The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-29


traitor to his country, traitor 20 liberty. q
traitor to his party, . traitor to poor Green
Tloh, and servant Of that pitiless and lying
msss noss psoPts Of and
| Wioh, and follow to the Skating Rink, Wool
wioh; and give the ungrateful traitor . good
sound English hooting. God save the Q1een.
do not be provoked to violence"
Mr.. oroet, in q recent pamphlet published
| In Paris upon agrararian socialism in Italy,
discusses the possibility of preventing in that
country the terrible oonvulson which over
threw the old French regime. He thinks that
IL cannot be avoided. la q description of
PEASANT life he ILLUSTRATES the condition of th o
daily laborers of Calabria. Until the age Of
and sheep and takes care of the donkeys. He
then works in the fields aud gains eight cents
day. at fifteen he gains fourteen osnts; at
twenty, seventeen cents and what soup he
neede, or twenty. fl We cents without soup He
then tbinks Of marrying, and lives with his
wife in o one-story hut with esrthen floor,
the light to which generally comes in by the
door. IL there should chance to be window,
1t has neither glass nor shutters. His bed ia of
straw, and his food of tho simplest description
without meat or wine
There is scarcely any hs1ing at Harvard this
year, so far as an outsider can observe buG o
student writes to the Spring. field Republican
that plenty of 1t is done by certain secret So
ceties The limitations are devilish." he
as to be identified, and cases have occurred
where arms have been seriously burned by the
brander being in q beastly state of inroxioa-
tion. Each memb ber 10 obliged to take plunge
into the Charles River by night, and if he dc.
clineS on accoust of his health, he Ia dealt
with all the more severely in some other way.
Resistance is out of the question, and a csse
occurred not long since where a man was fell
ed to the floor for refusing to obey orders. To
conclude the new member ia obi ged to drink
an exceedingly strong bumper of liquor, and
as soon as this is done, he is pressed upon from
all sides to drink with friends who wish to
congratulate him, but whose real object ia to
intoxicate him. Daring all these limitations
the members are masked, that those who
commit tae atrocities can never be detect
cd"
Tne funniest thing in "Evaugeline," the
burlesque, ia the Lone Fisherman He is in
every scene OF the play, but has no relation to
the other characters or the story, and does not |
utter word. His grotesqueness of looks and |
actions makes him comical; and his utter alb |
surdty is what the audience laughs at. The
success Of the Lone FiSherman led the authors /
OF Evangeline" to try o similar pant omime |
feature in their next burlesque, "Hiawatha."
They resolved to introduce two men, who |
should cross the stage in every scene as pedes-
TRANS engaged in a competitive walk through |
the country. Like the Lone Fishermen they |
were to say nothing. Two clever psntomimists
were engaged, and they set themselves about
divisipg langhable psouliarities of gait and
tx aggerated expressions of fatigue, lameness,
in Boston, and went very we'll, except as to
The pedestrians, at whom nobody laughed.
Why they did not excite mirth it would be
hard to tell. They walked for one event ng
only, and "Hiawatha" has since been played
Without them.