New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-06
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
TIE rEGsOXAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD

MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE rEEsONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF 4 BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
John Kelly, local statesman and favoritc-Son
sma, her has become developer too lie Is building
four or five houses ST Nichoasac. and nine or ten
the cross street at CHmansye inst opposite the last
Metropolitan Elevated Railroad station. Rumor Ia The
neghborhood says the lots cost him $1,000 apiece and
the houses Will cost possibly $1,000 apiece.
Some Of the business stationery stores Of this city
downtown are remarkable museums Of stock and var-
ETY.. containing inkstauds OF muumerable FORMS yet
seldom any cost above -. bottng forms m morocco
which last ycar, scrap books, paper weights
fountain pens postal scales orwhatcyer business with It's
almost womanly Etuitions and commands sees u.e fo1
and Immediately supplies.
II the Christian dspcusaon had not come in the form
of a child where would Christmas find its activity since
grown people driven between and holidays
that in the course OF years the 10 into the
other; the Thanksgiving into the patriotic day and the
New Years into Whitsmde Children never forget the
chdrcns holiday and rs world grows material
toys OF Christmas multiply the the celestial
nativity Of the Child King fades away the civilization OF
childhood the more pcrmeates the globe. New Years
to be fading out because it has no child associa-
tons Christmas grows, like the cycrgrecns, stronger for
the cold
Joseph D. Murphy who died last week, age sixtytwo,
sang the earliest Of stephen Foster on the minstrel
in the presence Of the composer Foster has had
niece playing at the Grand opera House here Murphy
was Mrs John Drcvs treasurer and partner for years
In those days often the present actor Drew OF
Days Theatre, going out. baby with his mother.
little earlier John wilkes Booth in the Arch Street
Theatre stock company under the care Of his brothcrn
law John s. Clarke. In those days ucors were better
considered than noe being stable members in some GER
a..
The Hebrew element the is not incOusiderabe
The Booths Walacks and Eytinges possess some OF it,
Mr. Curtis who plays samlof Poscn andis said 10 have
realized 100000 from it, is also Hebrew, and his wife,
who has been playing Camille is Of French extraction
and speaks with accent. They are next to transfer
sam1 of Poscn to the road and show him as a
drummer with scenes at HOrnesyilc in the Pacific
Hotel Of Chicago and at the Clifton House, Niagara
Falls.
see a good deal in the newspapers against Tom
Ochilrce. lie is Of the last distinctive, original
universal characters in the country have known him
for fifteen years. Not profound man, he is always an
interesting from overflow of spirits and brisk
auldcity and mixture OF rcmnisccucc and fancy Why
Of the few lively have left should be stunS
and purnmelled cannot see.
have been talking to n family physician, himself
formerly specialist about the condition Of the medical
practice in New York. Said he: IL has been great
deal injured 10y sions about medical etiquette that
involve sacrifice OF principle and seem to show that
the money OF patient is the chief object Of practice
Systems OF medicine different in root and branch cannot
brought together except the ground that one or
both are humbugs Again, the tendency in New-Nork Is
for everybody to set up specialist One man takes
hold of skin diseases another Of nose diseases third Of
the ears fourth OF the spine aud they call themselves
specialists in many when they nothing Of the
eIIf tod
family doctor who attends to everything The object Of
the speciality distinction charge excessive figures to
unwary patients. You understand it, continued the
DOCTOR when YOU that if anything happens TO you
ont Of the common your friends are Immediately telling
You to 20 to this specialist II you have little
twiugc OF the gout yOnder is somebody who makes It
grave matter that lie attends only to rheumatism and
out In short" said the doctor, there too many
men IN the profession and too many Of those are looking
for something 10 raise the wind. Indeed. regard this
81, cay dodge sometimes hardly up 10 the level Of
patent medicine dignity"
one OF the matters commented on among thoare-gocrs
i, the convcrsance o. people the stage with gambling
in I'll its forms. At one exhibition IN this city person
i clothed in red from head 10 foot and the chief char
acter notifies the audience that lac il stack of reds
meaning the rcd chips on the gambling tables. Some
times this close intimacy with gambling extends TO the
female performers, who drop say ing7 mrecognizrd out
side Of "a faro bank.
Mr. Frederick A. Obcr. Of Beverly, Mass, who has
written perhaps the only book the Lesser Antilles re
ecived his commission and expenses from the smith
souian Institution when mode accessory of the Govern
ucut Is continually adding to stock 81 knowledge II
dire non. which literature and the press con make no in
y,,tn.ut for Mr. ODER says that unit. the new world
Wis discovered the hummmg-hIfd was not known 10
Eu-11c though roaming from the Arctic Circle to the
Antarctic il never extends It's migrati0us beyond the
limit, of tho western continents. "Of all the creations
Of bird lie" ne says. this is tine most beautiful the
most minute the gem of tie tcathered world In the
United states there but one species that Is regular
visitor the rubv-throltcd humminc-b.d. but in Dom
Mica rLarc are fonr species The celebrated ~un,et-brd
which MI. Ober discovered. forwarding specimen TO
Washington has been named for him, Uyareis Obrri.
Tlis bird half an hour before sunset uttcrs peculiar
CRY which sounds ike the French words 0ieico"cter"
meaning the sun sets and half hour before sunrise
n uttcrs the same cry but during the day is perfectly
silent II resembles the Northern king-bird, and tie
natives call it iumbe-bird devil possessed trip TO
the Little Antilles makes pleasant winter voyage
from Ncw-NOrk.
Another remarkable discovery, or rather continuation
Of Mr. Ober that among the remnant OF the ancient
Cards or canubas who live in the islands of Dominica
and 81 Vincent dialects spoken by the men and
the women respectively. II is said that the original
Carihs killed their male prisoners and carried their
widows into captivity. The language Of the female sex
was formed by degree, the cOnquerUrs contracted
marriages with these women; II was composed Of new
elements. words distinct from the Carb words, which
were transmitted generation 10 generation, but on