Laurel Clqb,
n. j., the question was presented as 20 tne
best varieties of the potato as found IN the ex-
periepce of the members this year. Wnicn, re-
suited in the Recommendation Q! ehe isaIs sths
Rose as the best of the early varieties ana the
White Peach Blow as the best late one. -
The best early tomato, whether early or late,
was admitted to be the Trophy. The tomato
cron on the truck farms is often very produc-
tive and profitable one. They are grown large
10 The tomato worm, Of green color: and
more than double the size OF the cabbage
worm. is, however, great enemy to the 20
mato crop. and has committed considerable
ravaoes the present season. MIR. John Dudley
has managed to circumvent these worms Gu
tirely by driving into the patch i1ock OF tur-
KEYS. They prefer the worm to the tomatoes
and clean them entirely out. Our readers VINO
grow tomatoes should make note OF TINS:
AMuoN1A,-A writer in The British Medical
Journal states that in cases of whoopIlng cough
in the last stage-that is after the thra weea
he has had one ounce OF t9e St!Gngess oset s; II
ammonia put into gallon of pehing rMea ,aans ~
an open pan, and the steam kept up 6y means
o, on. in ;nto the b boiling water containing the am
monia mol m the pan being placed in the centre OF q
room u'I into to- which the patients were brought as
the thea ammoniated steam was passing off, !his
method, me he says, was used in the evening, Just
before bedtime, and it proved so etheacioas J.
t,:.,- H. enosmodic attack and. latter HuTte