Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-22

! cratic Opera-A Use For Dead Lon. | don Paupers - The Cholera-T | French SoeIaIists-A Curious Verdict The Coming Bull-Fight.
 Especial Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CocR- IER. All Rights Reserved.l -.--~' LONDON, Aug. s. \ To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER: The social and political seasons are now practically over. The few theaters still open are about to close and their stars are arran ging provincial tours. On Saturday next the curtain will be lowered at the great house of entertainment at Westminster; the farce will be withdrawn and the honorable actors will forthwith quit London and put forth ali their energies to win the good graces and the votes of the provincials The house will re. open in February next under new manage
 ment, and in all probability with a new troop.
 An extraordinary arrangement is projected,
 I hear, for next season at the opera. It ap
 pears that desire has been manifested for
 an aristocratie night in each week and it is
 said, although I can scarcely believe it to be true, that the Prince of Wales is taking an
 interest in the development of the plan.
 Uninitiated people might imagine that, on
 account of the Pall Mall Gazette revelations,
 the middle class frequenters of the opera
 house had demanded that those horrible
 aristocrats should not be allowed to sit down
 with them at the banquet of sweet sounds,
 but that one day of the week should be set
 apart for them, so that other people might be able to stay at home and avoid their con- tact. But this is not how the scheme arose.
 Some very blue blooded persons think they
 have found out the reason why Italian opera
 is going down in England. They say that
 the aristocracy no longer look upon the ope-
 "a house with favor, because they have to
 jostle people of inferior blood on their way
 in and out. Their remedy is to set apart
 night for persons of their own caste and
 form blood-testing committee, whose duty
 it will be to refuse tickets to all plebeians.
 Voila!
 The London paupers will no longer be use-
 less members of society At meeting of
 the Strand board of guardians, held on Tuesday last, letter was read from MT.
 Pratt, of Tavistock street, Covent Garden, submitting new method for disposing of the dead bodies of paupers. MT. Pratt for warded a long printed document explaining his method, which bore the title of ''Crema- tion superseded" The author of the new plan suggested that Reculvers churchyard, at Herne Bay, should be reclaimed and made use of as burial ground for the dead bodies of the paupers of the whole metropolis. A railway might be constructed to convey fun erals to the above named churchyard. The bodies of the paupers could be placed in cheap cofins and buried in the soft sand of the ssashore, but embedded in 8 sarcophagus of soft concrete, which would of course i'm mediately harden and others could be bur jed on the first layer, so that the bodies of the paupers encased in concrete would form wall to keep out the from encroaching on the land. Needless to add that the pro posal was hailed with roars of laughter. The Paris municipal council is famous for start ing new ideas, but MT. Pratt's idea beats any thing that has emanated from our ediles for long time.
 I find the following interesting anecdote in the Figaro: A few years ago Miss Jennie Jerome met Lord Randolph Churchill at a dinner in Paris. Attracted by her beauty and the brilliancy of her conversation, he soon confined his attention to her. Those who sat near them stopped talking and lis tened to them with undisguised admiration. Miss Jerome noted for her conversation al powers, but they had never seemed to her friends as brilliant as on this occasion. Lord Randolph, however, proved match for her. Her satire was met with sparkling repartee, and her wit and humor for once found a fair exchange. When the ladies had with drawn Lord Randolph turned to a friend and said enthusiastically: "That's the brightest woman ever met and will marry her" Singularly enough, at the same time Miss Je-
 
 l to one of her sisters. A fortnight later they | were engaged and soon after married. By
 this union Lord Randolph secured wife 1 whose ambitious temperament has spurred | him on in his political career, and whose in come is sufficient to form welcome addition | to his small annuity. MT. Jerome conveyed | to his daughter before her marriage the val uable property upon which the University I club of New York city stands.
 l Over eighty thousand persons have been l attacked by cholera and over forty thousand have died of it in Spain during the past
 three weeks; yet it seems to create no sensa- tion. Two years ago, when the disease ragged
 in Egypt, and last year when it visited Naples
 and the south of France, everyone was talk ing of it, though in neither of these three countries was the mortality nearly so high as
 it is now in Spain. But in France at any
 rate, if no one talks of the cholera, every body talks of Dr. Ferran. This gentleman has discovered that cholera may be treated