The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
Letter From Boston
Correspondence of the Journal.

How Justify Old Sol has laughed at US
all the past week fairly shamng us out
of petting sore throats, and horrifng our.
selves with the idea, if the cramp caught
us anywhere abatt the ear, that we were
surely booked for the new disease.
Day after day, the broad space over
our heads has donned its bright blue suit.
with fleecy white trimmings; only throw
ing the dusky mantle of evening over it as
the sun ceased to warm and brighten the
broad expanse. So we have taken the
sunny skies as an example, and have
aired our jaunty new suits most thorough
ly; even bearing with triumph the neces-
sary appendage in the shape of a gor-
geous new sunshade
Everybody has been to see Barnum
Such rare and painfully virtuous show
has never coursed this way before. Each
morning the newspapers give a spotless
space to the subject of ''Mothers take your
offsprings," and "Good Shepherds. take
your tlocks." Glad enough, too, we
ought to be, that poor humanity has at
last found one thing under the sun in
which there is shown no respect for per-
sons. Why shouldn't ministers (poor
souls that they are) enjoy seeing the
elephant as well as any other man? And
suppose they do Just take peep inside
the big tent; it may be for no worse
motive than to see if Brother Murray is
there getting items fol- his new book,
about to be published, entitled :" The
Perfect Horse; How to Breed. Train,
Shoe and Drive Him." to which Henry
Ward Beecher lends preface. But Bar
mum has completely outdone all other eff
forts this time his collection of animals.
disjointed, horned. bearded and big and
little individuals, causing daily over fifteen
hundred mouths to stretch to a capacity
which, taken as a whole, would swallow
his entire show "Yet little while"
and he will be no mere among us; so the
up town horse-cars are crowded, and the
walks about the famous Coliseum grounds
bear down with their weight of apprecia-
ting humanity
Still 1.-The Bazaar of Nations wakes
warm as an entertainment, but advertises
to etfectually melt away at the close of
the coming week.
oil nl,o ho1
thrown around to tickle the curious in our
compositions, there has been a solemn
discussion going on among some solid
minds of the city, and elsewhere. which
the wary press have recorded under the
head Of ''Socal Science" The old maxim
of great talkers-little doers" might be
appropriately hung over the door Of the
place 'where the two or three are met to-
gether;;" for what can it avail poor fellow
men and women for those classical white
necktied individuals to air their rhetoric
Tor an hour or two TO the satisfaction of a
small audience OF the same material? To
be sure Miss Z. S. Phelps held forth upon
the ''foliy OF fashion, and went so far in
the way of example as to wear plain
black silk skirt, but u decidedly masculine
cut jacket, which displayed Just 4 little
weakness for the liking Of vest patterns,
and a nearness thereto; but that would
fall under the head of 'social," and not
disturb the science" Since the discus
sion, there has been no perceptible de-
crease Of sullen men and shameless wo-
men ut the morning sessions Of the muni-
cipal court, so we infer that the ''socia
science" must tlv too high TO light tho
real cases Of need.
The new postal cards have caused
heap of merrment. and business in that
department at the Old South is brisk from
opening to closing hours. Of course the
sweet little messages can slide costly
through the busy hum of large city Of
fees; but alas! when they stray, in their
undress uniform, to some of the back
towns, where Uncle Sam stands IN the
corner of jeremiah Seudder's back bed
room, then the fair damsel addressed will
get talked about, especially if Mrs. scud-
der tends the mail
Anniversary week is almost upon US,
when the shower of good people always
meets a healthy competitor in Dame Ma
ture, who does her best to give them a
good wetting. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
has organized convention of female
pastors to be present.
w H. H. Murray delivered his lecture
upon the Adirondacks a few evenings since
for the one hundred and seventy-fifth time.
Barnum has invited the orphans from
the numerous institutions to visit his en-
tertainment, treat which the waits will
richly appreciate, no doubt.