The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-03-30
IIIIt IIITI IT'S TIUHV
Upon his heart, gently, not shifting it,
But as a harper lays his open palm

Upon his harp, to deaden Its NlbratlOnS.'
All! but was not Monday the 10Th inst, rare day
A day when only to be alive and breathe was
pleasure. The blue dome of heaven was one i'm
mense reservoir of sunshine while the breeze had
that exhilarating, champasney quality that made
one unfasten his overcoat aud inhale big lungfuls
Of the intoxicating air. The evening Just as
beautiful and it was the first night in opera here of
ala diva, Patti. Between four and five thousand
people crowded into the great hall of the Mechanics
building, and before O'Clock mass of humanity
who were to venture in on admission tickets were
waiting at the door Later the carriages began to
roll up and discharge their frcight~ of loveline,s
oveliness enhanced by silks satns, velyct> Jewels
and all other like vantie, which Poor Richard
said "put out the kitchen fire" 1t was inspiring to
that immense han lighted with dazzling electric
lights, and the multitude of mortals impatiently
awaiting the Empress of song. For she is Empress.
1t is of to say that her voice has lost either
sweetness or power. 1t has not Remembering Of
the closing air in the first act Of la Travtta-Ah!
fors e lui"-was as nearly perfect anyhn" ever
is in this world Her support was very much bet
ter than one would think from reading the press
criticisms Nicoliui, reports TO the contrary not
wthstaniing is good artist, and, speaking of this
gentleman is it a little strange that the people
morality, should have 50 little to say regarding
Patti" Inconsistencies Jewell and 4 rare
enc too, nowadays. There was an instant al the
end of the first act when there few hearts that
did not change their pulsation somewhat. The
drop curtain caught fire from the unprotected foot
lights, and in second blazed up into the flies and
oyerhanging scenery. The stage assistants prompt
ly pulled it down and trampled out the flames, but
hon, nj. S,ftI Lf,,. a., IN, n.,l1
and what good cause there was for alarm, il seems
as though nothing hut the interpositon Of i Divine
Providence prevented a panic Of the most terrible
kind.
Another event in the amusement line wa, the
production of 'Thc World" at the Boston Theatre,
and it seems in this though the final limits of the
scene painters and stage machini>t- art had been
reached. The play itself is melo-drama of the
old-fashioned type, serving merely as Il coarse
thread on which to string number of the most
markable stage scenes ever attempted. one is the
blowing up Of steamer at sea by IN Internal ma
chine concealed in the freight. and although we
never had the pleasure of an experience of this
kind, it seemed a though nothing was lacking to
its reality. The mass of flames and sparks pour
ing up the hatchWay, the falling smoke Stacks, the
crazed crowd OF sailors and passengers struggling
for the boats. all there; but the neNt scene
four casta ways on a raft in mid -ocean-was what
brought down the house There was the rolling
sea, stretching away to the horizon, and in the
midst of the tumhlng pillows the raft with its tat
tered sail mapping against the swaying mast, and
the four men dividing the last dippCr of water.
Then the rose, partly obscured by clouds, and
in the dim distance the -. p. Merriam least
it looked like her-hoye in sight. 1t was the most
thing \tt sin La min II,
letract from the illusion. The rescuing vessel
came about into the wind rs naturally as could he.
An old theatre -goer, to whom the theatres Of Paris
and London as familiar those Of Boston or
New York, told me it the most realistic scene
he had ever witnessed. 1t is reported that one of
the cast-a-ways is literally sea sick at every per-
Torrance, but as he dies the raft, presume it
only adds to the reality OF his acting.
The death of Mrs. Thcophilus loungs probably
will put end to legal controversy that was
about as puzzling as the Tichbome trial in England
and in some respects similar. Mrs Noungs claim
as atlministratix of her husbands estate, which
amounted to about 100000, WAS contested by her
brothern-aw, and there some very pretty
complications as it stood then, but when man APP
peared OF the scene, claiming to he Throphilus
Ioungs himself, and that he was not dead by any
manner Of means, it made ''confusion worse con
founded especially as Mrs. loungs denied his
identity, and the witnesses We're about equally
divided on the point. Mrs Y. was a peculiar char
acter. Possessed of fine education, She seemed to
have an alloy of base metal in her makeup. that
drew her to dissipated life. She claimed To be the
only woman ever initiated into Free Masonry, and
the fact that she had many intimate friends who
were men filling the highest positions in the Order
in this section of the country, somewhat subs tam
tiated her assertion But She was best known is a
spirit medium and having resided ON knccland st.
in Boston for long time, she famous among
more difficult to expose her than the lovely Rose
who was untmely nipped in the bud, in your
city short time since. gentleman told me of at
tending seance she gave, when she did some in
eXFlicable things. Among others, the lifting of
piano by simply touching the keyboard with her
Upon my friend failing to raise one end Of the in
strument, although eNerting all his strength, She
placed her hands under his his fingers being be
tween hers and the edge of the piano, when he sue
ceeded with scarcely any effort. He was and is
unbelieyer IN spirualism, and the lady at whose
residence the circle held was also skeptic
that there could have been machinery used. How
was it done? Verify,
'There are more things in heaven and earth, Hora-
ito,
Than areamt of in your philosophy" I.
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