The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-04-13

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| Aimee
This week the theatres are nearly al
giving new pieces to the public after the
fashion Of English managers. Mr. Daly
led the van and started his new melo-
drama Saturday night. The princess
ROYAL is founded on the romantic story
I of Frances Trench, and the sister OF
Fredrick the Great Ii is well put on
the stage, as is everything at this theatre.
the scenery being artistic. Mr. Coghian
plays the hero and dual part of his ras-
cally cousin Francis the Pandour, ac-
ceptably, with ease and insoriceance in
the lighter parts and naturally enough
in the more melOdramatic ones, and AZ
tracted the applause of the young ladies.
who took this occasion to air their Easter
bonnets, least it might rain on Sunday
Miss Davenport's costumes were mag
nificent and her acting good especially in
the more serious parts. 1t VIII probably
hold the stage until Miss Nelson arrives
or We get the new sensation promised
The Children's Carnival is the enter
taiment absorbing all the thoughts oi
Juveniles, and the sombre weeks of Lent
have been made bright to them by the
rehersals of the various dances in which
they appear. 1t is TO be fashioned after
the German festivals of this sort, but
upon that simple foundation, the Amer
ican, as matter of course, has bnilt a
gorgerous superstructure that shall far
exceed anything our Tentonic cousins
have ever imagined. We are introduc-
ing as many foreign fancies as we get
hold of, and the saturniue, dyspeptic
Yankee may yet get jolly and roly poly,
and enjoy himself without looking as if
he was suffering from eaten unripe
fruit.
THE NEW YORK WEEKLY
is without a parallel in the history OF
journalism. Doubtless this is due 10 the
wide-awake enterprise of its publishers,
Messrs Street and Smith, who know
what the people want, and, therefore.
without regard to cost, secure the ablest
corps of writers in the country. The
contents of the WEEKLY are so varied,
fresh, spicy and entertaining, touching
upon every element of human interest,
that the people look for it as regularly,
as the week comes arouud. 1t has the
largest circulation Of any paper in the
world, and one can scarcely comprehend
the vast amount of paper used, labor
performed, and the multiplied agencies
kept in motion for a single ISSUE The
serials and sketches are always Of a first
class character-so much so indeed that
an immense demand has been created
for the former in book form, as Thrown
on the World Peerless Kathleen"
Faithful Margaret" Nick Whiilles,'
and others which are having a large
sale.
The failures during the past month
in the city have amounted to over ST.
0OOOG0 with most microscopic assets,
and the prospects do not look much
brighter for the present one. The rail
road war Will send stocks down still
lower than they are, and the result looks
dark, not only for spectators. but for
many people who have put their saving
into tn sc uncertain investments. ex
pecting them to be valuable inheritances
for their children and children'S child
rem.
In a recent divorce suit here, the par
ties did not seem TO have the least ami
mostly toward each other, but separated
just because, having been desperately in
love, they had run away and got married
then grown weary, and with equal light
ness of action had each forgotten the sol
emnity Of the VOWS they had taken, and
the husband at least, broke several of
commandments. They had in court
their little daughter, the verlest coque.te
OF three summers that ever assumed the
airs and graces of her sex. When the
decision was given and the wife was
about leaving court, free woman with
her child, the husbands sole remark was.
"Say, Ag, I've just been been buying a
new dog cart, arn't you sorry you've left
mer No, indeed" was the answer,with
toss of the head and the tip tilted nose.
This was Wednesday; Sunday they we're
riding on the Avenue in the new dog
cart together. Such is life.