The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-23

Rails AFT the Opera Comique are splendid pc
c,niarv success, aud bring out magnificent
disnlaV of the stars OF fashion. Inc sales are
crowded each night, and the dancing animated.
mo last one was a signal triumph and at JtOe
o,c1ock on Sunday morning the orchestra per-
formed the closing traditional galop, and the
IT, ,yas ended ''rhe moral tone which per-
yades Genevaiis good" says the Rev. DIR. Lang
don Rector of the Am. Episcopal church, but
the Rev gentleman has not a very exalted
eninion of s'tbe theologic type of Geneva Chris
tianity." Speaking of REVEALS, it is well 10
mention the remarkable success attending the
efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey the
American evangelsts who are now ia LONDON
They opened at Agricultural Hall, lshngeon,
last week and $4,000 persons attended the hIs0
service The MONDAY prayer meetings are
holden at Exeter Hall and are attended py ihn,
mems crowds. A Paris papers report SAYS i 1ne
scene without Agricultural Hall on Sunn my
night battles description. ThousanqiSS, MS, u i"r
thousands could not gain admittance; od dne se
vice was for men only and fully Zo,VVD VIZ
present and the rush was SO great tnsT ~
overflow meeting was held in an adJolpins a naa,
Dr. Davis opened the service WIN prayo;,, So
which tie vast congregation sung "a. a; ,r,a n
voice, the well known hymn, Uuue NV,
thon Great Jehovah" The volume OF sounu
was exceedingly grand. Mr.. Moody read tne
51st Psalm, Have mercy upon me, " nv, Stou, az
cordipg to thy loving kindness. Inc ; aTu,,
enee then sang the now popular hymn iell
rna tha old. old story" with great feryor. MIR.
Ele lne o afiierward sang Jesus of Nazareth
nasseth bv," and Mr.. Moody preached from
, the verbs in Genesis, adam, where art thou!
At a meeting for women held the next aiIer-
spondent says "Mr. Moody's simple common
sense, aud practical Christianity was exactly
what was wanted as a set-of to the sentmeD.
tality of one school and to the cold deadness Oh
another amongst PROCESSING Christians. aoa
l hope your bad weather ia Maine has ceaseu
We are having delightful days but we don
pray like the Pharisee. The time OF the sing
ing of birds has come, and the voice OF the-no'
when think of it, turtles can't soJourn III Ue
neya The advance guard of summer touriSls
has arrived. l mean the London cockney who
always gets along early in the season; I ne
wears tight fitting suit of flannel, ana Snoes
with high tops, and great ugly spikes IN 'he.li
he comes early, SO to piacLee you KNOW. aHu
he ready for mighty pedestrian efforts iater III
the season, when the crowd is here to applauu
These chaps generally get no higher tnan tne
ton of a stage coach but they keep on practis
ing nevertheless. to have look as II some per
ilous feat was coming soon Inc cockney
fspractise'' now consists in daily walks over the
fashionable thoroughfares, pull over the glas
sy waters of the lake in paper smell, anu =
little exercise for the arms 10 the evening !,
the way of a game of billiards, or waltz WIZ
Mollie Arabella at the Bear Riroye. me
cockney on the long bridge the other morning
He was leaning on the rail in most gfacelu
attitude. and as L approached he accosted me
with "I say friend has Mount Btd,scE oeen II
eruption lately?' If he had not been periectl,
Innocent and DESTROYS of information, shoui'
not have stopped to bother with him, but as i
was, spent some ten minutes in winch CAV
him very reliable history of the "monarcl
of mountains" the dates of her several erup
tons, and the number of villages that had bee
DESTROYED by her upheavings of fire, and also al
approximation of the number of human being
who bad passed in their checks at short motto n,
on account OF this same Mount BtdncE. In
cockney thanked me, and noted down my IL
formation He said he was corresponding wit
newspaper. left him humming Rule Brit
annia' while was thinking what the editor o
that sheet would think OF cockney's CLOWN
description of Mont Blanc. u.